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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08

HOLLY URGED
Forestry Department Of
fers Suggestion to Safe
guard Future Supply.

The time is at hand when many
people, especially in southern Del
aware, are or will be busy in col
Iecting and manufacturing Christ
mas greens decorations for the holi-
day trade. It will likewise be busy
time for those landowners who have
any kind of evergreen growing on
their property. Especially during
week-ends, they will have to keep a
watchful eye on their holly, laurel
and evergreen trees to prevent the
marauding vandals who travel our
highways from stealing whatever
appeals to their fancy in the name
of Christmas decorations. In this
state, or for that matter, in any of
the neighboring states, the taking of
holly, cedar or other evergreens
growing or standing on the lands of
another without the consent of such
owner constitutes theft punish
able by atfine and Imprisonment, or
both. The act of taking such ma
terial is just as much theft as go
ing on to another's property and
taking money, silverware, chickens
or other personal property and is so
considered, in the eyes of the law.
To guard against this annual van
dalism, the State Forestry Depart
ment offers the following sugges-
tions:
% That each landowner post his
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
OLD DOCUMENTS SHOW
RATIFICATION COST $500
Valuable Records Found And Re-
turned to State Show Colonial Costs

Yesterday Delaware observed the
145th anniversary of her convention
in Dover that ratified the Federal
Constitution-the first ratification of
the 13 Colonies.
But, not until a few months ago
was 1t known that this convention,
attended by 80 delegates, cost the
State 12S pounds, II shillings and 8
pence, or less than $500 at the cur
rent rate of exchange.
This information was found buried
in the old journals and auditors
books recently bought by the State
Archives Department from a New
York book dealer. Somehow, these
valuable volumes, showing State f.
nances since the Revolutionary War
until early in the past century, ship
ped out of the State possession and
they finally turned up in the auction
room of New York art and book
gallery.
Delaware had to pay $500 to have
these books returned to her possess
sion.
In one of the books is to be found
the following paragraph:
"Orders-Dr-12S-17-3 for expense
of a State Convention which rose
this day, being appointed to consider
the new Federal Constitution for
which the following orders were
drawn"
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
TWO PLEAD GUILTY
AT DOVER, JAILED
Negro Given Four Months For
Breaking Into Dover Garage

Before Judge w. w. Harrington in
plead guilty" Court of General Ses-
sion at Dover on Monday, Ezekiel 7.
White, Jr., negro who pleaded guilty
TO breaking into the garage Of Col
John P. LeFevre of Dover, some
weeks ago, was sentenced to four
months in the Kent county Jail.
George L. Hickman who pleaded
guilty of assault and battery was
sentenced to one year in Jail.
Robert Carly, Jr., of Dover, who
pleaded guilty to charges of policy
writing was ordered to appear
before Judge Harrington here for
sentence. He was remanded to Jail.
The case of Willard L. MalOney,
of near Harrington, who pleaded
guilty to a charge of wife beating"
was continued until December 16.
AS the result of the brutal beat
ing given his wife she was in the
Emergency Hospital at Milford for
several weeks.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
STRANGE DEATH
OF GIRL, STIRS
PRINCESS ANNE
Body, Fully Clothed, Is
Found By Two Negroes
Near Their Shack.
DEATH rs A MYSTERY
Autopsy Reveals No Evil
dence Of Crime; Sheriff
Thinks She Was Killed.

The strange death of a 20-year-
old girl on Monday stirred Princess
Anne, the scene of October's lynch
ing and more recently the focal point
of troops sent to arrest lynch sus-
poets.
The body of the girl, Edna Morris,
was found by two Negroes near their
shack more than a mile from her
home She was lying in a patch of
woodland, face down, fully clothed.
She had been missing since last
Friday, but her parents said they
had made no search for her because
they believed she had eloped.
The Negroes were brought to Prin-
cess Anne, but neither was held.
Later, one of them vase reported
missing and reports from the section
were the girl lived, five miles from
Princess Anne, said a search was be-
ing made for him by citizens.
Meanwhile, an autopsy was per-
formed by DR.. Harry Langford, and
on its completion he said there was
no evidence she had been attacked
in any way.
blOOu WAS lOulu OH n6T mouth anu
her nostrils, but he said this might
have occurred from natural causes,
had she fallen on her face. Parts of
the girls stomach were sent to Balti-
more for chemical examination.
Sheriff Luther A. Daugherty, who
conducted the investigation, said no
coroner's inquest would be held un-
til the report from the Baltimore
chemist was received.
Despite the statement by DR.. Lang
ford, Sheriff Daugherty expressed
the belief the girl had been mur-
dered.
There are some things about this
case that don't look good to me-"
he said
Although search was being made
for the Negro by a few residents of
the county, the opinion was ex-
pressed by the officials that there
would be no trouble for the present,
at leact not until the suicide theory
held by some had been disproved.
The father of the girl, Edward
Morris, a farmer, said he knew of
no reason why she should want to
take her life. He said she had been
friendly with a youth at Salisbury
made personally to every individ- !
and when she did not return home
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
TOO MUCH FEDERAL
FUNDS GIVEN STATE
Governor Buck Believes Secretary
Mistaken; Cites High Average 4,

Delaware already has been allot-
ted public works funds in excess of
amounts believed by Nthe Public
Works Administration to be equit-
able and the Federal government is
going to slow down the faucet lit
tie, according to statement made
in Washington on Tuesday by Secre-
tary of the Interior, Harold G. Ickes.
Listing Delaware with II other
such States and the District of Col
umbia, he said that although the ad-
would contine to con-
slider projects from those states on
their merits, they would have to be
a little more discriminatory until
other states had more ned more
nearly reached their quotas. Neigh
boring Maryland and New Jersey
also were listed.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
POST OFFICE TO BE
CLOSED DEC. 24-25
Only Special Delivery And Perish
able Goods Only To Be Delivered

Postmaster William R. Murphy
has called attention to the fact that
the Milford pOstoffice will be closed
on both December "a and Christmas
Day this year, as Christmas Day
falls on Monday. This is an addition
al reason, Postmaster Murphy said,
for all persons getting their Christ
mas parcels and mail off early to
guarantee delivery before Christmas
day.
All mail must be delivered before
Saturday, December %, to be re-
ceived for Christmas. Only special
delivery and perishable goods will
be delivered on Sunday, December
"a, and on Christmas Day. No other
mail will be delivered either on Sun
day or Christmas.
Large advertisers and mailers are
requested to withhold heavy mail
ings of calendars, advertisements,
reports and the like until January
or mail them before December 8.
All calendars sent in large num-
Ders should be mailed in time to per-
NIT delivery before December 8.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
LIQUOR SALE NOW
LEGAL IN ALL
PARTS OF STATE
With Repeal Of The Eigh-
teenth A mend d m e mt
Sales Are Legal.
FIGHT BOOTLEGGER
Government Acts To Pre-
vent Unla WI ul Sales
Throughout Nation.

The sale of all liquors is legal in
the Nation after long drought. This
was made effective at 5.33 o'clock
Eastern time when Utah, in con-
stitutional convention ratified the
Twentieth Amendment which had
for its purpose the elimination Of
the Eighteenth Amendment from the
Federal constitution. National pro-
hibition went into effect at midnight
that ushered in January 16, 1920.
Thus the duration of the effective
ness of the Eighteenth Amendment
was 13 years, 10 months, Is days, II
hours, % minutes and 80 seconds.
A doubly purposed proclamation,
putting an official end to prohibition
and calling ON Americans to help
restore respect for law and order
was issued Tuesday night by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The proclamation, an unusual one,
was signed by the chief executive
shortly after Acting Secretary Phil
lips had certified that SO States had
approved the repeating amendment.
The National Recovery Act made
it mandatory that the chief execu-
tive proclaim the end of prohibition
in order.to abolish series of special
taxes.
The President made special plea
that no State authorize return of
the saloon either in its old form or
in new guise, and said the objec-
tive being sought through a national
policy was education of every citi-,
zen toward greater temperance.
In asking for cooperation with
the government in an effort to re-
store respect for law and order, the
President enjoined all citizens and
others in the United States to con-
fine their purchases of alcoholic
beverages solely to licensed deal
ers.
The policy of the government will
be to see to it that the social and
political evils that have existed in
the pre-prohibition era shall not be
revived nor permitted again to ex-
ist," he said. I'VE must remove
forever from our midst the menace
of the bootleggar and such others as
would profit at the expense of good
government and law and order"
He said the observance of his re-
quest for purchases solely from
licensed dealers or agencies was
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
GOV. BUCK DELAYS
ENDING SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
Republican Senators Said
To See Hope Of Ending
Deadlock.
INVESTIGATING LAW
House Seen Attempting
To Block Adjournment
By Brief Meetings.

Hope entertained by several of
the Republican members of the Sen
ate that the deadlock between that
branch of the General Assembly and
the Democratic controlled House
over the financing. of a public works
program for the State may eventu-
ally be broken and an agreement
reached between the warning fac
tions was largely instrumental, it
was authoritatively stated, in induc-
ing Governor c. Douglass Buck to
withhold his proclamation dissolv-
ing the present special session of the
Legislature on Wednesday.
Although admittedly discouraged
over the conditions existing in the
Legislature and the prospects for an
agreement the Governor is said to
be unwilling to dissolve the Assem-
bly, until the members have been
given every possible opportunity to
reach a settlement of their differ
ences and provide a public works
program whereby the thousands, of
unemployed throughout Delaware
will be given work.
Governor Buck and the Republic
can Senators were in conference for
sometime Wednesday afternoon and
It is understood the deadlock be-
tween the two Houses was discus
sed. Several of the Senators express
sed the belief thai the differences
between the Republicans and the
Democrats over the financing OF a
works program are not beyond hope
of being reconciled. Because of this
they were in favor of the Governor
Withholding his proclamation ad-
journing the session, at least for
reasonable time, TO determine whe-
ther a settlement could be reached.
Sudden and unexpected adjourn
ment of the House Wednesday af-
ternoon until Friday at noon added
a new complication TO the situation
II was learned later that the Demo-
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OF ROOSEVELT
Demands Business be Civ
en- Another Attempt To
Work Own Problems.

A dual attack upon administra-
tion policies came on Monday from
high Republican quarters in state
ments that urged business be given
a chance to work out its own prob
lens and that charged most of the
present criticism was originated in
Democratic ranks.
Senator Fess of Ohio, a former
chairman of the Republican National
Committee told newspaper men there
could be no substantial recovery un-
der present administration policies
and that business should be allowed
to carve its own path with a mini
mum of interference.
The Republican National Commit
tee meantime issued its second anti
administration pamphlet bearing the
sextuple title: Tories" "Chiselers," !"
Dead Cats" witch Doctors" Bank
Wreckers," and TRAITORS"
Says "FOrgOtten Man" Complaining
The pamphlet said the Roosevelt
forces were answering critics with
"epithets," but that "it is the for
gotten man of 1882 Rooseveltian
oratory who complains that he still
is in that category"
1t added that the criticism that
did not originate with partisan op-
ponents of the President" but with
Outstanding members of the Demo-
cratic party"
"The bitterest of the criticism has
come from those to whom the Presi-
dent made an especial appeal in his
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08

TOSPLIT sl25,OOO
FOR WHEAT CUTS
Eighty Per Cent Of U. S.
Allotment Expected In
Three Weeks.
GIVEN AS A BONUS
New Castle County Rails
ers To Average $1S7
Each; Total $65, 1000.

Delaware wheat growing farmers
will receive S125,O0O from the Fed
eral government within the next
year, and so per cent Of this amount
within the next three weeks, said
Alex d. Cobb, assistant director OF
extension for the State, as their
compensation for reducing their pro-
duction of the grain, in accordance
With the Agricultural Adjustment
Act.
New Castle county farmers Will
receive more than half of this money,
or $65,000. The average will be $lS7,
or $21 an acre.
Kent and Sussex counties, smaller
wheat producers than New Castle
county, have been organized together
and will receive about $4,000.
Applications and contracts for the
production curtailing plan have been
sent to authorities in Washington
and as soon as they have been. gone
over officially, checks covering so
per cent of the total remuneration
will be mailed to the County Admin
istration Boards, the treasurers Of
which, after deducting the cost Of
operating the county organization
will forward the payment to the in
dividuals.
VIII Get More Than Expected
More money will be paid those 664
Delaware farmers who have entered
the Presidents plan for raising crop
prices than at first expected. This
is made possible by efficiency in or
ganizing the county control boards.
When the first wheat allotment meet
ing was held, the growers were told
that operating expenses would be no
less than three cents per bushel, but
in New Castle county the expense is
about one and two-thirds cents, and
in the two lower counties about two
cents a bushel
In New Castle county. the real
wheat raising section of Delaware,
there are $50 farmers entering the
plan. The combined applicants OF
Kent and Sussex counties number
314. In the first case the number
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
|. 0. R. M. CHIEFS
GATHERED MONDAY.
Local Tribe And Council Receive
Picture of Dead Chief

In the Grange Hall, Monday, De-
cember 4, a very impressive SER
vice was rendered with the presen-
tation of the portrait of Past Great
Sachem George H. Hall to Sakimas
Tribe, No. 10, and Iona Council, No.
13. The meeting was called by VIM.
Richardson, who presided. After
singing America" Rev. Randall in
voked the Great Master of life in our
behalf. Mrs. Lillian Singer then rem
dered a piano solo, followed by the
male choral club of the Methodist
Protestant Church, singing a selec-
tion. Osborne Walls played a cornet
solo with Mrs. Albert Walls at the
piano. Another selection by the
mems choral club, then a panto-
mine entitled "Hiawatha's Wooing"
was read by Mrs. Albert Walls and
pantomined as follows: Hiawatha,
Miss Edith Hall; Minnehaha Laugh
ing Waters, Mrs. Catherine Wiiker-
son; Nakomus, Mrs. Bessie Smith;
the Arrow Maker, Minnehaha's fa-
ther, Miss Jeanette Emory. At this
last scene Miss Sara Austin sang the
l nd ian Love Call. The meet
ing was then turned over to the
Great Chiefs of the different tribes.
Past Great Sachem w. F. Oliphant
then presented to Sakimas Tribe, No.
10 and Iona Council. No. 13, the por-
trait of Great Sachem George H.
Hall, which was accepted in behalf
of Sakimas Tribe by Colonel Theo-
dore Townsend and in behalf of Iona
Council. by Mrs. Anna Prettyman.
Frank Zebley then gave a very in
teresting talk on behalf of Mr.. Hall
and his efficient work. Great Chief
of Records McIntire and several
others gave very interesting talks,
and we as members of Sakimas
Tribe and Iona Council fee we were
much benefited by having such
man as Mr.. Hall in our midst, until
his Master called him to the Great
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
Y. W. c. A. GROUP MEETS
In DOVER TONIGHT
Mrs. Frederic Paist VIII Be Speaker
OF The Evening

The annual meeting of the Dis
trict of Delaware Y. w. C. A. will
be held in the New Century Club
building in Dover this evening at
1880 p, m. All members of the Dis
trict Y. w. C. A, Girl Reserve Club
members and their advisers, men,
bers of the Women's Councils and
interested friends of the organiza-
tion are invited to attend this fam
lily gathering"
New members of the board of di-
rectors will be elected for the COM
ing term and other matters of bus
mess will be transacted.
The speaker for the evening will
be Mrs. Frederic Paist whose home
is in Wayne, Pa, suburb of Phila-
delphia. As Theresa Wilbur, Mrs.
Paist spent her early days in Iowa;
she is the sister of DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, former secretary of the In
terror in President Hoover's cabinet
and of Curtis D. Wilbur, former Sec
retary of the Navy. Mrs. Paist in the
past, has served as the direct rep
Tesentative of the local Young Wo-
mems Christian Associations as
their president, having been elected
in three different national conven-
tions on two years terms. When
president of the Y. w. C. AS of this
country she represented a member
ship group of 100000 women and
girls, a group that is considerably
augmented by the thousands of
girls and women who participate in
the activities of the association
without holding memberships. Mrs.
Paist who was elected president of
the National Board of the Y. w. c.
A. on April 8, 1882, is now very ac-
tive at the national headquarters in
New York as member of that body
which carries out the policies and
work of the local associations which
they institute in biennial conven-
tiOnS.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
SAFETY COUNCIL URGES
HOLIDAY SAFETY
Gives A List OF DOnts For Children
And Parents.

Heavy congestion of pedestrian
and motor vehicle travel during the
last-minute Christmas rush is a pro-
life cause of accidents. Pedestrians
with their arms full of bundles and
their minds on their shopping list
rather than on traffic are inviting
trouble. "Shop early and avoid ac-
cidents" is the way which the Della
ware Safety Council para-phases the
old saying. Make this careful
Christmas and merry Christmas is
sure to follow.
DOnt's For Children
Don't leave your TOYS on the floor
for someone to stumble over.
Don't play in the street with your
new toys.
Don't use your new skates until
yon know the ice is thick enough.
Don't point guns, darts or arrows
at another person.
Don't hitch your new sled to an
automobile.
Don't coast on a street where
there is automobile t&ffic.
Don't run when yoif have knife
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
FIRE DESTROYS
ATEFACTORY
Seventy-five Thrown Out
Of Work By $4,000
Blaze At Harrington.

One of Harrington's leading indus
trial plants, the basket and crate
factory of the A. c. Creadick Manu-
featuring Co., was destroyed by a
fire last Saturday afternoon, that
ragged for three hours before local
firemen were able to get 1t under
control.
Nine tenant houses occupied by
workers in the mill were directly in
the path of the flames, but the fire.
men, aided by volunteers, managed
to confine the fire to the factory
grounds. A storage shed containing
several hundred baskets, piles of
lumber and one or two small build
ings were destroyed in addition to
the main factory structure, one
story frame and galvanized iron
building. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, about half covered by in
surance.
Despite the fact that Mr.. Creadick,
owner of the plant, has announced
that he intends to rebuild the fac
tory, the blaze portends a gloomy
SAii lolluoo lOi liic ldlulllCo VI 20 HlCn
and women who were employed in
the plant at the time and who will
probably be out of work until the
factory has been placed in operating
condition again.
The cause of the blaze has not
been determined. The plant had not
been in operation since Wednesday
a number of employees had
been at work in the plant Saturday
A short time before the
fire Harry Galloway, plant foreman,
had made tour of inspection, and
had noticed nothing unusual.
Flying embers at one time set
fire to the roof of the home of Team
bury Smith, nearby, but this was
without damage.
The Carlisle Fire Company of Mil
ford arrived during the fire but did
not go into service.
Workers whose homes were men
aced by the flames are: Ernest Ham
mond, Irving Williams and William
Harrison, white; and Mrs. Lizzie
Cooper, James Hudson, Hart Jones,
Mrs. Fred Ralston, Bob Townsend
and Mrs. Mollie Masten, colored.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
FOR DECEMBER DRAWN
Robert A. DerricksOn Chosen From
Cedar Creek Hundred

The list of Grand Jurors drawn
Wednesday for the December term
of the U. S. District Court by Harry
C. Mahaffy, Jr., clerk of the court, in
cludes 23 persons, all men. They
are to report for duty at 10 a. m,
Tuesday, December IL, at the U. S.
District Court room in Wilmington.
Several prominent men in business,
industry and political life are in
cluded.
The list follows: Charles M.
Townsend, Wilmington hundred;
Robert p. Fletcher, Jr., Wilmington
hundred; Charles c. Roadway, West
Dover hundred; Howard N. Stayton,
Wilmington hundred; Leland Lyon,
Wilmington hundred; William C..
Mufrgatroyd, Wilmington hundred;
Earle C. Comegys, Brandywine hun
dred; Christopher J. O'Keefe, Will
mington hundred; William H.
Thompson. Wilmington hundred;
Harry S. Woodkeeper, Blackbird hun
dred; Warren T. Moore, Mispillion
hundred; Richard H. Catlin, Will
mington hundred; Newlin T. Booth,
Wilmington hundred; William H.
Welch. Broadkiln hundred; William
S. Almond, Wilmington hundred;
Robert A. Derrickson, Cedar Greek
Herman Glanding, Will
mington' hundred; Harry Tschudy,
Duck Creek hundred; William c.
Little Creek hundred, Sus-
sex; William B. Tharp, Mispillion
William M. Duffy, Whining
ton hundred; William E. Pusey,
Georgetown hundred; Nathaniel J.
st. Georges hundred.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-08
YOUTH KILLED In
CUNNING ACCIDENT
Raymond Knox, Jr., Lewes, Dies
After Cunning Mishap in Boat

Raymond Knox, Jr., age 20, sop of
Raymond Knox, Sr., of this town,
died just before he reached Beebe
Hospital last Friday morning from
gunshot wounds suffered in a gun
accident while hunting ducks in a
boat on Red Mill pond two miles
from. Lewes.
Knox's fatal accident comes as an
other of series of misfortunes
which have occurred to the family
within the last few months. After
having been out of a job for several
months, he had just signed up for
work at the Mosquito Control Camp,
and was to report for work next
week. His mother died in the State
Hospital last September. Since then
his sister, Phyllis, aged IA, fell,
breaking both arms.
Knox left early this morning to
hunt ducks with Henry Roach, an
other youth of about the same age,
residing in the Red Mill section. The
two were out in a small row boat
about $50 o'clock in the morning
when Knox who had laid his gun
down in the bottom of the boat with
out lowering the hammer, spying a
wild duck, grabbed the gun by the
barrel. In drawing it towards him,
the gun went off, the load striking
him in the chest
Roach rowed quickly to shore and
calling aid, started the wounded
youth towards the hospital. Upon
examination at the hospital it was
found that he was dead from loss
Of blood.
Knox is survived by his father
and two sisters, Phyllis and Mary
Knox,