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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
Corsicans
Demonstrate
About Italy

Ajacco, Consica, Feb. 15.-(AP)
A heavy police guard was placed a
round the Italian consulate here to-
day after a series of demonstrations
against o fascist demand for a share
of control in Frances colonial empire
Windows of the Italian consulate were
shattered last night when the build
ing was attacked by band of young
Corsicans singing French nationa
songs.
Banners carried by the demonstra
tors and slogan they shouted answer
ed the latest articles in Italian news
papers expressing Italy's natural as
pirations" against France, and in par
ticular demands that Corsica be hand
ed over to Italy
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
Budget More Unbalanced
By Sales Tax Exemption
Committee Refuses To Restore Building Ma
terials to Tax Brackets; Railroads Get Big
Franchise Cut; Maxwell Takes Crack at
Railroads

stead of 80 cents, the present rate
and the rate recommended in the
Budget Commissions draft of the rev.
enue bill
The first action stalled off, tenn
porarily at least vigorous efforts Of
Senate Chairman H. P. Taylor to get
back into the revenue bill the $780,
GOO annual return estimated from the
tax on basic building supplies.
The second took out of the esti-
mated receipts for the next biennium
something like $23O,O00 annually. AT
that, the committee as a whole recap
tured something more than $4,000
which would have been sliced off each
years prospective returns had the re-
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Referendum
May 6 Asked
By New Bill
Measure Goes to FL
nance Committees,
Which Also Are Con-
sidering Mail Order
Liquor Shipments into
Dry Counties; Minor
Measures Offered

Raleigh, Feb. 15.-(AP) The leg
islature got a bill today which would
set a referendum May on the ques-
ton of banning all wine, beer and
whisky in the state.
Representative Withrow, of Ruth
erford, introduced the measure. 1t
was referred to the House Finance
committee. The finance groups have
been reporting unfavorably all bills
proposing to dry up counties.
would Compensate Innocent Men,
Both the House and Senate got bills
which would provide compensation
in the amount of $3.50 each to Jack
and Marion Ammons, who served
prison terms after conviction of il
legal operation on a man who later
confessed that they were not guilty.
The Buncombe solons introduced the
bills.
Into each division also went bills
TO provide that no State taxes shall
be levied on State banks which are
not also. levied on national banks.
The Senate got a bill to require that
beauty culture colleges must make
charges of at least so percent of stand
ard prices when work is done by stu
dents. The bill would also provide
that the State licensing board must
base its examinations on % percent
practical work and rs percent writ
ten questions, with q grade of 70 ne
cessary to pass.
The, House got from White, of
Chowan, a bill to pay $17,2O892 to the
Edenton-Mackey Ferry Company as
compensation fixed by a special com
mission to adjust the loss incurred by
the company due to erection of the
new Albemarle Sound bridge.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
MAIL ORDER LIQUOR BILL
ALSO BEING CONSIDERED

Raleigh, Feb. 15-(AP)-A bill to
provide for a statewide referendum on
elimination Of county liquor stores
will likely hit legislative hoppers any
day now The Associated Press learn
ed authoritatively today.
Representative Withrow, of Ruther-
ford county, is expected to Introduce
the measure, which would set May 6
as the date for the vote. Shrould the
State vote for a restoration of pro-
hibition, the ban on county stores
would be effective July l.
Withrow has petitions signed by
more than 1900 of his constituents
opposing the sale of liquor.
Tomorrow the joint finance commit
tee is expected to take up bill to
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
STORM WARNINGS UP
ON ATLANTIC COAST

Jacksonville, Fla, Feb. 15-(AP)
The Weather Bureau today or
dered small craft warnings hOisted
off the Atlantic coast from Cape
Hatteras southwark to Jackson
vile. The bureaus advisory re-
ported "fresh to strong south and
southwest winds. sI'r.:~c to
westerly today and tonight"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15

the Interstate Com
merce Commission,
expressed himself as
an enemy of demo
cracy, the charge
Immediately brought
against him by OPP
ponents of his sena-
torial confirmation
as an ICC appointee.
He said, indeed,
that he thinks "the
old economic order
&c a p i t a | ISM is
breaking down"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15

But that does not necessarily mean
that he is glad to believe it to be
breaking down. Maybe he means he's
afraid that it's breaking down. Some
of it's best friends are afraids Good
gosh! What do such folk as Congress-
man Ham" Fish, Representative Mar
tin Dies and other ultra conservatives
indicate but that they're scared, too?
Can't Amlie agree with them with
out being suspected of red SYM
pathies?
Back in 1929.
Shortly after the 1929 slump had
started to sink in. the question be-
gan to be asked, Doesn't this thing
have a Fascist threat?"
At that stage of the game Hitler
~ Gd Gi0hf
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
Position OF
CCNOninee
Is Defended
BY CHARLES Il. STEWART
Central Press COIumniSt

washington, Feb 15.-From moth
ing that l can discover has Thomas
r. Amlie, President Roosevelts first
choice for a seat on
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
SIEGE AROUND MADRID is
INTENSIFIED BY FRANCO

Perpignan, France, Feb. 15.-(AP)
-Insurgent General Franco has in
tensified the siege of Madrid, with
his heavy artillery Smelling the Span
ish government capital daily Insur-
gent guns bombarded the central
quarters of the city last night, gov
eminent dispatches said, for the third
successive day since Premier Negrin
insta led his cabinet in Madrid
Casualties from the Smelling Sun
day and MONDAY were estimated at
e8 dead 106 wounded The effects of
Tuesday nights bombardment were
not reported Immediately.
The battlefronts, which have been
quiet since the insurgent conquest of
Catalonia and the govtrnment trans
fer to the central zone remained
static
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Rain this afternoon, partly
cloudy and colder tonight; Thurs
day generally fair, slightly colder
in east and central portions.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-15
MINISTER IN
PARIS TO CONSULT AZANA

Paris, Feb. .-(AP)-Julio del
Vayo, Spanish government foreign
minister, arrived in Paris unexpected
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Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
REHOBOTH TO
REMOVE TRACK
Overwhelmingly Voted For, at
Annual Town Election
Last Saturday
DOWNING AGAIN MAYOR

Mayor j. Arthur Downing was
returned to power in Rehoboth by
an overwhelming majority in a
record ballot on Saturday. The
new board of commissioners quick
ly reorganized for carrying out a
pressing edict of the poll-the re-
moval of the old Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks from the center
thoroughfare of the resort. I'm
mediate steps will be taken for the
removal of the railroad tracks in
compliance with the edict Of the
Doll, it was announced. The COM
missioners will pay the cost of a
freight terminal on thte west side
of the Government Canal outside
the resort limits. The election re-
turns surprisingly favored the re-
moval of railroad tracks in the ref
erendum by a vote Of 61S to %.
The board has continued the pres
ent tax rate of $1.15 at its initial
Continued on Pare Ffve)
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
ON THE RAGWEED
Effort to Remove Cause For Hay
Fever in This State

Join the crusade to destroy Rag
weed, the cause of hay fever. This
is the message on the posters
which are being displayed in the
windows of many of the business
places in town. Above the words
is a picture of the obnoxious weed
which may be found growing in
our yards and gardens, along the
roadsides and in the fields, in and
about town. If allowed to grow
and flower many people will suffer
from the pollen which blows about
in the air. The Twentieth Century
Club, participating in a nation
wide campaign of determination,
asks you to help in destroying as
much as possible in the next two
weeks. Mr.. Francis Gebhart, di-
rector of Fairgrounds, has pledged
the cooperation of boys and girls
in this matter. All the ragweed
which can be found will be pulled,
brought and burned. Honor awards
will be made to the boys and girls
bringing in the greatest quantity
by Mrs. Thomas Russell president
of the Century Club.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
FRUIT GROWERS
SPRAY SERVICE
r. E. Wilson, County Agent,
Calls Attention of Kent
Farmers to Need
ALSO NEW POSTAL NOTE

The eleventh edition in the ser
les of orchard spray notes for the
1889 season has been mailed to the
fruit growers in Kent county call
ing attention to those sprays which
are essential at this particular
time for the control of certain
plant diseases and insects prevail
ent in orchards. These orchard
spray notes are prepared by DR..
K. ]. Kadow, plant pathologist Of
the University of Delaware and the
State Board of Agriculture, in CO.
operation with DR.. L. A. Stearns,
entomologist of the Delaware ex-
pertinent station, and are distribut-
ed through the Office of County
Agent Russell E Wilson to the
fruit growers in Kent county. Sim
liar spray bulletins are also pre-
pared for the growers in each of
the other two counties in the state
at timely intervals during the fruit
production season. Ever since this
orchard spray service was started
in Delaware several years ago it
has been the policy of the exten-
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
OLD SHORE ESTATE SOLD
"Spring Garden" Near Centreville
Md, Long in Perry Family

Spring Garden" historic estate
near Centreville, Md, which has
been in possession of ancestors of
Mrs. John w. Perry, as far back
as records are available, was pur-
chased last week by Charles 5.
Quimby from the John Mackey
Perry heirs at private sale. Mr..
Quimby, former county commits
sioner and one of the county's best
known farmers will occupy the
home next year The farm con-
sists of 300 acres of land and a
fine old colonial brick house. Back
in the latter part of the 18th cen
tury, Spring Garden was the home
of Col. William Hopper great
grandfather of the late Judge
Philemon B. Hopper, and also a
great great grandfather of Mrs.
Perry. Colonel Hopper was prom
inent in the county in the early
history of Methodism, as it was at
Spring Garden that he on several
occasions entertained in 1884 Bish-
op Thomas Coke, who had been
ordained by Wesley the great
Methodist leader himself, and who
had been sent to America to assist
Bishop Asbury in establishing
Methodism.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
BAYVIEW All CLUB ACTIVE
Are Having Contest Growing
Lima Beans Despite Beetles

The Bay View All Club held
their July meeting on Wednesday
evening in the Bay View School.
The members answered roll call by
giving an account of progress with
their All project. Seven of the
ten members enrolled in agricul-
tural projects are growing lima
beans. Their program was es-
pecially interesting. Edward
Slaughter, president of the group,
gave an account of the week spent
at the Junior Short Course at
Newark in June. ElWod Massey,
the local leader, was one of the
group of club members who visited
the Walker-Gordon Farm at
Plainsville, N. j., on June 29th.
By his account Elwod proved that
he had not missed any important
points of interest on the trip. BY
way of recreation, Lawrence Kin
sey entertained the group by read
ing jokes, Ray Johnson played his
guitar and Norman Carter provid-
ed some games. A surprise fea-
ture of the eveing was treat
furnished by Mrs. Harry Cole and
Elwood Massey. The members of
this group are making plans to
take part in the Kent-Sussex
Fair.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
NEW PRESIDENT
ROTARY HERE
c. w. Hall of Clayton Sue
ceeds E. r. Dick at Thurs
days Meeting
OTHER CLUB OFFICERS

The Smyrna Rotary Club last
Thursday evening inducted Char
les w. Hall as president for the
coming year. William E. Matthews
Jr., Governor Of the 184th District
of Rotary International, compli-
mented the retiring president for
his successful term, and conducted
the initiation work in installing the
officers-elect. President, Charles
w. Hall; Vice-President, George r.
Miller, Jr.; Secretary, Harry o.
Bostic; Treasurer, John c. Manner
ing; Board of Directors, Harvey
c. Jones, A. Homer Smith; Ser
beant-at-Arms, George Scout. V.
Lay Phillips, first president of the
Smyrna Club, reviewed the activ-
tiles of the club during its twelve
years of service, having been
chartered in 1927. Five charter
members of the club are still ac-
tive members and going strong for
president, thanked his fellow MEM
bers for their splendid cooperation
which terminated most success
full term for the retiring officers.
w. w. Hynson, a charter member
of the club, who has been unat-
tached for the past two years, was
re-admitted to membership. The
club will meet at Rehoboth Mon
day. July "a, the occasion being the
meeting of the District Assembly
of the 1S4th District of which Will
lain E. Matthews, Jr., District
Governor, a member of the Smyr-
ma Club, will preside. Visitors: G.
Leslie Gooden, Dover Rotary Club.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
SILVER LAKE MIDDLETOWN IS
RESTORED TO ITS OLD STATUS

short time. Camp Appoquinimink,
near the head of the lake, which
has been closed for the past three
seasons, will be resumed, probably
not this season but in another year
when the pond refills to its proper
height. The boys camp, which was
one of the most popular one in CEN
trail Delaware and attended an
nually by a number of Smyrna
boys, was sponsored by the Episco-
pal Diocese of Delaware. It was
about to open for the season at the
time the lake disappeared" The
Rev Richard K. White, of Gorge
town, was camp director. The
swimming beach of Black Duck
Club, Middletown organization, has
been graded and leveled and is
ready for the season.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
JACKSON HEADS
SAFETY BOARD
Elected President to Succeed
Walter Dent Smith, Resign
ed to Go to Canada
]. ]. ASHTON MANAGER

Directors of the Delaware Safe
ty Council elected w. Lloyd Jack
son, president, and J. James Ash
ton, manager, at a luncheon meet
ing in the Hotel Dupont Monday,
to succeed Walter Dent Smith,
former Secretary of State, who has
resigned as president-manager
Mr.. Smiths resignation will be-
come effective August 1, when he
will leave Wilmington to become
vice-president of Terminal Ware
houses, It'd, in Toronto. A sue
cessor on the Councils executive
committee for Mr. Jackson as in
dustrial vice-president or for Mr..
Ashton as assistant-manage of
the council has not been named.
Mr.. Jackson has been a director of
the Council since 1927. He was
one time chairman of the CONNER
cial vehicle section and inaugural
ed the memorial services held with
the councils annual automobile
safety rally. He is president of
the w. Floyd Jackson Company
and author of several articles on
industrial and automotive lubrica-
tion. He is also state safety chair
man of the American Legion and
vice-chairman of the Lieut.. j. Eli
son O'Daniel Post of Newark
James ]. Ashton is native of
Hartly and a graduate of the John
Bassett Moore High School of
Smyrna. He has served as assist
ant manager of the Delaware
Safety Council for the past 10
years. He was employment and
safety manager of the American
Car and Foundry Co. for three and
half years prior to coming to
the Delaware Safety Council. He
is the captain of the Service Bat
terry, Delaware National Guard, in
which he has been an officer for 16
years. He enlisted in 1921 in Bat
terry G machine Gum at Dover as
a private. He is a member of the
American Society of Safety Engin-
eers and of the engineering section
of the National Safety Council, the
Mayors Traffic Advisory Commit
tee and the educational committee
of the Y. M. G. A.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
HIGHWAY WORK
NEAR ELSMERE
One Section Dual Road Near
ly Finished and Progress
Being Made on Second
WILMINGTON NEWARK

Following delays because OF re-
cent showers, work is now being
pushed on the completion of the
first mile and quarter section Of
the dual highway between VIII
mington and Newark. The section
extends from Elsmere to Prices
Corner and has been under con-
struction for about one year Men
worked all day Thursday on the
project, grading the center park
way and cleaning up the debris
and surplus earth left from the
construction work. All concrete
curbing and sidewalks have now
been completed, as have the annie
site approaches to the highway
from the side streets. Good pro-
gress also is being made on the
excavation work on the second
section of the highway, which will
extend from Prices Corner to
Limestone Road. The roadbed has
been excavated across the Feni-
more and Finn properties, from
Prices Corner nearly to the New
port Gap Pike, behind the New
Castle County Workhouse. From
that point and across the valley
and creek bed of the Mill Creek,
a bridge and viaduct is to be con-
structed
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
HIGHWAY BILL
HIT BY LYNCH
Democrat Attorney Files
Brief Charging Law Usurps
Governors Powers
DECISION RESERVED

Stewart Lynch, attorney, oppos-
ing the law which reorganizes the
State Highway Department, ar
gued in a brief filed in Superior
Court Monday that "the attempt
by the Legislature to appoint three
members of the commission constl-
tutes an unconstitutional interfer-
ence with and encroachment upon
the proper prerogatives of the Cow
ernor and is violative of the State
Constitution" The brief is in con-
nection with his quo Warranto pro-
ceedings seeking to have the law
voided. The new act would pass
control of the department from the
Democratic Party to the Republi-
can. The law increases the de-
partment membership by three,
the new members being named in
it. and removes the Governor as an
ex-officio member. If the Legis-
lature has the power to appoint all
officers of the state, save only
those which the Constitution
makes elective. 1T would lead to
an impossible and absurd situa-
ton" Mr.. Lynch declared, and the
Governor would be stripped of the
supreme executive power" vested
in him by the State Constitution.
Mr.. Lynch contended that the
Governor, in order that he may be
able to see to it that the laws are
faithfully executed, must have the
power to choose the subordinate
officers with whom to entrust di-
rect supervision of the execution
of the laws The attorney also as
sailed the title of the act as defec-
tive and insufficient, terming it
misleading and deceptive" He
maintained further that the act re-
auired a three-fourths vote to be
passed, which it lacked.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Rev. DIR. Vaughn S. Collins, For
mer Pastor of Asbury, Smyrna


The Rev. DR.. Vaughn S. Collins,
80, of 2422 West Street, Whining
ton, retired member of the Will
mington Methodist Conference and
former pastor of Asbury Church,
Smyrna and district superintend-
ent of the Salisbury District, died
Friday morning in the Beebe Hos
pital at Lewes. DR.. Collins who
retired after 46 years of active ser
vice in the conference was stricken
on Tuesday of last week at Reho-
both, where he was spending the
summer. Although active up un-
til that time, he had been in poor
health the past several years. Born
at Berlin, Md, November 4, 1858,
a son of the late Charles and Jane
Cooper Collins, DR.. Collins received
his early education at Buckingham
Academy, Berlin, Md, and st.
Johns Academy at Annapolis. He
was graduated from Dickinson Col
lege with an A. B. degree in 1881,
and in 1884 received an A. M. de-
gree. He received his D. D. de-
gree from Dickinson in 1908. DR..
Collins joined the Wilmington M.
E. Conference in 1888 and was
made assistant pastor to the Rev.
DR.. J. H. Caldwell at the Dover NJ.
E. Church In 1884 he married
Miss Jennie Caldwell, daughter of
DIR. Caldwell She died two years
ago. In addition to the two Will
mington charges, he served at
Cambridge, Vienna, FELTON,, Centre
vile, Md, New Castle, Georgetown
Smyrna Port Deposit, Middletown,
and Delaware City, retiring from
the latter church in 1929. He was
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Smyrna times., 1939-07-13

Washed out by storm two
years ago, Silver Lake, Middle
town, soon once more will become
a lake in fact as well as name,
with work on the new gates and
dam completed. Replacing the old
spillway, two bridges have been
built with regular lift gates in both
locations. One of the sets of gates
for regular control of the lake level
is equipped with a. lifting gear
which makes for ease in operation.
The other set, for emergency use,
is of the bar and level lift type.
The bridges and gates are COM
plete and the project is now being
graded and the roadway built.
Some water has already filled into
the area and it is expected to have
the lake filled to its old level in a
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. DIR. j. w. Colona, Pastor, An
nounces Services For the Week

The services at Asbury Method
ist Church next Sunday, July 10th,
will be as follows: the Church
School will convene promptly at 10
O'Clock with Mr. H. C. Jones, SUI
perintendent, in charge; the morn
ing worship service and sermon
will be at IL. The prayer service
Wednesday evening at 7.30. The
Willing Workers and the Mems
Bible Glasses will hold their an
nual dinner together at the Hotel
Belhaven, Rehoboth Beach, next
Thursday, July goth. The hour
for the dinner will be o'clock.
All who plan to go should notify
the committee not later than next
Sunday, and all who do go should
register at the hotel Immediately
on arrival Mrs. A. D. Cole, Mrs.
Harvey Wright and Mrs. Ernest
Mattiford are the committee in
charge.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-13
ILUCITE MARKER
GUIDE TO AUTOS
Found To Be a Preventative
of Accidents on Con-
gested Highway
OUTLINES ROADWAY

Danger has been routed from the
curves of Delaware's highway sys-
tenn with the installation of lucite
markers, reports of the state police
indicate. Since early May when
the brilliant refiectors were placed
at the more dangerous bends of
the roadways, no accidents have
occurred at these locations, Supt.
of State Police John R. Faoer said.
Records of the safety division of
the police show that prior to mark
ing, several of the surves had con-
tributed to motor mishaps, accord
ing to Edward r. Clough, head of
the division. Lucite markers, man
ufactured by the DUPONT Com
pany, are mirror-effect devices
that catch the beams of headlights
and, in reflection, outline the high
way. Superintendent Fader said
225 markers had been installd on
curves in New Castle County, COW
erig distances equivalent to two
and one-quarter miles. Curves IN
highways of Kent and Sussex
Counties are protected by 475
markers. In New Castle County
all but seven markers were placed
along the more or less treacherous
detours around st. Georges, the
Tybout's Corner-Kirkwood
Bridge NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. route
and the Delaware City-Reedy Point
route. The other seven markers
have been installed on a dangerous
curve on the Capitol Trail where
numerous accidents have occurred
but none since the refectors
were erected Highways in Kent
and Sussex Counties are straighter
than the winding thoroughfares in
some sections of the upper county
so consequently most of the lucite
markers will be erected in New
Castle County, Superintendent
Fader stated. No fair comparison
can be made of the present lights
since the detours which bear the
markers are carrying far heavier
traffic than last year, before the
st. Georges bridge over the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal was de-
Stroyed