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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
LIBERTY LEAGUE.
ASKS OBSERVANCE.
DELAWARE DAY.
Stresses Importance Of
States Being First To
Ratify Constitution.
PROGRAMS PLANNED
Clubs, Civic Groups Urg-
ed To Mark Anniver-
sary Week Of Dec. z.

The American Liberty League OF
Delaware on Monday urged a State
wide observance Of Delaware Day
commemorating the first ratifca-
ton Of the Federal Constitution by
the Delaware Convention on Decem-
Der 7, 1887.
In letters to service clubs and
various civic organizations In all
parts Of the State, the League point
ed to the Importance Of the day in
history and asked that club pro
grams during the week ending De-
cember Z be devoted to a ceiebra-
tioh Of the event.
"A united recognition OF the oc-
casion," Louis A. Drexler, president
n the League unit said, in annOun-
cling the move, "wiIl pay fitting tri-
butte to Delaware's part in the Con-
stitution, which, in the light Of
current events. Is become more and
more significant to the people Of the
United States.
A booklet entitled Launching the
Ship Of State" describing the Con-
vention which was held in Dover, Is
being distributed to the clubs by
the League. 1t sets forth the trend
OF affairs that led up to the ratid-
cation and the spirit of the men
who started the country upon its
course.
Booklet Reeites History OF Event
The League, in a foreword to the
booklet. voices its belief in the
greatness of the part played by the
Delaware delegates, as follows:
with the belief that the ratifiea-
lion Of the Federal Constitution by
the Delaware State Convention on
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cial not 20 be altogether accurate.
The Official, who did not wish to be
quoted, said there is every reason
to believe many family physicians
would avoid signing death GER
tiicate attributing the cause to al
cohollsm IL another listing were
possible.
Five dry states showed increases
during last year in alcoholic deaths.
Deaths ia Alabama increased from
40 to 81; Georgia. so to 76; Kansas,
~ to 25; Oklahoma, 3S to 56, and
Texas, then dry. from 80 to 1O7.
Mississippi's alcohol deaths remain
ed at 21 for both 1888 and 1894.
On the other hand, New York's
death rate dropped sharply during
the first full year after repeal,
which became effective in Decem-
Der, 1888. During 1888 there were
6S5 such deaths. while the total
dropped to 5s4 last year.
Maryland deaths remained at 70
for both years. Deaths fl Pennsyl-
vania increased from 265 to $40 and
In New Jersey from 80 70 10g.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29

Delaware's roadside emergency
first aid station program will be
started under the auspices Of the
Delaware Chapter Of the American
Red Cross and the Delaware Safety
Council. within two weeks when
six such stations will be establish
ed.
Before the close Of the year, there
will be seventeen highway first aid
stations. Every State policeman will
be equipped with a first aid kit and
all State highway trucks will be
mobile first aid units.
I'VE hope to have first aid sta
tfons so established" said Arthur M.
Potter, executive secretary Of the
Delaware Red Cross, "that no spot
in Delaware will be more than a
five minute ride from a station and
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
MILFORD REBEKAH
WINS STATE HONOR
Selected As Conductor BY President
OF State Order

In announcing the appointment OF
her staff of officers for the ensuing
year, Mrs. Lena Farra, president Of
the Rebekah Assembly Of Delaware.
included in the list OF officers the
name Of Mrs. Virginia Kirby, Of the
Margaret c. Pyle Lodge Of Milford,
as her conductor.
Mrs. Kirby has been actively en-
gaged in furthering the interests Of
the Rebekah order in this vicinity
since It's institution few years ago.
Her selection meets with general ap-
provaI among the Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs Of this section. Mrs. Kirby
h the wife OF Paris Kirby and lives
10 Milford Neck. where they are en-
gaged in the poultry business. She Is
one OF the largest raisers Of turkeys
in Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29

Milford is preparing for one of
the best and most beautiful Yule-
tide seasons that this city has ever
seen. Decorations and attractions
far surprising anything ever at
tempted before are being arranged
by the Merchants Association. Be-
sides the decorative and sight-see-
ing attractions, six hundred dollars
in cash will be given away, abso-
lutely free, to those who do their
shopping in Milford. There are no
strings or bitches to this offer. It is
purely and simply a donation by the
merchants of Milford.
The 100000 will be given in the
nature Of awards, the first award
being made next Saturday evening,
December z, at which time $50 will
be the award. Saturday, December
IA, another $50 will be awarded;
Saturday, December 21, $50; Satur-
day, December 2S, $50; Saturday,
January 4, $50. and a grand award
will be made Of $3.50 on Saturday,
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
YOUTH COUNCIL
MEETS in SUSSEX
Rev. David Baker Addresses Group
After Parade Held At Georgetown


Hundreds of persons throughout
lower Delaware refused to brave the
snowstorm and go to Georgetown to
participate in the anti-war parade,
last Saturday afternoon. Despite the
storm, the demonstration was held.
and a fair representation made. Af-
ter parading down several Of the
streets, the march ended at the
Georgetown High School where an
interesting progrom was given. For
lner Congressman Robert Gs HOus-
ton presided.
Baltimore Minister Speaks
The principal speaker was the
Rev. David d. Baker, pastor Of st.
PauFs Evangelical Reformed Church
of Baltimore, who talked on condi-
tions as he found them in many of
the foreign countries which he has
visited. He has spent many years in
the Far East and is conversant with
the problems of various countries.
The subject of his address was "War
and Religion"
Brooks Reynolds, whose home is
in the StOckley section. and who
within the past two years has won
fame as a boy orator. gave a talk
on "a Christians Choice"
Sponsored BY Youth Council
The anti-war or peace demonstra-
tion was sponsored by the Sussex /
County Youth Council, comprised of
young men and women interested in
sunday school work throughout this
section of the State.
Clarence C.. wilkins. Of Millsboro.
one of the officers Of the Sussex
County Council Of Religious Educa-
tion and principal Of the Holly
mount school, Indian River District.
was chairman Of the affair.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
Seventeen Roadside
hid Stations Soon
Red Cross, Safety Council Combine In Program For
Prompt Care of Injured; Plan To Equip EUerB
State Policeman With First Aid Kit.

a trained first aid worker"
The first station will be at the
State Police stations at BridgevilIe,
Georgetown, Dover, State Road.
Penny Hill and at the CIaymont
Fire Company house.
Other stations will be at the ere
houses in Dover, Rehoboth, Lewes,
Laurel, Seaford, Hartford. Camden,
Newark, Smyrna, Frankford, and
Delmar.
Policemen, Firemen Trained
In addition to this, every police
man and fireman in Wilmington is
a trained first aid worker.
II was also announced that more
than two-thirds Of the State high
way employees in Kent county are
trained in first aid and the trucks
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
DRIVERS URGED TO
CUT DOWN ON SPEED
Speed Claimed To Be Leading Cause
OF Our Toll OF $1,000 Traffic Deaths


In our national cross-road puzzle
there is a little five letter word
meaning disaster and it is spelled
SPEED, according to the Della
ware Safety Council.
Many traffic authorities claim that
speed was the leading cause of our
toll of $4,000 trafic deaths and more
than a million injuries during 1884.
others agree that it is one of two
or three Of the most important
causes.
The energy Of a moving body is in
proportion to the square of the
speed. When speed is increased from
20 to 40 miles per hour, the energy
is multiplied not by two, but by four.
A jump from 20 to so miles means
the energy is multiplied by nine.
Which means, that your auto will go
that much farther before it can be
stopped safely.
OF course, It can be stopped much
quicker than that If it happens to
crash into a solid object,
Highway haste stumbles over its
own heels and causes inexcusable
waste Of life and property. Speed
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
FIRST SNOW FELL
HERE LAST SATURDAY
Weatherman HOlsmuelIer Reports
FAN OF Approximately 2 Inches

Fall OF approximately 2 Inches
Old Man Winter visited Milford
and the State in general last Sat
urday with the frst snow storm Of
the winter season. According to the
local weather recorder. Charles ].
Holzmueller, the first snow of the
winter, started falling at $3.50 a. M,
and continued all day. Because of
the fact that much Of the snow
melted as fast as It fell, an accur-
ate report Of the depth is impos-
sibIe. but 1t Is believed the fall to-
tailed two inches. A sudden drop in
the temperature last Saturday night
froze the snow and slush, making
night travel hazardous. Sunday
morning the trees and fields were
covered with coat of sparkling ice
and snow.
Sunday night the temperature
again took a drop and q party Of
duck hunters from Milford were
forced to return home empty hand
ed because Of the condition of the
all Of which were frozen.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
SELECT COMMITTEES
December Meeting To Be Held In
Milford With Mrs. Davis Grier

December Meeting To Be Held In
Milford with Mrs. Davis Grier
At the November meeting of the
Kent County Branch Of the Ameri-
can Association Of University Wo-
men the constitution was adopted
and committee chairmen appointed.
Miss Virginia Harrington. president,
appointed Mrs. Irwin Burton, Of
Milford, as program chairman; Mrs.
Richard Beckett, OF Dover. chair
man of education and international
relations: Mrs. Russell Wilson, of
Dover, membership chairman; Mrs.
James Krygier, Of Dover. fellowship
chairman, and Miss Cornelia Taylor
Of Dover. publicity chairman.
Several college graduates living
in Sussex county attended this
All university and college
women of Sussex county will be
welcomed at the meetings Of the
newly-organized branch.
Mrs. Dorothy Waldo Phillips. Of
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
lgANTCOKE pow WOW
HELD YESTERDAY
Find Hidden Tomb OF Lydia Clark,
Great Leader OF The NanticOkes

Members of the Nanticoke Indian
Association, descendants of the once
powerful Nanticoke tribe which in
habited the banks Of the Indian
River and Indian River Bay gath
cred at Riverdale Park, home of
Chief Little Owl (Charles Cullen
Clark for the annual ceremonial
and pow-wow on Thursday after
noon. It was the 18th annual
Thanksgiving gathering, perpetual
ed by the late Chief WyniacO (Rus-
sell Clark, who died on October q
1928, the great grandson of Princess
Maui -Gwa-Ok-Wa) lydia H. Clark
who is purported to be the last of
the original tribe Of Nanticokes in
Delaware and Maryland to speak
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
PLANS FOR INSPECTION
OF GUARD DISCUSSED

Final plans for the annual
State inspection Of tile 198th
and 261st Coast ArtillerIes. A.
A., Delaware National Guard,
which viii begin next Monday
Kere discussed Monday night
It a meeting Of the National
Guard officers II the state
Armory fl Wilmington.
The schedule Is as Follows:
Batteries A. B, Wilmlneton,
December 2; Battery Il MiI-
lord, Decem 3; Battery E,
Newark, Decenbef 4; Battery
g, and head quarters detach-
ment. Dover december 9;
Battery n, New Castle, De-
cember 10: Battery A, 261st,
laurel, December II; Batter
les c and d. and headquar-
ters detachment, Wilmington,
December is; Headquarters
Battery, service battery and
medical detachment, Whining
ton, December II.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
AWARD CONTRACT FOR
CITY IMPROVEMENTS
Dover And Philadelphia Concerns
Successful Bidders On Contracts

DOFef ana IhHautAphih NVApoAMS
Successful Bidders On Contracts
At a special meeting Ofs the City
Council Of Milford, held in the
Council Chamber. Tuesday night.
awards were made Of the contracts
for municipal improvements. George
an Lynch, contractors, with offices
in Dover, we're awarded the con-
tract for the sewage treatment
plant, sanitary sewers, collecting
sewers and pumping station. This
contract Is known as contracts Nos.
l and 2.
The Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company of Phila-
delphia, was awarded the contract
for the turbine generator and con-
densor, for the electric light piont.
This is known as contracts Nos. 3
and 4.
With the exception of foremen
and keymen the work on these con-
tracts will be given to local labor.
Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
FUND PROPOSED
TO AID ATHLETES
G. B. HalIam Sees Needs OF Attract.
ing More Material For U. OF D.

The need of obtaining more and
better material for the football
teams of the University of Delaware
was stressed by Clement B. Hallam,
managing editor of the Journal
Every Evening, last Saturday. in ad-
dressing more than 200 alumni at
the Home Coming Day dinner in Old
College.
Mr.. HalIam suggested that this
might be done by organizing a group
composed of public spirited citizens
not necessarily alumni, who would
a fund to aid students of
athletic ability and good scholastic
These athletes would have to be.
above all, good students, he said, but
with this background the proceeds
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
LOCAL ODD FELLOWS
HAVING BUSY SEASON
Degree Team Under New Master
LeCOmpte Now Rehearsing

Milford Odd Fellows continue to
have a full house at every meeting
due to the many activities that are
always before the members.
In addition to the program ar
ranged each month by the enter
tainment committee, odd nights are
filled in with the comforting Of de-
grees or a rehearsal of the degree
team.
John LeCompte, the new degree
master, has entered upon his duties
with a 'go get them spirit" that
seems TO have put new life in the
team.
Last Monday night a rehearsal OF
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
STATE SAFETY COUNCIL
HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION
Walter Dent Smith, President. Man
ager; Reports Show Decrease

Directors of the Delaware Safety
Council, at their eighteenth annual
organization meeting in the Hotel
dupont in Wilmington. on Tuesday,
reelected Irenee dupont as chair
man Of the board; DR.. C. NJ. A. Stine
as vice chairman; Henry Davis as
secretary, and Secretary Of State
Walter Dent Smith, president and
manager.
The directors elected other Off
GERS as follows: Vice president for
public safety, Ernest H. Hawkins;
vice president for industrial safety,
w. F. Jackson; vice president for
home safety Mrs. Frank G. Tall
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Milford chronicle., 1935-11-29
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, November 20, To
Tuesday, November se, Inclusive

Charles ]. HoIzmueller, the local
weather recorder, reports the fol.
lowing weather conditions for Mil
ford, from Wednesday, November 20,
to Tuesday, November rs, inclusive:
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Totals ..s-..-...-.. ~ 2
The following winds and condl-
tons prevailed during the sama
period
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
CHUCK WICCINS
GIVEN FIGHTING
CHANCE TO LIVE
Friends of Former PugIIISt
Asked to Stay Away
From Hospital.

Physicians at City Hospital gave
Charles Frederick Chuck Virgins
only a fighting chance to live today
as he entered his thirty-sixth hour
Of semi conSclouSneSS from a fall
that fractured his skull.
They asked his friends not TO try
10 visit him at the present. saying
he needs complete isolation and
quiet More than so persons have
been refused admittance to his room
IN the last "a hours. they said.
Some were allowed to enter. and
Chuck would awaken each time and
make an effort TO leave his bed. Be
cause Of this the no visitors" rule
was laid down.
Woody Birch %. OF POOP N. Capt.
tol-av. former prize fighter. for whom
Chuck was attempting to arrange
bail when he was seized with a
fainting spell, was held to the grand
Jury when arraigned today before
Floyd Mannon, municipal Judge
pro TEN.
Birch Is accused of carrying 2 gun
without a license Charges of being
drunk. drawing A deadly weapon
and shooting f1rearm within the
city limits were dismissed. Bail was
fixed a $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
SEES FOREIGN DEBTS
GONE PAST REVIVAL
French Diplomat Says Only
Miracle Can Help.

By LhitCd Press
PARIS, Nov. Ex-senator Henry
Berenger, president of the Senate
Foreign Affairs Commission, said IN
a speech today that he doubted if
inter- governmental bts-including
the French debt to the United
StateS-ever would be revived.
The debts all fell into catalepsy
more profound than DEATH" Ber-
enger said, addressing the American
Club. and the miracle that would
reSuScitate them is not in sight.
Humanity has continued to live
without these obligations, and MOTH
ing can prevail on the forces of the
future which desire to be freed
from the chains of the past.
What is the good of insisting on
payments that nobody wants 10
make? What is the use of Scribbling
new nonsense about an agree
ment?
There certainly will be experts
to elaborate new plan and diplo-
mats to write their texts. But where
will you find the people to pay
them?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
BEAUTY BARES
new CLEW IN
LOVE Staying
I'm Feverish-Mad About
YOU, She Wrote; Authori-
ties See Smashed IdyII.
By I Hited Press

By United Press
NEW YORK. Nov. 14.-Letters
beautiful Vera Stretz wrote DR.
Fritz Gebhardt. her 43-year-old
lover who flew with Won RIGHT
hofen in the World War and was
friend to royalty. gave police a new
clew today to the reason she killed
him Monday morning.
The letters will be presented to a
grand jury today when the district
attorney seeks a first-degree murder
indictment against her.
Notes and radiograms that flew
between the sweethearts during fire.
quent separations indicated to
psychiatrists that the young blond
college graduate planned the slay-
ing, and probably suicide. as a
spartan end to a love affair headed
for rocks.
Your Picture-Myself"
Dear Fritz she wrote during
a separation last summer. your
new house awaits you, Already parts
of you are here: The red roses.
your picture-myself.
L am so sick and would so much
like to talk to you. Fritz. it is SO
bad for you to leave me alone long
ing for you. Perhaps after we are
married so years it will still be the
same
I'm feverish, I'm mad about
you"
Investigators of strange quirks of
the human mind, the pSychiatriStS
called by baffled detectives to help
learn why Gebhardt was killed. said
that letter betrayed a depth of pas
sion in the slim, shapely Miss Stretz
unsupported by friends who knew
her as circumspect. studious,
though beautiful, school teacher.
Then they took another note, in
which she apparently intended to
tell Gebhardt not to speak to his
wife in karlsruhe, Germany. about
divorce, and concluded she had rea-
liked the improbability of happiness
with a man who had a wife and
two nearly adult daughters.
To End Idyll?
The net theory was that she
planned to end an idyll by killing
him, then herself.
She executed the first part by
shooting Gebhardt in his luxurious
apartment early Tuesday. The fact
he was clad in nightgown and
that she had a silk night dress in
her handbag when captured few
minutes later indicated she had
spent the early part of the night
with him.
If she had planned suicide she
either lost her nerve or was pre-
vented by her almost immediate
capture on stairway Of the build
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
SITES FOR FIVE
DAMS SELECTED
WPA LoW-Water Projects
Are Already Employing
Relief Workers.

Sites for the first five of series
of loW-Water dams to be built by
WPA labor in Marion County we're
announced today.
Twenty men are at work on the
first of the dams. which is to be
built at the Marion County Poor
Farm in Wayne Township. The
dam is to be situated in Little Eagle
Greek
The project calls for the building
of 1876 dams in the county Appli-
cations from land owners are being
received at the engineering depart
ment, Sixth District WPA head
quarters.
Other landowners who have re-
queSted dams and the sites desig-
mated are;
Raymond Beckett, Manor rd. De
catur Township, south of Thomp-
sOn-rd in Dollarhide Greek.
F. P. Heard Decatur Township.
Heard's Branch. between Mars Hill
and Lyndhurst-dr.
Marion County tuberculosis Hos
pital, nutrition camp at Bridgeport,
Wayne Township, White Lick Greek.
Mabel G. Meslar, Fishback Creek,
Pike Township. north of 86th-st and
west of State Road So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
MORO CASTLE
OFFICERS TRIED
u. S. Attorney Describes
Ship as Floating Night
Club

NEW YORK. Nov l4.-WidowS.
orphans and husbands of 1856 per-
sons lost when the liner MORO
Castle burned in September. 1884.
Joined government attorneys todav
in accusing the ships officers of
coWardice and criminal negligence.
Federal District Attorney Francis
w. H. Adams called more than a
score of survivors and relatives Of
victims to begin testimony against
two officers of the ship and an eX-
ecutive of the operating COMPANY.
The defendants are William F.
Warns, acting captain Of the Moro
Castle. on the night it burned off
ASbury Park, N. J.: Chief Engineer
Even S. Abbott. and Henry E. Ca
baud, executive vice president Of
the New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Co. parent company Of
the Ward Line
While black gsrbed widows. solemn
children and men filled a Federal
courtroom yesterday. Adams de
scribed Capt. Warns as manager
of a floating night club said the
chief engineer was hopping into
boats" when he should have been
in his engine room. and accused
Cabaud of sending the Moro Castle
to sea with an inefficient and made
quate crew.
If convicted. each man may be
fined $4,000 and sentenced to 10
years in prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
WAR MOTHERS
NAME GROUPS
Committees to Be Appointed
at 2-Day Convention
Being Held Here.

Committees were to be appointed
late today by the Indiana Chapter
Of American War Mothers, meeting
at their seventeenth annual conven-
ton in the ClaypooI today and to-
morrow.
Speakers today were to include
Homer J. Chaillaux, American Le-
gion characterization head, and Mrs.
E. May Hahn. state president. Dele
gates were greeted by Albert Losche,
city purchasing agent, in the alb
sence from the city of Mayor Kern,
who was scheduled to speak.
State and national officers were
presented by Mrs. Hahn, and re-
ports of state officers and chairmen
were given. The annual banquet
was to be held at $50 tonight, fol-
lowed by style show under the di-
rection of Mrs. M. D. Didway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
RED CROSS TRIPLES
1894 DRIVE MARK
Workers EIated by Member
ship Campaign.

Red Cross memberships to date
in the annual enrolment have
tripled those of a year ago at this
time, officials announced today at
campaign headquarters, l09 N.
PennSylvania-st.
EnrollmentS so far total 1900.
which is considered encouraging by
campaign managers who said that
usually 10 or Is days elapse before
memberships become numerically
impressive.
Mrs. H. Nathan Swain. residential
division chairman. said chairmen
have been named in all but three or
four city precincts and these are to
be designated soon.
Chief Morrissey, public employees
division chairman, has accepted A
quota of 5000 Last year this division
enrolled $500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
NEGRO HELPS RE-INDICT
SCOTTSBORO SUSPECTS
Sits On Jury in Famous Case Of
Nine Defendants.

SCOTTSBORO. Ala. Nov. IA
A grand Jury on which a Negro sat
for the first time in Scottsboro his
tory re-indiCted the nine Negro de-
PENDANTS in the famous Scottsboro
assault case last night. facing one
of the defendants with his fourth
trial on the 4-year-old charges.
The jury deliberated little more
than an hour before voting the
indictments. There was no indica-
ton what part its lone Negro mem
bre, a Scottsboro laborer. played
in the secret discussion.
Reindictment of the nine was
necessitated by the decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court that convic-
ton of one of the defendants. Hay-
good Patterson, was illegal because
Negroes were excluded from Scots
bOrO grand iuries.