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Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

closely the recommendations made
in the Bill of Rights for motor
lists adopted at last falls CONVEX
tion of the AA.A. This basic
charter of motordom called for
highways embodying every posi-
bic safety aid and for adequate
systems of secondary roads.
In these connections the Ru-
reau says NEEDED improvement.
on the main highways include con-
siderable improvement Of align
ment, reduction Of grades. ana
elimination of railroad grade
crossings and separation of grades
at intersections of heavily Travelled
highway routes There is al.5
need for the further extension of
improvements to the more useful
secondary and Iand-service roads
many of which still await improve
ment.'
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

review, 38, ,22O miles of road had
been constructed with Federal as
sistance at a total cost of $685.
622, SOL At the beginning of the
current fiscal year, there was un-
der construction or approved for
construction, a total of 1852
miles at an estimated cost Of
$357 ,283, ,O44.
1T is encouraging to note that
the highway policies as outlined by
the Federal road agency follow
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
PARSONAGE WARMING AT
CHESWOLD

Members Of the Bethel M. E.
congregation near Cheswold, to
the number of fifty or sixty had a
social gathering at the parsonage
in this town yesterday afternoon
as much for their own pleasure as
that OF Rev. E. F. White and wife,
and the occasion proved a most
pleasant one all around. They
brought with them an ample sup
ply of cake, cream and other edi-
bles, and invited in a number of
their friends in town to help get
away with it. They brought with
them however, some chickens, but
ter, potatoes, &C., for the pastor
and his wife to enjoy after they
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
COLLAPSES ON GALLONS
Fred Brown is Hanged for killing
Wife at Vienna, Md, Last Fan

Fred L. Brown, Al, Canadian
World War veteran, was hanged at
the Maryland Penitentiary shortly
after midnight Friday morning for
the murder Of his 17-year-old wife
last fall Brown, Vienna. Nd
farmer was convicted Of choking
his wife to death when She threat
ened to leave him, weighing her
body with plow shares, and throw
ing it into the Nanticoke Rive.
Fishermen found the body tRa
days later. He collapsed as tile
moose was adjusted about his neck
and gallows attendants had to sup
port him until the trap wa-
sprung.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
Attend Scholastic Conference

Four members of the Dover High
School "Ecolian" staff, Miss Jean
Bowdle, Miss Mary Ellen Newton.
Henry S. Hamm II and Leonardo
D'Arni, accompanied by Howard
E. Henry, faculty advisor, return
ed last week from New York City
where they attended the three
days conference of the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association at
Columbia University.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

should engage their early and
careful attention.
The students below of Van
Dykes school, - District 80 New
Castle County, James w. Latto-
mus teacher, have averaged for
the winter term in recitations and
department as follows: Elva Nay
lor, 100; Lizzie Carter and Bertha
Naylor, 95; Ida Davis, Sadie Davis,
Fannie Guessford, Richard Gonce,
Willie Gonce, Wesley Duhadaway,
Joseph Thompson, Willie Ahern
and Charlie Hamilton, 90. Out of
an enrolment of % for January
there was an average daily at
tendance of 20.
Sunday was missionary day at
the Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rev. w. S. Robinson, pas
tor, preaching ably on the subject
of christian liberality. The collec-
tions in the Sunday School includ-
ing the monthly collections of the
year, nearly equaled, and will be
made up to that of last year
1886. That of the congregation
was short of the sum asked but
the total for the church to be re
ported to conference will approx
innate if it does not equal that of
last year S638.
Speaker Hoffecker brought the
present that was made to him on
the return trip of the members of
the Legislature from Washington
General Armstrong, representative
from Newark, on behalf Of the
other in few felicitous phrases
presented the speaker with what
a neatly bound book
bearing the title 'Graet Expecta-
which was received and ap-
responded to in the
spirit it was presented, the laugh
ing eyes of the donors conveying
the covert joke. A pull on a little
piece of tape made it a very sug-
gestive volume, and the incident
was an occasion of much merri-
ment.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
OUR BOY SCOUTS
PANJANDRUM
To Be Held i'm the Armory
at Wilmington on March
18th and 18th
TO BE A NOVEL SHOW


of the modern travelling circus will
be necessary on the part of the
Boy Scouts when the Scout Pan
jandrum opens on March II and IS
at the Armory in Wilmington.
From 700 in the morning Of
March IL until 900 that evening,
there will have to be assembled
and equipped all properties and
decorations, including 45-both
exhibit and a Sea Scout ship. The
properties and equipment Of the
Little Theatre, consisting Of ten
acts, and tons Of woodcraft and
Scoutcraet properties will have to
be all set up that day ready for
the opening at 1880 P. m.
Radio, public address, and inter
Armory communication lines to be
laid, az well as power lines for dec
orative purposes, and for use in
the many projectors, hot plates,
electric motors, etc. which will be
used in the various demonstra-
tions. Besides the SO Scout Troops
On the program, seven Troops will
be On duty as service Scouts to
care for the comfort of the 5000
guests, who are expected at the
performances, Friday night, Satur-
day afternoon, and Saturday night.
Preparing the organization for
this undertaking, various commit
tees have been meeting, planning,
and delegating so as to have the
slightest detail arranged. This
organization has been set up under
the leadership of H. B. Christenat,
Chairman.
The Cubs, which is a junior or
ganization Of the Boy Scouts Of
America, will make theri first pub
lie appearance in Wilmington at
this Panjandrum. They are ap-
pearing in the Little Theatre, and
also they have place Of honor on
the Armory floor with their ex-
hibit and demonstration in a "a
foot booth.
Governor Richard c. McMullen,
Mayor Walter w. Bacon, and
Council President Charles H. Cant
will open the Panjandrum with a
Radio Broadcast at 745 over
WDEL. Music will be furnished
by the newly organized Scout
Band Of so pieces under the direc-
tion of Walter L. Mitchell. John
Eckles of the Panpandrum Com
mittee is in charge of the opening
ceremonies.
With the doors open at 7.3O, the
demonstrations on the part Of the
As Troops operating booths will
start at once. simultaneously,
they will display their proficiency
in the various crafts, arts, and
campcraft. Every phase of the
Scouting Program will be display
ed and dramatized. At regular in
tervals in the evening and contin-
uing until the close of the show,
there will be given series of acts
in the Little Theatre, each in
charge Of a different Troop and
climaxing in a Pageant given by
Troop 2 Of Old Swedes, the oldest
Troop in the Del-Mar-Va Council.
and directed by Garrick Mallery,
Jr., Scoutmaster and Commission
er Of the Council.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16


Commenting on figures present
ed to Congress by the U. S. Bu-
reau of Public Roads, Mr.. Lewis
said: ITO this figure should be
added a huge total of indirect en-
ploymnet, for it has been found
that more than go cents Of each
dollar spent for road construction
eventually is paid out in the form
of wages.
During the three years under
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
OCEAN ROAM
At REHOBOl
Town Wants Rehobotb !.
lty Road to Com.
through Resort
INSTEAD BELOW c.x,

saslaess men ass .,..,.
tae neT Ocean -
lsss-y through Rehobot5 ~
oy- passing il They s-,1. ls'a'd !
increase 0usiness-tor 4 !.
's-sss driving through
2p and VIII save II. =
e2artment seeuaL t5als
5olals il new road e. 49, =
r.7a Tae State Hlgsrsr ~ I
4 4 has planned 1 as,l =
load p it will leave i. T1.'i ]
highway just outside 81.
cross the canal, and skirt T. - !
II tae resort 70 join the b5Ti..' !.
{ De"ey Beach Bls,
lalese.ts urge that the new I
WA. highway enter 49,
YER tae government csnsI T.
t1e dual road into Rebss'
ans taen enter the Ocean /, !,
I 9y Bayar3 or King T.
Avenue oyer Silver Lake &
tae existing highway H.
cation 9f business men Il
test e the highway .5n,
ana is asking aid Il
town commissioners Tie d
s-i9ners meanwhile. are y,
b announce a decision d
a condemnation procvss1j
brought against Rehobotb B
Country Club to set damage,
2oad p the new high lid
built across the folf course.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
100, 900 WHITE FISH DUMPED
IN LAKE COMO

William NJ. Bell received yester-
day, by appointment, from DR..
Shortledge, Matched under his su-
pervision in the Brandywine river,
a can containing 100000 white
fish. Mr.. Bell took them to the
head Of the Smyrna mill pond and
emptied the min the stream at the
bridge there, there apparently not
being a dozen dead ones in the lot.
The white fish is an inhabitant Of
fresh water, is abundant in the
great lakes between this country
ana Canada, and considered a de-
sirable fish. If they can be made
to thrive in our mill ponds, they
will be a desirable acquisition over
our mudshad, catfish, &c.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
FEDERAL ROAD PROGRAM
PROVIDES WIDESPREAD
EMPLOYMENT

During the past three years,
road construction carried on
through appropriation Of Federal
funds has provided 100000 man
months of direct employment, ac-
cording to l.. r. Lewis, president
of the Delaware Motor Club
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
TWO or OUR GOOD WOMEN

The funeral of Mrs. James Starl-
ing, which occurred on Saturday,
was largely attended. She was a
member Of the Methodist Church,
and held in high regard BY her
friends. Mrs. H. Milton F'arson
died at Brenford, on Sunday, Of
consumption, after an illness of a
year or more. She resided at Ok
ford, Pa, when they were married
two years ago, and was regarded
by her friends as lady Of a fine
type Of character She was bur
led to-day at Odd Fellows Gem
etery.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
DEATHS

Bradley--Near Clayton, March
9th, Caroline Bradley, in her 65th
year.
Farson-At Brenford, March 10,
Of consumption, Mary p, wife Of
H. Milton Farson, aged 26 years.
Roe Near Blackiston's Cross
Roads, March 7th, James w. Roe,
aged 20 years.
Startling Near Smyrna, March
9th, Mrs. Louisa, wife Of James
Startling, aged "a years, 5 months
and 19 days
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
sMYRNA's NEW TOWN BOARD

oh 4 fSIN "A = NEW lON ~ bOfAIND
The new board of Town Com
missioners met on Friday night
and reorganized with the same Of
ficers, John H. Hoffecker, presi-
dent, and John 3. Cooper, secre-
tary. E. H. Beck, who was elect
ed Assessor at the election of mu-
nicipal officers on the 4th inst, de-
clined to qualify because Of inde-
quate compensation, and the board
forthwith declared the Office va
cant and elected H. D. Boyer. The
assessment has to be made in the
next two or three weeks. The diff
ferent committees are the same as
last year. There is general
feeling that there ought to be new
blood in the street committee, or
the old one stirred up to a newer
life.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
SMYRNA DOINGSI
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF MARCH 13, 1889

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ticn.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

Rehoboth Studies Bicycles 60
New rules for bicycles we're
sidered last week at a meeta
the Public Safety Department
cycling without regard 10 i
regulations was criticized.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

YOUR BEST OPPORTUNITY for success this
season is to keep your crop costs low and
your yields and grades high. Thot's exactly
whut liberal application of good fertilizer
does for you. Plenty offertilizer we'll ll-bulunced
with NV POTASH produces bigger yields OF
better qualify crops thot cost you less and
pay you more. Your Fertilizer Man recon-
mends such mixtures us S-S-l2. 3-8-l5. 2-8-l0
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16

speedily aaa asS iasi5 to4 penava sGqss1 5s
on years OF experiment aiiS Select higher bSs
Of thousands Of formers. Use zee II IiberaalTT
notash o. mixture this year ana .,,,iue uiu RVPol'
Make e'- sure the potash is galinon genaio9n iarus''
ha~e hn used e for more Than 50 9 yaa5s s, BALTIMORE
NV POTASH EXPORT MY, lns' Bail ~. .ss<ser(IIasss
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
MARRIAGES

Hall-Hagele - At their home,
Eddystone, March 4th, by the Rev
DIR. Paxon, John D. Hall, formerly
of Smyrna, Del, and Miss Hattie
A. Hagele, of Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-16
TYa skin
Maryland

SPRY F. LAHORE. TYuskin Md says: II am convinced
that poYs fertilizers with high potash
tent nothing but 5-82 on my strawberries. beans.
tomatoes and cucumbers The extra potash pro
duces yields plus qualify.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

Pretoria, South Africa, is to have
telephones.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

Foula Island in the Shetlands,
was isolated for 80 days during re-
cent storms.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Poland Is Preparing
Firm Answer to Reich

WARSAW, April % LP)-Poland,
with her frontier defenses newly
strengthened, was reported tonight
to be planning a firm answer to
Reichfuehrer Hitler on Danzig and
Pomorze (the Polish CORRIDOR.
Germany's demand for return OF
Danzig and for extraterritorial trade
routes through Pomorze. as disclosed
by Hitler in his Reichstag speech
yesterday, was expected to be an
swered by Foreign Minister Joseph
b Beck in his annual message to Par
lament next week.
Polish Leaders Confer.
Hitler's speech and the memoran-
dunn in which Poland was notified
of his denunciation of the 1884 10
year German-Polish non-aggreSsion
pact were studied by the foreign
Office and presumably discussed by
a conference of high Polish leaders
during the afternoon.
This conference was called by
President Ignace Moscicki and at
tended by the chief of the army,
Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Pre-
mier Gen. Felicjan Skladowski and
Col. Beck.
1t was believed Col. Beck also
would confer with the British and
French Ambassadors to inform them
of his reply in advance.
Col Beck was expected to state
that Hitler's absorption of Austria
and Czecho- -Slovakia made it nee
essary for Poland to strengthen her
defense forces and form an alliance
with Britain. These were the Polish
actions cited by Hitler as the reasons
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Bonkheod Will Speak
At Mussinq of CoIors

The 18th annual massing of colors
service, sponsored by the Military
Order of the World War, will be
presented Sunday, May 81, in the
amphitheater on the Washington
Cathedral grounds, it was an
nounced after a conference yester-
day by officials of the Cathedral
and the order.
Speaker Bankhcad of the House
of Representative will deliver the
principal -adress, and others slated
to participate include the Very Rev.
Noble C. Powell, dean of Washing
ton; Maj. Arlington A. McCallum,
chaplain general of the order;
Capt. Oliver James Hart, D. D.,
chaplain of the local chapter, and
the Rev. James Shera Montgomery
chaplain of the House of Represen-
tatives.
Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet,
U. S. c. G., retired commander of
the local chapter. will head the Re-
ception Committee.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
League for Peace to Hear
Keller and Edwin Smith

Representative Kent Keller of
Illinois and Edwin S. Smith, men,
Der of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, are listed as the prin-
cipal speakers at a meeting Wedne5-
day at 8 pm. of the recently
formed East Washington branch of
the American League for Peace and
Democracy. Their subject will be
American Democracy Speaks for
Peace"
The meeting, open to the public,
will be held at the Friendship
House, 619 D street Sc. The Rev.
Albert T. Mollegen of the Virginia
Theological Seminary will act as
chairman.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

for his denunciation of the non
aggression pact,
The war ministry inaugurated a
series of precautionary measures
along the borders, especially near
Danzig. Poland already has an esti-
mated 100000 men under arms.
The Polish press, after getting Of
fetal advice from the foreign Office,
opened strong attack upon Hitler.
His abrogation of the non-aggres-
sion pact, it was stated, completely
destroyed all hopes of peaceful CO.
operation between the two countries.
The army scheduled demonstra-
tions of air strength over all Polish
cities for Sunday.
The German Ambassador to Po-
land, Dr. Han Adolf Won Moltke.
who has been absent from his post
since April 5, was reported to be
planning to return to Warsaw
Monday.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Goodwill Industries
Will Be Described

The work done at Goodwill In
dustries will be discussed by three
members of the organization at
church meetings here and in nearby
Virginia today
Charles Priest will be the speaker
at meeting of the Epworth League
at Brightwood Park Methodist
Church at 6:45 pm w. Harold
Shape. director of the industries,
will accompany his talk at the
Vienna tVa) Methodist Church at
7 pm. with motion pictures. The
Rev. Lowell M. Atkinson, pastor of
the Vienna -Oakton charge, will pre-
side.
The third address will be given
by Douglas Hackett, production
and sales supervisor of Goodwill In
dustries, at Centennial Baptist
Church at pm.
Motion pictures of the work will
be shown Tuesday at pm to a
group from Gunton- Temple Church,
meeting at 1904 Delafield place NV.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
britain's Cabinet
Called 10 Review
Hit|er's Speech
Conscription Also Is on
Aeendo at Session
Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 29.-Great Brit
ain maintained officially today that
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's speech
yesterday left Europe's troubles
much as they were."
But the firm tone Of empire di-
plomacy since the Nazi absorption
of most Of Czecho-Slovakia was
shown again in a summons to the
cabinet to meet Monday and in the
week -end attention given Soviet
Russia.
A review of the Hitler address was
known to be on the agenda of the
special meeting of the cabinet,
which also will study military con-
scription machinery and the outlook
for Palestine settlement.
Halifax Sees Maisky.
Prime Minister Chamberlain rest
ed at Chequers, but Foreign Sec
retary Viscount Halifax went to the
foreign office, where he summoned
Ivan Maisky, Soviet Russian Am
bassador to London, who just had
returned from Moscow.
It was reported reliably that Lord
Halifax told the Russian envoy he
was eager to conclude as soon as
possible the Anglo-Russian talks de-
signed to add Russia to the bloc led
by Britain and France.
Russia has proposed complete
Anglo French Russian military al
lance which would contain specific
commitments to guard against ag-
gression not only in Europe but in
the Far East.
Britain accepted the proposal as
a basis for discussion, but has sug-
gested as a counter proposal a Rus
sian declaration of willingness to
help Britain, France and their allies
IF, as and when those allies request
help"
The foreign Office meanwhile in
structed the British Broadcasting
Corp. to broadcast in German that
Britain's intentions toward Germany
were pacific and her alliances def
nitely were not an attempt at "en-
circlement" of the Nazi state.
New Naval Pact Barred.
A foreign Office spokesman reit-
Grated that Britain had no intention
at present of negotiating new naval
agreement to replace the 1885 pact
which Hitler denounced yesterday.
Sir Neville Henderson, British Am
bassador to Berlin, has not been
given any specific instructions to
seek clarification of Hitler's speech,
it was said, but may see German
Foreign Minister Joachim Ribben-
trop soon as a natural step.
The foreign Office drew attention
to a 1,50O-word editorial in the
Times of London, entitled Herr
Hitler's Reply" which said in part:
Conference, indefinite deadlock
or war-these are the choices before
the world and above all before Herr
Hitler since it is certain there will
be no war unless Germany elects to
overthrow the peace
Evening star., 1939-04-30

sands Of workmen hurried about
the 2-mile square area applying
final touches for the debut.
Considerable portions of the fair
are days or weeks short of COM
pletion, notably some of the foreign
government and State buildings
and the amusement area.
But the unfinished parts were
overshadowed by more than 200
completed buildings and hundreds
of thousands of displays calculated
to take visitor many days to in
spect.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Berlin

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1939-04-30
RooseveIts Entertain
Royal Visitors at
New Bungalow
Hot Dogs, Potato Salad
On Menu of Picnic
Luncheon
BY the Associated Press.

6y Cne Associated PreSS.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Apri, 90
President and Mrs. Roosevelt intro
duced Crown Prince Olaf and Prin-
cess Martha of Norway today to
that modern American meal-a pic
mic on hot dogs and potato salad.
In the wooded surroundings of the
Chief Executives new field stone
and frame Dutch Colonial bunga-
low, 3 miles from the Roosevelt
estate, the royal couple joined two
score Of Roosevelt friends and rela-
tives at festive board piled high
with hot and cold American and
Scandinavian dishes.
The luncheon was served on the
front porch of the Presidents house
just recently finished but still un-
furnished-and was described as
strictly family affair."" No guest
list was announced.
To make her royal guests feel
little more at home, Mrs. Roosevelt
had her standby for such occasions,
Nellie Johansen, prepare some Nor
wegian herring salad. Miss johann
sen, who used to weave baskets at
Mrs. Roosevelt's furniture factory
near here, established her reputation
as an expert on salads during the
visit last fall of Crown Prince Ber-
thold of Sweden. Additional praise
was heaped on her smorgasbord
(hors doeuvres) today.
After the luncheon the party
moved out into a clearing and was
entertained by group OF amateur
Norwegian singers and dancers in
front of a backdrop of American
and Norwegian flags.
Returning to the home of the
Presidents mother. the royal guests
attended another family dinner fol-
lowed by music by Carl R. Maxson's
Y. M. c. A. quartet from Salem
College.
In odd moments during the day
the President worked on his mail
and reread for correction the speech
he will deliver in New York tomor-
row afternoon opening the Worlds
Fair
Secretaries said no major changes
had been made in the address since
Chancellor Hitler's Reichstag speech
yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Woman Victim Of Gas
Declared Suicide

A suicide certificate was issued
yesterday in the case of Mrs. Genie
D. Briggs, 81, who was found dead
from gas poisoning shortly after
noon in her apartment at 2002 P
street NV.
The body was discovered oy ner
husband, John H. Briggs, retired
Government employe. when he re-
turned from a nearby store. Police
said a hose, leading from a gas jet,
was in her mouth.
Mr.. Briggs told police his wife
had been i'll for several years and
had undergone several operations.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Negroes Problems
In Employment
Topic Of Farley
Kentucky Conference
First of Series in
Southern States
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, April a.
Problems faced by Negroes in OBJ
tanning and retaining employment
were discussed here today at the
first Of series of conferences on
the subject scheduled to be held in
20 States, most of them in the South.
Approximately 100 white and
Negro invites were present for ad-
dresses by four speakers and floor
discussion, with members of both
races participating.
A Findings Committee" headed
by President William J. Hutchins
of Berea College. promised a report
to Industrial Relations Commits
sioner William c. Burrow next week.
Lawrence A. Oxley of Washington,
D. c., Negro field representative of
the United States Employment Serv-
ice, said 1t was mot fault finding
conference, not to take up individual
complaints, but to consider the
problems of the Negro as a whole"
There can be no recovery in
America unless there is included in
the recovery plan the 12,5O0,O0O
Negro men and women" said Oxley,
outlining the three detectives" Of
plans to provide jobs for Negroes as:
Win back for them their tradi-
tional Jobs; let Negroes hold their
jobs through performing them in
the best possible manner, and
broadening the occupational op-
portunities Of Negroes.