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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
DEATH OF
MRS. T. ]. STEVENSON

Mrs. Caroline H., wife of t. J.
Stevenson, a prominent merchant
of Dover, died Sunday morning at
4 o'clock at her residence on Brad
ford street. The deceased was
born in Caroline county, Md. and
her maiden name was Sparklan.
She has been prominent in relig-
ious and charitable associations of
Dover for years and has been con-
nected with the choir of the NJ. E.
Church for over 80 years, beng
leader for at least 20 years. She
has been subject to heart afflicticn
for years and this in connection
with a paralytic stroke received a
week ago caused her death. She
was 81 years of age. Her remains
were inferred in Silver Lake GEM
etery yesterday afternoon.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

where between the speeds of eight
and eighty miles an hour there is
a happy medium.
1t is not the intention of tpa
Council to advocate any fixed
speed as top limit. There are
times, as in heavy traffic or heavy
fog, when 80 miles an hour is sui
cidal; other times when so miles
an hour seems reasonable. Every
driver should know, however, that
if he does have an accident it IS
more likely to mean death if ne Is
going too fast.
The year 1887 saw an improve
ment in both cars and highways
as well as a better quality of law
enforcement. We also saw traffic
deaths rise to another all-time
high. Engineering and law en-
forcment alone will not check the
slaughter. Sensible driving ana
walking will check it.
The Delaware Safety Council
carries a plea to every individual
for sanity and courtesy on the
highways, to the end that the
automobile may remain one Of
mans greatest blessings not be-
come mans greatest curse.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
COURT SETS ASIDE
w. FRANK JEFFERSON SAIL

w. fNA1Nh JET bfLoOIN SALE
The rule of w. Frank Jefferson
to set aside the Sheriff's sale of his
hotel and other property in Smyr-
ma. was taken up in court on Wed
nesday, and six witnesses on each
side heard as to the value o. the
property sold for S6,6OU, and the
other at $3.50. jefferson & Clay
ton paid for the same property in
1885, S11, 985, and have spent, they
claim, $4,000 on it in the way Of
buildings. The Court set the JEFF
ferson sale aside on the ground Of
insufficient description in the aG-
vertisement; announcing that it
had been the uniform practice TO
follow in the Levari Facias the de-
scription of the mortgage, other
wise the property could be chop
ped up to suit the officers. The
property will be sold again be-
tween now and the next term Of
court.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

Supervisor of Examinations In
Newark by May rs, and the exam
nations will be given sometime in
June in Wilmington, Dover, and
Georgetown. There are twenty
eight separate positions, for many
of which more than one appoint
ment must be made. Applicants
must be citizens of the United
States and should have been resi-
dents of the State of Delaware for
at least two years. The ADVISORY
Committee consists of ]. Russell
Craig, chairman; Charles L. Har-
monson, and Merrill King, but all
communications should be address,
ed to the Supervisor of Examina-
tions in Newark.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
TO ADD
10 FIELD MEN
T. M. Gooden Appointed For
Upper Kent, Cliff Jones,
Lower New Castle
OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment of ten field advisers
of the Unemployment Compensa-
ton Commission to their respective
districts, covering the entire State,
has been completed, DR.. Charles
M. Wharton, executive director,
announced last week The three
counties have been divided into dis
tricts for the purpose of expecting
activities of the field advisers and
to serve better the needs of en-
ployers. In existence slightly over
a year, the States unemployment
compensation law covers some A.
800 employers and provides protec-
ton for more than 10000 workers,
with more being added daily as
work of the field advisers pro-
crosses. Although this protection
does not become available until
payment of benefits begins in jan
uary 1882, DR.. Wharton said,
workers now employed by subject
employers are protected against
future periods of unemployment
and are obtaining credits to be
used as basis for benefits in case
of future unemployment. Workers
know if they are working for a
subject employer, because all en-
ployers liable for contributions and
complying with the law, have pla-
cards from the commission which
they are required to post where
they may be seen by their work
ers." DR.. Wharton outlined the
chief duties of the field advisers as
follows:
ID to examine payroll records
Of contributing employers to de-
termine their liability for contribu-
tions to the unemployment fund;
C2) to contact new employers
to determine their liability for con-
tributions to the unemployment
fund;
90 to assist employers in every
way possible in general compliance
with the law, to give advice and
assistance in the preparation Of re-
ports and other official forms re-
quired by the commission;
az to obtain information for
the commission to aid in making
interpretations of the law and rul-
ings to determine if certain en-
ployment is covered by the law.
The assignments are as follows:
District No. ! (Wilmington) w.
G. Mcclure, E. f. Locates, I. H.
Brinton, ]. H. DeVries;
District No. 2 (Northern New
Castle County,: G. r. Bennett;
District No. 3 (Southern New Cas-
tie County,: Clifford Jones; Dis
trict No. 4 Northern Kent Coun-
ty): t. M. Gooden; District No. 5
(Southern Kent County,: w. II.
Poore; District No. Northern
Sussex County,: Solomon Baker;
District No. Z (Southern Sussex
County,: w. F. Logendyke.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

giving it a very different appear
ance from the present structure.
No very material changes we I'M
derstand, are to be made in the in
terror arrangements.
The Tanager bird, with its clear
but plaintive notes, returned to us
again on Sunday. This will make
the sixth successive summer that
this bird, apparently alone, has
taken up its summer residence in
Smyrna. 1t usually makes its
home in the depths of the forest,
and is rarely found in the abodes
of men. 1t is small, of scarlet
color, and is seen only in the tops
of trees remaining only two or
three minutes in one place, and
during the day takes in the circuit
of the town several times. For the
first time, there appears to be two
of them this year.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
FOREST FIRES ARE REDUCED
Uncle Sam Praises Motorists AS
Forest Fires Decline Sharply

Motorists who camp, picnic and
travel in the National Forests were
given high praise when Uncle Sam
found this year that the toll of
fires in these great preserves has
been practically cut in half, ac-
cording to L. r. Lewis, president of
Delaware Motor Club AAA. Our
ing the first nine months Of this
year, only Sal fires were caused
in the national forests by careless
ness as compared with $500 fires
in the same period of last year"
Mr.. Lewis said Further, the
burned acreage resulting from
man-caused fires this year is 20
per cent below the average for the
past five years. Uncle Sam,
through his Forest Service, says
that while this years fire season
has been easier" the reduction in
the number of man-caused fires IS
nevertheless encouraging and for
esters are hopeful that the drop in
such fires indicates a definite trend
on the part of the American pub
Ii cto exercise greater care with
fire in the woods. THE fact that
the travelling public is exercising
greater care with fire is further in
Dictated by the relatively small in
crease in the number of man-caus-
ed fires in recent years in spite of
the fact that the number of camp
ers, picnickers and passing visit
ors in the National Forests has in
creased more than times in the
last 10 years. The A.A.A. and its
clubs cooperate in the fire proven
ton campaign by issuing warnings
to motorists against throwing
lighted matches, cigars and cigar
cites from their cars while travel
ing through forest areas and by
giving instruction in proper hand
ling of camp fires to avoid the
danger of spreading the fire"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
Accident Problems Laid to
Too Much Speed and Lack
of Courtesy
PLEA MADE FOR SANITY

Millions of words have been writ
ten and spoken during the past
year about the cause of America
tragic automobile accident prob
lem. Boiled down, they amount TO
this: Too much speed; Too little
Courtesy.
The Delaware Safety Council
contends that there is a safe speed
for any driving conditions. Often
there is a lower limit below which
the motorist cannot go without
impeding the normal flow of traffic
and affecting its safety; always
there is a top limit beyond which
he cannot venture with any assur-
ance that he will stay alive. Some
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
ROADSIDE Beauty Prizes Iii

Improvement il the s1,s,
Of highway properties i th.t
Of a contest being spunarst
Active Roadside Commits
Beautifcation Of the Hi,
Three prizes of SIS each ujl
tional flag will be awsNsjr
ter part Of July for The be-
farm and garden, The wI
neatest garden and the nx !
full and attractive MAKE
committee has announced. /
ming sites must all BE u
signboards of any kind e1z
the kind and quality Of Gas i
the gas stations Mrs. R,
dupont, Mrs. Irene dgPn
Mrs. Henry B. Thon2E
members of the DelaTge a
tee, affiliated with The MI
Committee for Beautifcs.n
mer-Gov. Robert P. Rat-g |
be judge. Prizes are 1t M
to the same place in tT'1s1
tive wears.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
DEATHS

Lofand In Dover, May 1st, Eliz-
abeth Lofiand, aged SO years.
Shanhan-Near Cheswold, April
80, William Shahan, aged 81 years.
Smith In Wilmington, Md, May
5th, Margaret r. Smith, wife of T.
j. F. Smith. Interment in Milling
ton Cemetery, on Tuesday, May 8.
Services by her pastor R.K. Steph-
enson. Deceased was a daughter
of the late Thomas LAMB, near
Blackstone Church, and was wide
ly and favorably known.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
DUCK CREEK APPROPRIATED
$4,000

The congressional appropriation
Of $4,000 for the Improvement Of
the navigation of Duck Creek has
passed the greatest point of dang
er flor no fear has been expressed
in regard to its passage of the
Senate) the bill including it, and
amounting in all to nearly S20,-
100000 having passed the House
on Monday by a vote of 161 to SO.
There Is always trepidition in the
final hours in such a bill by the in
terested parties lest they be left
fContinued cp Page Sikh
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
POSITIONS UNDER THE U. G. G.
Chas. w. Bush, Supervisor of Elk
neutrality-suspicious. May rs

Announcements of merit exam
nations for positions in the Unem-
ployment Compensation Commits
sion were mailed out last week to
post offices, libraries, and other
public places in the state giving
information in regard to the posi-
tions to be filed, the salaries, and
when and where applications are
Post Office Box 1888 in Newark, IS
Supervisor of Examinations unoer
the direction of an Advisory Com
mittee on Personnel. and the an
nouncements state that application
blanks and other information may
be procured by writing to him. APP
plications must be filed with the
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
ONLY A PAPER POPPY

Only some paper petals
With two leaves of paper, too
Only a paper poppy
Does it mean anything more to
you?
The red is for the courage
OF the men who fought and bled
And then came back to spend their
days
In the ranks of the living dead.
The green of the leaves reminds rue
OF the sunny hill sides over the sea
Where rest the war torn bodies
OF those who died that war might
cease to be.
The cup that is formed by the
petals
Covers a heart Of gold
It stands for a labor of love
Whose value can never be told.
Only paper poppy
But it holds the hopes and fears
OF numberless men and their loved
ones
AS they carry on through the
years.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
GRAIN
MARRIAGES

Farlow-Bastian - Near FELTON,,
April 25th, by Rev. E. c.. Macnich-
oil, Richard F. Farlow and Miss
Sarah F. Bastian, both Of this
county.
Godly-Harper- the home of
the brides mother, in Wilmington,
May End, by Rev. L. P. Corkran,
Jesse Cody, DDS, Of Trenton,
N. T., and Miss Laura Harper, for
merly of Dover.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
BeIhaven Hotel. Rehohoth. Sold

The old Belhaven Hotel, at Re
hoboth has been sold at a bank
ruptcy sale by the trustee, Caleb
R. Layton, III, through George
Ash, a Philadelphia lawyer to Pa
paione Brothers, of Philadelphia
who will operate the old hostelry
this summer. The price paid was
$50, 400.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
LIFE pOIIeS|
GROW IN ssH1In||
S7,SOO,OOO paid
fits Durino }, NaSp
: ,i's the "a
of 1897
STATE RANrO
"ANhS FORDJ

Every Every day N 1881 d..
fictaries received : q! ]
~ a69 showing i. ''..
part which life insurs,,.
ng n the economic 4.
state and is comnpst. i |
ing to The Nationsl f..
" weekly insurance De7, -:'a''
: 500 600 total paid l. y |
anee companies 10 Ds!,. y \
dents IN 1897 indicats s,'. I.
yldnal thrift and ndps.,, !
van despite the increass5,
y government leapen- i
nage sum represents 4 3
q y 100000. or 20 pe,,.-
the 1895 total Of ss5 TiIc5 |
1885 total was s6.6Oo la,1 /
ware ranked 4Oth in IT, /
payments among ali rst.,
is 18th in size of poppIsr,
per capita payment I'll
S3o1l compared TO sSl,%.
before Wilmington ii ID
cities in life insurance
in 1887 with S1.829O01 Il Il
to S1,264 900 in 1896. MI
ranked 10th among ali "a
in the country. Dow, -.
in payments in DeIsv,.
$3.50, 900 in 1897 sDd ,,n
1885. seaford came I'M |
ST. 900, followed Nv Co..
S67 900 and Bridgevlle. ms|
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

Since the finishing of the Assuan
dam in Egypt, more than 30 years
ago, a half million additional acres
have been brought under cultiva-
ton.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
SMYRNA DONGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF MAY 9TH, 1888

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column.
now q regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Evening star., 1938-04-29
HUGH M. TATE ILL
I. G. G. Counsel Is Reporte

I. 9. z. Counsel Is Reported
Improved at Home.
Hugh M. Tate, assistant chief coun-
sci of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. is confined to his home. 1921
Macomb street NV, with an attack OF
uremic poisoning.
Stricken last Saturday, it was said
at his home today that he Is much i'm
proved.
Evening star., 1938-04-29
Ex-Governor of Hawaii Holds
V0teless d. e.. America's Shame
Judd, Seeking Status OF
State for Islands, Is
sympathetic.

The voteless District Is America 8
shame, former Gov. Lawrence M. Judd
of Hawaii, the mid-Pacif1c Territory,
which also lacks an effective voice in
the conduct OF Congress, declared to-
day. He is here as the delegate OF
the Hawaii Chamber Of Commerce
to the meeting OF the United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
why should you people Of the
District be subject people without
representations" he asked. "You have
a problem and you have my sympathy.
can say for you, as say3or Hawaii,
that there Is no place under the
American form Of government for a
subject people composed of American
citizens"
Hawaii, of course, has a territorial
status, with q territorial legislature
and a voteless delegate fl Congress
but its desire is statehood. A special
congressional committee visited the
islands last summer and reported
against immediate incorporation of
Hawaii into the United States of
America as the 49th State.
only six foreign countries" ex-
Gov. Judd said, who thinks Hawaii
deserves statehood at once. the
United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Ger
many. France and Italy, spend more
for the products of our country than
the American Territory of Hawaii.
Her mainland purchases are in excess
of those of Cuba, Mexico, Argentina,
Brazil, Russia or China"
Twenty-nine of the 48 States once
Evening star., 1938-04-29
Hail
Continued From First Page)

Good Hope road Sc, also suffered
heavy damage that was tentatively
estimated around $4,000. Three
greenhouses were practically ruined
and the plants inside beaten down.
A freakish incident was reported
near the Library of Congress, where
for minute the hailstones fell with
an intensity not seen elsewhere in
the downtown There the canvas
top of an automobile was virtually
riddled
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips, 1909
North Custis road, Arlington, Va,
amazed at the size of the stones,
rushed out and measured one with a
ruler. She found it an inch in
| diameter
The hailstorm was short-lived, soon
giving way to rain and then to SUM-
shine.
Brief as the precipitation was. how
ever, it drove the temperature down
II degrees-from 78 to 6l-in about
| Is minutes, during which the rainfall
was measured at OIL of an inch.
The Weather Bureau said the rain
! might continue intermittently during
the afternoon, but probably would stop
before nightfall. Tomorrow is sched-
uled to be fair, with moderate tenn
peratures.
The forecaster said the storm was
due to general disturbance moving
northWard over the Eastern section of
the country.
A number of windows in the air.
plane control tower at Boiling Field
were broken by hail. but no damage
to aircraft. military or civil at Local
fields was reported. Two Army planes
from Langley Field, Va, landed al
Boiling just before the storm reached
its height.
Evening star., 1938-04-29
MRS. STILES IS NAMED
AS ASSISTANT TO PINE

Appointment Of Mrs. Grace Brown
Stiles as assistant United States attor-
ney was announced today by United
States Attorney David A. Pine
Mrs. Stiles has been associated with
George P. McCabe, with Offices in the
American Securities Building, ano
since her admission to the bar in 1885
has worked in Government depart.
mental cases.
She received her law degree in June
1888, from the Washington College OF
Law and was admitted to the bar that
fall She said she expects to take over
her new duties as soon as she can clea,
up her present work.
Evening star., 1938-04-29

Earlier in the day presidents of q
State groups pledged themselves to
lend their aid in the hearings
The delegation to st. Louis from
here is headed by Mrs. Louis Often
berg. president of the voteless D. C.
League of Women Voters.
The Washington local of the Social
ist party Endorsed the referendum
from its headquarters, 1902 Fourteenth
street. In statement the organiza-
ton urged all residents of Washing
ton to record their desire to obtain the
most basic Of all political rights
namely, the right to vote. It particu-
larly urges them to cast an impressive
if not unanimous, vote for local self
government
The Communist party will continue
to give support to the suffrage move
ment here through a series of OPEN
air meetings tonight, according to
Martin Chancey, city secretary. The
three meetings at the same hour will
be at Stanton Park. Fourth and c
streets NV; Tenth and U streets
NV, and Delaware avenue and K
streets S.W. Speakers will urge the
need for local self-government.
Grover Ayres. an opponent of suf-
frage for the District, explained his
reasons for objecting to the referen-
dunn plan in series of radio addresses
yesterday over local stations. He urged
his listeners not to vote tomorrow on
the ground that opponents of suf-
frage were not asked to take part in
organizing the referendum and are
not to have any supervision of the
bailoting." He said he would appear
in opposition to the suffrage at the
hearings before the House Judiciary
Committee.
Evening star., 1938-04-29
ABSENTEE VOTES
TO Be RECEIVED
Provision Also Is Made to
Permit InvaIids to Take
Part in Referendum. =

Opportunity for absentees. and in.
valids, to vote in the District suffrage
referendum was offered today by Will
liam H. Mondell, chairman Of the
Election Committee.
Persons who are unable to 20 to the
polls for some unavoidable reason
such as absence from the city, sickness
or other reasons. may make use Of the
sample ballot printed today in The
Star.
They may clip out ballot, mark it
and mail it to the Citizens Conference
on District Suffrage, Denrike Build
ing. 1910 Vermont avenue, Wash
ington, D. c. The ballots may be
signed by the voter. with his name and
address, if he so desires, or it may be
unsigned. The envelope may contain
the voters return address, or no re-
turn address.
Under this system, the mailed bal.
lots will be counted separately, and will
not be confused with the votes cast at
the polls. Later on the result of the
mail ballot will be announced.
Evening star., 1938-04-29
E1'lnsPector
Justifes Quip
AbOutPOstn,a7l

In his off time former Postal In
spector George P. Conway is doing
just what the age-worn quip would
have him do-inspecting postal routes.
Mr.. Conway, who lives at 140l Six
teenth street NV, was retired from
the postal service 10 years ago.
Some 30 years ago it was his duty
to lay out rural delivery route in
Wake County. N. C..
Returning from Florida vacation
recently, Mr.. Coway stopped off in
Wake County to find that the route
he planned is still followed.
Evening star., 1938-04-29

were Territories, ex-Gov. Judd said
each for an average Of 81 years, while
Hawaii has been Territory 80 years
Hawaii, he added, pays more taxes
than each of 19 States.
The former Governor is descended
from one Of the first medical mission
aries who went from the United States
100 years ago to the islands. He is
staying at the Washington Hotel. He
left the governorship in 1894.