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Evening star., 1936-05-05
BUDDY POPPY
SALE LAUNCHED
President Roosevelt Re-
ceives First Flower in
v. F. w. Drive.

President Roosevelt today received
the first buddy poppy Of the 1885 ma
tional buddy poppy sale conducted by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, along
with an urgent invitation to address
the thirty-seventh annual encampment
of this organization in Denver, Colo,
September 1918.
The invitation to attend and ad-
dress the encampment was extended
following the poppy presentation by
Ben. F. Stapleton, mayor OF Denver.
and Brig. Gen. William E. Guthner,
national chief of staff of the v. F. w.
1t was taken under advisement by Mr..
Roosevelt, who said he appreciated the
invitation, but could not make def
mite engagement this far in advance.
1t was from the hands of 6-year -old
Iris Arlene Hildebrand, daughter of a
deceased eX-service man, that Mr..
Roosevelt received the first buddy
poppy. The President had the little
girl sit on the edge of his desk in front
of him while he received the poppy
and thanked her for the present. The
child made the trip here from the v.
r. W. National Home for Widows and
Orphans of Ex-Service Men in Eaton
Rapids, Mich, where she and her two
sisters and brother are now living.
Her father saw service at Chateau
Theirry and the second battle of the
Marine. He died four years ago.
The general sale of buddy poppies to
. raise funds for veterans relief work
will be held during the week of Memo
rial day, when approximately 100000
Of these imitation flowers will be in
readiness for sale throughout the
country.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

leaders, the resolution would request
the Committee On Epscopacy to recon-.
mend that no bishops be appointed
pending completion Of unification with
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
and the Methodist Protestant Church.
It would provide that the present
Board Of Bishops remain In charge
pending expected ratification by 1910
Of the unification proposal, which the
conference approved yesterday.
Methodism needs Omen" In its
pulpits. delegates were told today.
God needs G-men In the Methodist
pulpits who will hate sin and fight 1t
with all their energies" said the Rev.
John Calvin Bloomfield, representing
the Methodist Protestant Church.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
HELD IN SlAYING

After allegedly killing her husband.
Thomas Jones, colored. IS. with pistol
shots in the head and chest. Mrs.
Rebecca T. Jones. IS. colored. 633
Acker street northeast, was held at
the Woman's Bureau today for action
of the coroner's jury.
The shooting climaxed an argument
at the Jones home last night in which
the husband repeatedly welded a
knife.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

Friedrich Schmidt, counselor to the
ministry Of justice. in an article pub
lished in the journal of the German
Law Academy.
The writer revealed further that 1t
has been proposed TO discontinue
shaving the heads of convicts and
addressing them as numbers, as here
tofore.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

for . cent per kilowatt hour reduc-
ton in rates, installation Of new lights
on Main street without cost to the
town, and q 15-year franchise.
The council was deadlocked three
to three on the plan, Mayor Vincent
Splitter voting In favor Of 1t to break
the tie.
Mayor Splitter said the plan is ac-
ceptable to the president Of the power
company, who will endeavor to obtain
the consent of the board Of directors
by Friday.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
DELAY IN NAMING
BISHOPS SOUGHT
Methodist Conference Asked
to Postpone Election
Four Years.
Hy the Associated Press,

" tne AkSOcittcd freSe.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 5.-An i'm
portant proposal to defer selection
Of new bishops for four years came
today before the Quadrennial Confer
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
It was made In q resolution pre-
pared by Chancellor Charles w. Flint
Of Syracuse University, Syracuse,
N. Y, shortly before the conference
turned to Q controversial proposal for
merging the 26-year-old Board Of
Temperance with the Board Of Edu-
cation.
There are seven vacancies through
designations or retirements to be filled
on the 40-member Board of Bishops.
Consideration of the resolution was
deferred until 1t could be printed in
the conference record. 1t is expected
to be taken up either tomorrow or
Thursday.
Signed by q number of conference
Evening star., 1936-05-05
GERMAN PRISON CODE
TO ABOLISH FLOGGING
DR.. Schmidt Says Ideals of Disci-
pline Do Not Require Such
Methods.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. May 5.-Flogging of pris-
oners is to be abolished, according
to the forecast of new German
criminal code now in course of prep
aration.
THE state which Incorporates
ideals of order and discipline needs
no recourse to hogging," said DR..
Evening star., 1936-05-05
LURAY ADVANCES PLAN
TO CUT ELECTRIC RATES
Special Dispatch to The Sta.

special Dispatch to The Stet.
LURAY, Va, May 5.-A new plan to
provide Luray cheaper electric service
was being considered by the Page
Power Co. today.
Il bore the approval Of the Town
Council, which voted Saturday night
TO press the proposal instead Of pro-
jected municipal power plant previ-
ously sought because the utility had
not consented to satisfactory terms
when the town applied for . t2oo, 900
p. w. "A. loan.
It is understood the new plan calls
Evening star., 1936-05-05
0ne.Cent Checks Mailed.

ELMIRA. N. Y.-Treasurer John L.
Fiester mailed 1-cent checks to seven
Chemung County communities. The
sums represented their share of the
New York State franchise tax for
the first quarter of 1896.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
STEAMSHIPS.

BERMUDA VIA FURfTEss1 $50 up. round
trip. with private bath. Frequent saiiings
5irect 70 dock at Hamilton. Furness Ber-
muds Line. "a whitehall st.. New York
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
REPUBLICANS GET HARMONY
IN KENT; RIFT STILL IN SUSSEX

Republican delegate contests
still speckled the Sussex political
map in all but four districts Tues
day after a Georgetown peace con-
ference of party leaders wound up
inconclusively. But across the
county line in Kent there appeared
a second strong token of party
harmony. The full slate of Repub-
lican filings for county Offices was
disclosed and on it was written not
q SINGLE contest. Some leaders who
attended the Sussex conference
gave indication of an ultimate un-
derstanding, but others said the
breach goes clear through to bed
rock and that Sussex Republicans
will have to make a choice in all
but the Dagsboro. Millsboro, Selby-
vile, and Milford districts on pri-
mary day, Saturday. Issues which
blocked an agreement were kept
guarded. Some leaders said there
were minor, and that another con-
ference could be calendared. On
one side within the Sussex Repub-
lican fold are partisans of /. D.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20

Short, Milford, and on the other,
those of Col. Henry l.. Cannon,
Bridgeville. In Kent, coming a day
after announcement of the dissolu-
tion of all delegate contests there,
the slate of filings for county offic-
es was confirmed by William j..
Storey, secretary of the county
committee, who said none of the
candidates had been contested. The
slate shows Charles Hanratty of
Smyrna, for sheriff; Edgar Frazier
of Smyrna, for prothonotary; John
Willis Jones of the Eighth District
(Frederica-Felton), for coroner;
Isaac Jester, Jr., of near Milford,
for register of wills, and Howard
J. Thistlewood of Milford, for
comptroller. Samuel Weigel, Ken
ton miller, is filed for state senator
from the second senatorial district,
the home district of Senator Char
les A. Neugebauer, Democrat, of
Clayton. w. H. Jump, principal of
the Caesar Rodney High School,
Dover, is filed for state senator
Continued on Pare Four1
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
.LEWES HAS BIG
JUBILEE CROWD
First Homecoming Last Week
Attracted 10000 to His
tOric Old Town
PAGEANT HE'LL FRIDAY

The ancient Valley of Swans,
Zwaanendael, so known to the sew
enteenth century Dutch, will be-
come once more the fishing village
of present times when the throngs
of visitors trek home tomorrow
from the first homecoming ever
held in the historic town. Having
witnessed 305 years in the making
of Lewes portrayed through color
full pageantry in the four days of
the home coming fete, the visitors,
largely former residents of Lewes,
swelled the population of 1000 per-
manent residents to approximately
10, 900 during the event which end
ed Sunday night. Starting with
the parade of youth on Thursday,
when the youngest generation up
to five years of age appeared in a
baby parade considered worthy of
the large beach resorts of the east,
the celebration reached it's peak on
Friday with the historical pageant
reviewed by state notables, contin-
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
BIGGEST PEACH
CROP IN 5 YEARS
Delaware Winning Back Its
Slogan as Peach Bios
som State"
FRUIT OF FINE FLAVOR

Delaware is once again the
peach blossom state" Up from
the peach orchards of lower Della
ware, from Smyrna down, thouS-
ands of bushels of peaches are be-
ing shipped to the food markets
with the peak scheduled for this
week THE largest peach crop
since 1884," the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, bureau of
ricultural economics, reports. THE
finest in years, from the viewpoint
of quality and quantity" w. T.
Derickson, director of the State
Bureau of Markets in Dover, said
Monday. Present prospects indi-
cate peach crop of 408,000 bush
els. The 1881 crop amounted to
100000. Last years production
totalled only 225,OO0 bushels. The
five year average for peaches( (1928-
1892 was 1000 bushels. The
quality and size of the peaches,
Mr.. Derkickson said, are excellent.
The apple season this year will not
be as good as last year, Mr.. Der
ickson said, due to late frost. The
early apple crop in the state was
of excellent quality and as a rule
sold at satisfactory prices. The
total production here, estimated by
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, will be 1,424,000 bushels,
compared with 1,418,000 bushels
last year and the five year average
192s-1932) of 1,373,OOO bushels.
From a news report down state,
Seaford brokers are putting up a
howl over undersize peaches. They
contend they are not getting what
they pay for; that fruit represent
ed to them as being two inches and
up in circumference often fall short
of that size Some of the brokers
there received messages back from
persons to whom shipments had
been made, that the fruit was un-
dersize and market prices could
not be paid for such fruit. The
brokers further claim that it is ut
terly impossible to make a thor
ough examination of all the peach
es they buy, running many times
into thousands of bushels, and that
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
SMYRNA UNIT
LEGION GROUP
Mrs. Grant Garis and Mrs.
Creadick Ennis to Go To
State Auxiliary
MEETS IN WILMINGTON

The fifteenth annual Department
convention American Legion Aux
iliary, Department Of Delaware,
will convene at the Hotel DUPONT,
Wilmington, on Friday and Satur-
day Of next week, August 28th and
29th. Department American Leg
ion Convention will convene at the
same place and time. Department
headquarters will be at Hotel du-
Pont from 5 p. m. Friday, August
18th until close of convention Sat-
urday, August 29th. Joint dinner
meeting and dance will be held in
the Gold Ball Room, Hotel DUPONT,
August 28th, z p. m. (D.S.T.) Res
ervations may be made with local
Post Adjutant or Commander.
Many Posts are reserving tables SO
they may be grouped together. 1t
is imperative that final returns be
made Tuesday, August 25th, as
the dead line. Also state how many
members desire fish menu. Busi-
ness sessions will commence Satur-
day morning at 8 a. m. (DlS.T.i
August 29th. Mrs. George d. Hill,
Dover, Department President, will
preside at business sessions. Mrs.
Hill will announce her convention
Continued on Page rive)
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
OLD HOFFECKER
.CANNERY is LET
Tomato Cannery, Smyrna, is
Leased to Apte Brothers Co.,
of New York and Miami
MAY START NEXT WEEK

Good news has come to Smyrna
with the announcement that the
old John H. Hoffecker Canning
Company tomato factory in Smyr-
ma is to be operated this season,
employing all nome labor as well
as affording a market for our local
farmers who grow tomatoes. Thru
the efforts of Mr. Hervey P. Hall,
the only surviving member of the
old John H. Hoffecker Canning
Company, the Hoffecker factory on
Main Street, has been leased to
Apte Brothers Company who oper-
ate chain of factories in Flor
ida, South Carolina, Arkansas
and Delaware and are known
as a high class firm, recon-
mended both as to their business
ability and financial standing. They
will send their own local manager
here who is expected in few days
to get the plant in shape with the
hope of starting operation the lat
ter part of next week or the first
of September. AS they want to
employ only home labor, the an
nouncement is welcomed with joy
by the people of Smyrna who see
the benefit of having this old fac
tory run again not only for the
stimulus it will give to business
generally but the fact that the
money will be put in circulation
here, helping those out of employ
ment to get a job and incidentally
increasing trade with our stores
and business places. The Hoffeck-
er factory has not been operated
since the death of Walter o. Hof-
fecker and its idleness the last
year or more has been a loss
to the community. That it is to be
started up again with the prefer
ence given to home labor, is in
itself welcome news. The Apte
Brothers we are told, will buy to-
matoes on the open market and
pay cash Immediately upon deliv-
cry.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
NEWARK HAS BUILDING BOOM
Building Operations Valued .
S5OO,O0O Now in Progress

Building operations, valued at
S500,000, are helping to keep New
ark one of the busiest towns in the
state. The new chemistry building
for the University of Delaware, be-
ing constructed at a total cost of
about $500, 900, is progressing after
several delays because of lack of
certain materials. The next larg-
est single operation is the bridge
being constructed over the railroad
tracks on South College Avenue to
eliminate a dangerous grade cross
ing. The project will not likely be
completed before the first of the
year. Between Is and 20 houses
also are under construction, includ-
ing an apartment house being built
by Herman Wollasten on Orchard
Road, near West Delaware Avenue
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
STATE FIREMEN
MEET AT PIERS
Augustine Beach Near Port
Penn Was the Mecca For
1000 or More
PERMANENT MEMORIAL

More than 1000 volunteer fire
men, including a number from
Smyrna, also member of their
auxiliaries from all parts of Della
ware and visitors from New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania also attend
ed a Field Day at Augustine Beach
near Port Penn, Saturday, for the
benefit of the permanent memorial
for Delaware volunteer firemen to
be erected at Dover. The principal
speakers of the day were Chief
William j. Lutz of the Wilmington
Bureau of Fire ard Willard Boyce,
president of the Delaware State
Volunteer F'iremen's Association,
who urged contributions to the
memorial fund and praised the
work of the fremen in their COM
munities. Mr.. Boyce in his speech
said, Our state committeeman
have their plans ready, our firemen
have responded and when this
magnificent memorial is completed,
it will stand as a monument to the
finest virtues of citizenship, public
spiritedness, self-sacrifice, and pro-
gressiveness. Delaware stands to-
day as having the best organized
and best equipped volunteer and
paid f1re-1ghting departments in
the country. This is evidenced by
our having the lowest fire insur-
ance rate in the United States" he
declared. With the field day start
ing at noon, large crowds arrived
by every bus and private automo-
biles. There were athletic events
for men, women and children, base
ball, and pie-eating contests. The
Cranston Heights Band furnished
music during the afternoon How
ard Work, of the Elsmere Fire
Company, was In charge of the
first aid tent and was kept busy re-
moving splinters, reviving women
who felt faint, and various other
minor injuries. Miss Pauline Jul
ian, 16-year-old Wilmington girl,
won the title of Miss Volunteer
Fireman" at the bathing beauty
contest keld at $50 The contest
created much interest. Besides
Miss Julian, other winners were.
Frances Cane of Marshallton, sec
ond, Peggy Eyre of Marshallton,
third, and Mildred Brown of Mar
shallton in fourth place. The
committee consisted of Walter HUI
ert, Marshallton, chairman; H. Lee
Roy Owens, Middletown, secretary;
Martin Arters, Holloway Terrace,
treasurer; William Kirk, Richard
son Park, financial secretary; and
James NJ. Montgomery, Brandy
wine Hundred, chairman in charge
of the field day program.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
MILFORD WINS AWARDS
Gets Rural Electrification Contract
to Supply Current to GAG Farms

Under the federal rural electri-
fication administration program,
wholesale power for the project in
Kent and Sussex counties will be
purchased from the Milford mu-
nicipal power plant, according to q;
statement issued by Rural Electrifi-
cation Administrator Morris L..
Cooke, Washington. Kent and Sus-
sex counties combined in one dis
trict are among the five districts to
benefit from the ALLEGATION of
S746,000 for rural electric projects.
Included in the project are two
counties of Georgia, one county in
Iowa, and the Matanuska Valley,
Alaska. Approximately $500
farms in these districts will receive
electric service for the first time
over lines to be constructed by
this money, Mr.. Cooke said. In
Delaware, S23O,OO0 will be allocat-
ed to non profit corporation now
being organized under the general
corporation laws of Delaware.
About 215 miles of line will be
built serving SAG farms in Sussex
and Kent Counties.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
PLANT STRIKE
AT HARRINGTON
Kent Shirt Company Work
ers Enter Fifth Week
of IdleneSS
NEGOTIATIONS SLOW

Efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the employees strike at
the Kent Shirt Company plant at
Harrington have come to stand
still with the owners, d. Roum and
Sons, absent from town and a So
luton of the problem unsettled.
The strike which is now entering
its fifth week was called following
the discharge of a woman worker,
allegedly for refusal to sign what
is commonly termed a"yellow dog"
contract. The workers have set up
demand for better working con-
ditions in addition to the re-em-
ployment of the discharged work.
er With a local citizen acting as
mediator a number of conferences
were held during the latter part of
last week resulting in a tentative
agreement being reached between
the strikers and the owners but
later the owners refused to sign
the ageement claiming through
friends that it also involved the op-
Grafton of plants in New York City.
Bennett F. Schauffler from the ma
tional labor relation boards region
al office in Baltimore was in Har-
rington investigating complaints of
violations of the Wagner act,
charging an attempt to influence
workers by outside forces and the
failure of plant owners to recog-
nize force for collective bargain
ing by their employees. The Fed
eral investigator attempted to get
some statement from the owners
by telephone but the best they
would give him, it is reported, was
statement to the effect that the
owners would not commit them
selves concerning possible negotia-
tions with the employees. The in
vestigator then left Harrington for
Washington to make a report on
the local situation. 1t was report
ed that Harrington officials are en-
deavoring to push through an or
dinance that would prohibit picket
ing by the strikers near the Roum
plant.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
SURFACING OF
ALL DIRT ROADS
Goal of the State Highway
Department To Aid
All Farms
USE STABILIZED EARTH

The ultimate surfacing of every
road in the state until Delaware
will offer improved roads into
every corner of its boundaries is
the goal of the State Highway De
partment according to a statement
made today by Chief Engineer w.
w. Mack. Contrary to an errone-
Gus idea held by some people, the
money now spent on the upkeep of
the present dirt roads would not go
very far in construction of improv-
ed surfaces. Some believe that
enough money is being spent on
the maintenance of dirt roads to
build increasing amounts of i'm
proved roads. Mr.. Mack states that
instead of money being saved, more
would be needed in addition to the
cost of construction, as the cost of
keeping the dirt roads in shape is
much smaller than the upkeep of
better surfaced roads. The present
plan contemplates the improve
ment of the remaining roads until
the entire road mileage will be sur
faced with either concrete, Stag,
gravel or stabilized earth. offering
unequalled travel conditions in
every section and providing high
ways passable at all times of the
year and under all ordinary wealth
er conditions. The use of stabilized
earth in road Improvement is prov
ing highly successful and will
make the resurfacing of some dirt
roads much cheaper than Stag and
gravel and in many instances,
equally as permanent.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Charles c., Son of Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence Gears, Meets Tragic Deatf

Charles c. Gears, aged 20, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence (nee
Miss Henrietta jones' Gears of
near Clayton, met with a fatal ac-
cident at noon Friday falling from
his cab and being run over by the
wheels of the truck he was driv-
ing. Just how the tragic death oc-
CURED may never be known but it
is thought he was overcome by
heat or suffered dizzy or faint
ing spell and lost his balance, for
he was last seen leaning out his
cab as he was backing the truck
up to the loading stand. Young
Gears, who was employed by
George & Lynch of Dover, contrac-
tors on the new road being relaid
between Kirkwood and Summit
Bridge, was ambitious and a good
worker, coping with men of exper-
fence in handling a truck. He was
holding a steady position hauling
sand and stone and was generally
liked by the contractors and the
men with whom he was associated
Gears died of a compound fracture
of the skull, a post mortem exam
ination by DR.. William n. Feni-
more. coroner's physician, of New
Castle County, disclosed. The ac-
cident was investigated by Private
Bush and Schnetter of the state
police and Deputy Coroner Hearn
Eyewitness to the accident said
Gears was leaning half way out of
the cab to guide the truck as he
Continued on Page Fivel
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
WILMINGTON GROUP TO TOUR
Wilmington Chamber Of Commerce
to Tour State Thursday, Sept 10

T
Thursday, September 10, has been
set as the date for the combined
outing and good will tour of the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
to Rehoboth. The trip will be made
on a special train to be chartered
for the trip over the Delmarva Di-
vision of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. More than 200 members of
the Chamber of Commerce and
guests will make the trip. Ac-
cording to plans arranged the train
will leave Wilmington early in the
morning and will stop at Middle
town, then on thru Clayton, stop
ping at Dover, Harrington, and
Milford. A luncheon meeting will
be held in the Hotel Windsor at
Milford. From Milford the party
will proceed to Georgetown, where
another stop will be made, and
then to Rehoboth Beach.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
s65 ACRES FOR WILMINGTON
Building of Edge Moor Dyke Gre
ateS a Valuable Fill

The contract held by the Dravo
Contracting Company for the plac-
mig of $4,000 tons of riprap on the
Edge Moor dyke is almost com
pleted. During July, the contrac-
tors placed 1885 tons of stone on
the jetty, making the total to date
62,447 tons. The dixie will be ten
feet above mean low water and
will create a fill area of about 365
acres directly east of Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-20
FERRY TO PENIS GROVE, Nj.
Move For More Direct Line Urged
at Wilmington Advertising Club

Organization of a direct ferry
line between Wilmington and
PENIS Grove, N. j., starting at a
point near east Twelfth Street, as
a means of enhancing trade be-
tween the two states, was advocat-
ed at the regular meeting of the
Advertising Club of Wilmington
last week at the Hotel dupont.
Temporary plans called for con-
struction of road past the Pull
man Company and Electric Hose
and Rubber Company plants to
Twelfth Street. 1. B. Finkelstein,
former president of the Chamber
of Commerce, and Lloyd Lewis,
manager of the Delaware Automo-
bile Association, spoke.