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Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
MISS JANE HANDY
Friends Surprise Her by Holding
Happy Pre-NuptiaI Event

Friends of Miss aJne Handy sur
prised her with a linen shower at
her home on Commerce Street,
Tuesday night, August 9Th. Parlor
games were the evenings diver
sion. Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Handy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nolan Jones, Mrs. Lucy Lattomus,
Mrs. Gordon Turner, Mrs. Irving
Price, Mrs. George Parker, Mrs.
Samuel Pappas, Misses Jane Han
by, Melvina Stevenson, Jean Bar
low, Mary Esther Jefferson, Vir-
ginia Mood, Elsie Lockerman, Etzel
Todd, Evelyn Robinson, Virginia
Kemp.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
JUDGE LeFEvRE TAKES OATH
Sworn in Last Friday = Appoints
James Messick, Smyrna, His Clerk

An interested group of friends
and political associates saw Col.
John P. LeFevre sworn in as judge
of the Court of Common Pleas for
Kent County, Friday after he had
received his commission from Gov.
Richard c. McMullen upon resign
ing as a justice of the peace. His
name was submitted to the State
Senate and confirmed Tuesday of
last week. Judge LeFevre, who
succeeds Earle D. Wiley, appoint
ed James 3. Messick of Smyrna as
clerk of the court.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
Improvement on South Street

Mr.. A. T. Moffitt, who recently
purchased the old dilapidated brick
on South ST., the former
No. 4 school, has torn it down and
cleaned the ground of rubbish and
weeds. 1t is reported he may build
a bungalow on it.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
Market Street Plaza Lights

Town Council has purchased
eight new standard lights of latest
attractive pattern which they have
installed on Market street plaza
They were turned on for first time
Friday night.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
nlACkBIRD BOY TO WALK
Wake Tour of Delaware
boundaries and Shore Iinas

7. ADuplc lIIlt>S
u,., vacoo '. Hill, 909 Tatnall Street
srngton, formerly of Blackbird
staN. ounced = Monday that he will
80, september 5 on a walking
~. p around the whole of Delaware
IN ng to follow as exactly as pos
linz 'ne boundaries and shore
he a Photographic record will
h. Aiaue Of the trip. He already
tba INV Investigated the feasibility of
Msr,s, pan oy walking along the
lsna!.s iand line in the vicinity Of De-
Pa and along the Delaware
Wo0a,n Wy snoreline in the vicinity of
Of yuiand ts q Beach. Several members
bava state Legislature, he said.
dis.s,d ass invited him to stop at their
soroa curing his trip and meet
s''ne Of their constituents.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
MIDDLETOWN LO.O.F. OUTING
In Celebration of the 93rd Anniver-
sary of the Organization

Clarence P. Webber, manager of
the Middletown branch of the Del
aware Trust Co., and a member of
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 9, 1. o.
o. F. of Middletown, entertained
the lodge members on a moonlight
cruise on the Delaware Bay last
week in celebration of the ninety
third anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the lodge, and the fiftieth
anniversary of membership of John
E. CHM of that town. The group
sailed from Little Creek on the 44-
foot cabin cruiser, Penn-Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. DIR. j. w. CoIona, Pastor, An
nounces Services For the Week


The services at Asbury Method
ist Church next Sunday, August
18th, will be as follows: the Church
School will convene promptly at 10
o'clock a. m, with Mr.. H. c. Jones,
superintendent, in charge; the
morning worship service and ser
mon at IL. DR.. Colona and family
will leave early next week for
two weeks vacation and hence will
be absent from the pulpit the last
two Sundays of August. In his
absence the pulpit will be sup
piled August goth by Rev. W. E.
Matthews of Smyrna; August 27th
by Rev. DR.. G. A Burslem of st.
Georges.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
NOTES OF SMYRNA GRANGE
Program Last Thursday Evening
in Charge of the Lecturer

The monthly business meeting
of Smyrna Grange was held Thurs
day evening with good attend
ance. The lecturer was in charge
of the program. Song by Grange;
reading, Hester Ryan; talk, E. t.
Heinold; Grange Journal, Ruth
Pryor. A large crowd attended
the Grange picnic on Tuesday,
The next open meeting will be on
August 18th.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
Samuel Weigel BUYS Property

G. Harvey Wright, realtor, sold
for James Seacord, house and IL
acres of ground located at Duck
Creek to Samuel Weigel of Ken
ton.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
JERMAN CHAPEL NEWS
Rev. Raymond Taylor, Pastor, An
nounces Special Tent Services

Rev. RaRymond Taylor of the
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, an
nounces special tent services on
Mt. Vernon Street, Smyrna, each
evening at 7.45 with special music
and singing with chalk drawing.
All are cordially invited. Sunday
School at 2; afternoon service at
8; street service at $50; evening
service, 7.30.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10
SEEK AUTO LAW
TO CUT DEATHS
State Leaders in Conference
at Dover Want Laws
''With Teeth"
FIX BILL FOR ASSEMBLY

At the emergency conference of
state leaders in Dover, Monday
summoned to seek means to check
mounting highway deaths in Della
ware decided on immediate action,
directing a committee to whip into
shape a bill equipped with teeth"
and to have it ready when the
State Legislature reconvenes on
Monday. The conference, called by
Deputy Motor Vehicle Commission
er Zack w. Wells, allowed the COM
mittee latitude, but the bill is to
be based on the ideas developed at
the meeting, the foremost of which
was a plan to revoke drivers lic-
enscs for recklessness convictions
on the first offense Temporary
revocation is provided under the
present law on the third offense
Under the new plan the period of
revocation would be progressively
longer for the first, second, and
third offenses. The committee, ap-
pointed by Mr.. Wells, comprises:
Chauncey P. Holcomb, secretary of
the State Highway Department,
chairman; w. Floyd Jackson, pres
ident of the Delaware Safety
Council; w. w. Mack, chief engin-
eer of the highway department;
Harold S. Schutt, president of the
board of directors of the Depart
ment of Public Safety of Whining
ton, and Lloyd r. Lewis, president
manager of the Delaware Motor
Club. Mr. Wells is an exofficio
member. A possible provision of
the proposed legislation, while not
broached at the conference, is
reciprocal agreement with Penn
sylvania to suspend drivers licens-
es for 80 days on first conviction of
exceeding so miles an hour speed.
studied at the confer
ence for the safety drive included:
automobiles with COVER
nors to limit their speed, increas-
ing the speed limit to so or 55
miles an hour, taking into consid-
Grafton the locality; plainly mark
ing dangerous locations, placing
steady or constantly-fashing traf-
fic lights at dangerous intersec-
tions, education of drivers in safe
ty, giving the word of a police of
ficer greater credence as to the
condition of driver arrested for
driving while intoxicated rather
than limiting evidence to a doctors
requiring examina-
ton of drivers after third convic-
ton for reckless driving before
they may obtain new license, and
increasing the state highway police
force especially for highway patrol
duty.
Varying Limits Urged
On speed limit, one suggestion
was that 55 miles an hour be al
lowed on dual highways with SO
miles on other open highways, and
that zones be established according
to the condition of the road. Dan
gerous stretches, or stretches in
densely populated areas, would
have lower limits, some as low as
20 miles an hour. A proposal fav-
orably received was that persons
convicted of reckless driving be
given an alternative of having
sealed governors placed on their
by the police for one
year or suffer the specified period
Of license suspension. The COVER
nors mentioned were of a type at
tached to the drive shaft rather
Smyrna times., 1939-08-10

Charles c. Lane, Well Known Paint
Salesman, Died Here

Charles C. Lane, 72, we'll known
paint salesman, who with his wife,
moved to Smyrna last spring from
Parksley, Va, and took up resi-
dence on West Commerce Street,
Smyrna, died at the Kent General
Hospital Sunday. He had been i'll
about two weeks. Mr.. Lane, who
had been an employe of George D.
Wetherill & Company of Philadel-
phia for fifty years, was honored
and respected by the company, so
much so that the President and
Vice-President of the company mo-
tored down for his funeral. He is
survived by his wife, the former
Miss Amy Jones of Dover, and one
brother, DR.. Frank Lane of Phila-
delphia. Funeral services took
place from Matthews Funeral
Home, Smyrna, and interment
was made in Odd Fellows Gem
etery.
Death of Mrs. John w. German
Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth German,
wife of John w. German, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
George w. McMichael, near Mt.
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Evening star., 1939-12-27
Refugee Educator,
From Europe Will
Speak in Capital
Historical Society to
Open 3-Duy Session
Tomorrow

Refugee scholars and educators
from Europe will lead discussions
of the cultural, political, and eco
nomic relations of Germany with
her Slavic neighborS at the fifty
fourth annual convention of the
American Historical Society, OPEN
ing tomorrow at the Mayf1oWer Ho-
tel for a three-day session.
At least 1000 members from vari-
GUS parts Of the United States and
Canada are expected to attend.
The program, In charge of Prof.
Eugene N. Anderson of American
University, includes discussion of
three main topics-the technique of
cultural analysis and synopsis, the
cultural role of ideas and cultural
conflict and nationality groups.
Gen. George C. Marshall, Army
chief of staff, will discuss National
Organization for War" tomorrow at
10 am. at joint session of the
association and the American Mill
Evening star., 1939-12-27
Truck Lussoes Bicycle

BRUNSWICK, Ca, Dec. 27. R,-
Driver and police were at loss to
figure how bicycle happened to be
dangling from chain at the rear
of a heavy truck.
Back-tracking, they found young
Billy Duke waiting for his bike some
miles down the road. He said the
swinging truck chain had neatly
lassoed the bicycle, tossed him to the
pavement unhurt.
Evening star., 1939-12-27
New Deal 10 Retain
Parity Payments,
Bankhead Says
Senator Says Principle
Will Be Kept After
Talk With Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama said after a conference
with President Roosevelt today that
the administration had no intention
of abandoning the principle of farm
parity price benefit payments.
Senator Bankhead, who has been
active in seeking congressional ap-
preparations for these subsidies to
give the farmer a fair exchange
price for his products in relation to
goods he buys, added, however, that
If farm prices continued to rise, an
appropriation for parity payments
on 1941 crops might not be neces-
sary.
He remarked also that the $225,-
100000 appropriated last session for
payments on 1939-4O wheat. corn.
cotton, tobacco and rice might not
be used in full because of the pres
ent price trend.
Parity payments are limited I'M
der the law to IS per cent of the
difference between market prices
ana parity prices.
Asked about the Presidents state
ments that Congress had not full
filled its pledge to levy new taxes
to pay for more than $5O0,OOO, 900
in farm subsidies during the last
two years. Senator Bankhead said
he was willing to increase taxes a
reasonable amount for this purpose
But he contended he had not felt
higher taxation was necessary "be-
cause they don't raise taxes every
time they increase the Army and
Navy"
Yesterday Chairman Cannon of
the House Appropriation Subcom-
mlttee on Agriculture urged in an
interview that the certificate plan of
Secretary Wallace be substituted
for the existing 1925 100000 parity
price subsidies.
He said he did not regard the
plan of Secretary Wallace as per-
feet but said that it offered hope
OF a solution land Congress must
choose now between a permanently
subsidized agriculture or an attempt
at permanent cure"
Under the certificate plan, CO.
operating farmers would receive in
come certificates from the Agricul-
ture Department. Professors and
others buying crops from these
farmers would be required to pur-
chase the income certificates as we'll
The amount of the certificates would
be the difference between the market
price of the crop and the parity
price
Evening star., 1939-12-27

tary Institute. A luncheon on Sat-
urday will be devoted to the gen.
eraly topic of Problems of History,
1914 to 1919"
The annual address of the presi-
dent, William Scott Ferguson OF
Harvard University, will be delivered
at the convention banquet tomor-
row night. The business meeting
Of the association has been called
for 3:15 o'clock Friday afternoon
when reports of special committees
will be considered.
Evening star., 1939-12-27
Fire Destroys Home
Of Absent Family
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Nd, Dec. 81
Fire of undetermined origin yes
terday destroyed the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Roscoe Strickland at
nearby California, Md.
The Stricklands were away at
the time, visiting relatives in North
Carolina.
Evening star., 1939-12-27
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner, Southern Wholesalers,
MayfloWer Hotel, pm.
Dinner. Washington Board of
Trade. Maytlower Hotel. pm. .
Meeting, United Brotherhood Of
Carpenters. Local 1851, Annapolis
Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
Society, Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Washington Chapter
American Red Cross. Wardman Park
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Young Friends sClub,
Raleigh Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Frater-
nifty. Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance. Phi Sigma Epsilon Sorori-
ty. Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Catholic Students Mission
Crusade. Willard Hotel, 10 pm.
Convention. American Political
Science Association, Wardman Park
Hotel all day.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, American Historical So
ciety, MayhoWer Hotel, 10 am.
Luncheon, Junior Board of Com :
merce, Annapolis Hotel, 1920 pm.
Luncheon, KiWanis Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club,
Carlton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting. Disabled Firemen's Asso-
citation. Annapolis Hotel. 7 pm.
Dinner, Corinthian Yacht Club
Sea Scouts, Lafayette Hotel, 7:30
pm.
Glass reunion, st. Johns College
Prep 1887, the Nightingale, 7:30 pm
Meeting, Washington Chapter,
American Red Cross, Wardman Park
Hotel pm.
Convention, American Political
Science Association, Wardman Park
Hotel all day.
Evening star., 1939-12-27
Young Mothers! Do What
Your Mother Did About
COUGHING COLDS

OF colds. Today three out of five moth
ers are benefiting by this forty-four-
year-study of colds when they use
VapoRub and let its amazing poul-
tice-vapor action go to work. PROFIT
BY THEIR EXPERIENCE. Do this.
If it's coughing cold, melt a spoon
full of VapoRub in pan of boiling
water, ard breathe in the soothing.
medicated vapors. Then massage
throat. ets; chest. and nd u)CkS
back and go to bed. VVApoRus
Evening star., 1939-12-27
3 Out of 5 Mothers Use This
HOme-PrOyed Treatment

You are right to worry when a cold
strikes your family. You should take
steps, at once, to relieve the misery
and suffering. But you want to be sure
that what you do is really helpful. You
don't want to take needless risks.
Now here is what most mothers do.
They use Vicks VapoRub. Since 1895
Vicks and their doctors have studied
ways to treat the distressing symptoms
Evening star., 1939-12-27

CHRISTMAS ALL OVER AGAIN-Santa Claus paid a second
visit to more than 40 children yesterday the Variety
staged its annual party for children Shown
enjoying refreshments Lois Mae Bad 12yeaod daughter
OF Capt Harry Badt commander of the u Tuscaloosa
and Lillian Scher H. daughter of Mr. and Mrs Sol Scher
Star Staff Photo
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Us, CHURCF IE $
Announce Cost Tor PIsy
With Opening Tonight
"taeunion" by HUG Wollsse = Hevs ~ pQ5|1e
Tussdsy u Link Thsstss on cSu stvssls
To Run Five Niokfs

It's to BE- anchors sweirh Il TIE fIte 1hco>1P ~ c.
street. Tuesday night Oct 81 II the opening a ~ Io
Drama leagues offering ExeurSIou ~ He0o Wol<4
The play WIN continue for five consecutive nights ecar
Nov. 4 &
Final reheAaiz show Tho cast and the ppoetieN c1H
working together with def assurance which ro6IcU
face brilliant performances An experiment II ~ - q
mprcszionlsfic setting u b introduced for ne ir
ths ct tho Lts heater In the zreneu taking pueo IN ~
captains cabin. The technical mind wn wetch tEIo Wl4
critical interest
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IL DUCE SHAKES
UP Government
italy

Premier Renlio Mazsollni today
ordered a drastic ahAke-up q gov.
ernmentAi. party and military lead
ers in What appeared 10 - an
effort 70 strengthen Italian neu-
traiity.
The premier replaced the chiefs
% STAFF 81 the army and air fnrcs,
ak cabinet ministers and the sec.
rotary general IL the Fascist party
hut left Count Galcazso Csano IN
charge 81 the foreign ministry.
All OF the rev appolntees are
regarded as strong men IN Their
respective fields. giving Massollnl
brain and Drawn trust. such ~
the Fascist government never has
had in the past. They are also al
close personal friends OF the pre-.
mier and Count Clsno.
This. " was believed hy oh
servers, wa< designed To pre-
pare Italy for any ev~ntaalisy
IN the European war. % make
every phase az The government
and armed ferces more fas-
cist" and TO continue nn-
changed the premier's foreign
policy.
In this way. II Was believed. the
premier had sought TO plea key
men for governmental. party and
military posts who could be count.
ed on To guard 10 the limit The
program - including maintenance
Of ncutrality-he has laid down
since the war started and. II that
proved impossible. to be ready FOR
any emergency. Authorities en-
phasixed that there was no change
in Italian foreign policy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

Totally new and different from stem 20 stern
new inside, new outside-that's the style
story OF this big, stresmlined beauty leader Of
the low price held-Chevrolet for ls40i II has
new front end" Of course-the swankiest
In the field for '4o-and IL also has new pro-
file. new windshieid and roof line. nesv
rear end. and new fittings and fabrics and
insfrumenfs. too. It's new all the way through
the smartest car a low price ever bought!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

meeting OF 10000 for Moral Re-
Armament: IN the name of the
Minneapolis Central Labor Union
we send greetings. We are glad
for the lead given by British and
Scandinavian labor, and we feel
that Moral Re-Armament is the
way in which the ideals Of all of
us can with peace be realized in a
new spirit of cooperation and ma
tional responsibility"
Clio workers in a steel plant In
Pennsylvania were among the first
in America to take up MIRA. They
sent one of their leaders, John An
derson, as their representative to
the first World Assembly for Nor
al Re-Armament. Anderson found
this new spirit first in his home.
There used to be some question
who ran things in his family of
five, but they get along better
since all decided to let God be
the boss" squabbles went out
the window, and a new security
came in.
Johns wife is now a real part
ner in his work with the men.
Says she: II have sent John back
to work and to his tasks of leader
ship time and again with a new
courage when he feared losing his
job or his position. He used to be
afraid of risking the security of
our home by his keenness in the
labor movement. But, you see, l
haven't any more fear since MIRA
came into our home"
Anderson was chairing a union
meeting one night when an OPP
position faction threatened to
make things rough. He thought
for a moment how to apply MIRA
in such situation, and then quick
ly appointed four bouncers from
the unruly faction to keep order.
Another of the workers got up and
read a passage from the Bible. A
new tone came into the meeting
and the business in hand was dealt
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she and her baby daughter were
doing well. nurses said. Tier has.
hand. Charlie. took his three other
small children aud returned Kiuuly
10 picking cotton ~ - = wreck.
he and Mrs. Matthews. who had
heea attracted here from OKLA.
bona CITY ~ ADVERTISEMENT ~
ideal working conditions ana pleas.
ant climate. were hitch.hlklng back
when the ssork caught up with
them.
Temperature. we're In the
60. The Matthews had few
clothes, M mcney. and ne way
Of calling for help. White
thcir cigAt year cid son and
and their five ard ala Year
eld daughters whlmp~r~d IN
the eeid. Matthews hciped his
wife ~ hest he eeuia.
She had delivered her infant, and
II vas crying Justify. whsn sheriff
Fmert kempton happened by. Ne
rushed the family 20 the hospital.
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with peacefully and comparatively.
In that city, through the new
spirit Anderson has brought. two
rival union leaders talked things
over and became friends after
months Of bitter hostility. Con-
flicts which had long held back
progress of the labor movement
were healed in a matter of days.
New Cooperation
Speaking in Washington An
derson said: II saw in MIRA a
new type of cooperation between
people who don't see eye TO eye
on questions of policy and action.
I met fellow members of the CLIO,
together with members of the AFL
and leaders of industry and BUSH
ness, all on a basis of common re-
sponsibility for the security Of all.
1T was a challenge TO me to
build in our plant an industrial
pattern for the whole nation, a
pattern that can be made the key
to peace throughout the world"
A friend of John Anderson and
his family is Bill Rowell, the East
London sandhog who won his way
to representing London's 400. 900
unemployed as a trades union
executive, and who is over in
America working for the MIRA
spirit in labor. Ever since one of
his children died of starvation in
his wife's arms, Bill has been a
fighter for a new social order. As
much as $4,000 worth of plate
glass used to go in a night OF riots
when Bill and his men went over
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F. j. R. NOT ONLY One
WHO CAN ALTER DATES
MOUNT NERNON. Mash.

MotNT VERNON, Wash. ---
President Roosevelt Isn't the only
one who can change holidays.
Retail clerks accepted the pro-
posal for business reasons Of a
group OF Mount Vernon merchants
to observe Armistice day on Mon
day. Nov. IL, instead OF Saturday,
Nov. IL.
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Moral Re-Arm-
ament was born.
From the very
first, labor has
respo n d e d TO
MIRA and taken
a lead in spread
ing II 10 the
labor world.
From r oy
Weir. secretary
of the Central
Labor union Of
NJ ! n n e a p oils,
came a mes
sage to the Hol-
lyNyOOd Row
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'[I5Ho
THE Spec isf DE- Liiss
spoff sedan. fsoxs

Drive the new Chevrolet for 1910 and learn
what handling ease. riding ease and car action
can be! You know Chevrolet Ia the only low
priced car with the ExcIDsipe Vacuum
Power Shift with vafpe-in-Head Engine
with The Ride Royal But you cant know
what these features mean In terms of match
less results until you actually drive and ride
In the car. Try Chevrolet for 1870. test IL
thoroughly, and then you will know that
"Chesroiet's FIRST AGAIN.
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Moral Re-Armament and Labor

EDITORS NOTE: Because ef
she widespread interest that has
esen aroused In Moral Re-Arma-
menu movement. n series of II
srtlcles will Be presented bv this
Newspaper. written BY = leader
~ The move-teiling jusf what
y =. how u sorks. and nhnt 1t
means 10 nm
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BY REGNtLp'H or.ME

1t was in the birthplace Of the
British labor movement among the
workers OF East London that