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Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
PERSONAL

Hon. James Williams, who has
been confined to his home in this
town for over month by sickness
was able yesterday to go to Dover
and resume his place in the Sen
ate.
DIN I. Hough, with Jacob Reeds
Sons, Philadelphia, is down on a
visit of a week or more to his
mother and sisters.
Miss Annie w. Sutton, as State
Press Superintendent, visited the
w. G. T. U. Convention in New
Castle, Kent and Sussex counties
last week.
Charles H. Griffith and wife, of
Montchanin, near Wilmington,
have been spending the past week
with their friends down the 'Neck."
Madison Willen, teller of the Sea-
ford bank, spent Sunday in Smyr-
ma visiting friends.
Samuel Sutton, of San Francis
co, brother of Miss Annie Sutton,
of this town was married on the
9th of January in the Episcopal
Church of the Advent to Miss
Martha E. Smith, of that city.
Mrs. Matlack, Mrs. Smithers
and Mrs. Jennie Price visited the
New Castle County w. G. T. U.
Convention last week on the adj
journment of their own County
Convention at Wyoming.
We have received from N. Davis
copy Of the Fargo Sunday Argus,
North Dakota.
Rev. r. K. Stephenson who has
not for several weeks, owing to
bad weather and sickness filed the
pulpit at Bethel preached for them
again last Sunday.
I Emory Marvel, Jr. of Delaware
College, has been spending several
days with friends in this vicinity
and assisted his brother, William
H. Marvel at his public sale neal
Leipsic, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Anthony
gave a party to number Of theil
friends on Thursday night, last.
Miss Annie Stewart, of Chester
town, is visiting Mrs. David Stew
art.
Miss Beulah Wilds, of Dover il
the guest of Mrs. Joe Smithers.
Joseph Kennedy who has beef
farming near Blackstone eros!
Roads for the past several years
and who sold off his farm stock a
public sale last week will, with hi.
wife, make their home in Cheste
hereafter, where his children re
side. Mr.. Kennedy has been on
of our most upright and industri
Gus men, faithful to his obligation
and devoted to his church, tn
Episcopal, as opportunity afforde'
and the places of such men are no
already filed. He was besides on
; of the early patrons of the Times
having been one of its subscriber
continuously for over 80 years.
Rev. Mr.. Dame and Hammond
Of Wilmington, exchanged pulpit
! Sunday.
A large party of persons old AM
young gathered at the home of MI
Isaac Truax on Monday evening +
surprise him. The evening wa
spent in various methods of enjoy
ment. At 10 o'clock a supper wa
served. Mr.. T. is popular and a
he removes to near Townsend in
(Continusd on Pass Eight
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27

mas drawn up LOT
the February is
sue of Good
H o u S e X e e p
ing Magazine, a
list of some i'm
portant Ameri-
can Women. In
his sug ge s ted
list are:
SACAGAW E A
1788-? A little
known Shoshone
Indian who acted
as guide and in
terpreter for the
r 1x,s1 ,-J Clar1r
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27

IRON MOUNTAIN, MICH
When Henry Ford began lumber
ing in northern Michigan he made
this foot rule" thus leaving more
space for younger trees to grow
and provide the future supply.
On the half-inillion acres of
timber which he has been scien-
tifically cutting he has practically
eliminated waste.
His theory in numbering, as in
his other activities, il that waste
makes high prices and low wages;
that reducing waste makes lower
costs, lower prices and higher
wages.
So first OF all his lumbermen
cut close to the ground and clear
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
Of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF FEB. 18TH, 1891

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column.
now g regular feature Of the
Times, viii call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
Alaska Not DesoIate Land

Alaska is not a desolate land Of
ice and snow, but a country rich
in flowers, forests. fox farms, fish
and game, and Indian folkways.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
New Hotels

In the first 20 years of its exist
ence (from 1915 to 1885, there
We're only 96 hotels built in Miami
Beach. Since 1885, 1874 have been
erected.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
Mound Builders Area

The highest cultural develop
of the entire Mound Builders
of the United States is ii q
ern Ohio and contiguous teuitI
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27

We print attractive Sale Bl
reasonable prices.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27

w. Wilson performed the ceremony
in the presence of the family and
several young friends of the bride.
After a wedding breakfast they
took the train for Wilmington,
their future home.
One of our farmers residing west
of Clayton, has been in the habit
of putting each evening suffici-
ent quantity of milk in bucket to
serve them to drink for breakfast,
and hang it on nail driven in q
tree near the house. On Sunday
morning week, he took the bucket
down as usual and noticed several
little globules floating on the sur
face of the milk, but did not think
it was anything serious, and upon
taking it in he took a spoon and
stirred the contents, and he and
one of the members of the family
drank the milk as usual. In about
twenty minutes one was taken
deathly sick and shortly after he
was taken with the same symp-
toms A physician was sent for
and they both suffered very much
before being relieved. The doctor
said the milk had been tempered
with, and but for the over dose,
would have proved fatal. There
was a small portion of the milk
not used, and the physician took
some of it to have it analysed
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN
One of the oldest, perhaps the
most aged of any person in the
town or vicinity, Mrs. Elizabeth
George, widow of the late Robert
George, died at the residence of
her son-in-law, Jacob S. Maclary,
yesterday morning in her Oath
year. She was in her usual health
which was good, until the previous
evening. She complained of feel
ing poorly on retiring, but moth
ing was thought of it then or the
next morning. Her daughter ask
ed her if she wouldn't have a GER
tain thing for breakfast, naming it:
on returning to the room with the
prepared article she found her moth
er dead. Mrs. George was woman
of cheerful, youthful temperament,
and retained much of this quality
on through her old age. Her maiden
name was Hopkins. She was a
member of the Methodist Church
the larger part of her life and was
attentive to her Church duties I'M
til prevented by the weight of in
creasing years. Her remains will
be taken tomorrow to the family
burying ground in Little Creek
Neck, the friends meeting at the
house at $50 o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
Bell Included in Equipment

No persons would be permitted
to carry any package or article
which would prevent both hands
being kept on the steering appa-
ratus. Another provision would
forbid the operation of a bicycle
unless equipped with bell or de
vice capable of giving signal au-
dible for a distance of at least 100
feet. Every bicycle, when used on
street or highway at anytime
from one-half hour after sunset to
one-half hour before sunrise, would
require lighted lamp on the front,
visible unnder normal atmospheric
conditions from a distance of at
least 800 feet in front of it, and a
reflex mirror or lamp on the rear
exhibiting a red light visible under
like conditions from distance Of
at least 200 feet to the rear of it.
All bicycles would be required to
be registered with the state, but
would be free of any fees. In in
lcorporated towns where such regis
tration is required, state registra-
ton would not be necessary. Num-
bered license plates, as well as reg
istration cards, would be issued to
owners. In the event of owner
ship by minor, the registration
would be in his name as well as
the name of his father, mother, OF
guardian. Fines for violations are
provided by the bill ranging from
IS to S25.
Smyrna times., 1941-02-27
BILL SOUGHT TO.
RULE CYCLISTS
Bicycles Would Be Registered
and Carry License Plate
Under Bill in Senate
EQUIPMENT NEEDED

State regulations to govern rid
ers and provide free registration of
bicycles are contained in a bill in
PRODUCED Thursday by Senator Paul
R. Rinard. Bicycles, under the bill,
would be subject to the same traf-
fic rules and regulations as motor
vehicles. The proposal would for
bid riding on sidewalks and would
require riders to remain on the
right hand side of highways. 1t
would bar riding on anything but
the permanent seat attached to the
wheel and would prohibit the car
rying of any other person except
on firmly attached and regular
seat thereon" The bill declares
that any person riding bicycle,
coaster, roller skates, or toy We
hicle would not attach it or him
self to any street car, trackless
trolley, motor vehicle, or other We
hicle of any kind on a street or
highway. Riders on a street or
highway would be forbidden from
riding more than two abreast, ex-
.cept on paths or parts of the road
way set aside for the exclusive use
of hicycleS
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Even Break for Owner Yowkey
At Last Looms After Bosox
Lose 81, ,384,772 in8 Years

more unpleasant than a feeting
glance at the clubs 1910 figures,
which indicate loss of only $65 $40.
Delving deeper into the Red Sox'S
financial reports leads the student
to the conclusion that the more
Yawkey spends for baseball talent,
the more carloads of red ink he
must buy for his bookkeepers.
Last season Yawkeys only out
standing purchase was Dom Di
Maggie, whose price tag read STE, ,000
That probably explains why the
clubs annual loss dropped so sharply
from its all-time average of $l73,014
to s65, 1910. This year Toms pur-
chases probably did not exceed
S25 600 cash, for most of his new
players figured in the wholesale
swapping that involved four clubs.
Always open-handed as far as his
ball club was concerned, Yawkey
hit his all-time high in that respect
in 1886, when his investment in
players was listed as more than
Sl,000,000 in hard cash.
Among those who helped boost
that total were Manager Joe Cronin,
who cost the equivalent of S285 900:
Grove and Jimmy Foxx, each tagged
at S125,000; Doc Cramer, $4,000;
Bill Werber, Rick Ferrell and Eric
McNair, each $4,000, and a score of
others whose prices ranged down to
q mere SIS, 900.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
-ubs Spirit High With Hope Of Success Up Huers Of Doubtful Quality
Win, Lose or Draw
Its Happened Before: 1t Will Happen Again
FNF N% @s EFF
Star Staff Correspondent.

CLEARLANDO Fla, Feb 20-Nneteen batterymen
Manager Mickey Zch uniform opened
training light
like the young Hghball
right
CLEARLANDO 25-A
opening pitching against young
Harold Highbal. rookie right-hander of the Silk Sox
Mickey zich spending half with Hghba
promising
that
Dotty
games have something the ball"
CLEARLANDO Fla, March 1Pedent Rufus Sparrow of the
Highba rookie, practically cnched
jobs
room"
Butch Hannard Benny McSpaden who
reported unsigned.
yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Handful to See Hagen, Sorozen
Play Jones, Armour in Match
That Would Draw Multitude

his voice has been heard over radio
since the night he began in
strained voice from his study in Fort
Belvedere, "At long last ."
Obviously, the paid admissions at
the match itself will do little more
than stand the expense of trans
porting the players to and from
Nassau. The golf minded of Nassau
are not numerous, and it is stren-
uous, expensive trip to make from
the mainland. But they have figured
out way to realize a fine sum for
the Red Cross. Freddy Corcoran,
tournament manager for the P. G.
A., gives the Duke credit for think
ing it up.
Souvenir Tickets to Swell Fund.
Here's how: Everybody who would
like to witnes the match is invited
to purchase ticket at 50 head.
The amount may be mailed either
to the Red Cross benefit golf match,
Nassau" or to Joe Williams or Tom
Walsh at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel,
Miami. Williams is chairman of the
Press Committee, Walsh president
of the P. G. A. Each purchaser of
a ticket, Corcoran promises, will get
one. 1t will be a genuine ticket, au-
tographed by the four players. and
a souvenir to cherish. Perhaps the
Duke will autograph a few, Freddy
hopes.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Rv the Associated Press.


BOSTON, March 6.-Give the So
fabulously wealthy Tom Yawkeys
Boston Red Sox a long run in the
194l American League pennant race
and he might break even financially
for the first time in his nine years
as a club owner.
But that is a mighty hard order
to fill, probably as much so as one
demanding that the Red Sox, on
whom their doting owner has
lavished exactly S4,280,6l2 in eight
years, operate on a pay-as-they-go
basis.
If the genial Yawkey, reputed to
have more than so millions left, did
not have much more important mat
tiers to attend to this March morning,
such as rushing to the Sarasota
training camp to help Lefty Bob
Grove celebrate his 41st birthday, he
probably would be concerned about
the latest figures his auditors have
reported to the Massachuse State
Department of Corporations and
Taxation.
A close study OF the Red Sox's
fiscal matters indicates that the club,
disregarding its original purchase
price and real estate, has lost exact
ly 81 l,3S4,l12 during the eight years
of Yawkey ownership. That is an
average of s173,014 a season.
But the long-range view is much
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Nat OutfieId Will Have Speed
To Spare With Late Cromer
Keeping MeIIendeck on Job

In these days, however, the value
of base-running is debatable The
Mats finished seventh last year but
led both leagues in stolen bases.
Case, of course, was the leader and
Gee Walker ran close second.
Walker is gone, but Chapman, who
replaces him, is faster than Gee and
a better all-around man on the
paths.
Still, speed is no drawback. That
fleetness in the outf1eld, plus the
good foot of Buddy Lewis and
George Archie in the infield, will
serve to manufacture plenty of in
field hits. Archie, like Chapman,
makes the 1941 Washington team a
veritable band of sprinters.
Except for Case, I'll bet that
Archie can outrun anybody on the
club" Griffith says. "and this in
cludes Chapman" The new first
baseman stole "a sacks for Seattle
last year.
Griffith was to spend today in bed.
His condition was described as fine
except for case of sniffes, but
since there has been a mild epidemic
of The flu here he will play it safe.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Press Sports Writer.

MIAMI, Fla, March Ga golf
match which, if played on almost
any course in the United States,
probably would draw a greater
crowd than saw the last Dempsey
Tunney fight, is due to take place
10 days from now in comparative
seclusion.
1t will be surprising if more than
1000, counting both natives and Wis
itors. will see the benefit match Of
champions" at Nassau March 1915,
even though the Duke of Windsor
will be the official referee, accom-
panied by the Duchess.
In the dawn of March Is a sea-
nlane will put up to the ramp in
Dinner Key here and take on its
spectacular cargo for the two-hour
flight to Nassau, right out into the
Atlantic.
Giants of Golf Tangle.
On board will be Bobby Jones,
winner of Is major championships;
Walter Hagen, with II to his credit:
Gene Sarazen with 6 and Tommy
Armour with 3. Hagen, Sarazen
and Armour-the only players ever
to win "all three" the British and
American Opens and the Profess
sional Golfers Association cham
pionship. Jones, who scored the
unforgettable grand SIAM"
That afternoon, over the pretty
Nassau course, Hagen and Sarazen
will pair against Jones and Armour
In the first round of their 36-hole,
four-ball match for the benefit of
the Red Cross, with the Duke jot-
ting down the scores. The second
round will be played the following
day, with the whole crowd flying
back that night.
The original plan was for the
Duke to play THE first day, paired
with his friend of gladder days
Jones, but the Governor OF the Ba-
hamas tried q practice round to see
how he was doing and decided mo-
body wants to watch me play, let's
make it d real golf match"
He is enthusiastically behind the
exhibition. In addition to refereeing
and making himself generally help
full and accessible the Duke has
promised to go on the radio Satur-
day night over O national hookup,
This will mark one Of the few times
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Twin Bills Next
Year Ticketed
ByG.W.,G.U.
Jam os Hoyos Humble
CoIoniuIs CIinches
Argument for Them
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Bill Reinhart's pupils lost their
second game to Georgetown last
night at Riverside Stadium, but the
George Washington coach proved a
theory he has argued for the last
several years and the net result is
that the schools next year will COL
laborate in staging double-headers
at the waterfront arena.
Some 5000 fans, all the fire
marshal would allow inside, watched
the Hoyas go out in front in the first
few seconds of play and hold the
lead all the way to score a ABA
victory over their neighboring rival.
Outside at least 1000 fans, many Of
them students angrily waving their
activities books and demanding adj
mission, drummed an angry Gre
scendo on the doors and demanded
admittance. But their protests were
unavailing. School officials we're
willing to park them somewhere on
the premises, but the marshal was
adamant. The law is the law, he
decreed, and late-comers were left
standing beyond the pale. But it
still was an all-time indoor record
turnout for the District.
Double-headers have been dis
cuSsed previously and it was agreed
generally it would be a profitable
idea, but not until last night did
athletic authorities of the rival in
stitutions really see the possibilities
of the scheme Riverside won't hold
the throngs the teams could draw
with attractive opponents. but it will
be the scene of future activities until
a bigger and better stadium is built.
Uline Arena does not enter into the
picture as a possible site because Of
its unsuitable seating layout.
New ArmOry May Help.
The new National Guard Armory
has been mentioned as a possible
battlefield and all angles in this
direction will be investigated thor
oughly, but Riverside definitely will
house the majority of the games.
Reinhart long has contended that
Washington is good basket ball
town and with strong local teams
engaging potent out-of-town qulntS
the game could be put on a basis
equal to anything in the country. 1t
so happened that Georgetown came
up with one of its best teams in
the nick of time to help the G. w.
mentor clinch his argument. so we'll
see some worthwhile twin bills come
next season.
Georgetown was hot last night
and the Colonials were as cold as a
froStbitten Eskimo. G. w. didn't
family resemble the team that
romped over st. Johns of Brooklyn
two nights before and didn't offer
any resistance until the second half.
When it did get going it found itself
merely keeping pace with the Hoyas.
who amaSSed a 22-l3 lead in the
first half.
Georgetown kept its rival out OF
the scoring zone most of the eve
ming, forcing the Colonials-defi-
nitely not an outside" shooting
combination, to resort to long-range
gunnery as a camouflage. When
G. w. did get within striking dis.
tance its usually reliable Matt
zunic. Lou Veltri and Roy Mcneil
were off the mark. Nor did the
absence of Joe Conner, who was on
(See HOYAS, Page C-3)
Evening star., 1941-03-06
By a staff Correspondent of The star.

ORLANDO, Fla, March 6.-Clark
Griffith had to go to bed with a
cold to provide a news item in the
Mats camp. How he got it is a
mystery, inasmuch as he never re-
moves his topcoat, but there is a
suspicion that he waited too long
at the railroad depot for Roger
Craner and Alexandra Carrasquel
to arrive.
Neither was in camp this morning,
Cramer being almost a week over
due and Carrasquel nearly three
weeks late. Both Griffith and Man.
ageT Bucky Harris are growing i'm
patient, but as far as Joe Mellen-
deck is concerned it will be all
right If Cramer never arrives.
Mellendeck is the young man who
used to carry the ball for George
town. He Is a candidate for center
field. and because of Cramer's tardi-
ness he will get the opening shot.
Sooner or later Cramer is almost
certain to take over, but, at least,
Metlendeck Is getting his chance.
Speed to Spare.
1t would be all right with the Nat
bosses if Cramer failed to win the
job. Mellendeck is 10 years younger
than the ex-Red Sox veteran and he
hits longer ball. Joe has plenty
of power and it is Just question
of whether he can make use of it
against big-league pitching.
An outfield composed Of Ben
Chapman, Mellendeck and George
Case wouldn't make old-timers
forget Lewis, Speaker and Hooper,
but the trio would be something to
see at that, because it is doubtful
If ever there was faster threesome
in one patrol.
If there is one asset the Mats have
again this year it is speed. Case
and Chapman still rank one-two
among the speedsters of the Amer
ican League, at least, and Mellen-
deck Is not far behind. For that
matter Cramer can move and so
can Johnny Welaj, who probably
is next to Chapman as a base
stealing artist, although Cases SUI
perior speed nets him bigger total.
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Gee, Huge Buc HurIer,
Appears 10 Be Rid
OF Arm Trouble
BY the Associated Press.

SAN BERNARDINO Calf, March
6.-Manager Frank Frisch of the
Pirates is cheered by the first per-
formance of his biggest question
mark-6-foo 9-inch John Gee, the
southpaw pitcher who was out all
last season with a sore arm.
"He is throwing with a lot Of
power and a free notion" COM
mented Catcher Al Lopez.
MIAMI, Frla-The New York
Giants want to trade, but they are
not going to be rushed into any
thing. Manager Bill Terry disclosed
that he had been offered holdout
Hank Leiber by the Chicago Cubs,
but that the deal had fallen through.
Terry also said he had made no
offers for Frank Crosetti or any
other Yankee.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-T'he Phillies
will carry 10 pitchers this season,
meaning that eight of the group
now in camp are tagged for disposal.
On the basis of training thus far,
observers say the best bets to stay
are Ike Pearson, Walter Beck, 81
johnson, Vito Tamulis, Frank Rufus
Melton, Cy Blanton, Tommy Hughes.
John Podgajny and Frank Hoerst.