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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
FISHERS DISTRICT
(Near Greenwood

Dir. and Mrs. w. S. Collision of Clay
/ ton were visitors Of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
w. Rust and father on Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Collision of
I3ridgeville, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs #. p. Morris and family on Sun
day.
Mr. mad Mrs. Carl Russell and Mrs
Jones and daughter OF Wilmington
were supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs
NJ. f. Russell on Sunday evening.
Mrs. j. W. Rust and father, S. +.
Collision were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Irving West mad family of
GeorgetOw non Wednesday.
Mrs. NJ. Il. Russell was dinner
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgell Coates
of Harrington on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel johnson of
and Mrs. Gootee Brown and daugh-
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Burnett of
Mendenhall. spent the week -cnd with
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mcdowell and
family
Harry Robinson had quite an un-
welcome visitor the past week while
gathering eggs. when he found a s.
foot snake cOiled in the nest with an
egg i'm it's mouth. Mr.. Robinson made
an attack on the snake with an axe
hut not enough to kill tit dropped
its egg and crawled away. hut the
temptation. however. was too great
as the next day, Mr.. Snake was neat
ly coiled in the nest again. Mr.. Rob
inson finished his job with "A pitch
fork but found the snake too feeble
to get out of his way. being cut about
half in two the day before by the axe.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. f. Russell OF
Greenwood were visitors of Mr.. and |
Mrs. J. w. Rust and father on Mon |
day
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
CHAPLAIN'S CHAPEL

Mrs. Morgan O'Day is convalescing
/ IN the Salisbury Hospital where she
underwent an operation last week.
Mr.; and Mrs. j. NJ Dickerson en-
tertained the following on Sunday,
their daughter. Mrs. Frances Kohl
morgan of fredericksburg; her sister.
Mrs. Berti O'Berst. Martin Wiley of
Harrington and their grandson, John
Truitt. who is going to spend the sum
mer with them.
Mrs Esther Spanish has been i'll
TINS week at the home of her mother,
Mrs Peterson.
Elaine Donovan had the misfortune
to stick nail In her foot last week.
Junior ODay spent several days
last week with his grandparents. Mr..
and Mrs. Leroy Webb.
The Community Sing was held at
the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hilton Pen
uel last Sunday evening, May 2S. An
enjoyable evening was spent by all
present.
Mrs. Ruth Webb of Ellendale
spent "Wednesday with her sister.
Mrs. Mary Mackln.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Dickerson of
Staytaonsville spent Saturday eve
ming with Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Dicker-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kosgegi of New
York moved into this community last
week.
Mrs Ralston Dickerson has finished
her work in Philadelphia and is home
for the summer.
Mrs. Willard Harris spent Saturday
in Dover with her daughter, Mrs.
Howard Wiley. who is on the sick
list at this writing.
Children's Day services will be held
at Chaplain's Church this Sunday af-
ternoon. June 4, at 2:30 O'Clock. \
very interesting program is being
planned. Spend the afternoon with us
F1.1lr In
ones will do their best to entertain
Won.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
OCEAN VIEW

The Missionary Society of the
Christian Church OF Ocean View
will hold their next meeting at
RehoBoth with Mrs. Margaret Mel
son. 1t will also be a covered dish
luncheon. We hope to have a good
attendance. All of the ladies' of
the church are invited.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will present the ster-
eoptican picture, HE Went
Straight Home" and two other sub
jects, at Bethel Methodist Church
on Sunday evening. The young
people are especially invited as
well as the adult people to at
tend this program, as arranged by
the National w. C. T. U.
The Bethel Sunday school will
hold their Children's Day service
on Sunday night, June IL.
The Christian Church will pre-
sent their Children's Day program
on Sunday night, June 4.
The baccalaureate sermon will
be preached by Rev. f. L. Ben
nett at the Lord Baltimore High
School on Sunday morning, June
4, at IL o'clock.
There will be the usual Sunday
school services at the several
churches in the Baltimore Hundred
District, after which the members
and friends are privileged to at
tend the service at the school.
The commencement exercises
will take place on Tuesday night,
June 6, at o'clock. The Senior
class will present a play.
The class night is Friday night,
June 2, at the school.
Mrs. David c. Hall attended the
Capitol Area Convention of the
Christian Church, held at Wash
ington. ID. c., also the minister and
wife, Rev. and Mrs. George w.
were delegates to the same
All reported a profit
able time.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Evans of
Norfolk, Va. and Mrs. Richard
of Melfa, Va, were the
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Dolby of Hilltop farm.
MR and Mrs. Irwin Murray of
Vest Philadelphia, were guests of
heir brother and sisterin-law, Mr..
md Mrs. Eddie Murray, near here
Captain Russell Richards of
Vest Philadelphia, visited their
home here over the week
md.
Captain Horace Derickson and
amily of West Philadelphia were
quests of their parents, Mr.. and
hrs. Owen Derickson and sister,
,Irs. Elliott Evans and husband.
This is a very busy time here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Maar and Mr..
md Mrs. Rakita of Philadelphia,
Mrs. Andrew David
on from a visit to Philadelphia,
where the latter went to a heart
pecialist. She is improving under
he care of DR.. Robert Long of
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
FELTON,

Laurence Taylor OF Washington, ID
C.. has been spending several day.
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
/ Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs d. A. Petry and their
week end guests. Miss Lucille Petry
I NJ. Long of Selbyville. were Sunday
/ guests Of Marjorie Burns in Whining
ton.
Miss Charlotte Hardy of Salisbury.
Nd, is spending the week with Miss
Shirley Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Deifenderfer
and son Roland of Wilmington were
Monday guests of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Lee Sipple.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Grant had
as their guests on Monday. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wallace, Mrs. Harry Whit
aker. Mrs. Margaret KinsIey and
daughter. Barbara Ann Of Philadel-
phia. Mrs Annetta Griffith of Har-
rfngton and Mrs. Madeline Bennett.
The baccalaureate service will be
held in the FELTON, Methodist Church
on Sunday. June 4, at 2:30 O'Clock in
the afternoon. The speaker will be
Rev. o. A. BARLEY OF Wesley College.
Commencement exercises will be
held In the auditorium on June at
$3.50 O'Clock. The speaker will be Oil
yer J. Collins of Wilmington.
The Woman's Society of Christian
Service will meet at the Methodist
parsonage on June 5. Mrs. J. X. Diehl
will be the hostess with Mrs. II. Mas
ten and Mrs. w. A. Hargadine as her
assistants.
Mrs. J. II. Diehl on Thursday evening
of last week in the Sunday school
room by members of the w. S. e. $.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delaine Trump of
Wilmington has been visiting Mrs.
Gat.S,. SsaaLoAt.. rh,reh .nd cireut.
Rev. John r. OIehI, Minister
Sunday. June
The church school beginning at
9:45. All departments meeting under
the direction of the respective super
intendents.
The morning worship service be-
ginning at 1850 o'clock. Sermon by
the pastor Subject. "The Meaning of
Pentecost." Special music by the
choirs.
The baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class a,,oa of r., Eeit2n ION q High
BARLEY. ID. D.. president of Wesley
Junior College. Dover. in the service
beginning at 2;30 p. m.
Devotional meeting of the NJ. Y. +.
Evening service at 7:45 O'Clock. di-
rccted by o. l.. Hastings.
The Woman's Society of Christian
Service will meet at the parsonage
on Monday afternoon. June 5, at
O'Clock.
The mid-week prayer fellowship
and Bible study will meet Wednesday
exening, June Z. at 1880 o'clock.
The annual Chldren's Day service
will he held Sunday evening. June IL.
No service at Masten's Corner next
Sunday, June 4. The annual Chiidrens
Day service will be observed Mt Ibis
church on Sunday afternoon. June is.
at 2:30 O'Clock.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

Manship-Thc church school begin
ming at 1890 a. III. in charge of w. ):
Jester superintendent. The annual
Children's Day services will he held
Sunday afternoon. June II at 2:30 o.
clock. The monthly meeting of the
Ladies' Aid Society will meet at the
church house on Thursday evening
June S. at o'clock.
Vola-The church school beginning
at 10 a. IN. in charge of Lowell Roll
and. superintendent. The evening
worship service beginning at 1880 o.
clock Sermon by the pastor. Subject
THE Meaning of Pentecost." Monthly
meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society
will be held at the home of Mrs. Jar
rcll on Tuesday afternoon. June 8, at
2 o'clock. The annual Children's Day
service will he held Sunday, June 49,
at T:30 o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
DAGSBORO

{ Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fish and son
Robert, also Mrs. Fish's two sons
Wilbur. Jr.. and Harvey Toomey ri
Chester. Pa, spent the weekend
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lemuel Brumbley.
Mr. and Mrs Benjamin Timmons
and daughter Jane of Philadelphia
Day with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Brumbley.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson who under
went major operation at the Pen
insula Hospital returned to her home
ON Sunday much improved.
Mrs, May Trnitt called on Mrs. Del
Ia Timmons ON Monday of the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles FircstOnc. Mrs.
Roxie Dukes and Mrs. Maggie Pepper
paid n call TO Mrs. Nora Townsend
at the River View Farm on Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Horncr and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Il. Long who have been spend
ing two weeks with relatives here.
phla recently. George was inducted
In the L. $. Army on Wednesday.
Horace l.. Hickman and daughter,
Miss Virginia. also Mrs. Millard West
and children, Una Lee and ElOise.
spent the Weekend with Mr.. and Mrs
William Hudson at Audubon. N. j.
Mrs. Hickman returned with them
after spending the week with her
brother.
Miss Margaret Vesper and Sergeant
Patrick J. DeCuzzi. of Boiling Field.
u. $. ARMY Air Base, Washington. ID:
c.. were guests Of Mrs. Hilda Mitchell
at the home of her parents, Mr.. ana
Mrs. l. III. West. recently.
Miss Ellen Daisey of Wilmington
spent Friday to Tuesday with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Daisey,
Mrs. Daisey had the misfortune. 70
fan from the steps and suffer a broken
arm.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. II. West who are
receiving treatment at the Milford
Memorial Hospital are much improN-
ed and are expected to return nome
soon.
Mrs. Bessie Donoway is III at the
Milford Memorial Hospital. Her son
Reese. OF Vincland. n. j., spent the
weekend here.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02
ROxANA

There will be preaching services on
Sunday morning in the Roxana Meth
odist Church by the pastor, Rev. Jas.
Langrell.
George l.. Bennett. 3rd. Seaman &c,
has visited his parents and sister Jan
is. twice during the ten days he has
been stationed at Philadelphia Navy
Yard. He has now returned to New
port. Il. /.
Miss Elizabeth Ann Goodwin. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Goodwin.
Jr.. has returned home after an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis at the PEN
insula General Hospital at Salisbury,
Md.
Mrs. Elsie Jones Howard and daugh-
ter. Virginia Lee. are spending some
time with their parents and grand
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ebe Jones.
Mrs. Russell Lynch is nursing n
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

case of mumps. We wish her speedy
recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert wiIgus and
two children. II. r. and Elyce. are
spending the summer at Ocean City.
Md.
MIR and Mrs Bob Donoway are the
proud parents of fine baby boy. Mrs.
DonOway has been one of our most
popular teachers here for sometime.
Her husband is i'm the u. S. Navy.
Congratulations are extended
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Tingle and
family entertained Sunday ON their
boat. Mr.. and Mrs Elwood Hudson
and two children, Ellen and Robert Of
Selbyvilie.
Mrs. Georganna Stephens was the
dinner guest Saturday evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Bob Hoosier at Selbyville.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-02

Save yourself anG your buddies
From taking "A flop
BY keeping the iloOrs clean
Throughout the whole shop.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

Beverly Hills, very swank Holly
wood address.
Elsa, calling on the new tenant,
suggested party, but somehow Doro-
thy was not invited
There is a story that Dorothy was
upset about the slight and that on
her next encounter with Elsa, she
let il be known that the property
Mrs. Mclean was occupying was
owned by no less a person than the
unlimited Countess di Frasso.
What Elsa replied is not recorded,
but in the interchange of language.
there might have occurred a phrase
which the fiery Countess interpreted
as brushoff.
A lot of things have happened to
the Countess during the long junket
she laughingly calls her life, but the
only thing approaching this was the
time she was thrown down a flight
of stairs by the Medici ghost. which
was haunting an Italian villa she had
taken for the season. The villa was
the ghosts ancestral home. she
merely the lessee. In Hollywood the
situation was reversed, and conse
Quently all the more CALLING.
AS she brooded about 1t, her in.
dignation apparently tended to center
on Mrs Mclean, rather than on Miss
Maxwell Possibly she felt that the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

h Tot only is the Hope Diamond
NJ among the worlds most famous
jewels. but II Is a most spec
tacular ornament, and. owing to its
considerable heft, could be almost as
useful in an alteration as skilfully
thrown dornick, or half-brick.
However, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Nc
Lean, its present owner. did not
throw il at Hollywood's gay Countess
Dorothy di Frasso-rumors to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Witnesses of their recent tiff at
Producer Jack Warmers birthday
party are agreed that the only things
hurled were words.
The diamond was observed to heave
and toss during the argument. but 1t
never once slipped its moorings.
Even lacking the testimony of those
present, II would still be evident that
Iirs Mclean couldn't possibly have
Yimitten the contentious Countess
with the gem.
For, as legend has it, this sparkler's
touch is magically fatal TO anyone
but the person who owns II, as well as
none too beneficent to him, or her.
And Countess Dorothy is as obvi-
ously healthy today as she ever was.
In fact, she's rarin' TO go right back
and give Mrs. Mclean another piece
of her mind.
October 20. 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
iI1H0|IyVOO'

ington's foremost hostess was well
known for her aversion to gate
crashers Or maybe the lease
held the tenant responsible for
any outrageS committed on the
premises.
In any case, when Jack Warmers
birthday gave the Countess the OPP
portunity, II was the Washington
dowager whom Dorothy chose as her
target. Barging past tables decorated
with candles and notableS, she pres.
emily found herself looking the Hope
Diamond right smack in the eye
and out tumbled the remarks she had
been saving for this moment.
The flower of Hollywoods
beauty, manhood and maZooma-
Myrna 10y, Barbara Hutton
Grant, Ida Lupino, the Charles
3oyers, the Paul Henreids, Norma
Shearer, Louis B. Mayer-all
within earshot, WINGED at the
sudden TRADE
The Countess, they gathered, did
not think much of Mrs. McLean's
parties; she was wholly devoid of
any desire TO attend any of them
and was not accustomed to being
treated as if she were One-Eyed Con
molly, the perennially unlimited, Etc.
Mrs. Mclean acquitted herself
creditably in the circumstances. With
a flounce of her pink feather boa.
she Is said to have responded Taught
lily that nothing in the rental contract
obligated the rentee to include the
rentor in social gatherings.
That was all. No jewels flew, as
some of the more imaginative later
limited. Only that one exchange and
then a rush of peace-makers, anxious
TO preserve the atmosphere of jollity
appropriate to birthday parties.
Every feather of her boa a-bristle,
Mrs. Mclean was led to her corner by
the Lucius Boomers, of New York's
swank Waldorf.Astoria, while the
Countess and her supporters re-
barged past the candlelit tables.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

In all the talk since then it has been
suggested that wonderful way TO
create a real sensation-as who in
Hollywood doesn't?-a wonderful way
to go about it would be TO give a
reprise, with variations, of one OF
Dorothy's own most famous parties.
On that occasion, she satirized the
local tendency to brawl by hiring two
pugs to masquerade as guests, get
into an alteration and then fight it
out in prize ring she had had built
especially for them in the garden.
The idea now would be TO repeat
that jape, employing, not pugs, but
professionally belligerent women, one
wearing a beret and the other a
bauble resembling the Hope Diamond
It should be a WOW.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Mclean is re-
ported to have added watchmen to
her staff and bars TO the windows of
913 N Bedford Drive-just in case.
Tup aNERUCAN WEEKLY :
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

The first piece
was m erely a
d o w n payment
on an incident
unique In her ex-
perience. Aheg-
eddy precipitated
by Elsa Maxwell,
Society's one-wo-
man Mardi Gras,
this incident oc-
Cured soon after
Mrs. M C l. e a n
had rented the
di Frasso resi-
dence at 913 n.
Bedford Drive,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

Uninvited TO Porfy in Her Own House. Dorothy
di Frasso Was Burned to a FrozxIe. but When She
Had II Out With Her Tenant. Mrs.
Mclean. Only Words Flew - NOT fhe
Hope Diamond ,KR
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

affront had originated
with the former, who
in her days as Wash
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

October 20. 1914
Evening star., 1944-09-03

IT said, I'll do my damndest, sir
HE gave me an OK.
II led a fighter fight off the deck.
When I first looked down after feeling
secure about the take off, saw green
in the water where couple Of planes
had crashed. Our planes have green
markers that float in the water and
show rescue parties that an American
plane has crashed there.
Il thought, They're knocking our boys
down Later I realized that the green
effect came from the engine fluid of
Jap motors that broke open when they
hit the water
when you lead a fight taking off
from a carrier, you 60 ahead gaining
altitude and then circle back. The pilots
following you each make shorter circle
in turn. That's how we join up.
"One of my problems coming back
was to stay away from the battle fleet
in our task force. The AA gunners on
the battleships don't look to see who 1t
is in combat like that. They fire at
every plane in sight.
"On my way back saw three Judies
coming in. They are the Jap torpedo
planes. They were just skimming the
Evening star., 1944-09-03

there's a hit or fire It's toughest on
them"
The commander smiled at the thought
of it and said, "Off the record, one day
every one was ordered to stand by for
dive bomber attack. The boys of the
damage and fire control parties went
down on their knees per instructions to
brace themselves for the shock. You're
much more likely to be useful after
hit if you haven't been thrown against
wall or some tubing.
The attack petered out, but no one
told them about it, and two hours later
they we're found, still on their knees"
On second thought the commander
decided there was nothing "off the
record about that story and continued:
The search did all right. 1t was two
TBFs (Grumman Avenger Torpedo
planes) and a Hellcat. They were jumped
by IL Zekes (the new Zeros). The
Hellcat pilot hollered for help and while
another fighter nearby was coming to
him, he knocked down three of the
Zekes. When the other arrived they
knocked down three more and drove the
rest away.
by this time we could see vapor
trails of planes coming in with tiny
black specks at the head. 1t was just
like the sky writing we all used to see
before the war. The sky was white
overcast and for some reason the planes
were making vapor trails at much
lower altitude than usual. That made
it easier for our boys to find the incom-
ing Japs.
Specks in the Sky
''The air was so clear that you could
see planes 8 or 8 miles away, tiny
specks tangling in the sky. Then a
flamer would go down. We would hope
it was Jap and from the radio chatter
we could hear from the pilots, it seemed
that it was the Japs who were getting it.
Did young Hagie tell you how he got
three Japs while ferrying from one
carrier to another?"
He hadn't. This reporter had pre-
viously interviewed Ensign Bradford
Hagie who is spending his shore leave
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. o.
Hagie of 5032 Lowell street NV.
"Hagie was one Of the newest members
of our fighter squadron. He was a
replacement who joined up with us out
there. On the day before he had motor
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Back From the Biggest Air Battle Of the War

trouble shortly after taking of. He
couldn't put down on our carrier because
we were launching planes.
"You see carrier is not like an air
port. To use shore terms, 1t can't land
and launch planes at the same time.
When carrier is launching planes, the
planes are punched at the stern-thats
where planes land. And when planes
are landing the planes on the deck are
punched forward. There just isn't enough
room for launching planes and receiving
planes at the same time.
$50 the carriers launch and receive
planes in teams, alternately-in rhythm.
When one carrier is launching, an ac-
companying carrier has its deck trimmed
for receiving. Hagie had motor trouble
Just after taking off on the 18th, so he
put down on the carrier that was acting
as our teammate, about 5000 yards
away.
He slept there overnight while his
motor was fixed up. Next morning he
took off about $50 to fly back to his
home deck. While he was in the air he
heard the report about bogeys coming
in. He went hunting He got three Japs.
Pretty good for 3000-yard ferry fight.
Il went to Sheik Switzerland again.
How about my getting into 69?' said.
That was the number of the fighter
plane had been using.
He said, You oughtnt go up there,
Ernie. This is not group attack
Theoretically group commander
goes along only on co-ordinated
fighter bomber torpedo plane attack,
'I said, It's a, damn sight safer up
there than it is here
He said, ASK the captain
Il went up into the navigation
section of the bridge and asked
Capt. Ernie Litch about it.
He said, DO you think you
can do any good up here,
ErnieS'