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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03
Washington is long overdue.

Washington is hong overdue.
YOU DO KNOW that to get an
honest, economical administration
in our National Capitol the present
occupant must be ousted.
The man to do this job is
THOMAS E. DEWEY, who has
demonstrated his ability to crush
bad government practices. who has
given the State of New York one
Of its finest administrations. and
who on January goth next will
bring to Washington new outlook
on the conduct of National affairs.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03
WE ARE A NATION AT WAR
ROOSEVELT

If you want that son. brother
or husband in the Armed Ser
vice to continue to be the best
fed, best clad, best equipped to
minimize loss, and the best Off
cered Soldier and Sailor in the
best Army and Navy the world
has ever known. and hasten the
day of complete Victory when
you can welcome him back
home, vote for Roosevelt.
political ADVERTISEMENT
VIM. W. COnwell
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03

to the ways of peace. A capable
Governor with a cooperative Gen
eral Assembly is needed to bring
assurance of a sound philosophy of
government and an honest approach
to our problems during this period
of transition. This can be done by
the reelection of Walter w. Bacon
as Governor and the election of a
Republican House and Senate next
Tuesday.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03

pounds of strawberry preserves
and 11S,OSS pounds of canned sal
mon?
DO YOU KNOW that both thu
C. l. o. and the A. F. of L. have
protested the use of owl broad.
casting facilities in disseminating
Communist propaganda?
DO YOU KNOW that our farm
ers were forced to burn millions
of bushels of wheat to prevent the
assessment of 40 cents per bushel
for raising more than their quota,
while at the same time we bought
wheat from Canada to make up the
deficit?
DO YOU KNOW that paintings of
the WPA art project, upon which
the Administration spent $35,OOO.-
600 of taxpayers money, were re-
Gently sold for four. cents a pound
to Long Island junk dealer?
DO YOU KNOW that as of De-
cember 81, 1912, the employees of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, a
government-owned power project
competing with private industry,
numbered BASIS?
DO YOU KNOW that the loss of
the Federal Crop Insurance Cor
pOration on wheat alone was SAL
OO0,OO0.00 for a period of four
years?
DO YOU KNOW that our Food /
Distribution Administration pur-
chased in Iceland $4,000, 100000 /
worth of fish and fish products
which we gave to England on a
Lend-Lease basis; and that the
British Government sold it and
pocketed the proceeds for the Brit
ish Treasury? Don't blame Eng
Iand-blame those who are sup
posed TO protect our interests.
DO YOU KNOW that in 1871 the :
administration financed a magnes- /
um company to the tune of s13S.-
100000 and in 1912, so complete
vas the failure that 52199o of the
took of the company was sold for
$4,000.
DO YOU KNOW that there are
'ver 200 separate committees
studying" our postwar foreign
policy? Does this muddled ap-
roach indicate that Mr.. Roosevelt
5 indispensable to the winning of
he peace?"
DO YOU KNOW that the Foreign
economic Administration lost
$50 100000 on the purchase of ST.
30 100000 worth of Brazil nuts
'om Brazil?
DO YOU KNOW that landscap-
lg around the Pentagon Building
/ Washington. which included the
avelopment of an artificial lake, :
,st $5.594.152? -
DO YOU KNOW that 60 different a
ederal agencies are engaged in 4
Tying land-the Federal Govern
ent now owns one-fifth of all the
nd in the United States? "A
DO YOU KNOW that the British
| reserves are approximately
lual to those of the United States,
It Britain is supplying per cent
the oil used by the United Ma y
ons while we are supplying so
II cent? X
DO YOU KNOW that our Gov
nment has paid $1S5,OOO.OO for a
ansion in Washington in which X
sitting dignataries may live and a
We receptions and dinners at will.
at the expense of our taxpayers;
at part of the equipment is
10000 silver service? "a
DO YOU KNOW that the OPA
lploys 200 lawyers to perform
legal work. whereas in England
requires but 10? N
DO YOU KNOW that the pay
i of the Federal civilian en-
'yees is approximately $780,
100000 per month?
DO YOU KNOW that the Admin -
ration now has approximately K
900 100000 invested in private
erprises? n
DO YOU KNOW that the travel
Dense of the Federal Works
ency for a six-month period X
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03

DO YOU KNOW that in 1913 Ser
: ator Byrd's committee reported
There has been. no appreciable de
I cline in the use of Government au
a tomobiles by peace time agencies.
During the last fiscal year, Gov
? ernment-owned and rented car
Exclusive of Army and Navy trav
/ Sled some 45O,0OO,OOO miles, usinl
25.OO0,0O0 to 100000 gallons O
gasoline?
DO YOU KNOW that during the
last fiscal year, OPA required the
filing of 7,715,229 report forms?
DO YOU KNOW that Lend-Lease
Administration is paying male stem
ographers in North Africa $6,52O.0O
per year, plus $500 per day sub
sistence allowance?
DO YOU KNOW that the bureau
cracy set up by the Administration
in Washington is so complex that
1t requires the services of 10000
employees and costs taxpayers $685.
100000 annually to audit such of
their accounts as are subject to au-
dit?
DO YOU KNOW that the tele-
phone bill of the Civil Service Com
mission for six-mOnth period was
more than 100000?
DO YOU KNOW that one of
OPA's chief economists asked draft
deferment of an able-bodied, I'M
married 2S-year-old professor, be-
cause, he said, the true economic
has only been develop
ed during the past ten years. and
the older men cannot understand |
it,"
DO YOU KNOW that the Food
Administration through negligence
permitted 100000 tons of canned
milk. 100000 pounds of eggs.
md S56,250 bushels of potatoes TO
spoil?
DO YOU KNOW that Lend-Lease
S paying truck repairmen in North
Africa $1O.645.OO per year. plus
200 per day subsistence allow
nee?
DO YOU KNOW that in 1913 lit
nature mailed out by the Depart
lent of Agriculture cost the tax
ayers S1.3OO.OOO?
DO YOU KNOW of the existence
f the Board of Geographical i
James" for determining the prop t
+ pronunciation of the names of
owns. rivers, etc, the salary of
hose chairman is $4,000?
DO YOU KNOW that the tele- d
hone bill of NYA averaged 100000 f
month?
DO YOU KNOW that in 1913 the i
pkeep of the Department of Agri- il
llture library cost $469 100000? d
DO YOU KNOW that the Admin c
tration paid $500 a month for
lch car stored in a garage at 1872 +
ew York avenue, Washington, d. b
4? II
DO YOU KNOW that in 1913 more |;
ian 1867 ,4OO,OOO.OO was spent by
lie Department of Agriculture o
one? e.
DO YOU KNOW that the NYA. v
lring its existence, spent more o
an $771.OOO 100000? ii
DO YOU KNOW that there are p
4 Federal agencies and bureaus,
ending at the rate of S164,O0O,- Ell
O., engaged in research work? m
DO YOU KNOW that the tele- vi
one bill of the OPA for a six gi
nth period was more than $780, al
300? III
DO YOU KNOW that non-war 81
penditures of the Government in
eased more than $4,000, 10000 en-
IN July l to September 81. 1913? its
DO YOU KNOW that for a six it
nth period travelling expenses
Government employees, exclud- 70
/, the War and Navy Departments, pl,
ounted to more than 35.O00,- 90
100?
% YOU KNOW that an official list
ort to Congress covering gov So
ment-owned food spoilage lists en-
ong other items: 2,739.O0O
Inds of beans and peas. 295,O0O ex
Inds of wheat cereal. 234,62O Ag
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-11-03

AMERICAN FARMERS must b,
provided for in the postwar plan
ming if the nation as a whole is Il
prosper. This fact is self-evident
and the prosperity of the farmer
must be paramount within the next
few months. At no time during its
twelve years in office has the New
Deal handled the vital farm prob
lem in sensible or favorable man.
ner. The handling of the farm
problem has been as uneconomic
and autocratic as has its bungling
in other fields of industry. Cover
nor Dewey was speaking for our
people as whole when in his
stirring address in Syracuse, New
York, on Saturday he indicated the
New Deals farm policy as a grow
ing threat to national prosperity.
From the very beginning the Roos-
evelt Administration has been OBJ
scessed by the unsound notion that
the way to make the farmers and
the nation prosper is to curtail
production of food. not to increase
it. To enforce this false philosophy
the Washington gang set up an i'm
mense bureaucracy to regulate the
farmer. And how it has
worked. For eight long years this
rule of scarcity, slaughter
Of little pigs and era of starvation
farm prices worked against a sound
recovery of prosperity in the farm
ing areas of the nation. AS Mr..
Dewey says, it took war to bring
adequate farm prices just as it
oOk war to bring jobs to the
of factory workers who
we're on the dole as a result of
he unsOund practices of the Wash
.
ngton New Deal demagogs.
More than two years after we
inferred the war Senator Truman.
he New Deal candidate for Vice
President. told his investigating
ommittee that Government agen- |
les had so restricted manufacture
f farm machinery that the farmers
iere unable to measure up to the J
Food is one of the a
rhine factors in the war effort"
aid Mr.. Truman, yet on the sur u
ace it appears that the agricul- c
ural section of the population is
eing prevented from producing Il
God" WPB officials admitted pro- e
uction of farm machinery had y
cen reduced to 1870 of the 1910 {
flowed production Only recently.
s election day was drawing near. q
ne Administration allowed the far Il
lers an opportunity to purchase a
1rely needed farm machinery
ut the catch is. where can he get d
? With none manufactured, how Il
the demand to be met?
Mr., Dewey has the right pre- i
ription for prosperity in the COM 81
g transition period from war to OC
ace. 1t is a system which pro-
ies three square meals a day for pl
+ people" made possible by real m
BIS for real money. real prices in 90
real market" Freed from the
restrictions of the New eX
al, the farmers will he able TO or
their part. To insure this square FRI
al for the workers. the farmers,
all, the election of Thomas Z. mi
wey as President is imperative. of
+ continuance of the New Deals I'M
milling and foozling farm policy. an
IN if it were to be judged by O0i
$ alone. would directly invite
other disastrous depression. rel
:'---- err
% YOU KNOW that on Novem- an
9TH the American people will po
Evening star., 1944-02-24

lied how strongly ! felt about It.
While did not realize how very
strongly you felt about that basis
decision, had / known, ! slsould
not have tried to dissuade you
from exercising your own judg-
ment in urging the overriding Of
the veto.
I sincerely hope that you VIII
not persist In your announced
intention to resign as majority
leader OF the Senate. If you do,
however. I hope your colleagues
will not accept your resignation:
but If they do, I sincerely hope
that they will Immediately and
unanimously re-elect you.
With the many serious prob
lens daily confronting US, 1t II
inevitable that at times you
should differ with your colleagues
and differ with me. I am sure
that your differing with your col.
leagues does not lessen their con.
fidence in you as leader. Ger
tainly, your differing with me
does not affect my confidence In
your leadership nor in any degree
lessen my respect and affection
for you personally.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVET.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Heavies Wilson, Kirk
Promise Hot Bout
IN AAU Finals

"A heavyweight bout is one OF the
main Ingredients In the savory dish
that viii be served Tuesday night
at uline Arena where the annual
AAJ championship grind comes to
an end. Principals are Gene Will
son and r. w. (Kayo) Kirk.
Customers have Is reasons for
turning out Tuesday night, and
Tournament Director Billy Blake
thinks one of the best of this num-
Der of bouts will be the Wilson,
Kirk 60.
Wilson halls from st. Mary's Club
and will have willy Naiman Massey
in his corner, a point In his favor
Kirk comes from Southeast WASH
ington, cradle of able scrappers.
Another bout that rates feature
billing is the 160-pound match be-
tween George Espina and Frank
Sweeney. This should b rock EN-
sock-'em duel. Espina, who whipped
Joe Cannon for the i47-pound
crown last year, has taken on weight
and moved upstairs. Sweeney also
has proved his skill and ability and
will have lot of support from the
gallery.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Mrs. Beavers Named Golf
Chairman al kenwood

Mrs. Thomas N. Beavers will head
the women's golf committee at Ken
wood Golf and Country Club this
season. She was named chairman
yesterday.
Appointed to serve with her are:
Mrs. John Barron, assistant chair
man; Mrs. j. p. Brantley, treasurer;
Mrs. H. Bashore, tournament chair
man; Mrs. Robert Keebler, assistant
tourney chairman; Mrs. E. c. At
wood. handicap chairman; Mrs. G..
E. Peterson and Mrs. Charles Slaw-
son, assistant handicap chairmen;
Mrs. Charles Jostes, social chair
man; Mrs. L. B. Sharp and Mrs.
Charles Redick, assistant chairmen.
Mrs. Gordon Dorrance was named
chairman of the team matches;
Mrs. Charles Vaile, women's repre-
sentatives on joint events With the
mems golf association, and Mrs. A.
G. Paul was named to represent the
women on the club board.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Armstrong Insists Wills Make
745 Pounds; Turner Card Filled

Hammerin' Henry Armstrong
who turned In the third straight
Knockout of his latest comeback
campaign last night in Kansas City
will return to Washington for a
fight against Frankie Wills on Mon
day, March s, provided the weight
question can be settled.
The fight will go on at Uline
Arena. Armstrong wants Wills tc
make 145 pounds, while Frankie is
holding out for lat. Wills generally
scales around 150, while Armstrong
last night was up to 145, a bit
above the figure of his previous
battles here. Wills was down to
145 for his losing bout against Bob
Montgomery here last summer and
claimed that that figure weakened
him too much.
Armstrong last night stopped
Jimmy Garrison, $50, of Los An
geles with technical knockout
in the fifth round of a scheduled
10-rounder at Kansas City. Arm
strong fioored Jimmy twice in the
Evening star., 1944-02-24

fourth round and four times in the
fifth before the referee stopped the
bout. A left hook that made Garri-
son groggy started the losers down.
fall.
Meanwhile, Promoter Joe Turner
has completed the lineup for next
Monday nights all-star fight card
at Turner's Arena with a heavy
weight match between Billy Dun
can, Fort Belvoir soldier. and Jimmy
Bell of Washington. Bell has won
his last three fights here and holds
victories over Jimmy Nelson and
Dan Biggers.
With the addition of this heavy
go, Turner's card offers a variety
ranging from featherweights to the
big boys. The feather number
sends Johnny Cockfield against
Harry Diduck. Other matches, all
of which are booked for eight
rounds, are Bobby Brown against
Okie Greer, welterweights, and
Tommy Pop) Mollis against Bee
Bee Washington, middleweights.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Evans Finds He's Loser
To Shorkey in Mat Go

In the feature mat match at
Turner's Arena last night, Babe
Sharkey pinned Don Evans by jump
ing him as Evans, who thinking
himself the winner after downing
his foe for a count of two, was
acknowledging the cheers of the
crowd.
Bouts between Johnny Long and
Leo Wallack and Dick Bishop and
Michele Leone were drawn.
Maurice LaChappelle won over
Mike Demetra and the Yellow Mask
downed War Eagle.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
ELlzABGTH, n J.-Tony Janiro,
Jackie patterson, 1875, chicssoS iS'9essSG esS:
Jerry CCursol. 40, Valley Stream. N.
New York (2).
KANSAS CrTY.-Henry Armstrong.
lson tS I9i fSo Ant:lsa k:ns., 'tSPs'd e,ss Gar
HARRIsBuRd. Pa.-Jsmaica. Har-
OLD Smith, 162, Philadelphia. Knocked
out Jesse MoIany, 148, Hsrrisbur1
"; QeoFsie Miller, l63. rhledslphia.
Wilkes-BArre. Pa. (2).
.. OAKLAND. Calf. - Eddie Booker,
I6?, San Francisco, outpointed Frankie
Nelson, 161, Boston (10),
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Wright, Finnegon to Box
In Ponumu on March 5
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
PANAMA, Feb. 24.-The Panama
Boxing Commission today approved
q March 5 bout between Chalky
Wright of New York and Young
Finnegan under the promotion Of
Carlos Cambria.
Eddie Walker, manager of Wright,
arrived with Mike Belloise, former
featherweieht champ, who will l. axe
his first Canal Zone appearance ext
month.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
|fS1 by Dorothy Raueh,
|92-Average Bowler,
D. {. Season Mark

With q score OF lsl, little known
Dorothy Rauch, 92-ayerage bowler
OF the Ladies Department Of Justice
League. today not only ,boasted the
highest game rolled by q woman In
league competition this season. but
one Of the biggest ever achieved in
Washington bowling history.
n, While the 19-year-old roller was
stealing the spotlight last night at
Lafayette another fair pinspilier,
Kitty Hendricks, went to town at
Rosslyn with q season record game
'of 174 In the Arlington County
League. =
After warming up with So and lO4,
Miss Rauch rolled two ordinary
frames Of her third game, then cut
loose with seven straight marks,
backing up double header and triple
header strikes with spares in the
fifth and ninth boxes.
Her new season city-wide game
mark gave her an all-time league
record set OF 373 and enabled Gang
busters to take the odd from Prisons
with season high of $40.
Record in Arlington Loop.
Mrs. Hendricks whopper, which
included q triple-header that cli-
NAKED a set Of 397, also helped to
account for q season record as Yeat-
mans Hardware posted l,787 in the
Arlington loop. Fred Ijietrick's $50
and Az also were big blows In the
record set. Henry Lederer with 1877
held the former high game for
Arlington League.
N. w. Supply pulled up within a
game of the leading Sher & Cohen
in Arlington County loop with q
sweep over Splitter Service while
the pace settlers we're dropping all
three games to Potomac Small Loan.
The keen District League race
last night saw ront-running King
Pins, led by Dean Ropers $50 and
3S9, putting 1t on Hyattsville, I'll,
while second-place Clarendons post
poned with Hi-Skor because OF the
death of Paul James sister.
Ihird-place Lafayettes trimmed
Ice Palace, 2-1. as Capt. AL Terry's
1896 and Ed Cleary's 147-37s
led a count of 1887 to l,840 for the
losers. Russ Hopkins 1853 and 407
were high for Ice Palace.
Lucky Strike Loses Ground.
Lucky Strike lost ground in the
as the pace settlers dropped two
games to Bethesda Bowling Center.
George Huguely's l76-4l6 and
Johnny Ressa's 143-4Q3 were the
big blows for the winner.
Brookland nicked Greenway for
the odd game. with Lee Marcey's
1872 and Butch Hutchinson's 3s7
best. Ed Nash fired 404 for the
losers. Anacostia swept Arcadia,
with Eddie Keith's 419 aiding scores
of 662 and 1883. Lou Pantos' 155
and 376 was high for Arcadia.
Hi-Skor's lead was cut to four
games in the Ladies District League
as the pacesetters dropped two
games to Rosslyn, while runner.
up Columbia quint swept King Pin,
Rendezvous tripped Lafayette in the
odd game, Spillway whitewashed
Bethesda and Ice Palace took the
rubber game from Red Circle.
Takoma won two from Arcadia.
High scores among the city's
leading woman bowlers were: Lor-
raine GULL, Hi-Skor, 366; Bing
Moen, 357; Ruby Parry, Columbia,
1880; Lucille Young, Ice Palace
351; Thea Shupe, Spillway, 343;
Emma Longley, Bethesda, 342; Beth
Minson, Arcadia. 36l.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Stimson Is Approved
For Arbitration Court
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday ap-
proved designation Of Secretary Of
War Sttmson and Michael Francis
Boyle Of Philadelphia as members
Of the Permanent Court of Arbitra-
ton for six-year terms.
Members Of the court constitute q
panel from which countries in dis
pute with>each other may select ar.
bitrators to settle thar controversies
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Ex-Mot King Lewis
To I uckIe Steer
BY the Associated Press.

~ the AssUCIateu FreB9.
CHICAGO. Feb. a. So Ed,
(Strangler1 Lewis, who tossed
many big man during his
tenure AS world heavyweight
wrestling champion. will be OUT
weighed by many hundred
pounds In his match at q rodeo
Sunday.
Lewis will try to toss q steer
just once-and there will be no
time limit on the one fall.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Combs Of Yanks Giyer
Year Leave 10 Farm
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-Earl Bryan
Combs will be missing from Yankee
Stadium this season for the first
time in 20 years. during which he
participated in II World Series, as
player and coach, with the New
York club. He has been granted q
years leave of absence to permit
the Kentucky colonel to devote full
time to his farm near Richmond
KY.
Loss Of Combs results in Johnny
Neun dropping the managerial reins
at Kansas City to take over the first
base coaching berth for the Yanks,
while Jack Saltzgaver, former Yank
infielder, who has been playing with
Kansas City since 1898, will be the
new skipper of the American As
sociation Blues.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Southern CIouter Made IA

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb. "a Dr.
The Southern Associations 1943
runs-batted-in leader, First Base
man Mel Hicks of Nashville, has
been reclassified la.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Terronovo to Box BortoIo

BOSTON, Feb. "a F.-Phil Ter
ranova, featherweight champion,
will defend his title in a 15-round
bout with Sal Bartolo at Boston
Garden March 10. Both are expect
ed to make l26 pounds.
Evening star., 1944-02-24

Dear AlDen.
As I am out Of the city am
unable to have q personal talk
with you. II were there, Of
course, that is the first thing I
would do.
/ regret to learn from your
speech in the Senate on the tax
veto that you thought / had in
my message attacked the integ-
rity Of yourself and other mem
bers Of the Congress. Such you
must know was not my intention.
You and I may differ, and have
differed on important measures,
but that does not mean we ques-
ton one another's good faith.
In working together to achieve
common objectives, We have al
ways tried to accommodate our
views so as not to offend the
other whenever we could con-
scientiously do so. But neither
OF us can expect the other to go
further.
When on last Monday read
to you portions Of my tax mes
sage and you indicated your dis
agreement, I made certain
changes as q result of our talk.
You did not, however, try to alter
my basic decision when you real
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Purpur Lost to Hawks

CHICAGO, Feb. "a (P.-Clifford
(Fido} Purpur, forward with the
Chicago Blackhawks, will be lost
to- hockey for the balance Of the
season because of injuries. He is
suffering from a ruptured kidney,
with signs of infection developing.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
.orshum at Buinbridoe

Lew Worsham, former golf profess
sional at Burning Tree. has been
transferred to Bainbridge Naval
Training Station from Sampson.
Evening star., 1944-02-24
Text Of Presidents Telegram
Asking Bnrkley Not to Resign

Tsr Of President Rooeuels telegram Senator BdYkIey
asking him not to resign Senate majority leader tooDs
Evening star., 1944-02-24

FQlloVlND q the tert OF
Senator BGYkley's speech yes-
terddy restCnin0 the post Of
majority leader:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03
Royal Oak Show
Has SIS Dogs
Flint Show Follows
Oakland Co. Event

4 total of j25 dogs of all breeds
are competing his Sunday IN the
Oakland County Kennel Club S
ninth annual show and obedience
TRIMS
The event Is being held AZ The
Community Market Building 3l6
+ First m Royal oak
Doberman> lead with 81 entries.
while sporting spanIclS are a-CloSe
second with SO a surprise entry
IS that of tho German short haired
pointers with 81, one Of the largest
ever entered IN a Michigan dog
show
Judging starts A. m a m and
VIII continue all day with tho Va
rletl groups scheduled for Z p. m.
and best IN show AZ 9 o'clock
Following the ROYAL oak show
many breeders VIII Journey 10
Flint Monday for the Gcnesec
County Kennel Clubs eleventh
annual AL breed and obedience
trial event ON Labor Day
Tho show D, being held a. the
Thread Lake Bah PARK
Judging n Tho Flint show also
starts = 10 p m.