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Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07
Milford, Friday, February :, 1871
Up From The Log Cabin

On February II, 1909, Abraham
Lincoln was born in a humble log
cabin at Hodgensville, Kentucky.
That dwelling was made out of
rough hewn logs, and it had but a
single room. At the age Of seven
years. he followed his parents
through the forests to Southern In
diana They cut down the trees with
which to build new cabin. Their
only floor was the bare earth, which
turned to mud when the frozen
ground thawed. There were no win
dows to let in the sunlight. There
was not at first even skin to hang
over the doorway, to shut out the
sleet and snow. The little boy fell
asleep on heap of loose leaves, and
called it home.
At 10 years of age little Abe Lin
coin was walking nine miles day
to and from the little log school
house in the woods. At night he lay
before the fireplace. ciphering out
his arithmetic examples on a wooden
shovel, and scrawling his name on
the logs of his cabin. A new world
was beginning to open. Now he
learned that within the covers Of
books, there lay the key to all mys-
teries, that through those books one
could learn the wisdom of the wise
men of all ages.
So he sat down before the fire of
logs, and read the few books he
could get hold of. And SO he grew
up as boy, earning money as wood
chopper and farm hand. He worked
for 20 cents a day. which according
to the custom of his times it was his
duty to give to his father until he
was 21 years old.
1t is said that altogether he did
not probably have more than one
year OF schooling. Yet he grew to be
one Of the worlds greatest men,
whose fame has spread all over the
earth. '
There is hardly boy or girl in
our land today who has not had
better chance than Abe Lincoln had.
Why should any youngster say he
has no opportunity in the modern
world, when he can see what ABE
hincoln had to contend with and
what he became?
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07
Population Growth

The population of the United
States did not grow as fast during
the decade ending in 1910 as in pre-
vious 10 year periods. The experts
say our rate of population growth
is slowing down. Some predict that
in about 20 years, the population
will become stationary.
Towns cannot look ahead as con-
fidently as formerly to population
growth. If they are exceptionally
wide awake and progressive, they
will probably draw in more people.
The main thing is the production of
superior communities, and tn e
provision of the advantages that
make a community highly desirable
as a residence, business, and distri-
buting center. A town can always
grow in wealth, comforts, and facil-
tiles for high class living, but to do
so takes cooperation, enterprise, and
support of all good public causes.
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07
Buying French Support

The German Nazis recently offered
to supply the French people with q
vast quantity of potatoes out of the
great crop Germany raised last sum-
mer. Also to supply potatoes foI
planting in the spring. and sup
ply of sugar went with the offer.
The Germans evidently feel this con-
cession may turn the French, who
are not well fed. to a more friendly
attitude, and even may induce them
to cooperate to some extent in the
attack on England.
The American people hope that
France will not forget that a vast
American army pulled them out of
the depths in 1918, and that Ameri-
can sentiment will tell them to block
Nazi progress any way they can.
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07
OCEAN BOATS FOR
GREAT LAKES

/ We are hearing good deal nova
days about the st. Lawrence Seaway
which is the latest name for grea
project - so old that It has grown
gray whiskers. The principal objec
is the navigation Of steamships be
tween Euopre and farthest wes
points on the Great Lakes, such az
Chicago, Detroit, Superior, and Du-
Iuth. The principal objection to this
splendid proposal, in early times
was that 1t would be too costly for
our old-time thrifty Presidents tc
tackle.
The politicians in Canada and the
United States apparently rubber
stamped the objections of the rail-
roads of the two countries for al
most half a century. The railways
apparently were afraid of competi-
tion. The Congressional Record OF
recent date restates the threadbare
objections of the railroads to the st.
Lawrence Seaway.
Congressman Alfred f. Better of
New York, in an address to the
House, called attention to the fact
that "once more we find the Seaway
and the power issue scrambled" to-
gether. The proposals are so unlike
that it is absurd to consider them
together. If we should want, or need
more power, 1t is necessary to swal-
low this waterway to get it,"
When the deep waterways" plan
was proposed nearly fifty years ago,
there was no thought of its possi-
bilities except that it would connect
the Great Lakes with the Atlantic
Ocean. Western wheat and corn
could be shipped overseas with great
savings in freight. The United States
and Canada endorsed, and opposed,
the deep waterways" plan through
many administrations.
President Hoover favored the plan
and thought he had backing in Con-
gress to put it through. President
Roosevelt has always favored the
plan, but like his predecessors, he
has become rather discouraged by
the opposition that periodically bobs
up on our own Capitol Hill and at
Ottawa.
The New York State Authority is
one of the hackers of the deep
waterways" plan. The Great Lakes
States, with the help of the corn
belt and the wheat belt states, for
merly maintained an organization in
Washington, which favored the St
Lawrence Seaway. Likely it would
have been approved by both the Uni
ted States and Canada years ago ex-
cept for the fact that the power issue
became Scrambled" with the sea-
way objective.
A Wisconsin editor, Frank Flow
er, of Superior, Wisconsin, was the
father of this movement, and through
his efforts a large convention of
representative delegates from the
Great Lake states and the Dominion
of Canada met in Cleveland, in 1895.
That convention started a genuine
boom for the deep waterways" pro-
posal, and it occupied public atten-
ton for a number of years until the
power trust" "cut in" with the idea
it could make a lot of fortunes by
grabbing new water power rights
and privileges. Thus the railroads
and the power trust" have strangled
and cheated the Great Lakes states
out of their God-given rights in the
long, long past.
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07

IF YOU WANT HELP in some
good home town movement, you ask
for and get the cooperation of the
home town merchants. 1t is well to
recognize this aid, by giving them
your patronage when you have mon
ey to spend.
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07

IF YOU CAN'T give a few hours
now and then to do things for your
home town, don't expect Epzr home
town to do many things fdrfyoui
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07

TOWNS GO AHEAD because
somebody pushes them. Are you do
ing any pushing. or do you wait for
someone else to do it?
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07

A STORE with many articles that
won't sell, is regrettable sight. Ad-
vertising would move them.
Milford chronicle., 1941-02-07

Read the CLASSIFIED "Ads"I
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18

phony met Tuesday afternoon
al the home of Mrs. Homer Fer
guSon TO hear Mrs. Edith Rhetts
Tilton speak and to partake of
tea and such.
The gathering was a particu-
larly dressy one and here you
have our trembling account of
the sartorial embellishments:
Mrs. Depcw Whitman t.
light blue wool suit and pearls,
black hat and shoes -.
Miss Rosemary Heenan 4.
purple wool suit, purple Off
the-face hat with matching
feathers -.
Mrs Graham Sellers D.. royal
blue dress with sequined bodice,
matching jacket and turban,
burgundy fox jacket -.
Mrs. Norman Aronson 4.
black crepe with red collars and
-clfIS-blaek-Aat- 1 trimmed Ia
Persian lamb
Miss Patricia Uline Hill /.
red crepe dress, red hat with
silver fox trim, lush silver fox
coat ..
Mrs. A. M. Smith was present
for a general 0dieU as she will
be leaving for New York City
Friday and will set sail from
there shortly for Chile, to be
gone two months or more.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18

Y. w. c. A. Building, followed
by program of Christmas
music by Florence Shirley
Frostic and community singing
of Christmas carols.
There viii be a Christmas
tree but, instead of the mem
bers receiving gifts, they will
take them to hang on the tree
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18

and afterwards distribute them
TO under privileged children.
Mrs. Philornene Altman is
chairman of the evening.
MR.. AND MRS. HUGH WILL
LlAMS HARRIS Frances AL
World are receiving congratula-
tons and fluctuations upon the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18

arrival of a son. Hugh william
Jr.
DETROIT MEDICAL AS
SISTANTS' SOCIETY will hold
their second annual Christmas
party in the Harmonic Society
Building tonight at 8 p. m.
Proceeds will be used for the
GOOdfelloWs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18
Business Women
Plan Dinner Fete

DETROIT BUSINESS and
Professional Women's Club will
give a dinner party for mem
berS and guests this very eve
ming. at 6 o'clock. in the Central.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18
Miss Pickett
Made Delegate

MISS WINIFRED PICKETT,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w.
Pickett of Burlingame avenue, a
junior at Mount Holyoke Col
lego. South Hadley, Mass. has
been selected as a delegate TO
the conference of the National
Assembly of Student Christian
Association, which is 10 be held
at Miami University, Oxford, O.,
December u through January 3.
The conference will be at
tended by students and faculty
from all over the country. Dele
gates will be addressed by lead
erS in the field of religion and
student education
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-18

Mr.. AND MRS. bob"
THOMPSON are sending out in
viting bids 10 a cocktail party
they'll give the Sunday following
Christmas in their comfortable
home on Pemberton road from 3
until g o'clock.
MEMBERS OF the Junior
Association for the Detroit Sym
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Maj. Robert Kennedy, 63,
Dies at Walter Reed

Maj. Robert G. Kennedy, So, re-
tired Medical Corps sanitary officer,
died at Walter Reed Hospital Tues
day after a sudden Illness. Services
will be held at l pm. tomorrow at
Fort Myer Chapel, with military hon
OrS marking burial in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
Maj. Kennedy rose from the ranks
In the Medical Corps, enlisting in
1898. He served two years in Cuba
while Walter Reed was making his
experiments with yellow fever Sub
sequently Maj. Kennedy served on
the Mexican border in 1916, four
years in the Philippines, and spent
% months in France during the
World War He was commissioned
a major and served on the general
staff of the American EXpeditionary
Force
Maj. Kennedy was born in Allen
wood, Pa, and lived in. Washington
for several years around 1908, when
he was stationed at Fort Myer, Va
After the World War he returned to
Washington to serve at Walter Reed
Hospital, and retired in 1924. He
was one of the Medical Corps staff
to assist at the crash of the Wright
brothers testing plane September
II, 1908, at Fort Myer, when 1t
Thomas E. Selfridge was killed and
Orville Wright suffered a broken leg
and ribs.
Maj. Kennedy is survived by his
son, ElWood w. Kennedy, $40 South
Wakefield street, Arlington, Va. His
body is as the Ives funeral home
2847 Wilson boulevard, Arlington.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
|Choin Groceries
Open Saturday,
Closed Monday

Chain grocery stores here will be
open as usual on Saturday-which
being George Washingtons Birth
day, is holiday-but will be closed
all day Monday.
Agreement to this effect has been
reached by workers and managers
of the Safeway, American and
A. & P. stores here so the stores
will be open on Saturday, the busiest
day of the week.
The Merchants and Manufacture
erS Association announced that
most of the department and spe-
cialty stores in downtown Washing
ton will be closed Saturday after
noon, giving the employees half
holiday.
Edward D. Shaw, secretary Of the
association, said most of the stores
would close at l pm, while some
will remain open until 2 pm.
Coal and fuel oil merchants will
remain open only half a day on the
holiday, Mr.. Shaw said, while whole
sale food distributors, who supply
the restaurants, will be open all day
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Kensington lobbyists
To Have Exhibit

Nearly every hobby from racing
pigeons to model railroading will be
exhibited at Kensington (MdD Ele-
mentary School tomorrow and Sat-
urday. High light will be demon
stration of lobbyists in action at
8 pm. tomorrow in the school audi
torium.
At that time local enthusiasts will
show how they fly airplanes with
gasoline engines, work with power
shop tools, do expert photography,
and other spare time work. Speak
ers will include B. w. Kumler, stamp
collector, and Edmond Hendrerer,
author of The Sunday Stars hobby
column.
Displays will be open from 2 pm.
to II pm. tomorrow and 2 to 6 pm.
Saturday. The affair is sponsored
by the Parent-Teacher Association.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

The Treasury Department today
offered to the public through its
Procurement Division a conglomera-
ton of equipment that has been ex-
celled for oddneSS few times since
Noah unloaded the ark.
Under the auctioneers hammer in
the divisions surplus property yard
at Virginia avenue and Second
street S.W. was knocked out every
thing from paper clips to automo-
biles, all obsolete or considered past
use so far as the Government is con-
cerned. Federal estimators placed
value of around $4,000 on the
318 different lots on sale, but it was
evident from early sales that the
maximum bids would not total
within several hundred dollars of
that figure.
1t was the first sale Of property
by the Treasury Department since
equipment has been disposed of
through sealed bids.
Dozens of Persons Show Up.
Despite a temperature that was
several degrees below freezing
dozens Of persons-men and women
some with children-milled about
the yard examining the lots by num-
bers according to their appearance
on sales lists given out to all who
applied. A large metal-walled ware
house and the surrounding yard
were flled to walking space with al
most every imaginable item.
There were pruning knives, cleo
trio motors, sewing machines, chains
ropes, filing cabinets, medicine balls
drinking fountains, pencil sharpen
ers, kerosene lamps, spittoons, sofas
f1rehose, wall clocks and hundreds
of other items, large and small. Out
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Flood Of Tax Inquiries
Starts at District Bureau

Several hundred prospective Dis
trict income taxpayers lined up in
the f1rst-f1oor corridor of the Dis
trict Building today to get advice
on the preparation of their returns.
Tax Assessor Edward A. Dent has
assigned a dozen income tax ex-
aminers to aid the public
The District returns and the first
payment on the tax will not become
due until April Is, but the flood of
inquiries has started, officials said,
probably because Federal income tax
returns are required by March Is.
The District officials anticipated
there would be a lull in this work
after March Is, but that business
would pick up as the April Is dead
line approached.
For the present fiscal year the
District is collecting S3,222O 900 from
personal and corporate income
levies. For this year more than
100000 returns were made. Yester-
day taxpayers paid S2,347 into the
District Golfers in income tax. pay
ments.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Court Gets First Case
Under New Panderinq Act

In what is believed to be the first
case to go to court under the pan
dering act since amendments to 1t
were enacted January 8, Gordon
williams, 81, was held under $4,000
bond today for grand jury action in
Police Court after his wife, Mrs. Isa-
bella Williams, "a, testified.
Specifically, Williams was charged
with attempted pandering.
Mrs. Williams, who lives in the
1900 block of B street Sc, said her
husband was released recently from
Occoquan, where records show he
was sentenced to serve 80 days on a
drunk charge. She said their two
children are in Tennessee with her
mother.
Williams was arraigned before
Judge Walter j. Casey.
The amendments to the old pam
dering act enacted this year were
designed to put teeth into the law.
The maximum penalty for pander-
ing is five years in jail and a 81 900
dne.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Hunters Committee
May Include 0verton
plan in Tax Bill
Special Consideration
Promised to U. SD. c.
Fiscal Relations
Star Staff Photo.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Chairman Hunter Of the Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee of the House
District Committee promised today
his group would give special" con-
sideration to the Overton plan for a
permanent solution to the long
troublesome fiscal relations prob
lem between the Federal and mu-
nicipal governments. There is pos
sibility, he indicated, that the Over
ton formula might be added as a
section to a new revenue bill the
committee is expected to report.
The Overton plan if carried out
would require the Federal Govern
ment to contribute at least SO 100000
a year toward support of the Dis
trict. The present Federal payment
is s6,OOO0OO.
Representative Hunter, Demo-
crat. of Ohio has sponsored the
Overton plan in the House. His
subcommittee Tuesday will begin
hearings on proposals to revise the
tax structure of the District, and
he believes the fiscal relations Ques-
ton will be an important phase of
the discussions.
Might Include Formula.
Mr.. Hunter said it might be posi-
BILE to "tie in" the fiscal relations
plan with the tax problem so the tax
program his subcommittee will con-
slider might contain. as reported
finally to the House, the Overton
formula for fixing the Federal pay
ment to the District.
Senator Overton is chairman of
the subcommittee in charge of the
District appropriation bill. Two
years ago he recommended a SINH
lar formula to make more equitable
the fiscal relations between the
Federal and District governments.
His latest plan-the one that Mr..
Hunter approves-is a modification
of the original proposal brought up
to date. The formula for fixing the
Federal payment proposed in the
Overton bill and a similar bill sub
sequently introduced in the House
by Mr.. Hunter provides that the
Federal Government shall pay a
percentage of the expenses of the
District equal to the percentage of
land owned here by the Federal
Government.
81 Per Cent of General Fund.
Senator Overton said that under
the formula the Federal payment
should be 81 per cent of the general
fund of the District. Based on the
budget estimates for the coming
fiscal year beginning July the pay
ment would amount to about S9,000,-
900, as the recommended general
fund totals about SAB 100000.
When originally proposed in 1889
the Overton formula would have
called for a Federal payment of
about s8,0OO,0OO. The land area
needed for national purposes at that
time was approximately 20 per cent
of the total land area of the Dis
trict and would have been applied
to a total general fund appropria-
ton of S40,000,000 Revised data,
however, indicates the application of
the formula in view of the increased
acquisition of land area in the Dis
trict by the Federal Government
coupled with the rising operating
expenses of the municipal govern
ment would now make the Federal
share 100000.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Boy, 10, Killed Riding
Bike He Delighted in
As Christmas Gift
Used Vehicle to Sell
Magazines After School;
Driver Is Freed

Riding on his bicycle, Christmas
gift, 1O-year- George H. Wilmer,
ir., of 1855 North Nelson street, Ar
lington, Va, was fatally injured late
Yesterday when he was hit by an
automobile at Eleventh and Stat
ford streets.
The bicycle had been the boys IA
yorite possession, his father said,
and since January 81, his birthday,
he had used it in selling magazines
after school hours. An only child,
he was a fourth grade student at
Thomas Nelson Page School.
The accident occurred yesterday
as he pedaled from a friends home.
He was pronounced dead soon after
the Arlington Rescue Squad hur-
ried him to Emergency Hospital.
Police said the driver of the auto
mobile was Jasper Harrison, 20, OF
615 North Piedmont street, Airing
ton, and that he was released with
out charges pending hearing. Dr.
w. C. Welburn, coroner, declared he
had not yet set a time for the in
quiry.
Margaret Ryter, 48, of 1704 Lanier
place NV. was released from Emer-
gency Hospital late yesterday after
noon after she had been treated for
lacerations received when struck by
a motor cycle while crossing the
street at Seventeenth and L streets
NV.
Glenn Grogg, 16, of Germantown,
Md, received minor cuts when the
bicycle he was riding collided with
taxi at Seventeenth and H streets
NV. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital and released.
Struck by an automobile at Nine
teenth and o streets NV, Edith
Blahney, 16, colored, of I'LL P street
NV, was treated at Freedmen's
Hospital for cuts and possible ankle
fracture. She was taken home after
treatment.
Phillip Givinson, 10, of 1121 Rob-
inson street NV. was released from
Providence Hospital after treatment
for minor injuries received in the
collision of his automobile with a
District refuse truck at Ninth and
K streets Sc.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
CityPreparesP Plans
For Police and Fire
Protection in Disaster
Committee to lntegrote
Program With National
Emergency Setup

Detailed plans for mobilization Of
Washington's police, fire and motor
transport facilities in event of some
major disaster will be worked out
under a program outlined last night
! by the newly created Civil Protec-
ton Committee.
The committee, headed by Police
Chief Ernest w. Brown, considered
all phases of disaster relief in the
light of the troubled international
situation, including a plan for evac-
uating the city, for emergency COM
munications, for protecting key
points and for police and fire Or
ganization under emergency condi-
tionS
Such a city-wide plan already has
been approved by New York City.
The work was begun by order of
Mayor La Guardia shortly after the
outbreak OF war in Europe in Sep
tember of 1899, and now includes
minute details for the utilization of
the city's resources in an emergency.
Nationwide Program.
Maj. Brown said a plan to fit
Washington's particular needs will
be worked cut to integrate in a
! Nation wide program for police
emergency and disaster mobilization
launched at a recent meeting here
of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police.
At the meeting in Fire Chief
Stephen T Porter's Office, subcom-
mittees were appointed to study
! fire protection needs and establish
the probable cost of additional IA
cilities to meet any emergency, to
make similar study of police needs,
and to make survey of the motor
transport situation.
The latter committee will develop
a program for listing automobiles,
buses, ambulances and other We
hicles available in an emergency.
The subcommittee are to make
specific communications, including
estimates of cost, to a meeting OF
the full committee in 80 days.
Porter Heads Committee.
The Fire Committee is headed by
Chief Porter and includes Herbert
| A. Friede, communications execu-
tive; Claudius Turner of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion, and H. E. c. Rainey, repre-
senting fire insurance companies.
The Police Committee, headed by
Maj. Brown, includes DR.. E. F.
Harris of the Federation of Civic
Federations, Capt. Henry Helms OF
the United States Park Police; Mr.
Turner, Henwood Saunders and
oscar Hollingsworth, representing
World War veterans, and Odell
Smith of the Washington Board OF
| Trade
The Committee on Motor Vehicles
included Mr.. Turner and DR.. Harris