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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10

funds from Navy men as in the
past. In one day at Pearl Harbor
the Navy suffered more casualties
than in the Spanish and the World
War combined. He cited some of
the many ways in which the So
ciety supplements the regular gov
ernment pensions and benefits.
Some of them are loans to families,
cash gifts in time of need, payment
of medical or hospital expenses,
various special services rendered
in a sympathetic, friendly way.
1t was planned to put on sale
buttons and enameled silver pins
during the last week in April, and
to make use of other means of
completing the quota for the coun-
ty. This quota was not decided
upon at the meeting.
Town chairmen present included:
Irwin G. Burton, Milford; Mrs.
Theodore Burton, Georgetown;
Mrs. Edwin L. Layton, Bridgeville;
Mrs. Frederick B. Kaufman, Sea-
ford; Mrs. Jesse Allen, Laurel;
William H. Ayres, Millsboro; Mrs.
Donald r. Evans, Lewes, and An
thony Higgins, Rehoboth.
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Sussex County
Youth To Meet
At Georgetown
All Day Session Will Be
Held In Wesley Meth
Odist Church; Ban
quet Will Be Served.

The annual Sussex County Chris
tian Youth Conference will be held
in the Wesley Methodist Church in
Georgetown, on Saturday, April
IS, starting at a. m. and ending
at 8 p. NJ. under the auspices of
the Sussex County Council of
Churches and Christian Education
of Maryland and Delaware.
The program follows:
Theme, Victory for Christian
Youth"
Morning Session
Everett C. Hopkins presiding
8 a. m.-Registration.
$3.50 a. m.-Group singing. Joan
/. Steele.
9:45 a. m.-Worship service, M.
Y. +. of Grace Church.
1925 a. ,in.--Announcementss
1920 a. m.-Discussion groups.
~ Christian Youth Views the
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Milford C. Of C.
Dis u S S e S
3 | a C k O u t
Significance
Problems Confronting
POpulace Discussed At
Meeting Wednesday;
Nominees Selected for
Annual Election.

Blackout problems confronting
civilians, merchants and manufac-
turers occupied the attention of the
Chamber of Commerce directors at
their April meeting on Wednesday
evening.
In session with Sussex County
Coordinator of Civilian Defense
Edward c. Evans, which lasted
more than five hours 1t was brought
out that many features of our re-
cent blackouts are not thoroughly
understood by the public. Appar-
emily the impression prevails that
real blackout indicates the pres
ence of hostile planes and the i'm
minence of an air attack on Mil
ford.
Since there is little in Milford
to justify planned air raid here,
many believe that our blackouts
will cease when the necessary war;
dens, police, fremen and first aid
groups have been trained. There
fore, they figure that it is not worth
while to hang curtains over win
dows so that lights can be used
in the house without being seen
outside.
However. most of the real black
outs Milford will experience will
not be for the purpose of protect
ing us from an air attack. Bombers
attacking Baltimore or Washing
ton from an aircraft carrier many
miles out in the Atlantic will check
their courses from landmarks along
the coast. A lighted town in Della
ware may guide swift bomber to
an objective hundreds of miles in
land.
Should such raids be made on
any of the industrial centers in
this section of the country we can
expect blaekouts lasting several
hours, possibly every night for a
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Choral Society Held
Sing Monday Night
Community Affair Was Greatly En-
jOyed By Milford Residents .

The community sing held Monday
evening at the Calvary Methodist
Church grows larger and sings bet
ter at each new meeting.
Mr.. Rudolph conducted the group
singing on Monday evening and
sang. request number my Old
Kentucky Home" after presenting
one of his young choir boys from
West Presbyterian Church, Will
mington, who sang "On the Road
to Mandalay."
Old favorites and patriotic num-
bers were most in demand, and the
group had the pleasure of hearing
a solo, "My Task" by Mrs. Baker,
of Georgetown; a Spanish dance
played by Mrs. Stroup, also of
Georgetown, and Rolling Down to
Rio" by Mrs. Herbert Nichols, of
Milford.
The next rehearsal of the Choral
Group will be at the Caulk auditor
ium on Monday, April 1S, at 7:45
D. m.
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Hospital Auxiliary
Makes Yearly Report
Many Items Added To Equipment
During Past Twelve Months

The following report presented
at a recent meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Milford Memoria
Hospital, gives an account of new
material and equipment acquired
either by purchase or donation
during past year.
Nurses Training School-Book
case, lantern protector and furni-
ture.
Dietary department - Electric
food cart, tray carriage, fiat silver,
silver coffee pots for semi-private
rooms, dishes, nurses dining room
table and chairs, food chopper,
thermos jugs for private and semi
private rooms, coca-cola machine,
linen for dining room and kitchen.
Office and Record Room-Files
and typewriter.
X-ray department-Two casSetts
and portable x-ray stand.
Operating Room Operating
room table, clock, battery light,
stainless steel equipment, fluores-
cent lamp, surgical table. soap dis
penser, alcohol dispenser.
Anesthesia department-Two gas
machines, oxygen tent, two resus-
citators.
General equipment for the floors
Two baby scales, truck for inside
use, stretcher and stretcher pads.
wheel chairs, two inhalators, bed
lamps, fluorescent lamps, two hui
smokers for the sun
parlors, annunciator, cubicle and
curtains, for wards, Sc enclosed
bedside tables with rubber tops, 40
beds, 6 over bed tables, metal
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Final Tribute Old Prettyman
Paid TO Late Factory Razed
Geo. A. Penuel ByFreMOnday
Firemen Did Fine Job In
Contested Area; Com
pany Also Called Out
To Fight Forest Fire..

Fire of undetermined origin on
Monday of this week destroyed the
interior of the Old Prettyman can
ming factory in South Milford. Lieu
tenant j. Holland Prettyman owned
the property. The factory has not
been operated in rocent year but
was used as a storage building. It
was two-story, frame structure.
The blaze had gained consider
able headway when discovered.
Within five minutes after their ar
rival flremen had three lines of
hose pouring water into the build
ing and prevented the blaze from
spreading to nearby properties, in
cluding the large Torsch Packing
Company plant.
Roofs of nearby dwellings were
set afire but these flames were
quickly extinguished.
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Gov. Bacon And
Other Officials
Praise First
Kent Blackout
Test Is Reported To Be
80 Per Cent Effective,
Leaders Study Viola
tiOns During Trial On
Monday Night.

Kent county defense officials,
checking results of the first coun-
ty-wide blackout on Monday night
of this week, said the test was "ap-
proximately SO per cent effective"
Many towns reported 100 per cent
cooperation" while the few VIOLA
tions were seen as helping war
dens to work out a program for
preventing infractions in the fu-
ture. The test lasted half honr.
Governor Waiter w. Bacon, who
viewed the blackout with a party
of officials at state police station
No. 3, congratulated county Off
cials, defense workers, and citi-
zens generally on "the fine results
of your first countrywide test.
One BlackOut Flaw
The most serious flaw in the
Dover area was due to an over
sight in the operation by a sepa-
rate switch of highway lights north
of Dover. Finally, however, the
separate switch was located and
the blackout was complete. ~
State police halted all highway
traffic at the county lines while aux
iliary police of the various towns
were responsible for motorists obey
ing instructions to park and ex-
tinguish lights.
Mayor J. Wallace Woodford of
Dover, in charge of county defense
/ ctivities. and Colonel John p.
LeFevre, Dover civilian defense di-
rector, and county coordfnator,
said all reports of infractions will
be studied closely although they
stressed that practically all lights
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Memorial Service Con-
Quoted At NIiIIsbOrO
Sunday for Youth Kill
ed At Pearl HarbOr.

Easter Sunday will long be re-
membered by hundreds of friends
who gathered at the Odd Fellows
cemetery in MillsborO. to pay trib-
ute to one of their boys, who gave
his life in action on December al
Pearl Harbor. 49,
The services were conducted by
Captain James II. Bishop, chaplain
of the. 261st Coast Artillery. The
memorial was to George Ames Pen
uel, Jr., second class boatswain
mate, u. S. N.
The color bearers advanced, the
American flag and battalion flag,
also the firing squad, as Chopin's
Funeral March, played by Pryors
Band (sound system). The squads
marched to position facing the mon
ument as the chaplain and bugler
took their places.
The invocation was given by Rev.
Edward Henvis of Millsboro, fol-
lowed by solo "There is No Death"
The message by Chaplain Bishop
was in scripture and poetry, also
a message of George Penuels mil
itary record and his challenge to
service.
The dedication of the monument
by Sgt. James Carey, who present
ed their floral tribute of a red,
white and blue flower wreath with
a clock dial center, the time set
as the attack of December 7. Rev.
Clark of Frankford, gave the dedi-
cation prayer.
Captain Wayne Burton, represent
ing the Millsboro school faculty,
presented Mrs. Penuel with an Am
erican flag. Mrs. Penuel is now a
gold star mother. The American
Legion will present her with a gold
star pin at some later date.
The U. S. Navy, represented by
Alfred E. Beauregard, chief ma
chinist's mate, U. S. Fleet Reserve
of Salisbury, Md, and the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars and Boy Scouts of
represented by Jack Cor
drey and Reginald Gillespie, of !
Troop No. 100. Milford, all paid !
their respects to the honored dead. |
Benediction was given by Rev. |
Henvis. The firing squad of Bat
tery B, under Sgt. Carey saluted
he dead by the firing of three vol
eys and taps were given by Bugler
Donaldson of Fort Salisbury. The
ceremony closed with Penuel's fa-
rorite mach, Anchors Aweigh"
'Decca Band, sound system) fol-
owed overhead as their salute were
our army planes flying east to
vest
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Sussex Court
Returned Many
True Bills At
Regular Term
Chief Justice Daniel j.
Layton On Bench For
April Term Of Super
iOr Court And Court
OF General Sessions.

The regular April term of Su-
periOr Court and Court of General
Sessions convened at Georgetown
on Monday with Chief Justice Dan
iel J. Layton on the bench.
The grand jury returned the fol-
lowing bills of Indictment: Sadie
Mills, two bills, selling alcoholic
liquors without license. on March
20, to Willie Ross and Robert King,
respectively, each paying $500;
Nathaniel Dawson. Dagsboro Dis
trict, assault and battery on Henry
Holden on January rs; Dennard
Hudson, Sr., desertion and nom
support of his wife, Catharine, and
three minor children, Dennard, Jr.,
years, Nancy, years, Anne, 2
years, on October 6, last year;
Andrew l.. Purcell, Greenwood, de-
sertion and non-support of his wife,
Virginia, and eight children-Betty
Jane, Is years, Donald, IA years,
Gertrude, IL years, Maxine, IL
years; Mildred Ann, years, Grace,
5 years, David, years. Maylon, ten
months - the alleged desertion be-
ing on January 26; Albert Johnson.
Dagsboro District, non-support of
child, Joyce Virginia
aged one year, on Decem-
ber 20; Floyd Kitchens, non-sup-
port of illigitimate children, Floyd
Tatman, years and Betty Lee Tat
man, 3 years, on October 1, last
year; George w. Shockley, Balti-
more District, desertion and non
support of minor child, Betty, 8
years old, on March 20.
Reese Purnell, negro, formerly
of Accomac, Va. who has been en-
ployed in Delaware for the past
five. years, will be the first criminal
to be whipped at the county prison
in many months. Purnell, employ
ed by Wilbert Freyling at Seaford
as a garage man and an assistant
stole a motor truck
wheel and tire and tube, valued at
$40 on March 20, which later was
recovered. His criminal record in
Virginia anG'riri Sussex county was
such that Chief Justice Daniel J.
Layton imposed a sentence Of two
years on him in the Sussex county
prison and that he be whipped with
ZEN lashes on Saturday, April IL,
between the hours of 10 a. m. and
p. m. Purnell, while being in this
state approximately ten or twelve
years, had five convictions in the |
sussex county courts ranging from
arcency to assault and battery and |
riolation of the motor laws. Chief
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
.NayyReGefDanceTo
Be Held Here Mays
VIII Be Gilman OF SUSSEX COMRty's Part In Cam
paign On Behalf OF Navy Relief Society Fund;
IrJciR G.. Burton Is Chairman.

A large dance on May 5 in Mil
ford has been decided upon as the
climax of Sussex county's part in
the coming campaign on behalf of
the Navy Relief Society Fund.
Tentative plans for the dance
in Milford Community Building
were announced on Monday at a
meeting presided over by the coun-
ty chairman, Mrs. J. Lockwood
Pratt, at the Milford home of her
mother, Mrs. Frank L. Grier, where
Mrs. Pratt and her children have
been staying while Commander
Pratt has been absent on duty in
the Pacific.
The state chairman, Frank M.
Donohue, of Wilmington. explain
ed to the town chairmen the his
tory and functions of the Navy Re
lief Society. He described it as a
40-year-old organization that has
always been of, by, and for Navy
people. and has never before So
licited funds from the public. In
the first two weeks after Pearl
Harbor, however, the society found
that it could no longer raise all its
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Scout Leaders To
Gather At Redden
Del.Mar-Va ScOuters VIII Meet At
Forest Lodge This Weekend

Scout leaders from many of the
local towns, together with the
scout masters from all over Della
ware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Virginia will meet
April II and IL at the Redden For
est Lodge for courses in scout
leadership and camping. Usually
these courses are each given over
a period of six or seven weeks but
it has been arranged so that they
can be conducted on a weekend to
save scout leaders much valuable
time and miles of travel.
These courses are very much
needed since great number of
men have recently volunteered
their services as scout leaders as
a service to their community and
nation. Already scouts have been
called upon to distribute thousands
of posters advertising the sale of
defense bonds and stamps, to col
lect aluminium, to salvage hun
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
New Officers
Bv
Ionic Council
Deputy POcahOntas Ma
rie WOrthingtOn, AS
sisted By P.D.P. Edith
Niblett Officiated.

On Monday evening of this week
in the Pocahontas Lodge Hall amid
spring cut flowers and potted
plants, Deputy Pecahonsas Marie
Worthington, assisted by Past Dep
uty Edith NibIett installed the
elected and appointed officers OF
Ionic Council No. 13, d. of P. The
elected officers were Prophet, Anna
W. Prettyman; Pocahontas, Eliza
beth Short; Wenona. Cornelia Oil
phant; Powhattan, Lima Stevens;
keeper of records, Edith r. Hall;
collector of Wampum, Lulu Walls;
keeper of wampum, Lulu Coffin. The
appointed officers are: First scout,
Katherine Wilkerson; second scout,
Edith Niblett; first warrior, Anna
Wilker; second warrior, Alice Tru-
lit; third warrior, Katie Oliphant;
fourth warrior, Marian Coverdale;
first runner, Helen Wright; sec
ond runner, Doris Wilkie; first
Veria Maloney; second
Ruth Mariner; guard of
forest, Serena Hayes; guard of
tepee, Nora Jefferson; trustee,
Louise Higman; pianist, Katherine
Short talks were given by some
Of the Past Deputy Pocahontases.
Deputy Marie Worthing-
on and visitors from Wilmington,
Laurel and Past Great
Sachem Handy of Seaford. The
lowers besides the ones on the
stump for the elected officers were
given to Deputy Pocahontas Wor- |
hington. and her assistant, Edith
Pianist Fitzgerald and a
aithful flower committee, Jennie |
Jleaver. The lodge then enjoyed a
epast of corn and venison. Watch
his paper for the coming card and
lingo party to be held in the lodge
lall i'm the near future.
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Dover Quick-Freezing
Lockers Almost Ready
Miss Florence Yetter Says They
Will be Available by Next Thursday

Announcement has been made
that the quick-freezing lockers in
Dover will be ready for patrons on
or around April 16. This announce
ment is made by Miss Florence l..
Yetter, Kent county home demon
stration agent, who has been pro-
noting the plan.
The lockers are in two sizes: one
W cubic feet and 10 cubic feet.
Persons who have already signed
up should state which size they
prefer. Each locker has a sepa-
rate locking device and each pa
tron has his own key.
Families making best use of
their lockers find that their food
costs are materially reduced. Bet
ter cuts of meat can be had at
lower cost. To the farmer this cold
storage service means that he can
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Oil Industry Works
On transportation
Every Effort Being Made 10 Sur
mount Difficulties Says ii. V. Daniel

The oil industry is making ev-
cry effort to meet the transporta-
tion difficulties behind the current
rationing of gasoline and fuel oil,
H. v. Daniel, secretary. Associated
Petroleum Industries Of Delaware,
stated today.
Every petroleum tankship sunk,
or transferred away from Gulf-to-
East-Coast service. means that
nearly 100000 passenger cars, or
$4,000 domestic fuel oil burners, on
the Atlantic seaboard, have to get
their motor fuel or heating oil by
some other transportation means"
Mr.. Daniel stated. "This means
that all users will have to share and
get along with little less.
Normally, the eastern seaboard
received annually in the neighbor-
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Arbor Day Exercises
At Colony April Is
ALI Departments And Cottages viii
Be Open To Public

The annual ArbOr Day exercises
at Delaware Colony near StoelSlfE,
the State Training School for the
mentally handicapped, will be held
ON Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m,
April Is. A group of the children
will give brief entertainment in
the auditorium of the administra-
tive building after which represen-
tatives of the commission and of
the board of lady visitors will be
introduced. All departments and
children's cottages will he open
to the public
There is an enrolment at pres
ent of AL at the school and 81 cases
are on home placement under su-
pervision of the commission.
Members of the commission are:
J. Edward Goslee, chairman, Stock
ley; DR.. G. w. X. Forrest, vice
Wilmington; James B.
Carey, secretary, Georgetown;
George w. Butz, Jr., Cragmere;
Mrs. Margaret Lloyd. Seaford; DR..
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Senator Tunnen To
Address Maine Group
Delawarean. WIZ Be KeynOter At
State Convention Today

1t has been announced by the
Democratic National Committee
that Senator James M. Tunnel, of
Delaware, will deliver the keynote
address at the Maine Democratic
State Convention to be held at
Bangor today Friday, April 10.
Senator Tunnell will address the
convention at p. m. and will be
heard over New England stations.
Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Weekly DOin0s of
Red Cross Workers
Schedule Of Meetings For
Milford For Week Be-
ginning April 10
General Chairman
Mrs. Wallace McFaul
Canteen COrDs

Mrs. J. S. willis, Chairman
Thursday. 2 p. m.-Nutrition class
at Old Chapel Building. Miss Ele-
amor Mcknight, instructor.
First Aid
Mrs. J. J. Pearce and Miss Sara Grier
Co. -chairmen
Friday, p. m.-Girls' class at M.
H. S. Mrs. Hoey Farrow, instruc-
tor.
Monday, Z p. m.-Student nurses
class at Nurses Home. Mrs. Neal
Stevenson, instructor.
Tuesday. 1880 p. m.-Community
building. class of men. Coach
Briggs, instructor.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
State Cancer Body
Plans Campaign Drive
Mrs. VIM. Marshall, Jr., will Serve
As Chairman For Milford

Since April has been proclaimed
generally as Cancer Control Month,
the campaign in Delaware is get
ting under way. Mrs. William Mar
shall. local chairman for the cam
paign, will shortly announce the
exact date for the Milford and vi
cinity roll call. Staggering num-
bers Of deaths in the United
States last year proves that there
is much groundwork yet to be
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Del-Mar-Va Students
Compete For Prizes
Future Farmers Eligible for South
ern States Crop Scholarships

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ern States Crop Scholarships
Members of the Future Farmers
of America in Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware, and West Virginia who
are completing their high school
courses in vocational agriculture
this spring are eligible for consid-
Grafton for the four 500 college
scholarships to be awarded by
Southern States Cooperative to an
outstanding FLA member in each
state concerned, w. G. Wysor, of
Richmond, Va. general manager
of the cooperative, announced yes
terday.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Observe Music Day
At Century Club
Mrs. Davis II. Grler Prepared In
teresting Musical Program

Music Day was observed at the
Milford New Century Club on
Monday with Mrs. Davis r. Grier
directing the program. Those ap-
pearing on the program were ar
fists from other close-by towns as
well as some from Milford. Most
of the participants, members of
the Community Chorus, were pleas
ed to help with the interurban plan
of the afternoon. The selections
brought much pleasure to the mem-
bers of the club who attended in
good numbers. The following pro-
gram was given, being presented
by Mrs. Grier:
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Milford chronicle., 1942-04-10
Weekly Weather
Report For Milford
From Wednesday, April 1, To
Tuesday, April z, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, weather
recorder for Milford, reports the
following thermometer readings for
Milford, from Wednesday. April
1, to Tuesday, April 7, inclusive:
Tapnoro tttro
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-27
Andy's Comeback Star4Ies Sport World

Incidentally has staged Of the outstanding come
backs in sport history year the former Titan washed
w Today he's candidate for alar honors in the pro loop
The statistics reveal Andy was Of leagues best bal
carriers great achievement back who played only
game in and couldn't going at all last season
being graduated from University Of Detroit tark2s
starred with the Redskins rst In 1889 he
leading with 6 points and was selected
n the alleague
Late that season against Lions Farkas suffered knee
injury In game with the Giants hurt again When
the Redskins began training 1910 the knee useless lie
had operation He played in only game that season
and result his performance
was Indifferent be through But Red Faherty
the Washington stop hoping and signed him again
this season. Andy has justified the faith
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-27

Georgia officials denied receiving
a bid
Presumably. If tho Georgia Bull
dogs rccoup from their upset dc.
feat by Auburn and beat Tccf
Saturday they would be gwen IRIS
priority for the Rose Bow game.
One source pointed oul that an
other loss for Georgia. whicf
would leave il with a record of
nine victories and TWO defeats
might find il without an iUmc
dlatc Bowl bid This would leave
Tennessee a team that has los
ono and tied one and Is a hoavl
favorte 70 defeat Vanderbilt Sat
Tday recipient OF the Sugar
Bowl bid.