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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
NAME TRAINS
TO RACE TRACK
Both Railroads to Run Spec
ials to Delaware Park from
Philadelphia, Washington
RAILROADS COOPERATE

Delaware Park, which opened its
thirty-day race meeting Friday
(29th) will have adequate special
train service via Pennsylvania R.R.
and B. & o. but there are war time
adjustments which will be of inter-
est to every racegoer. Expressed
in the simplest terms, all north
bound race specials from Washing
ton, and intermediate points, will
be via the B. & O. And all south
bound race specials from Philadel-
phia, and intermediate points, will
be via Pennsylvania. Washington
officials, as we'll as officers of the
railroads are cooperating to pro-
vide all the facilities possible. The
response that already has been
heard from the racing fraternity is
that no one minds a little doubling
up, and that the sports loving pub
lie is glad to endure dislocation to
further the war effort. Officials
are endeavoring to make any in
convenience to civilian traffic and
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
PERSONALS

Mrs. S. E. Anthony has gone on
a visit of several weeks to friends
in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Mrs. L. R. Chance visited friends
in Greensborough last week.
DR.. ]. R. McCausland, wife and
child, of West Philadelphia, are on
visit to her father, Capt. A. H.
Smith.
E. R. Cochran, Jr., of Middletown
spent Sunday with Frank Bailey.
Miss Ida Cannon, of Dover has
been spending several days with
Miss Emma Weldon.
The B. M. S. K, met at the resi-
dence of Miss Ella Smithers on
Monday night, which was the time
for the usual monthly refresh
ments. The club purposes closing
for the summer on the 18th of
June, with lawn party at Miss
Lizzie Denney's.
Mrs. Frank Mackaway, nee Car
RE Hamilton, and Mrs. Norman
Ried, Of Wilmington, are visiting
friends here.
J. T. Jerman, accompanied by
DR.. Clifton, left on Monday for
Colorado Springs.
Miss Cora Tschudy left today for
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
Army Moderation Shown by 7696 Decline
u Alcoholism Rate Since Prohibition Peak

a-sl'ne of rs percent in the
alcoholism rate in the United
States Army since its last peak In
1922. was recorded In 1910, accord.
ing to the annual report Of Major
General James c. Magee, Surgeon
General, which has just been pub
lished by the U. S. Government
Printing Office.
A graph charting the rate Of hos
publications for alcoholism shows
that its last upsurge in the Army
was exactly coincidental with the
prohibition period between 1920
and 1882. and that there has been
a constant and gratifying decline
In alcoholism and corresponding
increase in moderation since re-
peal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
From a low OF 2.3 per 1000 men
In 1919, the alcoholism rate In the
Army jumped to 11.5 in 1922, and
was over per 1000 In every year
of the DRY" era. 1t has been drop
ping since 1888.
Annual rates of Army hospital
admissions for alcoholism follow:
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

That is what those men are doing
all along the occupied coast of
Europe. But they are doing another
job, too, in England.
Robert st. John, the famous war
correspondent, writes in the June
Cosmopolitan of how hard-bitten
Sir James Grigg, who recently be-
came Minister of War, has tossed
the conventional British drill-b ok
into the discard and started expand
ing the Commando type of train
ing. Every man must be Com
mando. And in this situation every
Commando who has been over to
the continent is worth his weight
in platinum. He becomes an instruc-
tor for the troops back in England.
He is teaching them how to crash
land. How to make stealthy ap-
proach from the sea. How to drop
into enemy territory from a trans
port plane. How to catch Nazis off
their guard. How to lay down a
smoke screen to cover their own
advance and how to move through
a fog like prowling wildcats. He is
the teacher in England's new "Bat-
tie Drilp'-and every British soldier
is his pupil.
Instead of six months to a year
of Squads right" and shoulder
arms, st. John reports, six weeks
Of the old conventional drill and
then ten weeks Of the new Battle
Drill will make any physically fit
youth into a good match for the
toughest fighter the Nazis and Japs
can turn out.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
Make Every Meal
A Company Meal!

IT'S easy to let your family meals
i get into monotonous rut. That,
on the surface, seems to be the
easiest way to keep them simple
and within your budget.
But with a little imagination,
and no more time than you would or
dinarily spend in your kitchen you
can prepare meals that will delight
your family. Dorothy March, writ
ing in the February Good Housekeep-
ing magazine, has some suggestions
to make, and if you follow her advice
she predicts you'll find a pleasant
reward in seeing your family re-
spond in enjoyment-and in good
health too, if you'll choose menus
that meet the needs of good nutri-
ton. Here is one menu she has pre-
pared that is a far cry from the run
of-the-mill family meal.
LEMON MILK SHERBET
1 envelope plain, unfavored gela-
tin c tbsp.)
A C. milk
" tsp. salt
rs C. graduated sugar
x c. lemon juice
1 tsp. grated lemon rind
Soak gelatin in u c. of the milk in
bowl for 5 min. Then set bowl over
boiling water, and stir until gelatin
is dissolved. Combine rest of ingredi-
ents with remaining 81 c. milk. Stir
in ~elatin. Turn into freezing tray
of automatic refrigerator, and with
temperature control at coolest set
ting, freeze, until set, without STIR
ring. Serves 5 or 6.
Serve Nth hot canned vegetable
juice cocktail, pan-fried founders,
boiled sweet potatoes, buttered
onions, rye bread, and coffee, for
dinner.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

legislation for the Army camps,
said:
"The War Department is con-
WINGED that temperance cannot be
attained by prohibition applied to
its personnel any more than 1t can
be attained by prohibition applied
to the Nation at large, and expert
ence has proven that the problem
can only be solved by the applica-
ton Of practicable and tolerant
measures applied in logical man.
ner.
Experience has proven that the
present policy of the Department
is the most effective way to insure
temperance and 1t would be regret
table indeed should the Congress,
in its effort to assist in the matter
of attaining temperance among
military personnel, enact legisla-
ton which would destroy the
advancements made and return
to the Department the difficult
problem Of combating bootleg op-
erations. The War Department is
firmly of the opinion that the
armed forces need no such prohibit
tion."
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
ROADS MAY BE
IN JEOPARDY
H. V. Daniels Declares Della.
ware Highway System
May Be in Peril
GAS TAX MONIES

Conditions imposed by war may
place the future of the Delaware
State highway system in jeopardy,
H. V. Daniel, Secretary, Associated
Petroleum Industries of Delaware
warned today. 1--WE are witnessing
today dramatic exposition of one
of the major weaknesses of the
One-Fund Act which abolished the
Motor Fund.-" Mr.. Daniel pointed
out. "a combination of war cir
cumstances, including priorities on
road materials, and federal edicts
and regulations on highway con-
struction, reconstruction and main
tenance, mean that work on our
system of highways will be strictly
limited for the duration of the war.
In that interval, however, in spite
of gasoline rationing, it is likely
that the highways will be subjected
to heavy wear because of the in
creasing flow of heavy war mater
ials from place to place and the
probable inability of the Highway
Department to carry out a normal
program of maintenance and recon-
struction.
THE end of the war, in the opin-
ion of many, will witness the great
est expansion on highway use
America has ever known. Also, it
will spotlight a period when ire
mendous sums of money must be
availagle for a highway improve
ment program that will be impera-
tive and one which cannot be de-
layed. In states where Motor
Fund exists, positive protective
steps are being taken to keep such
funds intact and available for the
reconstruction period.
Unless Delaware makes some
provision for isolating it's gasoline
and motor tax monies and keeping
them protected against diversion to
some other use, the entire highway
system may be seriously endanger-
ed. Should no such provisiosn be
made, Delaware will be found with
out adequate money for highway
expenditure AMI the highways will
shortly deteriorate or new and
staggering gasoline and motor tax
es will have to be imposed on auto
motive owners-at a time when the
trend of taxation should be down.
ward.
Every citizen and every auto
motive owner should be aroused to
the danger that faces U.S."
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

And then Mr.. St. John takes you
to one of these Battle Drill schools
and shows you how it works. It's a
two-mile strip Of peaceful English
countryside, until the Commando
instructors arrive. Then they turn
it into a modern hell. Hemmed in
by barbed wire so they can only go
forward, the men swim river with
rifle and full pack; battle through
twisted mass of barbed wire; then
up a tree across stream, leap
ing from branch to branch like
monkeys; down into and up out of
fifteen-foot pit. While they strug-
gle and scramble out on the other
side, instructors throw smoke bombs,
thunder flashes and hand-grenades
in on acknowledgements full Of
powder, but with soft plastic covers
that don't kill, but when soldier
gets hit with one of them, he knows
what war is like! Then on through
forty feet of oozy black mire, waist
deep; through a dark, clammy cul-
vert, with water up to their chins,
hardly enough air to breathe; on
through wood, where instructors
in trees drop sandbags on their
heads or trip them with hidden
strands of wire; falling into camou-
tagged pits. Finally, the exhausted
candidates are faced with a fifteen
foot wall to scale, only to find at
the top no choice except to leap
into a deep pit full of water and
barbed wire.
From beginning to end loud
speakers along the course blare out
all the raucous noises of battle. The
roar of planes. The scream of dive
bombers roaring down at you; the
shrieks of wounded--the means of
the dying. Goaded on every foot of
the way by loud-speakers shouting
insults and recrimination; goading
into these men a mad frenzy-a
maniacal blood-lust and killing in
stinct that has forced the taking
away of the bayonets they once
carried. Students got too realistic
and charged each other. And that's
just what the instructors wanted.
1t proved that they were succeeding
in creating the type of fighting man
they wanted.
Battle Drill is far cry from the
mimic war of the past. st. Johns
article tells you how, during the
winter and spring, it has been pre-
pairing great modern army for q
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

Simple clothes are the preferences
Of Rosemary Lape, screen star no'e
appearing in the Neso York musical
comedy ''Bess Foot Forward" AZ
seen in the xupvvWy Cosmopolitan
magazine, shs wears q smart but con-
serrafips outfit dssigned By Charles
Cooper. It's jackss dress Of Forss-
nsann's cyclar,sn wool seifh green
and sioJss poIke-1os tie sjlk trim.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

Jamaica, L. l., for protracted
visit to her aunt, Mrs. Poulson.
Miss Edith Beck gave a birthday
party to her young friends on Mon
day evening, the occasion being her
18th birthday. Before leaving they
surprised her with the presentation
of a handsome dressing case, oxi-
died silver in plush.
Howard Taylor is home from
Camden, N. j., on visit to his
father, Samuel Taylor, who has
been sick the past week.
Mrs. Clayton w. Fisher, of Do
yer, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Hough.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cosgriff, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. w. Denney, DR.. w. T.
Smithers, and George M. Steven
son, attended the reception of the
Sons of Delaware last night in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Roe, of Den
ton, are visiting her sister, Mrs.
Isaac PennewilL
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
1t is about the time for harvest
ing scarlet clover.
Fresh sea trout are selling at 5
cents a pound in the Peninsula
towns.
Farmers and persons from town
riding out in the country, unite in
saying that there are more black
heads or smelts in the growing
wheat than has been seen for many
years. This is attributed to the
wet weather.
The new M. E. Churcha at Leip-
sic, Delaware, was dedicated on
Sunday. The collection for the
payment of the church debt
amounted to between $1,000 and
$1,000. The church is a good one,
costing $4,000, on which $1400 had
been previously secured.
Ida Hoover, aged 10 years, and
her mother, Mary Scuse, are now
confined in Dover Jail, to answer
the charge of shooting William H.
Bristol, of Seaford, who was en-
ployed on an oyster boat, at Ma
hons river. The two women live
alone, just across the Little Creek
bridge, and there the shooting oc-
CURED about o'clock Sunday
morning.
DR.. w. F. Kennedy, of Middle
town, started for California last
week, and expects to settle per-
manently on the Pacific coast. He
will open an office in San Francis
co, where he will make a speciality
of diseases of the eye, ear, and
throat. DR.. Kennedy has lived in
Middletown for the past seventeen
years.
Pierce Gould, of Wilmington, was
nominated as the Republican candi-
date for sheriff of New Castle
County at the nomination election
Saturday, and George w. Jackson,
of Wilmington, also, was nominat-
ed for coroner. Each was chosen
by very liberal margin, Gould re-
ceiving a clear majority of 1,342
over all opponents.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

pursuits as slight as possible, and
to this end they have approved
preparations which will enable Del
aware Park racegoers to get to and
from their homes promptly and
conveniently. Both railroads of
course will maintain their regular
trains, which can be used as desir-
ed between station points. The
wartime change above referred to
pertains to specials. 1t means that
racegoers from Philadelphia who
have been used to going to Della
ware Park via the B. & 0. race
specials, now will have to use the
Pennsylvania R. r. specials. Nat
urally the Pennsylvania will endeav-
or to handle this additional south
bound business with extra cars.
For those racegoers in Washing
ton and Baltimore, the change
means that they will have to do
their racegoing via BRO specials.
Since much of this northbound
traffic had formerly been via the
other railroad, the B. & 0. now will
endeavor to make available specials
to carry the heavier load. Execu-
tives in both railroads have ex-
pressed their conviction to Della
ware Park officials that the new
arrangement will work with a
minimum of discomfort to patrons.
In the case of the long haul from
Washington and Baltimore there
will be diner service. The details
of the schedule have not been fully
worked out but it is known that the
first B. & o. northbound race spec
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
FARM LOANS DISCUSSED
Two-Day Conference in Baltimore
Changes Are Discussed

Nathaniel w. Taylor, ST., secre-
tary-treasurer of the Kent County
National Farm Loan Association,
has just returned from a two-day
conference held at the Hotel Stat
ford in Baltimore at which Federal
Land Bank appraisers and officials
from Baltimore explained and dis
cusesd changes necessary to render
the services which agriculture ex-
poets of this cooperative credit in
stitution during the present emery
ency. The National Farm Loan
Association, comparatively owned
by farmers, makes loans available
for the purchase of a farm, for
farm needs and buildings in the
proper operation of the mortgaged
property and to provide eligible
farmers with funds for general ag-
ricultural uses.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

Significant of the same trend
among the citizens generally, are
the alcoholism death rate statistics
published by the q. s. Bureau Of
the Census, which show a decline
from the high of 4 per 100000
population in 1928, to 10 in 1910.
Ranking officers Of the Nations
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

The steamer Clyde will make a
trip to Woodland Beach on Sunday.
The beautiful and fragrant mag
nolias are blooming in the branch
es.
The banks and schools took holi-
day on Monday, and seemed to en-
joy it.
The rosebug, so annoying to wo-
men who have roses, is on its an
nual visit.
Some of the streets have been
greatly improved by the work of
the street cleaners.
We enter today the month of
roses, leafy June, the first calendar
month of the summer.
The bicycle riders are having
rare sport, and the bicycle agents
are having much of the profit as
well as the sport.
Corn jumped up to so cents a
bushel last week, a point that in
terests the farmers, but receded
again to 48 cents.
John Wick has made a decided
improvement in his barber shop,
with the addition of new paper,
paint, and curtains.
Spring chickens, for which deal
ers have been paying rs cents per
pound, have dropped to 20 cents
and will soon be lower.
Have you seen the comet? 1t
has eight tails we are told. We
have not seen it, as it makes its
appearance too early in the morn
ing.
The past month has been very
unfavorable to raising young chick
ems, nevertheless, many of our
farmers wives have hundreds of
chicks doing well.
Sunday was a charming day, and
the young lady who hadn't from
one to half dozen roses in her
corsage, was not considered a
dweller in the land of poesy.
1t is said there are about eighty
different styles and shapes of head
gear for ladies this season, and
about fifty styles and shapes of
head gear for ladies this season,
and about fifty styles and shapes of
head gear for gentlemen. On the
pleasure and worry of selection.
The Smyrna baseball club went
to Dover Monday for a game with
the club of that town, but Dover
was victorious by score of Is to
10. The following composed the
Smyrna club: Will Stevens, w. C.
Collins, John Phillips, Jack Stew
ems, R. e. Long, William Mcdowell,
Walter Stevens, Jackity Wick,
James Wright.
Mrs. Ringgold, living on Della
ware street, has some pretty flow
ers on her side porch. Among them
was choice lily, which bad boy
gathered up last week and threw
down on the side walk, breaking
pot and all, seemingly just for the
purpose of doing damage. Such
annoyances are ten times worse
than the loss, and these desper-
ADDE'S should be made to suffer for
their bad conduct
DR.. Shortlidge, Fish Commission
er, of Wilmington, sent down to
William M. Bell, last week, eight
cans of young shad-400, 900
which he emptied in the head wat
tiers of Smyrna river. They SEEM
ed to be in excellent condition, very
few dead ones in the lot, and if
they return to the waters when
grown, from whence they started,
the act may be certifying the scrip
tural maxim O" casting bread upon
the waters" &c.
PERSONALS
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JUNE 1ST, 1892

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04
COMMANDED! GERMANY'S NEW TERROR.
HOW THEY GET THAT WAY!

EVERYONE who reads the newspapers knows who the Commands
T. and what they doing How they sneak in from the
drop from the destroy radio stations ammunition Dumps Naz
warehouses And spite of the Gespo the people of occupied Europe
learning about he The shadow Of the Commando and the
of him walk with every Naz and Qusng in Western Europe
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-04

Buy U. s. Defense Bonds and
Stamps, the I. 0. U. of the Red,
White, and Blue!
Evening star., 1942-04-04
Free French Control
In African Areas
Recognized by u. 5.
State Department Pluns
To Establish Consulate
General at Bruzzuville

United States recognition of Free
French effective control" of French
Equatorial Africa and the French
Camaroons was announced by the
State Department today.
The department said arrange
ments we're being worked out with
Free French authorities for estab-
ishment of an American Consulate
General at Brazzaville, capital of
French Equatorial Africa, in view
of the Importance of that area in
the United Nations war effort.
This action is in line with Ameri-
can policy of dealing with Free
French authorities wherever they
are in effective control" of French
territories, while maintaining normal
diplomatic relations with the Vichy
government of France.
Although not amounting to full
diplomatic recognition of Gen.
Charles De Gaulle's Free French
National Committee, the policy in
wolves practical recognition Of their
administration of certain territories.
Last month, the State Department
announced recognition of the Free
French as in effective control of
French territories in the Pacific,
where American officials are Coop
Grating with Free French authorities
for the defense of the islands in
volved.
Maynard Barnes, a veteran Amer
ican foreign service officer, will be
named Consul General at BrazZa-
vile.
Meanwhile, Laurence Taylor, an
other foreign service officer. is being
sent to Brazzaville to establish the
office there.
Evening star., 1942-04-04
Roosevelt Stadium Model Town
To Be Bombed Monday Night

Model homes and stores built in
a 100-foot area of the Roosevelt
High School Stadium will be set
afire at 7:30 pm Monday in the
Districts first large-scale demon
stration of how to combat incend-
iary bombs.
The Petworth Citizens Associa-
ton, which Arranged the demon
Stration. has distributed through
air raid wardens 5000 handbills
urging residents to attend. District
and o. c. D. officials will be present.
A siren will be sounded and every
light save one in the model build
ings will be blacked out. Sound
effects will give warning of ap-
preaching planes. An airplane Is
expected to fly over the stadium,
dropping flares. Authentic incen-
diary bombs are to be set of, after
Evening star., 1942-04-04
Ocean City's
| BIdckout Laid
| To Mistake
By the Associated Press.


SALISBURY, Md, April 4.-Civil-
ian Defense Corps Commander Jack
Lynch today called Ocean City total
blackout last night a mistake in
orders from the 5th Naval District
to the Coast Guard station at the
summer resort.
The blackout order was inter-
preted at Ocean City as calling for
extinguishing all seaward lights,
street lights and private illumina-
ton. The blackout lasted for an
hour and a half.
The 5th Naval District sheadquar-
ters, hearing of the Ocean City
blackout, called to learn the reason,
Mr.. Lynch said. 1t was then ex-
planned, he added, that the order
was only for the Coast Guard sta
ton for extinguishing the stations
seaward lights.
Ocean City's regular dimout had
been inspected earlier in the week
by 5th Naval District official
and approved as the best in the
district
Evening star., 1942-04-04
Couple Who Beat Teacher
Given 80 Days in Jail

By the Associated Press.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 4.-Mr.
and Mrs Arthur H. Leslie, convicted
earlier this week of assault and bat
terry in the flogging Of their sons
fifth-grade school teacher, were
sentenced today by Circuit Judge
Lynn Parkinson to 3o-day Jail terms
and fines of $500 each.
The penalties followed recommen-
dations Of the jury. Judge Parkin-
son refused a request Of Defense At
torney Francis Murphy that both the
jail sentences and fines be suspended.
States testimony was that Mrs.
Leslie lashed the teacher, Miss Con-
stance Davis, 80, with q Boy Scout
belt while Leslie stood guard at the
class room door. The teacher denied
n-year-old Danny Leslie's accusa-
ton that she struck him on the
head with book.