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Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
OF CHINA
TOLD TO CLUB
Rotary Hears Major HOlcOmb
Describe Chinese People
and Their Customs
AVERAGE FARM SMALL

Speaking highly of the Chinese
people, Major Chauncey P. Hol-
comb, of New Castle, told members
of the Smyrna Rotary Club that
China has an area about the size of
the United States, and that the
cities are thickly populated, and
are built with narrow streets.
Major Holcomb, as a United States
attorney, lived for many years in
China, and has travelled extensively
throughout that country. Many of
the habits and customs of the
Chinese people were told to the
club, and living conditions of the
various classes were described, in
Guiding food, of which much is the
same as American people eat, and
the transportation, of which the
rickshaw is the most common. Ma
jor Holcomb described Shanghi, ex-
planning the locations of various in
ternational settlements.
Farms of 4 to 3K Acres
Farms in China, said the Major,
average from one quarter of an
acre, to three and one-half acres,
and as many as four crops a year
are harvested. Farming methods
are very primitive, he said, since
very little modern farm machinery
is used. The few industries there
have been established in the past
few years, and railroads are now
becoming numerous, the speaker
said. Erwin r. Dick responded to
the Majors address. George R
Miller was chairman of the pro-
gram, and Clarence CARTS was the
guest of M. e. Matthews, Jr. Will
liam Mitten, of the Dover club
was a visitor.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
POULTRYMEN TO MEET
OOd-FOr-Fre Program to Be
Outlined at ElktOn, Nd, Friday


Plans for meeting the demands
of the Food-for-F Freedom program
will be made when a committee of
poultrymen in this section confer
at the Howard Hotel in Elkton, Fri
day evening, February 27, at Z
o'clock. In the light of the present
poultry situation the group will I'M
dertake to work out solutions to
the most serious production prob
lens facing them at this time, P.
E. Mullinix of Southern States Co.
operative, who will be one of the
speakers, explained. He pointed
out that poultrymen are making a
desperate effort to reach their pro-
duction goals so that the armed
forces of this nation may have an
adequate supply of eggs and chick
en- in their mneus. The committee
includes groups from the counties
of New Castle and Kent in Della
ware and Cecil in Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
DEFENSE SCOUT THEME
Girl Scouts Theme For Mother
Daughter Banquet Next Week

In keeping with the spirit of the
times the Smyrna Girl Scouts will
have Defense as the theme of the
mother and daughter dinner to be
held at the Wayside Inn on Friday
evening, March 9th. Decorations
and favors in red, white and blue
are being planned by Kay Boehm-
Ter and her committee. A feature
of the program following the dinner
will be a play Girl Scouts Answer
the Call to Defense" Scouts who
will portray the characters in the
play are Columbia, Wanda Jenkins;
Juliette Low, Margaret Springer;
Puritan Woman, Yvonne Senger;
Betsy Ross, Emily Brown; Dolly
Madison, Audrey Westfall; Sacaja-
wea, Margaret Brown; Pioneer Wo-
man, Gene Kirby; Julia Ward
Howe, Janet Pyle; Red Cross
Nurse, Kay Boehmler. Sarah Stew
enson will act as toastmistress.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
LOCAL GRANGE
HAS BIRTHDAY
Smyrna p. of HI. 81 Years Old
Today; Celebrate With Cow
cred Dish Supper Tonite
LECTURER TO SPEAK

The sixty-seventh birthday of the
Smyrna Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, No. 2, will be celebrated at
a dinner meeting tonight. Between
one hundred and twenty-five and
one hundred and fifty grangers and
guests are expected to attend, ac-
cording to Harry Cloud, lecturer.
The occasion will be celebrated
with covered dish supper, with
each member expected to bring a
contribution. The supper will start
at $50, following which Lecturer
Cloud has arranged program of
entertainment. All charter men,
bers are expected to attend, and
will be honored at the meeting.
Robert Yearsley, of Marshalton,
State Lecturer, will be the principal
speaker, and among the invited
guests from other oranges are the
State Master and Mrs. Clarence e.
Jester, and Mr.. and Mrs. Parvis
Kirby, both of Milford. "A film,
entitled 1.-THE Green Acres" will be
shown, by courtesy of the w. w.
Price Company. Mrs. George Flem-
ing and Past Master Arthur Moi
fit will render solos. Last week,
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Deakyne told
the grange members about their
recent trip to Texas, where they
saw their son Howard, graduated
for the Air Corps Training School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Deakyne gave a de-
tailed account of the trip, describ-
ing the scenery, the incidents, and
the finances. 1t was also announc-
ed at the meeting that Harry Cloud
won first prize in the State of Del
aware, in the National Booster
! Night Contest.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
SCHOOL PUPILS
RECEIVE TAGS
Identification Tags to Be Civ
en- All School Children;
Must Be Worn Always
PARENTS AID ASKED

A resolution was passed at the
last meeting of the Smyrna Board
of Education endorsing the plan OF
providing each child in the entire
Smyrna School System with an
identification tag, provided the plan
could be carried out with a min
imum of expense to the pupils. The
John Bassett Moore School is Sc
curing from the National Vulcan
lied Fiber Company, tags suitable
for that purpose. These same tags
are being used solely in the Will
mington Schools and many of the
State Schools, Mr.. George Wright
assistant superintendent, said.
Tag Given to Each Child
One tag, without cost, will be
presented to each child, bearing the
childs name and address. The tag
will be punched and each child will
be expected to provide string, rib.
bon, chain, or some other similar
material for the attachment of the
tag around the child's neck. The
children will be instructed to take
care of this tag and if lost the next
tag will cost 10 cents, Mr.. Wright
said.
To Wear Tag Always
1--WE, of course, do not as yet
have any local regulations in oul
municipality that will compel the
children to wear these tags, there
fore I am expecting teachers anc
parents to sell the idea that each
child always wear the tag. The
local medical council has pointed
out to us in the event of any dis
aster, how easy it will be for then
to identify any child merely by
looking for the Identification tag
that should be around the child's
neck" said Mr.. Wright. At least
once each week for the first few
weeks, a tag inspection period, or
a day unknown to the children, viii
be held at school by the teachers
f or Their Protection
The tags have not come yet-as
soon as they do we will begin plac-
ing them in the teachers hands fol
distribution to the children. In the
meantime Mr.. Wright asks that
families point out the Importance
of their having and wearing these
tags+remembe it is for their pro
lection. Just one thing more
about the tags Mr.. Wright added
"they are deceiving in their appear
ance, they look like cardboard, bu'
they are not, they will last. have
subjected one to water for three
hours, followed by an application
of intense heat for three hours, ano
it is practically as good as new
Therefore I know they will last"
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26

fence Of the consumer. Among
other improvements last year were
the installation of new sewer and
water lines in various sections of
the town, the installation of the
short-wave radio in the police car,
the new dam built at Lake Como
with WPA labor, the paving of
streets and the installation Of
water and sewer lines in the new
residential section known as Lake
Como Gardens. Town Bonds were
recalled, with a saving of $2,612.50
per year to the town. And last but
not least, Council cites the main
tenance of a Civilian Defense sys-
tenn here. Details of the towns
financial report, prepared by Mr..
Charles Harrington, accountant,
may be studied on page Z of this
issue.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26

Mr.. Sollmann will address the In
stitute of Understanding in the
high school auditorium next Wed
nesday evening, March 4, at 8 pm,
on the subject Our Neighbors in
Europe" For thirteen years Mr..
Sollmann was a member of the
German Reichstag. In 1928 he was
appointed a member of the German
cabinet with the title of Secretary
of Interior. He came to the United
States in 1887. He is staff men,
Der at Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania, a
graduate center for religious and
social studies.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
Captain William f. German

Captain William F. German, Jr.,
son of William F. German, and the
late Florence Harrington German
formerly of Clayton, lost his life on
Monday when the Cities Service
tanker Empire, was torpedoed off
the Atlantic coast. Seven men in
Guiding the captain were killed and
four others are missing. Captain
German attended school in Clayton
and Smyrna and would have grad
uated with the class of '32 but for
leaving Smyrna with his grand
mother to go to Philadelphia tc
live, where he entered the school
ship Annapolis and was graduated
from there the following year
From then he has been acting cap
tain of several ships and only two
weeks ago left a harbor with his
own ship, the Empire. He spent g
day with his father two weeks age
at his home, Gil West Both Street
in Wilmington and from there left
to join his ship. He was the
youngest captain in the Cities Ser
vice line and perhaps the youngest
captain on the East Coast. He
would have been % years old or
Memorial Day. Captain German
expressed wish to be crematet
and it is probable that will be done
at Port Pierce, Florida where the
bodies were taken. He had stood
| by his ship until the last, in the
/ true tradition of the sea and being
the last to jump as his ship was
rapidly going down, was pinned be-
tween the ship and a life raft re-
sulting in fatal injuries. Twenty
nine men from the boat were res
cued. Captain German is survived
by his wife Lorene, and two chill
dren, daughter Suzanne, 2 years
old, and a son Richard, eight
months old who live on Bradford
Road in Upper Darby, his father
and a brother Charles, a Staff Ser
geant with the Army Air Corps
Also surviving is a grandmother
Mrs. Emma Harrington of Fred
erica, widow of E. c. Harrington
of Clayton, and an uncle, Shelby
Harrington near Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
PROMINENT SPEAKER HERE
DR.. Allen Albert First Speaker in
Institute of Understanding

DR.. Allen Albert, first speaker in
the Institute of Understanding
sponsored by the Smyrna Rotary
Club, addressed large and atten-
tive audience Wednesday night in
the auditorium of the John Bassett
Moore School on the subject "Our
World Neighbors." The speaker
was introduced by Harvey c. Jones
president of the Smyrna Rotary
Club. Among the audience were
members of the Dover Rotary Club,
American Legions, and representa-
tives from other towns in the coun-
ty. DR.. Albert is a sociologist and
world traveller, member of the
Chicago Rotary Club, and past
president Rotary International.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
DOESN'T RECALL
CLAYTON CRASH
Howard Faust, Seriously In
jured in Train Crash,
Can't Remember 1t
DIDN'T SEE TRAIN

Howard B. Faust, 22-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. Faust OF
Lewes, who was critically injured
in the automobile accident which
killed his companion, James Leish-
man near Clayton, on February 3
is now recuperating at his home
Still wearing a. heavy cast on his
left leg over a fractured kneecap
the young man only recently learn
ed of the death of Leishman when
his parents went to the Kent Gen.
eral Hospital in Dover to bring him
home. His parents say he has INC
recollection of what happened that
night and frequently asked while in
the hospital what did we hit, anc
how is Jimmy?
Didn't See Train
Faust told his parents that he
and young Leishman had gone to
Wilmington for physical examina-
lions for entering the Army Ali
Corps and had been turned down
for slight phyical defects. They
then decided, Faust said, to go or
to Baltimore to apply for jobs in
an airplane plant, but changed
their minds, and were coming back
to Lewes by way of Clayton wher
the accident occurred. Neither
one of us saw the train" he said
"as we had our eyes on a fire or
the other side of the railroad
tracks,"
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
JUDGE MOORE
GIVEN HONOR
John Bassett Moore Named
: Honorary Member of
State Group
BESTOW WIDE HONORS

John Bassett Moore who was
born at Smyrna, and who is known
throughout the world as an au-
thority on international law, was
on Monday elected an honorary
member of the Delaware State So
ciety of the Cincinnati, at its an
nual meeting in the Hotel DUPONT.
In his letter of acceptance, which
was read at the meetaing in the
absence of the newly-elected men,
Der, Judge Moore said "it must be
esteemed a mark of distinction to
be associated with q society which
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
Smyrna Holds Uncontested Election

Smyrna's uncontested election
Monday returned two councilmen
John C. Mannering, member of the
body for IA years, and Ralph G..
FAIRIES, to Office. Others elected
with no opposition we're: Harry
Lowe, town treasurer; Mrs. Lolita
Robinson, town collector; assessors,
Thomas Jefferson, SO, Smyrna's
Oldest citizen; Grant CARTS and
Reynolds Stevenson.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
2nd Corps Area Leads in Volunteers

For the third time since the dec
laration of war, the Second Corps
Aread led the entire country for
volunteer recruiting in the United
States Army Tor the week ending
February is. 1852. Detailed figures
were not made public consistent
with War Department policy. The
Second Corps area with Headquart-
ers at the Army Building, SO
Whitehall Street, New York CRY.
consists of the States Of New Yr"k,
New Jersey and Delaware. Re-
cruiting is under the direction of
Colonel EdwT. Gunner. Acting Re-
cruiting All Induction Officer dur
ing the temporary absence Of Col
onel George II. baird.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
CLAYTON PLAYS POSTPONED
All Plays to Be Given in March;
5 PLAYS at Caesar Rodney

Due to illness and quarantine in
the families of club members in the
cast of plays to be given at Clay
ton on Thursday evening, February
26, it has been necessary to post
pone the date until early in March,
the exact time to be announced in
a few days. The five plays will be
given in Caesar Rodney Auditorium
as planned for Friday evening,
March 6. Clubs giving these plays
are Cardinal Junior Girls of Hous-
ton, Clayton Clodhoppers, Paradise,
Union, Blue Jays and Westville.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES

Rev. Frederick Marx Barton, Rec
tor, Announces Services for Week
st. Peters Episcopal Church, Rev.
Frederick Marx Barton, rector,
makes the following announce
ments: Friday, 7.30 p. M, Lenten
service, followed by choir practice.
Service for the second Sunday in
Lent, IL a. M, celebration of the
Holy Communion and sermon; 10
a. M, Church School; Monday, 2.3O
D. M, Woman's Auxiliary Study
Class at the home of Mrs. Webb,
president.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
Death of James G. Book

Funeral services for James c.
Book, &c.. were held yesterday
morning at IL o'clock at the Nc
Crery Funeral Home, 2700 Wash
ington Street in Wilmington. Mr..
Book was well known in Clayton
and Smyrna, having been for many
years an employee of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad as air brake instruc-
tor with offices at Clayton. He
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
AsBURY METHODIST CHURCE
Rev. DIR. j. w. ColOna, Pastor, An.
nOunces Services For the Week

The services at Asbury Method
list Church next Sunday, March list,
will be as follows: the Church
School will convene promptly at 10
o'clock with Mr.. H. c. Jones, Su-
perintendent, in charge; the morn
ing worship service and sermon at
IL; the Youth Fellowship service
at $50 p. M. the evening worship
service and sermon at 7.30. The
monthly meeting of the Official
Board will be held next Tuesday
evening at 7.30. The prayer ser
vice Wednesday evening at 7.30.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
Air Raid ALARM Sounded

The new air raid alarm was test
ed on Friday and Saturday follow
ing the blowing of the fire alarm
at noon time. Due to new cleo
trical system, the whistle has been
fixed so that series of short blasts
may be sounded.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
Advanced First Aid

A class in Advanced First Aid
will bestarted here soon. Anyone
having completed the standard
course is eligible for the advanced
work. A paper on which those in
terested may sign their name will
be at the Smyrnda Times office.
Smyrna times., 1942-02-26
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 II and 7.30; Sunday
School at 10; Young Peoples meet
ing at Z; Mid-week meeting We'd
nesday at 7.30 o'clock.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
War Materials Collection
Thursday Being Arranged

ments will be made. Owners will
be paid for larger quantities.
All money received by the sal
wage committee from the sale Of
materials will be placed at the
disposal Of Ypsilant Defense Coun-
eli. The fund will be used for de.
tense activities here.
The collection is not to interfere
or take the place OF collections be-
ing made by Boy Scouts. schools or
other agencies.
After this week, residents who
wish to have salvage materials col
lected are TO notify the Board Of
Commerce and collection will be
made the following Thursday
other members OF the committee
are Leonard W Menzi. Norris 6.
Wiltse. +. NJ Maddux Mrs. G. b.
Arnold and Jack Hertzberg
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
Dairy Farmers to
Meet at School

There will be a meeting Thurs
day evening at Lincoln School
sponsored by the Milan Local OF
the United Dairy Farmers.
Charles Lock wood. who repre-
scented the consumers on the recent
arbitration board arbitrating the
price that farmers should be paid
for milk. will be the speaker of
the evening.
Mr.. Lockwood, who was appoint.
ed on that board by the mayor of
the city OF Detroit, objected to any
increase in the price of milk to
the public unless the farmers re-
ceived the increase.
The United Dairy Farmers I'm
ion is a comparatively new organi-
zation but in a few months has
grown until it is one of the largest
organizations OF dairy farmers in
the United States. II was the first
organization of dairy farmers 10
become affiliated with the Clio.
The goal of the organization is
to get a larger share of the con
sumers' dollar for the farmer
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
Soldiers to
Receive Gifts

Salvation Army of,Ypsilant has
the filling and packing
OF 100 boxes which will be sent TO
soldiers who would not ordinarily
receive boxes from home Names Of
recipients will be taken from county
selective service lists
Boxes can be filled or packed by
groups or individuals Articles or
money TO purchase articles can be
dona ed and packing responsibilities
viii be assumed hy the salvation
Army.
Articles whleh viii be included IN
the boxes are books. brushless shay
ing sets. cakes. candies. change
purses. cheese spreads. crackers.
darning needles. darning thread
gum. hand lotions. paper handker.
chiefs. nail files pencils. pocket
flashlights. writing tablets razor
blades. sewing needles. shaving To-
tions. shoe brushes. shoe laces
tbrown). shoe polish. small combs.
hand soap laundry soaps sox
stamps tooth brushes. tooth paste.
trouscr buttons. underwear buttons
and similar items.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
Sell or Else
Dealers Told

Cincinnati Jan. 27-AP-A fed
eral steelhuhting expedition. uncov-
ering an estimated 1000 tons OF
scrap in four Ohio cities. today gave
junk dealers 30 days in which to
turn it over to hungry mills.
Otherwise, said Major Alvin c..
Rasmussen those who refuse TO do
so will have their entire stock requi-
stioned and allocated to steel plants
by the government"
Operators of automobile grave
yards" were instructed TO report
within a week that they had begun
TO move steel to mills.
Major Rasmussen and other rep
resentatives OF the War Production
Board Army ordnance and Office
Of Emergency MANAGEMENT. who be
gan their survey yesterday in But
Ter. Pa, reported they found the
Junk dealers ready TO cooperate.
This scrap" said A. NJ. Jones,
Jr. Bureau of Industrial Conserya-
ton agent from Washington. rep
resents the most obvious and easy
toget source. Dealers who cannot
move 1t themselves will be offered
every help
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27

Ypsilanti children will not be ne
elected il parents employed In de-
tense industries are unable to spend
much time at home. Nursery
schooling. health problems and oc-
cupational skills Of the younger
generation will be looked after by
city organizations which are alrea-
dy making plans.
Women employed in defense In
dustries will want some place 10
leave their children for the day and
Mrs. Charles Lamb, district direc-
tor Of Works Progress Administra-
ton nursery schools. is seeking
women volunteers a. instructors
in nursery schools TWO nursery
schools are being conducted in
Woodruff School from $50 m.
10 2 p. m. and Mrs Lamb explains
that volunteers can receive train
ing Immediately.
A defense nursery school Is al.
ready operating ia Ann Arbor from
7.3O a. m. to 5:31 p. m for chill
dren Of mothers who are employed
IN defense industries
n similar defense schools are
SET UP in Ypsilanti CTS directo
will be chosen by the fedora gos-
eminent. Balance Of the stan will
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
Congress May
Act Speedily
on Army Fund
Women's Auxiliary
Considered

Washington, Jan. 27-lNS-Con-
gress was ready today to take
quick, unanimous action TO give the
armed forces 1872, 500 100000 TO
make the United States the might
lest military force on earth.
Before the House was measure
to provide s2O.OOO,OOO,OOO in cash
and contract authority for the
Navy-designed to triple naval
plane production. speed up ship
building and vastly increase pers-
onnel.
Besides these huge spending bills,
Congress also slated action on the
following matters designed to aug
ment the national war effort:
/. The House Military Affairs
Committee rushed consideration Of
bill creating a women's auxili-
Army corps with Chairman Mag
ID Ky, predicting speedy approx
al. War Department officials,
backing this bill TO enlist women
at s2l a month for non-combatant
duties. said they would use 1000
women in the ranks at once If the
measure becomes law.
2. Before the Senate was the Sc
called second war powers bill which
would grant the government addi-
tional board authority in many
fields, including power TO take over
machinery and private property #
il is needed for war production,
and to impose criminal penalties
on those who violate priority ord
ers.
3. House Appropriations Com
mittee members launched a drive
for passage of measure TO provide
100000, 900 for paying unemploy-
ment benefits up to S24 week to
those who have been thrown out
OF work because OF the conversion
OF factories 70 war pr Iduction.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-27
Train Victim
Identified as
Edgar Squires
Remains Found on
Railroad Track

Edgar d. Squires, about IS, 105
f. Michigan Ave. was killed by =
train on Michigan Central Rail
road tracks near Jacksonville Rid.
crossing Monday night or early
today.
The remains were discovered
about S a. m. today by Steve Tesho,
1915 Holmes Rd, grading machine
operator who was working on a
temporary embankment for rail-
road tracks adjacent to the present
double tracks.
The body was identified by Theo-
dore Schiller. 3 n. Lincoln St, and
Fred Easing 1l2 +. Michigan Ave
who. knew Mr.. Squires for some
years. Further id MITIGATION was
established by a bill found in the
clothing by troopers Of the Ypsi-
lanti State Police post.
The train. which apparently
struck Mr. Squires about a quarter
mile cast OF Rawsonyille Rd. while
eastbound, carried the body nearly
100 feet.
Reason for Mr.. Squires presence
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