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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Ship Mystery

Lieutenant Commander N. w. Sharpe, the only
survivor of the Inflated cargo boat Cyclops
which disappeared mysteriously during the
World war with all on board.
Commander Sharpe, now in the press divi-
sion at the navy department, explains it this
ways:
He was on recruiting duty in st. Louis dur
ing the war when along came an order calling
for a certain number of men to go to Norfolk,
Va, for sea duty.
The commander lined them up one morning,
marched down the ranks counting off the men
in pairs and stopped at the next man to
Sharpe.
This detachment" he said, twill go to Nor.
folk"
John Harry Fox of st. Louis was the man
next to Sharpe. Before he left for Norfolk he
gave his dress jacket to Sharpe in return for
a pea-jacket and a short overcoat. Fox was
put on the Cyclops. Only the luck of the count
saved Sharpe.
The Cyclops went down sometime between
March 4 and April Is, 1918, in the West In
dies. Not a trace Of her has ever been found.
Germany searched her own records after the
war, found no submarine in the vicinity at
the time, so couldn't claim credit for the
sinking.
Navy men speculate that the Cyclops' slip
perry cargo of manganese may have shifted and
Tipped her bottom up before she could put
out a call '.-..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

First, he's going to propose
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

played Lohengrin's wedding march
as they advanced to the altar and
Mendelssohn's as they retired.
Joseph Cahoon of Brooklyn, for
merly of Dover, and Miss Ida Berry
of Philadelphia, formerly of the vi
cinity of Dover, were married in
the M. E. Church of Middletown at
10 o'clock yesterday morning, Rev.
R. H. Adams officiating. Miss
Laura Berry of Philadelphia, sister
of the bride, acted as bridesmaid,
and Mrs. Brown, of the same city,
as groomsman. Miss Lena Pleas
anton of Middletown, cousin of the
brideg, played the wedding march.
The ushers were Hepburn Benson
and Albert Brothers of Whining
ton, James Burnham of Philadel-
phia and Walter Learned of Dover
The bride and groom left shortly
after the ceremony for Washing
ton, and will go from there to their
home in Brooklyn.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

derstanding is infinite. A Bible ci-
tation from the Lesson-Sermon: !:
Prov. 3:5-7. Trust in the Lord with
all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. 6. In all
thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths. z. Be not
wise in thine own eyes. .Correla-
tive from the Textbook. Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" by Mary Baker Eddy: In
proportion as the belief disappears
that life and intelligence are in or
of matter, the immortal facts of be-
ing are seen and their only idea or
intelligence is in God. .Intellig-
ence is omniscience, omnipresence,
and omnipotence. 1t is the primal
and eternal quality of infinite Mind,
of the triune Principle, - Life,
Truth, and Love, named God.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
WORK
SUMMARIZED
Results Shown From Records
of 35 Egg Producers in
State With Expenditures
DISCUSS BEST BREEDS

Results of the poultry cost ac-
count project which is being con-
Quoted in this state under the direc-
tion of the extension service of the
University of Delaware, and sourc-
es from which high quality and dis
ease-free baby chicks may be OBJ
tanned, were discussed at the meet
ing of the Caesar Rodney local
poultry association which was held
in the vocational agriculture room
in this school on Tuesday evening
of this week. The poultry account
work, including summary of cost
of production records which were
kept last year by thirty-five egg
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

Lent begins today Wednes.
day.
No names article will appear in
our next issue.
L. M. Price planted his garden
crop of peas yesterday.
The Ladies Benevolent Society
will meet at Mrs. T. B. Megear's s
Tuesday evening, February 25th.
Delinquents in the payment of
town taxes have about two weeks
to save themselves from puoiica-
tion.
Mrs. L. A. Cotton is about estab-
lished in her new store on Main
Street where she and her assistants
will be ready to see old and new
customers.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Albert B. Stephenson,
of Green Spring, and Miss Halle M.
Strahorn, near Centrevil1e, Del, on
Thursday, March 9Th, at II o'clock.
w. E. Riggs, collector for this,
I(Duck Creek in settling his ac-
counts with the Levy Court last
week also presented them with
handsome cake, which was very
much enjoyed.
The new organ built by c. S.
Haskell, of Philadelphia, for the M.
E. Church here was put in place
last week, and the pipes are being
decorated this week by the painters
to make them harmonize with the
frescoeing.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
A SURPRISE PARTY

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac H. FAIRIES had
a visit in their nice new home on
Saturday night that was what it
was intended, veritable surprise.
1t was the goth anniversary of
their wedding day, and there are
always persons in Smyrna who
knew the dates that the principals
had forgotten. All oblivious as to
what the day commemorated. Mrs.
FAIRIES was out in the neighborhood
making a call on new baby and
Mr.. FAIRIES was down to his place
of business. When they returned
home they found all their friends
awaiting them, and very nice par
ty was held much to their enjoy
ment.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
DEATH OF JOHN ANTHONY

John Anthony. one of our most
respected citizens died at his resi-
dence in this town on Thursday last
after an illness Of some weeks, in
the 74th year of his age. He was
a native of New York State, being
born near Troy, and spent the most
active part of his business life in
that city, where his industry, for
sightedness and business integrity
brought him ample success. He
was engaged in the stove business
for some years with a firm of which
his father was a member. Later
he was a contractor and a part of
the city commentaries his name
as Anthony Place" He took a
tour of observation to this PENN
sula in 1865 and likeing the soil in
the vicinity of Smyrna, he brought
the Judge Davis farm just west of
the town. The funeral services
were held at the house at 2 o'clock
on Monday afternoon, conducted by
Rev w. w. Wilson. A quartette,
composed Of the Hoffecker brothers
and L. M. Price sang selected
hymn. The remains were then con-
veyed to the depot and from thence
to Troy, n. Y. The remains were
laid to rest with his fathers, at ten
O'Clock yesterday morning in the
family lot Of lakewood Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
RIGHT FOOD FOR
GOOD HEALTH
Your Health and Vitality De-
pends on Proper Food
and Right Amount
BY CHARLOTTE SPENCER

Many people and many animals
do not see as well at night as they
should. Vitamin A deficiency caus-
es nightblindness or an inability to
see in the twilight.
We stumble over an unseen per-
son in a dimly lighted theatre We
are temporarily blinded by glaring
headlights. A person whose diet is
deficient in Vitamin A is not able
to adapt quickly to change from
bright light to dim light.
/ Newfoundland fishermen exist on
a diet which supplies too little vita
min A. They are able to see well
until twilight when they become so
blinded that they are unable to
work safely about their boats. They
have known for a long time that a
man who suffers from nightblind-
ness today and who eats the liver
of a Goldfish or sea gull will be able
to see tomorrow night.
Moon blindness" in animals may
follow grazing on poor pastures.
Such animals euffer many accidents
at night because of their inability
to see.
In the last World War, the farm
ers of Denmark were able to get
high prices for their exported but
ter and other dairy products. 1t
was such a temptation to export all
they had that their own families
went without these foods. The re-
suit was an epidemic of blindness
among the Danish children, caused
by deficiency of vitamin A.
During the blackouts of the pres
ent war many eyes are again being
tested-and found wanting. Ac-
cording to the New York Times,
"blackout blindness" is the new
name for old-fashioned nightblind-
ness. Vitamin A deficiency is one
of the causes of the high number of
car crashes and pedestrian acci-
dents during blackouts. Butter,
milk, eggs, and green vegetables
must be sacrificed to the blockade
and the high cost of ornaments.
Twenty to thirty-five percent of
Iowa school children tested showed
subnormal ability to adapt to dark
ness after light. There was an
eighty-three percent failure among
Oklahoma Indian children tested.
1t is possible that a study of Della
wareans would show large per-
centage with varying degrees of
night-blindness.
Nightblindness may be one of the
causes of the after-dark accident
increase. 1t has been suggested
that drivers should be tested before
licensing to determine if they have
normal powers of adaptation to
dark.
Milk, butter, eggs, green and yell
low vegetables and cod liver oil are
rich in vitamin A, Plenty of vita
min A will not necessarily produce
good eyesight, but good eyesight
and the ability to see at night are
impossible without vitamin A.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
PERSONALS

Mrs. Jesse Anthony of Troy, N
Y, who came on at the death o.
John Anthony, is remaining will
Mrs. Anthony a short time.
Olin /. Hodugh, of Jacob Reed:
Son, clothing store in Philadelphia
has been on a weeks visit to his
Delaware friends.
Mrs. John H. Huntingdon and ]
Talley Smith, of Wilmington, spent
Sunday in Smyrna, the latter tc
visit his wife and daughter, who re-
main.
Mrs. John H. Hoffecker was call
ed to Brooklyn on Saturday by the
illness from scarlet fever of a
daughter of her sister, Mrs. DR.. S.
L. Baldwin.
Miss Fora Cook, of Philadelphia,
is spending a week visiting her
Smyrna friends, guest of Miss Sue
Colt.
Rev. Alfred Smith, of Cambridge,
Md, who was called to Smyrna for
matrimonial purpose. preached at
the M. E. Church last night. Pre-
siding Elder t. o. Ayres, of Sails
bury, was also present and took
part in the services.
]. w. Jones took the night train
last night for New York on a bust
ness trip.
Mrs. Daniel G. Spruance of New
York, is on visit to his mother,
Mrs. Amanda Spruance.
Miss Elva Smith has been visit
ing Miss Elva Wilson at Salem,
N. j.
Miss L. M. Russell spent several
days the past week with Miss Min
ME Clement
Benjamin B. Allen, Jr., who has
been in Wilmington for some time
past. is home on a visit.
The following ladies of Smyrna
were in attendance at the wedding
of ]. Harry Cahoon yesterday at
Middletown: Misses Elizabeth r.
Cahoon, Eta Benson, Nora Cotton
and Bertha Hoffecker.
Miss Ida M Walker, of Kenton,
has arrived home after six weeks
visit to Philadelphia, Newark,
Orange Mountains and New York.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
MARYLAND ITEMS

Work will soon be begun at
Sharptown upon the first four
masted schooner ever built on the
Eastern Shore.
The residence of DR.. w. Fl. Mere
dith, in Caroline county, was burn
ed last week, together with the fur
niture and library.
The next session of the Maryland
Annual Conference Of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church will be held
in Chestertown beginning on the
first Wednesday in April.
Elkton, Cambridge, Millington,
and perhaps other Maryland towns,
Continued on P1re ceven
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

producers throughout the state. IS
explained by Kenneth w. Baker
extension economist of the Uniyer-
sity of Delaware, under whose su-
pervision this project will be car
ried on during the coming year in
cooperation with the county agents
and H. L. Richardson, extension
poultryman. These cost represent
all cash and non-cash expenditures
including a charge for such items
as homegrown feeds, family labor
and the decrease in inventory of
buildings and equipment The rec
ords on these thirty-fve poultry
farms, representing 1882 layers
showed an average annual produc-
tion of 153 eggs per hen, with an
average price Of 26 cents a dozen
resulting in total receipts of $3.50
per hen as compared to S268 costs
or net return of S1.21 per layer
during the period Of one year. Ad-
ditional cost records will be secured
during 1910 to supplement the in
formation which was obtained last
year, and from these records it is
planned to collect sufficient data to
be of value to the egg producers of
Delaware Another important sub
iect discussed at this meeting was
the source of chicks which are
known to be free of pullorum dis
ease, and the question of which
breeds are the most desirable for
this section. This subject was Of
timely interest in view of the fact
that poultrymen are now consider
ing the purchasing of baby chicks.
County Agent Russell E. Wilson
discussed the program relating to
poultry demonstration farms on
which each cooperator will be re-
quested to check at the end of the
year those recommended practices
which were followed in connection
with feeding and management
problems. These demonstration
farms will be visited at timely in
tervals by the county agent and
poultry specialist for the purpose
of checking over the results of
these practices in the production of
better layers in our poultry fiocks,
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COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Delaware City is to have an ar
tificial ice factory.
The New Castle Times has sus-
pended publication.
Thomas Cavender is a candidate
for Town Treasurer of Middletown.
Mr.. H. A. Richardson's handsome
new dwelling on north State Street
Dover is about completed.
James Tomlinson has been ap-
pointed State fish patrolman to pre-
vent illegal fishing in the streams
contiguous to Bowers Beach.
Geo. V. Massey, Esq, having re-
signed his position as attorney for
the First National Bank, of Dover,
James Pennewell, Esq, has been
elected to fill the position.
Cards are out for the marriage
of Miss Mollie L., daughter of
Minos Conaway, and Henry t. Den
ny, Wednesday afternoon, February
26, at 5 o'clock, at Bethel M. E.
Church, near Cheswold.
William S. Smithers, of Dover,
has gone to New York where he
will enter the literary field.
Growing wheat is eight inches
high around Magnolia.
Delaware College, from the i'm
mediate now has some eight or ten
students, and more contemplating
soon attending.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
81 Guernsey Cattle

IL HEAD ARE REGISTERED
Gangwater & May Rose breeding.
8 Registered Bulls. one bred by p. S.
DUPONT one by Josiah Marvel Est. and
one by Robert A. Derrickson.
This herd is Tuberculin and Blood Tested.
BROOD S0WS and IL PIGS.
Boar Hog, Chester County White.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &c.
John Deere Tractor. Model A; Tractor
Cultivators. Tractor Plows. Mccormick
Deering Binder, loft. cut; Mccormick
Deering Mower. Hay Loader. Side-delivery
Rake, Dump Rake. Ontario Drill. 11-spout !;
Disc Harrow. Rotary Hoe; Cultipacker /;
Plow Packer. two No. 9S Oliver Walking
Plows. Riding Plows, Farm Wagons. 2
Riding Cultivators, Walking Cultivators.
Chevrolet Truck. 1880 Model; New Idea
Manure Spreaders, John Deere Corn Plant
er, Phosphate Attachment; Seed Sewers,
Getz Feed Grinder. two-hole Corn Shelter.
Saw and Saw Bench, Farm Scales, Wagon
Harness. Plow Harness, Collars and Brides,
and many other things too numerous to
ABOUT TONS OF IRON
DAIRY FIXTURES
Electric, Scan, Zero Flow Wilosn Milk
Cooler. nearly new; Milk Buckets, Strain
ers. Milk Stools.
Some HAY. About 500 Bushels CORN by
the bushel Potatoes by the basket.
About 200 HENS. Brooder Stove. Foun-
tains and Feeders.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
2 Majestic Range Stoves. one enamel !;
Chunk Stove, Enamel Allen Parlor Furn-
ace. Coal Heater s Rugs, four ex12. two
8x10; IA Chairs, Rockers. 2 Wash Bowl
Sets. Chemical Toilet. Desk and Bookcase.
2 Bedsteads, 2 Bureaus and Wash Stands,
Household Sewing Machine. Marvel Sweep
er. Ice Refrigerator. 6-Qt. Ice Cream Freez-
er: Lark Press. lot of Fruit Jars. some
Dishes. Pots. Pans and many other things.
LUNCH served by Ladies of Friendship
Church. No other stands allowed.
TERMS-CASH
G. ARTHUR CHM
r. w. Slaughter. auctioneer
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
A DEATH BLOW TO
POLYGAMY

Mormonism has received its
death blow in its own citadel. The
election recently held in Salt Lake
City resulted in a triumph for the
entire non-Mormon ticket. For the
first time in the history of that
place the city officials are men who
neither practice nor preach polyg-
amy The law-abiding element is
at the fore in Mormondom, and
hereafter polygamy will be in fact
what it is in law-simply a crime,
to be dealt with and punished as
any other crime is and should be.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
NEWS ITEMS

Seventy-five steamships are now
under contract to load grain ir
Philadelphia for Europe.
At the Worlds Fair mass meet
ing in New York Monday night, q
compromise offered by Chauncey
M. Depew was adopted. which pro-
vides that more names shall be add.
ed to the Citizens committee, but
that two-thirds vote shall be re-
quired for the election of officers
and the giving Of contracts.
Alpheus T. Palmer, aged SO years
the only surviving officer in Maine
of the Mexican War, died at Bang
or Saturday. He was for years in
the regular army, and was an in
innate friend of President Pierce
and jefferson Davis.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
MARRIAGES.

A very pretty wedding took place
in the Presbyterian Church Of this
town at $50 o'clock this morning,
when Z. E. Harding, of Philadel-
p'da. formerly of Wyoming, led
Miss Lepora Clements of this town,
to the marriage alter, the rites be-
ing solemnized by Rev. Alfred
Smith, Of Cambridge, Md, rela-
tion of the bride. The following
gentlemen acted as ushers: r. W..
Copper, Chestertown; William
Whitaker, Philadelphia; Charles
Alice, Dover; Styles Clements,
Smyrna. Mrs. Kate Speskrer
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

Work has been started on a
memorial grove Of trees at st. An
drew's School in honor of Charles
Turner, a member of the 1910 grad
uating class who was killed in an
automobile accident last year.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Report of Church Services For
Next SUNDAY

fCtpOrI OF CnuTCh StTV1Ces FUI
Next SUNDAY
First Churcn of Christ. Scientist
Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren Street: morning service
IL a. m, Sunday School IL a. m,
evening service 500 p. M, We'd
nesday evening service at s p. m.
Christian Science Society, Milford,
meeting at Grange Hall: Morning
service IL a. m., also meets on first
Wednesday evening of each
month at p. m. Subject for Sum-
day, February 25: Mind" Golden
Text: Psalms 147:5. Great is our
Lord, and If great power: his un-
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
NOTICE

Dead or disabled hom,
and mules removed mi
charge by calling DOVER \
13. No animals removed MIL
Is made Immediately and n
imals dying from a coutsrL,,|
ease will be removed.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF FEB. 18TH, 1890

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
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1940-02-22

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ON, D. c.. THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 194O

clearing station, 4 to 8 miles in
the rear, and finally to an evacu-
alton point IS to 80 miles behind the
lines.
Equipment Improved.
Although there has been little
change in tactics Of removing the
wounded since the World War, there
has been much improvement in
equipment and one or two new
wrinkles have been added.
At the battalion aid station, for
example, a new technique developed
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fusion of blood plasma for the pre-
vention of shock and strengthening
Of the victim pending his removal.
Among new equipment designed
and tested here is an ambulance
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Army Medical School
Teaches Removal
Of Wounded
159 SeIectees Assigned
To Carlisle Barracks
From Fort Meade

b the Associated Press.
CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pa, Dec.
26.-If those young men now re-
ceiving military training had been
drafted several centuries earlier, they
could have expected a swordstroke
or bullet to put them out of their
misery if wounded in battle.
That, explains 1t. Col. Paul R.
Hawley, was how armies in days
gone by SOLVED" the problem of
caring for the injured.
Col. Hawley, staff officer of the
U. S. Army's Medical Field Service
School here, said military medical
service originated about 1880, when
Gustavus Adolphus provided his
army with surgeons.
Long after that period, however,
removal of the wounded from the
field of battle was strictly an i'm
promptu affair. AS recently as the
Civil War it was common sight to
see seven or eight men carrying a
single injured comrade to the rear.
Alarming Fading Away"
Whether the helpers were mott
waited by sympathy or some less
lofty emotion" as Col. Hawley OBJ
serves, the result was an alarming
fading away" of the firing lines.
One of the principal functions of
the Medical School at this historic
old barracks Is miles west of Har-
risburg is to teach physicians and
enlisted men of the medical depart
ment how to get wounded soldiers to
the rear with a maximum Of speed
and a minimum of harm to the in
jured.
The service school, established 20
years ago, is speeding up its program
of instruction. Already l59 new
selective service trainees from the
Sd Corps Area have been assigned to
Carlisle from Fort Meade, Md.
Physicians going into military
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service are being brought here for
special training in the strategy Of
removing the wounded as well as in
the supervision of camp water sup
plies and sanitation. National
Guard and Regular Army nom
commissioned officers are also being
trained here.
Under present military routine,
each triangular division is served by
a medical battalion of "a officers and
476 enlisted men.
It is the duty Of the medical bat
talon to transport the wounded first
to a battalion aid station close be-
hind the firing line, next by ambu-
lance to a collecting station a little
farther back, then to the division
Evening star., 1940-12-26

with four-wheel drive-capacity 13
ntters or % sitting cases"-capable
Of negotiating the rough mountain
GUS country around Carlisle, and a
mobile surgical unit, complete with
operating table, sterilizer and heat
ing unit.
The school also has developed q
dentists chair which collapses with
It's drill and other equipment into
two suitcases-to be slung across a
saddle for the "dentist-on-horse-
back"-and portable Arctic rescue
unit" consisting Of skis, snow shoes,
folding stretcher and other para
phernalia.