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tion are requesting information
about the availability Of farm
tracts in different sections Of the
peninsula. The most important
peninsula farm sale of the last
few days was the purchase Of his
toric and picturesque "Blakeford. 3"
in Queen Annes county, by George
n. Moffett, president of the Com
Products Refining Company, New
York. The old colonial estate cen
ta.ns over $50 acres and the pur-
chase price was above the $780,
000-mark. Early last summer Mr.
Chrysler and Col. Phillips entered
into a friendly contest under the
terms Of which Mr. .Chrysler agreed
to entertain the Cambridge s3llD
and vegetable packer at ter
rapin dinner if he failed to produce
ten tons of tomatoes to the acre,
Col. Phillips agreed to provide the
diamond back feast if Mr.. Chrys-
Ter succeeded. Figures complied
recently by the Maryland Ten Ton
Club disclosed that Mr. Chrysler
grew 9.05 tons to the acre, miss
ing the goal by the scant margin
of less than ton. In the news
stories appearing in publications
throughout the country, the fact
was stressed that the Del-Mar-Va
peninsula is one of the larges to-
mato producing areas in the world,
and this has served to whet the
interest Of thousands of prospec-
tive farm buyers in many parts of
the country.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
SEEK AID IN
FINDING BOY
Dick Bright, Grandson of
Former Delaware City May
or Missing From Home
BELIEVED IN CANADA

Delaware State police have been
requested to be on the lookout for
Dick" Bright, 15 years old, a
grandson of former Mayor and
Mrs. George N. Bright, of Della
ware City, who has been missing
from his home in Philadelphia
since Monday of last week. His
disappearance has been broadcast
from Philadelphia radio stations
and it was thought he might come
back to Delaware City where the
youth lived all of last year and at
tended the public school. Last
Summer he visited relatives in
Canada for several months and
when he returned in the late Sum-
mer he is said to have told friends
that he liked Canada very much.
Some persons feel that he may be
enroute to Canada No reason for
his disappearance from home has
been advanced. The boy is very
well known about Delaware City
where he spent good part Of his
time 10 the past several years.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
FARM BUYERS
TO DELMARVA
Attracted Here on Account of
It's Fertile Soil and Gil
matte Conditions, &c.
STARTED BY CONTEST

Into the offices Of real estate
agencies, farm agents, newspapers
and lawyers throughout the Del
Mar-Va peninsula are pouring
steady streams of inquiries from
prospective farm buyers in many
sections of the country, who have
been attracted by the nationwide
publicity given the tomato grow
ing contest between Walter P.
Chrysler, internationally famous
motor magnate, and Colonel AL
banus Phillips, President of the
Phillips Packing Company of Cam
bridge, Maryland. The result of
this contest has been that land
owners in many parts of the Ma
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
Brothers Meet at Fair
First Time in AZ Years

Chicago.-FOr the first time since
the elder of the two left his Tip
erary Ureland) home ~ years ago
to seek his fortune in America, two
brothers met through a Worlds fair
visit in Chicago.
The brothers are John ]. Hollo-
way of Lynn. Mass, and Patrick
Holloway, fifty-seven, late soldier of
fortune. who lives with a sister at
800 South Green Bay road, High
land Park.
Although John Holloway has Wis
tied Chicago several times before,
always Patrick has been away
with the First Cavalry in China,
with the Sixth cavalry in Mexico,
with the Rainbow Division in
France. But this time when John
stepped off the Boston bus, an el-
derly gentleman said to him:
Are you John Holloway:"
"Sure! And you're Pat"
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
COAL MEN HIT
'BOOTLEGGERS'
Bankruptcy Feared as Result
of Competition With Haul
ing From Mines
RETAIL MEN ORGANIZE

Vigorous objection to coal ''boot-
Logging and indications of an or
ganized attempt to end the prac-
tice in this area developed among
Delaware coal dealers gathered at
the Chamber of Commerce, in Will
mington, Wednesday night of last
week to hear discussion of the
code by Carl H Monsees, from
Washington, assistant deputy ad-
miinstrator of Davision 4, NRA.
The issue was raised in discussion
on the floor, following Mr.. Mon
sees address in which he empha-
sized that the national code au-
thority in Washington is strug-
Cling to settle the multiplex local
problems of the code. On behalf
of independent equipped dealers,
it was declared that only one
problem exists in Wilmington, that
of reduced prices possible, in prac-
tice, to dealers VINO truck their
own coal from the mine fields, es-
pecially those who buy their coal
at illegally operated mines. Mr..
Monsees advised that dealers af-
fected by these conditions unite in
filing brief of their position with
the NRA, either through the local
code authority, or directly with
Washington officials. He express
belief the situation will be
Strengthened out in time. Some
of the dealers declared they are
being driven toward bankruptcy
through the form of competition
put up by dealers who truck from
the mines, and charged there is
absolutely no enforcement of the
code in this area. George Nc
Govern, president Of Builders Sup
ply Company registered a protest
against what he declared was his
inability to get letters answered by
the Washington office. He declar-
ed ne had kept a person-to-person
telephone call in for the code au-
thority chief for three days with
no result. An objection was pre-
sented from down State dealers
against a recent ruling of the ma
tional code authority that an en-
ergency does not exist in that sec
tion and that, therefore, emerg-
ency floor costs are not warrant
ed. Floor costs are the total cost
to the retailer, including trans
portatiop. Below this cost he can
not go without violating the MIRA
principal against selling at a loss.
There was insufficient evidence
presented to prove an emergency
condition in that section, Mr..
Momsees declared. He advised that
dealers file this data if they are
still persuaded an emergency does
exist Leon Walker, chairman of
the code authority, presided. Be
fore the meeting, the authority
was host to Mr.. Monsees at din
ner in the Hotel DUPONT.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
DIR. COOKE BROADCASTING
Will Talk Each Sunday Morning
on "The Temple of the Air"

The City Temple of Baltimore
has secured the Rev. George w.
Cooke, well-known evangelist, as
its minister and commencing last
Sunday, December 2, will broad
cast a feature to be known as "The
Temple Of the Air over Station
WCAO from to 10 each Sunday
morning. DR.. Coke will be assist
ed by the Temple choir and en-
semble The new work which Dr.
Cooke will direct is in the heart of
Baltimore, in the old historic
church, corner Preston and Mary
lad, and will be an extensive center
of social, educational and religious
activity, all vitalized with the
spirit of evangelism.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
ELEcTRIrYI1Te|
PENNsY ri
Now so Per O., /
Between Nou. u'iap1
New York |
EMPLOYING ii. 200 ,

VITA every feat,,. |
keyed % q new gess5 ! T. y |
the Pennsylvania psfAs Pa,. q 1
nouns noanesd recently hat 'f.,''aa it4 "a
G cation program. financed i II
Public Works Adni5i..,.o2gl llfe n
m2Is taan so compete ! Il 4
aaa1 A. efforts ars now 5eins g'ase1 o..i
through electric na.sls nalgl'
operation between yssng?s \ e. = 4
Washington early in u Is,,. 1olll
second and final step 'irua,E !
gram. electric operation ! = 'as =
tire freight service n u ~
territory, viii follow s5o,tils e4 !
wards WARDS, Eleotrihcatioa d
rfelght nsa1.l1. y tracks ana va ards i II
number Of men angsgsS s-s's
construction work has be-, u
to new high marks. Wa. w.
ments also are at the biss.,.
els since the work Started
employees, al Of whom a,
loughed Pennsylvania
men, now number il POO Il
monthly payroll has inere,s.
over a million dollars. This
elusive Of the forces currs1tI-
- e.le railroad sh0os
equipment work also fnsrss.
the P. W. A. Gov
railroad officials estimate Tia.
every man employed BY H.
road on the electri6cati,r
another is working in one \
supply industries, 50 that tbs
number given employment 4
proximately twice tbose N
railroad payroll alone. \
work trains are operating Al
the electrifcation Job. coaI
ton everywhere is sweeping
"dlu Iully up to pIe-ans
schedules.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
Thief Put to Flight by
Exploding Light Bulb

Tulsa, Okla.-When W. J. Nc
Nally, manager Of gas company at
Collinsvilile, was aroused by a bur
glar in his house, he hurled a light
bulb on the floor. The EXPLOSION
Of the bulb resembled the crack of
a pistol. The intruder did not wait
to investigate but speeded on his
WAY
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
KILLS WHITE OWL, DOVER
Bird, Rare Specimen, Measured
Four Feet From Tip to Tip

"A white owl was shot on the
farm of William E. Maloney in st.
Jones Neck near Dover, Thursday.
The prediction is often made that
the presence of such bird in this
locality is sign of a long and
hard winter. The bird is an un-
usually large one measuring feet
from tip to tip of its wings and is
snowy white with the exception of
a black dot on each wing. The
feathers are thick, but very fine.
The claws are large and are en-
tirely covered with feathers. The
bird is being stuffed.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
PERSONALS

Sanford Griffith, OF Chester, has
been spending a week or So with
friends in this section.
DIR. d. T. Smithers went to Will
mington this morning to attend
the meeting of the State Denial
Association.
Misses Mary and Della Lippin-
colt have gone to visit their form
er home, Calem, N. ].
Miss Florence Kessler, of Phila-
delphia, who has been the guest of
Miss Nora Cotton returned home
today.
Miss Name Culbreth, of Dover,
was the guest of Miss Sue Quigg
from Saturday to Monday.
Mr.. Grove Harrington and Mr..
Wilbur Cahoon, of Dover, were
weekend visitors to Miss Nora
Cotton.
Mr.. ]. j. Hoffecker, of Middle
town was the guest of Miss Bertha
L. IIO1lCChcI ONSI lIlC Wcth-cUu.
Rev. Henry S. Thompson of
Keene, New Hampshire, and his
family, are expected in this town
next wek, en- route to Easton, Md,
whittier he has been transferred
from the New Hampshire Confer
ence, to succeed Rev. A. w. Light
bourne, as pastor of the M. E.
Church.
John Cosden, who has been quite
sick the past two weeks is improv-
ing
t. B. Megear, who has been alb
sent from his store On account of
illness for the past week is report
ed much better.
Mrs. Eliza F. Swinney, after
spending several weeks in Smyrna,
returned last Monday to Shiloh,
New Jersey.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF 50 YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF DEC. 3RD, 1884

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06

toast and ending down among the
cream and jellies. 1t was pro
nounced one of the most enjoyable
banquets ever given in Dover.
They sat down at the tables at
eleven o'clock and arose at half
past twelve. Among those who re-
sponded to toasts were B. V. Wei
don, DR.. w. T. Collins, Prof. J. Fl.
Groves, L. Irving Handy and n. f.
Wilds of this town. The attend
ants from this place intended to
leave Dover on the PA Norfolk
express, but it did not arrive there
until 3:45, so it was almost morn
ing when they got home. They had
to foot it in from Clayton, and
some of the long legged ones of the
party were home and in bed before
the others had reached town.
PREPARATIONS AGAINST
FIRE
The additional fire apparatus
purchased recently by the Town
Commissioners has had no perman-
ent abiding place, but at meet
ing of the Town Council last week,
it was decided to erect an engine
house 18 x AZ feet, at the end Of
the Town Hall, facing on Main
Street. This building is to be con-
structed so as 20 serve as the
foundation for an enlargement of
the hall at the end by at least an
addition for a stage and dressing
rooms, which would add from a
quarter to a third to the present
seating capacity of the hall. The
work for the present contemplates
only one story for the accommoda-
ton of the engine, which is to be
entered ON at once and completed
as soon as possible. Our Town
as a board, are de-
cidedly in favor of water works.
The special committee on this sub
ject: John B. Cooper, George w. |
Taylor, and DR.. r. S. w. Hirons
are in correspondence with other
places so as to get all the infor-
nation possible. The question of
q water supply by cisterns sunk
into the ground as the most eco
nomical method is not without its
and has been abandoned
N several towns where tried, for
water works are far more salts
factory.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
MASONIC BANQUET

Last night, twenty-one members
OF the masonic order of this town
attended banquet given by the
Union Lodge OF Dover at the Hotel
Richardson Over 100 sat down at
the tables, the menu OF which en-
braced all the choice viands OF the
season, commencing with quail on
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
Bad for Jack Rabbits

Burns, Ore. Harvey county
stockmen hope party of archery
enthusiasts will come again. Five
men with bows and arrows shot %
Jack rabbits in the afternoon.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
Dover Couples 25th Anniversary

Dover Couples 25th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. w L. Clayton, of
Dover, observed their tWenty-ffth
welding anniversary last week at
their home in Dover on North
Bradford street. Mr.. Clayton has
been a merchant for many years.
Mrs. Clayton is active in club
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1884
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
n. r. A. Strikebreaking
In Los Angeles

THE manner in which the National La
L Dor Relations Board carries on strike
breaking activity covered by slick prom
ises, is illustrated in that Boards recent
decision on the Los Angeles Railway Corp.
and the Los Angeles Motor Coach Co. employees
strike In the fifth week of bitterly contested
strike the Roosevelt Board issues pious decision
in Washington that the company has violated Sec
ton la of the Recovery Act by interfering with
the organization of the employees and refusing to
bargain collectively with the Amalgamated ASsocia-
ton of Street and Electrical Railway Employees CA.
F. of L..
This decision, seeming to favor the workers
hides long series of strikebreaking acts in Los
Angeles on the part of RooSevelt's medators The
Regional Labor Boards of the NRA. and the Fed
eral medators stalled the street car and bus men
for weeks before as well as after the strike These
mediators offered the strikers at first the proposals
of the company The strikers voted fatty to reject
the Roosevelt mediators' proposals. The company
refused to arbitrate. The N.R.A. boards and Fed
eral mediators wanted the strikers to go back to
work under compulsory arbitration of these boards
During the course of the strike, every strike
breaking agency of the employers was brought into
play against the strikers While the Regional and
City Labor Boards were meeting and trying to send
the strikers back to work before their demands we're
won strikers were being tear gassed arrested and
beaten up every day Scabs were running cars pro-
tected by police and armed gangsters. The Roose-
welt Labor Boards and mediators countenanced this
strikebreakng violence and called conferences while
the government police and other forces were try
ing to smash the strike through terror. Meanwhile
the A. F. of L. leaders isolating the strike by
raising the red scare, by refusing to spread the
strike, and by refusing to call the whole labor
movement for support and by attempting to dis
courage mass picketing.
Now after five weeks of concentrated strike
breaking terror, after five weeks during which the
N.RA. boards tried to get the strikers back to
work on terms satisfactory to the employers after
the strike has thus been weakened, comes the
solemn decision that the company has violated Sec
ton Ia. This decision will not be enforced, any
more than the Weirton decision, the Houde deci-
sion, or any other such N.R.A. decision and was
never meant to be enforced by the strikebreaking
N.R.A. boards.
The Los Angeles street car strikers in order to
win recognition, must strengthen their fight by
drawing in the whole labor movement to their sup
port, by defeating the splitting red scare of their
leaders, and by rank and file control and use of
militant fighting methods. The workers them
selves must enforce recognition. They cannot rely
on Roosevelt's hypocritical strikebreaking boards
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Roosevelt Prepares
for Congress

THE line of Roosevelt's policy for the
L coming Congress is rapidly emerging
from preliminary press reports.
And already it is clear that one of the
major policies of the Wall Street en-
ployers' offensive, as outlined by them at their
recent conferences in New York and While Sulphur
Springs, namely, the drive to smash all relief APP
preparations to the bone, is also the point at which
Roosevelt is going to strike the American masses
firstl
The New York Herald Tribune reports that
Roosevelt has made his decision relief policy
and that this entails work relief in a program Of
supplying jobs to all employabes, and diminishing
the dole system of direct relief"
Diminishing direct relief Is not this the heart
Of the demands made by the manufacturers at their
White Sulphur Springs conference of the biggest
Wall Street employers?
The manufacturers, it is true, demanded the
dole" But this "dole" is for them only the mis-
cradle handouts of local. private charity This de-
mand for the dole by the manufacturers accom-
panies their fundamental demand for the Slashing
Of all Federal cash relief.
Thus Roosevets relief program with its work
relief" projects actually reaches the same goal as
the employers-the diminuton Of all Federal direct
cash relief
What then becomes of all the staged rebuff"
by Roosevelt OF the employers SpoKeSrnenT Inc
analysis Of the Daily Worker of this bit of publicity
as a means of easing the way for the execution of
the monopoly program is confirmed.
Roosevelt WILL of course, strive to conceal the
brutality of his reduction of all relief appropriations
by an immense ballyhoo of public works"
But this public works program is not intended
to, and can never provide work for the vast ma
jority of the more than 100000 jobless. Expert
ence with the Roosevelt public works" in the recent
past shows that at best it has given work to less
than 100000 men, And the wages to be paid on
these projects are already limited at in the Roose-
welt drive to reduce costs in construction" as well
as in the drastic reductions in pay which the
Roosevelt government instituted in those places
where the government pay was above the private
levels
Furthermore, the Roosevelt public works is
thinly yelled war construction program, as can be
seen from the P. w. A. appropriations for warships
airpanes, machine guns and powder.
All these developments emphasizes how vital is
the work which will be taken up at the coming
National Congress for Social and Unemployment
Insurance on January 81 1t is at this Congress
that the working class will present program of
action for its immediate needs as against the Wall
Street brutality Of the Roosevelt program. On to
the January ST Congress!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

governing bodies and bring forward sharply the de-
mands of the unemployed workers for increased
cash relief
Into these demonstrations can be brought the
forces of the organizations that have signalized
their support of such movement by their backing
OF the National Congress-
As in the case of New York City, where workers
will assemble at City Hall and demand endorsement
of the Workers Bill the demonstration will, at the
same time set forth the workers demands for I'M
employment insurance and their resistance against
the sales tax and the sharp attacks upon the living
standards Of the unemployed
The success of the National Congress in Wash
ington will depend upon the effectiveness with which
the Communists take hold of the local issues of the
unemployed and give expression to those demands
in mighty demonstrations of the employed and I'M
employed on Jan. 7, the day on which the workers
delegates in Washington present their demands to
Roosevelt and the United States Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
The Task of Every Worker

TT is not only the Communist Party, but
the entire labor movement, as we'll as
every mass organization of toilers, which
is menaced by the latest activities of the
Congressional Committee Investigating
un-American activities"
This committee ostensibly created to inquire into
Nazi activities in this country, now appears more
and more In its real form as tool of the National
Association of Manufacturers and Chambers of
Commerce to drive the Communist Party into
ilegality.
The messages sent by Earl Browder, general sec
rotary of the Communist Party and Clarence
Hathaway editor Of the Daily Worker, to the Dick
stein committee and to every member of Congress
demanding the right of the Communist Party to
make its position part of the public records are of
vital concern to every worker and anti-fascist in
the country.
The bitter experiences in Germany and Austria
have shown how true are the words of these
messages which declare that the anti Communist
build-up of the committee is the first step toward
cutting wages, speeding up production, cutting relief
for the unemployed and introducing fascist meas
ures for the suppression of the labor movement as
a whole"
Every trade union member in the A. F. of L.
locals, every Socialist Party member every militant
worker fighting for better conditions for relief and
Unemployment insurance, as we'll as for elementary
rights to organize and strike must feel alarmed at
the steady increase of this Congressional activity
against the Communist Party
The employers and their governmental agents
always prepare for ruthless attacks against the
whole labor movement by just such preliminary at
tacks on the vanguard of the working class the
Communists.
The capitalist class reasons that with the Com
munist Party clamped down as a legal party. the
whole wage-cuttng, open-shop offensive of the en-
ployers will be more easily carried out
1t is just in this way that fascist reaction ad-
vances in capitalist countries
The fight of the Communist Party to expose
and block the anti-Communist activities of the
Dickstein Committee is the serious fight of every
worker. Socialist and A. r. of L. workers Defend
the Communist Partyl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
BY vERN SMITH

MOSCOW, US.S.R., Dec. 10 (By
MaiD One of the American worker
delegates to the November Seventh
celebrations was asked by those who
elected him to find out whether the
workers are satisfied with condi-
lions under the Soviet government. ;"
This delegate tried industriously
during his month spent travelling
up and down the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics to answer that
question.
He found out first of all, that 1t
was really two questions. 1t could
mean: do the Soviet Union work.
ers prefer capitalism to the Socialist
society here?" Or, it could mean,
do the Soviet workers consider
further improvement necessary in
the present conditions?"
Only the first of these two pos
Sible meanings was in the minds of
the workers who asked the ques-
ton, but only the second of these
was considered by the Soviet work.
ers to whom the question was di-
rected.