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Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

Club participated this season. to-
gether with a large number of bird
observers from the Philadelphia
area. Outstanding records seen
were the broadwing hawk and the
Henslow sparrow. The areas about
Moore's Lake, Silver Lake, Picker
ing's Beach, Little Creek and Dona
Landing were intensively worked
and included in this years census.
One of the latest records observed
in this section of the osprey was
made by Edwin M. Barry at Reho-
both on November IA. An albino
crow was observed in a flock at
Benefits Pier recently and Ameri-
can bald eagles were seen at Gar
rison's Pond. Snow buntings were
quite common along the marshes in
early November and, strangely
enough, the major flights of geese
occurred the middle of October de-
spite the fact that the majority of
ducks delayed their southern flights
well into November. The mer-
ganser family has put in a rather
late appearance in the branches
and streams of Delaware and the
first observation of the hooded
was at Reedy Point
Bridge near Delaware City the
third week in November. Juncos
have been exceedingly common in
many areas of the State. Bird OBJ
servers of Silver Lake, Rehoboth,
indicate that up to December 1 few
deep water ducks frequented this
area. A definite increase of Can
ada geese over former years was
noted with a total of 1913, with 3
dozen riddles, 145 coots, Ia herring
gull, ITO haldpates, 10 black ducks,
8 mallards, 16 pintails. A very
high muskrat population, several
yellowlegs, 1 osprey, myrtle warb-
Ter, killdeer, field and song spar
rows, mockingbirds, and 5 shovel
lers were observed.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

fresh, others are close springers.
They are T.B. Accredited and there
has not been a reactor in this herd
for the past twelve years. They
range in age from three to eight
years.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &c.
McCormick-Deering Corn Plant
er, 2 Randall Harrows, Single Gull
tipacker, John Deere Mower, AZ
foot; MISUNDERSTANDING Mower,
41s-foot; MISUNDERSTANDING Corn
Binder, 2 No. SO Oliver Riding
Plows, One-horse Plow, 2 No. 9S
Oliver Flows, 4 Hand Cultivators,
Corn Grader, 2 Grass Seeders, 2
Corn Boxes and Sleds, 3 Iron-Age
Riding Cultivators, Mccormick
Deering Rotary Hoe, Brow Corn
Thinner, Farm Wagons, 2 Hay
Riggings, Hay Teeter, Board Drag,
2 Black Hawk Manure Speakers,
Acme Harrow, 3-Section Spring
tooth Harrow, 2-Section Spring
tooth Harrow, Hay Rake, McCor-
mick-Deering Binder, 8-foot; On
tario Hoe Drill, 11-spout; Roller,
Grindstone, Anvil, Vice, Straw
Knife, Spool 3-ft. Corn Planter
Wire; Spool 3-ft. Gin. Corn Planter
Wire, Dinner Bell, 9 Metal Chicken
Coops, lot of 1, 2, 8, A and 5-horse
Trees, Forks, Shovels, Chains, and
many other articles too numerous
to mention.
HARNESS. sets Leather Wag-
on Harness, IL sets Plow Harness,
IL Brides, IL Collars.
TRUCK-1930 A. A. ORD Truck,
in good condition.
DAIRY FIXTURES 40-quart
Milk Cans, 8 Milk Buckets, 2
Strainers, 3 Milking Stools.
PIGS Sows, bred; 6 Pigs, will
weigh about go pounds apiece.
HAY and CORN = Some mixed
clover and timothy, and some good
alfalfa hay by the ton. Also corn
by the bushel.
TERMS-CASH
Positively no goods to be remov-
ed until terms of sale are omplied
with.
ALBERT Il. LEE, Owner
Townsend, Del.
Racine and Slaughter, auctioneers
William Money, inside clerk
William Watson, outside clerk.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
A&P EMPLOYEES BONDS
To Purchase Defense Bonds Thru
Pay Check Reduction

ray SutCh houuCtlO0
The Great Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company has completed ar
rangements for facilitating the vol
untary purchase of defense bonds
by employees through pay check de-
auctions, John A. Hartford, presi-
dent of the company, announced
yesterday. The companf has ap-
proximately $4,000 full time en-
ployes in the United States. Under
the plan employees may authorize
deductions from their pay checks
and the bonds will be issued
through Federal Reserve Banks
and post-offices. The company will
deduct the money each week and
purchase the bonds. The bonds
will then be mailed to the en-
ploye-puruchasers. The plan en-
courages the purchase of bonds by
simplifying the procedure whereby
employees may make systematic
contribution to the nations war eff
fort and at thte same time estab-
fish a reserve fund for the future.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
|MEN NEEDED
FOR AIR CADETS
1t. Naughton, P. 0. Building,
Dover, Wants Smyrna
Boys to Enlist
MANY CAN QUALIFY

you've heard that We'll have
plenty of planes" 1t. Herbert H.
Naughton, P. o. Building, Dover,
said. 'fNow we're going to get the
pilots for them-and a lot of them
are going to come from Smyrna, if
I can do anything about it." 1t.
Naughton glanced at a stack of
Aviation Cadet application blanks
piled upon his desk and continued
his discourse. mo plane was ever
built that was worth the metal it
used up, unless there was a man
around to take it up into the air
and make it do what it was sup
posed to do. American planes are
the best in the world and American
pilots are the most capable. But
neither one of these is any good for
our job without the other. That's
why 1 have been told to get going
on the matter of securing applica-
lions for fight training in the
Army. Mister" he added, "it's a
pleasure" Young men of Smyrna,
he pointed out, can qualify for ap-
pointment as Aviation Cadets by
passing physical and educational
examinations. They must be I'M
married and between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-six. They will
eceive SIS a month, board, room
and dental and medical care during
their training, at the completion of
which they will be commissioned
second lieutenants in the Air Corps
Reserve and take their places
among the fighting pilots of the U.
S. Army. said 'em to me-" 1t.
Naughton said. 9TH give them the
details and we'll soon find out if
they qualify. But Aviation Cadets
alone are not enough to Keep En-
Flying" 1t. Naughton added. '"The
Air Corps needs lot of other men,
too. Bombardiers, navigators, OBJ
servers, cameramen, mechanics,
armorers, weather observers, and
many others. figure almost every
young man in this town can find a
place where he fits in the Air Corps
or in the Army at large, for that
he takes the trouble to
come up here and figure it out with
me. When they say Keep En-
Flying it isn't just as easy as say
ing it. 1t takes men to do it. Well,
we have men in Smyrna, and we're
just the ones to do it, too"
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
CENSUS TAKEN
OF WILDLIFE
Hook Third Annual
Bird Census Being Com
pleted by Census Group
BALD EAGLES NEARBY

The Bombay Hook third annual
Christmas Census group, 35 strong,
took to the fields and marshes from
800 a. m. to 500 p. m. on Deem
Der % to record the birds of this
area in cooperation with the Ma
tional Audubon Society. AT the
present time, the complete data is
not at hand but it is expected that
the number of species seen for this
year will run well over 100. More
than IA members Of the Kent Bird
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
MOn., Feb. 8, 1912
at 10 O'Clock A. M, Sharp
IL Horses & Mules

No. 1. BESS, brown mare, 16
years old, work anywhere. Weighs
about HOO pounds.
No. 2. DEXTER, Bay Horse, IL
years old, will work in all harness.
Weighs 1900 pounds.
No. 8. PRINCE, Brown Horse,
IL years old, work in all harness,
no better. Weighs 1900 pounds.
No. 4. EASTER, Brown Mare,
10 years old, will make a good team
with No. 3. Weighs about 1900 lbs.
No. 5. JIM, Sorrel Horse, 9
years old, a good horse any place
you put him. Weighs 1900 lbs.
No. 6. JOE, Gray Horse, 8 years
old, work anywhere. Weighs about
1900 pounds.
No. 7. JACK, Bay Horse, 6
years old, work anywhere, weighs
about 1900 pounds.
No. s. LIZZIE, Bay Mare, 6
years old, a good brood mare. Will
make good mate for either No. 2
or No. 5. Weighs about 14O0 lbs.
No. 9. RUTH, Brown Mare, 4
years old, broken to all harness and
works anywhere, will weigh about
1850 pounds.
Nos. 10 and IL. GIN and DAISY,
pair of Black Mules, 10 years old,
work anywhere, in all harness, eth
er single or double. Weighs 1900
pounds.
These horses were all raised by
my father and I think they are as
nice as you ever looked at.
Il Mich Cows
One Holstein Bull
This herd consists of seventeen
Holstein, four Guernsey, some are
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

several days recently at Pittsburgh,
Pa, where he was a guest of his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Kline Wier Mrs. Harmon
son, who has been spending three
weeks with her daughter, returned
home on Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles H. LeFevre, Mrs.
Ray Lank Cooper, of Washington,
D. C., Mrs. Carrie Howell and Mrs.
Margaret Gail of Camden, Del,
were guests on Sunday of Mrs.
Sarah M. Farrell and Mrs. Alice M.
Read.
Mrs. Richard c. Price and son
Richard, spent the weekend in
New York City where they were
met by Lieut.. Richard c. Price who
!. the previous week had received his
Commission in the U. S. Navy
Mrs. R. F. Corley is spending
several days this week with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Owens of Lansdowne,
Pa.
Mrs. Emma Hoffecker of Phila-
delphia, who has been spending two
weeks with Mrs. Norman Coleman
has returned to her home.
Mrs. John Fearon attended in
Philadelphia last weekend the
meeting of I'm and about Philadel-
phia Music Educators Club"
Mrs. Ernest P. Collins has re-
turned from a short visit at Lewes
with her daughter, Mrs. William
Egan.
DIR. Thomas Hays, who is taking
a post graduate course at the Poly
technic Institute at Blackston, Vir-
ginia, was at home over the week
end.
Mr.. Herman Robinson of Robin
sons Furniture Store, spent sever
al days in New York City last
week viewing the new pieces in
furniture for Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Frank Fleming
were guests on Sunday of their
sons John and Franklin, and their
families at Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Kennard Price
spent Sunday in Georgetown as the
guests of Mrs. Wilson.
Robert Mansfield, u. S. Marine,
of Quantico, Virginia, was a guest
of Miss Sara Ellen Wright over the
weekend.
Mrs. Theodore Ferguson has re-
turned from Ocean City, N. J.,
where she spent several days.
Mrs. Hervey P. Hall, who has
been spending several weeks at
Ridley Park, is now at The Way
side Inn.
Mrs. John Thomas of Philadel-
phia, was a guest of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Coleman
over the weekend.
Miss Marie Nowland of Whining
ton, was recent guest of Miss
Carlene Jones.
Mr.. Byron Slaughter and Mr..
Paul Slaughter, of Philadelphia,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Slaughter on Sunday.
Mr.. Harry Clark was a guest of
his daughter, Miss Mary Clark of
New York City over the weekend.
Elwood Gebhart of Fort Jay, N.
T., visited his brothers in Smyrna
recently.
Mrs. c. j. Prickett was hostess
at a bridge-luncheon for twelve at
her home Wednesday afternoon.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Continued from Page one)

ma of the death of Miss Octavia L.
Scout at Seattle, Washington, on
Saturday morning, January oath.
Miss Scout had been i'll for some
time and was in a hospital in Seat
tie for the past month. She was a
trained nurse and had been away
from Smyrna about fifty years. She
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

A deputy collector of Internal
Revenue will be at the Smyrna
Post Office on Wednesday, Febru-
airy 25th, all day to assist in the
preparation of the Federal Tax re-
turn.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
Miss octavia Scout Passed Away

Miss Octavia Scout Passed Away
Word has been received in Smyr-
was born at Smyrna Landing, the
daughter of Captain Augustus and
Temperance Ann Scout. Surviving
are three brothers and a sister:
Clement V. Scout, jefferson Scout
and Mark Scout, all of Smyrna, and
Mrs. Annie Mackey of Somers
Point, N. ].
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
BINGO PARTY

Benefit of the Fund for Emerg-
ency at the home of Mrs. John w
Jacobs at Smyrna Landing, We'd
nesday, February 4th, from 8 until
1920. Door prize and refreshments.
Tickets, 25c. 1-29 1t
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
Announcement

Willard Passwaters and Ed
ward Hurd have taken the At
lantic Filling Station recently
operated by Homer Downs on
the East side of DUPONT Boule-
ward, directly opposite South
Street. We wash and grease
cars-Phone 2S41.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

The regular meeting of the w. c.
T. u. will be held at Asbury Meth
odist Church on Tuesday, February
3rd, at 2.30 o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

The regular meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary will be
held on Monday evening, February
End. at the home of Mrs. Clark
Knots, at s o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
PUBLIC SALE
Stock, Implements

Z Having rented my farm I will
sell without reserve on the farm,
known as the Roberts Farm" To-
Gated on the Levels, on the nine
foot cement road leading from Mid
dletown to the Maryland line, five
miles from Townsend, on
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

Kennard Price, Smyrna agent of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, has been appointed to
the membership committee of the
Dover Branch, Delaware Associa-
tion of Life Underwriters, appoint
ment having been made at the JAN
uary meeting of the Dover Branch
last Friday evening at Dover.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

A representative of the State
Tax Department will be at the
Fruit Growers National Bank on
Friday, February 9th, to assist the
taxpayers in filing their state in
come tax. This service will be free.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

Join the Red Cross and help Ma
tional Defense.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29
FIRE WOOD FOR SALE

Between Hollett's and HazePs
Corner, west of Clayton.
Phone 1892
1-29 2t
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

fresh, others are close springers.
They are T.B. Accredited and there
has not been a reaetor in this herd
for the past twelve years. They
range in age from three to eight
years.
Smyrna times., 1942-01-29

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
The Knives Are Out

It takes just such an election as that of last week to bring out the wolf pack m full cry. Already John T. Mccarthy, chair man of the Democratic State Central Committee is marked for the kill" If he doesn't resign of his own accord he is marked for removal from either of the two offices he holds by the incoming gov ernor, Raymond E. Baldwin. At least that's what the politically informed writers tell us. Mr. Mccarthy Is both chairman of the Democratic Party and Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.
 If he Is obliged to make choice be- tween the two naturally he'll take the latter for he owes 1t to Gov. Robert A, Hurley his party, and the state to finish out his term in office, which still has two more years to go As head of the party he was unfortunate enough to run smack up against the current war effort which has more or less shelved practical politics for the duration. It may be that the problems that have been MT. McCarthy's will, after January ], take themselves down to Westport, there, to make things busy for Chairman J. Kenneth Bradley of the c. O. P.
 It remains a question whether or not retention of both offices by MT. Mccarthy aided or hampered the party in the past two years, There arc many who think that his appointment to the state job should have been the signal for him to dissociate himself from active participation in poll. ties. On the other hand there arc political cxpedency claims. The latter fall to win much sympathy today when the war effort is pushing partisanship to the background more and more If the party chairman IS open for criticism, however, by failure to separate his two positions he certainly can't be accused of not trying to do his level best at both.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11

unspeakable conditions created by Czar. ism, Totalitarianlsm in the form of National Socialism won over the Reich because it promised to restore and expand military and economic prestige, So far as most Germans are concerned, Nazism is merely the machinery by which they hoped to accomplish that imperialism which KaiseriSm failed to achieve and to- ward which infant democracy seemed to be making little progress
 The issue in the Occident still is, as it was up to November II, 1918, whether the Teutons by force or arms can make themselves political and economic dicta- tors over the world. We say that they cannot. On this 18th Armistice Day we pay tribute to the millions who died and the millions who lived through the bat ties of the first episode,
 We realize that more millions will die, and more millions will be maimed, and more millions will suffer than in the first. And we at home, too young, too old, phys ically unfit, resolve that this time we shall finish the job which we once left incom- plete, that without viciouSneSs but with answering firmness, this time we shall see to it that Teutonic militarism is com pletely and finally eradicated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
On the Way Out

There are still enough of us around to recall the one time that vtce-preSident managed to get his name in the headlines, though the president was alive and kick ing. That was back around the start of the first World War. It remained for the late Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-presdent under Woodrow Wilson, to gain undying fame for himself by stating that what the country needed more than anything else was good scent cigar,
 We'll, MT. Marshall should have lived to this day and age, He might have echoed himself, for it begins to look as if the S- cent cigar, good or bad, or indifferent, might be on the way out. The federal excise taxes which went into effect the first of November add to those already levied against tobacco users It will prob ably have to be passed along to the smoker the manufacturers feel So if your faVorite Scent smoke" suddenly is increased to 6-cents, don't be surprised.
 About 90 per cent of all the cigars made in the states retail in the scent class. It's as much of an institution as ham, and-eggS, corn beef and cabbage, and such. And seeing as how it's kind of hard to get even these eatables every time you want them today, it's easier to under stand why the Scent cigar may be, too, fond memory and hope for the future, when the wars over, rationing has ceased, and normalcy reigns in our midst
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
Only an Armistice

We speak of World War and World War Il as though the fighting of l9l4-l8 had been terminated by peace, and this were a new conflict. But, in fact, this IS the second main episode in a single war which began in 1914 and will earn the right to be known as the Second Thirty Years War. The Armistice which we celebrate today for the 25th time, was only an armiStice, and not the stepping stone to peace.
 We think of the war of 19l4-18 as a nationalistic struggle and of this as an theological conflict There Is some merit in this appraisal, but not too much. This episode is theological in the sense that, If we were to lose, the nations to whom we would have to scrape the knee would im- pose upon us the vicious practice of totali- tarianIsm. The penalties of defeat would be more intolerable than in what we call World War l.
 But so far as causes are concerned, and so far as our thinking about the bases for permanent peace is controlled by them, we should recognize that this is just one more attempt by ar inherently militaris- tic nation = Germany - to impose her ilegemonty upon the occidental world. Italy, of course, is a pawn, both of Hitler and of Mussolini Finland is a pawn Of her own misfortuneS. Japan seeks to take advantage of our distractions else- where to establish her hegemony in the Orient.
 Totaiitarianism in the form of Com nunisn took over Russia because Of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
Panel Overruled

The War Labor Board calls attention to the fact that it has overruled a panel recommendation that closed shop clause be incorporated in the contract between a stationery manufacturer and c. I, O. union. Therefore in this instance, the WLB did not frankly override President Roosevelt's public assurance that the gov ernment would not use its power to enforce the closed shop.
 For rejecting this unwise suggestion of its panel the Board is entitled, not to credit - for it did only it's duty - but perhaps to recognition When the WLB spokesman goes into long argument seeking to differentiate philosophically between the closed shop and "mainten- nance of membership" he leaves us cold, unintereSted and antipathetic. In this world crisis, we haven't time for or pa tience with hair-splitting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11
Current Comment

We are approaching the point when the war fronts and the home fronts in enemy countries arc rip. ening for far reaching developments. Once the time has come to take the offensive and strike while the iron is hot, 1t would Dc folly to de-. lay and over.preparc, and perhaps miSS our opportunity.
 Prime Minister Jan Shuts, Of
 South Africa,
 Only ore thing disturbS me-iny stomach. A few days ago several dogs ran to our line. The one which I shot proved to be very skinny. German corporapS letter from Russian front,
 German corporal'S letter from Russian front.
 If the battle down there (in soioironS) were measured by the gerce resolution and courage Of the men there, there could be but one utcome-completc and final victory. -Undersccretary Of Navy James V,
 ForrcBtal. VI
 I propose to align Chile at the side Of the nations Of the cont. nent, ready to defend the great principles Of integrity and Anicr- lean solidarity.
 --president Juan Antonio Rios Of
 Chile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11

tim, he began in oil good faith lock- ing about him to see who was the recipient Of these honofs. It never occurred to him that this was Q demonstration in his behalf. Seeing q man of diminutive stature and iiondescript appearance walking just behind him, no stepped aside 10 let him pass, and as he did so Joined enthusiastically in the ap- plause. The act was so character Istic of the man that the crowd, sensing immediately what had hap- pened. broke into tho most uproar- ouS laughter.
 The bigger . man really is the more humble he Is. The stuffed shirt is always pushing to tho fore and trying to display his alleged virtues to what he hopes will Do m admir- Ing multitude. The stories told about Lincoin's humble spirit make the glory of tho man shine forth with indescribable splendor.
 The measure Of c mans grcat- ness is not only what he achieves but the attitude he maintains to- ward himself after he has achieved. All Rights ReBerved-- -i3abson News
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-11

ick has reported to other WIPE officials that when you get out into the rest of the country, es- peclally on the coast you really realize how fast the war Is going,
 Troop trains slide onto great loading platforms alongside transports, men are embarked
 and out at sea almost before you realize what Is happening. Ware houses are stacked high with supplies, being shipped over- seas every week. There Is an eff0rtless speed about the whole thing which encouraged Nav erick, whose son departed the other day for the Solomons.
 NOTE-Chief credit for the ef- ficieney with which men and sup- plies are being shipped abroad goes to Lt. Gen. Brehon Somer. veil, in command of Service Of Supplies. Ruthless when 1t comes to inefficiency. Somervell picks good men, fires his friends If they don't produce, is 0 dynamo Of administrative energy. Somer. veil first was developed by Post- master General Prank Walker when Walker was In charge of the National Emergency Council.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 British Ambassador Lord Hali- fax learned recently that his sec- ond son. Peter Wood, 20, had been killed In action In tho Middle East. He has two other sons and q son-in-law, oil in military serv- ice--and all In the Middle East. Some government agencies, in signing up new workers, put lot of papers in front of them and say, "Slgn herc." Later the workers learn that among the papers Is Q pledge to give 10 per cent of earnings to war bonds.
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