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Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
BETHEL

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Garrett en-
tertained at a family dinner on
Christmas Day the following chill
dren: Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Gar
rett. Messrs. Paul and Walter Gar
rett of Wilmington, John Garrett OF
New Castle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips. Mrs.
Laura Wheatley spent the week.
end in Wilmington as the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Cain.
Mrs. Harry Wright left Thursday
for Norfolk, Va, TO spend few days
with her husband. Capt. Wright who
is still a patient in the Marine Hos
pital
II. G.. Sirman, Horace G. cirman,
Jr., Jennings Sirman we're dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Uric Smith
on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Hastings had
as their weekend guests: Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dunton of Hollis, Long
Island, N. Y.
The Christmas entertainment Of
the NJ. E. Sunday school was held
on Sunday night by the primary de-
partment.
Miss Frances Smith who has been
employed in Philadelphia, arrived
home Christmas Day to spend some
time with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Uric Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Shiles enter
tanned at a turkey dinner the fol-
lowing guests: Rev. and Mrs. j. X.
Jester and daughter Margaret of
Church Creek, Md, Rev. and Mrs. L.
L. Powell and son Don, and Charles
Cordrey, Jr., of this town.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Edgar Williams
left on Monday for Middletown
where they will make their future
home.
Misses Ruth Eskridge, a student
nurse at the st. Francis Hospital,
Laurabel Phillips, Inez Coulborne.
students of Beacon College. Will
spent the Christmas holi-
lays at their homes here.
Jacob Gortee is visiting his bro
her, Clayton Gortee, at Sharptown,
Nd.
Mrs. Julia Moore entertained at
amily dinner at her home on Sun
lay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arba T. Hudson of
N. j., spent the
christmas holidays with Mr.. and
irs. Thomas Milbourne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Mumford Of
N. c., spent few days last
week with the latter's parents, Mr..
nd Mrs. Wilbur Hurley.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Massey en-
ertained the following children on
unday: Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Thomp-
on and son Billy. Mrs. Levi War
ington of Seaford, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Phillips and daughter Laurabel.
Mrs. Edna p. Clark of Wilmington
pent the weekend with her par
nts, Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Phillips.
Mrs. Charles Ellis of Laurel spent
ionday with Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua
ownsend. II
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

Mr.. Lemuel Lynch motored from
Philadelphia and visited bis son,
Lonnie Lynch and family, and Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Hearn, the latter
his sister, on Christmas day, and had
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. Zene Long.
another sister.
Mr.. Bayard Grant motored from
Washington, ID. c., and spent the
holidays with his father, Rev. w. s.
Grant.
Mr.. and Mrs. william johnson
were guests at dinner of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elbert Evans of Millville on Friday,
Dec. 25th.
Mr.. Paul Jones came from Phila-
delphia to spend Christmas with his
family here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Wilgus and
three daughters of Roxana visited
Mrs. Henry Evans and son, Ulysses
Evans, on Thursday.
The annual Christmas party of
the Sunshine Glass of the NJ. E.
Sunday school was given by Mrs.
Zada Wiigus and Miss Margaret
Watson on the evening of December
20. The members of the class who
are married, were permitted to take
their spouse with them. Each girl
took a gift suitable for a girl and
each man took a gift for a man. The
gifts were deposited In two piles TN
the table, one for the girls and one
for the men. The hostesses then |
passed them around so that each |
guest received one. Luckily, no one |
received the gift he or she took or
iginally. Interesting games were
then played; now and then enjoying
stuffed dates and fudge. Then fol-
lowed a skirmish, which goes hand
in-hand with all peanut hunts. Then
we're served, consist Il
Ing of three varieties of sandwiches.
deviled eggs, pickles, olives, dates
and nut bread. and coffee. After the
more games were en-
ioyed by everyone. All enjoyed
themselves to the fullest extent pos
,ibie.
Miss Helen Anderson, teacher in
he Seaford High School and Asher
Anderson, Jr., student at Lynch
,urg College, va, spent the 1oli-
lays with their parents, Mr.. and
drs. Asher Anderson.
Mrs. Clay Evans gave a family
inner on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Evans OF Do
er and Mrs. Pasha Watson and
aughter, Mrs. Peter Whaley Of Sell
willie, attended the reception and
reddIng of Hickman-Lynch.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

ioned experience" meeting of tn,
John and Charles Wesley type o
decades ago.
Young folk, not so much inter
ested In the service as their par
ents, generally attended so they
could be together on. the last nigh
o. the old year. 1t gave them, In the
rural sections, an opportunity tC
walk home with their sweethearts.
Usually, If there was snow on the
ground, sleigh ride home follow
ed.
Krause. .McLernOn
Announcement is made of the
marriage of Miss Nancy Ellen
Krause, daughter of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. S. F. Krause, of Salisbury, Md,
and Byrd Elliott Ward McLernon,
of Delmar. The wedding took place
at Laurel on Christmas Day, the
Rev. r. Y. Barker, rector of st.
Phillips Episcopal Church at Lau-
rel, performing the ceremony.
No License-Jailed
Charged with operating a car
without a license, Taft McCan, of
Northwest Fork District, was ar
rested by Officer Joseph H. Holt of
the Bridgeville police station and
given a hearing before Magistrate
William H. Hewes, at Bridgeville,
who committed him to the county
Jail here for ten days in default of
a fine of $1,000 and costs.
jailed For Train Riding
Owen Jones, charged with riding a
passenger train while intoxicated
and without paying his fare, was ar
rested this week by Railroad Detec-
tive Miles Fitzgerald, of Delmar.
Magistrate Arthur S. Hearn of Lau-
rel, before whom he was given
hearing, committed him to prison
here for ten days.
Milford Man Arrested
Claud Sapp, Cedar Creek District,
was arrested by Officer Clarence X.
Lynch on Monday charged with
making, drawing and delivering a
check for $1,000 on the Milford Trust
Company without having sufficient
funds in the bank or credit with it.
The check was made payable to
cash" Given hearing before Mag
istrate w. Frank Sharp, of this city,
he was committed to prison for the
February term of Court of General
Sessions, in default of $500.00 bail.
Forgery Charge
Reece Burnell, colored, of Sea-
ford, is being held in the county Jail
here for the next term of court in
default of $1,000 bail, charged on
before Magistrate James X.
Phillips, of Seaford, with forging a
check on T. o. Whitley, a merchant
Of that town for $10.25, payable at
he First National Bank Of Seaford.
Burnell in forging the check signed
he name Little HILL"
three Imprisoned for Stealing
John Edward Bowers, Nathan J.
Foskey and Clarence Franklyn |
Ireen, Little Creek District, are /
Zach being held in the county Jail |
lere in default of $500 bail. by Mag
strate Patrick H. Hearn, of Delmar,
,harged with stealing eleven BUSH
lis of red skin potatoes from the
arm of Everett Hall, near Delmar,
IN the night of December %.
Held for Assault With Intent TO kili
Robert Williams. cclored, of Lau-
el, charged before Magistrate
thomas w. Records of that town,
gith slashing John Smith, colored.
With a knife about the legs and
rms on Christmas night, is being
eld in prison here for court in de-
ault of $1,000 bail.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
Beware Coughs
. from common colds
That Hang On

No matter how many medicines
YOU have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Creomulsios1.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
Won cannot afford to take chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion. which goes right to the seat
of the trouble to aid nature to
soothe and heal the infiamed mem-
branes as the germ-laden phlegm
Is loosened and expelled.
Even IL other remedies have
failed. don't be discouraged, your
druggist Is authorized to guarantee
Creomulsion and to refund your
money If you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creomulsion right now. (AdvJ
Evening star., 1937-10-17
THIRSTY SOIL
Concluding Observation-Disclosures story of love and
conflict on the rim of the Dust Bowl
by MARGARET GRANT
Authors q Coll Boek kLovs,"s
Author of "CoN Boek Low" " etc.

1t was Joseph, oddly. who gave her solaoe
his slow, sentient way. Don't you be afraid
He won't die" Childishly she tried to be-
lieve him. Joseph knew things, he had always
known things, in strange half-animal, half
godike way. She came to wait for his huge,
towering form to darken the doorway. Things
are going all right" he'd say, and she would
feel unaccountably refreshed. This morning
he had been more than usually encouraging.
He'd told her that the wind was shifting
little, and that like as not Jim's fever would
drop by evening. But you're not looking
any too good yourself" he'd gone on to NUT
ter You go lie down, and let me take spell
with him"
Awkwardly, tenderly. he had insisted on re-
lieving her; but Jim had seemed to know. and
had grown restless at the change. "I1l stay"
she'd whispered I'm all right"
She was afraid, however, that she was near
the breaking point. She had been at first so
sure of her strength, and so prodigal with it.
But now she felt as if she could not bear an
other moment of this ironic masquerade,
another loving, misplaced gesture of Jims
confused delirium: - ''Millie - Mile" and
then something about the cattle = and then
always back to Millie Eyes, darling"
Harriet would soothe him, "Millie's with you
-Mille's here ="
'Milie =" His murmur came now like an
echo to her thoughts. She bent down to him.
"Yes, dear?"
His lips moved, mo pain better ="
he whispered.
She laid her fingers against his temples
They gave back moist coolness. and her
heart sent up cry of thankfulness.
You are better, darling" her voice was
jubilant.
He opened his eyes and stared at her for
moment, and then smile f1ickered across his
lips, "Oh, it's you, Freckle-Face ="
Yes" 1t was difficult to force the words
past her full, tight throat. 'Millie's resting.
She's had hard time of it, and made her
try to get some Sleep" She withdrew her
hand from his. 'I1l go and tell her you're
awake
Tell her" he said, with the ghost of his old
grin, that feel like million dollars, can't
wait to see her -"
Il WILL" she promised, and managed to
give him back smile.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

She felt lightheaded and dizzy as she
rose to her feet. 1t was al over. this imterlude
of stolen ecstasy, the giving and the taking
of love to which she had no right She had
thought that in saving Jim's life she could win
that was alien to her being. and false to the
very love she bore him.
She went to the kitchen. 1t was an effort
to walk, an effort even to talk. She wanted
only to send Millie back to him. and then to
20 away somewhere by herself
Mile looked up at her with hostile eyes.
She was indolently peeling some potatoes for
was untidy and disorganized, with the lunch
dishes still mwashed in the sink, and the dust
in ridges over the tabletop and sills.
"Jm's calling for you" Harriet said.
Millie gave short laugh. That's nothing
new" She went on peeling potatoes.
You don't understand. He's better, he's
not delirious now. l told him you were resting.
He thinks you've been nursing him all along,
and you've got to let him think it."
Millie stood up. her eyes wide with fear.
But l can't go to him, she cried.
you must You can't fail him now. You
have to go to him, Mile. he's your husband"
Il can't" Mile repeated shrilly. I'm
afraid of sickness I'd rather stay down here
and slave than take care of him."
But you won't catch it; the doctors told
you over and over again it's not contagious.
Listen to reason. Jim's weak, and the least
little shock will set him back. Oh, Mile,
you can't undo everything that's been done!'
She stopped as Jms voice came down to
them. ''Harrietw he called.
Mile grabbed her by the arm. There,
he's calling you, not me =
Harriets heart surged. IN go to him."
she said. "And you get yourself together and
then come up." Millie started to speak, but
changed her mind. "All right, she said.
Jim was slipping water from glass that had
stood on the bureau. He looked very white.
She was horrified. Jim, you're worse than a
two year old, getting up the minute my back
is turnedr'
I've been down with this long enough"
he answered grimly.
Only day or two"
''How is everything?" His arm gestured to
ward the window.
CCo.fisssd On pose ~
Evening star., 1937-10-17

She glanced down at him. His breathing was
almost normal and his face had lost the heated
flush of fever. The room seemed cooler, too.
She wondered whether she imagined that the
air had grown less heavy and oppressive; she
felt almost chilly, but she was sure that it
must be due to fatigue and strain.
For two nights and two days, she had
scarcely moved from the bedside. The young
doctor had said, IF we can break the fever,
Mrs. Dawson, we'll pull your husband out of
this and have him on his feet in no time. He
was new in the community, and took for
granted that Harriet was Jims wife, Mile,
lowering fearfully in the background, had
made no attempt to disillusion him. She pre-
ferred to remain downstairs and did her
meager best at fighting the dust and prepar-
ing the meals.
The long hours had been punCtuated by
John Dawson standing at the door with trays
of unpalatable food which made Harriet long
to cut herself in two so that she need not
leave him to Miles inadequate ministra-
TONS Her heart ached for him. He had been
able to face everything but Jim's illness. He
would come into the room and mutely look
down at the bed, and walk out again, too
shaken to speak. Harriet had tried to pour
hope into him, but there were times when she
too knew only despair. Drought. heat, dust.
To what end? And why?
Evening star., 1937-10-17


INA few minutes the train would bring Jim
Dawson back from college; to the wheat
lands he loved, to the farmer-father who
needed him, and to Harriet. whose heart
was bursting with happiness. Harriet had
been raised with Jim as his adopted sister, but
since he d been away she'd grown into wom-
an, the prettiest girl in the county," said
Inns father, who knew her worth and shared
her secret hopes.
Harriet was so ecstatic when Jim stepped
off the train that at first she did not notice
Mile When jim turned and proudly brought
forward the girl with the red hat and crisp
yellow curls - my wife, we were married
yesterday" - Harriet tried to speak, but her
whole body felt numb with the sudden shock.
1t took only few hours to reveal Mile as
cheap and shallow thing whom Jim had met
in dance hall, and who had fallen in love"
with him when she heard that his father
owned eight hundred acres Less than an hour
on the farm. August-hot and beginning to feel
the pinch of drought, made her shrily deter
mined to get Jim away to the city. She hated
f1dIIHI OIL SlSIl dAO SuIooCO itCi oCNACS. SfN
also guessed the hopeless, hitherto unsus-
pected love of Joseph, the hired man. for
Harriet, and made tawdry jokes about it.
Before the first night in her new home Mile
had churned its placid life into a storm of
hate and jealousy and fear.
Harriet realized that she was now an in
truder in the house which had been home.
She packed her bags to 60 she knew not
where, but before she could leave, the dust
storm broke on the farm in choking fury. The
well went dry, some of the cattle had to be
shot, Jim became delirious with dust pneu-
monia Mile, frightened, put through secret
call to an old flame in Kansas City, planning
to escape Harriet, fearful for what disillusion-
ment would do to Jim, restrained her from
leaving.
But Millie would not answer the insistent
calls for her from the sick room. What should
Harriet do? After moments indecision she
went up to Jim, put her arms around him.
I'm here, darling" she whispered. Miles
with YOU Go to sleep, darling" He sighed
and closed his eyes, and she held him close
against her breast.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
PART THREE

4 ARRIET stared into the gray blankness
beyond the window. There was a
binding pain behind her eyes. If she
could only hold them shut with her
palms pressed tight against them. But she
was afraid of going to Sleep She was almost
dead for sleep She moved her stiff body. and
felt Jims fingers tighten around her hand.
The Washington times., 1937-01-08
By HAZEL Macdonald

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 8 QN.S0.
University Of Wisconsin students
today planned q "walkout" from
classes, in protest to the action OF
the regents in firing President
Glenn Frank last night.
The board Of regents passed a
resolution not to renew the presi-
dents contract, expiring July 1,
and to give him immediate leave
Of absence for the balance Of his
term.
The resolution was adopted
after q two-day public hearing OF
charges Of incompetency which
failed to change the eight-to-seven
vote to which the regents COM
mitted themselves on December
16, before the case for and
against DR.. Frank was heard in
detail.
Protest Dictatorship"
Several members of the minor
ity group of regents also threat
ened to "walkout" Of their jobs
rather than submit to what they
charge is dictatorship in univer-
sity affairs by Governor Phil La
Toilette,
Dean George C. sellery, of the
college Of letters and science, a
faculty member for 35 years, pre-
pared to move in, as acting pres
ident, to the office DR.. Frank has
occupied for 1112 years.
Dr.. and Mrs. Frank prepared to
move out Of the 15-room official
residence, the costly maintenance
Of which was one of the causes
Of dispute between the former
president and the board.
Custer in Turmoil
The dismissal of DR.. Frank, in
Sulting in the cut-and-dried pro-
cedure by which it was accom-
pliShed, took place in a turmoil
Of gate-craShing, rah-rahing STU
dents, fainting women and inter-
minable pickering over the bill for
painting the woodwork in the
Frank menage.
Regent Clough Gates, business
manager Of a newspaper in Su-
perior, presented the resolution
which was the death warrant of
the Frank administration.
Frank asked Board President
Harold Wilkie, Madison attorney,
for leave to make a short state
ment. His eyes were inflamed
from loss of sleep incurred in pre-
pairing his futile defense, but his
voice was crisp and challenging
as he rose and said, Stingingly:
"The Gates resolution is in
perfect keeping with the decep-
tfOn, falSehO0d, and intrigue
which have characterized the
The Washington times., 1937-01-08
FRANK FIRED, STUDENTS
THREATEN STRIKE
moves Of the Wilkie forces from

moves Of the W1lkie FORCES from
the first.
"TOnight there comes to a
climax a determination and at
titude / learned of the day the
news Of my election to the
presidency Of the University Of
wisconsin broke in the New
York press. 1 lunched that day
at the Players Club. George
Middleton, husband Of FOIa La
Toilette, said to me that / should
not accept it, for, as he put it,
that is not the family's wishes
"And now a family created
majority Of regents appoints as
acting president the man whom
was, in effect, ordered to dis
charge from the deanship as
one Of my first acts-ObviOusly
a smoke screen to hide from the
public the bald dictatiOn Of
university procedure from pOIiti-
cal headquarters"
Evening star., 1937-12-20

hoped to make the Chinese pro-Japa-
nese by killing more Chinese, and
suggested that the campaign to save
Asia from Communism be carried d.
rectly against Communist Russia tn
stead Of against the Chinese.
He denied that China has any lik-
ing for Communism and declared that
the greatest ally Of Communism in
Eastern Asia is Japanese militarism.
Boycott Is Proposed.
A boycott OF Japan was proposed q
the only means Of helping situation
which hight have been prevented in
1881 by prompt action on the part
Of the powers to halt Japan In Man
churia.
'"rhe cost Of a boycott would be
only drop in the ocean compared
to what might be lost If Japan is
permitted to 60 on unchallenged. A
Japanese victory may mean not only
defeat Of China, which is insig-
nificant nor only the defeat of west
ern powers and of democracy, but 1t
may mean the defeat Of our civiliza-
ton by barbarism and the crucifixion
Of humanity on the cross OF war"
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh. vice president
Of Georgetown University. presided.
The Town Hall series skips next Sun
day with debate by Aldous Huxley
and Gerald Heard, British authors,
on January 2 the first program for the
new year.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
TOWN HALL HEARS
CHINA WAR DEBATE
America and Europe Seen
Objects of Japanese
Attack Later.

In an atmosphere of cordiality
strangely contrasting with the deadly
conflict in the Far East the issues Of
the Chinese-Japanese war were
thrashed out last nigh by DR.. No Yong
Park Of China and D.. Yutake Nina
kuchi of Japan before a Town Hall
audience which displayed marked SYM
pathy for the Chinese cause.
The throng of more than 1900
which crowded the Rialto Theater
received coolly the arguments Of the
japanese in the first debate the Wash
ington forum has heard this year, but
warmed noticeably to him in re-
sponse to the sincerity of his ex-
pressed regrets for the sinking Of the
gunboat Panay, which had lent a
tense air of expectation to the debate
II am voicing the sentiment of the
entire japanese nation" declared DR.
Minakuchi, noted journalist and
author in expressing the deepest and
most sincere regrets for the Panay"
DR.. Park charged that the Panay
was deliberately sunk and the incident
then turned into japanese propa-
ganda.
Stresses Historical Background.
Although DR.. Minakuchi stressed
the historical background for an
understanding of the Far Eastern
conflict and DR.. Park emphasized a
humanitarian appeal against the
slaughter of innocent women and
children, the deHaters found their
issues in the japanese claims that the
invasion of China is in self-defense
Evening star., 1937-12-20

that Japan needs more food sources
and elbow room, and that Communism
and anti-Japanis In China must be
crushed.
The Japanese spokesman reviewed
the history of the Far East from the
Sino-Japanese war Of 1894-5. through
the subsequent retrocession Of the
Liaotung Peninsula under pressure
from Russia, Germany and France, the
Czarist penetration Of Manchuria, the
Russo Chinese alliance Of 1896, the
war, the opening Of
Manchuria, the development Of soya
bean cultivation and the Manchurian
incident of 1872
He attributed all Of the unrest of
the last half century in the Far East
to "China's unwillingness to set her
house in order. srforln her duties
and meet her own obligations"
Japan's Needs Cited.
Japan is poor and small country"
he continued, introducing an explana-
tion of its phi, sical needs. ut is smaller
than California and has only 10000
900 acres OF land under cultivation.
This requires great quantity OF
fertilizer, which Is obtained as q by
product of the soya bean in Manchuria.
Japan also is dependent upon the
outside world for raw materials. It
can never be an agricultural nation,
and must engage in industry and
commerce. Raw cotton must be i'm
ported not only for domestic con-
sumption but for manufacture of
export goods. Thus it. is essential
that lines of communication remain
open and arteries of trade free. When
anything cuts those arteries Japan
must act"
Turning to the question of self
defense, Dr. Minakuchi denounced
the application Of different doctrines
in various parts of the world and
asked If Japan did not have the right
as much as other countries to protect
the lives and property of her nation
ais in the Far East.
Cites British in India.
IT national self-defense is justifi-
cation for the British in India and
Mesopotamia then it is equally justi-
flcation for Japan's course in China"