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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
GUARD WIPES
. OUT AIR ENEMY
IN MOCK WAR
Deadly Aim Is Displayed
In Fire At Target Tow
ed By Airplane.
COWS DAY AUG. 10th
Performance Is Praised
By U. S. Army Officers
Present At Camp.
COWS DAY AUG. 10th

Excitement was at high among Of
ficers and men of the 19Sth Regiment,
Delaware National Guard on Wednes-
day night of this week following a
sham battle in which Battery d, Will
mington, manning the 3-inch anti
aircraft guns, destroyed" an "ene-
my air fleet" attacking from the At
lantic.
U. S. Army and regimentaI staff
officers said the craftsmanship was
one of the most brilliant ever dis
played at a Delaware encampment.
The Wilmington battery, under
command of Lieut. Roger H. Holt.
rushed to the guns when a plane of
the 11Sth Observation Squadron, New
Jersey National Guard, towing a tar
get representing the enemy" was
sighted far out at sea.
The invader" used all the tricks
OF the trade to outwit the defenders,
alternating course, height, and speed
but to no avail. By visual observa-
ton, in one course alone, the gun
ners scored II hits out of 29 shoes,
although the target was speeding
l20 miles an hour at an altitude of
$4,000 feet. This record may be in
creased after the mechanical records
are checked.
Two direct hits wrote finis to the
battle. one tearing the target badly
while the other ripped it to shreds,
sending it crashing into the ocean.
One hundred four rounds were fired
by the battery.
Battery's Work Praised
E. N. Saurwein of the U. S. Ord
nance Department said the firing
was the best he had witnessed in the
eight National Guard camps he has
visited this summer. Capt. Sylvan
Berlinefs junior T. 8 Army fhstruc-
tor. also was enthusiastic cT4r the
battery's showing.
Lieut. ID. P. Lee was range officer;
Lieut.. ]. V. Haggerty acted as exec
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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
ALL STARS Whip
PHILA. ATHLETICS
Cream OF Shore League
Turn On The Heat To
Win, Six To Two.
STEINMAN PLAYED

The Philadelphia Athletics came
to the Eastern Shore on Monday to
show their uppity farm club, the
fredericksburg Athletics, how the
game should be played and walked
back in defeat. to 2. The Federals-
burg lineup. including all its own
players, was augmented by the stars
OF all the other league clubs.
Twenty-three players. including
the leading sluggers in the league,
took turns in rubbing the nose of
the AmeFicansLseague team with. ten
hits of Schelle. The big Athletics,
faced with a battery of four of the
best moundsmen in the Glass D..
League, could connect for only four
safeties.
Hinckle, Wilson, Brumbeloe, and
Brown pitched for the shoremen.
The little AS began scoring in the
first frame when Rullo walked, Nor
they singled and Moses miscued. per-
mitting Rullo to prance home.
In the three-run third inning. Rul-
10 and Northey singled and Rullo
scored on Chapman's error. Schulter
doubled. scoring Northey, and came
home on Kolberg's single.
The big AS scored their runs in
the fourth when Brucker singled,
Nagel doubled, and Brucker came
home. Nagel scored on LOdigiani's
infield out
Crurn TO PAGE Z. Pleassl
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
SEN. TOWNSEND AGAIN
HEADS SEN. CAMPAIGN
Delaware Member Is ReappOlnted
For G. o. p. Drive By McNary

United States Senator John ].
Townsend. Jr.. was reappointed on
Tuesday as chairman of the Republi-
can Senate Campaign Committee.
The reappointment was made by
United States Senator Charles L..
McNary of Oregon. leader of the
minority party in the Senate. AS
chairman of the committee. Senator
Townsend will lead the campaign for
reelection of Republican Senators
whose terms are expiring and the
drive for election of Republican
members generally to the upper
chamber.
Senator McNary wrote Townsend
that your services as chairman of
the committee for the past few years
have been exemplary" Senator
Townsend was first appointed in
1895. Other members are Senators
Arthur Capper. Kansas; Lynn ].
Frazier. North Dakota; Wallace Fl.
White of Maine, and McNary.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
ELMER WILSON DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Aged Georgetown Newspaperman
Had Long Been Ailing

Elmer E. Wilson, age IS years, for
many years owner and editor of the
Union Republican, a weekly newspa-
per of Georgetown, died on Sunday
afternoon. July 80, of heart. attack
at his home, corner South Railroad
avenue and East Market street.
MIR. Wilson had not been in good
health for many months. He had gone
into the kitchen to get something to
eat and was seized with the attack
and fell across a gas stove where he
was found by his housekeeper
Born on June 2S, 1861, he entered
Georgetown printing Office as ''deV-
il" when fourteen years old.
From 1885 to 1906, he was news
editor of the Delaware Democrat,
which for many years was owned by
the late U. S. Senator Willard Sauls-
bury. but ceased publication in May,
1906, when 1t was consolidated with
the Sussex journal. The Sussex
Journal suspended publication in
April, 1925. Both these weeklies
welded powerful influence in Dem
ocratic politics during their day.
They had able men as editors includ-
ing the late Judge David T. Marvel,
Col. W. Fiske Townsend. Edwin
Faynter, William Pride. Robert
Thomas Hart, McKendree DOwnham
and former Deputy Attorney General
Frank M. Jones.
Mr.. Wilson took charge of the I'm
ion Republican in 1907. the paper
having been purchased by his sister.
the late Mrs. Levisa Faucet. who la
ter sold it to him and the late Fred
L. MCGEE. who ran it until January
4, 1884, when it was burned. The
Union Republican was started by
the late J. Edward Addicks and the
(Tum to Pase }. Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
STATE BANKERS MEET
AT REHOBOTH SEPT. s
John DriscOll, OF Philadelphia, viii
Conduct An Open Forum

An open forum on Service
Charges and Interest Rates as a
Part of Bank Operations" will be
conducted during the annual con-
vention of the Delaware Bankers
Association in Rehoboth Friday. Sep
tember 8. The forum will be con-
Quoted by John Driscoll of Driscoll.
Millet G. Company, bank analysts OF
Philadelphia.
The 1899 session will be held in
the Hotel Henlopen, according to
the program outlined by Robert C.
Lewis. Wilmington, chairman of the
committee on arrangements.
Officers will be elected during the
afternoon meeting. A social hour
will be held at o'clock in the solar
ium of the hotel while the banquet
will follow at 2 o'clock in the dining
room. The banquet speaker will be
one of national prominence.
An afternoon tea and bridge party
for wives Of members is being con-
sidered.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
TWO DELA. POLICEMEN
TO STUDY TRAFFIC
CONTROL AT INSTITUTE

Two Delaware policemen,
Private Edgar F. Isaacs of the
Georgetown station of the State
Police, and Patrolman Arthur
B. Wilson of the Wilmington
Bureau of Police, will be among
a small group of police officers
of the nation who will study
scientific traffic control at
Northwestern University Traf-
fic Institute. Chicago, ILL.,, start
ing next month.
The two have been awarded
$1,000 fellOwships, providing
nine months of study under the
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., safety
award. The officers received
high ratings in competitive ex-
hminations.
Isaacs, a graduate Of the
Greenwood High School, has
been a member of the state po-
lice for three years. He re-
ceived an exceptionally high
rating at the police school in
Dover when he first became a
member of the force. He is a
native of the Greenwood sec
ton and is now living at Mil
ford.
After seven months of study
at the school, the officers will
go into field training and will
be taken to various traffic bur-
eaus in the country to observe
traffic control.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
Housewives, Motorists fire Given
Adyice BY State Safety Council

on the tennis court or on the golf
links, how the man who loses his
temper becomes wild and erratic in
his game?
And have you noticed how the
same thing happens to man who
loses his temper when he is behind
the wheel of his car?
A driver who gives way to strong
emotion-especially anger-is likely
to be wild and erratic, too.
The fellow who has to fight his
way down the road, blasting other
drivers with his tongue or his horn,
not only makes driving chore, but
he makes the streets dangerous for
other drivers and for pedestrians.
CTum 70 Page Z. PssasO
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
LEGION TO MEET
SEPTEMBER SO
21st Annual State COnven-
tiOn Will Be Held At
RehObOth Beach.
AT HENLOPEN HOTEL

The twenty-first annual conven-
tion of the Department of Delaware
American Legion, is hereby called
and in conformity with the action oi
the twentieth annual convention, will
be held in RehobOth September S-9
1899.
The convention is called for the
purpose of electing officers for the
ensuing year, amending the depart
ment constitution, to elect delegates
and alternates to the twenty-first an
nual national convention to be held
il Chicago, ILL.,, September 25. 26, q
and 2S, 1899, and for the transaction
Of such other business as may be
brought before it.
Representation in the convention
shall be by post and in accordance
With the provisions of the Depart
ment Constitution. (Art. W
Each post shall be entitled to two
delegates, by virtue of charter, and to
one additional delegate for each fifty
members or major fraction thereof,
fully paid by that post, according to
the books of the department adult
ant, at midnight, Tuesday, August 8,
1889.
Each post is entitled to send to,
and 10 seat in; the convention q
number of alternates to the number
of delegates to which such post is
entitled.
Alternates will have power to vote
only in the absence of the regular
delegates.
The selection of alternates to rep
resent absent delegates is a matter
for decision within the respective
delegations.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
M ERCHANTS
PLANNING FOR
DOLLAR DAY
Semi-Annual Sales Event
Will Be Held On Tues
day, August Is.
~ EW MERCHANDISE
Majority OF The Store
men Cooperating To
Make Day Successful.
EW MERCHANDISE

Tuesday, August 10. will be OBJ
eerved as DOLLAR DAY in Milford
sponsored by the majority of the mer-
chants. Plans are nearing compile
tion for a mammoth bargain day.
Huge stocks OF fresh, up-tO-date
merchandise will be placed on sale at
attractive prices. The local police
force is cooperating with the mer-
chants and are prepared to see that
the many out-of-town shoppers who
make Milford their headquarters on
Dollar Day, receive all considerations
due honor guests.
Last year, the merchants of Mil
ford held their Summer Dollar Day
Wednesday, August II. They were
richly rewarded because they gave
the public real bargains. These same
merchants together with several new
members, will repeat last years sue
cessful day. by giving the buying
public of Milford and vicinity. the
best merchandise obtainable at mod
crate cost.
An idea of what awaits you in the
bargain line for Dollar Day, may be
gained by carefully reading the ad-
vertisements which will appear in
the next issue of The Chronicle.
The stores will open at the usual
hour and will remain open until six
q clock. At present it has not been
decided whether the stores will re-
main open in the evening.
Plan now to come to Milford Tues
day, August Is. The old adage
about first come, first served" might
well be applied to Dollar Day. for the
fist shoppers to arrive here on that
day will have the chance Of making
first selections from the myriads of
offered specials. However, the Mil
ford merchants. noted for their fore
sight. have left nothing to chance,
End everyone should find bargains
right up to closing time.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
TWO ESCAPE FROM
BLAZING TRUCK
Lawrence Warren, Milton, John O.
Exley, Milford, Have Marrow Escape

z Two Delaware men miraculously
escaped being broiled to death in the
flaming cab of their trailer-truck unit
last Friday morning.
The truck smashed into a road
side culvert on the Snow Hill-Ber-
lin highway, six miles north Of Snow
Hill, overturned, and caught fire.
The men are Lawrence Warren, "a
years, of Milton, and John o. Exley,
21, of Milford. Warren suffered laeer-
ations of the forehead.
Both men crawled to safety from
the cab seconds before the gasoline
tank exploded.
Exley, the driver, said the trailer
truck crashed into the low culvert
during a fog. Warren, relief driver,
was asleep.
The truck. owned by the Ralph
Reed Trucking Company of Milton,
was destroyed at loss OF $4,000. A
cargo of 500 baskets of tomatoes val
ued at 20 cents a box, was spilled.
The men were enroute from East
VILE, Va, to Baltimore.
Snow Hill and Newark. Md, fire.
men extinguished the blaze, and gave
first-aid 10 Warren,
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04

, at a Democratic caucus on Tuesday
morning.
Delivery To Governor Blocked
However, due to action of the
Senate in recessing until August IA
before presiding officers of the two
houses had signed the bills, the
measures cannot become laws be-
fore that date and possibly not for
ten days afterward. 1t had been
planned to deliver them 70 the Of
fice of Governor McMullen Wednes-
day and he would have had ten days
In which to consider them. Demo-
cratic leaders said that there is no
doubt the Governor will approve all
Of them.
The measures have to be signed
by the proper officials IN each
branch while that house is IN ses-
sion
Bills Presented By Benson
The bills were introduced in the
House by Representative Elmer E.
Benson, Republican floor leader. He
offered them Immediately after the
House had concurred in the Senate
resolution amending the original
tTurn to Pass =. PIsase'
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
HERD GROUP TN KENT
DISCUSSES POLICIES
Few Changes VIII Be Made In Meth
DDS OF Conducting Test

For the purpose of discussing some
of the policies in connection with the
operation of the Kent County Dairy
Herd improvement Association
meeting of the members of this dairy
organization was held Monday eve
ming in the conference room of the
State Board of Agriculture building
in Dover.
The meeting was presided over by
Lyndon d. Caulk, president of the
association, who stated that it had
become necessary to make a few
changes in the methods of conduct
ing this official testing of herds for
butterfat and milk production in or
der to increase the efficiency of the
work in the future. One of the sug-
gested changes relates to the classi-
fication of high-producing cows each
month, as all future monthly reports
will include list of those dairymen
whose individual cows produce over
500 pounds of milk and 40 pounds of
butter fat, instead of 1000 pounds of
milk and so pounds of butterfat, as
was the listing for the previous
months.
CTun 10 Pass = Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
HEAD-ON CRASH
KILLED THREE
LAST SUNDAY
T. r. Newman, Jr., RObt.
Wheatley And Nj. Ford
Listed AS Victims.
ALL OF MIDDLETOWN
John w. ShOckley, Driver
Of Truck Involved, Held
Under $500 Bail.
ALL OF MIDDLETOWN

Three Middletown youths were kill
ed and four others severely injured
IN a head-On collision between an au-
tomobile and a truck on a curve be-
tween Tybouts Corner and Kirk
wood, north of Middletown, at 5 A,
NJ. Sunday, July 3O The dead are:
Thomas r. Newman, Jr.. II, driver
of the car, who was a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Newman.
Robert Wheatley, IS, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Wheatley.
Morris Ford, 10. son of Mrs. Flor
ence Price.
Their deaths raised to 40 the total
of auto fatalities in Delaware this
year.
The injured are: Benjamin Wells,
25; William Harding Brady. %, and
Oscar Husfelt, Jr.. IS, all of Middle
town, and Brooks Wheatley, 30, of
Bridgeville. who was on the truck
and is a relative of Robert Wheatley.
The conditions of the three Middle
town youths are serious. Wheatley
was treated for a broken nose and
llcerations of the right foot.
Truck Driver Held
John w. Shockley, 21, of Bridge
vile. driver of the truck. was suffer-
ing from shock. but escaped serious
injury. He was arrested by State
Patrolmen Conley and Miller on
three charges of assault and battery
end reckless driving and was held in
81 500 bail by Magistrate William B.
Davis of New Castle.
State police said the truck, owned
By Harold E. Kinder of Bridgeville,
and hauling cantalOupes. was pro-
ceeding north at 80 to 35 miles an
hour when apparently it swung wide
in making the turn Just as the auto
arrived at the curve. -.
(Turn to Pa J. Plassel
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
NEIGHBORING KIWANIS
VISITED MILFORD CLUB
fikeyille, Nd, Organization Dinner
Guests OF Local Group

At their weekly meeting Tuesday
evening at the Grange Hall, the Mil
ford Kiwanis Club had as their
guests the members of the Pikeville,
Nd. organization. At this dinner
gathering, which is a part Of the
program to promote relations be-
tween clubs, Melvin Burnham, chair
man of interclub relations, presented
the Milford group with a Good
Neighbor" plaque. which was accept
ed by President Ed Steiner. Presi-
dent Price, of Pikeville, then talked
on the value of Kiwanis.
Next week it is planned to hold
another "get-acquainted" meeting.
Members of the Dover Kiwanis have
been invited to attend.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
HEALTH BOARD ISSUES
DYSENTERY KNOWLEDGE
With Season For Disease At Hand
Preventive Steps Are Listed

The season for so-called summer
diarrhea" is here. Summer diarrhea
IS due largely to infection with dys-
entery organisms" states Doctor E.
F. Smith, acting executive secretary
of the State Board of Health. This
disease can be entirely prevented
where food is properly handled and
sanitary measures are adequate. Per-
sons suffering with a dysentery in
fection have such symptoms as abdo-
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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
LIQUOR COMMISSION
INCOME RISES s1s,O90

An increase of $4,000 last
month over July, 1888, were re-
ported in collections of the
Delaware Liquor Commission
from all sources. The collec-
tions for July totaled s63,116.-
II. Collections for July a year
ago amounted to $50, ,460.51; for
July of 1887 they were $62.3s4.-
62, and for July, 1886, only $49,-
637.07.
During the past month $11,-
769.47 was collected in beer rev.
enue stamps, compared with
$10,723.47 a year ago. Spirits
tax collections amounted to
$34. .0OS.S5, compared with $780,
201.50 last July.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04

HousewiVes-Here is a safe house.
keeping hint from the council. 1t
isn't only the unlabelled bottle Of
poison in the medicine cabinet that
is responsible for accidental poison
ing-often common household mater
ials are involved.
Small children frequently get at
insecticides. cleansers, ammonia,
kerosene and many other useful
fluids which are poisonous when
swallowed.
Never keep them within reach of
children. These accidents are tragic
in their effect, but they can be pre-
vented by forethought.
-
Motorists-Have you ever noticed
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
FAIR HONORS WON
BY SCHOOL TEAMS
Caesar Rodney Boys Awarded Live.
stock, Crop And Animal Cups

Boys of the Caesar Rodney High
School won the livestock silver low
ing cup, the all-crop and animal
plaque, and first team honors in
swine judging in contests of the Flu
ture Farmers of America at the Kent
and Sussex Fair which closed last
Saturday. it was announced ON Mon
day.
Lord Baltimore. Greenwood, and
Seaford High Schools took first team
awards and the Bridgeville School
took the Barred Rock Sweepstakes
Loving Cup.
A five-way tie for first place de-
velOped among individual contest
ants in the horse judging contests.
CTum to Page }. Plsass)
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
STATE BANKS SHOW SIX
MILLION ASSET GAIN
Investments And Public Deposits
Show Marked Increase

Assets of 40 State banks in Della
ware on June 80 were s237. .5959S5.17.
as compared to s231.l52 .347.S6 for Al
banks for the period ending March
80. or an increase of $6,443. .627.31.
The item of cash, balances with
other banks, etc, under assets, was
S63 .66S.379.41 for the period ending
June 80, as compared with s54.S90.
s5S.39 for the period ending March
29. or an increase of $S.777.521.02.
Investments Are Increased
Investments showed an increase of
$3.50. 1896. to total of S9S,0S9, ,S06.l7.
Loans and discounts. including over
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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
NEWARK CLUB WINS
LEGION BASEBALL TITLE
Delaware Junior Legion Crown
Again Goes To Upstate Nine

Newark again won the Delaware
Junior legion baseball championship
last Saturday by defeating Milford in
the deciding game of their series at
Oriole Park, Dover, by the score of
to !.
Taylor pitched the full game for
Newark and gave up only three hits,
while the winners nicked Latchum
for IL safeties.
The boX score:
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
DlOyInent
is.MOnths Provision

ployment.
1S.MOnths Provision
Enrolment of the WPA as of Fri
day, July 21, was 2,S70, but some who
have been working continuously for
the past Is months or longer have
since been dismissed.
Were not going to wade right in
and dismiss these men Immediately" f"
Ableman said.
Ableman said relief may be af-
forded to those dismissed who are
unable to secure private employ
ment. A proposal has been submitted
in Congress, he explained, providing
for rehiring ON WPA work of those
who are unable to secure private en-
ployment.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, July S6 To Tues
day, August 1, Inclusive

Charles ]. Holzmueller weather
recorder for Milford, reports the fol-
lowing atmospheric conditions in this
vicinity from Wednesday, July 26 to
Tuesday, August 1, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04

; Score by innings
Milford % 0O1 30 0-l
Newark % 5000 x-4
Errors: Maxwell. Latchum, Tease.
Sheaffer, Weldin.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04
Temperature

Total Rainfall .,.... .ss
Total rain for July. ..2.79 inches
The following winds and conds-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-04

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Evening star., 1939-01-12
81, 10000 Once Refused for Now Hop|ess Browns
Nation Pays 81 Bos-speos at Toledo u

den netted $4,000 during the
last three months of 1898
All OF which is so much tin
like eggs Nixson Denton
OF the Cincinnati Times-Star
shot right up to the head Of the
class when he listed his three ia
vorite composers as Mendelssohn,
morphine and Joe Louis .
Biggest thrill Connie Mack COL
lected in 1898 was in a game with
the Yanks when his AS didn't
nave to 60 to bat in the ninth
inning.
Who started that yarn about
Doc Spears being on the w.k.
spot at Toledo u? Nobody is
sitting prettier Mort Singer,
the theatrical magnate, is try.
ing to get Jack Dempsey and his
wife, Hannah Williams (you re-
member "The Cheerful Little
Earful"), to team up in vaude-
vile act Mort has given up
trying to sign Doug Corrigan and
Roy Riegels Old George
Hackenschmidt, who helped make
wrestling history, is lecturing
at City College today .. What's
this about King Tut, once the
terror OF the welterweights, try
ing a comeback?
Old Man Upset is making the
wise guys in Big Ten basket ball
circles resemble bunch of buns
Here's a tip for football
coaches: Most of them are con-
tent to let their ueuteuauts do
Evening star., 1939-01-12
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-It was a
glum gathering in the Office of Sec
retary Ed Barrow of the Yankees.
Every now and then another caller
came in quietly, removed his hat
and asked: Anything new on the
colonel?'
To each Barrow gave the same
answer: mo, nothing new. He's still
alive"
Every one knew that Col. Jacob
Rupert, multimillionaire owner of
the Yankees, was making a hard
fight for his life in his home up on
Fifth avenue. It wasn't known
whether he would live another hour
or another day, but there was no
hope that he would make a complete
recovery.
II was up to see him." said Barrow,
"and the last thing he said to me
was: Will the Yankees win another
pennant this year, Ed?' I told him
I would guarantee it"
Had Own Team as Boy.
Col. Rupert was able to get out
to the Yankee Stadium only twice
last season, and Barrow recalled
that he became too excited to sit
through the second game.
I'VE were trailing by three or four
runs going into the sixth inning and
the colonel kept jumping around
and beating me on the leg. Finally
he hoped up and tore out of the
stand. yelled after him that we
would win it for him, and sure
enough we did. Dickey hit home
run in the ninth inning"