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Milford chronicle., 1939-03-03

Another All club has been organ
lied at Dover High School. About
five years ago there was a club
there. The first meeting of this new
club was held February at the Do
yer school. Miss Comstock was pres
ent. Officers were elected for the
club year as follows: Harry Moor,
president; Nathalia Nelson. vice.
president; Peggy German, secretary;
Helen Horvath, treasurer; Sara War
rem. reporter. Our local leader is
Violet Long. The club is entering
the dramatic contest which is held in
March, by giving a play entitled.
Fireman, Save My Child" The club
has an enrolment of about 20 mem
bers. The club wishes to have a very
successful and happy club year
Points in selecting Matching eggs"
was the subject of the talk given by
J. F. Gordon, teacher of agriculture
at Greenwood High School before the
Pennington All Club on Friday eve
ming. February "a. He stressed the
importance of good parent stock, free
from disease. bred for high egg pro-
duction, good egg sizes and high liva-
bility Other consideration in egg
selection were size. shape and color
of the egg. quality of egg shell and 1
and moisture conditions
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-03

Mail in one box top and 10c
for one Chrysanthemum Plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Society Man
SIays Self

Continued from Page II
and not anybody else. 1t was un-
godly of him."
Mrs. Carolin was taken to a hos
pital with two bullets in her abdo-
men and was not expected to live.
Sprague fired a bullet through his
head and died. after slightly wound
ing State Policeman John Butch
who had tried to save Mrs. Carolin.
Mrs. Higgins called state police
at 4 am. and said that drunken
man was running around in her
home" Trooper Busch went there.
Mrs. Higgins met him at the front
door with the news that Sprague
had locked himself in an upstairs
bedroom with Mrs. Carolin.
He found the door open. Sprague
was sitting on the bed. He fired
one shot at the trooper. which
grazed his right arm. then fired
at Mrs. Carolin, and as Busch was
drawing his own revolver. shot
himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Italian. Nazi
ENJOYS Meet
With Hitler

Continued from Page II
Paris seek to test the limits of Ger
man patience there Is no better
way of doing so than the wilfulness
of arresting German travellers in
the corridor"
Greater Germany will protect
folk Germans" headlined the Deut-
sche Allgemeine Zeitung.
I'VE do not intend to witness the
oppression of these fellow Germans
indefinitely" said the Voelkischer
Beobachter, official Nazi party
newspaper organ.
by virtue of the senseless YER
sailles treaty frontiers, Poland
makes lot of money in return for
no service other than hindering
traffic and wasting time" said
the official news bureau editorially.
mo people on earth can be expected
to 60 on letting wild hordes, wheth-
er they wear uniforms or not, arbi-
trarily decide whether train traffic
with frontier province shall be
maintained or whether whole groups
of passengers shall be seized and
arrested"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IL. (UP)
Deportation proceedings against
Harry Bridges, West coast labor
leader, we're in weekend adjourn
ment today while he and American
Legion officials, headed by Ma
tional Commander Stephen Chad
wick, continued a bitter verbal bat
tie.
Chadwick had called Bridges
modern Caesar" and DR. Henry
Waters. California commander, as
sailed him for threatening" Legion
members while he was himself, be
ing accused of American activi-
ties"
Bridges, in a formal reply. flatly
denied he had called for purge
of Legion members from union
ranks, termed Legion leaders "thc
mouthpieces of bankers and sug-
gested the formation of veterans
labor league that expressed the
ideals of veterans who are work
ers."
"On what meat does this modern
Caesar feed that he can arrogate
to himself not only the right of an
American citizen-which he does
not possess-but that he can go
farther and like dictator tell free
men that they shall and shall not
do" Chadwick demanded.
He termed Bridges labor tactics
"termite sabotage of our citadel of
liberty"
The verbal exchange was an out
growth of the deportation hearing
at which Harper Knowles, chairman
of the state Legion committee on
radical research, testified that the
bureau and operatives inside labor
unions. 1t will be continued Mon-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Planes Hinder
Hens, Farmer
Takes Pot Shots

MODESTO, Cal. Aug. IL CUP)-
An undeclared war waged by an
irate farmer whose chickens would
not lay. against two aviators who
persisted in flying near his barn
was over today without casualty
on either side.
The anti-aircraft battle began
when two airplanes began to sui
phur almond orchards on neighbor-
ing ranches. The planes, in order
to fly back over the orchards, had
to circle low over the farmers barn
Hearing shots at the farm, invest
igators found the farmer emptyine
both barrels of his shotgun at the
ships as they neared his barns
He said the drone of the motors
had frightened his chickens out OF
laying, and threatened to get out
his 30 80 rifle to do some reaI
damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Avoid Do.Nothinq
Candidate, COP
Warned by Nye

WASHINGTON, Aug. II. (UP)-
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, r., N. D., said
today that if the Republican party
expects to elect a president in
1910. "its got to get over its cock
sureness" and exhibit a desire to
Improve and maintain some OF
the advances established under the
New Deal
Nye, member of the senate
progressive bloc, made the state
ment in an interview after study
ing President Roosevelt's announce
ment that if the Democratic party
nominated conservative or lip
service candidates. he would take
no active part in such an unfor-
tunate suicide"
The country, Nye said, is not
ready for "the type of candidate
or leadership that would adopt a
do-nothing policy or policy of
destroying legislation that has as
its purpose improvement of our
social welfare"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
F|iers Bail Out,
Float to Safety

WASHINGTON, Aug. IL. CUP)-
today before an attack plane crash
ed near Langley Field, Va.
Second Lieut.. c. T. Murrell, air
corps reserve, Barrackville, w. Va,
was found near the plane about
25 miles northwest of Langley. His
mechanic, Private Angelo Linzeni,
also was safe.
Linzeni reported that Murrell
ordered him to jump when the oil
pressure in the motor dropped sud-
denly. He was flying over swampy
country on which forced landing
would have been extremely danger
Gus, war department officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Higher Citrus
Prices Forecast

PHOENIX. Aug. II. UP)-Pos-
sibility of higher prices for Arizona
citrus fruits during the coming
year as result of predicted sub
normal crop was seen today in a
report of the u S. department of
agriculture.
The department estimated the
states citrus crop next year would
be but SO per cent of normal, a
situation said to be general in all
citrus raising districts. The crop
last year was 70 per cent of normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Relief Flour
Shortage Seen

LOS ANGELES. Aug. II UPe-
An emergency shortage Of flou,
for state relief clients was created
today by the destruction of 10000
sacks of flour by acid.
Police and relief administration
inspectors opened an investigation
to determine whether sabotage was
responsible for the destruction OF
the flour. They said the acic
contents of three large fire exiting
uishers apparently had been
sprinkled over the flour. The dam
age. estimated at nearly S20O,000
was discovered by George T. Fred
erick. warehouse superintendent
who called police.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Actors in Weekend Truce
After Labor BickerinQ

NEW YORK, Aug. II. CUP) -
With nothing settled after two days
of pickering at Atlantic City over
union jurisdiction, actors, stage
hands and American Federation of
Labor executives came here today
under weekend truce,
The AFL executive council which
is trying to decide whether stage
hands have right to take actors
into their union, which they have
done and which the actors union
says they can't get away with, will
take part today in the state feder-
alton of labor's big parade.
Ralph Morgan, Mischa Aauer,
Edward Arnold, Jean Muir, Binnie
Barnes, Wayne Morris and Miriam
Hopkins. who came by airplane
from HOLLYWOOD to complain against
the stagehands, will return the
same way tonight for an actors
mass meeting tomorrow.
Morgan, president of the Screen
Actors Guild, said the actors had
been more than generous in letting
the AFL council withhold it's ver-
dict until next week, because the
dispute had vital and terrific i'm
plications' affecting 10000 actors
and he had planned to announce the
decision to the Hollywood mass
meeting. which could have taken
strike vote on the spot had their
side lost.
The suggestion arose when the
Associated Actors and Artistes of
America, parent of all entertainers
unions, expelled one of its units
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Florida Slayer
Quizzed in Other
Assault Killings
Continued from Page u

for the kidnapping.
Furthermore, it was reported
that Cochran had been in New
York City writing radio script dur
ing october, 1898. and he had left
there about the time of Miss Coyle's
murder.
In addition TO a message from
the Larchmont police chief, william
j. Keresey, asking that Cochran
be questioned about his whereabouts
on the night of last October IL,
Florida authorities also had re-
quests from Kingston, Pa, that he
be questioned about the rape mur-
der of Margaret Martin there last
December. and Los Angeles. where
police wanted to know If he had
been in that city last Feb. 81 when
Anya Sosoyeva. Russian dancer,
was clubbed TO death on the campus
of Los Angeles City college.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Five of the men then were order
ed to leave New Jersey and head
SOUTH"
Th two remaining, Frances Pres
ton, %, and her husband, Jake, %
both of Coleman, Ga, were put into
one of the cars and driven three
miles to a corn field. There. they
were taken out of the car and strip
ped.
Their captors taking bucket OF
white paint from one of the cars,
daubed the couples bodies. They
were told to walk south. The white
men drove away with their clothes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Americans Told TO
Fight Propaganda

SALEM, Ore, Aug. IL. (UP)-
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary
of war, today called upon Ameri-
cans to dedicate their lives to the
protection of democracy against
subversive foreign elements but
said those lives need not be lost
in war if the nation is kept well
armed for defense.
johnson told the oregon State
American Legion convention that
today there are sinister forces at
work, principally of foreign origin,
that would erect theological from
tiers between our citizens"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

lowed a hearing last night in
NightStown at which several Ne
groes from another farm were ac-
cused of disturbing the peace. Sew
eral white residents of the area
attended the hearing.
The IL white men drove in four
automobiles to a shack on the farm
Of Raymond Dey in Cranbury
township. The shack was occupied
by seven Negroes, one a woman.
The white men smashed the door,
routed its occupants into nearby
field and taped their hands behind
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

AFL to make the IATSE give up the
union it adopted. Actors believe
that if the IATSE is permitted to
gobble up one actors union, it
might soon dominate them all.
Morgan and his followers return
ed from Atlantic City last night by
airplane, weary, rumpled and al
most talked out. Morgan said, I'VE
are trying to be as optimistic as
we can, but we are ready for any
emergency
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Draft Roosevelt
Boom Gathers
Headway in East

PITTSBURGH. Aug. IL tUP)-
A Draft Roosevelt Boom" at the
national convention of Young DEM
ocrats received further impetus to-
day as Mayor Edward Kelley OF
Chicago told the delegates to de-
mand that Mr.. Roosevelt continue
as commander chief OF liberal,
humanitarian government"
Mayor Kelley's speech was wildly
applauded.
"Mr. President. Young Democra-
cy will not take no for an answer,
Thank God for Franklin ID. RooSe-
velt," Kelley said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Legion Opens
Convention

OAKLAND, Cal. Aug. II tUP)-
The California department of the
American Legion opened its annual
convention today with registration
of delegates and an observance of
American Legion Day. at the Col
den Gate International Exposition.
Stephen F. Chadwick, National
Commander, and DR.. Henry G..
Waters, State Commander, review
ed parade of uniformed bodies
which opened the Worlds Fair pro-
gram
Business sessions open Monday tc
continue through Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Former Star of
Screen Divorced

Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. IL. CUP)-
Norma Talmadge. one of the bright
est stars of the silent movie era,
had no further matrimonial plans
today after her quick but not un-
expected divorce from Comedian
George JeSsel
She was granted the divorce in
Juarez, Mex. yesterday on a COM
plant charging incompatibility. She
and Jessel we're married In Atlantic
City, N. j., April %. 1894, shortly
after her divorce from Joseph
Schenck. Hollywood producer. They
had been living separately for two
months and their friends had anti
cipated the divorce.
NEW YORK, Aug. l2 ,UP)-
Comedian George Jessel still be-
lieves that he and Norma Talmadge
who divorced him Yesterday. will
Finish our lives together"
We've been in love with each
other for many, many years" he
said, "and we've been separated
before.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Bridges Awakes Storm Of Criticism by
Attack on Legion; Commander Calls
Him a Modern Caesar

Angeles police department.
The material was gone when he
went to obtain It. Captain William
Parker said The captain, admins
trative assistant to Chief Arthur
Hohmann, had been ordered to find
the subpoenaed matter and deliver
it to San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

tn American Federation of Artists,
comprised of night club and vaude-
vile performers, and the Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees, parent stagehands' un-
ion, gave it a charter Morgan's
SAG, one of the strongest AAAA
units, led the fight to compel the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
RED DOCUMENTS
'MISSING'

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IL up
Letters and documents subpoenaed
for the Harry Bridges deportation
hearing in San Francisco were mis-
sing today from the files of the
disbanded RED Squad" of the Los
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
SENTENCED TO JAIL

Judge VIII. Lorenzo OF the Ca
lexico police court late Friday sem
fenced John Wesley Young. IS. TO
six months in the Imperial county
Jail Tor yagrancy and drunkenness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Masked White Men Rout Negroes.
Strip and Daub Couple with White
Paint, Order All TO Head South

CRANBURY, N. j.. Aug. II. (UP)-Twelve white
men, wearing white masks, routed Negro potato
pckers from farm cabin early today stripped man
and and daubed their bodies with white paint, and
thief, ssrdered all of them to ''head SOUTH"
Evening star., 1939-11-02
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Nov. 2 LP).-Most foreign
excnange prices refused 10 bulge TO-DAY In
relation to the collar.
Traoers, seemed TO be waiting for the
present furry Of diplomatic activity
abroad to develop into something tangiDle
before entering the market either way.
Aside from a markup Of O2 Of a cent in
the euilder. other monies remained At
overnight levels.
Late rates follow:
Great Britain in doNars. others in cents.
Great Britain. & demand Sgeia; Great @ Brit n
Sey Ssy 5nlt Si11S $eS csnads anaa. Montreal in
Montreal. l11.25: Belgium. 1888: Dem
marx, 1888; Finland. 2.00n: France. 2.27;
Germany. 40 O.4On: benevolent 1900; travel
4nquoted: Greece: .74lan; Hungary, 1S.OOn;
Italy; sos: Netherlands. 53.11: Norway
Sweden, 90. SO: Switzerland. 20 .43; Arsen-
sns so '9sab STsl Se1 ATeensina ns Mrss}
5:15: Mexico. 2O.8On: Japan. 23.4S: Hong
Kong, 25.05: Shanehai $50: Yugoslavia,
2.3On.
Rates. in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated
Nominal.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Utilities and
some rails propped up a faltering
bond market today.
With transactions held to mini
mum, corporate issues generally
moved unevenly over narrow range
toward noon.
U. S. Governments received little
attention and prices changed only
slightly with plus and minus signs
about evenly balanced.
Leaders on the upward side in
cluded Detroit Edison AIS, Santa Fe
Is of '95, American Telephone 3As
of '66, N. Y. Steam 312s. Portland
General Electric 4l2s, Southern Rail-
way Is, and Armour Of Delaware As
Of IS.
Among those moving lower were
Western Union SIS of go, Delaware &
Hudson refunding As, and Rock Is
land General As of '88.
Foreign government dollar loans
were uneven with little action in
any issues.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
North American Co.
Names Edward Shea
To Presidency
Succeeds james Foeorty.
Who Heads Executive,
Finance Committee
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Edward L.
Shea, until now executive vice presi-
dent Of Tide Water Associated Oil
Co., today was elected president Of
the North American Co., big public
utility holding company, succeeding
James F. Fogarty, who becomes
chairman of the Executive and
Finance Committee.
Harrison Williams, formerly chair
man Of the Executive Committee
and one of the largest holders OF
the company's securities, was elected
chairman Of the North American
Co. board.
She has been a member of the
North American board and Execu-
tive Committee since December,
1898.
The company explained that the
changes were in furtherance of q
plan Ito enlarge its executive or
ganization" and to enable Fogarty
to devote attention primarily to
financial and corporate matters.
Shea, native of New Hampshire.
Is ~ years old. He joined the Tide
Water Oil Co. after his graduation
from Princeton University in 1916.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
viscose Will Produce
New Resin Yarn
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The Car
bide e. Carbon Chemicals Corp, a
unit of the Union Carbide &
Carbon Corp, announced it has
arranged with the American Vis-
cose Corp. for production of vinyon,
a new synthetic resin yarn developed
by the Carbide & Carbon chemists.
The Carbide company. it was said,
will manufacture the resin powder
and American Viscose will convert it
into staple fiber and filament yarns.
American Viscose has plants at
Lewisburg, Marcus Hook and Mead
vile, Pa; at Parkersburg and Nitro,
w. Va, and at Front Royal and
Roanoke, Va.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Nov R.-Eess. Otis:
firm. Mixed colors: Fancy to extra fancy.
3OA-34h. standards. 30: firsts, 23h:
seconds. 19h-2Oh: mediums. 49,: dir.
ties No l. 10: AVERAGE checks. 17h-1e.
RefriRerator. fancy and heavyweights,
19:22k: standards. lsk: firsts, is: Sec
onds. :, 16h-17: mediums. 1871: dirties.
whites: Resale Of premium marks. as
4Ok: nearby and Midwestern. premium
marks. 35.37h: EXCHANGE specials. 34iS:
EXCHANGE standards. 31h Resale Of nearby
heavier mediums. 24h-28. Nearby and
Midwestern. exchange mediums, 1924:
ss' nearby Specials. ssN.as: nearby and Ma: Nd
western standards. 21-22: hrsts. 1920.
Browne: Nearby. fancy to extra fancy.
1896. Nearby and Midwestern. exchange
specials. 3?h: exchange standards. 80.
Nearby, exchanGe mediums Is: pullets. 20.
Butter. 72l,3so: unsettled. Creamery,
hisnss ntcnss thhn aan .extrs 2e,2S sxtTs 81
seconds (Sl.e7), 28M.3SN. Chsoss. o..
430; quiet. Prices unehaneed.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
New York Sugar

NEW YORK. Nov. 2 QP.-Domestic sugar
futures turned dull and easy today follow
ing an initial runup in prices. Midafter-
noon prices were to 5 points below the
highs of the day, but held net gains OF to
points March at l. "a was 3 higher and
May was up at .SS.
World futures were less active. but held
March at 1.42. up IN and May up 5 at
lag.
Raw sugars were quiet and steady, with
duty free quoted 300 cents and Cubas rs.
cost and freight. Refiners were buyers Of
prompt sugars at 2.95. while operators
would pay 800 cents for forward sugars.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Freight Lag
Moderately in Week,
Top Year Ago
834, ,096-Cor Volume
Still l7.7 Per Cent
Above 1888 Period
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press,
The Association Of American
Railroads reported today 834, 4,o9e
cars of revenue freight were loaded
during the week ending last Sat-
urday.
This was a decrease of q, ,102 cars,
or 81 per cent, compared with the
preceding week; an increase Of 1885,
sos, or IT. per cent, compared with
a year ago, and an increase of
o6,072, or 8.6 per cent, compared
with 1887.
The report classified the loading
as follows:
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. Nov. 2 R.-Demand for
way late Wednes sday. continued In today s
cotton goods market. Substantial quanti-
ties Of heavier constructions were sold at
inquiry
While demand for rayon goods was salts
factory, placing Of business was restricted
December delivery. eilk fabrics moved
slowly except for few sheer types. WOODEN
goods markets continued to operate on an
ENCOURAGING plane.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Cotton Futures Volume
Declines in October
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOClateu FreSS.
The Commodity Exchange Admin
istration said today that trading in
cotton futures on the Nations three
organized exchanges totaled 3,726,-
$50 bales of cotton during October.
This compared with 6,065 $50 bales
traded in September and 1854, $50
bales in October last year
A total of 3,180,600 bales was
traded on the New York exchange,
543,80O bales on the New Orleans
exchange and 1,75O bales on the
Chicago Board of trade during
October.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Machine Tool Demand
Is Reported Heavy
BY the Associated Press.

By The ASsociated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. IA heavy
and diversified domestic demand for
machine tools in recent weeks indi-
Gates that expansion and replace
ment programs are in progress in
many lines of industry.
Manufacturers of automobiles,
cranes, farm equipment, electric
and Diesel motors, railroad equip
ment and aircraft have all been
conspicuous buyers.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Atlas Powder Votes
Dividend of $l.50
BY the Associated Press.

15y LnG EIeSS.
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. O.
Directors of Atlas Powder Co. de-
clared q dividend of $150 on the
common stock, payable December IL
to holders of record November 30.
The company paid dividends of SO
cents each in the three previous
quarters. In December, 1888, divi-
dend Of IS cents was paid on the
common.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Boston Wool Market

4 BOSTON. Nov. 2 R.-Cunited State,
DEPARTMENT Of. Aericuiture.)-- WOO
few inquiries for domestic Wools were
received from users but they did not result
in sales. Dealers occasionally offered mod
and found a general lack OF interest. These
activities were largely efforts to test the
market ORIGINAL bag 12-month Texas
s1;os: secured basis without iindins
Evening star., 1939-11-02
London Bunk Report

statement Is Of November 1 i ein 7 thousands hs1a
Of pounds: Circulation. b27 ,986; increase,
S29. Bullion, 1855; decrease. 1s, Re
posits, 1O.54O; decrease, 2,O34. Private de-
posts, 1924: increase. 1.791. Govern
ment securities, lO6s336; decrease. 7O5.
Ration nf reaerve to liabilities. 3l.S per
cent, compared with 31.9 last week. Bank
rate. 2 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Metal Market

.,.sirv7,t,c HEW YORK; !n1 Nov B.-GoDper steady:
spot and nearby. 81. Don; forward, 4S. Bon
Lead steady; spot New York, 5.50:55; East
st. Louis. 6.35: Zinc steady: East st.
Louis, spot and forward, $50 Quicksilver,
143 O0n. Pig iron aluminium, anttmony.
platinum, Chinese wolframite and -domes-
tic scheelite UNCHANGED,
Evening star., 1939-11-02
Odd-Lot DeoIinqs
BY the Associated Press

oS Tue A4SOClSteo FEebS.
The Securities Commission reported today
these transactions by customers with odd.
lot dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for November /: 1929
sales involving 119, 036 shares, including 81
short sales involving 2.400 shares.