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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
DRY DELEGATES
TO BE CHOSEN
BETWEEN MAY Is
County Groups To Pick
Candidates For Test On
Amendment. g..
PLANS OUTLINED
Houston Names Execu-
tive Committee From
Senatorial Districts.
PLANS OUTLINED

Dry candidates in the drive for
delegates to the Senate repeal con-
ventiOn will be selected between
May and S, the executive commit
tee of the organization formed un-
der the leadership of former Con-
gressman Robert G. Houston, of
Georgetown, to fight the repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment, decided
AT a meeting at Dover last Saturday.
Plans were arranged for the cam
paign which will be waged from
now through the repeal on May 27
and on until the referendum cleo
tiOn for counties on June 6.
The meeting was presided over by
DR. Dayton L. MeClain. superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League and
attended by Jefferson Cooper. of
Cheswold. secretary and treasurer
of the body; the Rev. Ivanhoe Will
lis, of Wilmington; Mrs. Anna Lee
Waller. of Delmar. State president
of the W C. Il. u; Horace G. East
burn. of Wilmington, and the Rev.
David Harsis. of the Wilmington A.
NJ. e. Conference, who heads the
negro department of the Organlza-
tiOn.
Plans were outlined for a meeting
i'm Wilmington on Monday, May l, at
which time four candidates will be
chosen from the City of Wilmington
to seek election as dry delegates to
the convention at which the ques-
ti0n of repeal will be taken up. .on
Tuesday, May 2. a meeting will be
held i'm Dover when the five Kent
county dry candidates will be chos-
en-. On Wednesday, May 3, at
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
Delaware Episcopalians To
Meet lit St. Lhke's, Seaford

at the Hotel Sussex, Tuesday eve
ming, May 8, at 1880 O'Clock.
The committee requests that dele
gates and friends requiring hospital
ity send their names in as early as
possible. They also make the fur
ther request that each parish and
mission notify the committee the
probable number of reservations re-
quired for the convention banquet.
Delegates and their friends of both
the convention and the Women's
Auxiliary are requested to register
with the reception committee in the
porch Of the church as soon as pos
sible after arrival there. There will
be the usual parish celebration of
the holy communion at 1880 a. m.
Standard time will be observed
throughout the convention.
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
FIREMEN HEAR
FIRE PREVENTION
TALKSAT DOVER
DIR. E. M. Rank, Of Penn
sylvania, Addresses The
Meeting.
FIRE PREVENTION

DR.. E. NJ. Rank, of Lancaster, Pa,
chairman of the State Fire Proven
tion committee of that State was the
principal speaker at a meeting of
more than 200 persons, firemen and
interested parents, held in the audi
torium of the Dover High School
last Wednesday night under the aus
pices of the Educational Committee
of the Delaware State Firemen's
Association.
The object of the meeting was to
instruct parents and children in the
use of safety methods in the home,
the manner of combating fires and
the best means to prevent them.
DR.. Rank gave an illustrated lee
ture on the modern methods in use
to prevent fires and also how to
combat them pending the arrival of
the firemen.
William Deem, chief of the Lam
caster Bureau of Fire, also spoke on
similar lines and was followed by
William ]. Lutz, chief of the Bureau
of Fire of Wilmington, who also dis
cussed prevention and the best
means of fighting fires.
]. E. Haddaway, president of the
Delaware State Firemen's Associa-
tion, presided and was assisted by
members of the educational COM
mittee. which comprises Walter HUI
bert, of New Castle county; Thomas
E. Baker, of Kent, and r, &. Stew
ard, of Sussex.
After the meeting, the firemen ad-
journed to the headquarters of the
Robbins Hose Company, where en-
tertainment was provided and re-
freshments served.
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
Fresh Ar Committee
Will Place Children
Riddles From NerO York City VIII Again Be Brought
To Milford And Nearby TOlUns; Work Is GrOWing
Each Year With DelGIOareGns Adding Much To
The Happiness OF These Children.

A committee has been appointed
in Milford to take care of this sum
mer appeal on behalf of the little
Fresh Air Children who are sent out
from the New York tenements un-
der the auspices of the New York
Herald-Tribune.
The committee for Milford fol-
lows; Chairman, Mrs. Bayard Whar-
ton; vice chairman, Mrs. Davis
Grier; Mrs. G. Marshall Townsend,
Mrs. S. P. Toadvine. Rev. Father A.
C. Jones, George Perry, Earl At
kins, H. j. PettyjOhn and Rev. VIM.
S. Irwin.
Last summer. despite widespread
conditions, the number of children
taken. into private homes as guests
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28

The annual Diocesan convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of Delaware, will be held in st.
Luke's parish house at Seaford
Tuesday and Wednesday. May and
10. The rector of st. Luke's p. E.
Church, the Rev. John R. Crosby,
and the committee in charge, have
arranged the program.
Holy communion will be eelebrat-
ed May 8, at 10 a. m. The Woman's
Auxiliary will meet in st. Johns NJ.
E. Church. The United Thanks Of
fering of the Woman's Auxiliary
will be presented at a service of the
holy communion at 3 a. m., April
10. Lunch will be served ON both
days in the parish house by the wo-
men of the parish at 12 o'clock noon.
The convention banquet will be held
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
SCHOOL TEACHERS BILL
Is DEFEATED BY HOUSE
Action On Burris Measure For Tea
cher Retirement Deferred

BY a vote of 16 yeas to 10 nays
the House of Representatives at
Dover Tuesday afternoon defeated
Representative Burris' bill to pro-
vide an appropriation of 100000 as
a pension fund for aged and disabled
public school teachers.
1t was the plan under this meas
ure that teachers now out of SER
vice who had taught in the schools
for 80 years or more to receive a
monthly sum equal to one-half the
salary they were paid when they re-
tired, but in no case was this pay
ment to be less than $50 nor more
than $50. To disabled teachers the
monthly payment was to be $50. It
was proposed to take the money
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
FORMER STATE AUDITOR
STRICKEN AT DOVER

Edward Baker, former State
Auditor of Delaware and for
-mer Sheriff of Kent county,
suffered a stroke of paralysis
at Dover Sunday night, while
sitting in the office of the Do
yer Garage Company. next
door to the First National
Bank. He was removed to his
home where the family physi-
clan, DR.. Mcdaniel, was sum-
moned who found that his en-
tire right side was affected.
Mr.. Baker is about 65 years
old. He held the office of State
Auditor from January, 1923,
to January, 1888. He was also
Sheriff of Kent county from
1905 to 1907.
His activities in public af-
fairs and Republican politics
made him one of the best
known men in Delaware. He
has a host of friends in all
parts of the State who are
sorry to learn of his serious
illness.
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
GIRL SPENDS NIGHT
In SUSSEX SWAMP
Helena Roach, II, Exhausted, Unable
to Answer Searekers, StumbleS Home

10 answer SeafCEerSs SIumDIeS Home
While hundreds of men and boys
were searching the swamp land near
the farm yef William Roach, at Red
Mill, near Lewes,. Helena Roach, IA.
years old. who had been missing
since late Sunday afternoon, STUN
bled into her home in a dazed con-
dition, suHefing from exhaustion and
exposure.
She had wandered 5throught the
swamp aIlfnightsand said that while
she could hear the searchers calling
for her. wasstoo exhausted to answer
and finally managed TO find her way
home at lsaa Monday morning.
The girl left her home Sunday af-
ternoon ats2.o'cloel for a row on the
mill pond apd when she failed to
return at g, her father became larm-
ed and notified the Coast Guards who
found her empty boat on the broad
kill creek. The search was then
started.
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, April 1S, 50 Tues
day, April 25, Inclusive

Charles ]. Holzmueller, the local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions for Mil
ford from Wednesday, April 10, to
Tuesday, April 25, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28
SUSSEX COUNTY Ali
CLUBS HOLD BANQUET
Every Club in Lower Delaware Rep
resented At Dinner In Georgetown

A hundred and thirty-two club
members, relatives and friends at
tended the first Sussex County All
Club Banquet, held Saturday even
ing, April 90, in the Willie Jones
Memorial Hall. Georgetown.
The banquet was served by the
Cokesbury Home Demonstration
Club. The menu consisted of:
Fruit Cup
Rooct TurLaU
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-28

Miss Margaret Hastings Of Bridge
vile, was chairman of the decorat-
ing committee. The color scheme
was green and white. the club col
ors. The decorations consisted of
white flowers, green candles and
white and green favors.
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Temperature Raj
Total Rainfall

Total Rainfall ...... 1.O2
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

country when a young man. and settled in
Washington about 1902. He vas a printer by
trade and at one time was foreman CT the COM
posing room of the National Intelligencer. He
was for many years employed as a clerk in the
Treasury Department. and the date Of his
death is given as February %. 1852. when he
had reached his seth year For many years.
and until his death he resided on d street
northwest, between Eleventh. and Twelfth
streets where is now the Post Off es Depart
ment Building.
Richard Dtnmore Tor DinSm 10 kept q
boarding school and later edited the National
Magazine or Cabinet OF the United States and
other papers He died in 1910. william Cooper
was associated with Dinmore from 1908 to the
time Of the latter's death. two yesrs later
william Lambert was q clerk in the Pension
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OF
WASHINGTON
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.'

ANNIVERSARY MEETING"
The Society having assembled at the Council
Fire of the Great Wgwam Undsays Hotel,
on Friday the 18th day of the month of Flowers,
and 317th year of discovery May 18th, 1909,
proceeded to the appointment CT officers for one
year. when the following brothers were declared
duly elected, to wit:
Grand Sachen. Henry Aborn.
Secretary William Lambert.
Treasurer, Joshua ]. Moore.
"Sachems-W P. Gardner. r. C. Weightman,
Henry HEREFORD William Lambert w. r. Cozens,
Joshua j. Moore. Zephaniah Ferrall, George
Andrews r. Dinsmore, Bernard Smith, William
Cooper John Sessford. Samuel S. Hamilton.
Charles Jones' G. W. Lindsay, Benjamin Burch."
COME of these names the writer cannot 1den-
y tify but all undoubtedly were among the
earliest and most prominent families OF Wash
ington and even many years hence we mo
some of them filling high stations and associated
with worthy causes. Perhaps the most noted
of the sachems of the Tammany Society OF
Washington was Roger Chew Weightman, who
served as mayor of Washington. He was the
son Ct Richard Weightman Of Whitehaven,
England and was born in Alexandra, Va,
January Is, 1887. His mothers family name
was Chew.
He early entered the printing Office Of Way
and Croft printers, as an apprentice, their
establishment then being on the south side OF E
street between Seventh and Eighth streets. In
the War of 1925 he first lieutenant OF
the Washington Light Horse, and participated
in the battle of Bladsnsburg. He was mayor
CT the city and grand master of Masons, and
upon his death, February 2. 1876, at 71712
Twentieth street northwest, his body was con-
veyed to Congressional Cemetery.
He was an early member of the Associations
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Office He was a native of England. and was
selected by the Secretary of State in 1921 to
make the necessary observations to determine
the meridian of Washington, he being assisted
by William Elliot a clerk in the Patent Once.
Mr.. Lambert had memorialized Congress on
the subject as early as 1909 and was anxious
to do the work.
George w. Lindsay was the old hotel pro-
prietor and at the time of the anniversary
meeting held in his hostelry. was conducting
the Pennsylvania Tavern. having succeeded to
the management of Solomon Meyers Penn
sylvania House and Meyer City Tavern. where
the council of fire" was held in the societys
great wigwam." This tavern, or hotel, occu-
pied the site where for many years stood the
Metropolitan Hotel and is described as being
"a two-stcry brick structure. adjoned on the
west to Duanes book store at the corner. and
then on the other side the house lately
occupied by Mrs. Wilson boarding house
Solomon Meyers had leased the place fr> m Mr..
woodward for $3.50 year.
Evidently the anniversary was an occasion
for a ccnvivial party where there was plenty to
eat and something always on tap to wash It
down with; just like any other c,uncil fire held
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"Tarmany. Tamn3ny.
BIZ, Chief sits i'll his tepee
Cheering braves to victory
TamIany, Tammany,
Swamp swamp en-
Get the vcmpun, Tammany!
- ROM time imnemorial It has been the
practice to write campaign songs but
very few ever live beyond the particular
campaign for which they are written
while stranger to s.v, other songs, net
written for political purposes. nave cceh
taken I'D by the masses ard used by the oli1er-
ont parties t. excellent advantage. Tammany
was written by Vincent Bryant and Gus EDWARDS
and introduced by Jefferson de AngehS IN
"Fantana" and although not intended 1or poi'i-
cal purposes yet has served as such ever since
its introduction in 1905. sidewalks OF rev
York" might also be mentioned as being one OF
the most popular pieces never lntenoeo as
campaign song but still valuable party asset
and one that ne one can sing. or hear sung,
without thinking of Alfred E. Smith. just as
EFT R." makes one think Immediately OF
Theodore Roosevelt.
Many people sing TammaEy even II they
do not like the organization Tammany; 1t Is just
one of these irresistible. catchy tunes that ap-
Deal to all classes, and the chances are that II
some one started this piece at Republican
rally it would be taken up by the crowd and
disrupt the meeting. InGeed, there is posi-
bility that the Republicans may some day try 10
steal this song or at least the air. and adopt 1t
as their own. just the South tock from the
North Dixie and made 1t the song OF the
Confederacy. But. then, no American cap criti-
CHE such a course when we know that we got
yankee Doodle" or at least the tune, and the
airs of America and The Star-Spangled
Banner" from England, and many other tunes
besides from abroad, now calling them our own
But as to "Tammany" Did you know that
Washington once had Tammany Society?
Indeed it did, and it vas live. wide awake
organization at that. particularly during the
administrations of JefYerscn and Madison. 1t
was called the Tammany Society Of Washing
ton and the National 1ntelligencer Of May 10.
1909 carried an article about its anniversary
meeting, in which is recorded the names OF
number of Washingtonians who held office IN
the society at that time. Here is part Of the
Intelgencers Wrte-up:
"TAMMANY SOCIETY
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BY JOHN CL.4GETT PROCTOR

"rarnany. Tamnl@ny
Bi" Chief sits i'll his tepee
Cheering braves to victory.
Tamuany. Tammany.
Swamp en-. swamp en-.
Get the vampum, Tammany!
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John SESSFORD also mentioned as
- sachem, is the man to whom We are indebted
for the valuable chronicles Of Washington pre-
pared by him from 1922 to 1860. He was OF
Scotch parentage. though native of North
cumberland County, England, and came TO TINS
Evening star., 1933-06-27

energetically as possible in bringing
about these blessings"
The assistant secretary, who had
conferred with President Roosevelt be-
fore his departure from America, pre-
viously had planned to take an air.
plane to Croydon Airport from Cobb
in order to save time SO he could join
in the deliberations Immediately.
Surely, as all nations, big and little
are represented at the conference" he
said. "it cannot but be productive OF
good.
"As far as I can judge after being
on the water week, definite progress
is being made in accordance with the
original program of procedure.
THAT program gives the scope. In
President Roosevelt's phrase. for bold
experiments necessary for the correc-
ton of the worldwide condition now
existing, which, happily, shows signs for
betterment.
Expect Agreement.
Each country has contribution tc
make toward that end, and each will
make it."
The American added that 'all my re-
ports are that everything is going on
according to plan"
One reporter. pointed out that Eng
lish newspapers over the week end had
expressed peSsimism over the confer
ence outlook.
Surely people in Europe are not
taking that attitude" Moley declared.
Turning to Swope, he asked. Have
you ever met conference where the
people were on the point of breaking
up at one period or another which
didn't come to an agreement in the
end?"
Swope nodded in agreement.
"As far as l know" he replied every
thing looks hopeful"
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$4OO,0DO,OlO NAVY
BUILDING IS SEEN
Huge Program to Come From
Public Works Money for
Station Improvement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
High officials hope to spend $400,-
100000 on the Navy during the fiscal
year that begins Saturday.
Already $238 5000 has been set
aside by President Roosevelt from
public works money for new-ship con-
struction in three-year program Sec
retary Swanson has fixed $46, 900, 900
as the minimum for the first-year ex-
penditure on 80 vessels.
This brings the fiscal years assured
expenditures $270,000, 900 Of cash
Withdrawals from regular appropria-
tions plus the $4,000, ,0O0-to $316,-
100000
But in addition the Navy plans shore
station construction and plant moder-
nation ashore and af1oat to cost about
s84, 100000 To do this. though, it must
get that amount from the public works
fund in a new ALLEGATION
Then 1884 naval construction plans
would set up like this:
$40,000000 for ships under construc-
tion.
S46,o00,00 for starting the 80 new
ships
ss4,o0O,o0O for modernization and
construction ashore and af1oat.
No ALLEGATIONS for shore construction
have been made. Neither have all the
16 new vessels Navy yards will build
been allotted to them. But once work
is begun officials hope the public works
funds will have jobs for a number of
per diem and annual Navy Yard en-
ployes.
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$50 per month, instead of So to $50 as
provided under the economy law, with
higher rates for extremely severe dis
abilities
Rated in Multipies Of Ten.
A further change is in revising the
rating schedule. which until now has
been in five brackets of percentage of
disability. 10, 25. so, rs and 100.
Henceforth veterans disabilities will
be rated in percentages in multipies of
10, such as 10. 20, 80. and so on up to
100.
The rate Of payment for non-serviee
connected permanent and total disabil-
ity Is increased from $50 to $50.
Spanish American War veterans. IN
Guiding soldiers in the Boxer rebellion
and the Philippine insurrection. who
served 80 days or more, were honorably
discharged. are SIS years of age or over,
are 30 per cent disabled and in need,
Will receive SIS per month.
Spanish War veterans over 81 wears Of
age, who were in active service. were in
80 days or more. and we're honora bly,
discharged, will receive a like amount.
The basic difference is that the 52-year-
old veterans will not be required to
SHOW need or be so per cent disabled.
Evening star., 1933-06-27
MOLEY REACHES IRELAND.
Gives Up Plan to Fly to London and
Remains on Liner.

Cobb, Irish Free State, June n
R.-Assistant Secretary of State Ray
mond Moley. who had intended to land
here and fly to London, where he will
attend the World Economic Conference,
changed his plans today and decided to
proceed to Plymouth aboard the steam
ship Manhattan.
The Manhattan is due TO reach Ply
mouth about $50 pm. today Il 80 pm,
Eastern standard timeD. and Moley.
therefore, Is scheduled to reach London
at 11:30 pm. t630 pm, Eastern stand
ard time.
On this. my first. approach to Irish
soil, l salute the Irish Free State and
the Irish" he said. In pursuance Of
the plan made before the London
Economic Conference that I go there
during the sittings. I am en- route to
that capital bringing to Secretary Hull
chief OF the American mission, and his
fellow American delegates reports of
recent economic and legislative develop
n3entS in Washington.
Herbert Bayard SWope is. at the
Presidents request and my own, as
soclatcd in this mission.
In my country, the conference is
regarded as being On the road to results
helpful TO each nation and to the
world
America is eager to participate as
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increasing purchasing power to starr
business moving again.
An indication of this was given in
the address of Senator James Couzens
of Michigan, who asserted an increase
In demand for raw materials afforded
by the American public works program
offers "far more hope for world re-
covery than can possibly be expected
merely from a reduction in tariff
duties" s
Many Questions Pending.
Moley, it is understood, is Of like
opinion, and it was predicted the
American group will seek the co-opera-
ton of other nations in measures de-
signed to put men back to work and
increase prices.
The arrival of Mr.. Moley was on Q
conference scene on which these epi-
sodes were developing:
Continued French efforts to peg the
franc and the pound, without the
dollar.
Australian objection to a wheat
restriction and price-raising project
tentatively accepted by the United
States, Argentina and Canada.
India's indicated adherence to the
American silver rehabilitation plan
The plea of the British chancellor
Of the exchequer for negotiations be-
tween debtors and creditors.
Negotiations between British and
Russian foreign ministers for resump-
ton of trade between those nations.
Plans of Secretary of State Orestes
Ferrara of Cuba to ask for world
wide cooperation in restoring sugar
prices.
Expressions of dissatisfa ction in jap
anese quarters for progress of the
parley.
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Manchuria gives her the right to &C
quire the Russian share.
Frances interest arises from claims
that French citizens subscribed the
greater part of the capital of the
Russo-Asiatic bank which financed the
railway in its early stages.
English and American claims involve
equipment and improvements. There
were, for example, $4000,000 worth of
improvements made when John w.
Stevens, American engineer. was chair
man of the inter-alhed railroad COM
mission during and Immediately after
the Kerensky regime in Moscow.
U. S. Locomotives Figure.
Both Anglo-SaXon elements are in
terested, too, in the disposal of 80
locomotives and other rolling stock
which Manchukuo claims Russia
wrongfully took into Soviet territory
last year. The locomotives, records
indicate, were purchased from Ameri-
can manufacturers by the United
States Government for the Czarist
regime in World War days, payment
being guaranteed by Great Britain
under the terms of war loan.
Since England has paid part of that
loan. lawyers assert she has claim
on the locomotives, subject to the bal
ance due the United States.
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r ARBIN, Manchuria LP)-Long-
IL drawn out and complicated
negotiations are predicted at
4 i Chinese Eastern Railway head
quarters here over the proposed
sale of Russian rights in the road to
Japan
While the principal points involve
conflicting claims as between the Soviet
Union on one side and ownership dis
puted between China and Manchukuo
on the other, there are questions in
volving French, American and English
interests also.
The 1,l0O-mile line, running across
Manchuria from west to east with a
branch from this city south to Chang
chun, was built by the Czarist Russian
government in 1903 under an agreement
with the Chinese Empire providing a
system of dual management.
China Enters Protests.
China has protested the proposed
sale at both Moscow and Toxic, argu-
ing that the fact that she is unable to
function in Manchuria due to the force
majeur which set up the japanese
protected state of Manchukuo. does not
affect her juridical rights in the road.
Manchukuo maintains that its de
facto status as successor of China in