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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
Obituary



Mrs. Lima Bridgham, aged rs
years, died at her residence In
South Milford, Wednesday morning.
July 9Th, 1888, after a brief illness.
She was a fine type of wife and
mother and her family as well as
acquaintance will miss her from
community which had great respect
for her friendship. Kind, cheerful
and helpful with a penchant for
making others happy, has made sim
cere regrets for her passing. She
leaves a husband, John Brigham,
two sons, John, Jr. and Clesson
Brigham, general manager of the
North Walnut street American
Store. The funeral will be held this
afternoon at o'clock, and inter
ment be made at Odd Fellows GEM
etery in Milford. Those who knew
her intimately will say:
Goodbye, till morning comes
again,
The thought of death brings grief
and pain.
But could we. know how short the
night
That falls and hides them from our
nlsight,a fss9 81 SOS 4iods
Our hearts would sing the glad re-
frain,
Goodbye, till morning comes
again."
-
EMORY
Martin Emory passed away at five
o'clock on Sunday morning, July 2,
1888, at the Brandywine Sanatorium,
aged 80 years. He leaves one sister,
Mrs. ]. Carroll Pearson, and two
brothers, George W. Emory and
Norris H. Emory Funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon at
the Houston church with Rev. Han
by officiating. Interment was made
in Barratt's Chapel cemetery.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

Beach on Friday. Mrs. Irwin
remained to be Mrs. Townsend's
guest until Saturday afternoon.
r
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Grier,
in celebration of their 25th
wedding anniversary had fam
lily dinner at the Hotel Henlopen
on Saturday, July LIST. Their
only guest was Miss Audrey
Hope. In celebration of Mrs.
Grier's birthday, the family had
dinner at the Rehoboth Country
Club on Wednesday.
r
One of the prettiest home
weddings of the season took
place last Saturday, July LIST, at
three, when Miss Wilma Faye
Moore, daughter of H. w. D.
Moore, became the bride of Fred
S. Conover, of Englishtown, N.
J. The wedding was solemnied
at the home of the brides sister,
Mrs. James N. White, Jr., of .
Newark. The bride wore a
dress of flesh chiffon made on
Empire lines with a large hat
of pink straw with light blue
band and bow. Her shoes and
gloves were white kid. She car
ried an arm bouquet of pink
roses and blue delphinium. Miss
Moore is a graduate of the WO-
mans College, University of
Delaware, and has been teach
ing in New Jersey for several
years. Mr.. Conover is a grad
uate of the School of Commerce,
Temple University, Philadelphia.
Immediately following the cere-
mony there was a reception
held on the lawn for the thirty
guests. After an automobile
trip through the Poconos, the
couple will be at home in Eng
lishtown.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

Mrs. Davis Grier, Miss Ida
Roose, Mrs. Oliver James, Mrs.
F. Burgette Short, Mrs. VIM. S.
Irwin were guests of Mrs. G.
Marshall Townsend for lunch
con at her cottage at Slaughter
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

The Mems Monday Night
Bridge Club has declared a .holi-
day for the month of July and
the record of it's activity will be
missed from this column.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24

spending his vacation with his uncle
and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Oh
son. The Olson family visited at
Sleepy Eye Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Herlinger and
family and Hedge Smestad of Dovray
visited the Otto Jensen family Tues
day. They were on their way home
from Pequot where they visited Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Hojem. The Hojems
are former residents of Shutdown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Bergstrom and
family of Wabasso and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harluf Jacobson and children of
Marshall visited relatives here Sun
day.
Bernice Olson was a New Ulm
visitor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Anderson and
daughter, Mae, Carl and Oscar An
derson and Fern Olson of Storden
visited at the Julius Jensen home
Monday. They were on their way
home from Hector where they visited
relatives.
Harold Hemsworth left Thursday
for Chicago where he will be employ
ed.
June Hanson of Springfield spent
last week with her aunt, Mrs. Carrie
Jensen.
Albert Sogaard returned Tuesday
from Chicago where he attended the
Century of Progress exposition.
Betty Jane Kettner visited at the
Charles Raschka home in Springfield
last week.
Doris Aftermath and Irene Amann
Of Wanda spent Monday night with
Mrs. Ida Tonak.
The following guests helped Senuis
Jensen celebrate his sixty-second
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24
WINTER WORK ON
HIGHWAYS PLANNED

Continued from Page Two)
for a letting September 6. The
September projects are as follows
Paving
Trunk Highway No. 6 between
Madison and junction with Trunk
Highway No. IL; length 5.5 miles;
67,115 square yards.
Grading
Trunk Highway No. in Candy;
quarter mile; 24,500 cube yards of
excavation.
Trunk Highway No. s between La
Prairie and Swan River; 1862 miles;
100000 cubic yards.
Trunk Highway No. II between
Roseau and Warroad; 1871 miles;
2S6,0OO cubic yards.
Trunk Highway No. 80 between
Red Lake Falls and junction with
Trunk Highway No. 8; rs miles;
$4,000 cubic yards excavation and
$1,000 cubic yards gravel sufacing.
Trunk Highway No. 81 between
Deer River and Bowstring River, LAG
miles; 4S6.922 cubic yards.
Gravel Surfacing and Subgrade
Excavation
Trunk Highway No. between
Warman and McGrath; 1873 miles;
22,121 cubic yards gravel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24

lau and helped Mrs. Haselau cele-
brate her birthday.
Norbert Johanneck and Ludwig
Daub were business callers in the
Twin Cities Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Walter Peters and Mary and Paul
inc Sons Of New Ulm accompanied
Mrs. John Zeren to her home here.
Mrs. Glen Noting entertained
friends and relatives at her home
Friday afternoon for her son, Rich
ards third birthday. A social time
was followed by birthday supper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Boyer and FAM
lily drove to Lamberton Sunday for a
visit with relatives. They were ac-
companied home by the formers
mother, Mrs. Amelia Boyer, who
spent few days at the Charles Wag-
ner home.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24
Shutdown
CONTINUED from Page 81

Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Tonak and Mrs. Hattie
Hemsworth drove to Mankato Satur-
day where they were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Bellig. They visited
Mr.. and Mrs. William REM at Owa-
tonna Sunday and friends at Elbow
Lake. They returned home Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Lipetzky and
children visited Mrs. Lipetzky' s
mother. Mrs. Heitzig, at Madelia
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Patrick and
son, Leo, Of Roundup, Montana, visit
ed relatives and friends here last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Tonak and
family visited at the home of Verna
and Phyllis Kragh at Wabasso Sum
day afternoon.
Lucille johnson is assisting with
the work at the C. M. Hammett
home.
j. M. Thorston motored to Tracy
Monday where he looked after the
farm interests of his sister, Mrs.
Gertrude Wright of Brooklyn, New
York.
Donald Wohlford of Sleepy Eye is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24

birthday anniversary Sunday: Mr..
and Mrs. Anthony Jensen and sons,
Warren and Alden, Mr.. and Mrs.
Berger Bergeson and daughter of
Triumph, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Pot
ter and sons, James and Edward, of
Fairmont, Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Jen-
sen and son. Eugene, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24

Trunk Highway No. between
Blue Earth and Iowa line; 81 miles;
5,257 cubic yards Of subgrade exca-
walton and 1868 cubic yards Of gra-
vel backfill material.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24

Miller Jensen and Mrs. Andrea Ped
erSon.
Arleen Remington who visited
friends at Triumph the past two
weeks returned home Sunday.
Ole Fransee has returned to his
home at Rockford, Illinois after a
months stay in Shutdown.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
AGENT
SHOOTSSELF

Charles F. Bigelow. 49, of the
1000 block of Connecticut Ave.
N. W.. is in a serious condition
in Emergency Hospital today as
the result of a gunshot wound
which police say was self-inflicted.
Bigelow, who is a division pas
senger agent of the Southern
Railway, had returned late last
night from a business trip
through the South. Mrs. Mary
Bigelow, his wife, was preparing
breakfast when she heard the
shot fired.
Mrs. William H. Martin, a
nurse in an adjoining apartment,
rushed to the Bigelow apartment
after hearing shouts for help.
She told police she found Bige-
low lying across the bed with a
gun clutched in his right hand.
DR.. A. M. Wheeler. a physician
in the apartment, attended Bige-
low. Mrs. Bigelow told police
she knew of no reason why her
husband should attempt to take
his life.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
WATSON CHARGE
To D. {. HEADS

Representative Virginia E.
Jenckes CD of Indiana, today re-
ferred to the District Commission
ers and Fire Chief George E. Wat
son a communication from Paul
E. Jameson, attorney for the Fire
Fighters Association, requesting
that the District heads take &C.
ton in connection with the charge
that two fire department battalion
chiefs circulated a petition with
out the sanction of the CommiS-
Sioners. ,ti
Jameson in his letter to Mrs.
JenckeS contended that in circu-
lating the petition the battalion
chiefs, Albert Haight and Thomas
B. Stanton, had violated the Sec
ton of the department regulations
which reads:
"Officers and members shall
not directly or indirectly in
their official capacities, or
while in uniform, in any man.
ner, or for any purpose cir
culate a petition of any kind,
except with the official sanction
of the Board of Commissioners"
Jameson alleges that both of
the battalion chiefs have public
ally admitted having circulated
the petition, but denied they had
attempted coercion,
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
BRAZIL READY TO RECEIVE LNDBERGE4 AND WIFE UBLANTLY
CROWDS LINE NAT AL RIVER
SHORE To CATCH FIRST
GLIMPSE Of FL|ERS

lantic can be accomplished in
swift time.
Took Devious Route
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
reached Bathurst by a devious
route. Leaving New York months
ago, they flew to Europe by way
of Laborador, Greenland, Iceland,
the Farce, and Shetland Islands.
Norway and Sweden saw them
next, with Colonel Lindbergh
spending considerable time visit
ing the homes of his Scandinavian
ancestors. A jaunt to Moscow
was part of the schedule, and a
sentimental trip to Paris, scene Of
his greatest triumph. was also on
the bill
The countrysides of France and
Spain next saw their swift plane
aloft, and then came a flight
from Lisbon to the Azores.
From Ponta Delgada, the Azores,
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh flew
over the Madeiras and continued
southwark to the Canary Islands.
Then Villa Cisneros, Rio De Orc,
followed by Jump to the Cape
Verde Islands. and at last a hop
back to the African mainland with
a landing at Bathurst.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
|CKES SLOWS UP
RUM IN PARKS

Whether or not liquor will be
sold on Government reservations
and in Federal parks, which cover
a combined area equal to Della
ware, Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut. is up to President Roose-
velt.
This was revealed in the Inte-
rior Department today when Sec
retary Harold L. Ickes refused to
establish a policy for national
parks before declaration of ma
tional policy" from the White
House.
The precedent from pre-prohibi-
tion days is to permit the sale Of
alcoholic beverages in parks. for
ests and reservations which lie
within the limits of wet States.
Saloons, however, have never been
allowed.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
D. c, BANKS
STILL CLOSED

All but two national banks in
the District have been licensed,
chartered, absorbed or placed in
receivership, it was revealed to-
day in a report made public
by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency here. One application has
been disapproved and the other
is under consideration.
The District has 20 banks IL
cenSed by March IS and 13 un-
licensed. BY November 80, nine
had been licensed. chartered, alb
sorbed or placed in receivership.
Four were unlicensed on the lat
ter date, two had been approved
and one disapproved.
Delaware had Il licensed last
March is and two unlicensed,
while by November 30 it had one
unlicensed.
The report also showed that
nearly 81 per cent of all national
banks in the country have been
licensed, chartered, absorbed or
placed in receiverShip while Of
those remaining unlicensed at
the close of business November
30, a total of 1868 per cent had
received approved reorganization
plans, 29.5 per cent had their
plans disapproved and 81 per
cent had proposals under con-
Sideration.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
SCHOOL CLAIMS
HILL DEBTOR

Suit for $2,668 was filed against
John Philip Hill. former Repre-
sentative from Maryland, today
at District Supreme Court on
charges he failed to pay tuition
for his three daughters at the
Holton Arms School. 2100 block
S st. N. w.
The school, represented by At
torney T. L. Bartlett, informed
the court Hill owed $1,000 for
the tuition and the remainder Of
the sum on a note which he ten
dered the institution last Febru-
ary 7. His daughters, Kitty, Elsie
and Suzanne. began attending the
school in February, 1881. The
latter attended classes until last
June and the other two are still
in school, it was asserted.
Hill is now practicing law in
this city. He recently announced
he would be a candidate for
Governor of Maryland on the Re
publican ticket. While in Con-
gress, Hill was champion Of
those who made wine and beer
in their homes.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Train Wrecked in Virginia,
2 Killed, 10 Injured
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ment could not see with the
smoke and dust that filled the
car.
'WOmen were screaming, and
there seemed to be a great deal
of confusion coming from q
car where cOlOred passengers
were riding.
RESCUES WOMAN
II picked a woman up from
the floor. She seemed to be in
jured in the shoulder and her
eye was cut. l carried her out
of the car. There was a doctor
in the coach and he got out his
bag and we brought injured
patients oven to him and he
dressed their wounds. The
train crew seemed most inter.
eSted in looking out for the in
jured trainmen.
81 picked up the seat from
the engineers cab of our train.
1t had been hurled about so
feet"
The Rev. P. D. Brown, Lutheran
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
|FTS
COUNTY POSTS

Formation of the liquor control
board has brought about a drastic
shake-up in Montgomery county
politics.
Downey Williams, county COM
missioner, resigned yesterday to
become a member of the liquor
commission.
Today Sheriff Richard H.
Landslide sent his resignation to
Governor Ritchie, while the
county commissioners sent a
recommendation to the Governor
that the sheriff be named to
Mr.. Williams post.
G. Eddington Bell of Potomac,
Md, has been offered the post
of sheriff, but as yet has given
no response.
Ben G. Davis today was named
clerk OF the Silver Spring office
of the county commissioners to
succeed Capt. Ward w. Cadding-
ton. who resigned to become a
member of the liquor commission
and manager Of the Rockville
diSpensary.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
N.Y.POL|CE RAID
SPEAKEAS|ES

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 Q,N.S0.
With legal liquor sloshing around
the town in the wake of temper
ary drought in which most of the
available supplies we're exhausted,
police today began ezra ckin 8
down" on the speakeasy, the boot
logger, and the cordial shop.
Armed with strict orders from
Police Commissioner James Bolan
that "the speaks are through" "
special squads Of plain clothes de-
tectives began prowling the high
ways and byways as soon as the
flash came from Utah telling Of
the death of prohibition.
BY midnight, II offenders were
under arrest and all were ar.
raigned early today on charges OF
selling liquor without a license and
without Federal excise stamps.
There will be more arrests to.
day, Bolan promised, and the cam
paign will be pressed until the il.
ncit vendors are driven out OF
business. Many of the speakeasies
closed voluntarily.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
COUNTY To SELL
LIQUOR TODAY
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the trouble there is that no liquor
has been received.
Orders are in and while it Is
barely possible that the fist ship
ment will be received this after.
noon, it probably will be tomor-
row before sales start.
The central distribution point
will be from the 8400 block Geor-
gia Ave., Silver Spring. The sec
ond dispensary will be in the 670O
block Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda.
The Rockville diSpensary will be
at De Lashmutt'S Garage.
Expects Delivery Today
John c. walker, of Chevy
Chase, general manager Of the
dispensarieS, said today that ne
has ordered an ample supply OF
good liquor and is hopeful for de-
livery some time today.
Prices for whisky will range
from $3.50 to $3.50 a quart. This
is a dollar a quart cheaper than
other parts of the State are
quoting on the best whiskies.
Prices by the pint will range
from $1.35 up.
Action of the Prince Georges
commission was a great disap-
pointment to numbers of appli-
cants who had planned to open
up this afternoon.
The manager of a beer garden
near the District line announced
that he had two truckloads Of
liquor on the way to his place
from Baltimore.
In Mt. Rainier every vacant
store in the town was rented,
preparatory to opening liquor
stories, it was said.
Hyattsville Mayor Dry
Mayor H. T. Willis, of Hyatts-
vile, sent request to the county
board that they issue no licenses
in that town, pending a dry refer
endum there. The commissioners
will decide today if they have the
power to keep territory dry.
Applications received by the
Prince Georges commission were
those Of George Doolis, Marlboro
Hotel; John F. Luckett, Capitol
Heights; Charles Fleishman, Mt.
Rainier: Mrs. I. M. Stamm, Manor
Club Gardens; Calvert F. Long,
Berwyn; F. F.. Main, Capitol
Heights; Jack Johnson, Branch
vile; Jack Hoffman, Brentwood:
Elmer E. Cox, Oxon Hill; and
Joseph A. Moran, Colmar Manor.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
NEW TAX LAWS
MAKE DODG|NG
DIFFICULT
Revision of Income Schedules
Bans Deductions on Sales
To Relatives
BY international News Service

Further drastic proposals for re-
vision of income tax laws we're
made public by the Investigating
subcommittee of the House Ways
and Means Committee today.
The income tax revision pro-
posed by the subcommittee is
estimated to yield $270,000,000 a
year. The supplemental recon-
mendations made public today are
estimated to yield $35, 900 a
year in addition to the $235 ,OOO,-
900 gain over existing taxes sug-
gested in the first report.
Mitchell Cited
One provision, prohibiting tax
payers from taking losses, as the
result of sales or exchanges OF
property between members OF a
family, apparently were specifically
directed to the case Of Charles E.
Mitchell, former chairman OF the
National City Bank of New York.
who was acquitted in Federal Court
on charges of violating the income
tax laws.
New proposals include:
Banks would be prohibited
from deducting for income tax
purposes interest paid on de-
posits invested in tax-exempt
securities.
Deductions of estate and gift
tax payments in computing net
income of the estate are pro-
hibited.
Taxpayers are required to re-
port legalized gambling profits
if they want to deduct gambling
losses.
American corporations to be
denied any deduction for divi-
dends received from foreign cor
porations.
Losses Barred
A special provision would pro
hibit losses to be taken in COM
putting income tax in the case Of
sales or exchanges of property be.
tween members of the family OF
/ between a shareholder and a cor
poration in which such share
holders own a majority Of the
stock.
Another provision would pro
hibit the use of the gift OF
worthless property to enable rich
friends or relatives to obtain tax
deductions.
All proposals of the subcom-
mittee would be effective Decem-
ber 81, 1888, even if Congress
does not pass the bill until next
March.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06

clergyman from Columbia, 8. c.
said:
I was asleep in one Of the
rear Pullmans when there came
q terrific crash and the train
came to a sudden stop that
Jared me, throwing my head
against the rear of the berth.
II was stunned for few mo-
mentS from the force Of the i'm
pact, then climbed out Of my
berth to see If 1 could give any
aid, but in our car there was no
confusion, the passengers being
remarkably calm and had suf-
fered no injuries other than the
shock"
Mrs. Arthur Fossett, Of Chi
cago, said:
II had been unable to sleep
and was reading in my berth
when the train jOlted to a stop.
I was terrified and did not know
what to do, so remained in my
berth. Someone shouted that
we had been wrecked and to get
out, SO / got out. I was shaken
up but escaped injury"
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
NATIONAL CITY.
To BACK R.F.C.
BANK PLAN
$50,000,000 Preferred Stock
To Be Sold Government;
Roosevelt indicated

NEW YORK. Dec. 6 0N.SD-
voicing support of President
Roosevelt's program to strengthen
the Nations bank capital struc-
ture, and asserting the bottom
of the depression has been
reached so far as it was con-
cerned, the National City Bank"
of New York, second largest in
the world, today announced it,
would sell $5O,O00,O00 of its 5
per cent preferred stock to the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora.
ton. subject to prior offers OF
its stockholders.
Eleven other New York banks
Signified their intention to CO.
operate with the RFC.
Through James H. Perkins.
chairman of the board, the Ma
i.onal City outlined a sweeping
overhaul of the institutions cap.
ital structure, including reduce
ton in common stock to ST.
OOO, 900 from $124 900 900, without
changing the number OF shares
outstanding.
Par Value Cut
This will be done. Perkins said
in a letter sent out today to all
shareholders of the bank, by
reducing the par value Of out
standing shares from $40 to $12.
Perkins wrote:
"Our directors feel that the e.
bank should support the Presi'
dent of the United States in his
program of strengthening the
] capital structure of the banks
of the country and in his cam
paign to bring about business
and industrial recovery.
"They also feel we should ac-
cept the offer which the Gov.
ernment has made to purchase
preferred stock in national
banks"
Stockholders, Perkins said, may
expect him to recommend the
payment of dividend of Is cents
a share on the common stock for
the last quarter of the present
year.
Perkins said:
"The President has said, u
understand that the question
has been raised in some quar-
tiers that the Government
wants to control the banks
through the ownership of pre-
ferred stock. Nothing could be =
further from the truth. ;
"'The Government only wants
to help provide banking capital
adequate to meet the credit
needs of the country"
CONSERVATIVE STAND
Perkins continued:
I'm these times obligations
of q financial bank to its de-
pOsitOrs is to pursue . con-
servative policy.
"Tn the last eight months we :.
have proceeded on these lines"
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Lambda Chi To Hold
Beaver Dam Dance

Alpha Province of Lambda Chi,
national sorority, will hold its an
nual subscription dance at Beaver
Dam Country Club this Friday
evening. The committee in charge
of the affair consists Of Mrs.
Evelyn Heath, Miss Elsie Phillips,
Miss Margaret Crowell, Miss Vir-
ginia Ahearn, Miss Jane Grubbs
and Miss Gloria Summers.