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The Washington times., 1938-08-06

MACKLIN- P E EARN E-Miss
Jean Macklin, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Justin w. Macklin, to
John F.. Pearne, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Irvina F. Pearne, of Los
Angeles. The wedding will take
place in December.
HAYWOOD q Gu S-M Miss
Barbara Elizabeth Haywood,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Adelbert Haywood, to Mr.. Mi
chael j. Jucius, Of Columbus,
Ohio, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ste
phen Jucius, of Chicago, Ill. The
wedding will take place late
this month.
ENNE P I E r c E-MiSS
Florence Bennett, daughter of
former Representative and Mrs.
William Stiles Bennett, to Mr..
Allin Hugh Pierce, of New York,
son of Mrs. Charles s. Pierce, Of
Fort Dodge, Iowa. The wedding
will take place this month.
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BABCOCK-K ENY N-Miss
Rosemary Babcock, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Bah
cock, to Mr.. Lawrence GUnnell
Kenyon, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowland Kenyon, of Vienna,
Va. The wedding will take
place the last Of this month.
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Mrs. c. F. Denleu
To Be Hostess

Mrs. Charles F. Denley, of
Glenmont, Md, will be hostess
to members of the Chevy Chase
Garden Club Monday morning
at 1890 o'clock at her home.
Mrs. Alton Tisdel and Mrs. AL
fred c. Fisher will assist the
hostess.
The program will include q
resume of the gardens visited
by the members of the club dur.
ing the summer. Mrs. Lawrence
e. voorhees, will tell of her visit
to Yellowstone National Park,
and Mrs. j. E. Fitzgerald will
tell of visiting lily gardens in
New York State.
After the meeting there will
be a tour Of Mrs. Denley's white
pheasant and white peacock
farm,
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ErQaQeme11tS of the Week

STONE-DORN-Miss Florence
Elizabeth Stone, daughter of
Mrs. Alta Stone, to Mr.. Walter
Carl Dorm, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph Dorm, Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The marriage will take place on
September 4.
PARROTT- -COXEN- Miss
Frances Malinda Parrott, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John C.
Parrott, to Mr.. Everett Brough-
ton Coxen, son Of Mrs. Joseph
inc Coxen and the late Mr..
James T. Coxen, Of Arlington,
Va. The wedding will take place
in the fall.
SWINNEY- BURNS-MiSS
Dorothy Swinney, daughter Of
the Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Dean
Swinney, of Kingman, Kan, to
Mr.. James David Burns. The
wedding will take place Septem-
ber 4 in Kingman.
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ALLEN -LONG-MiSs Lydia
Ann Kimbrough Allen, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Claxton Ed
monds Allen, of st. Louis, Mo-,
to Mr.. Isaac Adelbert Long. son
of Mr.. Isaac T. Long, of Hern-
don, Va. The wedding will take
place October ! in st. Louis.
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Among Those Present.

French, Spanish and history in
a high school there =. came
to Washington as a bride
husband dean Of Columbian
College, George Washington
University her family is
her greatest hobby has three
children, Henry Grattan, jr., .
junior at Harvard Marian,
a junior at Radcliffe and Rob
ert, a sophomore at George
Washington University loves
to crochet has just COM
pleted a lovely bedspread :.
makes all her clothes and de-
signs them to suit her individu-
al personality her favOrite
flower is the rose and her IA
vOrite songs are ballads
pOssesSOr Of the most charming
cultured voice. is slim, DARK.
haired and has sparkling brown
eyes has Travelled q great
deal in the South when direc-
tor of the National League Of
Women Voters is q former
president of the VOteIesS Dis
trict of Columbia League Of
Women Voters recently ap-
pointed to Advisory Committee
Of New York 1899 World Fair
Is also D member of the
Board Of the Washington Self
Help Exchange Board Of In
structing Visiting Nurses AsSO-
citation and the Board Of tho
Congress of Parents and Teach
erS.
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Visits Mother in Santiago

Sonora de Guachala expected to return Washing
ton until next winter and it highly probable the minister
will join her later in the south and with her. In the
meantime she visiting her mother Sonora de Gana in San
tago Chile where she has host of friends Santiago being
her girlhood home.
To while away the week-ends DR.. Guachala and
Senor de Medina seeing America first spending the
days various types of resorts selecting first mountain
rendezvous and then the seasor They have visited Re-
hoboth several times and recently dd" the Skyline Drive
Other seaside resorts they have visited Atlantic City
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BrideS-eleCt
Are HOnOred

Miss Eleanor Quirk, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Quirk,
entertained at a luncheon to-
day at her parents residence
in honor of five brides-elect.
Her honor guests included
Virginia Webb, whose marriage
to Robert C. Ruark will take
place next Friday; Muriel
James, who will become the
bride of Carlton Wahl on Sep
tember 3; Martha Shields, who
will be married to Marshall Os-
born; Constance Nash. whose
engagement to Edward Gibbs
was recently announced, and
Dorothy Hobbs, who will be-
come the wife of Richard
Maurer.
Miss Quirk will be a brides
maid in both Miss Webb'S and
Miss James nuptialS.
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FOMDR. and Mrs. Henry "SI"
~ Seller, who were so well
liked during their tour of duty
in Washington, are now both in
Shanghai. Commander Seller
was sent to China several
months before Mrs. Betty" Sell
Ter could book her passage out
there. However, we received
a letter from Betty, yesterday,
mailed from Shanghai on June
80 and it was so filled with in
tereSt and paragraphs to do
with persons known in Washing
ton, we are printing it here as
follows:
Dear Peter Carter:
AFTER watching many moons
shed their light upon the world,
at long last I stepped on the
gang plank of the S. S. Presi-
dent Coolidge, that lovely float
ing hotel. There, directly ahead
of me, were Mary and Francis
Cox returning to Shanghai and
a few moments later there was
Comdr. Frank "Obbie" O'Brien
sailing TO join his own ship. It
was really funny. I had planned
a lonely trip and instead found
Washington friends. This is a
wonderful city-a magic city.
"You say open sesame and
the wonders of the Orient ap-
pear before your greedy eyes.
The refugees scramble through
the city. One can hardly walk
for they seem to be everywhere
like the proverbial penny. There
are many cooking stands along
the streets where these refugees
eat Steaming noodles and green
vegetables and also a certain
kind of bread that resembles
our own old Virginia corn pone.
"Quite few of the diplomatic
crowd have arrived here from
Nanking, so it really seems like
Washington! I feel sure that
time will glide by like beads on
a silken string, and who knows,
in the near future we may be
having a talkfest at some tea in
Washington. Here's hoping,
My best to you.
BETTY SELLER"
MRS. WALTER RE1DEL. at
U1 tractive wife of Comdr.
Walter "Froggie" Reidel, and
Peggy to her friends, is noted for
her unique and always delight
full parties. When the Reidels
were on the West Coast, Peggy
gave one particular party, a cos
tune affair, which went down
in history. 1t was that good.
Since Peggy's return to Wash
ington for duty, she has been
planning one of these parties,
but this and that has always
interfered with her plans. So,
the other day, she decided to
have a small luncheon, for her
own pleasure. Well, there were
% guests!
The luncheon was served in
the private room at Pierre'S, the
long table was nearly hidden
with pastel shaded flowers, the
food was perfect and Peggy, who
is invariably the last word in
smartness, wore a tiny brimmed
hat of Dubonnet straw, which
we Immediately coveted. After
a dozen compliments on this
same hat, Peggy admitted that
she almost didn't wear it and
only did, finally, because it was
the lightest and the tiniest hat
she possessed and-she was
really in the mood that hot day
to wear none at all!
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7 IEUT. COMDR. and Mrs. Jen-
~ nings Dow are another very,
very charming couple who are
on duty in Washington. Mrs.
Dow is tiny, dainty person who
would remind one of a Dresden
doll, with one exception, she is
too vivacious and sparkling.
Mrs. Dow is also the kind Of per-
son who likes change, especially
in her apartments. In other
words she likes to move and
every time she moves it is to a
larger apartment.
There is an amusing story
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UmH.zavY-nzazins Oo4oN
Society IodA1o
BV Peter Carter

RETTY BALSLEY, pretty daughter of Comdr and Mrs
- Henry Balsley is everyone knows from recent
nouncements engaged nice Lieut. 'Bud" Hines Back of
this engagement is bit of interesting story If you
remember Betty Balsley in the yearly and famous
the rehearsas for the last one Betty who is excellent
horsewoman doing difficult routine when suddenly
her horse and the horse of Of the young euenans col
lided throwing Betty for nasty fall. Well, the young
lieutenant Lieut. Bud" Hines, who up to that
had been introduced to pretty Betty So it just
goes show that knows just where romance with
hi0 r nipbt ho md watt
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

Alton so P.
Villa, of New
York and Italy,
a n d Bobby"
Grant, son of
the R o b er t
Grants, jr., Of
Jericho, L. l.,
will tie the knot
IN i m j."
who was one
of New York
and Newport's
out s t a nding
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Pianist TO PlQu
At Tea

Miss Catherine Murray, we'll
known Washington pianist. will
entertain members of the Wash.
ington Branch, American Associ.
alton of University Women, with
classical selections at theiS
weekly tea Monday at 4::3O p. m.
in the clubhouse, 1884 Eye
N. w.
Miss Loretta Cunningham will
be hostess, with Mrs. L. M. Full
Ter in charge Of the program.
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Enter tainS
AtLunCheOn

Mrs. William Braun, wife of
Lieutenant Braun, U. S. NJ, en-
tertained at a luncheon yester-
day in honor of Mrs. Louis
Combs, wife of Commander
Combs, and the latter's niece,
Miss Katherine Sheldon of New
York, who is visiting in Wash
ington.
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Mrs. j. Lawn Thompson is
visiting her brother-in-law and
sister, Senator and Mrs. Angus
tine Lonergan, at Black Point,
Conn.
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connected with Mrs. Dow's last
moving venture and one which
she tells on herself. 1t seems
that in her apartment building
there was suddenly a very large
and desirable apartment left va
cant. Mrs. Dow was the first
person to learn of this. Promptly
she ordered the movers in and
supervised the changing Of her
possessions from one apartment
and floor to another. Then she
retired to a Supremely satisfied
nights sleep. Meanwhile, Com
mander Dow, who had departed
two days before on business, re-
turned to his apartment and
saw nothing but empty space.
Not believing that Mrs. Dow
and the furniture could have
vanished into nothingneSS, he
considered every angle of the sit
uation and finally went down to
the apartment desk.
II wonder" began Command
er Dow, somewhat apologeti-
cally, "but could you tell me
where my wife has gomez"
Of course they could and did,
but the Commander has made
one request for the future, that
Mrs. Dow will leave a note
pinned on the door, in case she
moves once more during his ab-
Sence.
DEITY BOSCHEN, lovely
II blond daughter of Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Frederick Boschen, is
a most energetic little person,
Not content with working Sc
riously at her portrait painting,
she has now decided to learn all
about silver and it's carving and
what not. Consequently, Betty
is studying with a master Of this
art. And this might interest
you, one of the silver carved
ash trays which Betty knows
now so well how to do, sells for
the sum of $35.
MRS. KARL PEDAN, wife of
NA Lieutenant Pedan, will
soon be leaving this town to go
to the West Coast to join her
husband who is on duty there.
Meanwhile she is being enter
tanned at many parties and look
ing charmingly pretty at all of
them. Recently, at one of them,
she wore a gorgeous mandarin
coat, which practically swept
the floor and fastened tightly
under her chin. Nicely enough,
the coat was the exact shade
of blue as Mrs. Pedan'S eyes and
the whole thing was tremen-
dously effective.
CLAUDE HYDRICK, son of
" Colonel and Mrs. Owen
Hydrick, is recuperating and
rapidly, from a little argument
with his horse, in which the
horse insisted upon going one
way and Claude another. The
horse won. Claude, who is on
the football team at the Florida
Military Academy Institute, is
determined to keep in trim for
next winters games, with the
result, and despite the heat, he
gives his days over to golf, rid
ing, tennis, swimming and nat
urally, a bit of dancing.
RS. DALLAS VAIN
V1 WRIGHT, lovely wife + Of
Captain Wainwright, U. S. NJ,
is one of those clever people
who are at all times extremely
chic. Recently, out at the Shore
ham Terrace, Mrs. Wainwright
was wearing one of those cling
ing, heavy white crepe gowns
with the low square neck held
up by slender black, velvet rib
bons on the shoulders and one
single white flower in her dark
hair. She was a picture Of how
all of us would like to look and
seldom do!
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Bohuia1s Celebrate Independence Today Xxx
Senora de GuachalIa Is In Chile
= For Several Months. Minister
Taking Weekend Trips
By Flora Macdonald

Today is the hundred and thirteenth anniversary of
the independence of Bolivia No elaborate celebration
planned by the minister Senior Dr. Don Luis Fernando Qua
chaa for there too few Bovans in the Capital say
nothing of the scarcity of other diplomats and partygoers
here to get together any kind of zabe gathering
Dr. Guachaa and the secretary of the legation Senor Don
Raul Dez de Medina keeping bachelor quarters these
months for the minister's wife, pretty little brown
eyed Sonora de Guachaa left in May for visit in South
Ame
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
Dinner Hosts

Brigadier-General and Mrs.
Raymond F. Metcalfe, U. S. A.,
were the ranking guests at a
dinner given last evening at the
Shoreham Terrace by Captain
and Mrs. w. Hinton Drummond
U. s. A.
Mrs. William B. Rayner, Of
Wardman Park Hotel, is max
ing an extended visit in West
Harwich, Mass. Mrs. Rayner re-
Gently had her son and daughter
m-law, Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Ray
ner of Florida, visiting her, and
they are now spending some
time in Bermuda.
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Honor Guest

Mrs. Unger c. Murnan, jr,
was feted on her birthday ami
versary at a dinner party given
for her last evening by her hus-
band, on the Shoreham Terrace.
Other guests were Mr.. Unger C.
Murnan, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
riS Servator, Miss Beulah Muir
nan, Miss Dolly Murnan, Mr..
Spaulding Marsh and Mr.. Ken
meth Smith.
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Mrs. Charles Wickham Jones,
of the Broadmoor, is stopping at
the Hotel Commodore in New
York city with Mr.. and Mrs.
George S. Koch, of Schenectady.
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On Cape Cod

Mrs. Mahlon Pitney of Wash
ington has concluded a visit
with her sister, Miss Helen Shell
ton, of Morristown, N. j., and
now is visiting friends at Oster-
vile, Cape Cod.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Sterian, of
New York City, are at Ward
man Park Hotel for the dura-
tion of their stay in Washing
ton. Miss j. Stefania Enaceanu,
who accompanied them here,
Is with them during their So
journ.
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Returns TODAY

Commissioner G gorge E.
Allen, who has been on the
West Coast, will return to Wash
ington today and join Mrs. Allen
in their apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel. Mrs. Allen returned
to Washington recently from
Cape May, N. j., where she has
been visiting for a short time.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 6.

The big day in Newport will be
August 20, when Elena Villa,
daughter Of Count and Countess
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
Many in September

There are few national holi-
days in August, but, in Septem-
ber, a parade of them begins,
with Brazil's independence day
falling on the seventh; Guate-
mala, Nicaragua, Honduras,
Costa Rica, and Ell Salvador
celebrating on September Is;
Mexico on September 16, and
Chile on the eighteenth. BY
then numerous sojourners will
have returned to Washington,
and the urge to give and go to
parties will again be in full
swing.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

MRS. HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE
MRS. HENRY GRATTAN
AVA DOYLE, president of the
Board of Education one of
the HveIieSt clubwOmen in the
District of Columbia was
born at Cambridge, Mass. =.
graduated from Radcliffe Col
lege, then taught school in her
native city was teacher Of
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

and Ocean City.
Senor de Medina claims to be
practically Washingtonian,"
for he has been stationed here
for 10 years. In that length of
time he has come to know the
United States extremely well
through extensive travel.
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
FOUR SCHOOLS
ASK ADDITIONS
PWA Gives S694,505 For A. /.
DUPONT, RehObOth, Do
yer and Camden
DOVER TO VOTE TO-DAY

Four school districts expect to
engage in a 81 ,294 ,401 school build
ing program this winter with $694,-
sos granted by the Public Works
Administration. Rehoboth Beach
plans a S209,9O0 PROTECT with an
outright PWA grant of $y50, ,905.
Dover contemplates S445, sol pro-
gram for the construction of an
elementary school, repairs to the
present high school and combined
school and community library. The
PWA has promised grant of 45
per cent of the total cost of build
ing and equipment. The Board of
Education of the Caesar Rodney
School serving Camden and Wyom-
ing districts, is advocating a $685.
900 school annex, with PWA
grant of $4,000. The Alexis l. du-
Pont School on the Kennett Pike,
near Wilmington, has plans for a
two-story basement fireproof addi-
tion to cost about S350,000 with a
PWA grant of As per cent of the
cost. In each instance, the four
school districts plan to issue bonds
to provide their share of the costs.
Also in each instance, the proposed
projects answer needs that have
been increasingly felt in the past
few years because of overcrowded
conditions and the requirements
for expansion in school activities.
Dover citizens will go to the polls
to-day Thursday September 8, to
vote on a proposed bond issue for
S250,0O0. Fifteen years ago, the
present Dover school was built for
an enrolment Of 450 pupils. But
the enrolment grew in that decade
and a half to the point where last
year 1,060 pupils were crowded
into the same school building.
Glass rooms originally intended for
25 students now house so. Every
has felt the pinch of
inadequate space. Even the cafe
terra has been used for a class
room.
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
STATE SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
Act With Ordinary Common
Sense When Driving
Your Automobile
LESSEN ACCIDENTS

According to the Delaware Safe
ty Council, the alarming toll of IA
talities taken by automobile traffic
each year will shring to compara-
lively small proportions if anyone
ever discovers some device which
will make human beings act IN
their automobiles just as they act
when they are walking. Anyone
who doubts that statement is in
vited to consider the strange
change that comes over the aver
age American as soon as he gets
behind the wheel of his car. On
foot, the American is usually
genial good-natured more or less
leisurely sort of chap. He would
like to walk on a sidewalk that
isn't crowded, but that isn't always
possible and he makes the best Of
it. When he has to walk through
a crowd he takes his time at 1t and
makes due allowance for the feel
ings of others. Unless he has
some special reason for being in
great hurry, he doesn't jostel and
push and strain every nerve to get
ahead of everybody else.
Set him to driving an automo-
bile, however, and a great trans
formation seizes him. Instead OF
taking his time he gets in life
and-death hurry. He will cheer
fully risk his neck to gain a ten
second advantage, and when an
other car passes him he sees red.
His consideration for others van
ishes and he wants with all of his
soul to be at the head of the pro-
cession and ia stay there.
In consequence, the traffic stream
on an American highway often re-
sembles a procession Of irritated
Iunatics. The driver who cheer
fully gives way to another is the
rare exception and the driver who
goes along leisurely gets cursed
from every side. All of this not
only takes a lot of fun out of driv-
ing but it also makes traffic the
dangerous thing that it is.
Some way must be found to in
duce ourselves to act with ordin-
ary human courtesy and common
sense while we are driving our
automobiles. Safety in driving af-
ter all, is largely matter of court
esy and common sense. In most
fields Americans exhibit these two
qualities in quite satisfactory
quantities. Why is it that we
tend to shed one or both of them
when we go driving?
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
BROTHERS IN FIGHT, DOVER
One Stabs the Other After Their
Mother is Abused

Thomas Laws, Negro, 30, is in
Kent General Hospital, Dover, suf-
fering from two stab wounds, one
near the heart and the other on the
shoulder, alleged to have been in
hicted by younger brother, AL
fred. The elder Laws lives near
Middletown. He came to Dover
Saturday and on going to the home
Of his mother, is said to have
abused her. The younger brother,
Alfred, ran to the aid of his moth
er. The elder Laws left the home
later and had gotten near Nissin's
store when Alfred is said to have
stabbed him twice. Alfred is in
the Kent County jail awaiting the
developments of his brothers in
Juries. A warrant was also issued
Tor the elder Laws on a charge of
assault and battery on his mother.
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
FIRE NEAR HARRINGTON
Family of Five Lose All Their Pos
sessions in Blaze

Nearly all Of the possessions of
family Of five, including $50 in
cash, were destroyed in fire
which razed their farm home near
Harrington early Thursday morn
ing. The family was that of Mr..
and Mrs. Morley Calvert, living on
the Stephen Porter farm, 13 miles
from Harrington. They have three
children, two girls and a boy, rang
ing in ages up to 16. Awakened
by smoke about o'clock in the
morning, the parents discovered
the home was afire and led the
Smyrna times., 1938-09-08
FIGHTS FACE
REPUBLICANS
Leaders Hopeful Contests
Will Be Settled Before
September 10th
MEETING AT REHOBOTH

Less than ten contests in the
state were in prospect for the cleo
ton of delegates to the Republican
convention with time still remain
ing for elimination of the contests
before the election on Saturday,
September 10. ''The election in
Wilmington and rural New Castle
County will be harmonious and
without a contest" Recorder of
Deeds Albert Stetser, chairman Of
the New Castle County Republican
Committee, said last week follow
ing the deadline for filing. The
lone contest in Kent County is in
the first election district (Leipsic
area of the Second Representative
District in which two delegates and
two alternates are to be elected.
The candidates for delegates are
Armstrong B. Cullen, Robert w.
Davis, and James G. Richardson.
The candidates for alternates lined
Up with them, respectively, are
Lewis D. Learned, Jr., Samuel B.
Richardson, and jefferson Cooper.
In Sussex County, it was indi-
Gated following the meeting of the
Sussex County Committee in Re-
hoboth Beach last week, there may
be seven contests.
Wilmington will elect 40 deie-
gates and alternates, rural New
Castle County, SO; Kent County,
40, and Sussex County, AZ.
The Sussex County committee
did not pass upon the qualifications
Of the candidates for delegates, al
ternates, and members of the COM
mittee but named a committee Of
five to investigates the qualifica-
tions of he contenders in he con-
tested districts. and report back to
the chairman and secretary of the
committee The committee ap-
pointed consists of Francis Nor
gan, Bridgeville; Nathaniel n. Con-
oway, Seaford; Benjamin E. Tin
gle, Delmar; Mrs. Ruth Hoch,
Bridgeville, and Chester V. Town
send, Millville. William j. Swain,
committee chairman, presided Af-
ter the list of candidates who had
filled was read, Elwood Wright of
Georgetown, moved for the ap-
pointment Of the five-member COM
mittee to 60 into the contested dis
tricts and investigate the candi-
dates eligibility with the purpose
that all shall be Republicans. I.
Dolphus Short of Milford, while in
Rehoboth, did not attend the meet
ing.
The delegates and alternates VINO
filed from New Castle County will
not be announced until the execu-
tive committee passes upon their
eligibility
The committee at the same time
will decide upon the polling places
for the election and upon the clerks
who will be assigned to them.