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Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
OLDEST DELAWARE WOMAN
Mrs. Sarah b. PhilhOwer, Whining
ton, Lived to Her IO2 Birthday

Mrs. Sarah B. Philhower, 1O2
years old last April 1, died recent
ly at the home of her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Archie
McAllister, in Wilmington. She
was the oldest woman in the State.
She often said that 80 years was
enough for any one to live. But
Mrs. Philhower = always alert
bright, genial and philosophical,
continued to live past the four
score age. When she passed the
centenary Of her birth date, she re-
iterated her thought that too much
life isn't good for person. Then
came her 101st birthday anniver-
sary and then her 102nd birthday
anniversary and she said I've
lived too long"
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
Plan New School Hospital

Plans for an enlarged modern
hospital unit for the Ferris Indus
trial School containing at least IL
beds were discussed by the trus-
tees at their recent meeting. A
fund of S11,500 is being sought
from the Federal Works Progress
Administration to add to a fund
of $4,000 held by the trustees with
which to finance the hospital unit,
enlarged quarters for school offic-
ers and improvements to the class
rooms. The view was expressed at
the meeting, government aid would
be forthcoming shortly.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
Mr.. Watson is Honored

Mr.. B. Riley Watson, the local
representative of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company for Townsend
and Blackbird, was honored by the
company for the outstanding rec
ord made during the summer
months. Mr.. Watson was an in
vited guest to the Company's Sales
Convention held at Atlantic City,
n. j., September 5th, 9th and 7th.
Last year the company held the
convention at Montreal Canada,
which was also attended by Mr..
Watson.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
Covering Hunting of
Migratory Birds

An amendment to the Federal
Regulations, covering the hunting
of migratory binds, changes the
dove season so that it will open on
september 21st, instead of October
1st. An additional amendment re-
moves the 400 o'clock closing hour
on rails, woodcock, and doves, per-
mitting them to be shot each day
of the open season until sunset.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
GUN RUNNING
INTO ETHIOPIA
Has Become a New Racket
In the East African Crisis
Similar to Rumrunning
SECRET ORDERS PLACED

Paris, France-Europe's gang.
sters and international adventures,
who nave found time on their hands
since bootlegging booze into Amer
ica became dead industry, have
discovered new racket in gun
running into Ethiopia.
While the chancelleries are busy
trying to find solution to the quar-
rel between Benito Mussolini and
the emperor of Ethiopia. Halle Sci
assi |, gunrunning racketeers are
busy rushing into East Africa the
munitions which may blaze when
talking ceases.
With some 100000 men to resist
the might of Italy, and the need
for airplanes, tanks and motorized
artillery, the ruler of Ethiopia has
sent emissaries to munition plants
Of Europe to try to obtain the equip
ment necessary to carry on war
against the white invader Of the
kingdom founded, according TO le-
gend, by Solomon and the queen Of
Sheba
Secret Orders Placed.
Owing to the ban on export of
arms, the Ethiopians have not been
able to buy enough war stocks, al
though the emissaries have offered
gold from their tabled mines. Some
secret orders have been passed and
ships, under sealed instructions,
have sailed mysteriously from sew
eral ports in Europe down through
the Suez can"i and the Red sea.
Continued on Page Sikh
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
20 Licensed Planes IN;

Statistics released by i
Department of Commem
of Air Commerce in va.
ID. c., list 90 licensed air.
Delaware, of which Is n
planes and "A biplanes
the monoplaneS are sinsst
craft, while seven are nj
ed. Ali of the Il bin
single engined.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
TAX SOFT M
AS BUSH
Opinion of Atto,,.
Hits Many d.,
DeIaware
SOME EXEMPTION pa,pc

Base Based upon an o2lt, -.
Attorney General cr.a. a Fse.
Tax Department Wssr. sa toe i.
a ruling relative to Ii.aa the - =
ed to be taken by Dsr,as s='
in the incidental sale t,lsI d ]. ..,,
affecting many gasoI,. &
and druggists. The psr
law stipulates that any !, "a i,
gagged in the busins,,
food prepared and con1,, "a <s'
premises and soft drrI. s...t.h
required to obtain las s.@s,n
eating house keeper n. n. :. vge5r /
ing on the law provds' e. ,',.u.tv.
sons engaged in Som. :. 49,. 5,
cipal kind of business ,s \ s. 81,
sell soft drinks incidep,,r. 1ssrx i
engaged in the bushes, !. ,s,1, I,
ing an eating house. Il y, .1ry
out at the State Tax h. ,Iu Is
however, that final ipt.s ,e j
depends upon the facts 81 = y
case. Any place which i u. !
ly and ostensibly operst,, = -
ly for the sale Of n, hps ]
drinks is required to ON, 8 81 y
ing house keepers liceDg ine bid
cessity for the ruling !, the win
result of the state.w5. streets
being conducted to dep, reschin(
sons failing to secure !, boards
cense- This widespread = most q
beverages pr, roo1y "
question of liability u1j, beating
milton of an eating br. Trsnic
concerning which much wa. ht
has arisen. nal wit
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
No Pardon Board Meeting

There was no session of the
State Board of Pardons in Dover
Thursday as no applications for
pardon have been filed in the office
of Secretary of State Walter Dent
Smith.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12

near loves Cross Roads. wished
to return home very badly on Mon
day last. She has always beer
used to riding in splendid vehicles
and we can well imagine how the
blood leaped to her cheeks as she
rode to the Laurel depot in g
peach cart"
DEATHS
Culbreth- Dover, August 80
Thomas c. Culbreth, Jr., aged &c
years, 3 months and IA days.
Bennett-Near st. Georges, Sep
tember 9Th, Mrs. Mary Bennett
aged about IA years; sister of Mrs
Motion Hudson.
Lafferty-In this town, Septem-
Der 1st, Isabella Lafferty, of Phil
adelphia, aged Sc years.
1t is probable that Smyrna will
be represented at the unveiling of
the Ridgely Monument in Balti-
more on the 22nd inst, as will per-
haps most of the towns in the
State, Wilmington expecting itself
to furnish about 500 visitors. 1t is
expected about 10000 Odd Fellows
will be in line, the position of Del
aware being at the head of the
Second Division. The Delawareans
who will be marshalled by John T.
Jakes, of Wyoming, will make
their headquarters at the Rose
House.
Rev. John France, the new Pre-
siding Elder, had his initial day on
Sunday, closing up at Asbury M.
E. Church, Smyrna, at night, being
his third sermon for the day. He
took for his text, Men should al
ways pray and not faint" from the
parable of the unjust Judge. which
was forcibly and impressively pre-
sented and attentively listened to
by the large congregation, the
strictly denominational feeling
that in the new Presiding Elder
the old-time mould of directness
and earnestness had neither been
lost nor thrown away.
William George Truax and wife,
and A. l.. Hudson, Sr., attended
the Grangers' Meeting, at Will
liams' Grove, Pa, last week but
the crowd of 10000 or 10000 peo-
pie who had to be fed and lodged,
made the experience a little rough
for the many of the visitors, es-
pecially as the exhibition of ma
chinery was in a grove and there
were no large towns near. The
people had to be accommodated
mostly in tents, camp meeting
style, by engaging places in ad-
vance, which unfortunately, our
visitors did not do, not understand
ing the requirements in visiting
the place. Mr.. Hudson says he
found a place to sleep, without the
necessity of even pulling off his
boots, but he felt paid for the visit
in witnessing the immense display
of agricultural machinery and
with the crowd.
PERSONALS
Daniel B. Cummins. President of
the Girard Bank, Philadelphia, was
a guest at ''Woodlawn," on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. TIildrup, of
d. O., are visiting
Mrs. G. E. Peterson at Belmont"
Mrs. Lizzie B. Nevitte and chill
dren, of Baltimore, are visiting her
mother, Mrs. N. ]. Davis.
Ex-Sheriff t. T. Lacey, who has
beer quite sick at F'rederica, has
recovered as to return
to this town a few hours yesterday.
Rev. Herman Roe preached for
Rev. J. D. Rigg, at Sudlersville.
morning and at Busicks in
the afternoon-Mr. Rigg being in
attendance at the Hartly dedica-
ton.
Rev. William r. McFarlane, OF
who brought his second
son up to the Conference Academy
on Monday, extended his visit to
4
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
Harrington in Hospital

$. Maxwell Harrington has been
confined to Kent General Hospital,
where he underwent an operation
last week. His condition is re-
ported to be much improved.
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
For School Zone 81

G. G. Reynolds, Suv.
of State Police, has is;1g
peal to all motorists ID i,
ly as they approach ghs
lngs or a highway c!OG,
by school children. Ttz
large increase of schNI
along the highways Of !
and Mr.. Reynolds urges :
to protect them BY safe ii
Smyrna times., 1935-09-12
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF SEPT. 9Th, 1885

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
tion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-23

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The Washington times., 1935-09-30
$2S9,799 GIVEN
DC. SCHOOLS

Expenditure of $2ss, ,7se for i'm
provements to ITS Washington
public schools has been approved
by President Roosevelt, the prof.
ects to be financed by the Works
Progress Administration.
Improvements will be Of all
kinds, both inside and outside,
and in some cases to Fairgrounds.
Hundreds of the Districts unem-
ployed will be given work on the
projects, it was asserted by Dis
trict Commissioner George E. Al
len, local WPA administrator.
Largest individual project will
be that at Central High School,
where $12,117.05 will be expend-
ed. The nature of these improve
ments has not been made public.
Mckinley High School will re-
ceive $10,865.51; Eastern High
School, $7,646.98; Roosevelt High
School, $7,273.78, and Western,
$6,083.52. Other allotments range
down to $317.40, this amount to
be expended on both the Slater
and Military Road grade school
buildings.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Genghis Khan
M9APthu.9S
sLdeaI9

Genghis Khan, medieval Mon
gol emperor, whose military ex-
ploits brought China and Eastern
Europe into his empire, in the
opinion of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, was the perfect warrior"
his name implies.
Leaving today for the Philip
pines to organize an army for the
new commonwealth government,
the retiring Chief of Staff said the
basic law of war-preparedneSs-
followed by Genghis Khan would
have to be followed by the United
States for self-preservation.
General Macarthur has com,
pleted one army rehabilitation
program and has recommended
another five-year modernization
plan including a fleet Of $500
military airplanes.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
85 P. @. CLERKS
ADDEDHERE

Eighty-five additional postal
clerks went to work here today
under provisions of the new postal
law calling for a 40-hour week for
all regular clerks, motor vehicle
operators, carriers and railway
mail workers.
Throughout the country, 5000
new clerks, mostly from the sub
Stitute lists, are being placed on
the regular pay-rolls. Under the
new schedule, overtime is to be
compensated by time-off during
the five days following the over,
time periods.
Reduction in hours, according
to estimates based on the $1,700
to $2,100 per year salaries of the
postal workers, will result in a
$21, 100000 per year increase in
postal costs.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
NEW CAPITOL
TO GREET
S0L0NS

Crews Of workmen are busy to-
day in the Capitol on four prof.
ects to get the halls Of Congress
and their adjoining offices in AL
shape before the opening of the
next session.
Twenty-Five painters who
started their outside job before
Congress adjourned are in the
midst Of the interior painting
work on the inside of the House
and Senate Office Buildings as
well as in the Capitol. Besides
the necessary refurniShings Of the
halls and corridors the painting
crew has been set to work touch
ing up several offices so they will
meet exact requirements of the
lawmakers.
Plumbing Inspected
At the same time a complete in
spection of the plumbing system
is under way. AS the survey con"
tinues, antiquated fixtures are be-
ing replaced with the most up-to-
date arrangements to meet all
health requirements. This has
necessitated the reconditioning OF
several rooms.
Elevators in the building also
are being gone over. When the
new higher.speed lifts were in
stalled year before last the work
had to be done in such short order
that the shafts were left in an
unfinished condition. Workmen
are now busy testing the elevators,
painting the shafts and enclosing
the machinery so that it will look
more up-to-date.
On the Senate side of the Cap
itol a crew of workmen has been
busy enlarging the press gallery.
One wall on the gallery floor OF
the Senate has been knocked out
and the gallery will be extended
west the whole length of the floor.
While all this actual work is
going on a survey is being con-
Quoted in the office of David E.
Lynn, architect of the Capitol,
to lay plans for the construction
of the $2,500,0O0 air-conditioning
plant. It will be designed to air
condition every office and work
room in the Capitol, the House
and Senate Office Buildings. The
corridors and the dome will be
the only places that will not
have the benefit of this new sys-
tenn.
It is not expected that the sys-
tenn can be installed by the open
ing of Congress in January, but
it is hoped that it will be work
ing before the hot weather of
next summer sets in.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Mans Benrus Watch

a fully guaranteed strap watch
by Berrus. Ths movement is
fitted in an atfr tive case with
a metal ha:. .match.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Court Bars Gotham
Power Plant Vote

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Justice
Edward S. Dore has ruled in
Supreme Court that the referen-
dun on the city's proposed power
plant was illegal and ordered the
board of elections to strike the
proposition from the ballot for
the election on November S. While
the city plans to appeal, Mayor
LaGuardia has no hope of a de-
ciSion in the city'S favor, for on
learning of the courts decision he
said the law passed by the State
legislature permitting the building
of a power plant carried a joker
making it impossible for the city
to have a power plant.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Bumping Info Boy
Is Fatal 10 Woman

PHILADELPH PHIA, Sept. 80.
Miss Frances Noolan, so, is dead
as a result Of a collision-with
a boy. The woman attended a
neighborhood track meet Satur-
day. She wandered out onto the
cinderpath and bumped into a
runner and was knocked down,
suffering a fracture of the skull.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Auto Driver Misses
Truck, Injures Man

WINCHESTER, Va, sept. 30
(SpeciaD Luther H. Coffman,
72, was injured when struck by a
car said to have peen driven by
Mrs. Mary Warfield, of Baltimore,
Md. Police said Mrs. Warfield
swerved her car to avoid striking
a parked truck.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Temperance Workers
Dedicate Fountain

Temperance workers yesterday
dedicated a water fountain in the
lobby Of the Gospel Mission, 80
Fifth st. N. w., as a memorial to
Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton. long
identified with the District Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
New York Prepares
For Biq MOVING Day

NEW YORK, Sept. 30. G.N.sJ .
New York's traditional moving
day, October /, will see more per
sons changing their domiciles
than ever before.
Moving van operators estimated
today there would be an increase
The Washington times., 1935-09-30
Liner Dixie, Saved
Off Reef, Makes Port

NEW YORK. Sept. 80 G.N.S).
The Morgan liner Dixie, which
grounded on a Florida reef on
Sept. 2, docked here today with
her skipper and a skeleton crew
of SIS who remained aboard
throughout many trying days.
The Washington times., 1935-09-30

of IS to 20 per cent over last year
in the number of families making
changes.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-02
DEAN BOUCHER MEETS
FACULTIES OF THE
AFFILIATED SCHOOLS

Special-This afternoon at 300
o'clock in the Exhibition Room Of the
Atlanta University Library, Dr.. C. S.
Boucher, Dean of the College of Arts.
Literature, and Science, Of the Uni
versity of Chicago spoke to the fac
ulties Of Atlanta University, More
house College and Spelman College.
Dean Boucher has had much to do
with making and working out the New
Plan at the University Of Chicago. He
outlined to the assembled college
teachers and administrators the chief
features of this plan with reference
TO n curriculum and the measure
ment Of achievement in the courses.
At the conslusion Of the talk, many
questions were asked and answered.
Dean Boucher was leader Of the
sectional meeting of the Association
Of American Colleges held at the
Biltmore Hotel on Thursday afternoon
on the subject Improved Examina-
tions-as better measurements Of
achievement, and as stimuli to i'm
provements in the organization Of
courses and better Instruction.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-02
SENATOR COSTIGAN TO SPEAK
FEB. II OVER NATIONWIDE
RADIO ON ANTI-LYNCH BILL

New York, Jan. Ex-senator Ed
ward P. Costigan and perhaps Sena-
tor Robert F. Wagner will speak over
a nationwide radio hook-up of the
Columbia Broadcasting System Tues
day, February II, at HOO p. m East
ern standard time, on the Costigan-
Wagner anti-lsnching bill, it was an
nounced here today by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The exact stations in the broadcast
are not known today, but the list will
be made public as soon as member
stations Of the Columbia chain reply
to headquarters on whether or not
they have local commercial programs
at that hour. All stations which are
free will carry the speech.
With the broadcast coming on Feb
ruary IL, the 26th birthday of the as
sociation, the national office in New
York has issued an appeal to all
branches to arrange meetings on that
night with Al appropriate program,
the climax Of which would be the
speech over the radio against lynch
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-02
PROTESTED RELIEF CUT
ARRESTED FOR DIS
ORDERLY CONDUCT

Patterson, N. J.-(CNA)-ames
Pinkey, SO year-old unemployed labor
er was arrested in the office of Case
Sup't Doris Keller of the Emergency
Unemployment Relief Association
when he protested the cutting off of
his relief.
Two white workers, Sol Walker and
George Norman, members of the Unit
ed Unemployed Relief Association who
accompanied Pinkey, were also arrest
ed.
Because Pinksy's wife, who died re-
Gently, left a small Insurance, he was
dropped from the relief role. The Of
fcials argued that the sum was suf-
fcent to enable Pinkey to exist for 6
months. Most of the money was spent
for mineral expenses and the remain
der for immediate necessities.
When Pinkey and the two white
workers went to the supervisors Of
fcee and refused to leave unless re-
lief vas resumed, the officials order
ed the arrest Of the workers on Dis
ORDERLY Conduct charges.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-02
FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF
ADMINISTRATION
Must Make Excellent Biscuits 10
Succeed AS Household Worker
In The South, Says FERA
Official.

Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward head Of
the woman's division Of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration sent
out a bulletin this week to forty-eight
State Administrators and the Virgin
Islands, in response to hundreds of re-
quests from responsible city and coun-
try heads Of work programs, setting
forth information on standards for
training general household workers.
I'm the South, it is essential that a
general household worker be able to
make excellent biscuits, says Mrs.
Woodward.
This may be more important" she
continues, Ito the success Of the
worker than to be able to know a lit
tie about making a variety Of dishes
and have skill in none".
Mrs. Woodward further points out
that it is desirable to distinguish
clearly between training as nurse
maids or cooks and training as gen
eral household workers. She also
suggests that a survey be made as to
the demand for household workers in
In a given community. The number Of
women or relief who can profit by
such training should be considered
and small groups ranging from A to
20, homogeneous as to education,
training, and ages should be selected
as far as possible.
A school Y. w. C. A., community
service center, or church may be used
for the place Of instruction and avail
able unemployed teachers utilized, as
well as special supervision of home
economics teachers from departments
Of education and colleges. Qualified
home makers may also be selected to
give instruction A liberal and intel
hgent approach to the problem of en-
ployer-employee relationships is in
dicated in the following suggestion:
"A meeting may be called of house
hold employers and employees to list
the things householders wish done by
q general household worker, hours Of
work, wages and other relationships.
This may then be used as a basis for
the course.
The bulletin goes on to some length
IN suggesting plans Of procedure and
a comprehensive and scientific tech
nique where desired, but the chief
emphasis is well summed up by this
concluding sentence:
Contents Of the course will be gov
erned by local requirements for the
position of general household work
err.
The Omaha guide., 1935-02-02
SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH
22nd and Seward SITS.
Rev. E. III. Hison, Pastor

After the session Of Sunday School,
presided owe by the superintendent,
had ended, the minister took his place
in the pulpit. There was evidence of
much tension as the gospel was delish-
ed by all present. His subject was one
Of caution, The Covenant With
Death and HELP. The passage of
scripture for this liable subject is
isaiah ~28:14-19.
Rev. Hilson stated that Judgement
should first start in the house of God;
that now is the time to pray, for the
people must first come back to God
before He will come back to them
Among the many in attendance Sun
dag, we were happy to see Mr.. ]. D.
Lewis, n of the outstanding mortic-
ians of our race, Mr.. Robert Jackson,
Mr.. John McGaugh, a Fellow-Worker
from Chicago, and many other visit
ing friends, including a personal
friend of Rev. Hilson, the great Bish-
op L. M. Musgraves, of Oklahoma.
METROPOLITAN SPIRITUAL
CHURCH