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Smyrna times., 1941-05-01

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Smyrna times., 1941-05-01
OAKHILL COMMUNITY
Some Items of Personal Mention
Cleaned from the Vicinity

Cleaned from the Vicinity
Delaney's, April 30-Mrs. Char
les Davis Of Washington, D. G., Wis
tied Mrs. Frances Lorah and Mr.
James R. Pryor, Tuesday.
The Oak Hill Community League
will hold its annual election Of di-
rectors at the Oak Hill Community
Hall next Monday evening, May 8.
All members of the community
should be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Salter and
family, and Mrs. George Schimmel
of Medford, Wisconsin, motored to
Rehoboth and Ocean City, Md,
Sunday.
Mr.. Kurt zippe, Mr.. Ralph Sal
ter, and Miss Mary Churay visited
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Gentry and
son, near Dover, Sunday.
Mr.. George Salter, Jr., of Ches-
terville, Md, visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Salter, Sr.,
Sunday evening.
Mrs George Salter and Mrs
George Schimmel, visited Mrs. Kurt
zippe and family Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Frank Webb of Philadelphia,
was visitor of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Conner and family, Sunday.
Mrs. George Beck and father,
Mr.. Edgar Moore of near Smyrna,
motored to London Grove, Pa, last
Friday.
The Townsend Home Demonstra-
ton Club will meet this Friday af-
ternoon, May End, at the home of
Mrs. George Salter.
Smyrna times., 1941-05-01
Poore. of Middletown.

Nellie Poore, of Middletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Reynolds
of Christiana, spent Wednesday
with relatives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Van1orn
spent Sunday with her brother,
John Lurty, of near Kirkwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Daniels, of
Wilmington, were Sunday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Layman of
Wilmington, were visitors here re-
Gently.
Smyrna times., 1941-05-01
CHESWOLD
Items of Personal anG Social In

Items nf Personal anG Social In
est Gleanca Ahn"t Neiehbcr hood
Cheswold, April 30-The annual
dinner of the Mems Bible Glass was
held on Tuesday evening, April 20,
followed by the business meeting
and election of officers.
Mr. and Mrs. r. w. Scarborough,
of Bethlehem, Pa. were weekend
guests of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. s. Scarborough.
Mr.. Leland Massey left Friday
for Minneapolis, Minnesota, where
Smyrna times., 1941-05-01
TOWNSEND
Items of Personal and Social Inter-
est Cleaned About NeighbOrhoOd


Townsend, April 3O-The Town
send Branch of the Delaware Chap
ter of the Red Cross workers have
had 20 women doing knitting at
home and II women to sew in the
work room. Clothing which has
been sent to Red Cross Headouart-
ers, Oil Delaware Avenue, Will
mington, to date are as follows:
Twelve service sweaters, IL shawls,
IL pairs of mems socks, ID wo-
mems skirts, 16 pairs of pajamas,
Is dozen diapers, mems shirts, "a
children's sweaters, 10 gowns, Sc
baby caps, 40 children's dresses, 10
baby blankets, pairs overalls,
knitted suits, s women's dresses. 2
pairs booties, 9 baby sdcques, II
children's skirts. Mrs. Ethel o.
Reynolds is the Townsend publicity
chairman.
The young peoples group had its
monthly meeting April 21st, with a
grand attendance from the differ
ent towns. Townsend proved a
grand host, especially when the re-
freshments were served. With
them everyone seemed to be pleas
ed. The next melting will be at
Bethesda Methodist Church, Mid
dletown, May 26th.
The Masonic Lodge, No. 5, of
Middletown, attended the morning
services in Townsend Methodist
Church on Sunday. Joseph c.
Jr., was the soloist and
sang two selections.
Mrs. Edward Hoyda and Samuel
Slant, Jr., of Annapolis, Md, spent
and Monday of last week
with her parents, Mr.. George t.
Slant and family. Samuel Slant,
of Georgetown, spent Tuesday IN
town as a guest of his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Mannering,
ST., of Townsend, spent Sunday as
the guests of the Rev. and Mrs. S.
Derr Quimby, of Maple Terrace.
Pa. They also attended services at
Methodist Church, Chester,
Pa.
Miss Beatrice Goldsborough,
president of the Junior Red Cross
Counsel, represented the Townsend
school at the Junior Red Cross con-
vention held in Washington. D. c.,
Mr.. and Mrs. X. j. Downing, of
Wilmington, also Miss Elizabeth
Roe, of Magnolia, spent the week
end with the family of w. c.
Money.
Mrs. Eva Lattomu had as recent
guests Mr.. and Mrs. James Cover
dale, Mrs. Lulu Waller, of Clayton,
and Miss Hilda Stevens, of Will
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. George VanHorn
and two children spent Sunday
with his sister, Mrs. Charles Ford
and Mr.. Ford, of Clayton.
Mrs. James F. Conner had her
10th birthday Friday, April 25th.
Mr.. w. P. Wilson and daughter,
Miss Jeanette Wilson, motored to
D. c., Sunday where
they visited Mrs. zeta Bradley.
Miss Idella Kennedy and Mr.Mel-
vim Jones, of Wilmington, were
Saturday visitors at the home of
w. C. Money and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Dugan, of |
Philadelphia, Pa, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pritchard the
past weekend.
Mrs. Mary L. Joiner spent the
weekend with her daughter, Mrs.
Smyrna times., 1941-05-01

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
There were 81 marriages in Will
mington last week
On Saturday the Delawarean be-
gan its 33rd year of existence.
Rehoboth Beach will hereafter be
known as Cape Henlopen City.
William Kitchens of near Laurel.
colored, boasts of having three
crows that will talk.
Middletown citizens urge the es-
Establishment there of a Philadelphia
shirt factory.
Governor Reynold will appoint a
new recorder of decks on the 18th
inst.
The House has passed a bill MAX
ing the Farmers Bank of Dover
the State Treasurer's depository.
Governor Reynolds and staff and
the Delware College cadets have
promised to march in the parade in
Wilmington on Memorial Day.
John Rignear, of Odessa, has
planted l,OOU nils or cdntalOupeS,
and will soon set out 10000 hills of
sweet potatoes.
]. H. Ayres, a son of Rev. T. o.
Ayres, will remove to Delaware
City where he will open jewelry
shop in the establishment formerly
occupied by William Harlow.
The P. w. and B. Railroad will
put on a number of new coaches
this year. They will be So feet
long, or 6 feet longer than the ones
now in use.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage Of John II. Lester and
Miss Clara Nelson on Wednesday
evening, May 18th, at 8 o'clock.
Ceremony in the st. Georges Meth
odist Church.
Governor Reynolds has appointed
DR.. John j. Black of New Castle
Cou1ty, John Cooper of Kent Coun-
ty, and Eli Sharp of Sussex County
as trustees of the insane asylum.
Wallace Eliarson and Miss Lizzie
Evening star., 1941-02-14
British 'Chute Attack Broken
In South Italy, Rome Declares
Force Armed to Cripple Communications
And Water Supply, High Command Says

civilian police deputy and another
civilian were killed, the daily COM
munique said.
British military circles in Lon
don said they knew nothing
about such an attempted land
ing)
The worlds largest aqueduct sys-
TEN. the Apulian Aqueduct, runs
through Calabria and Lucania
Provinces. which form the toe and
arch of the italian boot.
The Apulian Acqueduct carries
cubic feet per second for 152 miles
from copious springs which are the
source of the Sele River. A reser-
voir at Caposele collects water for
the main aQueduct which is tapped
by 1907 miles of subsidiary aque-
gia, Bari, Brindisi, laramie and
Lecce.
Before the aqueduct was built
the construction took place in 1905
l928-the area was insufficiently
supplied with drinking water, rain
fall disappearing in the limestone
plateau.
In recent years the aqueduct has
helped land reclamation and irri-
cation projects to fulfill Italy's food
needs. 1t is in this region now that
Italy is seeking still greater crops,
not only for herself, but also to help
supply Germany.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
110D. T.. SeIectees
Ordered 10 Report
On FebruaY2O
10 White, 40 CoIored
Men Make Up List;
New Coll Tomorrow
By THOMAS c. HARDMAN.

Names of ITO young Washing
tonians to be called February 20
for years military training under
the selective service program were
announced today by the Office of
Brig Gen. Albert L. Cox. selective
service executive for the District.
Seventy of the selectees are white
and 40 colored. Forty-nine colored
men were named yesterday for in
duction February 10.
1t also was revealed today that
10 white selectees to be inducted
on February 81 will be named to-
morrow from Boards 3, 4, IA, 16. 20,
81, %, "a and 25, and 40 colored
men scheduled for induction at the
same time from Boards IA, 18, l9, 20
and 25 An all-white induction on
February "a will be filled from the
lists of Boards l, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
and Is.
Inductions of the Washingtonians
will take place at the 5th Regiment
Armory in Baltimore, after which
the men will be sent to Fort George
G. Meade, Md, Sd Corps Area recep-
ton center. The February quota
will be the last from the District to
be inducted in Baltimore. Selectees
from this area called into service in
(See D. c. DRAFT, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-02-14
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The United States will suffer q
revolution destructive OF all our
liberties within the next five years
if I'VE let Great Britain down.
Leland Stowe, the celebrated jour-
nalist, just in from Europe, told
an audience of the Town Hall today
at the Shoreham Hotel
Tanks, guns and bombers can
not keep out political syphilis" Mr..
Stowe said. "Totalitarianism is a
social disease, and the carriers of
1t are already here"
Mr.. Stowe, whose dispatches ap-
pear in The Star, expressed the view
that Hitler will lose the war two
years from now provided the United
States makes available the material
the British need.
But, he warned, lack of American
aid to England would be fatal to
the English cause, and the triumph
of totalitarianism everywhere in
Europe would be the occasion OF
the American totalitarian revolution.
Mr.. Stowe listed Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh among the potential
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Roosevelt Welcomes ChiIeuns;
Finds One Is Kin to DeIunos

President Roosevelt extended a
warm welcome to seven visiting
newspapermen from Chile today and
expressed the hope at his press con-
ference that the principles of reci-
procity will result in other South
American republics following the
Chilean example and encourage
North American papers to send
working representatives southwark.
During the conference and the
exchange of remarks with the
Chilean group, the President learned
that one of them is related by mar
riage to the Delano branch of Mr..
Roosevelt's family.
The group, including Manuel
Vega, who is to be employed on The
Star, was received at the White
House by Maj. Gen. Erwin M. Wat
son, military aide and secretary to
the President. Gen. Watson pre-
sented the visitors to the Chief
Executive just before the press con-
ference began.
AS the conference opened, Mr..
Roosevelt told the assembled White
House reporters that he had just
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Rumonion Envoy
Defies Bucharest
Order to Return
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Feb. 14.-Radu Florescu,
Rumanian Charge d'Affaires in Lon
don, has refused to obey his govern
ment's order to return home, it was
learned today.
Six other members of the Legation
staff left tonight on the first stage
of their journey homeward, by way
of Lisbon. Others are expected to
follow shortly.
Florescu's stand was similar to
that of Virgil Tilea, Rumanian Min
lister who stayed in London when
his government ordered him back to
Bucharest last July. Tilea recently
expressed the belief the British
would win the war and declared a
majority of his countrymen were
against the Germans.
Explaining his stand, Florescu
said today:
AT present Britain considers that
the Rumanian government is act
ing under German control and to
German dictation.
Il personally consider that such q
government has lost its independ-
ence"
Press Attache Ion Mugru also re-
fused to obey his governments order
to return. Both he and Florescu re-
signed their appointments and noti-
fed the British government of their
action.
There still are six members Of the
diplomatic staff and about 80 clerical
workers here. Some of the latter al
ready had declared their intention
of staying in Britain.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Policeman Aids
Needy Father of
Boy in Hospital
" the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. IA
serious-faced young Idaho farmer
and the year-old son he brought
here for removal of peanut lodged
in a lung have found friend in
need in the cop on the beat and
things are much brighter today for
both.
Through a helping hand ex-
tended by the policeman, Alma
Lloyd, 26, may get the money he
needs to return himself and Alma,
jr., to Soda Springs, Idaho.
my name?" said the policeman.
Don't mention it. Just say Phila-
delphia policeman, that's all
Mr.. Lloyd was bit embarrassed.
i've never had to ask for help
before in my life he explained.
Whatever help 7 get, I'll pay back
every cent.
That policeman practically took
me by the arm and made me eat"
Mr.. Lloyd said he had been eating
one meal a day since he and his
son flew here early this week. The
operation at Temple University Hos
pital was successful and baby Alma
is almost ready to go home.
And that's where they'll go-just
as soon as the policeman-and
others he has interested in their
plight-round up the necessary
money.
Evening star., 1941-02-14
BY the Associated Press.

by tDe Associated FreSS.
ROME, Feb. l4.-An attack BY
British parachute troopers appar-
emily bent on destruction or Grip
pling of great sources of electrical
power in southern Italy and the
drinking water supply Of more than
2,500,000 Italians was reported by
the italian high command today to
have been shattered.
The British, in unSpecified num-
bers. foated earthward at the foot
of the Italian boot on the night OF
February 10-1l, armed to the limit
of their buoyancy with machine
guns, hand grenades and dynamite,
the Italians said
Quick work by Italy's lookout
service was said to have resulted
in capture of all the parachutists
before they could cause the serious
damage which they intended"
While the communique mentioned
only communications and water
works" Of the Calabria-L -Lucania
region as the British detectives, 1t
was supposed that these included
two hydro-electric plants powering
southern Italy's railways and the
Apulian Aqueduct, carrying water
to an area populated by 2,677, 900
persons.
The British were said to have
clashed with guards of the Italian
lookout service and in this clash q
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Stowe Sees u. S. Revolution
lfAid Is Not Given Britain

revolutionaries, striking at the
flyers campaign against British aid
as unwilling German propaganda
Mr.. Stowe directed his chief fire
at Col. Lindbergh for his opposition
to the British aid bill. In his con-
demnation in what the famous flyer
told the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee and Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Mr.. Stowe said:
"If that had been written by DR..
Goebbels himself, it could not have
been more perfect piece of German
propaganda. I don't know if he is a
knave or a fool.
But I think if you are going to
set yourself up as judge of avia-
ton in war, it might be wise to
watch some airplanes at war.
Mr.. Stowe, who used Col. Lind
bergh as his prime example of op-
position to British aid, pointed out
that "the high flying expert" as he
called him, has never been in a
country at war. So, said Mr.. Stowe,
Col. Lindbergh cannot understand
how much more men have to do
(See STOWE, Page A-30
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Taxes Ordered Levied
On Five Properties
Valued at 7 Million
List Headed by Homes
Of Science Academy and
Cincinnati Society
BY DON S. WARREN.

Continuing their scrutiny of the
city's long list Of privately owned
tax-exempt properties. the Com
mlSSlonerS today ordered five more
properties placed on the tax lists.
These properties have a total valu-
alton of nearly 100000 and the
annual tax bills would be s35 Ill SO.
Heading the new list are the
monumental home of the National
Academy of Sciences, near Consti-
tuition avenue and Twenty-first
street NV, and the home of the
Society of the Cincinnati at 2114-
2120 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
The Commissioners have acted on
25 cases, ordering 10 of these placed
on the tax lists. Last Saturday
five out of IA cases were placed on
the tax lists. They involve prop
critics valued at more than s750,000
and showing tax bills totaling more
than $4,000.
Recommended by Board.
The Commissioners actions were
taken on recommendations by the
Special Real Estate Tax Exemption
Board, consisting of Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Walter L. Fowler,
chairman; Deputy Assessor Benja-
min Adams and Surveyor F. F. Healy
The other three cases decided were
held to be not properly in the tax
exempt category. They were the
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for
Indians and Colored, Inc, of the
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions,
for property at 2021 H street NV;
the Western Presbyterian Church,
for property rented to the Calvary
Gospel Church, at 19l1-1913 H
street NV, and St. Thomas Parish
of the Episcopal Church of WASH
ington for tWo-car garage at 1920
New Hampshire avenue NV.
The National Academy of
Sciences has property which the
District has valued at S1,879, ,899, and
on which the annual realty tax bill
would be $33,213. The institution
was incorporated under an act of
Congress approved by President
Lincoln March 3, 1863 The academy
was to receive no compensation for
any services rendered to the Federal
Government.
In its report, which the Com
missioners approved, the investigat-
ing board said:
THE National Academy of
Sciences and the Research Council
perform important duties for the
United States Government and the
expenses in connection with their
(See TAXES, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Chicogoon Named to Replace
Assistant Secretary Compton
Selection of Burd
Reveals Knox Aide
Resigned Jan. 10

President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Ralph A. Bard of Chicago as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Bard will succeed Lewis
Compton. whose resignation, the
White House said, had been SUBJ
mitted on January 10 but was ac-
cepted only yesterday. No previous
word of Mr.. Compton's intention to
leave the department had been
made public.
A White House statement ex-
planned that acceptance of Mr.
Compton's resignation was delayed
until yesterday because of his i'll
ness" 1t was further explained
that he is nearly recovered and is
expected to leave the Naval Hos
pital in a few days.
Mr. Compton came to Washing
ton from New Jersey to serve with
Secretary of the Navy Charles Edi-
son, who resigned last fall to make
successful campaign for the gov
ernorship of New Jersey.
Mr. Bard, a longtime friend OF
Secretary of the Navy Knox, is
president both of Bard & Co., q
Chicago investment firm, and OF
Wahl-Eversharp Pen Co. He is a
Republican.
Mr. Bard also is director of the
American Shipbuilding Co. and the
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Seven Killed as Blast
Wrecks Coal Plant
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DU QUOIN, Ill, Feb. IA terrific
blast killed seven men and leveled
the liquid oxygen plant of the
United Electric Mine of the Fidelity
Coal Co. about five miles west of
Du Quoin today.
I'VE don't know what caused it, y
a spokesman for Mine Supt. Fred
Huffe said. "An investigation is be-
ing made by mine and State Off
cials."
The dead were identified by their
clothing as L. w. Barker, James
Thornton, Lyle Cook. his brother
Russell; John Bailey, John Rappusi
and Nelson Todd Mr. Barker, g.
was superintendent of the plant.
Evening star., 1941-02-14

had the pleasure of meeting seven
working newspapermen from the
sister republic of Chile. Explaining
that they were to work on Amer
lean papers, the President added
that in carrying out the method of
reciprocity they would at the same
time represent Chilean papers in
this country.
The whole arrangement, he con-
tinued, will result in an exchange
of information which he described
as a splendid idea. 1t was at this
point that he expressed the hope
that other South American repub-
lies will send newspaper delegations
to this country and that papers in
the United States will reciprocate
by assigning a group to work in
Chile. He was sure, he said, that
much could be learned by sending
reporters from this country to
South America.
AS the President added that he
was turning the group over to Wash
ington newspapermen, a welcome
(See CHILEANS, Page A-150
Evening star., 1941-02-14
Stark Will Explain
Plans for Samoa Base
AtSecret Session
Project Is Necessary
Copt. Hill Declares
At House Hearing
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Naval Affairs Commit
tee decided today to call Admiral
Harold R. Stark, chief OF Naval Op-
erations, for secret testimony tomor-
row on the reasons for the Navy's
desire to establish a new air base in
faraway Samoa.
Capt. Harry w. Hill, representing
Admiral Stark, told the committee
the S8,100,000 project, including
bombproof shelters for personnel
and vital communications centers,
was deemed necessary. He said de-
velopments of military aviation had
brought the Samoan Islands into the
Pacific strategic picture" to great
er degree than ever before.
While the Improvements intended
for Tutuila. Samoa, actually were Of
a minor" character, Capt. Hill tes-
titled, they seemed large because we
are starting from scratch"
Samoa has been under a naval
governor since shortly after the
Spanish-American War. but little
more than an administrative setup
has been maintained there.
Capt. Hill, testifying on bill to
authorize a large number of naval
shore construction projects for which
President Roosevelt asked funds
earlier this week, told the commit
tee Samoa would be the southwest
ern point of the Navys Pacific
patrol line starting at Dutch Harbor
Alaska.
Samoa is about 3,100 miles from
Guam, where the Navy also wants
to spend s4,7o0000 for harbor i'm
provements and to provide bomb
proof shelters for personnel and
equipment.
Rear Admiral Ben Moreell. chief
of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
testified that with the exception of
the bombproof1ng and other rela-
lively minor items, the Guam prof.
ect was the same one which Con-
gress twice has rejected since 1888
because, critics contended, it con-
stituted the first step toward forti-
fication of an island less than 1.500
miles from Toxic and, therefore,
would be Objectionable to Japan.