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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14

The next holiday is Decoration
Day, May 30th.
Edward Thomas will run the
merry go round at Woodland Beach
this year.
Beau catchers are what the girls
call the ribbons that stream from
their hats.
A mans political friends are not
always the men he would like to
trade horses with.
I. N. Mills denies authoritatively
the rumors of the removal Of the
railroad offices to Dover.
In addition to costly improve
ments in the house, John c. Bailey
has renewed the long wide pave
ment, fronting it.
Twnety or more editors of the
Peninsula will take free ride to
the booming town of MARION, In
diana, on the oath inst.
William George Hill informs us
that the freight rates on peaches
and berries for the season of 1892
have been reduced 10 per cent.
The Wisteria blooms that rise to
the cornice of the houses of DR..
Lambdin, William M. Bell, and
others, attract a good deal of at
tention for their beauty.
An old saying is that fruit trees
which blossom in the new of the
moon will bear FRUIT bountifully.
If this holds good we ought to have
a large crop of cherries and pears
this year.
The Good Templars lead off with
the first strawberry festival of the
season-tomorrow night at their
hall, Cooper Building. In addition
to serving the delicacies of straw
berrie sand cream, they will be
pleased to have your presence and
patronage
The Democratic Primary meet.
ing will be held next Saturday af.
ternoon to elect delegates to attend
the State Convention at Dover the
following Tuesday, 18th inst. The
convention will elect six delegates
and alternates, to the National
Convention at Chicago, June 21st
AS heretofore announced, the
contest for the Demorest Media
will come off on Monday evening
next, 18th inst. No entertainment
of a public nature during the
spring has been more interesting
than the first contest few weeks
ago, and this will doubtless be wei
attended. The indications are that
the contest will be very close ant
spirited.
The strawberry patches have
been in blossom for the week past
and look unusually thrifty, but the
crop will be week or two late
With favorable weather, ant
amount for marketing will be con
siderable in the aggregate-no yer.
large patches but a number O
small ones. More plants were Sc
this spring for new patches thai
for several years past. The goo,
prices of last year was a stron;
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14
U. S. Maritime Commission Photo

o
wide tribute American
hyard workers marine officers and seamen
for the job they doing building and sailing ships like these to
the implements United battle Maritime
Day will also mark the achievement the ships stage the
Maritime gigantic shipbudng program That the rate
at which American shpyads will be delivering carriers into
service with Victory Fleet.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14

The building for the separator at
Deakyneville, Thoroughfare Neck,
in connection with the Smyrna
Creamery, referred to several
weeks since, has been completed
and. put into operation last week.
1t is in charge of Estley Rust. The
work last week was more to test it,
some 500 pounds, only part of the
farmers knowing it. 1t is hoped
this week to run it up to 1000
pounds and by another week, 1000
pounds. The cream after the sep
aration will be brought to the
creamery here for making butter
and shipping. P. G. Warner deliv-
cred the first milk.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14

Bonds or bondage? Buy U. S.
Savings Bonds
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14
AIR PATROL TO
BE BENEFITED
Wilmington Horse S h o W
Dance to Benefit Civil
Air Patrol
NEED EQUIPMENT

The Entertainment Committee of
the Wilmington Horse Show, head
ed by Mrs. Richard Dorsey Morgan,
today announced that the proceeds
of the dance to be held at the Vic
mead Hunt Club on Saturday
night, May %, will go to the Patrol
Force now operating under the Del
aware Wing of the Civil Air Patrol,
branch of the Office of Civilian
Defense.
Volunteered Service
About two months ago when the
Atlantic Coastal sinkings became
so serious, the Civil Air Patrol
volunteered it's service to set up an
experimental TASK Force" to as
certain whether civilian pilots and
equipment could be used as an aux
iliary to the military forces for
"Off Shore Patrol Duty" These
experimental Forces have since
been credited by Major General
Follett Bradley, Commanding the
First Air Force of the Eastern De-
tense Command, with providing
"tip offs" resulting in several sink
ings of submarines off our Coast.
In view ofthesesuccessful results,
the operations of two Task Forces
have now been extended for an in
definite time.
Located Wreckage
The Air Patrol has also been in
lstrumental in locating wreckage,
airing and directing rescue ships to
the scene. Two Forces were set up
on a temporary basis for two
weeks to operate on the Atlantic
Seaboard. Under the command of
Wing Commander Holgar Hoiriis
of the Delaware Wing of the Civil
Air Patrol, Mr.. Hugh R. Sharp, Jr.,
of Wilmington, became Operations
Officer and took over the organiza-
ton of group of thirty-five young
men, as nuclius for the first of
these Task Forces to go on active
duty in the United States. Among
Wilmingtonians who also joined
this unit were Mr.Allison F. Fleitas
and Mr.. Harry Lunger.
Plane Not Equipped
The planes and equipment for the
work have all been loaned to the
c. A. P. by public spirited citizens
interested in this most active De-
tense Effort. For the most part,
the ships and land planes and at
the present time the pilots are not
equipped with proper or edaquate
life preservers, flotation gear or
radio equipment. Both the effic-
iency of the service and safety
these patriotic Delaware boys who
are giving so much to protect our
Atlantic oil and gasoline supply
lines could be greatly improved by
further financial support. There
fore, the Entertainment Committee
of the Wilmington Horse Show
feels the proceeds of the dance on
May % could not go to better
cause and have decided to Ego all
out" for the Delaware Wing of the
Civil Air Patrol.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14
Widened to $50 Feet

Plans for the work will be sent
to contractors on request. Exten-
sive work on the sterilization of
the banks of the canal on both the
north and south sides has been I'M
derway since the channel of the
canal has been deepened to 81 feet
and widened to $50 feet at the bot
tom.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14
CANAL REPAIR
is PROPOSED
Work To Be Done on North
Bank of C. & d. Canal
Near Summit Bridge
TO EXCAVATE $4,000 YDS.

Bids will be opened at 2 o'clock
May % for the excavation of about
100000 cubic yards of dry material,
construction of drainage structures,
and stabilizing the north bank of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Can
al in the vicinity of Summit Bridge.
Col. Harry B. Vaughan, Jr., U. S.
district engineer, said the work
would be located in the Summit
Bridge area. This is the Deep
Cut" section of the canal where re-
peated slides have at times narrow
ed the channel and caused expen-
sive dredge maintenance work.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
FIX TR A
Large Unidentified
 F|eei Reported Off
 West Coast by Navy

of California.
 Since the presence of such a force would constitute serious hazard to the West Coast, every effort is being made by Army and Navy aircraft to verify the reported contact.
 "Ail available forces are on the alert and steps have been taken to intercept any enemy forces.
 "A thorough search of the area concerned has failed to confirm the presence of any un- identified vessels. The report is considered an error."
 This statement was issued by Admiral John Greenslade, com- manding the western sea front fer.
 Starting at 4 a. m., Pacific Wartime, however, radio sta tions began broadcasting orders for all fleet personnel to report to their ships at once.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
SKI TROOPS OF 50v!ETS
 CRASH NAz|S
White Clad Russians Keep Pressing Enemy Back
 -Fighting Is Fierce

MOSCOW, Dec 3. - White-clad Russian ski troops have pressed the Nazis back on the blizzard-swept battlefields west of Moscow between the Don and Volga rivers and the Red Army steadily closed the trap on Stalingrad's besiegers from the recaptured heights northwest and also southwest of the city.
 South of Stalingrad and west of Moscow, Germans are dying by the thousand a day as ski troop CTS armed with tommy guns clashed with Nazi Alpinists brought up as endorsements. The fighting is said to be the fiercest in the past sev- eral weeks.
 Nazi tanks and trucks are now often abandoned in the fighting as the Red Army surges on.
 Soviet troops, during today, stormed and captured and held a strategic height northwest of Stalingrad
 The Germans, according to So- viet advices from the front, have rushed endorsements to at least three key salients in a desperate ess,srt to halt the Russian advance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
New Haines Road Will Bring posi-War Trade
 To Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaskans might well expect to hear any day now that the US. Armys announced con- struction of road connecting Haines, Alaska, with the new Alcan Highway from Edmonton, Alberta, to the Territory, has been com pleted. That's the way Brig. Gen. James O'Connor, the man mainly responsible for doing the Alcan job in six months when the War Department predicted it would take a year, does things.
 The Haines road, now being sur veyed by Public Roads Administra- ton employees from both ends, will be of immense importance to Southeast Alaska cities because 1t will mean that no matter how many roads are built from the Central United States into Alaska through interior Canada--the main highway to Alaska will continue to be the cheaper and heavier freight carrying Inside Passage.
 AIcan Route Wise
 There is little doubt but tha t the route of the Alcan road was wise one from the military point of view. Well inland most of the way, it more or less follows the great circle route towards Russia, giving the pilots who follow the interior route a charted course, con- meeting together the numerous air fields. It is even possible that the road may be widened considerably in many places to furnish addi- tional airfields, directly on tn c highway.
 In addition, it taps the greater industrial centers of the United States, opening new route in stead of supplementing the water transportation course. If the high way had been built along the Vest ern Coast the latter would have been the case.
 Lastly, roads form a transporta- tion system that is vulnerable to attack by the enemy, more so than water transportation, because a bomb hit on one bridge might stop traffic along the entire route, while one boat sunk would not mean that all other vessels serving Alaska would cease operation. The Alcan Highway has been built where, all though it may not be immune from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
G|amor Is Going 10
 Congress; House Is
 Going 10 Like #, Too

quently referred to her opponent as "one of the rubber stamps in Congress who are bungling the war"
 That kind of campaign and cleo ton night talk has familiar ring. It reminds me of some of the things ex-Rep. Bruce Barton said, includ- ing that one about how he wanted to come to Washington to repeal a law day" Mrs. Luce would do well to have little chat with MT. Barton before she comes down in January. He might explain how he didn't repeal even one law-and why.
 Ere hm a n Congressmen (and women) have a way of getting lost in the shuffle on Capitol Hill It hasn't anything to do with ability or even with what party one be- longs to and not at all with how independently one votes. It's just the system, built up by 150 years of tradition.
 It may be good; it may be bad, i, but there it is-and if Mrs. Luce beats it, she'll be the first in long time.
 How Mrs Luce votes or whether she makes great name as the Congresswoman from Connecticut" in the next two years isn't nearly as important to me as something
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
Americans Played Major Part in Smashing
 Nazi Attack
GERMANS CLAIMING
 RECApTURE OF POST
Berlin Radio Says Vital Ie- bourbd Rail Cenier
 Is Retaken

LONDON, Dec. 3.-The decisive battle for Bizerte and Tunis ap- parently is under way today with British and American troops con- verging on the bomb b-shattered Axis strongholds after smashing a Ger man counter-attack which touched off the heaviest fighting yet in the Tunisian campaign.
 The largest Nazi counter-attack attempted, routed yesterday by the crack Allied troops, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.
 Americans in Action
 Front dispatches said that the Americans played a major role in repulsing this Nazi assault directed at tlIe Allied lines in the vicinity of Tebourba, vital railway june tion 20 miles west of Tunis and 35 miles south of Bizerte.
 A dispatch from Berlin today, however, claims that German forces have recaptured the railway cen ter, the first German acknowledge ment that it had even been lost.
 The Berlin version claims that the Americans lost 22 tanks. But there was no Allied confirmation that the captured city had been retaken by the Axis, which also claimed that Allied supply ports are being continuously bombed
 Naxis Lose Many
 Allied headquarters, referring to the battle. said that the Germans lost heavily in the counter-attack-
 A late report from the Morocco radio says that another Nazi coun- ter-attack has been repulsed by the Allies at Pont Defahs, 30 miles south of Tunis
 Heavy fighting also is reported around Mateur, 12 miles south of Bizerte where an Allied column is driving toward the coast.
 American medium bombers, es- corted by sleek P-38 fighters, raided the Tunis airdrome for the fifth time in A hours, destroying at least l2 grounded planes.
 At the same time, adding to the pressure being exerted on the Axis
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
BURE AUS
 ATTACKED.
 CONGRESS
General Drive Ma de on Many Branches with
 0PA in Particular

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Govern- ment bureaus in general, and the Office of Price Administration in particular, found themselves the targets of Congressional drive to retrieve some of the powers dele gated in recent years to the EX- ecutive arm of the government.
 A definite get Leon Henderson movement is underway with the Democratic members of the House, those mostly from the South, join ing the chorus of Republican criti- cism of him.
 We are suffering from a severe attack of Federalists," said Repre- sentative Graham A. Barden, Demo- crat of North Carolina, in one of the several severe attacks in the House on what the speakers called bureaucrats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
LEA5E,S SELL GOVERNMENT
 SILVER NOW
Senate Banking Committee 0kehs Bill Making
 Provisions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - The Senate Banking Committee h a s given formal approval to bill which will permit the sale or lease of unpledged government silver for consumptive uses in industry fin furtherance of the war effort
 Senator Murdock, Utah, was the only member against the bill. He and a group of Senators from the silver states were strongly op- posed to every move they thought might cheapen silver as a mone- tary metal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
B NIPPON
 zER0S ARE
 SHOT DOWN
Allies Crush Attempt to Reinforce New
 Guinea Base

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 3.-Allied air. men have downed g Jap Zero fighter planes and driven off naval convoy attempting to rein force the trapped Japs at Buna, on the northeast New Guinea coast, it is announced today.
 In one of the hottest fights in that area yet, the High Command announced, the Allies lost eight planes.
 The Japs in that area are re- sisting with the greatest fierceness, well aware of their peril
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
presid To Receive
 War Powers
Means Committee Blocks Attempt io
 Junk New Bill

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. - By margin of nearly two to one, the House Ways and Means Committee has blocked the attempt to pigeon hole for the balance of the year measure granting the President wartime powers to suspend traffic regulations
 Instead, the Committee has di- rected Chairman Doughton to in troduce "as a basis for future con- sideration" modified measure drafted by the Committee and to grant the President tariff powers, but not his request to override im- migration barriers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tMajor Robert s. Allen on active dutyJ

WASHINGTON-On November 2, this column reported an incident inside the War Production Board in which Emory Brennerman had cut red tape to speed the ship ment of oil refining equipment to Russia.
 With its oil supplies cut off in the Caucasus, Russia has wanted to set up refineries behind the lines, and President Roosevelt is- sued a directive October 10 that oil equipment move immediately. So Brennerman, finding that the Russian oil documents were not moving, carried them to the Treas ury, urged Treasury Procurement officials to act.
 Then he found two officials in his own War Production Board who had snarled up the Russian ship ments. He reminded them that the President of the United States and WIPES vice chairman Ferd Eber- stadt both had demanded tn t Russian oil equipment move im- mediately. But the two WIPE men did not move easily.
 You put your judgment against that of the President, and against MT Eberstadt,' said Brennerman. And you didn't take the trouble to tell them you disagreed with them. You just sat there ignoring their orders"
 But following publication of the column describing this incident, MT. Brennerman, the man who cut red tape, was fired. Donald Nelson instructed his counsel John Lord O'Brian to notify Brennerman of his dismissal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
DON'T CUT RED TAPE

gO4N M A~@~ ana 1
 On the surface, the incident may not be important. But backstage it has had alarming repercussions Word has trickled all through the War Production Board that Bren- herman, the man who tried to carry out Roosevelt's orders, the man who tried to speed produc- tion, got fired.
 So the reaction on other em- ployees has been-sit tight, don't cut red tape, let things drift.
 Nelson has fired lot of little fellows because they got too much publicity-Fred Libbey, Guthrie, Guy Holcomb of the Little Business branch of the Justice Department. But they had opposed him openly, and most of them were New Deal CTS.
 However, Brennerman, though a small cog in the WIPE machine, comes from a staunch Republican
 ICnptinuad oy, paQo E0l1rl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
SMASH NEW JAP F0R(E,
 50L0k0N5
Nine Enemy Vessels Sunk in Landing Attempt,
 GuddaIcdndI

WASHINGTON, s4ec. 3. - Smashing a new Jap attempt to land achievements on Gua- daIcanal Island, US. Navy vessels have sent nine enemy ships to the bottom in sharp night battle north of the is land, the Navy announced late today.
 Losses inflicted on the enemy on the nights of November 30 and December l included two large destroyers or cruisers sunk, four destroyers sunk, two troop transports sunk and one cargo ship sunk.
 The Navy said there is a possibility both transports were
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
Three Other Naval Graft, Not Including Destroy CT, Tanker Damaged NUMBER OF MEN
 KILLED NOT GIVEN
British Announce Loss of Aircraft Carrier-AIso
 Other Naval Boats

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - The Navy Department officially an- nounced today that five United States naval transports were lost during the occupation of North Africa and three other transports, one destroyer and one tanker were damaged.
 The transports listed as sunk in the naval communique are the Tas- ker H. Bliss, Hugh L. Scott and Edward Rutledge, which were sunk off Casablanca.
 The Joseph Newes was sunk off
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03

BULLETIN-SAN FRANCIS co, Dec. 3. - The 18th Naval District announces "a large num- Der of unidentified surface ves- sels" are reported 450 miles off the California Coast.
 A thorough search of the area thus far has failed to confirm their presence.
 An order was broadcast before dawn this morning for all fleet personnel to return to their ships.
 The Navy issued the following statement for publication:
 "A large number of unidenti- fled surface vessels were report ed by a naval patrol at dusk December 2 to be on an easterly course, 45o miles off the coast
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03

The larvae of the Hessian fly at~ tack the stems of wheat, barley and rye and are extremely destructive to wheat crops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03

Panama is 34,000 square miles in area-a little larger that the state of Maine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-03
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - Clare Boothe Luce is coming to Congress and although I have no penchant for flippancy, I'm tempted to add: hey-hey.
 Capitol Hill has been short on glamor long enough.
 Some years ago when was doing a stint on Broadway, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs Luce Cor just plain Clare Boothe, as she was known in those days, although she already had acquired and drop ped the married name of Brokaw)- ! She has beauty, charm, chic, sharp wit and a gouging pen Mrs. Luce would be welcome addition to any Congress.
 But have a hunch that Congress is going to enjoy Mrs. Luce a lot more than she is going to enjoy Congress.
 According to The Associated Press reports following her election; Mrs. Luce said: This election proves how the American people want to fight the war. They went to fight hard war, not soft war, efficiently and without bungling.'
 In her campaign speeches, accord ing to the same report, she fre-
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-06-11
AVILTON

A series of meetings, to continue
for two weeks, will begin at Cherry
Grove Sunday evening. June II, at
500 o'clock The Rev. Lawrence Bian-
chi, Of Pennsylvania, will conduct the
meetings.
Jesse Merrill is home recovering
from a tonsil operation.
Asa Wilhelm went to Cumberland
on Sunday to consult a physician.
Mrs. Fannie Weitzell and Ohio Fike
were visiting Nh and Mrs. Ellis
Robson on Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Robson, who has been patient in
Miners hospital, Frostburg, for some
time, is now at his home. where he is
slowly recuperating.
Mrs. Thomas Wilhelm and little son
are spending a few days with Mrs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-06-11
Increase In Summer
Visitors Expected
By Business People

Garrett county business men are
looking forward to one of the best
summer seasons in number of years.
due to a number of reasons, principal
Of which are the gasoline and rubber
situation, the necessity of dimouts
and blackouts along the scashore and
the danger Of possible attacks there.
The resort travel is also expected
to take a somewhat backward trend,
back to the old days when people ar
rived on trains, brought their horses
and carriages and spent the entire
summer here with the "heads" of
families coming for week-ends when
ever possible.
1t is not expected that it will 90 so
far backward that the horses and car
riages viii be unloaded, but real
estate people report that many in
quiries are being received for cot
tages, with the expectation of renting
for one, two or three months.
Instead of weekend iaunts they are
planning to bring their trunks" this
year, and spend several weeks.
Charles l.. Briner. Jr., president of
the Junior Chamber Of Commerce,
said that his organization had re-
ceived hundreds of letters of inquiry
in regard to all kinds Of accommodate