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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Forest Fire Damage Is
Worst State Ever Had

not less than $95, 900 damage in all
These figures apply only to the
territory covered by the State, Fed
eral, county cooperative fire fighting
system and do not include damage
done by fires on purely Federal areas
or in homeopathic counties.
Mccormick emphasized the fact
the figures are not complete, but the
best that can be compiled at the
moment.
In a letter to Director R. Bruce
Etheridge he said: 'These are the
best estimates possible at this time
because many reports are not yet in
Because the boys were on most OF
the fires, you will find that these
figures are not far wrong l do want
the general public to know, however
that these figures are not entirely
accurate.
The fire fighting chief presented q
vivid picture of the difficulties un.
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22

London, Nov. 22.-(AP)-German
planes today dropped bombs in
raid on the Shetland islands off the
northern coast of Scotland.
Air raid alarms in one of the is
land towns was followed quickly by
the "all-clear" signal. Tracer bullets
were fired as the planes circled,
dropping bombs.
Six planes took part in the raid,
but failed to score any hits, British
sources announced.
Warfare between Great Britain
and Germany entered an intensified
phase as British planned an unre-
stricted blockade on German export
trade in reprisal for recent shipping
losses. The Admiralty announced
British Warship had intercepted the
4,110-ton German freighter, Bertha
Sisser, off Iceland's coast stating the
crew started to sink the ship, took to
their boats and then were picked up
by the Warship.
The 6,060-ton Italian freighter
Ramona was added to the list of mine
victims off England's southeast coast.
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
German Scouting
Planes Driven Off
On Western Front

With the British Air Force in
France, Nov. 22.-(AP)-Brit-
ish and French fighter planes
were reported today to have
SWEET the skies clear of Nazi
reconnaissance planes, shooting
down seven. An eighth enemy
plane was destroyed by anti
aircraft fire from the ground.
The British and French said
that the French lost two planes
i'm the days fighting, and the
British none.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22

agreement with the mikado, the
Tokyo press Immediately took the
position that he was singing all ia
Americans among others.
There are more Of them proportion
ately in Hawaii than any where else
else under the Stars and Stripes even
on the Pacific coast, where they're
rather thick.
Answering Tokyo, these Hawaiian
Japs promptly made it known that
they're 100 per cent American-and
not fraction Of one per cent Jap.
l believe 'em.
All but the very oldest of them
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Heavy Aerial Bombings
By Japs On The Chinese

hllly border region of southern
Kwangsi, north of the point where
the Japanese started a landing in
force just week ago.
The bombardment damage was
not specified in the war report, but
the Japanese pamphlets were said
to have urged the populace to cease
resistance and cooperate with the
Japanese.
French Chinese troops-Kwangsi
is one of the most militarized prov
inces-Were rushed to the border
region, and appeared to have STEM
med the japanese offensive.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
First Fee Is Paid
In Congress Race

Raleigh. Nov. 22.-(AP)-GiEes
Yeomans Newton. OF Gibson, to-
day became the first person to
file for office in next years pri-
marieS and elections in North
Carolina.
Newton paid S1O0 to Raymond
Maxwell, secretary of the State
Board of Elections, to seek the
Democratic nomination to Con-
greSS from the eighth district.
Two years ago Newton sought
the same job in field of five can
didates. He got LAZY votes and
ran fifth.
w. o. Burgin, of Lexington, the
present representative from the
eighth, is expected to run for re-
election.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
MQathQh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Nasty cloudy tonight; slight
Iy colder in extreme west pOr-
ton; Thursday partly cloudy.

Hong Kong, Nov. 22-(AP)-
japanese planes were reported to-
day to have repeated attacks on
Manning, Kwangsi province capital,
loosing mixed cargoes Of bombs and
propaganda leaflets.
The Japanese reported no further
progress in their drive toward Nam
nlng and China's 'back door to the
outside world through French Indo-
China and British Burma, but
Chinese advices told Of heavy fight
Jig and numerous casualties on both
:lGes.
The. zone of hostilities was the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Desperate Is
Convicted;
Gets Death


chicago, Nov 22.-(AP)-A Fed
e.ai court jury convicted Jack Rus
sci, , 81 Oklahoma desperate, of kid
r.eP-ag md killing William Scott
-.@atAii}on. %, Arkansas City, Kans.,
nam, and recommended the
'ea 1a. penalty today.
o. LIE jury reached its verdict after
s" nouns, 80 minutes, at 6:52 a.
~ ~ a'id returned it before Judge
. -',"i Ie T. Woodward shortly there
81, .s.e fled from the Oklahoma
wss son at McAlester, where he
Jrf. Ag ten years for robbery last
3D. T. ma during the ensuing week
K.ra PEG Hamilton near Pittsburgh
0ear I oAd killed him, he admitted
i'ilg Wood, ILL.,, July IA.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Cotton Loses
Early Gains

New York, Nov. 22.-(AP)-Cot-
ton futures opened four to five points
higher. Around the end OF the first
hour, prices ranged two points high
er to two lower, with December at
9.72, October 1866.
Around midday the market was
unchanged to seven lower, except in
inactive January, down four on an
earlier sale; December 9.68, March
9.51.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
DR.. Graham
Might Go To
Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio, Nov. o.
(AP)-Dr. Wilson M. Compton
returned to Washington today
while members of the board of
trustees of Ohio State University
considered his candidacy as a
successor to DIR. George w.
Rightmire as president of the
school.
The trustees will meet Deem
Der IL. One other candidate still
may be interviewed, board
sources said. He is DIR. Frank
Porter Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Italian Ship
Sea Victim
Off England
German Freighter In
tercepted by British
Warship And Crew
Tries to Sink Her Be-
fore Being Captured;
c. erm an r aid e r
Downed.

London, Nov. 22.-(AP)-
German air raiders bombed the
Shetland Islands and set fire to
a Royal Air Force Seaplane to-
day, in two sharp thrustS at Bri-
tain.
A cOmmunique said the Nazi
raiders first made an attack on
shipping, but were driven off,
and then attacked a seaplane at
a mOOring, and set it fire.
The air ministry also announced
the Royal Air Force had made
unsuccessful flights on Monday
and Tuesday over Stuttgart,
Frankfort, Hamburg and Bre-
men.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22

mote eye on the
HaWiian i S | a nds.
But I wouldn't for
a minute hint at
any disloyalty on
on the part Of our
Hawaiian Japan
csc. When State
Secretary Hull ir-
ritated by Nippon's
a n tt Occidental
policy in China,
recently put a pc
riod to U n c | e
Sans commercial
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
Japanese In
Hawaii Loyal
To America
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Nov. 22.-The other
day | had occasion to suggest faint
suspicious that Japan has an ultimate
though rather re-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
NOT A CANDIDATE.

Fayetteville, Nov. 22.-(AP)-
DIR. Frank Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina
asked today to comment on re-
ports that he was a candidacy
for president of Ohio State Uni
versity, said merely, 81 am not
candidate"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22
EXPLOSION ORGANIZED BY
GERMANS. EXILE DECLARES

Paris, Nov 22.-(AP)-Otto Stras-
ser, erstwhile lieutenant Of Adolf
Hitler, accused as the instigator OF
the Munich bomb plot against the
German fuehrer, charged in an in
terview today that the Munich eX-
plosion was "organized' by his &C
:.user-Heinrich Himmler, head of
all German police.
81 have just received formal proof
from a devoted party member that
the project emanated with Hmm
Ter himself" said Strasser, an exile
from Germany, in an interview with
Havas, French news agency.
Gle declared to Rudolf Hess (de-
putty leader of the Nazi party and
second in line of succession to Hit
ler), that he needed the attack in
order to unleash a hate offensive
against England, and in order to have
a pretext which would peU...: him
to deal with domestic adversaries,
notably the black front"
(The ''blaclz 'front.' is the name
given to an anti-Nazi organization
understood to be active within Ger
many.)
Berlin, Nov. 22.-(AP)-The war
among secret agents leaped into I'M
accustomed limelight TODAY with the
Gustapo's announcement that
Munich plotter had confessed the
November 8 attempt on Adolf Hit
ler's life, and that two British opera
tives had been seized.
Heinrich Himmler, chief of the
secret police, said George Elser, So
year-old resident of Munich, planted
a time bomb in the Nazi beer cellar
shrine there, at the instigation Of
otto Strasser, longtime Hitler foe,
and with funds furnished by Great
Britain. He did not link the two
captive Britons specifically with the
blast. but accused them of organiz-
ing plots in Germany.
Himmler said that in trying to
reach Switzerland Elser was caught
the very night of the explosion which
killed eight persons, and which Hit
Ter escaped by eleven minutes.
Reporting another angle Of the un-
der-cover war Within-War of rival
secret services, Himmler said a
captain Stevens" and 'Mr. Best,
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-22

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Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
WARWICK

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Rust, OF Will
mington, were recent guests OF the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Rust.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Swain spent
Thanksgiving at their cottage at
Riverdale Park, on the Indian River.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Higgins had
as their guests on Thanksgiving Mrs.
Henry Higgins and Lee McIlvaine. OF
Bryn Mawr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Spargo, of
New Jersey, spent Saturday at their
cottage at Riverdale Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cullen, OF
Georgetown. spent Sunday at their
cottage, The Hawks Nest, near Oak
Orchard.
Mrs. Jennie Veasey is the guest of
her daughter, Mrs. .Mettie Warning
ton and family.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
ROXANA

Robert Alvin McCabe, aged GS
passed away at his home here sat
urday at 900 A. NJ, after being IL
for quite some time with compll'
cation of diseases. He received
treatment at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, and also the
Homeopathic Hospital in Whining
ton. Mr.. McCabe has been in the
mercantile business for the past Ia
years, and at the time of his death
was in business at the same place.
known as Evans and McCabe general
store in this town. Funeral ser
vices were held Monday AT 1870 +.
NJ, at the church of which he. was a
class teacher and trustee. with
the Rev. J. f. Jones officiating. In
terment was made in the church
cemetery. He leaves Il widow, MIS-.
Jurusha Evans McCabe; one son,
Vance McCabe; one daughter, Mrs.
Vivian Hickman; two granddaugh-
ters. three sisters. Mrs. Lizzie Nc
Cormick, Mrs. Addie Murray% and
Mrs. Joseph Lynch, and one brother.
Wilson McCabe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Derickson
and daughter entertained at dinner
Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. Asher Ander-
son, their son and daughter. Of Ocean
View.
Asher Carey and friend from
college, in Baltimore. spent the
Thanksgiving holidays with Ashers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Carey.
Sr.
Miss BesSie Packards. who makes
her home with Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Wilgus, has been ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Daisey spent
Thanksgiving with their son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Holloway, near Berlin.
Mrs. Amanda Evans is making her
home with her daughter. Mrs. Orna
Derickson.
Mrs. Hollie Lynch is i'll at the
Milford Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Lucinda Bennett, of Ocean
View. recently spent few days with
her son and daughter-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. Cove A. Bennett.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
lt than last year. says Richard.

point than last year. says Richard
son.
Commercial hatchings for 1899
were about 81 per cent larger than
those of 1888, and 19 per cent larger
than in 1886, the previous high year
of record. Should commercial hatch
ings follow the same cycle of recent
years, years up and l down, the
hatchings for next year should be
somewhat smaller. The large hatch
ings this year will result in heavier
poultry and egg marketing than in
1889 for the first half of 1910. while
during the last half of 1910 poultry
marketings probably will be smaller
than a year earlier because of small
er hatchings next spring.
Fall and winter broiler production
probably will be larger than last
year's record high production unless
relative feed costs increase consider
ably. If production increases. the
situation is likely to be les sfavor
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
SEAFORD

Mr..and Mrs. James X. Phillips, Jr
made business trip to Wilmington
on Monday of this week.
Because of the need of increaget
pumping facilities, council has au
thorized the purchase of a wate
pump to supplement the presen
equipment at the pumping station
The new pump will cost about S.,
600.
Council has also agreed to release
the new property of the Acorn Clul
! from the assessment for taxing pur-
! poses, and held discussions floating
a bond issue to take care of the needs
Of the rapidly-expanding community
Realty developments in the West
Seaford area and the problems of eX-
tending city facilities to this land
were taken up but nothing definite
agreed upon.
Harry b. Smith. owner of a tract
of land near Hearn's Pond, about two
miles north of SeafOrd, is laying Il
section of his farm into building
lots and home sites and had named
the development Sunset View"
A bridge luncheon sponsored by
the Acorn Club. will be held in the
club house Thursday, Nov. 30, at !
o'clock. The committee in charge is
Mrs. Madge Haines. Mrs. Julia Covey
Mrs. William II. Parsons and Mrs
James X. Phillips.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl p. Thompson
and son Billy were visitors in Will
mington last Friday
Samuel p. Fields, local mail-car-
rier, who is cOnvalescing from a SER
ious illness. accidentally fell as he
was alighting from his car at Sails
bury, Md, and painfully injured his
nose and face. First-aid was given
by Salisbury physician, after which
he returned to his home here.
LinwOod S. Lloyd, owner of
Washington Heights" a develop
ment near his home, about one and
half miles south of SeafOrd, reports
the sale of three lOts-twO to City
Councilman Harlan A. Willin and
one to Burton Brothers. w. w. Mar
lin will move into C0rdrey home on
the development.
The addition to the Seaford High
School is completed and now i'm use,
although some minor items of equip
ment remain to be installed. This
week, G. Morris Whiteside, II, fed
eial architect; James Bice, 'PWA in
SpectOr. and Col. Alexander II. Lord.
president of the local board of edu-
cation, accompanied by w. b. Thorn
burgh. superintendent of Seaford
Schools, made another inspection
tour of the annex. preparatory TO a
final inspection preceding the for
NAL turning over of the building to
the school board and the dedication
ceremony which is being arranged.
The agriculture and manual arts
departments of the Seaford School
will hold an exhibition of shop and
class work in the school gymnasium
on December Sth. Nick SilVerSon.
head of the manual arts department.
and Samuel Sloan. head of the agri-
culture department, will be in charge
and will be assisted by the boys and
girls of each department. Paul
O'bier, sophomore. is general chair
man. Prizes and premiums will be
awarded and sweepstakes ribbons
will be given to the boy and girl re-
Ceiving the most points.
A girls basketball team has re-
Gently been organized at the high
school, with Mrs. L. Lloyd Light as
coach. A large number of girls are
now attending the practice which
started this week.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01

able for producers than in the pre-
ceding year.
The turkey crop for 1889 numbers
almost 32 million birds, % per cent
above the crop in 1885, and Is per
cent more than the previous record
crop of 1886. Turkey prices this fall
are likely to be less favorable than
year ago because of the heavy crop,
says the report. The effect of larger
supplies, however, will be partly OFF
set by larger consumer income. Rap
idly increasing use of turkeys thru
out the year is another factor that
has tended to support turkey prices
in recent years.
The war is not expected to influ-
ence poultry and egg prices much
within 6 to IL months, says the re-
port. Only small amounts of poultry
and eggs are exported and any i'm
provement will be largely the result
of improved domestic demand. The
report notes that poultry and eggs
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
DO YOU KNOW

The Reconstruction Finance Cor.
poration has just sold to the public
a note issue aggregating $25O,OOO,-
! 900. With the proceeds, the r. F. C.
will pay its total debt of $3.50, ,000,0 ,00G
to the Treasury. When payment is
made, the figures for the national
debt will show a decrease of $780,
100000. Although the $250,000,OO
ceases to appear in the national
debt total, it is still a Treasury OBJ
legation, since the r. F. c. notes are
guaranteed by the Federal Govern
ment.
The Department of Commerce, dis
cussing the little war boom" of
September, says: THE immediate
declaration (of war; precipitated the
dangers of misjudging the future, re-
sulting in undue speculative price in
creases and inventory accumula-
tons. These dangers still exist, but
il now can be noted that business
men are carefully appraising the
outlook and analyzing all ramifica-
tions before acting"
o.
d. W. Bates, Iowa State Superin-
tcndent of Banks and president Of
the National Association of Super
vsOrs of Estate banks. has served
notice on the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee that the heads of
State banking departments will OPP
pose any effort by Congress to give
the Federal Government centralized
control over the banking system
O.
Under a wartime mobilization of
wealth" bill introduced by Senator
Josh Lee, of Oklahoma. forced loans
would he eXacted from Americans
over range from a loan of 2.J per
cent from persons with $4,000 net
wealth to 43.3l per cent from per
sons with $4,000 900 net wealth
o.
II British wartime taxes were inn
posed on Americans, they would take
2l.S per cent away from an income
of $4,000. A somewhat similar, but
even more drastic, wartime tax
measure was proposed in Congress
last year by Senator Bone. Demo
crat. Of Washington.
The Department of agriculture re-
ports that since the domestic cotton
export subsidy went into effect last
July, the price of United States cot
ton in Liverpool has declined mater
tally in relation to most of the i'm
pOrtant foreign gr0wths.
Morris Erickson. OF North Dakota.
u director of the National Farmers
Union, estimates that farmers CON
stitute more than "a per cent of the
population of the United States but
receive less than IL per cent of the
national income.
A half-billion increase in the ma
tional debt is indicated by Secretary
Morganthau's statement of November
2 that the Treasury expects to raise
$500, 900, 900 in new money before the
end of the current fiscal year on
June 30, 1910.
Dictator Benito Mussolini is pic
tured on posters throughout Italy
bearing the inscription THE Italian
people know that they must not dis
turb the pilot. especially when he is
engaged in tempestuOus navigation,
nor ask notice of the route al every
turn
O.
John J. Raskob, then chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
on October 80. 1929. six days after the
great stock market crash that herald
ed the depression, told the American
people that now is the time to buy
o
For every dollar that the Federal
collects from income tax
payers in New York State only Is
cents comes back to the state
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
BRIDGEvILLE

Miss Helen Fisher and Donal,
Rohmer, of Washington, d. c., wer
the guests of DIR. and Mrs. G. Metz
Ter, Jr., for Thanksgiving and tn,
weekend.
MIR. and Mrs. G. Walton Smitl
were hosts to their bridge club OF
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Newton, Mrs
Warren Newton and Messrs. o. A
Newton, Martin Newton and W. H
Newton went to Philadelphia OF
Tuesday to attend the funeral ser.
vices OF Charles Newton.
MIR. and Mrs. Sherman Todd en-.
tertained at dinner on Sunday in
honor of their son and his bride
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Todd of East
Orange, ". ]. Other guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Levin Taylor of Greensboro
Md. Mr.. and Mrs. Dawson Todd, Mr.
and Mrs. James Scott, Miss Virginia
Taylor and Hugh Collins.
Mrs. c. V. Lewis was hostess ia
her bridge club on Monday even
ing.
DIR. Charles ClOthier of Lans-
downe, Pa, spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. j. Burton Purnell.
Mr. and Mrs. William Carl and
son, Eddie, returned to their home
in Sacramento. Pa. last Sunday af-
ter spending the Thanksgiving hOl-
idays with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
LinwOod Culver
The Ladies Aid Society Of the
Methodist Church will meet this eve
ming at the home of Mrs. ElwOod
Bennett.
Mrs. Harry Viven is Il patient in
the Jefferson Hospital in Philadel-
phia.
Miss Mary Kinder spent the week
end in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lee Culver was among the
guests at the luncheon and bridge
given by Mrs. A. II. Lord in SeafOrd
on Friday of last week
Miss Miriam Gray of ClaymOnt
was the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Il j..
Gray over Thanksgiving
Miss Mildred Morgan and Mrs
Edith Richmond of Baltimore, spent
the weekend with Miss Elizabeth
Morgan and Mrs. Villa MacAllen.
Prof. and Mrs. George 4. Macklin
entertained five tables at bridge on
Saturday evening in honor of Prof.
Macklin's birthday anniversary.
Mrs. +. +. Krauss visited her son
and daughter-in-l law. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Krauss in PhiladelphIASover
Thanksgiving. s,
Sterling Smith arrived home from
the University of Virginia this week
for a short vacation with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Walton Smith.
The Mems Bridge Club met with
Don Coon on Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Warrington OF
Frederick, spent Monday with Mr..
and Mrs. Lee Culver. .Es,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Townsend
and son Bill of Camden, n. j., were
the weekend guests of Mrs. Alice
Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Swain enter
tanned the following guests al din
ner on Sunday: Mrs. Ezra Sawyer
of Vineland, y. j., Mr.. and Mrs. Val
Lewis Of Milford and DR.. and MIS-
Walter Lee and sons, Bill and Bud,
of Middletown.
Mrs. G. MetZler, Jr., entertained
three tables at bridge on Friday
evening in honor Of her sister. MISS
Helen Fisher, of Washington. ID. G.
:. Messrs. Harry Ruos, joseph Ruos
and Horace Redfield of Doy-estown,
Pa, spent several days the trst ol
the week on hunting trip in Sus-
sex county. They were the guests oil
George V. RuoG.
Mrs. ]. W. Eckhardt entertained
her bridge club on Tuesday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01

needs to be played by modern or
chestra.
Music changes and reflects the
times. If music were restricted to a
certain standard. il would not ad-
vance.
Business is the same as music. II
leaders in business were tied down to
non-fiexible rules, there could besno
improvement. The spirit of advance
ment would be lacking.
Through the ages people who have
been ground down under a tyrant,
struggled 70 secure freedom. And
when freedom was secured, there
was rapid advancement and rising
living standards.
The United States has. been the
greatest example of this and is proof
that freedom is a synonym for in
centive and inspiration.
Music demands free expression.
Business, like music, cannot thrive
on a code of restriction.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-01
NOTES OF INTEREST
TO POULTRYMEN

Large poultry supplies are ex-
pected to result in lower poultry
prices for the remainder of this year
and the first half of 1910. Egg prices
because of heavy stocks, probably
will remain less favorable for the re-
mainder of 1889 while increased con-
sumer demand is expected to more
than Offset heavier production dur
ing 1910, says H. l.. Richardson, ex-
tension poultryman of the University
Oh Delaware, after studying the poul-
try and egg outlook issued this week
by the Federal Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.
Feed prices are expected to range
"a little higher in 1910. The higher
feed prices, together with larger egg
production, is likely to result in a
feed-egg ratio that will continue less
favorable from the producers view