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Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Clippings
from "UNCLE NICK"
IN OF MILFORD DELAWARE
Shore League Plans For 1910
Baseball Season

Moguls of the Eastern Shore
League, meeting at Dover on Sun
day. October Is, unanimously re-
elected Harry S. Russell, Chester
town, Md, newspaper publisher, as
president-secretary-treasurer of the
baseball circuit
Among rule changes was one re-
ducing the player limit to IA active
men. although team may still carry
Is if the extra man is bench man
ager This means four 'first-year"
men. two "class men"-Or rule that
allows not more than two class
men and not less than eight roo
kies."
The old three-day suspension and
seven-day release ruling was re-
scinded in favor of a Seven-day per-
iod for released or suspended play
ers.
A move to split receipts with
visiting teams was voted down and
each town will keep its own re-
Ceipts.
The leagues bank balance is
few hundred dollars ahead of the
amount at the close of the 1895 sea-
son. President Russell said. although
some clubs did not do so well finan-
Cially.
Warning club officials against vio-
lating the salary limit Russell, who
will head the loop for the third sea-
son said: We can support Glass d |
baseball but we can't support Class
r ball. Those who violate the salary /
limit are committing suicide
Figures made public AT the meet /
ing show that Cambridge drew $4,000 /
paid admissions. EastOn, $4,000. Sal |
isbury. $4,000; Fredericksburg, 27.000; /
Dover. 23.500; Centreville. 21,000; /
Milford 19G00; POcomoke 10000. /
In 1910 clubs will again set their .
own admission charges.
Jack Schwartz. of Bill Terry's
New York Giants, spoke for the Mil
ford Giants.
A move 20 establish uniform adj
missions was discussed. hut nothing
was done about il. Club owners were
of the opinion they should he allow
cd to charge a. much as they can
get.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
New Traffic Signal Shows Red
Four WAYS

A new traffic light system. in
stalled whr"e the Basin Road inter
scots the Ilare's COrner-New Castle
Road, is believed to be the first of
It's kind in the country. according
To superintendent OF state Police
John Il Fadcr
When the intersection is not being
Travelled. tho traffic lights facing all
four directions are red. The motor
iSt must cross treadle TO switch
the light before he crosses the in
ters"ctinn.
When the mo'orist driving from
New Castle towards Harc's Corner
crosses the treadl" the traffic light
facing him turNS green. hut the
light facing the driver coming from
the opposite direction stays red until
he. too. crosses the treadle.
The lights are timed so that car
driving IS miles an hour or less is
not compelled to come to full stop
before the light changes.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
DELA. p. |. A. ADDS 47O
NEW MEMBERS In DRIVE
CONTINUED from r1rss Pass;

The membership campaign, which
took the form of a contest, was car
ried on by IA local poultry clubs in
order to obtain a large membership
in the revived organization.
The clubs signing up the most new
members in each of the three cOur-
ties were the HockesSin Club in New
Castle county with 40 new members:
the Camden Club in Kent county with
As new members, and the Frankford
Club in Sussex county. with IS new
members.
The individual club members with
the highest county records in the
campaign were f. C. Phillips, Middle
town, with % new members: w. II.
Richter, Camden, with IL new mem
bers; and F. NJ. Gum, Jr., Frankford,
with So new m ambers.
Richardson pointed out that the
real work of the new organization
will start the first of November when
the program for 1910 will be worked
out.
He said that the new organization
is expected to provide the Agricul-
tural Extension Service with greater
for work among Della
ware pOultrymen.
Totals for the various local poul-
try clubs in the membership cam
paign. were as follows: New Castle !
county Brandywine Club. II: Hook
eSsin Club. 40; State Road Club. 40; |
Newark Club. 2S; Middletown Club. !
i6. Kent Ounty-Camden Club. As; |
Hartly Club. 81. Sussex county-Mil-
ford Club. 30. Lewes Club. SS;
Georgetown Club. II; Greenwood
Club. %; Frankford Club. SIS: Will
Evansville Club. 90; Milton and Lau-
'el Clubs. no report.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
CANNON

Mrs. E. w. Short and daughters
Miss Anna and Mrs. Charles WeIch
and Master Charles Welch spent
Saturday in Philadelphia shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cannon
spent Sunday evening with Mrs.
Fannie Short and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Frazier spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cannon.
Mrs. Nellie Burton spent Tuesday
with her brother. Arthur Truitt.
Edward Cannon spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John Cannon.
Miss Anna Short was operated on
Saturday night for appendicitis in
the Wilmington Hospital and is do
ing nicely. at this time.
Nelson Gilbert and Miss Mildred
Lord were married at Concord
Church on Sunday morning after SER
vices Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Cannon
were their attendants. After a we'd
ding trip they will reside in Bridge
willie.
Rev. and Mrs. A. NJ. Vivian were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cannon on Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Burton. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Schaub and Mrs. Mil
dred williams visited the latter's
husband. vino is in the Milford Mem
orial Hospital, on Monday evening.
Joe Allen went to the home conf
ing Sunday afternoon at Wesley
church
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
The Devil In The
House OF God

The devil. in the shape of fire. ap-
pears often in the House of God
And church fires are usually more
than ordinarily destructive
The National Fire Protection As
sociation recently studied 1874 typi-
cal church fires to discover their
causes. II found that almost A third
of the fires. 80 were. caused by heat
ing plant or chimney detects De
fective wiring accounted for Il. and
lightning for 12 Minor causes and
unknown" caused the balance
Better than 80 per cent of ali
church fires. then, are caused by
three factors heating equipment,
these factors can he easily control
led. Church heating plants are Of
ten badly maintained, They are op-
Grated by incompetent persons As
the building is used only a day or
two week. the system is often for
ced beyond its safe capacity In
many instances. the rooms in which
the plants are situated are not prop
erly cut off from the rest of the
The large number of fires caused
by faulty wiring is equally under
standable. Most church buildings
are more or less frequently altered
extensions, put into use
for suppeTs or entertainment. are
to remain and become per-
Repairs are frequently
made by amateurs. on a hit-or-miss
basis.
Churches are unusually attractive
to lightning. due to high steeples and
towers. which act as discharge points
for accumulated static electricity.
Thorough lightning rod protection
will Obviate this hazard
If your church is worth worship
ping in, it is worth making safe. See
10 it that your heating and lighting
equipment is maintained always in
1rst-class shape. Install lightning
rods if they are lacking, and have
he work done by properly qualified
That alone will reduce
he fire devils chance of entering
he pulpit, Gy 80 per cent
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
TINE FOR A REAL
UNDERSTANDING

: II is recalled that President Hard.
ins took steps looking 10 the re.
sumption of diplomatic relations,
with Mexico Mexico was against our
side during the war with Germany
and the Washington Administration
scratched il off" our friendly list
The Harding plan of 1928 to make
good neighbor out of Mexico still
remains an uncOmpleted task
In March. 1898. the President of
Mexico declared the confscation of
foreign-owned oil properties. Secre-
tary of State Hull promptly protest
ed and stressed his serious concern
about the possibilities inherent in
the development in the oil situation
in Mexico" He expressed the hope"
of adjustment before state too
highly acute and too highly compli-
Gated might he reached. He called
attention to the fact that Americans
had invested their savings" in these
properties. and asserted that the
startling issues presented by the
seizures must yield to every prin-
ciple of International law. of comfy
~ II hdtApllo anu vi
notified Mexico that il would he re-
ouired TO pay for the properties il
had taken. Mexico. true To form, has
lodged the issues for over year and
a half
Uncle Sam. anxious to do every
thing he could to preserve friendly
relations with mexIcO. continued to
buy Mexican silver (which he did not
reedD because Mexico needed the
cash it brought her. And Mexico on
her part misinterpreted this gener-
Gus gesture as being an official con-
donation of her confiscatiOn of Am
oil properties. Not only
did she do this-she did far worse
by using some of the l.. S. cash re-
ceived from silver purchases to boil
ster her internal economy so that
she could hang on to the oil proper
lies and barter the oil in building
up commerce with dictator nations.
Every trade she made with them re-
1uced by that amount her purchase
If American manufactured goods .
which had beeh i;IaGe by u. S. work /
men. And finally in selling oil to die I
dAOA Nuo OIL
hem in their fight against the de-
But this is not new role for Mex
co. She long has been a fair weather
riend. Witness her placing the Uni
ed States on the spot at the recent
'an-American Conference where she
requested international
of purely domestic
J. S. policy in an effort to put such
pressure upon the
United States as to prevent the dis
of its program of using
american taxpayers money to buy
1exican silver.
Since no apparent progress has
,een made in reconciling matters
With Mexico. now in default by hun
lreds of millions of dollars on for
ign debts. including American-own-
d railroads. mines, utilities. farm.
Industrial and oil properties, it {
would seem high time for the United
states to call for a showdown
Certainly MeXico's relations with |
IS are not "neighborly"
Should the great United States
ontinue to compromise with this
dishonest neighbor? That's a aues- |
ion that must be faced before long. II
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
BAPTISTS TO MEET
AT DOVER NOV. 9
CONTINUED from First Paee)

CONTINUED from First Page)
(c) Paths for the layman to take. by
Miss Ellen Samworth.
$3.50 p. Discussion: On above
and relative themes.
! 3:30-4:30 p. m.-Message: THE
Christian Church in Pagan America
by DR.. J. C. Massee. This will center
around an exposition of Pauls let
ter to the Church in Philippi. Its ap-
I plication will be to the Christian
Church Purpose. Program. and
Power, today.
4:30-5 p. m.-Prayer. "Ye shall re-
ceive power after the Holy Spirit is
come upon you; and ye shall be wit
nes5es unto Me
81 p. m.-Dinner, Recreation.
Rest. Dinner served by the ladies of
the host church. soc.
Evening Meeting
1880 p. m-Final Season of
Prayer.
7:30-7;45 p. m.-Song Service.
Scripture Reading. Introduction of
Speaker.
7:45 p. m.-Message: THE Holy
Spirit and Us by DR.. J. c. Massee.
He mlulunHH Ol ueIndnQ tldWl. InC
maximum q liberty . Matt. 3:11:
Acts 2. 10. 10; Ephesians 1:13: 4:30:
Sis f.; Gal. 5:22.
Who's Who
Dr. W. W. Adams Professor of
New Testament Interpretation of the
Eastern Baptist Theological Semi !
nary, Philadelphia. A man who |
knows Gods Word and who teaches /
il with peculiar challenge.
DR.. J. c. Massee-A preacher of |
national fame; past minister of Ire
mont Temple. Boston. A speaker of
ability. now professor of
in Eastern Seminary
Rev. F. Raymond Baker Pastor of
Second Baptist Church. Wilmington,
)ast president of the Delaware Bap-
list State Convention.
Rev. Eldon w Koch Pastor OF
he Canton Baptist Church. Canton.
\. J. A man deeply acquainted with
'hurch life.
Miss Ellen SamwOrth A member
If Second Baptist Church. Whining
on. trained. and well fitted TO speak
m many Christian subjects.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Labor Board Will Open Kent
And Sussex Offices

The Delaware Labor Commission
will conduct an educational pro-
gram to acqualni Delawareans with
the provisions of the State labor
laws.
Branch Offices will be established
in Dover and Georgetown for the
convenience of children from 16 to
IS years of ago who register for en-
ploymont
The Dover branch will he in the
Senate committee room of the Leg
islaiive Building and the George
town office in the building of the
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission. children may apply for
certificates in Dover on Tuesdays
and in Georgetown on Fridays. from
! to p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
William Parsons Funeral

Sunday night. October Is. 1899.
William Parsons. of Milton. died at
the State Hospital. following a lin
gering illness. Funeral services were
held at the Grace Methodist Church,
MillsborO. Wednesday afternoon.
October is. Rev. E. W. Henvis, pas
tor of the Grace Church. officiated.
assisted by Rev. A. G. Thomas. of
Whitesville Charge. Interment was
made in the o. U. A. NJ. cemetery at
Millsboro.
The deceased, who had reached
the age of So. was a native of Loves
Cross Roads. having lived in Will
mingtOn. Stockley. and Milton since
that time.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Holly With Berries

State Forester w. S. Tabor re-
ports there is an abundance of holly
with berries this year in contrast to
conditions last year when the half
million dollar trade of the State had
to resort chiefly to artificial berries.
Already the holly harvest has be-
gun. One plant is artificially color
ing the leaves so they will maintain
uniform color during the holidays.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Latchum Peddie BOOter

Henry Latchum. of Milford, play
ing fullback on Peddie Schools SOC
Ger team, figured prominently last
Wednesday in Peddie's 2-1 victory
over Poly Prep of Brooklyn. He was
the spearhead of the defense that
repeatedly repealed Poly attack. Lat
chum. senior. is the son of James
H. Latchum, of MI ard
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
MILLSBORO

We are glad to report that Mrs.
Amanda Sipple has improved and is
able to be up walking around her
room again. after severe attack of
rheumatism for the past eight
weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. Harry Walls and
family of Wilmington visited his sis
ter. Mrs. l.. E. Sipple on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Chairman Appointed In Jewish
Campaign

William Smith, of Dover. has been
named chairman of lower Delaware
for the United Jewish Campaign for
$4,000. sponsored by the Jewish
Federation of Delaware. from No
vember 12 until November %.
Mr. Smith served as chairman for
lower Delaware during the cam
paign last wear.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Sussex County Institute To Be
AT MillviIle

The Delaware State Federation of
WOmen's Clubs will hold the Sus-
sex County Institute at the MethO-
dist Church in Millville. Friday. No
vember 3. at 1890 a. m. with Mrs.
Peter Whaley, of Selbyville, vice
president of Sussex county. presid-
ing
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Sugar

Sugar statistics show that the
market for the first eight months of
1889 was on about the same level
as for the same period the year be-
fore. The Department of Agricul-
ture is the authority.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Wiley To Address All Clubs

Earle d. Wiley. former judge of
the Kent County Court of Common
Pleas. will be the speaker at the
eighth annual All Club Banquet, to
be held in Frederick School Building
on Friday evening, November 8. The
event is being sponsored by the Kent
County Chapter of the Link
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
Veterans Of Delaware See
Membership Gain

The Department of Delaware.
American Legion. expects to report
the largest membership in its history
at the telegraph roll call conducted
at the annual conference of depart
ment commanders and adjutatnts at
Indianapolis. Ind. November 2O-22
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
WOOdsidc Girl Wins Trophy

Miss Irene Defibaugh, of Wood
side. who races midget hydroplanes
and Glass c runabouts, scored 1853
points during the 1889 season. 1t
was announced last week by the Am
erican Power Boat Association. Miss
Defibaugh, national midget class
champion. also won the lone Ulrich
Sutton Trophy. for the national wo-
mems scoring championship. for the
second year.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
EASTERN STATES GROUP
MEET AT DOVER NOV. 8
CONTINUED from Firs, Paeel

from Della ware, will be chairman of
the meeting.
This meeting is one of series
being held by the Farmers Ex-
change" states H. Wallace Cook.
field representative for this district.
to discuss with members the de-
tails of their cooperative purchasing
organization which has been serving
Delaware farmers since 1922 and
last year shipped 1856 tons of
feed and 6,06S ,9i3 pounds of field
seeds from the cooperative mill at
Buffalo, y Y"
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03

Sausage and scrapple made right
here in Milford is some of the finest
we have ever eaten.
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-03
PERSONAL MENTION

Miss Florence G. Austin is visiting
her mother at White Hall. Md
Evening star., 1939-12-09
Senator Austin Urges
Firms Be Exempted
From Credit Ban
Fovors Neutrality Law
Change to Aid Victims
Of Aggression
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9-Senator
Austin, Republican. of Vermont,
suggested last night that Congress
should promptly exempt from the
Neutrality Acts restrictions on
credit and export Finland and any
other small government similarly
under threat OF conquest and assas-
sination."
In a speech prepared for Foun-
ders' day dinner of Kappa Sigma
Fraternity, whose gold medal was
awarded him for his services to So
ciety during the year, the Senator
said that by lifting the ban on loans
and credits to such countries "our
moral repugnance to the assault
upon freedom would be expressed by
something more than a gesture"
II believe" he went on, I'VE should
forego payment by Finland of her
debt to the United States and remit
to her in such form as would be
best adapted to her defense"
Senator Austin declared he had
supported the Neutrality Act on the
theory that it would be a means of
national defense for this country
by helping the Allies to win the
war. but added:
1--WE do not delude ourselves that
entire security for the United States
can be bought either by the sacri-
fees of trade and freedom of action
imposed upon our nationals by the
act or by the proposed
relaxation Of it for the benefit Of
victims whose independent existence
is a necessary buffer against Nazi-
ism or Communism
Perfection alone is invulnerable.
." Therefore, our program for a
suitable military establishment for
national defense must envisage the
danger of totalitarianism spreading
to the coast of both the Pacific and
the Atlantic and placing us in less
strategic position than we now
occupy"
Evening star., 1939-12-09

jectives they're liable to come and
reason with you"
"At night, with rubber hoses?"
Treated With Dignity.
ooh, never. You're an American.
Very polite and agreeable young
officials who speak better English
than you do and who have Phi. DIS
from our better universities, have
you to lunch. Reason with you in
the most pleasant and gentlemanly
way the first time it happens. They
even pay for the lunch.'
Anything else to remember?"
Zone other thing. Stick to facts
and avoid theorizing."
Evening star., 1939-12-09

AnurmAH hHoio' OuCClOQ ana Sud
bilize industry or come to grief.
Word from Washington is that he
has disturbed some delicate po-
htlcal equations, that the heat has
been or may be turned on in his
antitrust division Of the Depart
ment of Justice and that he has
made it clear that his drive was
quite premeditated and will be con-
tinued
Mr.. Arnold is as hard to figure
as Wrong way" Corrigan-to cite
still another precedent which has
just come to mind. This writer read
his book, THE Folklore of Capt.
talism." One thing seemed clear.
He was up to some solemn and
erudite spooflng, much in the vein
of the late Thorstein Veblen, and
it seemed that Veblen might have
been his takeoff. I asked him about
1t, and he seemed a bit annoyed by
the question. He said everybody
was showing that at him, whereas
he had never read Veblen and had
only the vaguest notion Of his ideas.
Be that as it may, his anti-price-
control move is right on Veblen's
target. In The Theory of Business
Enterprise" published in 1908, Web
len described the big smash which
lay few decades ahead, said the
Government would resort to "sabo-
tagging production" by ploughing
under crops and killing livestock,
and then would be thrown back on
the price economics" with des-
perate and, to Veblen, futile, efforts
at price control.
AS to Mr.. Arnold, he looks like
and is an Elk-a large man of great
gusto, with prosperous bulge of
the midriff. military mustache and
an emphatic, metallic voice. Per-
haps the difficulty of numbering and
classifying him is due to the fact
that he arrives via both the
groves of academe and Western
cattle ranch. He wears a Princeton
Phi Beta Kappa key, was graduated
from the Harvard Law School, was
dean of the Law School of the Uni
versity of West Virginia and pro-
fessor of law at Yale. But he stems
from the Wyoming cow country,
where his grandfather was Meth
odist missionary, and, in his youth,
made the little dogies "git along"
as he now prods big business.
The nub of his argument, in his
diligent literary and official over
hauling of the capitalist system,
seems to be that you have to take
the whole thing to pieces, like an
alarm clock, and work only on spare
parts-that free-and-easy formulas
and broad generalizations are bunk
and that only in isolated and par
ticularized studies is there hope Of
learning what makes it tick.
(Released by Consolidated News Features)
Evening star., 1939-12-09
Object Seen Off Carolina
Whale, Not Submarine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Dec. e.-It
seems that it was a whale and not
q submarine.
A few days ago reports reached
customs officials here that a while
or a submarine" had been sighted
of Topsail Inlet the day the Ger
man-manned yacht Lakala was
seized by the Coast Guard in waters
near there.
The customs authorities took
cognizance of the reports and sent
agents to Hampstead yesterday to
interview the persons who were re-
ported to have seen the strange OBJ
ject. The agents reported they were
convinced that 1t was a whale.
Whales are rare in Carolina waters
but have been seen at times. The
Lakala, seized near here Tuesday,
is being held by the Coast Guard
pending further word from Coast
Guard headquarters at Norfolk, Va.
Capt. Edward Kerling of the La
kala said he and his crew were tax
ing pleasure cruise from New York
to Miami.
Evening star., 1939-12-09
EIsie's Knees Welcome
At Doll Bowl Game

By the Associated Press.
BARTLETT, Tex, Dec. 9.-Elsie S
knees may dimple. unblushingly. in
the Doll Bowl
Elsie Crabtree's knees were SO
great a counter attraction at Me-
vada U. football games the high
stepping majorette was ordered to
lengthen her skirts. But a compro-
mise saved them.
Bartlett heard so much about
Elsie's knees it wants a look, too.
So the Chamber of Commerce in
vited Elsie to dimple her knees at
the Doll Bowl parade December 16.
BY the way, therell be game be-
tween Allen Academy and Hillsboro
Junior College for the football
minded.