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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-04-15
TOWNSEND
Items of Personal and Social Inter-
est Cleaned About NeighbOrhOOd

Townsend, April 14-Mrs. Walter
Lee and Mrs. G. Lester Daniels, of
Townsend, are spending a two
weeks vacation in Hot Springs, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Slant
spent Sunday with their grand
daughter, Mrs. Henrietta johnson
and family, at Odessa.
Miss EthelWyn j. Maloney, who
has been ill for several days, is now
much improved, and her many
friends hope to see her out again
quite soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Layman, of
Wilmington, and Miss Jeanette
Wilson, of the WAVES of Philadel-
phia, Pa, visited the parents of
Miss Wilson and other relatives
here recently.
The Mizpah Bible Glass held a
covered dish supper in the fire hall
on Tuesday evening of last week.
Fifty members were present. The
committee, Mrs. F. A. Lawson,
chairman, Mrs. William VanHorn,
Mrs. Mamie Chadwick and Mrs.
Edna Hart reported receipts of
about $500. 1t was very fine
dinner such as are the custom here.
Harry Hopewell, who is interest
ed in poultry raising also farming
in general, found much pleasure in
meeting some of the Delaware
farmers on Monday, and later went
on a trip down to Dover where he
knew other farmers, and largely,
the discussion of solving the war
labor problem was in order. The
same difficulty runs apparently into
the routine of seasonal work on
every farm in the country. May it
be solved definitely, in short order,
when the best planners get togeth-
err.
Increasing by leaps and bounds
the desire to raise chickens, while
the war prices are so attractively
high, and thus affording fine
profit, still spreads throughout the
communities, regardless of location
and other conditions, to be consid-
cred. Those, SO engaged are hap
PLY building upon the idea that the
limit of topnotch prosperity in the
poultry line ha not been reached
and add to their f1ocks quite often.
Some expect beef and pork, also
other certain kinds of the shop
products to be omitted for the dur
alton and if orrect, poultry would
be the best substitute.
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IBridgeton, N. J., Mr.. OHM D. Stel-
Ter and daughter Martha, and Mr..
and Mrs. William Daniels and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 2. Dukes
had as guests last week his brother
and sister Lieut.. William F. Dukes
of Belle Nina, Alabama, and Mrs.
William Sourile of Chicago, Ill.
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NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of Ernest B.
Raughley, Register of Wills, in and for
Kent County. Delaware, dated March 81,
A. D. 1913 notice is hereby given of the
granting Letters of Testamentary on the
estate of Susan E. Hill on the 3lst day of
March A. D. 1913. All persons having
claims against the said Susan E. Hill, de-
ceased. are required to exhibit the same to
such Executor within one year after the
date of the granting of such Letters, or
abide by the law in that behalf, which pro-
vides that such claims against the said
estate not so exhibited shall be forever
barred.
THE FRUIT GROWERS NATIONAL
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
SMYRNA, SMYRNA, DEL.
By Harley R. Bodey, President
Executor of Susan E. Hill, decd.
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CHESWOLD
Items of Personal anu Social In.
est Gleanca, About NeighborhOod

Items of Personal anu Social In
est Gleanca, Ahout Neighborhood
Cheswold, April ID = Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Swain, ST., and two
daughters entertained Miss Lillian
Case, of near Dover, over the week
end.
Mrs. Margaret hamburger has
returned home after spending some
time with relatives in Philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. George Luff and
two sons, of near Dover, were the
guests for dinner Sunday of his
mother, Mrs. Addie Luff.
Mr.. Howard Rash and sister
Miss Clara B. Rash, entertained Mr.
and Mrs. Conrad Lawton, of neal
Frederick, recently.
Mrs. Sallie Lynch entertained
Mrs. Clifford Johnson and daughter
Ruth Ann, of near Frederick, re.
gently.
Mrs. Addie Luff spent the week
end with her son-in-law and daugh.
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. James Tribbitt
near Blackson.
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and daughter of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Latta and
daughter Jeanette. of Marshallton,
and Mrs. Fannie Francis spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E
Latta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Steller en-
tertained at dinner Saturday even
ing Miss Minnie Spitsnagel OF
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HARTLY
Some Items of Personal Mention
Cleaned from the Vicinity

Some Items of Personal Mention
Cleaned from the Vicinity
Hartly, April IA Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayward Robinson and children, of
Laurel, visited Corporal R. E. Davis
and his parents recently
Roger Burris, of Wilmington,
spent the weekend with his grand
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchins.
Private First Class James Bishop
and Mrs. Bishop spent Sunday with
M. and Mrs. c. j. Cahall and fam
ally, near Hartly.
Miss Elsie Spencer and father
spent Sunday with Mr.. Clinton C.
Chambers.
Mrs. Edward Evans of Cheswold
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Bloom recently.
Mr.. Truitt Melvin and two sons,
of near aHrtly, visited Mr.. and Mrs
George Seward and family on Sum-
day.
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do to have fresher coffee and pro-
vides a formula for making good
coffee every time.
"After making and serving thou
sands of cups to thousands of peo-
ple,"' writes DR.. Punnett, 1--WE have
found that brew pleasing to the
average taste is made with two level
tablespoons of coffee to each eight
ounce (one-half pint) measuring cup
full of water. Work out proportions
that suit your family's taste and
then stick to them"
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February issue of Good Housekeep-
ing Magazine these are explained In
detail by DR.. P. W. Punnett, Chief
Chemist, Good Housekeeping Bu-
reau, and one of Americas foremost
coffee experts.
DR.. Punnett's conclusions and ad.
vice are based on the fifteen years
research conducted in Good House
keeping Laboratories to find out
what makes good cup of coffee
good.
He explains reasons for coffee
s,rapinp. what small family can
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-04-15

"Sure been great year for crops, judge.
best we've had in quite spell.
"That'strue, Henry. all over the country.
As a matter of fact, there's been quite
surplus supply of grain according to some
figures saw in one of your farm papers the
other day. But that surplus is being used to
mighty good advantage and is making the
contribution of you farmers to the war effort
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NOTICE

Dead or disabled horses, cows
and mules removed FREE of
charge by calling DOVER $685..
No animals removed unless call is
made Immediately and no animals
dying from a contagious disease
will be removed.
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DRIBBLES

Continued from Page Two)
A-C Victor D. Ennis
Squadron L, Group No. 9
Glass No. 443 ], Bks. No. 979
Maxwell Field, Alabama
Cpl. Vaughn S. Griffin
ASH. 320716S5
Bly,. A, 428th c. A.
APO. GA, C o Postmaster
San Francisco, California X
P. F. c. Fred F. Harris
770th t. S. S., Barracks F626
Buckley Field
Denver, Colorado
Pvt. Henry R. Shapley
ASH. 32754S26
Hq. Bly,, 115th C.A.A.A. Bn.
Gun Mbl., A.A.A.T.C.
Camp Davis, North Carolina
Pvt. Lee F. Slaughter
885 Signal Co.
New Orleans Army Air Base
New Orleans, La
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HOW TO GET The MOST
COFFEE FROM A POUND

suggestions and recipes designed extract the most pos
sble cups pound of Coffee recently have come to public
attention However, they alter the fact that there Just so
much flavor pound of coffee and devices employed for the
purpose of Stretching coffee raon will of necessity affect the flavor
There are ways of getting the coffee from pound In the
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more important than ever.
Here's just one example of what mean.
The beverage distilling industry alone will
use 100000 bushels of this surplus to
make alcohol seriously needed by the gov
eminent for gunpowder, synthetic rubber,
chemicals and medical supplies.
$50, keep it CROWN Henry. you're doing
a great job"
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All those IN service. their families and
friends, are urged to inform Dribbles
Editor of new. or changed. addresses. Keep
him supplied with interesting news items.
The success, and continuation, OF this new
Service column will depend largely upon
this kind of cooperation.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27
ground troops.

ground troops.
 The effect of this modern in- st"umentality was sharply ac- ce eltuated by the geographical limitations of this theatre. For months on end, air transport with constant fighter coverage moved complete infantry regi- ments and artillery battalions across the almost impenetrable mountains and iungles of Papua and the reaches of the sea, trans ported field hospitals and other base installation to the front, supplied the troops and evacuat- ed casualties.
 "For hundreds of miles bomb CTS provided all-around recon naissance, protected the coast  from hostile naval intervention and blasted the way for the in- fantry as it drove forward.
 A new form of campaign was tested which points the way to the ultimate defeat of the enemy in the Pacific.
 The offensive and defensive power of the air and the adapt ability, range and capacity of its transport in an effective combin- ation with ground forces repre- sent tacticle and strategical elements of a broadened coucep- ton of warfare that will permit the application of offensive power in swift, massive strokes rather than the dilatory and costly island to-island advance that some have assumed to be necessary in a theatre where the enemy's far flung stongholds are dispersed throughout vast ex' panse of archipelagos.
 "Air forces and ground forces were welded together in Papua, and when in sufficient strength with proper naval support, their indissolubIe union points the way to victory through new and broadened strategic and tactical conceptions"
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27
Confer On Lobor

San Francisco Michael J, Haas, Territorial represent ative of the National War Lab or board conferred with Thomas Fair Nebratt, chairman of the regional WLB, concerning pro cedures to follow in dispute and voluntary wage adjustment cas- es arising in Alaska.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27
News Highiights
Continued from page ?

respect to the use of air power in the Southwest Pacific, and the experience gained in that area, is of the highest importance to Alaska and Alaskans by reason of the vast extent of the Territory and the lack of any means of speedy travel on the ground. The text of General MacArthur's sta tement follows:
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27

"The destruction of remnants of the enemy forces in the San amanda Area concludes the Papuan Campaign. The Horii Army Ct Gen. Tomitaro Horii commanded the estimated l5,000 Japanese troops in Papua) has been annihilated. "The outstand- ing military lesson of this cam paign was the continuous, calcu- lated application of air power employed in the most intimate tactical and logistical union with
Evening star., 1943-06-21

base years for determining profits
in connection with price control but
the OPA radicals nevertheless
selected that base.
What remedy is there for Con-
gress when laws" are made in STAR
chamber sessions by OPA officials?
To repeal or prohibit such regula-
tions? But the President has the
veto power which means he can
overrule the majority of both
houses-something that cannot hap
pen in Canada or Britain, where
the people have a closer check on
their executive agencies.
The only defense, which the peo-
pie have in America when bureau
Gratis become arbitrary and insist
on writing laws that never were
passed by Congress-as for instance
in the matter of subsidies-is to
deny the executive agencies funds
for operations. It's a severe form
of redress but it's the only one left
that can be used against radicals
Evening star., 1943-06-21

mestic activities as partisan, stupid
and unnecessary to the war effort
had combined for a long time to
create the Ill will which found ex-
preston in the devastating House
vote. The critical comments of Mr..
Davis concerning the way in which
Washington correspondents do their
work and on what he considers the
general deterioration of the news
paper business since he left it, may
have lent force to the blow, but it
would have come anyhow. Nor was
there much point in Republican
members of Congress rushing to the
defense Of the press after Mr.. Da-
Wis speech.
Old Stuff to Writers.
For one thing, Washington corre-
spondents have been lectured by even
more pompous and preIentlous per-
sons than Mr.. Davis. And, they
have been publicly buttered many
times by politicians Of greater i'm
portance than those who arose last
week to tell them what fine fellows
they are and what q low creature
Mr.. Davis is. With the correspond
ents this is all in the days work.
They expect to be unpopular with
jobholders whose ineptitudes they
have pointed out. And they ex-
pect to be praised by those on the
other side who think they see an
opportunity Of ingratiating them
selves with the newspaper boys"
and at the same time score against
an opponent.
Each cancels the other out. Both
are well understood by every news
paperman and neither Is Of i'm
portance. OF course, Mr.. Davis is
not a low creature. nor a Goebbels
nor q Gayda. On the contrary,
while he is filled with a too deep
consciousness Of his own rectitude,
he Is devoid of any sinister purpose.
1t is possible to say that his per-
sonal manners could be improved,
that his capacity as a public ad-
ministrator is slight, that his sense
OF humor Is feeble, that his judg-
ment of men is poor and that he
thinks more highly Of himself than
the facts justify. But efforts to de-
pict him as an evil man are Just
ridiculous. He may be a bore, but
he isn't bad.
Considering his type, Mr.. Davis
attitude toward newspapermen is
entirely natural. To one of his
temperament 1t is natural to feel
that the newspaper business suffered
great loss when he left it and he Is
rather addicted to referring to the
time when II was reporter myself" !"
implying that reporting was on a
much higher level in those days
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Army Air Forces Win
Safety Councils Award
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The National Safety Councils
special wartime award was pre-
sented to the Army Air Forces yes
terday for distinguished service to
safety"
The award was based on the AAF
record of an average OF only five
injuries for each 100 men in its
aviation cadet program.
Presented on the Army Hour
radio program, the award was ac-
cepted by Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
commander of the Air Forces, with
the statement:
There is nothing inconsistent in
the fact that the National Safety
Council makes this award to men
who are daily endangering their
lives. I see no contradiction there.
when our airmen blast our
enemies out Of the sky and of the
face Of the earth they are bringing
the end of the war closer-elimi-
mating the dangers from hostile
bombs, guns, mines-promoting not
only the safety Of the Army Air
Forces. but also the safety and
welfare Of generations to come"
Evening star., 1943-06-21

Tor q week"
These newly-arrived Americans
bring the strangest tale have ever
heard since took q course In Sax
Rohmer at Harvard. They tell me,
with the complete frankness that
the world has learned to accept as
a part of Americans, that there is
shortage of potatoes, or, as the
French say, potato shortage, in
the United States of America. I
don't believe 1t.
If there Is any shortage Of Irish
potatoes, as you call them in the
South, or white potatoes as they
call them in the East, then lease
lend should be turned over to jim
my Durante or Laurel and Hardy
or Olsen and Johnson.
If the censors will let me tell you,
these Liberty ships go back to
America loaded with sand, water,
gravel and almost anything that
will give them weight enough to
keep their propellers in the water.
~
There was a time when England
sent tweeds and Scotch. They are
not sending it any more, so in
Heavens name, why not send DO
tatoes. There are so many potatoes
in England that If this war goes on
Tor three more years all Englishmen
will have one eye, as has a potato,
and will only be at their best when
soaking wet with butter.
I don't like to write another COL
umn about food. I must have writ
ten at least 10 on the subject since
I came here, but when recent ar
rivals from the States tell me that
they are having to use macaroni az
a substitute for potatoes am forced
to take a whack at the subject.
There are more potatoes in the
British Isles than there are Cana
dian soldiers who have married
English girls-which is saying quite
lot. - -
But to get back to potatoes in
England, you get potatoes with every
single meal. 1t is the only vegetable
that can pass Brussels sprouts with
out saluting because Of rank.
You can get potato soup. potato
canapes, potato bread, potato pastry,
potato chips. imitation potato cut
lets, imitation potato steak, imita-
ton potato dessert, and, to top it of,
when you leave, the English pro-
prietor. in an endeavor to make an
American feel at home, often says.
We'll, good night, Old Potato"
Three thousand miles away from
home / wonder If "Old Potato" was
said by AL Smith to Franklin D.
Roosevelt or by Franklin D. Roose-
velt to Al Smith.
distributed BY McNauEht Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1943-06-21

nal pOutlcal Cohsssnsine brown
conditions in North Africa, where
the De Gaulle- Giraud row has
not been settled, or whether the
time set for the invasion has not
arrived, is q military secret. But
information considered reliable
indicates that in the last two
weeks Hitler, answering sos calls
from Mussolini, has been moving
troops across the Brenner Pass
with great speed. From intelli-
gence reports, it appears that
these troops have been taken
from the general reserve pool in
the Reich as have the fighter
planes which have appeared in
the Mediterranean to oppose An
glo-American air squadrons.
1t seems the two dictators be-
lieve the Allies might attempt
to 60 farther than the Mediter-
ranean outposts this summer in
the event the Italian forces in
Sicily collapse.
Mussolini has q number OF
divisions in the Balkans and
Southern France-about n in all.
The, total mobilization of Italy,
which was ordered a few weeks
ago, is nowhere near complete.
A number Of divisions which
fought last year on the Russian
front have returned to the home
land and are forming the back
bone Of the italian defense army.
Their number is estimated at be-
tween 7 and IL divisions.
Nazi Troops Rushed to Italy.
The reported German plan to
let the Italians shift for them
selves in the south and concen-
trate a strong defensive force
along the Po River and in the
Alps appears to have been
changed. The Nazi high COM
mand, answering Mussolini's call
for immediate help. is now rush.
ing troops and airplanes as fast
as 1t can, and. according to
reliable observers, these troops
are being sent to the south to
bolster the resistance Of the
Italian Army.
There are even indications
that IS forces which had been
pulled out of Sicily after the
collapse of Axis resistance in
Tunisia have been sent back and
have taken battle position at
strategic points on that island.
The arrival Of fresh German
troops In large numbers In Italy
is interpreted in military quarters
to mean that Hitler will accept
battle on Italian soil should the
Allies wish to make Italy their
Evening star., 1943-06-21
The Great Game of Politics
Elmer Dovis' Protestutions Portrayed
As Weak ExpIonotion to Cover Up

This is a delusion, but, while 1t does
not greatly endear him to active re-
reporters, 1t does no harm. He was
made head Of the owl not because
OF his newspaper record but be-
cause as q radio commentator he had
done good job and made q national
reputation.
But there was another reason.
Mr.. Davis was also q New Dealer
Of the more advanced kind, q men,
ber of the radical American Labor
party, an ardent third termer and
just as ardent for the fourth term.
Without those qualifications he
might have been much more gifted
than he is and he would not have
been given the chief propaganda
job in this administration. When
he came to Washington, Mr.. Davis
had very good press. Correspond
ents and columnists alike we're
cordial up to the time Of certain
developments. One of these was
that Mr.. Davis owl was using the
taxpayers money to distribute ntera-
ture which, in effect, was New Deal
campaign material.
Friction and Feuds.
Another was that MIR. Davis very
expensive organization was full OF
friction and feuds and that Mr..
Davis, himself, did not know a great
deal about what was going on.
When these things were pointed out
in the press, Mr.. Davis aggrievedly
proclaimed that all he was doing
was giving the American people
full and accurate information"
There was considerable documen-
tary evidence to contradict this and
his contention was not strengthened
by his public reference to fourth
term talk as "hot air" In face of
the facts, that was anything but
full and accurate" 1t was, in fact.
extremely silly.
Mr.. Davis reaction to press COM
ment on these things was resentful
and his speech defending the bu-
reaucrats and criticizing corre-
spondents clearly was due to hurt
feelings. But no one should be sur
prised at this. Criticism Of the press
is major New Deal policy, and
Mr.. Davis reaction in small way
is exactly Mr.. Roosevelt's in a big
way. No doubt Mr.. Davis has been
commended for his attack" by the
White House "inner circle" and
probably it will be followed by
others-which is all right.
Some Feel Only Contempt.
Like his chief, he conceives 1t his
duty to point out the errors of the
press and correct the correspond
ents who show this regretable dis
position to carp and cavil at great
men. The correspondents do not
mind. Some Of them are amused
over the efforts of a bungling bu-
reaucrat to tell them how not to
report his bungling. Others just
feel contempt. But few really care.
They know that long after Mr..
Roosevelt, Mr.. Davis and the rest
of those who now strut upon the
Washington stage have passed away,
Washington correspondents still will
be reOOrtinP To the c01lntrv the
facts about Presidents and public
omcials. They will be assailed by
those whom they criticize and
praised by the politicians who hap
pen to be on the other side. And
neither will make any difference
whatsoever.
If the time ever comes when any
administration and its opposition