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Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
TOLL OF
AUTO DEATHS
1897 Mark Now % Above the
1886 AS Crash Proves Fatal
to Two Down State Drivers
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR 1O7

Deaths Of two automobile acci-
dent victims last week brought
Delaware's highway death toll for
the year to an all-time high of 107,
% more than in 1886. Ernest Dear
of near Lebanon, Del, died in the
KKent General Hospital, Dover,
and Roy Hunter, 35 years old, of
New York City, in the Milford
Emergency Hospital, Wednesday
of last week. Dear was injured
Sunday, December 19, on the Bark
er's Landing Boulevard near Do
Yer when the car in which he was
riding collided with a truck oper-
ated by w. T. Joyce of Absecon, N.
J. Harry Lear, a brother, was a
passenger in the automobile. Joyce
was hauling load fo turkeys. A
jury summoned by Coroner Harry
Camper of Kent County viewed the
body and ordered an autopsy held.
The jury will meet Tuesday to in
vestigate the case. Joyce was
placed under 81 1000 bail. Hunter
was injured on the state highway
at Greenwood Thursday, December
%, when the automobile operated
by his cousin, Lloyd Connors, also
of New York, turned over twice
when a tire blew out. Three rela-
tiveS of Connors in the automobile
escaped with minor injuries. Hunt
er died of a fractured vertebra and
a disclocated neck. Connors was
released last week following an in
quest which exonerated him. The
verdict said Hunters death was ac-
cidental. The body was sent to
New York for burial. The increase
in motor fatalities in 1887 COM
pares with 1886 was 25.8 per cent.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
j. @. GIBSON, ODESSA NATIVE
Died In Greenwich, Conn, Thurs
day, December 90. Aged Sc

]. Chester Gibson, of Odessa
former well known banker, died Al
his home in Greenwich, Conn
Thursday of last week, aged 66
years. Mr.. Gibson was the son az
the late Joseph L. and Louisa NJ
Gibson and was born and raised h
Odessa. For many years he va
engaged in the banking business
starting his career with the ecur-
i ity Trust Company in Wilmington
be became cashier of the Union
National Bank in that city in 1904
and was elected vice president Of
that bank in 1921. He retired fr97
the latter position in 1927. After
his retirement from the bankjrg
business, Mr.. Gibson spent tXo
years in France, a year in Arizons
and then moved to Connection
He was a member of the Whining
ton Club, a former member Of the
Wilmington Country Club, several
Masonic organizations, and was ac-
lively interested in the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, Wilmington hav-
ing served as chairman Of the
board of managers. Surviving him
are: His wife, Mrs Eleanor W. CD
son; two sons, Joseph Chester Glib
son, Jr., and John Mccullough Glib
son; two brothers, George c. Glib
son, of Philadelphia, and Charles K
Gibson, of Centralia, Pa, and a SIS
ter, Mrs. Anna C. Corbit, 11o2 Rod
ney street, Wilmington. Funeral
services were held at his late home
in Greenwich, Conn, Sunday after
noon, December 26.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
DEATHS

Haldeman - Near Thomas Cor
ner, January 1st, Mrs. Ida Halde-
man, wife of Jacob A. Haldeman,
aged Is years, two months and Z
days.
Sylvester-At Moorton, Decem-
ber 29th, Mrs. Susan Sylvester,
widow of the late John T. Sylves-
ter, aged 40 years.
Taylor In this town, January 8,
w. Lyndon, son of Samuel and
Elizabeth Taylor, aged 10 years
and 6 months.
Underwood-At the residence of
George S. Capelle, Wilmington,
January 3rd, Emily G. Underwood.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
Wants Governor From Counties

Waldo H. Grimes, president of
the Eastern Shore Young Mems
Republican Club, said in a formal
statement the club feels "the next
Republican candidate for governor
should come from one of the coun-
ties outside Of Baltimore city" He
added that the club will be glad
to indorse any man with a clean
record for our next candidate for
governor"
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
TAX INCREASE
FOR RELIEF
Contention Over S5OO,OOO
Sum Can Be Used to Help
Needy in New Castle Co.
SPLIT ON TRANSFER

Levy Court officials fo New Cas-
tie County held to their belief last
week that the county tax of IS
cents may have to be raised if the
county has to take over the relief
burden. Declining to comment on
the contention of fiscal experts
that the county has more than
S5OO,OOO that could be used for re-
lief purposes, officials Of the court
maintain little or no money IS Ia
the county's treasury available for
relief. Nevertheless, it is said a
sum of 1922, ,91711, labelled in the
latest county audit as time de
post account" has not actually
been transferred to a sinking
fund" set-up, by legislation enact
ed in the closing minutes of the
last Legislature. New Castle Coun-
ty Levy Court officials declined to
say whether the fund has been
transferred. There seems to be a
legal question whether the sinking
fund law automatically tied up the
1922, ,917.11 only for public con-
struction This fund, according to
a recent statement by Harry w.
Lunger, attorney for the New Cas-
tie Levy Court, was built up over
a period Of years and lis now
maintained under a statute for the
purpose of public improvements of
a permanent nature" He would
express no opinion whether the
money could be used for relief pur-
poses. However, it is reliably un-
derstood, that if the S322, ,917.11 is
still legally outside of the sink
ing fund it is earmarked for pub
lie construction only by regulation
of the New Castle Levy Court. The
court had intended to use this
money for the construction of
morgue and an addition to the
Public Building, both projects hav-
ing been dropped for the present.
A number of questions have been
raised by fiscal experts who had
examined the 1898 audit of the
New Castle Levy Court, but Mr..
Lunger declined to comment on
them. Among these questions
were: Why was the sinking fund"
Why were s165, 900
in bonds matured last year when
only 100000 were supposed to
mature? Why is it necessary for
the Levy Court to set aside about
$3.50, 900 for interest and maturing
of bonds when considerable
amount of money is given the
county by the state for that pur-
pose. It is the claim of these ex-
perts that the county has funds to
defray the relief costs for the re-
mainder of the winter without ad-
ditional tax burdens. Mr.. Lunger,
however, has denied inferences that
the county has hidden accounts"
out of which could come relief
funds. He also warned in a recent
statement that the county tax
would have to be increased if the
relief load is shunted to the coun-
ty. Levy Court has appropriated
S21, 900 for January's relief bill and
it claims it has left less than So 900
out of 100000 appropriated at the
beginning of the fiscal year for re-
lief
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06

morning. more at night, who spoke
in high praise of Rev. DR.. w. S.
Robinson's New Years sermon.
The entertainment of the Rosa
Rand Criterion Comedy Company
at the Smyrna Opera House, on
Wednesday evening last was well
attended, and the two presenta-
tions, In Honor Bound" and
Tanning the Shrew," highly enjoy
ed we think by every one present.
The actors of this company are ex-
ceeding clever ones, both talented
and agreeable, and bring to our
people who love the drama what
they cannot find better in a search
through the cities.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
SMYRNA D(MNR
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JAN. 4TH, 1888

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue rs possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
A Motto for the New Year

Serve God and be cheerfulP' The Winter
Rolls round to the beautiful spring.
And DER the green grave of the snow drift
The nest building robins will sing,
Serve God and be cheerfulI' Live nobly
Do right and do good; make the best
OF the gifts and the work set before you,
And to God, without fear, leave the rest.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
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Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
DEATH OF
LITTLE LYNDON TAYLOR

LITTLE LYNDON TAYLOR
Much sympathy is felt for Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Taylor in the loss
of their little son Lyndon, on Mon
day night. He had had an attack
Of diphtheria from which he had
virtually been cured for a week
Though otherwise very hearty, he
had constitutionally a weak stom-
ach, and as is SO often the case, re-
ceived the force of the disease at
this weak point, refusing nourish-
ment, or to perform in any manner
its functions. There were but few
boys of his age on the street so
well known-cheerful, bright, smil-
ing, the perfect embodiment of
boyish good nature with a ready
answer for every question whether
of fact or fun. 1t is for his bright
ness as thus manifested, his loss
will be felt at school and on the
street as well as in the bosom of
his own home.
GROWTH OF THE w. c. T. u.
We are indebted to the ladies of
the w. G. T. u. for a copy of the
Union Signal containing a steno-
graphic report of the speeches and
doings of the fourteenth annual
session OF the National w. c. T. u.
at Nashville, Tenn. The work of
the Union is one that commends it.
self to every member of his fellow
men. The organization is made up
from among the best women of the
country and every year adds
strength and numbers to its organ
ization. The speeches and reports
of the convention show no abate-
ment in zeal for the work and the
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Robert c.. Rice has moved from
Raymond's Neck to Denton, Md.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17

Cleveland. Ohio, Aug. 17.-(AP)-
Coroner Samuel Gerber said today he
believed various parts of human tor
SOS found on the lake front were from
three persons, rather than two.
Meanwhile, detectives, searching the
spot where parts of bodies were found
yesterday, discovered another large
pile of human bones. The coroner said
he was unable to say Immediately
whether these bones represented still
other victims.
The coroner said examination of the
two skulls, ribs and pelvic bones
found yesterday led him to believe
they were from three bodies. This
would bring to ID the total number
of Qtorso' murders.
The bones were found today and
yesterday in a dump on Cleveland's
lake front near the site of last years
Great Lakes Exposition.
The coroner said the torso killer.
as usual left his mark of surgical
skill on the remnants of the two or
three bodies.
The victims were unidentified, like
all but three of the four women and
SIX men who met similar fate in
the last three years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Slight Abatement Near
From Sitting Heat Wave
Many Deaths Have
Resulted; Scattered
Showers Forecast for
the East
(By The Associated Press.)

(By Inc Associated PreSS.)
The heat wave that has taken a
heavy life toll and brought discom-
fort to millions abated slightly today,
and the prospects of scattered show
ers augmented relief for part of the
sun-baked eastern seaboard.
In Pennsylvania nine deaths re-
suited from the weather in, the last
three days.
Washington, D. c., had 10 hos
pitalized prostrations yesterday, and
dozens of others were given aid by
ambulance crews. Baltimore counted
six prostrations, but the sweltering
heat also had some whimsical aspects.
Weather Bureau employees in Wash
ington had Il partial holiday yesterday
because of the heat-along with thous-
ands of government clerks.
AS the mercury scared to 81 in
Pittsburgh, the highest for August 16
since 1888, r. p. Middlebrook report
ed to police the theft of fur-lined
Jacket from his home.
The city water division of Newark
complained that $4,000 gallons of
water were being wasted daily by
boys who turn on hydrants to keep
cool. The drair, the division said, was
threatening water pressure.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
George Given
Inside Track
For Georgia
BY CHARLES T.. STEWART
Central Press COlImniSt

Washington, Aug. 17.-If President
Roosevelt succeeds in swinging Geor
gia's Democratic senatorial nominal
ton to Lawrence Camp, Sept IA, poll
teal Washington's consensus is that
he can consider himself as having the
party effectively by the scruff of the
neck-that it will be his kind of a
party on into the indefinite future
whether he chooses to run again in
1910 or not.
1t generally is agreed, however, that
beating Senator Walter F. George for
denomination will not be quite enough.
If Ex-Gov. Eugene Talmadge should
be the Georgia Democrats senatorial
choice it would be defeat for George,
to be sure, but it would not be a
triumph for the President either. For
"F. D." to win, Camp must win.
George Has Edge.
In a clean-cut fight between George
and Talmadge 1 know of no Georgians
(and they have some highly intel
ligent newspaper correspondents here)
who question that George would be
victorious.
Probably, it is agreed, Camp would
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
New Workers
Ponder Power
Of Big River
BY ANDRUE BERDING.

Massena. N. Y, Aug. 17.-(AP)-
This is a tale of two cities-the one
here today and the one there will be
if hydro-electric power pours in from
the proposed Great Lakes-St. Law
renee development.
The writer has encountered in north
western New York State considerable
enthusiasm for the deep waterways
project Up the river, near the Thous-
and Islands, President Roosevelt ana
Canadian Premier Mackenzie King
will confer at bridge dedication to-
morrow.
The people here are divided, now
ever, over the time factor. Some think
the development will come within a
few years. The majority say 1t is
bound to come, but I won't live to see
it: you won't live to see it; but our
children will"
Massena is a city of $4,000 persons.
It's veins and arteries are high trans
mission lines from hydro-electric pow
err. Because of this power, residents
said it has become the worlds lar
gest producer of aluminium.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Britain And
France Look
For U. S. Aid
Secretary in Broad
cast Points to Danger
Sign in German Ambi-
tons in Central Eu-
rope; Economic and
Moral Reconstruction
Urged i,

Washington, Aug 17.-(AP)-Sec-.
rotary HulPs appeal to the world to
turn the tide of lawlessness through
economic and moral reconstruction a.
reused enthusiasm today among Bri-
fish and French officials, worried
over recurring war threats. -"
spokesman for the French Fore
ign Office said in Paris: 1.-THE speech
shows that the leaders of Americas
foreign policy are alive to the danger
in Europe"
Britons welcomed the address,
broadcast internationally last night.
as raising danger sign against Ger
man ambitions in central Europe.
Dispatches from Rome, on the 9TH
er hand, told of mounting fascist dis
pleasure on the speech, which was
not distributed to Italian papers by
the semi-official news agency Stefani
The State Department head warned
all governments to "be on guard a.
gainst certain dangerous develop
ments which imperil them"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Eight Government
Officials Named AS
L atrial Communists
Republican Member of House Investigating
Committee Says They Belong to Organization
Affiliated With Radicals; Denial Follows
Quickly 81

Washington, Aug. II (AP)-Repre-
sentative Mason, Republican, Illinois,
a member of the House committee in
vestigating subversive activities,
named eight government officials to-
cay. as acknowledged members OF
the American League for Peace and
Democracy, which he said had con-
nections with the communist party
The officials named were Harry
LambertOn, assistant rural eelectrifi-
cation administrator Dallas Smyth.
of the central statistical board; Fred
Silcox, head of the forest service;
Robert Marshall, an official of the
public lands service of the Agricul-
ture Department.; Oscar Chapman, as
sistant secretary of the interior;
John Carmody, rural identification
administrator; Mary Anderson, direc-
tor of the women's bureau, and Alice
Barrows, in the office Of education
Mason made his charge during tes
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Lindberghs Land
In Soviet Capital

Moscow, Aug. 17.-(AP)-COloneI
and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh landed
here tonight after flight by easy
stages from Warsaw. They arrived
at 1886 p. m. (12:35 p. M, eastern
standard time), having made two
stops enrOute.
Before their arrival. their plans
had been kept secret by Soviet au-
thOritieS.
In accordance with the American
flier's wishes. Soviet authorities
would not say exactly when they
were expected. The American EN-
bassy officially was unaware of the
Lindberghs' visit, but it was re-
ported Lieutenant Colonel Philip
TraymOnville, military attache,
would meet the visitors and intro
duce them to Soviet air officials.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
.O'Neal Asks
Bounty
For arn1ers

Greenville, N c., Aug. IL (AP)--
Edward O'Neal, president of the Ame-
rican Farm Bureau Federation, told
North Carolina farmers today that the
federal government should spend 81
5OOOOOOOO annually to raise farm IN
come.
O'Neal, in an address prepared for
delivery at the annual North Carolina
Farm Bureau meeting here, attended
by several thousand members and
visitors, attacked the protective sys
tenn which allows manufacturers TO
sell goods at American prices, but
makes farmers sell their produce at
world prices.
eff the actual cost Of the American
protective system could be figured out,
it would run to about S3,00O,OOOOC
annually and the farmers pay the big
share of it" said O'Neal. II believe the
only fair thing for the government
to do is to reimburse the farmers for
what an artificially maintained i'm
dustrial price level costs them. am
CONTINUED on Page Eight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Hoey Wires
To
Visit State
Wants "Wrong Way"
Filler To See Kill
Devil Hill and Lost
Colony Site

Raleigh, Aug. 17.-(AP)-Governor
Hoey telegraphed Douglas Corrigan
today, inviting the famous flier to
visit Kill Devil Hill, the birthplace OF
aviation, and the site of the first Eng
lish settlement in America, whose
leaders perhaps "had compass trouble"
which resulted in the disappearance
of the Lost Colony The governor sent
the invitation to Corrigan at Buffalo.
N. Y.
''I extend most cordial invitation to
visit this State" said Hoey, "espe-
cially Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hill,
the birthplace of aviation in America,
where the Wright brothers made their
first right-way flight; also Roanoke
Island, where Sir Walter Raleigh's
colony from England established first
settlement in North Carolina 351 years
ago. This colony later disappeared and
has gone down>in history as the Lost
Colony Perhaps it's leaders had com
pass trouble similar to yours, and you
can help us find out where they went
on their wrong way trip. You can be
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Spanish Rebels Cast Lot
With Italy And Germany
Hopes of Britain and France for Withdrawal of
Foreign Soldiers in Civil War Appeal Dashed;
Insurgent Note Virtually Is Refusal of British
Plan.

Paris, Aug. 7-(AP)-Spanish in
surgents were reported today de-
finitely to have cast their lot with
Italy and Germany, perhaps thereby
ending hopes of Great Britain and
France to withdraw foreign volun-
teers from the civil war.
While Insurgent General Francois
answer to the British plans for send
ing foreign fighters home from Spain
remained a secret, insurgent infor-
mants in Paris predicted it's terms
may mean the end of the cherished
non-interventfon scheme, designed to
halt "Europe's little world war;"
The Spanish Barcelona government
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17

timony by II. L. Chaillaux, American
Legion official, concerning commun-
istic activities in the United States.
Smythc, who said he was vice
president ofsthe American League for
Democracy and Peace, was the first
of eight named to comment on Chail-
laux's statements.
1T is a matter of common know
ledge" said .Smythe," that our organ
ization is not communistic, and our
records are always available for
proof"
Meanwhile addition of Senator Tyd
ings, Democrat, Maryland, and Rep
resentative OConnor, Democrat, New
York, to President Roosevelts "per
sonal purge list" left capital politi-
clans wondering whether he would
denounce other nti-administrat;on
congressman.
Speculation conferred mainly on
Senator Smith, Democrat, South Caro-
lima. as
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Dewey Says
Hines In On
Defendant Charged
With "Political Pro-
lection" of Big-Money
Rackets

New York, Aug. 17.-(AP)-District
Attorney Thomas Dewey today told
"blue ribbon jury that the notorious
Dutch Schultz mob advertised to the
underworld that James j. Hines, pow
erful Tammany district leader. was
political protector of the multi-million
dollar policy racket.
Dewey charged that Hines was pre-
sent with Abraham (Bo) Weinberg, a
Schultz mobster, in 1882 at meeting
in which the Schultz gang laid plans
to "take over" the policy racket, then
unorganized.
The prosecutor said J. Richard
s'Dixie" Davis known as the "kid
mouthpiece" of the Schultz gang, who
has pleaded guilty and turned States
evidence in the present trial, was also
present at the meeting.
"By the use of gunner, beatings
and murder, Schultz took over con-
troll of the business" Dewey said. "Its
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17
Temperatures
Go Higher In
No. Carolina
(By The Associated Press)

Old Sol rode the Carolinas today
from the mountains to the sea as the
mercury flirted with the top of the
tube and people sweltered.
Nor was there much sOiace in the
weather mans charts. He saw pos
sjble thundershowers late this after
room and tomorrow. for the north
central section of North Carolina,
with the same reading for the South
Carolina coast, but he admitted they
would not stop Old Sol dead in his
tracks.
Charlotte, with so degrees at noon
today, and top tier humidity, was hot
on the heels of the 81 registered in
mid afternoon yesterday.
A heavy shower joined a thunder
storm to cool things off at Whining
ton last night, but the temperature
was 81 at noon today, against yes
terday's 80.
The noon reading of "a on the
Weather Bureau thermometers at Ra-
leigh was one degree higher than at
that hour yesterday. A years high Of
SO was set at Raleigh at 4 o'clock yes
terday.
Greensboro's temperature was 90
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-17

on July % accepted the plan which
provides for a census of the volun-
teers, and then proportionate. with
drawals from each SIDE.
InSurgent sources here expressed
the belief the insurgent note given to
Britains representative yesterday
would raise SO many technical objec-
tions to the London plan that the re-
ply might as well be an out-and out
mo"
The Spanish government, mean
while, came out of a ministerial crisis
apparently stronger than before, with
Premier Negrin firmly in control of
all factors and pledged to fight the
conflict to the end.