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Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
SAFETY
IN DELAWARE
George w. Ayars Physical
and Health Director
Gives Broadcast
PROBLEM OF SAFETY

Mr.. George w. Ayars, State Di-
rector Of Physical and Health Edu-
cation and director of the Del
aware Safety Council, discussed
School Safety in a recent radio pro-
gram over Station WDEL, spon-
sored by the Delaware Safety
Council
Mr.. Ayars stated that while the
safety education movement has
been extended, the great social and
economic complexity of the present
age has multiplied daily hazards.
The school as the agent of society
has, in some measure, met the de-
mand for systematic instruction re
garding these hazards.
He added that the safety educa-
tion program in our schools is in
tegrated in all departments. Each
department teaches safety as the
situation arises, also separate units
are fought in the various health
and home economics classes. Safety
plays are presented during home
room periods and assemblies. Safe
ty posters are made by the Art De
partments. Safety clubs, Junior
Safety Councils, and School Boy
Patrols are organized lin practical
ly every school Also, most OF the
Senior High Schools throughout
the State have been presenting the
boys and girls with the opportunity
of learning to drive automobiles
safely. Whole assemblies are devot-
ed to the various phases of safety
Speakers from civic clubs, the Del
aware Safety Council, State High
way Police, Safety Engineers, and
others are heard by these groups.
Moving pictures are also shown.
Together with all of these activ-
tiles, the schools receive much val
liable safety literature from the
Delaware Safety Council. Likewise,
the State Department of Public In
struction frequently issues sup
plSlIeHldIy udlefldl.
Also listed by the speaker were
tthe following contributions of
Physical Education to Safety Edu-
cation: 1. Physical education pro-
notes the organization and pro-
grams in safety education. 2. Pre-
scribes and provides instruction in
safety education through plays,
games, dramas, etc. 3. Helps to
give safety education in health by
instruction in the care of the body
and healthy living. 4. Specific con-
tribution to safety education
through training and first aid in I
accident prevention. 5. Through
life saving classes aand equatic
first aid, instruction in life saving,
camping, etc.
In conclusion, Mr.. Ayars stated
that 'The problem of Safety, be-
cause of the present type of mod
ern civilization, has become the
foremost educational problem con-
fronting educational authorities |
who are responsible for the welfare |
of the youth of our State. 1t is
my great pleasure to assure you
that the State Department of Pub
lie Instruction through the capable
leadership of DR.. H. V. Holloway,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, is doing its utmost to
meet this challenge.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
DEATH OF JONOTHAN JESTER
AGED 90

Jonothan Jester died at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Peter Mac
ey, on Saturday last, aged 80 years
lacking one month. He has been
all his life a reident of Blackbird
Hundred, and was the oldest man
in the Hundred and the Oldest
member of Friendship church, hav-
ing joined it sixty years ago. His
first recollection of Smyrna was
when it was called Duck Creek
Cross Roads-the name being
changed in 1906. His remains were
inferred at Friendship church,
Thoroughfare Neck, yesterday
morning.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
DEATH OF
MISS JOSEPHINE ROBINSON

MISS JOSEPHINE ROBINSON
Miss Josephine Robinson, the
only surviving daughter of Henry
Q. Robinson the banker, of Will
mington, fell from her horse Just
beyond Greenville shortly after
four o'clock Wednesday afternoon
and sustained injuries from which
she died at 1870 o'clock the same
night. She started out in the af-
ternoon, in company with James
M. Field, to take a horseback ride.
She galloped out to Kennett Turn
pike and when short distance be-
yond Greenville a puff of wind dis
arranged Miss Robinson's hat. She
endeavored to capture the hat and
in doing so either struck the horse
or startled him, causing him to
make a sudden jump throwing the
young lady backward. She fell on
the back kof her head and was
rendered unconscious, from which
she never rallied. The unfortun-
ate girl was in her nineteenth year.
This is the second daughter within
a year that Mr.. Robinson has lost.
The funeral of Miss Robinson took
place from her parents residence
No. 905 West street, Wilmington
Monday afternoon, and was largely
attended. James r. Field who was
accompanying her, and who since
the accident has been unconscious
is still in a precarious condition.
He has conscious moments but at
such time talks only of his visit to
Europe
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
DEATHS

Powell-On Oct.31st, near Black
bird, Julia c., daughter of Robert
and Masseylema Powell, aged 5
months and % days.
Truitt-Near Hartley, Oct. 31st,
Noah S. Truitt, aged 60 years, 10
months and 2 days.
Jester-In Thoroughfare Neck,
Jonothan Jester in his Goth year.
Smith-At Spruance City, Nov.
3rd, 1889, Ewell Solomon Smith,
aged 10 years, 2 months, 9 days.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
CheswOld Demonstration On

Cheswold Demonstration CHI
The Friendship Homs !,
stration Club Of CheswoIj i
October meeting and HI,
party recently at the hon. .
c. R. Vaughn. near ChesT5.
Hazel Darrell gave al r.s,
talk on Cooperation il a.I
Between Parents and d.
which was enjoyed BY al 8
gave some suggestions ot !.
make for Jmas gifts. Nr
Wharton Mrs. G. P Vsl:-
Mrs. Arthur Bowman WeY
ed as delegates to select tn
for the club for 1910 L.:
business meeting delicious :.
ments were served by t5a 1
with decorations suitable I,
occasion and a good tine q
by all
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
Productive Flock of Hens

Mrs. Hattie Prettyman, residing
near Seaford, has a flock of 10
Plymouth Rock hens which has laid
1880 eggs in the last 365 days.
She and her husband kept a daily
record from October 1, 1888, to Oc-
tober 1, 1889.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09

daily expecting to hear from it.
The cause of death is not known.
The deceased was rag picker in
Lee Pusey's mill. He was born in
Smyrna and was brother of Rob-
ert Cook. He was a soldier in the
late war and a member of the First
Delaware Regiment.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
MARRIAGES

Durnad-Down. On the evening of
Oct. 7th, at the home of the bride,
A spendale, near Kenton, by the
Revv. H. L. Hurnad, Victor L. Dur
mad, of Philadelphia, and Florence
E. Downs, daughter of David o.
Downs, Esq.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
ONE FATAI1S
ON STATP,pmall NJ
Fine October D.
as Fader AnDo,,.
N "0ldlns Down ALL
s. KILLED 50 NJ BY

Delaware state j.
their October 6sgsp.-' g...''
records with only S-."s! n. i
ed up ompayed vii, .'a
October last wear ~. NY
way fatality last man.: = @:
destriaa in MiIford : u
year 81 persons bsrs = Z
IN auto accident. II ''
side Wilmington Corn. ~ '.a'
during the corresnsr+' y-,s'
last year The tatal ,---!
death t5H for DeJaps,. a-'- Z
Wilmingt9r for tbis
compared with 81 d1-! ~
tenmonths Of last va,
State Police John ? "
menting on the reco,s
month Oh the STATE Ill. =
pressed the nope t5e T,,., +''
continue Il cooperate l..
next t"J months Of t,s =.
!" & 7 s '2lg "a head q l.
way 7alsay d.vlsion Of L
ponce mace 2 schedule i Y
lal aeclaents records ot ..I
OUTSIDE wilmington T.
5ince 1924 during y.
occurred were A.- !
February 1927 Fe6r1a7 /
ana January 1885. nj
months II which only o1s .:1
occurred wera Ta,r,-
ruary, June November N
cember, 1925. Febr,ar !.
cember, 1926. January n
vember, 1921 April, 1926 \
1888; February 1895; I'd
1888, and June, this yea,
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
SMYRNA DOINGSI
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF NOV. 9TH, 1889

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
anG events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09
REPORT OF SMYRNA POLICE
Activities of Police Department
for Month Submitted to Council

The Smyrna Police Department
has submitted the following report
to Town Council for the period
September % to October 81, inclu-
Smyrna times., 1939-11-09

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Evening star., 1939-12-14

engineer and two station attendants
who remained at their posts met
death.
Firemen Of surrounding towns and
soldiers In gas masks battered down
doors to drag hundreds OF uncon-
scious persons to safety. They picked
up scores Of others from where they
had fallen In the streets Of the
little Rumanian town.
Military Guard Ordered.
While flrst reports Of the explo-
sion did not indicate sabotage the
disaster followed series Of train
wrecks and oil plant fires which
have caused heavy loss and for which
many persons blame foreign
agents"
Following today's disaster the gov
ernment ordered . military guard
over all oil fields.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Chief White Feather
Opens Revival Services

Singing hymns to operatic arias,
Chief White Feather, grandson of
Sitting Bull, opened three-day
evangelistic stand at the River Road
United Presbyterian Church, Forty
fifth street and River road NV, last
night.
In a fighting mood and rugged in
full regalia of a chieftain, Chief
White Feather declared to a large
congregation that Christian white
men should pray for bad Indians
and Christian Indians, in turn,
should pray for bad white men.
Declared the former Metropolitan
Opera singer, motion picture actor,
radio performer and theater organ
list: Indians, like white men, have
always known there was a God.
have found him along with Christ"
White Feather, converted to
Christianity six years ago, is high
chieftain Of the South Dakota Sioux
tribe.
After his sermon Chief White
Feather sits at the organ console
and sings we'll known operatic Sc
lections to which he has written
words of religious nature. Last
night he played Franz Schubert s
"Serenade" as an offertory.
Revival services will be repeated
again tonight and tomorrow evening.
The Rev. Virgil M. Cosby, pastor,
introduced the chief last night.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
80 Die in Blast
Al Rumanian Plant;
200 Badly Hurt
Whole Families Killed
In Sleep; Hundreds
Dragged to Sofety

~ the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Dec. 14.-Eighty
persons were killed and 400 others
were gravely injured today in an
explosion at . cellulose plant under
military control at Zarnesti.
Many Of the injured were feared
to be dying. Whole families were
wiped out in their sleep by the early
morning blast OF an overheated
l,000-gallon kettle of chemical. A
high wind spread the flames and
carried chlorine fumes over the viii
lage.
Many inhabitants fed to the
woods but numerous families living
near the factory were snuffed out.
Among them were the families Of
two factory directors and an en-
gineer.
Passengers Abandon Train.
The casualties included all of the
plant workers. Many townsfolk, in
cluding small ch''~en, were over
come in their sleep.
A railway tram ,..lich pulled into
its station near the factory about
the time Of the blast was hastily
abandoned by the passengers. The
Evening star., 1939-12-14
New Neutrality Law
Possible, Soys Dr.. Wright

Possibility of a new neutrality law
at the next session of Congress was
foreseen last night by DR.. Herbert
Wright, professor Of international
law at Catholic University, in q
radio address over station WJSV.
DR.. Wright spoke in connection
with the University in the Home"
series sponsored by the station.
Under present legislation. he de-
clared, the United States has waived
exercise Of some admitted neutral
rights, but has not succeeded in
avoiding arguments with the allies.
As a matter of fact, he indicated,
Germany has been more scrupul-
GUS observer of the neutral rights
Of this country that has either
Britain or France,
Evening star., 1939-12-14
$20,o0o,00o Contract
Siqned for j. ). Planes

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA contract
for 200 Hudson" bombers. each
having two 1,100-horsepower Wright
cyclone engines and superchargers
for operation up to nearly 10000
feet, has been signed by the Lock-
heed Aircraft Corp. of Burbank,
Calf, and the British air ministry.
The contract, signed late yester-
day, calls for a total outlay of
almost $200OO,00O."
1t also was learned the French air
ministry has ordered 270 additional
bimotored bombers from the Doug
las Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica,
Calf, for an unspecified amount
Prior to the war. the French ordered
100 of the Douglases, having speeds
well in excess" Of 800 miles an hour
and full-load ceilings" of more
than $4,000 feet.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Mrs. Knight Determined
To Push Divorce PIeo
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RENO, New, Dec. l4.-Richard
Allen Knights latest attempt to talk
mama out Of this divorce business"
evidently didn't do much good.
The New York attorney, who
amazed operagoers in New York's
Metropolitan Opera House a few
weeks ago by standing on his head
and turning somersaults in the
lounge bar, definitely will be a single
man next month, Mrs. Knight de-
clared yesterday.
There Is nothing to this recon-
Evening star., 1939-12-14
New Orleans Newsmen
Fined for Contempt
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 14.-The
Item Co., Ltd, publisher of the New
Orleans Item and Tribune, and two
OF its employees were convicted yes
terday of contempt of Federal Court
for publishing certain headlines and
articles concerning the Shushan
mail fraud case, now being tried
here.
The publishing firm was fined 5000
for the publications and the en-
ployes, j. w. F. Moore, Tribune
night editor, and James A. Wobbe,
Item assistant city editor, $25 each.
On trial are Abraham Shushan
and four others charged with using
the mails to defraud in a levee
board bond refunding deal.
The contempt proceedings against
the newspapers were sought by de-
fense counsel for Shushan. They
charged the headlines and stories
were "prejudicial" to their clients.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Exeter Band Played
AT Embassy Party
For King, Queen
Ship Damaged by Spec
Wos at Baltimore
During RoyoI Visit

In the garden Of the British En-.
bassy on the afternoon of June
a l6-piece band in trim blue and
white uniforms struck up "0od Save
the King" The players were the
musicians from the H. M. s. Exeter
the British cruiser which now i
rolling, crippled by shots from the
German ship Graf Spec, in the
South Atlantic of Montevideo
Uruguay.
Six months ago, when there was
no war, the Exeter was selected
from the British West Indies squad
ron (of which it is the hagship) to
proceed to Baltimore out Of respect
to the British monarch, George vi,
and his Queen, Elizabeth, during
their visit to the United States. The
cruiser entered Baltimore Harbor
June Z, firing a 2l-gun salute off
Fort Carroll, and tied up at Locust
Point.
Twice the band visited Washing
ton. 1t played for the garden party,
the first British naval band in his
tory to entertain at the Embassy
The next morning. June 8. the
white-helmeted musicians were back
at the Embassy again, providing a
musical background for the Kings
reception of the veterans of the
British Army. They struck up
Troops" and. as the King departed,
God Save the King" The last
notes of the British anthem were
drowned by the veterans, who called
loudly for the King: Hip, hip,
hooray."
Thrown Open to Public.
In Baltimore, the Exeter was
thrown open to the public, and the
Maryland city entertained the Wis
itors lavishly. Its officers not only
enjoyed Baltimore's hospitality, but
they were invited by Ambassador
and Lady Lindsay to the Embassy
to meet their King and Queen. On
June 10 the Exeter cast of from
its Baltimore dock and cruised
southwark again to rejoin the feet.
The 8,390-ton ship already was
known in the United States before
last June. even though it had never
been closer to this country's shores
than the Bahamas. Late in Janu-
airy 1t engaged in work of mercy
on the Pacific shore of South Amer
lea, almost in the same latitude
where it found the bloody sea battle
with the Spec.
Aided Quake Victims.
On January "a last the earth
shook and brought destruction and
the loss of thousands of lives to
Southern Chile. Cruising off the
Chilean coast were the Exeter and
the Ajax. which also took part in
the Won Spec fight When the
ships radio brought the news of the
tragedy, the Exeter's commander,
Commodore H. H. Harwood, at the
behest of the British Ambassador
to Chile, turned his ship toward the
port of Valparaiso.
There it picked up supplies for the
stricken area, and, under full steam,
hurried southwark 800 miles to Tai
cahuano, the port nearest the earth
quake zone. It unlpaded the sup
plies and took aboard 500 refugees,
which it carried back to Valparaiso.
The work brought the warm thanks
Of the Chilean President.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Monday Club Meeting

Wilbur Finch, president of the
District Suffrage Association, will
discuss the salient points in District
governmental reorganization at 8
pm. Monday in Barker Hall, Seven
teenth and K streets NV, before
the Monday Evening Club. E. Bar
rett Prettyman will act as chairman
Of the meeting.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

ciliation talk" said the socially
prominent Mrs. Knight. the former
Dorothy Ledyard OF New York City.
Il am positively going to New York
by train Friday and I am just as
positively going to return here In
January and get my divorce"
Evening star., 1939-12-14
British Casualty List
7, 100 for ; Months

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 14.-Great Brit
aims total casualties in the first
three months of war were approxi-
mately 2,10O, Prime Minister Cham
berlain said today in reply to a
question in the House of Commons.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
| Silent Statesmen
Join tuberculosis
Seal Sale Drive

More than 100 silent sales
men" have been placed In local
stores in the Christmas Seal
campaign, it was announced
Yesterday by the District
tuberculosis Society.
The Silent statesmen" are
small blue boxes, with the
cross OF the association on
them and a slot for coins on
the cover. A stack Of envelopes
containing 10 and Is Christ
mas Seals are alongside the
boxes and may be purchased
" dropping coins in the box.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-29
Suggest Souvenir Making
for Cutouer Area People
Portable Sawmills, Woodcraft
Industry Also Listed as
Means of Employment.

Portable SawrnillS for building houses,
wooden souvenirs for tourist trade, and
a woodcraft industry have been sug-
geSted as means of employment for
inhabitants of the cutover areas of nor
thern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan by Raphael zon, st. Paul, director
of the Lake States Forest Experimental
station.
These lands Mr.. Zion said, have been
considered next to portions of the
South, the most serious problem in the
United States. Deforestation, he pointed
out, is the cause of the economic diff
culties of the population.
At the present time souvenirs are
nearly all made in Japan, he stated,
but they very easily could be fashioned
from the wood of the region.
A good example of Mr.. IONS sug-
gestion is the souvenir produced by
ingenious and ambitious Tower resi-
dents and widely distributed over the
range.
1t is made of wood and contains a
small sample of the iron ore mined at
Tower and Ely. A small Arrowhead
symbol of the territory is burned into
the wood. Another is a carved wooden
figure of an Indian chief in full war
paint and feathers.
A broad program of reforeStation
would solve some of the unemployment
problems amng rural residents of the
cutover area, he said. In European
countries facing the same situation,
this work keeps one man busy for every
1000 acres he pointed out.
Assuming that in the cut-over lands
one man was assigned for reforeStation
of each 1000 acres, AZ, 900 men could be
put to work, on the assumption that re-
forestation is desirable on 100000
acres.
| Furthermore, he said, the cut-over
area has considerable potentialities for
agriculture. But not for farmers strug-
Cling as individuals. He suggested that
cooperative agriculture, with coopera-
lively owned equipment, might double
the number of farmers in the area. AT
present, he said, it has $4,000 persons
in agriculture, on about 100000 acres
+ The trend now is for the land to be
abandoned and to return to the state.
He suggested that federal and state
agencies might lease the land for farm
| ing.
"It is true" MIR. Zon said, shat the
cream of the natural resources has been
skinned off, but there is still enough
left up which to build an economically
independent population.
eff this is true, then is it not about
time for us to stop talking about the
cut-over region as region of de-
pleted resources, and start developing
public policies of better land settlement,
better handling of our timber resources,
and discourage the use for the benefit
of outside interests, with little or no
substantial development for the people
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-29
RANGE CIVIC
| GROUP TO meet
First Meeting of the All-Range
Civic Association Scheduled
at Virginia Tomorrow.

The first Official meeting of the ALI
Range Civic association to be composed
of representatives of civic, business and
professional mems groups on the entire
Iron Range will take place at the Vir-
ginia Recreation building next Friday
evening, June 80, starting at 800 o'clock
according to announcement of Purcell
E. Barker Virginia, general chairman.
This organization, which will act in
dependently from the Range League of
Municipalities, has been formed to
gather data and statistics in connection
with the study to be given by the legis-
lative interim committee before the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-29
the ground is the shortest.

the ground is the shortest.
While women the world over follow
the mode for navy blue, brown or
bright shades, Elizabeth chooses to wear
pastel frocks. Off-the-face and feather
trimmed hats sit on the head OF the
Queen Light toned fox trim and par
asols are worn-contrary to modern
| fashion dictates that such things are
''too much"
1t all results in a pretty Queen, one
men think looks enchanting. The fact
that men so openly admire Elizabeth
has set women to thinking. Whether
they admit it or not-women dress to
please men-and if Elizabeth can throw
chic to the wind-and get by with it
making men think her pretty and
charming well why not the rest of us?
That is what brings us to the APP
proach of what may become a fashion
revolution with chic and modishness
thrown into the discard and prettyness
and individuality the only dress re-
qirements- sort of liberation in dress
brought about by the clear feminine
mindedness of a Queen who doesn't
care boot about being fashion
leader.
Fashion designers and authorities in
this country and others already
begun lining themselves up on one side
: of the fence or the other. Some already
are turning out few models inspired
by the Queens taste. Others are We
hemently declaring women will not fol-
low what they term sort of spiritless
dressing.
| A tip for summer hoSteSSeS. 1t is
practiced by a friend of mine who is
considered one of New Yorks most
fashionable entertainers. She puts it
into effect up in her penthouse garden.
You and I can follow on our lawns and
summer porches. When serving few
| friends an informal supper eaten off
trays held in the lap, let the first
course be chilled fruit juice or on
cool days hot soup served in old
fashioned shaving mugs. No saucer or
spoon is necessary.
For a main salad course serve
split finger roll filled with lobster, crab
or your favorite salad. The roll may be
buttered and toasted.