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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
TOWN ELECTION FEB. 28TH
Two COumcilmen, Collector, Treas
urer, One Assessor to Be Electe1

Town election will be held this
year on Monday, February 18th, at
which time two councilmen, the
collector, treasurer, and one asses
sor will be elected. Those whose
terms expire are: Ralph FAIRIES and
John Mannering, councilmen; Mrs.
Lolita Robinson, collector; Harry
Lower, treasurer, and Grant CARTS,
assessor. Taxes must be paid by
February LIST to be eligible to vote.
Candidates will file names 10 days
before the election, or by February,
18th.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
125 MEN ATTEND
ASBURY DINNER
Delinquency Problems Topic
at Mems Banquet; Meth
Odist Leaders Heard
CHALLENGE TO CHURCH

Methodist Church leaders and ed
ucators from a wide area of the
state, and Mayor R. F. Corley were
the guests of the Men of Asbury
Methodist Church here at a BAN
quet when the problems of delin-
quency were discussed on broad
scale. The pastor, Rev. Robert E.
Green, pastor, welcomed the 125
guests and members. Out of town
guests were Rev. DR.. Walter AS
bury Hearn, District Superintend-
ent of Dover District of Methodist
Church; the Rev. DR.. j. w. Colona,
the Rev. Ralph Minker, T. Blair
Ely, all of Wilmington; the Rev.
Frederick M. Barton, rector of st.
Peters Episcopal Church, Smyrna;
Rev. o. A. Brewer, pastor of st.
Paups Methodist Church, Clayton,
and Rev. William Matthews of
Smyrna.
Problems of Delinquency
DR.. Hearn spoke on the challenge
of the Church, stressing the prob
lens of delinquency and the trag-
edies of every community as a
challenge to the church. Harvey
c. Jones, general superintendent of
the Church School, introduced T.
Blair Ely, Conference Lay Leader
who stressed the challenge the
church gives the laity for the pres
ent hour and the responsibility the
laymen have in cooperating with
the righteous forces to bring in a
new day. Mayor Corley introduced
Mr.. Minker, superintendent of Fer
ris Industrial School, who spoke of
the value at the present hour the
home receives by the parents and
citizens of the community being
good churchmen. DR.. Colona and
Rev. Barton also made few re-
Sharks, and Rev. Brewer pro-
nounced the benediction.
Mems Committee
Edward T. Porter was toastmast-
er, DR.. George R. Miller conducted
the group singing, and a quartet
consisting of l.. M. Price, Henry
Ennis, Harry Johnson and Lloyd
Jones sang several selections
Others called upon who represented
different offices of Asbury Church
were Andrew Cole, l.. M. Price
Harvey Jones, Clifford Jones, Will
liam Matthews, Jr., DR.. George R
Miller and Lloyd Jones. The COM
mittee of men assisting with ar
ranging the banquet were Mr.. Port
err, Clifford Jones, William Wroten
l.. Easley, Harry johnson, Elwood
Kemp, w. E. Matthews, Jr., Wash
ington Jester, Wilson Langrell
Louis Price, John Melvin, George
Reed, Lloyd Jones, Ernest Blendt
The Woman's Society of Christian
Service of Asbury Church served
the binquet, with Mrs. Frank Nc
Cauley chairman. Mrs. Clifford
Jones and Mrs. Kennard Price were
chairmen of the dining room and
decorations.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
WSCS HEAR REPORTS
Methodist Women Who Attended
Conference Report

T.
The Women's Society of Chris
tan Service met in Asbury Meth
odist Church Friday night with the
president, Mrs. Ernest S. Mattiford,
in charge. Devotions were con-
Quoted by Mrs. William R. Stats.
The program was in charge of Mrs.
Walter G. Myers. Mrs. Robert E.
Green, and Mrs. L. M. Price, dele
gates, Mrs. Thomas G. Jackson,
Miss Lizzie Jones, Mrs. Walter c.
Myers, Mrs. Fred Harris, Mrs. Will
liam ]. M. Wroten, and Mrs. Frank
P. McCawley, who attended the
conference meeting which was held
in Wesley Methodist Church, Do
yer, Thursday, January 18th gave a
report. After the meeting adjourn
ed refreshments were served.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
PLAN SERIES OF LECTURES
Rotary May Bring Institute of I'm
derstanding Here Again

Officials of the Smyrna Rotary
Club disclosed yesterday that ef-
forts are being made to bring the
Institute of Understanding to this
town for the second time. This In
stitute, sponsored by Rotary Clubs
throughout the country, is series
of four lectures by prominent per-
sons who speak with authority on
international affairs. If plans are
completed, the lectures will be CIV
en-, one a week, during the last two
weeks in February and the first
two weeks in March.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
CLAYTON BOND DRIVE
Solicitors Named by r. w. Slaugh.
ter and Mrs. Richard COmegys

ter and Mrs. Richard C0megys
R. w. Slaughter is chairman and
Mrs. Richard Comegys is co-chair-
man of the Fourth War Loan Drive
in Clayton. The following solic-'
itors have been named: Seville
Keys, Raymond Mabrey, ]. Rey-
nolds Pratt, Robert Horn, Julian
Dunning, Mrs. Mary H. Brown, Mrs.
Seville Keys, Mrs. Thomas Kennedy,
Mrs. Howard Virdin, Mrs. Lillian
Cullen, Mrs. Mitchell Bush, Mrs.
Jane Wheatley, Miss Beatrice
Downing, Mrs. Lewis Conway, Mrs.
Ruth Sparks, and Mrs. Annabelle
Castiglione.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
Parking SPACE at Diner

A driveway and parking space is
under construction on the Mt. Yer
non. street side of the Hi-Way
Diner on the DUPONT Highway here.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27

BeneuIctIOH MT. HtTTf1dH Ddr1Ti T HsUOr
The committee in charge of ar
rangements is Harry Cloud, Audrey
Ashton, and Doris Pyle. Mrs. FL
mer David and Miss Birdie Ransom
are in charge of refreshments. All
the young people of the commun-
ity are invited.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Robert j. Ferguson, SO, Dover I'm
dertaker, Died Thursday Morning

Robert j. Ferguson, age SO, died
at his home in Dover, Thursday
morning following long illness.
He was probably the oldest living
undertaken in the state having
started in business in Dover more
than 40 years ago. Born on Feb
ruary LIST, 1860, near Centreville,
Nd, son of the late Colin r. and
Margaret Ferguson, he would have
been 81 next month. Funeral SER
vices were held at his late residence
on State STREET Saturday aftrnoon
at 1:30 o'clock. with Rev. G.. A.
Burslem former pastor of the Pres
byterian Church in Dover officiat-
ing. Interment was in the
family plot in Lakeside Gene
terry. Surviving are daughter,
Mrs. Frank Hayes of Dover, one
sister, Miss Margaret Ferguson,
Baltimore, and three grand chill
dren, Robert Ferguson Hayes, Eliz-
abeth Paris Hayes and Mrs. Arley
B. Magee, Jr., all of Dover.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
C. E. GROUP TO
GIVE PROGRAM
Presbyterian Christian En-
deavOr Program Next
Monday Night
INVITE ALL YOUTHS

The Christian Endeavor Society
of the First Presbyterian Church
will present a program in connec-
ton with National Youth Week
next Monday night, Jan. 31st. The
program will be held in the church
beginning at 7:45, with Zone Faith
One Fellowship" the topic. The
Delaware State c e. Union execu-
tive committee will be present. A
recreational hour will follow the
devotion in the Sunday School
room, with the Rev. Lester Case,
field secretary for the Union, in
charge. The program will be as
follows:
Organ Prelude
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
KENT 1914 GOAL
9 MAIN CROPS
Farmers Meet to Pledge In
creased Food PrOduc-
tiOn During 1914
9 LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS

Increased production of essential
war foods in all three counties in
1914 was pledged by farm leaders
at meetings in the three county
seats this week. County war food
production goals for this year were
adopted. County and community
committeeman of the Delaware Ag-
ricultural Adjustment Agency at
tended the sessions to fix the war
goals and receive instructions for
the enlistment of all farmers in tht
1914 campaign on the farm front.
The 1914 AAA farm plan for in
creasing food production by i'm
proving soil fertility and reducing
erosion hazards was explained.
State goals propose 1914 paintings
of nine principal crops equal to or
in exctss of the 1913 acreages, and
a 1914 output of nine livestock
products equal to or in excess of
the 1943 production.
Farm Leaders Talk
The farm leaders heard informa-
tional talks from Clarence E. Ochel-
tree, chairman of the Delaware
United States Department of Ag-
riculture War Board and Delaware
AAA; Ernest S. Mattiford, State
AAA committeeman; Claude Phil
lips, Delaware Agricultural Exten-
sion Service agronomist; Henry ].
Krages and Albert o. Humphreys,
administrative assistants to the
State AAA Committed, and H. B.
Hendricks, Soil Conservation Serv-
ice. Presiding at the Kent county
conferences was R. Harry Wilson,
county chairman of the Kent Coun-
ity Agricultural Conservation Asso-
Citations.
War Food Goals
The 1914 Kent county war-food
goals are: Irish potatoes, 1000
acres; sweet potatoes, 900 acres;
processed vegetables, green peas,
500 acres; snap beans, 600 acres;
sweet corn, 800 acres; tomatoes,
5000 acres; fresh vegetables, 1000
acres; soybeans for oil, 10000
acres; corn, 1880 acres; OATS L.
500 acres; barley, 5000 acres; rye
1000 acres; wheat, $4,000 acres;
tame hay, $4,000 acres; farm gar
dens, 1900 acres; milk cows, $4,000
head; calves, 10000; beef cattle
300; sheep and lambs, 400; sows tc
farrow in the spring, 1000; sows to
farrow in the fall, 900; milk pro-
duction, 63,750,000 pounds; milk
per COW, 1880 pounds; hens and
bullets, $4,000; eggs production
3,228,0O0 dozens; turkeys, 10000;
broilers, 100000.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
BLACKBIRD BOY KILLED
Bayard F. Henderson Dies in Plane
Crash in Texas With G. A. p.

Bayard F. Henderson, 80 years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Henderson of Blackbird, Civil Air
Patrol pilot was killed last week in
a crash at Laredo, Texas, according
to word received by his parents
from his wife. A veteran private
pilot, Henderson. has been cying
with the CAP for the past Is
months after graduating from an
airplane mechanics school at Lam
caster, Calf. Prior to going to
Laredo, he had been stationed at
Ell Paso and San Benito, Texas. Be-
fore joining the CAP he lived at
Wilmington Manor and worked for
a number of years with the Ameri-
can Oil Company. His wife, Mrs.
Ethel Kemp Henderson, formerly
of Cheswold, is secretary to the
commanding officer of the CAP at
Laredo.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
Harvey G. Cole iii, 2 Months Old

Harvey G. Cole III, age 2 months
son of Harvey G. and Catherine
Carton Cole of near Clayton, died
in the Delaware Hospital in Will
mington Thursday, January Goth
Funeral services were held at his
parents home Saturday morning
with Rev. Frederick Marx Barton
in charge. Burial was in Odd Eel
lows Cemetery.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-01-27
Memorial Services

Memorial services were held at
Laredo and the body was sent here.
Interment was in Gracelawn Me-
mortal Park. Besides his wife and
parents, he is survived by two sis
tiers, Mrs Lewis Nickel of Della
ware City, and Mrs. Mildred Keller
of Smyrna, and two brothers, Reg
inald Henderson of Blackbird, and
Private Leon Henderson, who
fought with the American forces
during the invasion of Italy and
who is now confined to a hospital in
North Africa due to illness.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-22
Ydnks Seize
Hinnnn|er Aide
By PIERRE ]. HUsS

METZ. France, Nov. Il (INS)
- The American Third Army
today caught alive one Of those
elusive watchdoGs Heinrich
Himmler posted over every region
Of Europe 10 keep a grip on friend
and foe alike.
This ones only other boss next
10 Himmler himself is Himmler's
deputy Commander of the entire
police force and its affiliated
gestapo organization in Lorraine
and the Saar he Is SIS Mai. Gen.
Anton Dunckern. 80. bull-necked
and with a one-track mind. In
every way he is a true Himmler
disciple.
He glared at his captors or
stared Stolidly al his highly pol.
iShed jackkniie boots He spoke
little and at the time he did speak
ii was with definite inSolence.
Taken 10 a heaquarters post
after his capture, he scarcely
nodded or acknowledged the pres
ence of Col Constantin Meyer.
captured Metz military COM
mander.
He made il clear that as an
officer ne comes within the cate
CORY OF war prisoner, with the
same status as that accorded to
regular Germany army officers.
A single glance told me there
was bad blood between the two
obviously the same old frictionS
and rivalries rampant between the
German army and the SIS as be-
fore the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-22
Niaduct Crash
Kills DetrOifer

BATTLE CREEK. Nov. 21-
George Weldon Romine, 81. of
Detroit was killed on US-12, near
Battle Creek last night when his
automobile crashed into the Grand
Trunk viaduct. His sister, Dorothy
Ann Romine, suffered from shock
and bruises.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-22
marshal kesseIring
Is Reported Killed

LONDON, Nov. p INS)-The
London Daily Telegraph quoted a
report from Italy today in which
German troops captured at Forli
said that they believed Nazi
Marshal KesSelring had died of
wounds five days after his car was
attacked by Allied fighter planes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-22
Named TO Sanity Board

PONTIAC, Nov. 2l-Dr. Jack
Vatz of the Pontiac State Hos
pital has been appointed a men,
Der of a sanity commission 10
examine Ernest Parsons of De-
troit now in Jail awaiting trial on
a murder charge. Parsons is
charged with the death of a De-
troit girl last summer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

w. Murphy of Dunmore, Pa, de-
flated the great Gerald for all
time.
Among the more amazing ad-
missions forced out of Smith
were these: That he had failed
to file statements on his cam
paign receipts and expenditures,
as required by law.
That his Committee Of One
Million" has been without funds
for the past four years.
That Smith had opposed tire,
sugar and food rationing and u.
S. CONSUMPTION programs, and
had Campaigned in Michigan
for election to the Senate under
such slogans as, Tires for Ev-
erybody,' Butter for Americans
First and Meat for Americans
First" One of his campaign
boasts was, "Tll get tires for ev-
erybody or they'll have to take
me off the Senate floor gagged
and bound" Admitting that he
had tried to make these issues
popular, Smith said with an at
tempt at sarcasm, "Of course,
when you attempt to make any
thing popular, that's rabble
rouSing"
Smith was exceedingly vague
about what went on at the Am
erica First Party convention in
Detroit at the end of August. He
denied stories that he had six
body guards. He was exceed
.ingly confused about the back
ground of a delegate named
Homer Maerz from Chicago, who
had introduced resolution pro-
Viding for the removal from Am
erica Of all Jews, with steriliza-
ton ordered for all those who
did not move within five years
FAILS TO NAME
ANONYMOUS REPUBLICAN
They also tried without sue
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON


Exclusively Yours: Jon Halls
nose will be permanently SCARF
ed as a grim reminder of Holly
woods battle Of the balcony.
The plastic surgery, performed
on nose which previously had
undergone plastic surgery, IS not
taking properly.
Don't be surprised If Navy
Capt. Gene Marley and Myrna
10y combine Christmas bells
with wedding bells.
It's old hat that a lady can
change her mind, SO we WerCn t
surprised to hear that Alice
Faye will be returning TO the
screen in the musical version of
State Fair" She's the little
lady, you may remember, who
swore she would never appear
on the screen again except in
straight dramatic roles.
Sophie Tucker, in her COS is
taking golf lessons from comic
Jack Durant.
Pat O'Brien suggests: Before
you tell a gal nowadays her
stockings are wrinkled, be sure
she wear en-"
Josephine Dillon, eXWife OF
Clark Gable and the one respOn-
sible for his career, has a new
discovery-Charles Carroll. He
is due for a build-up at one Of
the major lots,
Note from a certain Pvt. Red
Shelton: It's really beautiful
here at Camp Roberts. We call
our camp The Forest because
we have one tree three feet tall
and it has SO leaves on it. !
counted them. And when you
put 800 men under a tree that
size, it's almost like sitting in
the SUM-"
After renting Hedy Lamarr's
house, Xavier Cugat comment
ed: Il hope she forgets some day
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12

cess to make Smith give the
name of a man he had written
about in an open letter printed
in his magazine-"one of the
richest men in America who is
very powerful in the Republican
Party" and who had told him,
You can have anything you
want if you'll go along with
Tom Dewey"
IF l can stay out of Jail" said
Smith, "Ill tell that when il will
do the most good"
Smiths principal defense was
that three organizations were
trying TO defame him-the Nom
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, the
Authorization League and the
Friends of Democracy.
In the whole performance,
Smith had only one brief mo-
ment Of even reflected glory in
the four hours Of grilling. Ask
ing for personal privilege,
Smith told about his son, Gerald
Smith, Jr., a mule skinner with
Merrills Marauders in Burma.
Young Smith was wounded in
the expedition in which 200 of
the 300 men were casualties.
His decorations include the Sill
yer Star, Presidential Citation,
Combat Medal and Purple
Heart. Though he had had six
years Of military training in
schools, said Smith, the boy
hadn't been able to get into Of
ficers' training camp because OF
the disreputable reputation OF
his father"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
HISTORY THROUGH THE HAT

Once again are indebted to the hat indus
trys trade journals for on item Of minor but intr-
euine information. Early in the they informed
US that most Panama hats didn't come from Pan
anna, but from the Far Eost Now, as the Allies push
northword in toly, learn thot leehorn strows
don't come from Leehorn at oI but from small
area near Florence
We olso discover that the hot people, though
they view the war largely in terms Of strows and
bur broid and buntoI fibers, still taking what
is known os the long view. The publication "Hot
Life" for instonce states that THE things the hat
trode wants most lie at the end Of the long rood
Japan ITSELF" To which we outside the trode can
soy Amen
Finol victory and sennit brods, the end Of the
Greater Eost Asio CoProsperty Sphere and plenty Of
Togo Ponomos and Bonekoks yes, it's going to be
q great doy, whether you're hotter or not.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

that she's moved
After Dark: Robert Walker
and Judy Garland danCi n &
cheek to cheek at the Biltmore
Bowl.
Marty Lewis, the Paramount
radio director, and Dorothy Van
Nuys, one Of the most beautiful
of the Ziegfeld Follies girls,
have discovered each other.
Overheard by Lloyd Bacon:
She certainly put on the dog
and doesn't she wish it were
silver fox
After years of knocking off
bad men in those wild westerns,
Hollywood has found a new
switch member Of the fair
sex gets killed in a gun duel. 1t
happens in Metros Gentle An
ME" AS the accomplishments
of a pair Of bandit sons, Mar
jorle Main dies following a gun
battle with Sheriff Barton Mac
Lane.
The Canadian Film weekly
reports this double bill: 10000
Horscmen-They All Kissed the
Bride
Director Raoui Walsh and Lii
liam GiSh played a reunion scene
the other day at Paramount. He
directed her 35 years ago.
Character actor Martin Kos
leck, who was a Max Reinhardt
student in Europe, is writing the
life story Of the great professor
Arthur Napier, the actor who
plays symphony conductor in
the 10th Ccntury-Fox film
Hangover Square" went to see
Sir Thomas BeeCham direct the
Los Angeles Symphony OrChes-
ira. Asked by director John
Brahm what he had learned,
Napier said; IF | attempted
one-half the gymnastics Sir
Thomas goes through you would
put me in a strait jacket"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
HEALTH REPORT

America hos - at least we have fondly suPPos-
ed ourselves to have the highest standard OF hV-
ina in the world Americans have an excellent lite
expectancy bettered according to the lost Prewor
stotistcs) only by the residents OF the scandinavian
countries Holland Australia and New Aeoond'
Now, suddenly there is deep concern about our no.
tonol health.
A ooomy diagnosis has been issued by con-
sutoton Of distinguished doctors and expert 'oY-
men, called by the Senate Subcommittee on War;
time Health and Education to thump the countrys
chest and feel its pulse
I'VE can no longer regard ourselves as sturdy
healthy noton the country is oiIne" says Co.. Leon
ard Rowntree, medical director Of SeectIve Service.
He brands American youth as soft and tIobby' .
instead of "a country Of rugged, VerlIe men, the
droft examiners expected to find.
Speokinq Of mental diseases, responsible tor the
rejection of fourth Of four million 4Fs Mo-
Gen. Lewis Hershey, SeIectve Service chief, says, !
cannot help feeling that you are just talking or de-
mocrocy when such condition exists.
The situation is undoubtedly serious, but these
statements contain implications that are likely to
miseod Apparently Colonel Rowntree means, in his
first statement, that we likely seemingly heal
thy man who discovers through physical checkup
that he has lung spot tricky heart It's nasty
shock but isn't it better to know about personal or
national ailments, rather than be deluded until too
late?
And by the way Of comparison are our youths
soft and fIobby? Are we, as q nation, softer than
the enemies we are beating in battle, fIobber than
the enemies we ore defeating on the production
'front.' Are the sufferers from heart disease for which
they are not responsible, or from tuberculosis in
duced by overwork and undernourishment are the
athletes with military serious defects all to be lump
ed together in contemPtuous imputotion Of def
Gent vrility?
General Hershey reveals that IS per cent Of the
million mental rejectees we're first thought to be
sound, but later showed that "their emotions we're
in such stote that they could not stand modern
war;" Isn't that rather condemnation Of war than
Of democroeys neglect?
Our national health can and must be improved.
Let US go about it os we'll as we con now, and thor
ouehIy when the war is over. But let's stop acting
like breost-beotine supermen who regard illness as
personal weakness and shame 1t is treson1e, logi-
col, and unfair to too many people.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
HAZARD

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Oct. 12-
(PD-Police Traffic Officer Ger
aid II. Martindale said that a
pedestrian moved into the side of
a truck on downtown street,
and Collided with the wrist Of a
passenger. The wrist, draped
over the side Of the truck, was
fractured. The pedestrian, Au-
gustin Vermillion, was unin-
jured.