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Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
Versatile Pastor Becomes editor

A hearty welcome was accorded
a newcomer to our local homes last
week. We refer to "The Christian
Visitor" an attractive little 12-page
monthly publication of the Frank
ford and Ocean View Presbyterian
Churches. The project is the brain
child of the Rev. l.. Rodney Boaz,
pastor of those two churches, and
editor of The Visitor. This is a
non-profit project, made possible
by the pastors initiative and the
generous contributions of the
many advertisers whose neat busi-
ness cards are more of a compli-
mentary than a commercial nature.
The 12-page periodical, making its
debut on the week which opened
with the celebration of Worldwide
Communion Sunday, October A.,
very appropriately carried on its
front cover an excellent sepia re-
production of The Last Supper,
immortal masterpiece of the fam
GUS artist, Leonardo da Vinci.
Walter Buzby Stokes, an expert
enced member of our U. S. Mer-
chant Marine, is enjoying a de-
served vacation at home with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Everett E.
Stokes.
Mrs. John Beaucham has return
ed home after having been under
observation last week in the Mil
ford Memorial Hospital.
Miss Marion Murray, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon o. Murray,
spent the past weekend visiting
relatives in Clarksville.
Announcement
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph ]. Lynch of
Frankford, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Wilma
Mable Lynch and Allen Burbage,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Burbage of Ocean View. Miss Lynch
is a graduate of the John M. Clay
ton High School. Mr.. Burbage at
tended the Lord Baltimore High
School and is employed in the Sun
Shipyard at Chester, Pa. No def
mite date has been set for the we'd
ding.
The little lady who arrived on
Tuesday, October 6, to gladden. the
hearts and home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Baker, has been named
Kathryn Rella, in honor of her
mother, nee Miss Kit Graber, and
her late grandmother, Mrs. Rella
P GRADER.
The Office blotter says: There is
a divinity that shapes our ends
rough hew them though we may"
Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
DAGSBORO

Mrs. Annie West, aged 79 years
widow Of George e. West, passed
away Sunday at $3.50 A. M. She
has been suffering for a long time
She leaves one son, Charlie West,
of Clarksville; two granddaughter
Mrs. Russell Lynch and Mrs. Muir
riel Donaway; one sister, Mrs. Liz
zie Dorman. Funeral was held
Wednesday at 1870 P. M. at the
Christ Methodist Church. Inter
ment in Red Mems Cemetery.
Anthony Steen and Cordrey Nc
Gee spent the weekend in New
York.
Mrs. Alvin Culver, of Philadel-
phia. is spending some time with
her sister, Mrs. James Williams.
Mrs. Florence Steen is ill at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Tingle and
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Campbell
spent Friday to Monday in New
York.
Miss Alberta Long spent the
weekend in Philadelphia.
Rev. and Mrs. e. L. Bennett were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Or
vile Layfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Eturgis, of
Albany, N. Y, spent the past week
with relatives.
Misses Mary Timmons was taken
very i'll Thursday night and was
taken to the Milford hospital,
where she underwent an appendix
operation.
Miss Christine Timmons was a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Norman c.
Davis at Selbyville, Saturday of
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam ]. Bunting, Jr.
and daughter Blanche, of Selbyville |
were dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Roland Adkins, Sunday.
John Mitchell is i'll at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Timmons !
are now occupying the summer
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bennie r.
Timmons on the DUPONT highway.
Miss Virginia Hickman had as
dinner guests ON Sunday, Miss
Doris Lockwood and Miss Mildred
Jones.
Miss Doris Lockwood spent the
weekend recently with her brother
ind sister-in-law, in Philadelphia.
While there she was also dinner
guest of Corporal Harvey Hartin-
'tine and mother, of Norristown,
Pa.
Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
FELTON,

Miss Margaret Reynolds of Phil
adelphia, spent last weekend with
Mrs. ]. W. Reynolds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Turner and
two sons of Pennington, N. j.,
were recent guests of Mrs. Walter
Hughes.
Swift & Company has bought the
poultry dressing plant owned by
the Paramount, Inc, Of Philadel-
phia, and will continue in the
same line of business.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. T. East are
spending two weeks on a trip to
Philadelphia, New York and Mia
CARA Falls.
Pvt. Rix Carey, of Tampa, Flor
ida, is spending several days with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rix
Carey.
The first fall meeting of, the
Avon Club will be held at the
home Of the president, Mrs. Nelson
Hammond, on October IA. Among
those attending the Club Institute
at Harrington last Thursday were
Mrs. Nelson Hammond, Mrs. A. C.
Dill, Mrs. N. M. Hargadine. Mrs.
]. A. Jester, Mrs. Hezekiah Masten,
Mrs. D. A. Petry, Mrs. Louis Hop
kins, Mrs. Charles Sipple, Mrs.
Rash and Miss Nellie
Hughes.
Pvt. Joseph Emmett Jester,
former deputy Internal Revenue
Collector of Wilmington, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John G. Jester of FELTON,,
who qualified for clerical service
In the U. s. Army Air Corps, has
recently been assigned to Fort
Logan special clerical training
school, located at Denver, Colorado.
Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
WASHINGTON SNAPSHOTS

Those who interpret the Presi-
dents demands as an ultimatum
to the independent legislative
branch Of the government say that
Congress now has three choices:
~ To take matters in it's own
hands and spell out a series of
formulae for controlling all factors
in the cost of living, including
wages;
(2) To adopt single resolution
authorizing the President to handle
any of the problems as he may best
determine, or
(3) To ignore the Presidents de-
mand; pass no legislation, and per-
nit the Chief Executive to make
good his threat to act without addi-
tional legislative authority.
Milford chronicle., 1942-10-16
MAGNOLIA

The Red Cross chairman, Mrs
Emma McIlvaine has received wor,
that more Ditty Bags are needel
for soldiers leaving this country
Any contributions for this purpos
will be greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Lena Wharton is visiting
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Mace, of Balti
more. =
Mrs. Charles Beeler of Holyoke
Massachusetts, is spending two
weeks with her daughter and son,
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Ander.
son. .faT
Mrs. ]. A. Short, Mrs. Rodney
Short, Miss Marie McGinnis and
Mrs. Hancock of Wyoming were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Hazel Roe
ON Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. R. Donovan and
son Rossie of Wilmington visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w.
Taylor, on Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Coverdale, student
nurse of Memorial Hospital, Will
mington, visited the Taylors on
Thursday and also her aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. William Sip
pie, and her grandmother, Mrs.
Eliza Coverdale.
Mrs. William Short returned on
Sunday from a visit with friends
and relatives in Dover and Wyom-
ing. She was accompanied by Rus
sell Bullock and his daughter Miss
Edith Bullock.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hayes and
daughters Patricia and Barbara, of
Dover, visited her prents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. B. Anderson, on Sunday.
A number from here attended the
funeral on Thursday at Frederick
of w. C. Meredith of Philadelphia,
but formerly of Frederick.
Benjamin c. Hart of Glenn Mar
tin plant, Baltimore, spent Sunday
with his family here.
Luin Sargent of Derry, Pa, was
guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Cora Wright, several days last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Knight and
little daughter Mary Ann, of Clear
View Manor, visited Mr.. Knights
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Knight
on Sunday.
Misses Rosemary Knight and
Frances Evans of Dover are spend
ing a few days this week with the
formers sister and brother-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Dempsey, of
Baltimore.
Miss Donna Kellar, student nurse
of Wilmington Memorial Hospital,
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Kellar.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morris spent sew
eral days the first of the week with
her daughter and. son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Quillen, of Blooms
burg, Pa.
F. C. Taylor and Miss Rhea
Regain of Wilmington visited Mrs.
Emma Taylor on Saturday.
On Wednesday Mrs. Elizabeth
Boone and her house guest Mrs. |
Virginia Brainard of New York,
visited Rev. B. C. Warren of Reho-
both.
Thomas Draper is quite ill at his
home here.
Miss Rebecca Dunn and Mrs.
Bertha Stubbs of Camden were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Tay-
Ior on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Hart en-
tertained on Saturday evening Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Trice, Mrs. Ber-
tina Nienot, Mrs. Edna q Sapp and
children Hazel, Ann, and Jean, of
Houcton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
TWO IN LINE
 FOR APPOINTMENT

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 15.-UP)- Republican circles said today Rus sell L. Patterson, Torrington, and Eugene w. House, Glastonbury, a member of the State Central Com mittee, were candidates for appoint ment as State Liquor Control Com missioner.
 The term of Commissioner Julius Stremlau, Meriden, expires next July l, and Gov.-Elect Raymond E. Baldwin was expected to appoint a Republican to replace him. Strem- lau is a former Democratic state senator and has been on the com mission six years.
 Another being mentioned for the post is James B. Lovely Canton, Baldwin's former executive secre- tary and former state dairy and food commissioner. If not ap- pointed to this post, Lowell prob- ably will be named to some other position in the state government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
ELIMINATION OF
 COSTS IS URGED

Hartford. Conn. Dec. 15.-(UP)- The biennial report of the Connecti- cut Judicial Council today reconn- mended the 1943 General Assembly eliminate the payment of costs in criminal court cases.
 Under present law, a defendant in criminal action must pay costs of the court before he can be dis charged.
 This law, the Council said, is "un- doubtedly product of the idea that a criminal should pay some part of the expense caused by his wrong dong.
 "A century ago there was defi- nite relationship between the ex- pense of the criminal trial and the costs taxable against a guilty de- fendant. Then there were few, if any, judicial officers who were largely compensated by some type of fee. These fees constituted the costs taxable against the convicted person, and were almost all of the direct expense of the trial"
 The Council further recommend ed that the Legislature authorize the governor to appoint commis- sion to study the Constitution and procedure in Connecticut probate courts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
STATE COUNCIL
 MAY REORCANIZE

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 15.-(UP)- State capitol legal experts said to- day the legislative councils biennial report to the general assembly dem- onstrated a reorganization of the group was vitatl before it can func- ton properly.
 The council itself bore out this opinion by calling for an increase in its appropriation and enlarge ment of its membership.
 The council did not submit a single measure in bill form to the legislature, and made only a few suggestions as to possible legisla- tice action. State capitol observ- CTS pointed out the council met only two or three times during the past two years.
 Last year, the council asked legis- lators to submit suggestions for possible action in the 1943 legisla- ture, but none of these suggestions were included in the FepaFt & the council
 The councfl comprises the major ity and minority leaders of both nNa,aaA nzg. sAs gpyArnor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
MUCH HEROISM
 AT FATAL FIRE
Identification of Bodies Continues; Military Ban
 Suggested
By JOHN MEANEY United Press Staff Correspondent

n
 St. Johns Newfoundland, Dec. l5 -(U.P) - Dozens of acts of hero- ism were revealed today as author ities sought to complete identifica- tion of 100 bodies recovered from the ashes of the Knights of Colum- bus hostel for service men.
 Twenty-two victims of the fire Saturday night had not been identi- fled. Most of the bodies were so badly charred the chief means of identifying them was pocketbooks watches, letters, and photographs
 Some bodies may have been com pletely consumed! 102 were injured some critically.
 Officials said the names of Amer ican, Canadian and Newfoundland service men killed would be released simultaneously in Ottawa. Wash ington and St Johns, perhaps today At least 20 Americans among the $50 men and women attending a barn dance in the hostel were be- lieved to have died. -..
 Civilian dead were mainly res identS of St. Johns.
 Service men. civilians and police risked their lives to drag men and women from the inferno. Some were killed or injured in the midst O. their rescue efforts.
 Michael Quinn, manager of the hostel, probably owes his life to John St. John, local newspaper man, who forced his way through a f1ame-swept corridor to Quinn'i office and gave the alarm. Quinn last saw him headed for a side exit
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
LINER SINKING
 IS UNDER PROBE
President Coolidge May Have Hit U. s. Mine in
 South Pacific

Washington, Dec. 15-(UP)-Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that naval board of inquiry IS Investigating the circum- stances surrounding loss of the liner President Coolidge, which was sunk tn the South Pacific recently.
 Knox, asked at press conference about reports that the Collidge had struck an American mine, said he had no information on that.
 "Eventually we will get the full story of whose fault it was," he said But there is a question of possible fault"
 The President Coolidge was under charter as an Army transport and had 4,000 troops board when it struck a mine. Only four men were lost.
 When a reporter suggested that the small loss of life indicated that the ship was close to shore or in port and therefore had hit an Amer tcan mine, Knox replied:
 "IS Ss A very lSasodSHoe hni.ica- tion that the ship was close to shore but as for the latter part of your conclusion that might not hold Eue."
 He pointed out that a Japanese submarine could SOW mines in the same waters where American mines were placed.
 Asked for a more specific location of the President Coolidge sinking, he said the vessel went down in the 6olomons area. Discussing recent American aerial assaults on the new Japanese air base at Munda in New Georgia island, 150 miles northwest of Guad- alcanal, Knox said that Were watching that place pretty closely"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
$9,35O FINE IS
 SETTLED FOR $50
Bargain Day Spirit Pre- vails in City Court Case
 Against Repair Shop

Today is Charles Penniman's lucky day. AS he sat in municipal court minding his own business, Judge T. E. Conway, Prosecutor William K. Lawlor and Atty. Thomas McGrath figured out that MT. Pen niman owed the court the very con- siderable sum of $9,350, $10 per day for each day he has violated the city zoning ordinance. Un- concerned MT. Penniman learned today that he has been violating the ordinance with reckless aban- don since May g, 1940. Judge Con- way decided upon afin of $260, remitting all but $50, and set an appeal bond at $1,000.
 For the past several years, --5i- dents of the Beecher avenue sec uion of the city have been complain ing that MT. Penniman's repair shop, on the corner of Beecher avenue and East Main street, has been a source of disturbance. Petit tions have been circulated. Build ing Inspector John T. Hartley has oCut 1CIOCIOs ouU N4ks believing, like Will Rogers, only what he reads in the newspapers, continued his auto repair business come what may.
 Today it was found that some thing would have to be done about the matter, or MT. Penniman would be reduced to pauperism. The or dinance states that fine of $10 a day shall be imposed for each day the violation continued, and MT. Penniman has been working at the present location for 935 days.
 Believing that Penniman did not realize the enormity of his crime, Judge Conway decided that the fine should be imposed only from the day that the accused was first ar- raigned in municipal court, Novem- Der 19. That would amount to 26 days at, $10 per day, or $260. Thomas McGrath. attorney for the defend- ant, said that he would appeal the case.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
PRECIOUS ALLIED
 AIR ATTACKS ON
Axis Targets From Bizerte to Sfax Rock Under
 BOmbardment

Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Dec. 15-(UP)-Axis targets have rocked under the impact of Amer ican airplane bombs for the third straight day of ferocious attack on enemy reinforcement bases all the way from Bizert.e to Sfax on the east coast of Tunisia.
 Fighters, fighter -bombers, light bombers, medium bombers, and heavy bombers joined in attacks yesterday which ended only at mid- night when Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses came back after heavy raid on docks and shipping at Tu- his.
 Army heavy bombers scored hits on docks and ships in big attack on Bizerte and. challenged by nine German Messerschmitt-1 -109 fighters, shot down three of them, damaged several others and returned safe through a screen of anti aircraft gun fire.
 Douglas A-20 attack bombers and fighters, newly equipped with bomb racks, rained bombs on the railroad freight yards at SfaX, on the east coast, and started two large fires, apparently among gasoline tank cars. Returning without loss, the plane crews saw flames of one fire when 40 miles away.
 Martin B-26 Martians, escorted by Lockheed P-38 Lighting fighters, bombed the docks at Sousse down the coast from Sfax.
 A force of the Lightnings can nonaded a locomotive on the rail- road at & point midway between Sousse and SfaX and blew 1t up. They saw freighter sunk in a nearby east coast harbor, the result of bombings the day before.
 Further reports of the raid by Martians Sunday on a railroad bridge north of SfaX showed that two direct hits had eeen made on the center span and that damaging near misses also had been scored.
 It was indicated that yesterdays
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
Marshal Rommel Said To Have Abandoned His Army
5000 GERMANS
 KILLED IN DAY
Frantic Counter Attacks Fail; Reds Take Another
 Village
By M. s. HANDLER

(Umte0 Press stan COrreSpOnuentl
 Moscow, Dec. 15.-(UP)-The Red Army, killing more than 5000 fran tically counter attacking Germans in the last 24 hours, captured an- other village southwest of Stalin- grad today.
 More than 500 Germans were kill ed as the Russians stormed into the village, the Soviet noon communique said. The Russians captured 50 Germans, three tanks, 40 guns and food and munition dumps.
 Front-line reports said the Ger mans were making nonstop coun- ter-attacks southwest of Stalingrad, and in the Rzhev area, on the cen- tral front. But in the last "A hours, they gained for the Germans only one small advance southwest Of Stalingrad.
 Besides losing more than 5000 men in counter-attack on the Stalingrad and central fronts, the Germans lost A tanks and AT guns, captured or destroyed. They paid |; 600 lives, seven tanks and II guns for their advance southwest of Stalingrad. Dispatches said the gain was in the direction of a number of settlements. Try ing to exploit their success, the Ger mans counter-attacked in the same area again and again. Russian ar tillery broke up tanks and infantry before they reached Red lines, how ever, costing the Germans on one sector 300 more killed and five more tanks.
 The Stalingrad garrison attacked in factory area during the night,
 Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
WLB MAY STEP
 INTO N. Y. STRIKE
No Newspaper Distribution Yet; Formal Interven=
 ton Expected

New York, Dec. IS - (UP) - The War Labor Board was expected to intervene formally today and de- mand that strike by the Newspaper and Mail Deliveries Union Gnde- pendenD against the eight major New York newspapers end at once.
 The VILE had asked the union to go back to work, and the union re- fused. However. the WLB had not assumed formal jurisdiction.
 Frances Perkins, Secretary of La bor, was expected shortly to certify it to the WLB, permitting the VILE to order the strikers back to work. If they refused to obey such an order, they would do so in defiance of President Rooseyelts wartime authority, unGer which, the VILE operates.
 The eight newspapers, which have total circulation of 3,500,000 day have not been delivered to news stands since Sunday, when the strike began.
 Conferences involving the union, the New York Publishers Associa- ton, which represents the struck newspapers, and Federal and State Labor mediation officials were re- cessed last night after four hours
 They were to be resumed today but unless there is immediate agree ment there can be no general cir culation of the Post, the Sun, the Journal-American and the World Telegram for the second straight day.
 The morning newspapers, Times the Herald Tribune, the Daily News and the Mirror were not generally circulated yesterday or today.
 The principal issue, in negotia- tions for a new contract, was the unions demand for a freezing of jobs, regardless of retrenchments that may have to be made because of paper. rubber and gasoline rat ioning.
 The Publishers Association point ed out in statement last night that it had accepted, and the union had rejected, an award handed down by an arbitrator on Sept. II. Il granted a $3 a week wage increase and one week vacation a year to union members, but disallowed the demand for job freezing.
 "The association now feels that the men should return to work tC clear the way for a settlement" thG stGAe1aAnt sald. The association nDM asks for the intervention of the proper government authorities in the disSsssta {"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15

munique, end6d four weeks of fight ing for his strongest enemy position in the area. The fact that the enemy submitted two of his cruisers and three of his destroyers to two days of bombing and strafing by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air force, indi- cated the desperate need of Japanese ground units for help and supplies.
 These ground forces continued to hold out today in the Buna Mis- sion area, 10 miles from the vil- lage, and also around Sanananda, a few miles northwest. There, how ever, American and Australian pa- trols had pushed Japanese outposts back down the Soputa- -Sanananda trail to a spot two miles from San- amanda.
 The outposts were caught between two Allied forces. Another group of Australians, fighting down the beach from Coma, which they took last week, were moving against San- amanda from another direction.
 There also was continued Japa- IlNSC 4CSLo vcLANV oOot41Coob OA G14N Buna area, around Cape Endaiadere.
 Observers here forecast that when the Buna-Gona area is completely cleaned up, MacArthur's forces will move against the Japanese installa- tions - mostly air bases - at Sala- maua and Lac, the remaining Japa- nese footholds in New Guinea. These towns are on the Huon Gulf, 150 miles by air northwest from Buna.
 That will be another campaign, but use of the Buna Mission air strip by Allied planes, is expected to make it easier.
 Buna village was taken at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Occupa- tion was preceded by heavy mor- tar barrage.
 The two Japanese cruisers and three destroyers, badly battered, were sighted steaming north to- ward the enemy base at Gasmata, New Britain. Gasmata is 190 north- west of ambush point on the mouth of the Mabare estuary, where the warshipst ried to land reinforce
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
PRODUCTION AT TOP LEVELS IS EXPECTED HERE lien. Knudsen on Inspec= ton of Local Plants,
 Halts RumOrs CHANGED FOR
 ITEMS TINTED AT Production Up 25 Per Cent Here, Since Knudsen's
 Last Visit

"The Army will still count on Waterbury for top pro- duction, though some of the plants here may be called on to turn out somewhat differ ent items", Lieutenant Gen. eral William s. Knudsen, here on an inspection tour of local factories, told re- porters at a press conference this afternoon. His state ment set at rest reports that war production here might have to be curailed because of imminent con- tract cancellations. The reports were based on letters received by local war plants several days ago, telling them contract cancellations might be expected as a result Of changing needs of the Army.
 There may have to be some change -overs", said the former head of General Motors and chief of OPM, "but they should be able to be accomplished easily. Your pro-
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