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Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
OVERLOOK

Mrs. Wash Mitchell who has been
visiting her daughters and son and
his family all of Wilmington. has re-
turned home on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Campbell
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Lou
is Manship in Harrington.
Mrs. b. Frank Truitt spent last
Tuesday in Philadelphia as the guest
of her daughter. Mrs. Neva Williams.
MIR. and Mrs. Vincent White OF
Lewes spent Sunday evening with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lew
White.
Mrs. John LOhand and Mrs. Sarah
Jefferson and son of Prime Hook
Neck and, Mrs. Paul Vincent OF Mil
ton called on Mrs. Charles Warning
ton Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Lizzie Roach had as her
guests fOrdinner on Sunday Mr. Hen
ry and Reedy Roach OF Lewes. Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Travis from Princess
Anne, Md. Sunday evening Mrs.
Roach entertained Mrs. Jude Glen
daniel and daughter Clara Louis OF
Milton. and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Hobbs OF Georgetown.
Mrs. Lizzie Roach has sold her
farm near Red Mill to Mr.. Beauford
Warrington of Nassau. Mr.. Gelena
Warrington, his son. who has been
living near Georgetown has moved
his family here where he Will en-
gage in farming this coming year.
y. Frank Trultt and Mr.. Thomas
Campbell who have been III are much
better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Legates of
near Milton spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. John Legates and daughter
Edna.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Warrington
are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival OF a bouncing baby boy
weighing 12 pounds. on Saturday. |
March 18th. Charles is stepping |
high and dandy these days, and Is
the nurse.
MIR. Robert G.. Houston Of George
town called ON Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Houston at Vetosa Place Sunday af-
terhoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Donovan and
MIR. and Mrs. Lloyd Tyndal and son
of near Milton spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hastings.
Mr. aud Mrs. John Hitch and Mr..
aud Mrs. Coral Davidson called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rteed az Slaugh-
er Beach Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Emma ElliugswOrth and two
children OF Milton spent Saturday af-
ernoon with the formers mother.
Mrs. Mamie Green.
Mrs. Roy Ritter and daughter Ell
,erta called on relatives in George
own and Milton on Saturday.
The farmers are getting ready to
Iriil their peas this week.
Sunday School next Sunday morn
ng at ten o'clock followed by preach
ne at eleven by the pastor. Rev. ].
:. Graham. Epworth League at 1880
}. NJ. Everybody weleolRc 10 those
ervices.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
MILFORD CHRONICLE MILFORD DELAWARE FRIDAY

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Reese White have
returned from u months stay IN
Miami. Florida.
Mrs. Matte Shockley is at home
again after being with her sister
Mrs. Kendall Wiley in Bridgevilie,
since the death Of Mr.. Wiley several
months ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Harrison are
being congratulated on the birth Of
q baby son, born last Tuesday.
On Wednesday night baby boy
was born TO Mr. and Mrs. John Col
lins.
Mrs. Mary Downs is spending sew
eral weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Lewis. near loves Cross Roads, and
with other relatives.
Miss Claribel Smith delivered a
very interesting address at the eve
ming service In Grace NJ. r. Church
last Sunday night. Miss Smith has
been a missionary in China for sew
eral years and came home because
OF the war She also addressed the
young people at the Epworth
League.
Excavation is being made for the
cellar of the large new building to-
be eretced by Walter Belts on the
site of the old hotel.
Last Saturday the remains Of two
bodies were unearthed. the graves
of whom even the oldest residents
have no recollection. One body was
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18

boro faculty. attended the Smyrna
School where the Delaware Tereen-
tenary was held last Saturday
According to a letter just received
from Mr.. Walter Dent Smith, presi-
dent of the Delaware Safety Council,
MillsbOro will be furnished a car
about April first. Last winter when
the Millsboro school was offered a
car. to be used for several weeks in
connection with the safe driving pro-
gram being developed here, Princi-
pal Bennett. feeling that such a car
could he used to greater advantage
during the spring month. requested
that il be given 10 another school un-
Ill this time.
A program on hobbies will be pre-
sented in the general assembly by
two students from the fredericksburg
High School Friday, March is. at
3:00 p. NJ.
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in brick grave. made in the shap,
and size Of coffin, and had evi,
IDENTIFY been put directly into the
brick box. Mr. Belts had the bones
put into another grave.
Mrs. Myrtle Hudson Of Berlin
Md. is spending some time with her
mother, Mrs. Alex Tingle.
Mrs. Ernest C. Blackstone is a
patient in the Delaware Hospital in
Wilmington. receiving medical
treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. L. c. Bailey of Allen
town. Pa. Mr. and Mrs. r. s. john
son and Fred Johnson. Jr.. were
weekend visitors Of Mrs. w. FL.
Johnson.
Harriott Johnson. OF Wilmington.
visited Anne Carey from Friday to
Sunday.
The MillsbOro basketball teams
closed the season here last Friday
night by defeating both the boys and
girls teams Of RehobOth. The RehO-
both boys team played we'll, and was
in the lead during the first part OF
the game. II was impossible. how
ever. for the beach boys to hold this
advantage against the impenetrable
defense. lightning-like passes and
long goal shooting Of the local team.
The game was considered one of the
fastest and best ever played on the
local floor. The final score was
2S. RehobOth %.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
TINE ron AEIBrs PAST


Congress can no longer think no
workable alibis II il refuses TO re-
peal or drastieally amend the IN
distributed profits and capital gaius
taxes.
Scores Of leading economists aud
newspapers have gone on record as
saying that these taxes are largely
responsible for the business slump.
The larger businesses of the coun-
try are solidly aligned against the
taxes. And now Il is apparent tliat
small business has taken a similar
position. At the recent meeting Of
representative "little business men
in Washington. these two taxes came
i'm for almost unanimous criticism
Furthermore, halfway measures
wont do. These taxes must be
changed il business is to be
in this country.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
BRIDGEvILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Robinson
J have gone to their home at Parker'i
Landing. Pa. after stopping witt
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Newton sew
eral days on their way home from q
stay in Florida.
Miss Elizabeth Kinder is out again
after a week OF Illness.
Mrs. n. S. Smith and Mrs. John
Rose are patients In the Jefferson
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Rev. and Mrs. J. b. Hopkins visit
ed their daughter. Mrs. Joseph
George and DIR. George, in Baltimore
several days last week.
MIR. Ira Lewis was host to the
Mems Bridge club ON Monday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Roe and son
Billy. Of Dover we're weekend guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Darby.
Mr.. Walter X. Hoch was in Will
mington and Philadelphia the first
of the week.
Mrs. Lawrence Cahall left on
Thursday fOr Alexandria. Va. where
she will spend several weeks with
friends.
Mrs. Harrison Phillips entertained
her bridge club on Wednesday after
noon.
DIR. and Mrs. Thomas Baker Of
CranstOn Heights. visited her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. X. Wright, on
Sunday.
Miss Charlotte Littleton enter
tained a number of her friends OH
Friday evening to celebrate her
birthday anniversary.
jeanne Newton youngest daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Newton,
had her tonsils removed at Milford
the first Of the week.
Mrs. Lena Messiek returned home
from Sc. Petersburg. Fla, yesterday.
Mrs. C. e. Anderson was hostess to
her bridge club on Monday evening.
Robert Hopkins is confined to his
home with grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Beebe are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of daughter on Friday. March
IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Newton enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Robinson
of Parker's Landing, Pa. and Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Newton at dinner
last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hopkins and son
Of MillingtOn. Md. spent Sunday with
his parents, Rev. J. C. B. Hopkins.
Mrs. G. v. Lewis and son. Victor.
were in Chester Friday and Satur-
day.
Mrs. Walton Smith, Mrs. Dawson
Todd, Mrs. Mace Allen and Mrs. ii.
G. Baker entertained at dinner on |
Friday evening at the home Of Mrs.
Mace Allen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hoch enter
tanned their bridge club on Wednes-
day evening.
Mr.. Harry Rawlins of Annapolis,
Md. spent the weekend with his
father, Mr.. Harry Rawlins. and aunt
Miss Sallie T.. Rawlins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard HOke enter
Iained two tables OF bridge on Satur-
day night. Their guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Thompson. MIR. and
Mrs. Thomas J. Gray. and Mr.. aud
Mrs. Elmer HOch.
Mrs. William John Hayes Of Gates
Vile, N. c., is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. J. Gray this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Short were1
Inner guests Of Mrs. Elsie Obier OF
Greenwood on Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Wiley entertained her
fridge club at dinner and bridge ON
Monday evening.
Rev. J. C. B. Hopkins will have
,harge of the morning devOtiOns over
station wSAL at Salisbury on Friday
morning, March Is. at $3.50 o'clock.
The choir of the Bridgeville M. e.
,hurch will sing several anthems.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
OF ONE OPINION

The recent pilgrimages of big
business and little business men to
Washington exploded the fiction that
little business was antagonistic TO
big business. Apparently all classes
of business men have the same
style OF thinking regarding the pro
grams OF their Government. The
resolutions framed by the small
business groups were practically OF
the same character as tho resolu-
tions and the stand taken by big
business. The powers that be In
Washington are still puzzled about
the "little business men," But there
Is no minimizing the importance OF
their influence with the Adniinistra-
tion and Congress.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
Now's The time 70 hade your for NEW cHEXR
-. Come in fOdoy and get our Eber0I offer

azT9Es.Iszx sogreat have been Chevrolet
dealers sales ofused cars and
trucks-sO low is our supply of certain
makes and mOdeIs-that we need good
used cars and trucks to balance our stocks.
This means we are in an excellent position
to talk ''irude-ir allowances on the purchase
Of HesO CherOlet passenger cars and trucks.
Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Ferdinand Pecora's insistence that

Ferdinand Pecora's insistence that Dewey first present some evidence connecting Hines with the alleged lottery conspiracy, before he went into the mob's history.
 The first witness called for to- day was Wilfred Brunder, a West Indian negro who ran a $1,0O0, ,000- a-year lottery in Harlem before he went to jail for brief term in 1881 and returned to find that the Schultz gang had muscled in.
 Was First Witness
 Brunder was called yesterday as Dewey's first witness, but beore he told his story to the point where the Dutchman was concerned, Pe- cora had Dewey stand him aside un- tiyl some evidence against Hines was produced. Today, that point had been disposed of and Brunder was ready to resume rom where he left off, telling how a lottery oper- ates and who provides and gets the money. He said, as Dewey explained in his opening address, that most of the bettors were from the poor who put up pennies, nickles and dimes in one-in-a-thousand chance to win, and collected 60O-to-one. less the peddlers' and bankers com- missions If they won and if the lot tery was honest"
 Weinberg, after unequivocally tes- tifying that Hines was an arch con- spirator, admitted under cross-ex- animation by Lloyd P. Stryker, de- fense attorney, that ne had once
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
PEACE OUTLOOK
 IN EUROPE BAD
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 the civil war. The Loyalist govern ment at Barcelona had accepted the plan.
 In many ways, the Spanish con- flict remains a more serious threat to general European peace than the Czech crisis. Italy and Germany have virtually committed them selves to a Franco victory; France has been sympathetic toward the government and Britain's hope has been for stalemate from which neither side could emerge as clear-cut victor.
 Franco's refusal-if 1t Is a re- fusal-to accept the plan for with drawal of foreign troops would put new obstacles in the way of i'm provement of Italy's relations with France; might eventually wreck the Anglo Italian friendship treaty which is the basis of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's peace plan.
 In Italy, there were mounting in dications of resentment toward France and rumblings against Brit ain which hinted at impatience with Chamberlain's refusal to put the friendship treaty into effect un- til Fascist volunteers leave Spain.
 It was symptomatic of the cur- rent trend that the Fascist news paper spokesman Virginia Gayda, at Rome discussed in vigorous lan- guage the possibility of some fu- ture clash between France and Italy and added: increasingly, the war of political idealogies. which Italy does not provoke and in which she never participated, is sliding rapidly toward real war.
 More Rumors Denied
 In London, rumors of difference es between Chamberlain and For eign Secretary Lord Halifax were officially denied as preposterous, but there was no question that British officials were increasingly concerned about the trend of events in Europe generally; a trend that appeared likely to lead to long period of desperate diplo- matic maneuvering to keep alive hope for solution of problems that now appear insoluble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
MINIMUM WAGES
 IN TEXTILE WORK

Washington, Aug. 18.-CUP)-A minimum wage of 30 cents an hour five cents above the statutory standard-appeared likely today for the textile industry. Representa- tives of both labor and industry, in- dicated their approval of this figure as wage-hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews called conference for tomorrow morning of representa- tives of textile employers, organized labor and the public to set up a textile industry committee.
 Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, presi- dent of the Cotton Textile Institute said his group had advised congress sional committees when the fair labor standards act was under con- sideration that they did not believe a minimum wage of 30 cents would be unreasonable. Sidney Hillman, chairman of the Committee for h. dustrial Organizations Textile Workers Organizing committee, said he thought such a wage should be approved for this industry, which employs more than 6O0Oo0 persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Thursa Grant Scott
 Confesses Killing
LIEUT.. WILLIAM FOLEY
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1 It was known that Mrs. Scott and | her husband had been having domestic difficulties for some time. They were reunited only few days before his death, after they had been separated.
 Scott was employed as a care taker in the Chase Metal Works laboratory and was favorably known in Waterville. He had recently been seriously ill, and police said he was still weak at the time he was fatally wounded.
 Mrs. Scott, whose parents live in Thomaston, was born in New Bruns- wick. She came to Waterbury about IS years ago, and married Scott about five years ago.
 The nature of the charge to be placed against Mrs. Scott will not be known until after finding has been made by Deputy Coroner Hen messy. She will then be arrested as a police prisoner. There is a strong possibility that bench war rant may be issued in superior court.
 Atty. Bauby Fails
 Attorney Fred Bauby, who was retained Tuesday by the Scott fam fly, has yet been unable to inter- view Mrs. Scott. He said yesterday he planned to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. No action along this line had been taken at press hour today.
 The case in it's early stages ap- peared as one of the most bafffng that local police had ever been called on to solve. So many differ ent factors presented themselves that investigators were puzzled, and dozens of Heads" were run down as police sought to clear up the muddled picture. The evidence then began to show that Mrs. Scott must know more about her husbands death than she had revealed, and she was questioned again and again. Each time she denied know ing anything additional, but in her stories at various times she began to show contradictions of which the questioners took careful note.
 The most unexpected portion of the confession was the part in which Mrs. Scott said that the shooting had taken place four hours earlier than previously believed, and that she had been alone in the house with her unconscious, dying hus- band during that time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
SCHULTZ GANG
 CHEATS WORKERS
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cision, the witness said, Davis told him:
 Don't make any move one way or another without letting Ison know"
 Davis told him, Brunder said, to make his moves as unobtrusively as possible, because "the people-the players, the collectors, the control lers-were getting tired of their treatment by the combination"
 By working as smoothly ac possi- ble, Brunder said, he was able to enroll quite number of independ- ent bankers" in the racket. His salary was $100 week.
 In the spring of 1883, Brunder said, the mob perfected a central ized system of taking care of per- sons arrested in police raids.
 We just called up 35l Lenox ave- nue (Harlem headquarters of the mob and reported to Weinberg" he said.
 George Weinberg, another defend- ant who turned states evidence, got the cases fixed, Brunder indicated. Weinberg yesterday accused Hines as "fixer-in-chief" for the Schultz gang at salary of $500 to $1,O0O a week.
 Went to See Schultz
 Already, one witness had pointed at Hines and said that he, a power- full district leader of Tammany Hall, had gone to Schultz's apartment in March, 1882, and sold his influence for $1 ,000 down and $500 a week. The witness was George Weinberg, Schultz's district manager for Har- lem and one of the three survivors of the mob who pleaded guilty and turned states evidence against Hines. He said he was present at the apartment conference, saw Hines get the first thousand and discussed with him ways of keeping police away from lottery headquarters and preventing more important" gang sters going to jail.
 Weinberg was called at Judge
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
without regaining consciousness.
 Her First Story
LIEUT.. EDWARD McELLIGOTT

Her First Story
 At 5 o'clock last Thursday morn- ing, the police ambulance was sum- moned and went to the Scott home to take Scott to the hospital. Mrs. Scott first told police that her hus- band had fallen against the stove. However, it was learned tht she had first called Waterbury hospital for an ambulance, and refused to state the nature of the case. The hospital, following custom, declined to send the ambulance.
 A short time after Scott had gone to the hospital, Mrs. Scott told po- lice she believed her husband had committed suicide. She produced a gun, with two emptly shells, which she said had been lying by her hus- bands body. Meantime, at the hos pital, it had been discovered that the wound had been caused by a bullet, not fall.
 Held In Custody
 Police held Mrs. Scott in custody at her home during the morning. Patrolman Henry Hayes, who was guarding her, saw round hole in the kitchen wall, and asked her if it had bene recently made. She said it had been there for a year or more However, the patrolman called it to the attention of Lieuts Foley and McElligott and, after rip ping away plaster from the wall, they found the spent bullet behind a clapboard.
 During the morning, it was learned that two weeks before, Scott had called at police head quarters and reported to Detective Lieut.. Joseph Bendler that his wife was going out with other men. Scott said he wished to take no action at the time.
 Not Self Inflicted.
 Dr. Edward Kirschbaum, after an autopsy, said that the wound in Scott's head could not have been self-inflicted. There were no pow der or burn marks around the wound, he said, and these would have been there had Scott shot himself.
 Mrs. Scott was then taken to police headquarters and locked up as coroner's prisoner. She has re- mained at the police station since that time, except for two occasions. Once, under police guard, she went to her husbands funeral. That was on Saturday. The second time was early this week, when detectives took her on a mysterious automobile trip.
 Widow Was Stubborn
 Despite questioning all wee,. long, the widow had maintained that she knew nothing of her hus- bands death except that he had got up at 5 a. m. and that she had found him shortly afterward lying on the kitchen floor. She insisted that she had not heard any shot fired. Police, however, found sev- eral important discrepancies in her stories. This, together with the medical examiners report and her inability to explain how the bullet got into the wall, made them con- fident that a "break" in the case would come eventually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
JANE TOPPAN HAS
 PASSED AWAY
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Mrs. Alden P. Davis of Cataumet visited Miss Toppan. After dinner Mrs. Davis became violently ill and died - her 28th victim, according to Miss Toppan's detailed confess sion. Miss Toppan accompanied the body to Cataumet.
 You Had Better Wait
 "When the people came down to Cataumet With Mrs. Davis body and brought flowers and other emblems of sorrow" she said later, q wanted to say to them, You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you. If you will wait, I will save you going back and forth."
 True to her unspoken words, Jane fatally poisoned one of Mrs. Davis daughters July 31 and nine days later killed the woman's husband. Still undetected, she gave a glass of poisoned mineral water to a second daughter four days later.
 Four deaths In the same family within 40 days was too much for doctors and police to accept as a coincidence and quiet investiga- ton began.
 45 When Committed
 At 45 she was committed to a state hospital for life. .
 In her first confession, Jane said she resorted to murder as a pleasure which she could obtain in no other way. Later, however, she said she did not know why she had slain.
 At first Miss Toppan appeared nearly normal at the hospital, but shortly afterward she was placed ill strait jacket after suffering from delusions that someone was trying to poison her.
 In recent years, however, hospital attaches say Miss Toppan has been "iuct niliet old ladV",
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
John 4. Tobin, James
 Hartley Complained
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charged that Tobin and Hartley had "sold" the Independent Democratic faction down the river, and were working in collision with the regu- lar Democratic leaders. criminal &C., tion was threatened by Tobin against Scanlon. The action is in- stituted today under Section 6194 of the General Statutes.
 Charges on SCanlOn
 Scanlon is charged with "on July 2, causing certain matters to be printed which were offensive and abusive to John F. Tobin and James Hartley"
 Tobin, former senator from the 18th district, is generally given credit for the organization of the h. dependent Democratic faction in Waterbury.
 Scanlon, employed at a cigar store