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Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24
Odd Fellows Top Local
SOftball Standings

The l. o. o. F. team retained its
grip on first place in the Milford
Softball League standing by turn
ing back the Kiwanis Club, to Z,
In nine closely contested innings on
Wednesday evening. Horace Will
ey's fiy-out sent Baldwin scamper-
ing home with the winning run af-
ter one was out in the last half of
the ninth.
On Monday evening, the team
representing Company H, 18th In
fantry, trounced the Coolerators,
Is to 6, to move into second place.
Results Of games played to date
are as follows: July 13, l. o. o. F.,
z, Company H, 6; July Is, Cooler
ators 10, Kiwanis 3; July II, Com
pany H 16, Kiwanis 5 and l. o. o.
F. 9, Coolerators 4; July 20, Com
pany H Is, Coolerators 6; July %,
/. o. o. F.. 8, Kiwanis Z.
Up to Friday, the standings are
as follows:
Milford SOftbalI League
Won Lost Pct.
l. o. o. F. 3 1000
Co. H, 18th Inf. 2 1 .667
Coolerators i 1888
Kiwanis % 3 900
Although currently in the cellar,
DOC" Vests Kiwanis team is po-
tentially one of the best clubs in
the league; the Kiwanis came close
to upsetting Ed. Walls high-flying
/. o. o. F. team Wednesday night
and undoubtedly will be up near
the top before the first half sched-
ule is completed. Company H is
the leagues power team, the SOL
der lads having pounded out 81
runs in three games played to date.
The Coolerators are still weak at
several spots but will present
strengthened lineup Friday when
the Kiwanis are met.
There are still openings on all
three local teams for any who may
care to participate in this popular
outdoor sport. If interested in
playing, get in touch with Dave
Hugg or Jim West Friday evening
at the high school grounds. Soft
ball is staging comeback in lower
Delaware, as is attested to by the
fact that leagues are now function
ing at Laurel, Seaford and Delmar,
in addition to Milford.
The remainder Of the first half
schedule of the Milford Softball
League follows:
Friday, July 24--Kiwanis VS..
Coolerators. Mote: The game
scheduled between the /. o. o. F.
and the Co. H teams for Friday,
July "a, has been postponed and
will be re-scheduled for later in
the season.)
Monday, July 27-Co. H VS.. XII
wants.
Wednesday, July -Coolerators
VS.. l. o. o. F.
Friday, July 81 q games)-I. o.
o. F. vs. Kiwanis; Co. H VS.. Cool
orators.
Monday. August 81. o. o. F. vs..
Co. H.
wednesday, August 7-(2 games)
--Kiwanis VS.. Co. H; I. o. o. F. VS..
Coolerators.
Monday, August 1O-Co. H VS..
Coolerators.
Wednesday, August 12-Kiwanis
VS.. l. o. o. F.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24

Good temper, like a shiny day
sheds brightness over everything
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24

O.. Green tomato pickle is a delic-
ious relish and adds to any meal.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24

Weeds are injurious to the health!
Clean up your yards today.
Milford chronicle., 1942-07-24

X THE PENNEY WAY is THE THRIFTY WAY X
THE THRIFTY WAY is THE AMERICAN WAY
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

Mrs. James L. Melvin entertain
cd Mrs. Lang w. Anderson, Jr., of
Union Park Gardens, Wilmington,
over the weekend. Mrs. Anderson
will leave today with DR.. and Mrs.
Lang w. Anderson to attend COM
mencement exercises, when Lieut..
Anderson graduates from officers
training school at Camp Davis,
North, Carolina.
Mimi Poole, the small daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl t. Poole of
Lewes, is spending a visit with her
grandparents, DR.. and Mrs. Ernest
P. Collins. Mr.. Poole underwent
an emergency operation for appen-
dcitis at Beebe Hospital in Lewes
yesterday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dale of
Norristown, Miss Ruth Burrage
and Miss Ruth Levingood of
Pheonixville, were guests on Sun
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bur-
rage.
Robert Jacobs, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jacobs, who was operat-
ed on for appendicitis last Friday
in the Kent General Hospital, is
getting along nicely at this writ
ing.
Dickie Comegys, the young son
of DR.. and Mrs. Richard w. Com
eggs of Clayton, is recovering after
an appendictomy performed at the
Kent General Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Boyles are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of daughter on Monday,
April Goth, at the Kent General
Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Shriver of
Philadelphia and Ocean City, N. j.,
were overnight guests on Tuesday
of Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Taylor
at The Wayside Inn.
MISS y uuld vi illllu ~ oPChuiiiS
several days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Hesser at Germantown, Pa.
Mrs. C. Leland Harmonson spent
Friday in Philadelphia.
Mrs. George l.. Townsend of Will
mington, was guest over the
weekend of Mrs. R. D. Hoffecker.
Mrs. Charles G. Harmonson has
returned home after spending sew
eral days in New York City.
Mrs. Helen Huxley of Whining
ton, has returned from spending
week with Mrs. Howard R. Jones.
Mrs. w. c. Deakyne was hostess
to the members of her bridge club
at her home, recently.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
Jops Sewage Foes.
Says Menken

A VICTORIOUS Jap is the most
n detestable creature on the face
of this earth.
Take it from Arthur Menken.
He was the last newsreel camera
man to leave Japan, and he photo
graphed the Mikado's war machine
in action. His story, one OF human
atrocities, appears in the March
issue of Cosmopolitan magazine
and bears ample witness to the
treachery of John Does Nippon
counterpart, Saito-San.
For ten years, from 1882 to 1942,
Menken watched him, saw the saw
agery lurking behind sinister sur
face politeness, now no longer
hidden, develop into the savage
brutality that has become their
order of the day.
Menken recalls in his article the
Japanese occupation of Marking,
an experience he says he will never
forget. Starved Jap troops poured
into the Oriental metropolis, and
seeing water buffalo, used by the
Chinese as beasts of burden, they
rushed up to them with sabers and
bayonets and carved steaks from
the living animals, leaving them to
stagger about screaming their
wonderment at mans bestiality to
beasts. /.
This is only one Of series Of
outrages at which Menken was an
eyewitness, and Saito-San, he says,
will learn in time that these things
are expensive.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
TO PROSECUTE
ALL MIGRANTS

job or be subject to prosecution. +"
Following is the section of Code re-
ferred to:
"It shall and may be lawful for
any Justice of the Peace of the
County where such Migrants shall
be found, on complaint made, to
cause the arrest of any person
charged on oath or affirmation with
being vagrant, and upon such
person being brought before him,
to hear and determine the case, and
it shall be the duty of the Justice
to commit every person proved by
his own confession, or by the testi-
mony of one or more credible wit
nesses, to be a vagrant, to the
workhouse or Jail of said county,
there to be kept at labor by the
keeper or overseer of such work.
house or Jail for any time not ex-
ceeding ten days"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
CORN CROP EXPERIMENT
Kent County All Boys To Record
Results for Better Crops

Results for Better Crops
All club members are interested
in experimenting to improve meth
DDS of producing better crops, ac-
cording to Helen L. Comstock,
County Club Agent. The names of
six members who will experiment
with the use of nuriate of potash
have been submitted to the Amer
lean Potash Institute represented
by George Cobb of Salisbury. They
are Otis Craig, Union Club; Harry
w. Leiby, Smyrna Club; Alfred and
Robert Rosengren, Hartly Club,
and Wilmer Clark, Paradise Club
who will grow acre plots of corn
and Boyd Vandegrift of the Para
disc Club who will grow early pota-
toes. These young farmers will
plant and care for the entire crop
according to usual recommenda-
tons. When the plants have reach
ed a specified stage, one-half of the
plot will be top dressed with the
potash at the rate of 200 pounds to
the acre. Each member pledges
that he will give the project good
care and submit an accurate ac-
count of the results. The five corn
club boys are also conducting dem
onstrations of two hybrid types as
cmpared with the open pollinated
varieties.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. DR.. j. w. Colona, Pastor, An
nounces Services For the Week

The services at Asbury Method
st Church next Sunday, April Goth,
will be as follows: the Church
School will convene promptly at 10
o'clock with Mr.. H. G. Jones, SUI
perintendent, in charge; the morn
ing worship service and sermon at
IL; the Methodist Youth Fellow
ship service at $50; the evening
worship service and sermon at 7.3O.
The public cordially invited to all
the services. The regular monthly
meeting of the Social Group will be
held next Tuesday evening, April
2Sth, at $50 with a covered dish
supper in the Church. Prayer SER
vice Wednesday evening. at 100,
The session of the Peninsula An
nual Conference will begin We'd
nesday morning, May 18th, in Nc
Cabe Church, Wilmington. The
conference year will close as of
April Both.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

the movie capital. Today the stars
realize that their careers aren't lie
long, that they are here today and
gone tomorrow. They know too, that
the Federal government taxes their
income total by more than fifty per-
cent, and that in addition state taxes
mount up along with necessary do
nations to popular charities.
After this SOLDERING workout, Miss
Hannah writes, the Hollywood
wage Garner is left with a decently
shriveled income and no wish to
splurge. Consequently they are
shrewd, sane lot. They buy annultles
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

IOugH.
Anne Sheridan, Miss Hamman re-
veals, owns gas station, and Loret-
ia Young is the landlady of two
apartment houses. So cagey indeed,
have stars become that they even
turn a profit on their pet extrava-
gances. Don Ameche built SWIM
ming pool, but this luxury now pays
dividends because Don rents it to
movie companies for glamor pictures
and bathing beauty stills. All of
which is far cry from the frivoli-
ties on which picture people used to
squander cash.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. S. j. Thackaberry, Pastor, An.
nounces Services For the Week

Presbyterian Church, Rev. S. j.
Thackaberry, pastor, announces
services on Sunday morning and
evening at IL and 7.30; Sunday
School at 10; Young Peoples meet
ing at Z; Mid-week meeting We'd
nesday at 7.30. The Ethel Lloyd
Auxiliary will meet at the home of
Mrs. Harry Lower on Friday at 8
p. m.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

and government
bonds, invest in
businesses, spend
cautiously, and al
W a y S k e p a
weather eye out
for the future.
Tyrone Power, for
instance, has pro-
vided for his old
age by buying an
island off Mazatal,
Mexico, where he
intends IN hI1ild q
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
Century Club Election

Election of officers for the ensu-
ing year will be made at tomor-
rows meeting of the Twentieth
Century Club. The nominating
committee includes Mrs. Harry
Lower, Mrs. Kennard Price, and
Mrs. George Robinson. Reports of
all committees will be heard.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

L at from i y,
a ms wers Mary
H m m an in the
October issue of
Good Housekeep-
ing magazine. The
days when picture
queer lived in
fifty room palaces,
when heroes car
ried five dollar
gold pieces to toss
to mu sicians in
night spots, have
wants h ed as a
n -
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
Screen Stars Display
Keen Business Sense

EACH year when top-bracket
T. salaries are made public,
you'll notice that it's usually the
Hollywood stars who head the list.
But does this mean that your
favorite screen personalities squan-
der their earnings on lavish living?
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
By Ogden Nash
Prom February Cosmopolitan Magazins)

The year is far too new for golfng,
I think I'll do some futile resolfng.
I'll never back another horse
Unless Pm sure he'll win, of course.
I'll MUNICH no more on starchy food,
I'll pay my bills before I'm sued.
Schubert I'll not confuse with
Schumann
And I'll never, never argue with .
wumann. $40 !.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
PRE-SCHOOL
CHILD CLINIC
(Coptfpuod from, PaUe Onel
CONTINUED from Page One)

had these protective measures at
all, or if they were given in baby
hood.
In Larger Schools
Because of the heavy pressure of
work due to the widespread gen
eral immunization campaign for
both adults and children and other
emergency meaures it is necessary
for the State Board of Health to
confine its pre-school examination
program to the larger schools this
year and in some places to health
centers or clinics.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES
Rev. Frederick Marx Barton, Rec
tor, Announces Services For Week

st. Peters Episcopal Church,
Rev. Frederick Marx Barton, rec
tor, makes the following announce
ments: 730 a. M, celebration of
the Holy Communion; 10 a. M,
Church School; II a. M, morning
prayer and sermon on the words
describing the burial of our Lord,
THE place where He was crucified
there was garden"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

The Laura Lee Circle of Kings
Daughters will meet tonight
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
Harry ]. Lower at 7.30 o'clock.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

Charter No. 2336-Reserve District No.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE FRUIT
GROWERS NATIONAL BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY OF SMYRNA, in the
State of Delaware. at the close of bust
ness on April 4, 1912.
Published in response to call made by
Comptroller of the Currency, under Section
5211, U. S. Revised Statutes.
ASSETS
Loans and discounts (ncluding
S2.15 overdrafts) ...... -. .S32O,4 1910
United States Government obi
cations, direct and guaranteed 102,665.63
lures 1870. -. -. 5,1s2.25
Corporate stocks INCLUDING ST.
bank -. -. ......... 2,25O.OO
Cash, balances with other banks,
including reserve balance, and
cash items in process of col
lection -. -. ........ 142.OS4.57
furniture and fixtures SIS, s95.24 S6,92s.SS
Real estate owned other than
bank premises -. $50. $4,000
Other assets . 1912
Total Assets $3.50. .......... 69,044.65
LIABILITIES
partnerships, and corporations 24s. SOs55
Time deposits of individuals,
partnerships, and corporations 284,S77l3
Deposits of United States Gov
eminent Including postal saw
ings) ...... 80. ......,... 26.s56.25
subdivisions 49,. .......... 5.S55e6
Other deposits Certified and
cashiers checks, etc. ........ 1868
Other liabilities .....' ........ 476sS
Total Liabilities 49,. $50. 6s,s4Os5
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital stock:
Glass A preferred, total par
100000, retirabe value
$75,000.00.
(Rate of dividends on retir-
able value is 29o)
Common stock, total par $780,
10000 6o,o00.00
Surplus ...... 100000
Undivided profits $3.50. lO,O14.46
count for preferred stock -. 16,52e.S4
Total CAPITAL Accounts 800. 100, 103. 80
Total Liabilities and Capital
-' MEMORANDA
Pledged assets land securities
loaned) (book valued:
United States Government obli-
| cations, dlrect ana 2udrdnletut
| pledged to secure deposits and
other liabilities -. -. As, 967.19
| Total 45,967.19
Secured liabilities:
Deposits secured by pledged as
sets pursuant to requirements
OF law ........''..' oo'9oi'i"
State of Delaware. County of Kent, S.:
| I. GEO. w. BOEHMLER. cashier of
the above-named bank. do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
GEO. w. BOEHMLER, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
| 18th day of April, 1912.
EDGAR w. FRAZIER,
- Notary Public.
! Correct-Attest:
HARLEY R. BODLEY,
| c. L. HARMONSON,
A. HOMER SMITH,
Directors.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-04-23

Don't forget to save your tin
cans. Remove the paper, cut out
the top and bottom, and f1atten it
with the foot. When you get a
bagfull-call the scouts.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-28
HIChIands 1923
Ruth's Beauty Salon
81 Humboldt Ave-, Rox.
Ruth T. Hall, HairdreSser

the ropes and there's another
Mercury baby in there doing the
gangster Julio role. he's Paul
Stewart who rode to glory as the
nosey reporter in Native Son"
on the New York stage but Joe
Longo says that more and bet
ter is coming with the time
prize winner Gone With The
Wind" in technicolor at popular
prices featuring Hattie McDan-
iels, Clark Gable, ivian Leigh,
Clarence Muse and Leslie How
ard at the Loew's State and
Orpheum Theatres soon All
out next Thursday, March S, for
the annual Crispus Attucks OBJ
servances down town, beginning
at 1890 am. at the Spot on
State St., where the black hero
fell and continuing at noon at
the monument on the Common.
goombye! Goo E. Duck
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-28

The committee were William
M. Johnson, Chairman; Mes
danes Lillian Byndloss, Mrs.
Mary Allen, Virginia Hardrick,
Alice Duncan, M. Austin, Kate
Brown, Ethnal Anthony, Miss
v. Johnson, Deacon VIM. Fields.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-28

their members this week gold
medal goes to George Frazier
who also wrote the swell lyrics
for Count BaSie's new recording
of Harvard Blues" gentleman,
scholar and a Judge of good
rhythm Il had the additional
pleasure of meeting the very
charming Mrs. Frazier and one
can readily understand where
George derives the inspiration
for his boundleSs enthusiasm
another bright star on the local
horizon is the current engage
ment of the heireSS singer Libby
Holman who has earned her &C
colade of Queen of the Blues"
in her appearance at the Swanky
Balinese Room of the celebrated
Hotel Somerset where she is
singing the original blues of
Josh White, the young colored
guitar artist who created a SEN
sation in New York with his
troubadouring 900 Libby Holman
had to change her entire style
for these arrangements and now
she pourS out her soul in emo
tional folk songs which do some
thing to you this new combin-
alton of Holman and White has
Boston Society really getting
educated and is helping true
American music to find and
keep it's place in the sun Josh
played and sang his own Army
Blues" on the Millions for De-
tense" broadcast, don't forget
to file your income tax returns
early. March IS is the deadline
Ray Sugar Robinson chilled
Make Berger in the second
round Jackie Wilson lost a bad
decision against Abe Denner, To-
cal lightweight flash but a re-
turn match is promised the col
ored champion no title was in
volved in the Boston battle.
colored and white boxers from
coast to coast will compete April
10, IA and II at the Boston Gar
den in the National Amateur
Athletic Union Senior Boxing
Championship tournament in
eight different championship di-
visions. tickets now on sale at
Boston Garden and the Boston
Arena. .congratz to Mabe Koun-
TIE the expert Guardian sports
commentator for his fine cover
age of the Wollcott-Dugger Incl
dent which 1 also observed the
majority of the audience failed
to grasp the deep significance OF
the friendly gesture and it def
nitely proves the value of open
sport competition in the great
American S C e n E.. Coleman
Moore, poet and reader, will ap-
pear in concert with the Cres-
cendo Club under the direction
of Thomas Henry Johnson Sun
day afternoon March l at the
Robert Gould Shaw House
congratz from Uncle Paul ano
all the gang to Joseph Longo
now publicity director for the
Loe W s State and Orpheum
Theatres. Joe has a box office
CONNER in the Robert Taylor
Lana Turner team doing John
ny Eager" with Edward Arnold
Glenda Farrell and a keen new
conner named Robert Sterling
but still it's that veteran young
Mercury Theatre star Van Hef1in
who locks the picture up with
the grandest performance in a
supporting role anyone could
possibly give take a look-see
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-28

Hello folks you heard what
the President said he meant
for all of US to get on the ball ).
we were forced out in the first
inning by that squeeze play the
Axis nationals pulled on us.
but now we're back out in the
field again ready to retire the
opposition with one home run.
back to Japan you people up
there in the stands know the
Importance of roofing the home
team to victory Macarthur is
doing a great job holding down
first base while F. D. R. is cook
ing them right over the plate as
fast as they come off the pro-
duction line we're all in the
big league now and our boys are
out in uniform. stopping every
thing that comes their way ~.
and when we get up for that
seventh inning stretch may his
tory prove that our President
was right when he said -.
eve are daily increasing our
strength. Soon, lUe and not our
enemies, l0iU haze the offensive;
lue, not they, will min the final
battles; and ne, not they, l0ilI
make the final peace" get into
a home defense service at once
men and women are needed
to learn first aid, air raid pre-
cautions, auxiliary police, state
guard, motor transport, mobile
canteen duty, demolition work,
nursing, knitting and recrea-
tional activities stop sitting on
the fence watching the world
go by. get off the wall. and on
the ball. that's all, brother.
and now for George Frazier
again that jinni of jazz 'front.'
ed a defense program over
WORL last Sunday for one solid
hour of heavenly jam which
featured frankie Newton and
his Orchestra direct from the
Savoy Cafe on Columbus Avenue
plus Sam Donahue famous
band leader and all sax mani
plus Josh White (colored guitar
ist) plus Roy Eldridge thot
trumpet man with Gene Krupa)
for a whole week previous
George Frazier had whetted the
public appetite with his entic-
ing promises Of this super swing
session in his smooth daily col
umn Sweet and Lowdown' in
the Boston Herald which is
ravenously read by the "hepsi-
gentsia' for miles around Fra
zier loves jazz and the colored
musicians who play it SO we'll 49,.
he is definitely a boon to the To-
cal colored musicians union
since his recommendations are
bringing new dance bookings for