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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Democrats TO
Hold Convent'n
In Dover On
September I
Date Hinges On Fixing
August 20 For Dele
gate Primary; Senator
JIM. Tunnel Selected
AS KeynOter.

Members of the Democratic State
Committee, meeting Tuesday eve
ming in the Kent county court house
decided to hold their state conven-
ton Tuesday. September 1. This,
however, will depend upon their
request to the county boards of
election that the date for the cleo
tion of delegates to the convention
be set for August 29. This request
will be sent to the election boards
Immediately.
If the delegate election cannot be
held August 29, then the commit
tee decided to ask that it be held
August %, and in this event the
state convention will be held Au-
gust 25.
Senator James M. Tunnel told
the committee he had conferred
with Senator James H. Hughes, who
is In Beebe Hospital, Lewes, suf-
fering from the effects of fall, and
that the latter had requested that
the convention be held as late as
possible. Howard e. Lynch, Jr., of
Dover said Senator Hughes would
probably be out of the hospital in
three or four weeks, according to
his physician.
M Tgnnell To Be KeynOter
On motion of William S. Potter
of Wilmington, Senator Tunnel
was chosen as keynoter and tenn
porary chairman of the convention.
"A resolution presented by Mr..
Potter expressing regret on the
death of former U. s. Senator Thos.
F. Bayard was unanimously adopt
ed and copies were directed sent to
his family. Another resolution
adopted expressed sympathy for the
injury to Senator Hughes.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Fats Salvage Drive
Is Underway Here
Mrs. Edwin MessIck, Local Chair.
man, Announces WPB Price

The Fats Salvage program got
under way last week with all the
meat dealers cooperating in this
latest war effort for Milford. Mrs.
Edwin Messick, the local chairman,
was notified by the WPB that the
ceiling price. for the salvager
would be four cents and the dealer
would be given the extra cent for
his part in the collection. These
fats, collected from home cooking,
such as roasts, drippings, fried
things, whether of vegetable or lard
content, are important and each
pound will count in the final sum-
ming up. Those who take these fats
for salvage will please remember
to put them in a large mouthed con-
must be of one pound
or more in weight. They should
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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
1000 Helmets Asked
BY Firemen's Head
Suggestion Made By F. C. O'Neal At
Bowers Meeting

A. suggestion that 1000 of the
5000 helmets received by the State
Council of Defense be assigned tc
firemen was made by Frank c
ONeal, president of the Delaware
State Firemen's Association, at the
meeting of the Kent county as
sociation at South Bowers last
week. s
He also said the state association
was endeavoring to secure emer-
gency equipment for use in case of
air raids.
George w. Swain urged that sur
plus funds of the state association
be invested in war funds. 1t also
was announced there was a proba-
bility that the state convention may
be postponed although no decision
has been reached. Previously the
companies agreed to cancel the an
nuai ptrade and various social
events ir connection with any state
meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Poll Officers
In Kent County
Are Appointed
R e g is t ration Board
Names Stats In %
Districts; All AppOin-
tees Have Qualified.

The registration officers for the
20 election districts of Kent county,
and also the alternate registrars,
for the current two years were
announced last Friday by the Kent
County Board of Registration
through Howard M. Buckson, chair
man. and Warren 7. Moore. secre-
tary.
The active registration officers
comprise a registrar and two as
sistant registrars, who also serve
as the district boards Of election.
each district board to organize it.
self and select from among its
membership the district inspector
OF elections. All appointees have
qualified.
The Appointments
The appointments are:
First Representative District:
First election district, William H.
George. registrar; Bette Snow and
Mrs. William M. Doughten, assist
ant registrars: Gilbert Pratt, alter
nate registrar. Second election dis
LrlcL, GeOrge n. stevenson regis
trar; Grace Garis and Ollie F.
Loose, assistants: John Griffin, al
ternate. All are of Smyrna.
Second Representative District;
First, Ozeila s. Cullen, Dover, r. F.
D., registrar; John w. Tarburton,
Leipsic, and Mrs. Ethel H. CarroW,
assistants; John r. Min
gus, Cheswold,. alternate. Second,
John M. Roe, registrar; John H.
Satterfield and Garrett d. Paradee,
assistants; Bernice C. Warren, al
all of Dover.
Third Representative District:
First, Robert Day, registrar; Rob-
srt Douglas and Mrs. Ethel D. Dom
away, assistants, and Mary C.
Burke, alternate, all of Clayton.
Second; James M. Bishop, Sr., Ken
on, registrar; Brice Kemp, Ches-
void, and Loretta Clark, Kenton,
assistants; Clara S. Garrison, Ches-
void, alternate.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Delaware Joins In National
Drive To Salvage Iron Scrap

tanks and guns are facing a short
age of 100000 tons of scrap to
meet the demands of full capacity
production.
Lying idle in Delaware back
yards, attics, cellars and farms are
potential guns, cartridges, tanks,
planes and their deadly bombs, in
the form of scrap iron, Ralph G.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Presbyterians Create
Office For Pastor
Is Complete With Telephone, Type
writer And Filing Cases

Milford Presbyterians have re-
Gently added new office to their
church equipment. With new walls,
floors and windows the southeast
corner of the second floor has been
transformed into a most attrac-
tive administrative Office and study.
A desk, typewriter, filing cabinets,
mimeograph machine, book cases,
telephone and other useful articles
complete the furnishings.
The next item in the improve
ment program will be the reno
walton of the first floor church
school rooms. The floors are to be
sanded and reflnished and all walls
redecorated. Funds already are
available.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24

Delaware Joined the nation today
in the scrap iron salvage cam
haste was the keynote
of this phase of the civilian war ef-
fort from which is sought 80 pounds
of material per individual in the
state.
Under the pressure of a tremen-
dous war program, the nations
plants turning out ships,
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Public Is Warned
Against Tick Danger
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Is
Often Fatal; Carried By Insects

Ticks come with warm weather.
and with ticks may come Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, according
to DIR. Theodore E. Hynson, direc-
tor of the Division of Communi-
cable Disease Control of the State
Board of Health. The principal
danger of the tick is his bite, and
even though only one in several
hundred of these ticks may carry
the fever virus, that one tick, which
cannot be distinguished from the
rest, may cause a fatal infection.
Every household pet is poten-
tial danger as dogs, and sometimes
cats, may bring ticks into the house.
Keeping ticks from gorging them
selves on the blood of dogs is a
protective measure. A pair of for
ceps is all that is needed in re-
moving ticks where only a few
have attached themselves. Dusting
every five days with derris powder
Is necessary when animals have a
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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
To-Day Ducking
Season Is Slated
To-Day Extension Granted As Gen.
sus OF Waterfowl Shows Rise


Taking note of a one-third in
crease in the North American wa
terfowl population to 100,000,000
Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes
has proclaimed a To-day hunting
season for wild duck, choice au-
tumn dish for many a huntsman's
table.
The fish and wildlife service of
the Interior Department estimated
the waterfowl increase over last
year at 30,00O,0OO, mostly in the
duck classification, and added 10
days to last years 60-day season.
While easing the restrictions on
ducks, Ickes frightened up on geese,
doves and other migratory fowl
that have not increased in popula-
tion.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Arp Launches Drive
To Sell War Stamps
Food Store Chain Has Inaugurated
Move To Increase Sales

An intensive two-weeks "Vic-
tory Drive" to substantially in
crease store sales Of War Stamps
has been launced by the A. and P.
in this area, w. B. Scrimger, vice
president, announced today.
.'The Treasury Department is
asking all retailers to sell War
Stamps and Bonds amounting to
four per cent of each stores 1941
business, and this drive is an eff
fort to have our stores reach and
maintain this quota. Mr.. Serimger
declared.
He said newspaper advertising
will be brought into the campaign
to t'merchandise" stamps.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
VIM. Mitten Resigns
As Church Organist
Presbyterians VIII Lose Services of
Accomplished Youth On Sunday

Accomplished Youth On Sunday
Sunday morning Organist Will
liam Mitten will play his last pro-
gram as organist of the local Pres
byterian Church. While only a
freshman in high school, Mr.. Nit
ten enjoyed the distinction of a
regular church organist. During
the past four years he has served
in that capacity with marked abil-
ity. AS student of Organist Paul
Terry of Wilmington, he has also
been called upon to play at special
programs in that city.
Mr.. Mitten's resignation is made
necessary by his departure from
to continue his studies. The
Music Committee has
expressed to Mr.. Mitten the con-
gregation's deep appreciation for
his splendid service.
At the morning worship service
On Sunday Mr.. Mitten will play a
special organ program.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Weekly Weather
Report For Milford
From Wednesday, July Is, To Tues
day, July 21, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, weather
for Milford, reports the
following thermometer readings for
Milford, from Wednesday, July Is,
to Tuesday, July 21, inclusive:
Evening star., 1942-02-12
Schools May Shift Hours
To Liqhfen Load on Buses

School officials will undertake a
study of the problem Of putting back
the opening hour of school from 8
am. to $50 am, as a means of in
creasing available transportation
space on public carriers. only If they
are asked to do 50, 1t was indicated
today.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou said that as
yet no thought" has been given to
the proposal which, according to
Trafic Director w. A. Van Duzer,
would vacate some 1900 seats on
buses for defense workers.
+ The superintendent pointed out
that several years ago q poll of par
ents had shown overwhelming pref
erence for the present hours when
both and earlier and later hours
were considered. He also said that
many children who now ride to
school with their parents would ride
buses If they went to school later
than the parents left for work, thus
indicating that the shifting of hours
for more than 10000 children could
not guarantee 1900 vacant seats.
Some would ride buses then that
don't ride them now" he explained.
DR.. Ballau said, however, that the
change might be shown to be neces-
sary for national defense purposes
Evening star., 1942-02-12
Woshington's
Familiar BHmp
Joins Navy

The Goodyear blimp Enterprise,
long a familiar sight over Washing
ton, has been pressed into military
service, and the crafts skipper,
Comdr. Karl Lange, is now on ac-
tive duty with the Navy on the West
Coast.
The Enterprise coined" the Navy
about the first of the year for train
ing purposes.
Of1cials Of the Goodyear Co. re-
ported today that they were in full
production to give the Navy more
blmps for active use along the At
lantic and Pacific coasts for patrol
duty.
Oficials said the Enterprises han
gar is available to the Government
as an auxiliary base for planes which
could not be handled at Boiling
Field and the Anacostia Air Station,
or whatever use desired.
Evening star., 1942-02-12

Do you know that pearls grow in
coconuts? DR.. David Fairchild, IA
NOUS botanist and agricultural ex-
plorer, will exhibit his "Maharaj jah"
COCO pearl February is and II as
a special feature of his show,
Secrets of the Coconut," on the
estate of Col Robert H. Mont
gomery, near Coconut Grove, Fla,
he has informed The Star.
This pearl was presented to Dr.
Fairchild some years ago by one OF
the principal coconut buyers of the
Dutch East Indies, who said that in
16 years his coconut openers had
brought him only IL pearls, out of
approximately 100000 nuts opened.
Data Found on Origin.
A search for coconut pearls is
like hunting for the proverbial
needle in the haystack. One might
open million coconuts without
finding even a trace of one.
Never having heard OF a coconut
pearl, a Star reporter began to look
into the subject and found their
origin and composition explained in
an article by DR.. F. w. T. Hunger
in Nature Magazine, on January "a,
1925.
In 1866, DR.. Riedel, ex-resident Of
Menado, reported that he had found
a pearl in a coconut he had opened.
Though natives of the Dutch East
Indies had told many tales of their
existence, this was the first report
by an eyewitness Of an actual dis
Evening star., 1942-02-12
Priority 10 Complete
Kramer for Use As
School Is Sought
Education Boord Acts
To Save Building From
Government Occupancy

The War Production Board will be
asked by the Board Of Education to
give priority rating to the Kramer
Junior High School in Anacostia for
completion as school
A special meeting of the board
yesterday voted unanimously to seek
the finishing Of the already 10 per
cent complete building for its orig
inal purpose. Previously it was in
dicated the Commissioners have ap-
proved the taking over of the build
ing by the Federal Government for
Office space in the belief that other
wise no materials would be made
available for it.
Studebaker Reaffirms Need.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou revealed
that the ONCE of Government Re-
quirements of the w. P. B. has asked
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation John w. Studebaker to give
an opinion on the project and that
DR.. Studebaker Is reaf1rming his
opinion of its need and giving 1t a
certificate Of emergency.
DR.. Ballou told the members the
enrolment in the Anacostia Junior
Senior High School is now 622 above
capacity and that sos new pupils
are expected from new housing de-
velopments in the area. This he
said makes a total Of 1,128 pupils
who would use the Kramer when
completed. He added that there
would still be 1900 senior high school
pupils left to use the Anacostia
Senior High School. The combined
junior senior high school is now
operating on a double shift and has
been for many months.
Projects Unfinished.
There are II school projects alto
gether which, like Kramer, are un-
finished, DR.. Ballou said, but added
that not all of them require critical
materials to be completed.
1t is not possible to transfer the
overflow of pupils to other high
schools, he said.
Disclosure that the Commissioners
had agreed to turn over the school
to the Government on the same
terms as the new central library
that is, that the Government would
get a priority for completion ma
terials-was made several days ago
by Supt. Ballou before House sub
committee. Since that time civic in
dignation has been increasing, espe-
cially in the Southeast section, which
the Kramer would serve.
Evening star., 1942-02-12

covery of a coconut pearl, according
to DR.. Hunger.
On one of his visits to the East
Indies a few years ago DR.. Hunger
decided to obtain as much authentic
data as possible about these pearls
and how nature forms them. His
researches led him to the conclusion
that the coconut pearl represents .
local calcareous formation which
has been retained in the nut after
primary termination had been
checked.
Lacks Pearly Sheen.
A coconut pearl usually has the
form of a pear or an egg. DR.. Hunger
pointed out. Sometimes it has an
almost spherical shape, with q
smooth surface. Its chemical COM
position is somewhat similar to that
of oyster pearl, from which it differs,
however, by the lack of pearly sheen.
The "cocos pearl" DR.. Hunger
said, must be looked upon as
highly remarkable and very rare
occurrence.
DR.. Fairchild, who will exhibit his
"Maharajah" COCO pearl in Florida
next week, organized the work of
seed and plant introduction at the
Agriculture Department in 1897. As
an agricultural explorer he has
Travelled widely in the Far East and
elsewhere. He is president emeritus
Of the Fairchild Tropical Garden at
Coconut Grove. ~
Evening star., 1942-02-12
telephone Companies
Challenge FL {. on
Extra Hotel CHARGES
Additional Collections
Made on initiative
Of Houses, Reply Says

The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. and the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. today chal-
lenged the authority of the Federal
Communications Commission to
regulate the charges superimposed
on regular telephone rates by hotels,
apartment houses and clubs.
The companies filed identical
answers to an F. c. c. inquiry into
the extra charges. None of the
hotels, apartment houses or clubs
filed any notice of intention to
participate. They we're not formally
made respondents to the commits
sion's order, although copies of it
were served on a representative of
the hotel association here.
Not Common Carriers.
The telephone companies in
formed the commission that the
hotels are not common carriers and
they cannot lawfully furnish land
do not furnish public telephone
service for their guests"
The companies say the additional
charges are fixed and collected by
the hotels and apartment houses "on
their own initiative and for their
own purposes" Such charges, they
further assert, are not made by or
for the phone companies and are not
charges for public phone service.
The commission is further in
formed that if special charges over
the published tariffs for interstate
and foreign service were held to be
charges for telephone service. they
would be charges in connection with
wire telephone service and therefore
would be excluded from Federal reg
ulation under the communications
statute.
Invasion of New Field Charged.
If the commission should regulate
such charges, it was asserted, ut
would thereby invade a field long
subject to the jurisdiction of State
commissions and local governmental
authorities"
The commission was told that
even if its jurisdiction is held to ex-
tend to interstate rates, any at
tempt to control them would not be
in the public interest but would be
unduly burdensome and impractical
to enforce.
The answers were signed by r. A.
Van Orsdel, vice president of the
District company, and by C. P. Coop
er, vice president of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Evening star., 1942-02-12
100 More Men Needed
To Guard Wafer Supply

More than 100 men are needed at
once to augment the force guarding
Washington's water supply, the
Civil Service Commission has an
nounced.
Applicants must be from 20 to SIS
years Of age, inclusive, and must
have had experience in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard,
or as a guard charged with protec-
ton of life or property.
They will be required to pass a
physical examination and character
investigation.
The salary is 1920 a year.
Applications are being received
at the commissions fourth district
office, $50 F street NV.
Evening star., 1942-02-12
Officers Are Reelected
For Police Retiring Fund

The Metropolitan Police Retiring
Fund Association last night re-
elected its entire slate Of officers.
They are:
Otto c. Hauschild, attached to
Police Court, president; 1t. John
j. Agnew, vice president; j. Stanley
Davis, secretary, and Walter B.
Vogelsang, treasurer. The associa-
ton voted to buy $500 worth Of
Defense savings bonds.
Evening star., 1942-02-12
Mrs. Pinchot to Divide Time
Between District and 0. C.. D.
New Feeding and Housing Co-ordinotor
Sure She'll Be Able to Do Both Jobs

Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, newly-ap-
pointed head of the now combined
feeding and housing services of the
Districts civilian defense setup, will
continue to serve as a member Of
the volunteer participation unit of
the ONCE of Civilian Defense while
carrying on her new duties, she said
today.
Appointment of the wife of the
former Pennsylvania Governor to
the local defense post came stimuli
taneously with designation Of Miss
Mary Mason, former head Of the
emergency feeding unit, as assistant
chief AFRAID warden in charge of
feminine activity. Announcement Of
these appointments, made by De-
fense Co-ordinator Young late yes
terday, also brought the disclosure
that the District is contemplating
enlistment Of thousands of women
as AFRAID wardens.
As a volunteer worker at o. c. D.
for about six months, Mrs. Pinchot
has been organizing speakers bu-
reaus and forum discussions. She
has also been serving as billeting
officer for the four blocks around the
Pinchot home, but she said she will
drop this job while retaining her
o. c. D. post.
To Keep Two Offices.
Seated at a desk on the ninth
floor of o. c. D. headquarters, which
she has occupied for a month, Mrs
Pinchot said she would undertake
her new task without the aid OF
glamour.
There's no glamour about me"
she smiled. And I don't get paid,
either"
Mrs. Pinchot does not know which
Of her jobs will get preference.
Il don't know how I will divide
my time" she said, "but will do
them both" She will handle the
housing and feeding job at the fire
warden's office at 1341 Maryland
ave ne. and keep her Dupont Circle
Apartments Office to collect speech
material
AS the appointments were an
nounced Col. Lemuel Bolles, civilian
defense director for the metropolitan
area, said that eventually so per cent
of Washington's AFRAID wardens
might be women.
Objections Fade.
At the outset of the emergency, all
wardens were men, since f1remen
believed it was not a woman's job
to be expected to carry persons down
ladders or do equally heavy tasks
Fire officials now agree, however,
that much of the afraid warden
work can be done by women. partic-
ularly during daytime when men are
at their regular work.
The District now has about 10000
wardens, exclusive Of volunteers en-
Evening star., 1942-02-12
w., M. & A. Lines to Add
48 New Buses by April

Forty-eight new buses have been
ordered by the w. M. & A. Lines,
Inc. and will be ready by April to
transport Government workers to be
moved to Suitland, Md, it was an
nounced today by Leslie l.. Altman,
company president.
Mr.. Altman said the buses will
be used on lines from here to Suit
land and Forrestville. Schedules will
be announced later.