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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
MILFORD MAN
WINS PRIZE
A. E. Humes Winner In
RehObOth Beach Letter.
head Contest.
MILFORD MERCHANT

Out of rs entries, judges have
chosen a design by A. Z. Humes, 30
year-old Milford business man, for a
letter head to be used by business
men and town authorities to adVer-
tise the resort.
Officials said his design, which
won the $25 prize. incorporates the
advertising value of the pines and
ocean. and Rehoboth's recreational
facilities.
Mr.. Humes. member of the hard
ware firm of J. H. Humes and Son,
Milford. was formerly a student at
the Industrial Art Institute Of Phil
adelphia. He is a member of the Re-
hoboth Art League, and for five
years has been an exhibitor in the
shows of the Village Improvement
Association.
Eddie Grant One Of the Judges
The contest was directed by the
Art League through Mrs. w. S.
Corkran, executive secretary, and
sponsored by business men and City
Manager R. c. Hill.
Miss Amy Gardner of Dover, Mrs.
Henry Cleaves of Kells, Newark;
Edward L. Grant of Wilmington,
Joseph MacSweeney of Rehoboth
Beach, and ]. Arthur Downing, may
or of Rehoboth Beach. were judges.
The exhibits will be shown Satur-
day and Sunday afternoon in the
Art League Studio in Henlopen
Acres between and o'clock and
on April 10 at the New Century Club
in Dover for benefit of student work
of the Art League.
Honorable Mention
Honorable mention was given:
Mrs. Margureta Walters. art teach
er in Lewes High School; Mrs. Eve
lyn Knapp. art teacher at Caesar
Rodney High School, Wyoming;
Miss Caroline Smith. Wilmington;
n. Arnold. Laurel: Otis Walters.
PHILADELPHIA: Ralph Maria Morton,
Georgetown: John Moll. Middle
town. and Francis Walton. Whining
ton High School.
Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
TRUST COMPANY
ANNOUNCE HEARN.
ESTATE PLANS
Hearn Educational Fund
Will Aid Worthy Deser-
wing White Children.
or THIS VICINITY
Applications For This
Year Must Be In Not
Later Than May Is.

The following statement, made this
week by the Milford Trust Company,
serving as trustee of the Louder N.
Hearn Educational Fund, is self-ex-
planatory.
Resolved, That the Milford Trust
Company as trustee of the Hearn
Educational Fund, established under
the will Of Louder N. Hearn, author
ICES the following announcement:
The will of our late fellow-towns-
man, Louder N. Hearn, provided for
a trust fund, of which the Milford
Trust Company is trustee, to be
known as the Hearn Educational
Fund of which the income is to be
used in helping and assisting the
worthy and deserving white boys
and girls of this vicinity in securing
an education. Mr.. Hearn's will stip-
ulated that the trustees were to use
their Judgment in the distribution of
the income so as to do the most
good.
Pursuant to the terms OF this be-
quest the Milford Trust Company in
vites applications for the financial
assistance of the Hearn Educational
Fund from the boys and girls Of this
vicinity for the furtherance of their
education. Applications should be
sent to the Hearn Educational Fund
in care of the Milford Trust Com
pany. The final date for the receipt
of applications to be acted upon in
any given year will be February
first Of that year. For the present
year this date has been extended to
Nav IS. Blank forms of application
will be sent to interested persons
upon request.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
TCLHELD CEREMO ONIAL
HERE WEDNES. NIGHT
Selections By Forest Band. Vaude-
vile Among the Attractions

The ceremonial of Evergreen For
est, No. 40. T. C. L., Wednesday night
eclipsed anything in that line that
has been attempted lately. The eve
ming was noted for the outstanding
spirit of fellowship that prevailed.
Fun was the keynote of the program
that began early. In the selection of
Howard w. Bramhall as Grand Tall
Cedar. the fOrty-niners have chosen
a man that gets things done in keep
ing with the modern spirit of Ced-
arism.
The forests SO-piece band under
the direction of Russell Snyder.
played short concert early in the
evening.
Warren r. Moore, Junior Deputy
Tall Cedar, rendered a detailed re-
port on the Supreme Forest Conven-
tiOn.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
FIRST FISH HATCHERY
IN STATE OPENS SOON
VIII BE Great Restocking Aid; l.
Located Near Dover

Delaware's first State fish hatch
cry, to be operated by the Board OF
Game and Fish Commissioners, will
be placed in use in a few days near
Dover.
The hatchey pools were construct
ed by the board last year through a
WPA project.
Large spawning bass will be net
ted from Trappe Pond in Sussex
county and will be placed In mo. 1
pond" at Moore's Mill. two miles
south of Dover.
Warden Eli Campbell and Harry
Ash. special fish warden of the
board, operating under direction of
Ralph C. Wilson. chief game war
den, will net the spawn fish.
Captured Fish Released
The spawning fish will be permit
ted to lay their eggs and then will
be recaptured and released in Della
ware ponds and lakes. Eggs will re-
main in the pond until hatcheI. With
care they should grow to abOu' sew
en- inches by September.
The U. S. Biological Survey will
cooperate in the establishment OF
the hatchery as an operating unit.
Men from the Leipsic CCC camp will
be loaned to improve the fish rear
ing ponds.
Cleaning OF Ponds
Stumps will be removed, ponds
cleaned. and roads and paths grad
ed. Sodding and landscaping will be
undertaken also.
The establishment of the hatchery
is the State boards answer to the
annually increasingly diticult prob
lem of securing fish with which TO
restock Delaware's lakes and ponds.
The board. cooperating in the Ar
Dor Day program. has planted 100
Chinese chestnut trees on the pond
grounds. The trees we're presented
by the U. S. Soil Conservation Ser
vice. @
Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14

according to the Delaware Safety
Council they are pretty closely inter-
woven and here is the reason.
In a twinkling some scurrying
boy. intent only on catching an arch
ing fly ball that is carrying out into
the street, or hot-footing It as fast
as he can go after "grounder" that
has gone through him will dash into
the street without a thought in his
head except to get, his hands on that
ball as soon as he can That is the
time when accidents happen, unless
there is a careful driver behind the
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
DR.. Woodbridge Morris To Direct
u. S. Birth Control Federation

Doctor Woodbridge E. Morris, di-
rector of the division of Maternal
and Child Health and of the Crippled
Chlldren's Service of the State
Board of Health. will leave Delaware
May l to take post directing the
Birth Control Federation of Ameri-
ca, with headquarters in New York.
the Federation announced last night.
Doctor Morris has served Della
ware in his present capacity since
April 80. 1886. He was brought here
under Social Security Act appropri-
ations to the State health services
which be directs. During this per-
Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
Safety Council Issues Warnings
rs Spring Play Season Opens

Spring is here. summer is right
ahead. and baseball is again the pre-
dominant sport. Every youngster in
town. it seems. is out with his ball
and bat. with the desire to initiate
the big fellows" in the game. AL
most every little-traveled street has
been turned into an impromptu base
ball diamond and there is a game go
ing on in nearly every vacant lot you
pass.
Maybe IL appears bit far fetched
to connect balmy spring days and a
reviving interest in the national pas
time with automobile accidents, but
Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14

iod. he organized the State crippled
children's service. The maternal and
infant death rates have both touch
ed new low points. Finding wide-
spread malnutrition among the
school children. he also instituted a
State health department nutrition
service. Most Of his work has been
based on the principle that the pub
lie health could be expected to i'm
prove only with increased public
health intelligence.
To reduce the number Of needless
maternal and infant deaths. he has
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
WILDWOOD SUNSHINE
GROUP is ACTIVE
Local Branch Spreads Cheer Among
Sick And Aged

With their work unheralded and
praises unsung. the Millwood Sun
shine Society. that meets each month
in the community building at Mill
wood. near Milford. is performing a
wonderful work in this section of
Kent and Sussex counties. 1t is a
branch of the International Sunshine
Society. with a mission to spread sun
shine among the sick and aged.
Its membership numbers many
prominent and well known ladies of
this section. Nettie Jester (Mrs.
Clarence) is president of the Mill
wood branch.
April Goth the Millwood ladies will
he hosts to the Delaware State Sum-
shine Society, who will hold their
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
SPEAKER ZEBLEY GETS
CAVEL FROM HOLCOMB
~Frlendly Enemy" OF House Chief
Makes Presentation

Secretary OF the State Highway
Department Chauncey P. Holcomb.
last Friday afternoon. presented to
Speaker of the House Frank R. Zeb-
ley. handsome gavel. made from a
piece Of wood 210 years old, taken
from the historic old court house at
New Castle. Inscribed on a metal
band on the gavel is the following
Presented to Hon. Frank R. Zebley,
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
COLONY CHILDREN TO
GIVE ARBOR DAY PLAY
Operetta "The GallOping Ghost VIII
Be Presented Tomorrow

Saturday. April Is. the children at
Delaware Colony will present an OPP
eretta "The Galloping Ghost" for the
visitors who attend the Arbor and
Garden Day exercises. The play will
be given at 2:15 p. m. in the school
auditorium.
Several hundred visitors are ex-
pected at the Colony to visit the
various cottages for boys and girls
in order to see for themselves the
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
STATE REFORESTATION
STOCK NEARLY GONE
More Than 100000 Shipped From
State Forest Tree Nursery

Announcement is made by the
State Forestry Department that ap-
parently due to increased public ap-
probation of the advantage of arti-
fetal Observation-Disclosures tree plant
ing-its supply of rcforestation stock
az the State Forest Tree Nursery.
near Lincoln. in Sussex county, is
rapidly nearing exhaustion.
Lifting. sorting. and counting the
little trees began during the latter
part of February and the first ship
ment left the nursery the first week
in March. Lifting and shipping has
continued with little interruption to
the present time.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From wednesday, April 5 To Tues.
day, April IL, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, local wea-
ther recorder, reports the following
atmospheric conditions for Milford.
from Wednesday. April to Tuesday.
April IL, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
Temperature

Total Rainfall ..... 1.04
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Evening star., 1939-08-09
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Like Australia, Brazil has a large
number of trees which seem strange
to people Of our land. Among these
Is the cannonball tree, which grows
IN the Guianas, as we'll as in Brazil
Happily this tree does not pro-
duce real cannon balls, but it has
ball-shaped fruit, and we may COM
pare the fruit to fashioned
cannon balls of a size once popular
on the battlefront.
The flower and fruit of the can
non-ball tree grow thickly around
the trunk Well above them are
the green leaves.
The fruit takes about 1s months
to rlpen. Young fruit forms before
the old fruit is ready for picking.
The full-siZed cannon bali is
from six to eight inches in diameter.
1t has thin, but hard. woody shell.
Inside is a juicy pulp which the
Indian natives eat, or squeeze to
make a drink
If we may speak of cousins among
trees. the Brazil-nut tree is a cousin
of the cannon-ball tree 1t is tall
and beautiful, growing to heights of
100 to $50 feet.
The Brazil-nut tree is common in
the valley of the Orinoco river. and
In the Amazon valley 1t has large
bright-green leaves, often from two
to three feet long and from six to
nine inches wide. 1t produces
cream -colored flowers.
Evening star., 1939-08-09
FOOD FOR PLAY

SdSS
West opened the king of diamonds.
Declarer won with dummy's ace and
discarded low club. He now led a
spade. East played the nine and
deClarer the jack. West won the
queen, cashed his ace of spades and
led low spade, which East trumped
East next played the king of clubs
and continued with the jack West
won with the ace and played small
club. Once more East ruffed and
now, since West still had trump
trick. declarer was down three tricks
for net loss of TOO points.
South complained of his tough
luck. but we feel it wasn't tough
luck so much as bad bidding South
had very sound opening bid, and
when his opponents bid diamonds.
the suit in which he was void. we
don't blame him for rebidding. But
instead Of continuing on forever in
hearts, in which after all he only
held five cards, his first rebid should
have taken the form of a takeout
double.
If West had now bid three dia-
= monds, North would have passed and
South would also have passed. On
the other hand, if West passed,
North would have to bid two spades.
Then If diamonds were bid again,
South might have raised his partner
to three spades. True, this contract
could be doubled and set two tricks.
. On the other hand, we have feeling
+ that West would not have doubled it..
but instead would have gone on to
four diamonds, which. incidentally,
he would have made. But, after all,
part score is not worth TOO points.
Yesterday with neither side vul-
nerable, you were Oswald Jacoby's
partner and held:
~AX-
Xxx
%AQ J109xx
The bidding:
schenken You Maier Jacoby
1& 90
Answer: Your correct bid is three
clubs. A double will be for takeout:
a no trump overcall will show a
balanced type of hand, while pass
Is unlikely to trap the opponents
since your clubs are too strong.
Score 100 per cent for three clubs,
so per cent for pass you can prob
ably afford to bid clubs later, Moth
ing for any other bid
Question No. 213.
Merwin Maier is your partner. You
are the dealer and hold:
a j 10 SIX
vX
= AXXX
i A Xxx
The bidding:
You Burnstone Maier Schenken
IA Dbl. Redbl. "a
Pass Pass "a Pass
Evening star., 1939-08-09
-'Cunnon Balls on Trees

person SenSeless, or possibly give
him a death blow.
Inside each pod are from 18 to
"a nuts. These are the Brazil nuts"
so often eaten at holiday time. Of
late, they have been growing popular
in shelled-nut mixtures sold by
stores all through the year.
Brazil nuts are the seeds of the
trees. When buried in the proper
soil, in region with climate fitted
to them, they will grow into trees.
Brazil nuts are oily, and millions
of them are pressed for their oil
Watch-makers use the oil for the
movement of watches. 1t also goes
into the making of oil paints en-
ployed by artists.
In our land, Brazil nut oil is
rather costly, but in parts of South
America it is cheap enough to use
in oil lamps. 1t also is put into small
oil stoves.
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Evening star., 1939-08-09

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Evening star., 1939-08-09

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the Four Aces system of contract bridge.
send with your request to the Four
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stamped t3-cent. self-addressed large
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Evening star., 1939-08-09

MEN UNDER A BALL
TREE.
The flowers slowly turn into nut
filled pods. Rounded like the fruit
of the cannon-ball tree, the pod is
thick-shelled and heavy. Woe to
any native, or traveller, who walks
under a Brazil-nut tree and meets
one of these balls on its way down
to the ground 1t is about the size
of mans head, and could knock q
Evening star., 1939-09-07

ports that even single enemy
plane had approached anywhere
near Berlin.
The capital, taking no chances,
was ordering blackouts SO complete
that walking even a block in the
busiest sections at night was diff
cult and occasional cigarettes glowed
with startling brilliance.
Searchlights occasionally cast
beams upward and the vast defense
organization was keyed for instant
action, but nothing has happened.
An announcement this morning
said every community presenting
any target Of military significance
was equally we'll protected by de-
fense planes and anti-aircraft artil-
lery.
There was a marked disposition
in well-informed quarters to believe
that France was not enthusiastic
about the war and that there was a
chance she would leave all initiative
to Britain.
German propagandists were assur-
ing Frenchmen and the world that
Germany understands that France
was dragged into declaration of a
state of war.
Hourly the radio challenged Brit
ain to produce conclusive proof that
the liner Athena was sunk by a
German submarine. DNB, official
news agency, charged that the
Athena was torpedoed on orders of
the British propaganda service in
hope it would create another Incl
dent with an effect on American
opinion like the sinking of the Lusi.
tania."
British statesmen and writer's
especially David Lloyd George
Britain's World War prime min
lister, were quoted to the effect that
separation of East Prussia from the
Reich by the Versailles-established
Polish Corridor was fundamental
injustice.
Evening star., 1939-09-07

lands heavy industry, zinc and lead
production, 95 per cent of the coal
production and so per cent OF the
nitrates, the agency said.
Berlin received reports that the
Polish government had moved to
Lublin, about 100 miles southeast
of Warsaw, and military quarters
predicted after the inevitable" oc-
cupation of Warsaw, Lublin soon
would be within cannon range.
The German big guns were being
dragged eastward by caterpillar
trucks over the rough Polish roads
The supreme army command an
nounced that its force from the
north had reached Pultusk on the
Narew River and that the Polish
Army continued hurried retreat.
The communique said the 9Th and
9th Polish divisions, the famous
Pomorska cavalry brigade, the 9th
tank battalion and the 1st and I'd
rifle battalions" had been COM
pletely wiped out by casualties or
capture.
Hitler in Corridor.
Hitler was in the Corridor sector,
somewhere between Grudziadz and
Tuchola, yesterday when, it was re-
ported, German troops drove into
Krakow, old-time capital, in South
western Poland-often called "Po-
lands heart"
Fifteen thousand prisoners were
said to have been taken in the Grud-
ziadz-Tuchola sector, along with a
vast amount of war materials. The
Polish rout in the Corridor was char
acterized as 'indescribable confu-
sion"
Military authorities said the Pol
ish operations were we'll ahead of
schedule. Won Brauchitsch and
other leaders warned that more diff
f1cult assignments probably lie
ahead.
The implication probably was that
after Poland, the German Army
might have to come to grips with
Britain-German propaganda is en-
phasizing Britain as Germany's foe
in the west more than France.
Little Indication Given.
Otherwise there was little indi-
cation that Germany regards her
self as at war with Britain or France.
Official radio announcers were re-
ferring to Britain as the country
which thinks it is at war with Ger
many"
1t was expected the air force could
be released soon from its assign
ment in the east. Official reports
said 18 more Polish planes were de-
stroyed yesterday in II air battles.
Germans asserted control of the air
was complete and they ridiculed re-
Evening star., 1939-09-07

mented as fast as decommissioned
destroyers can be repaired and
manned, will extend several hundred
miles out to sea and eventually will
cover the short line from New Eng
land to the Caribbean and Panama
Canal. Airplanes also will be util-
ized.
VIII Spot Belligerent Craft.
The patrol will furnish the Gov
ernment information on the pres
ence OF belligerent craft in waters
adjacent to the United States SO
shipping in the vicinity may be
warned. Embassies of the belliger-
ents will be informed neutral ships
are in the area where their fighting
ships may be operating.
State Department officials expect
the President to extend the arms
embargo soon to the Union of South
Africa. The Union Minister here,
Ralph w. Close, advised the depart
ment late yesterday his country had
joined Great Britain in the war
against Germany.
Shipping Expert Named.
Other developments yesterday:
/. The Treasury announced that
Basil Harris, veteran shipping ex-
pert and official of the United States
Lines, had been given the joint title
of Commissioner Of Customs and As
sistant Secretary. One of1lcial said
he will be the key man in taking
care Of shipping angles OF neutrality
from an advisory and administrative
standpoint"
1t was pointed out that the Gus
toms Bureau has the actual machin-
cry through which shipments of mu-
nitions or other restricted items to
belligerents are regulated.
Mr.. Harris appointment was an
nounced shortly after Stephen B.
Gibbons Assistant Secretary in
charge of customs. Coast Guard and
Evening star., 1939-09-07
u. S. Submarine
Ordered to Go
| 7oCubdn Base

Down in South American waters
where German U-boats are reported
to have been seen, the United States
Navy submarine Speartish received
orders today to curtail her shake
down cruise and proceed to Guam
tanamo Bay, United States Naval
Base in Cuba. At the Navy De-
partment 1t was said the orders were
issued because of conditions now
existing"
The Spearfish sailed from the
submarine base at New London
Conn, on the shakedoWn cruise
August 81. After visiting New York
she went to Bahia, Brazil.
The submarine is one of the
Nays latest types. She was put
into commission last July II and is
similar to the ill-fated Squalus.
Coincident with issuance of Or
ders directing the submarine to
leave Brazil, there were reports at
the Navy Department that some OF
the $50 officers attending the post
graduate school at the Annapolis
Naval Academy might be assigned
to command the destroyers that are
to be recommissioned to aid in en-
forcing Americas neutrality laws
Such a move, it was said would not
result in closing the school.
Evening star., 1939-09-07

committee called fer October 16 and
II would be held as scheduled.
8. The Federal Communications
Commission appointed committee,
composed Of Chairman James Law
renee Fly, Commissioner Thad H.
Brown and Commissioner T. A. M.
Craven, to study radio broadcastins
OF European war news. At an ex-
ecutive session, the commission dis
cussed radio broadcasting "in rela-
ton to the European situation"
7. The War Department, mean
while. announced expansion Of the
newly-formed War Resources Board
by the addition of John Hancock,
New York industrial banker, as q
seventh member. AS naval COM
mander, Mr.. Hancock was in charge
OF naval purchases during the World
War. With Chairman Edward r.
Stettinius, jr., and four other men,
bers, Mr.. Hancock conferred yester-
day on existing plans for industrial
mobilization at the War Department.