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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Governor Bacon
Announces ThatHe
viii Be Candidate
Chief Executive Voices
His Appreciation OF
Endorsement For Sec
Ond Term By G. o. p.
Groups, Individuals.

The announcement by Governor
Walter w. Bacon that he would
accept the nomination to be the
Republican candidate to succeed
himself at the general election this
year, created no surprise in po-
litical circles since it was gener-
ally understood for some months
that Governor Bacon would be un-
opposed for the nomination.
In a manner that has been char
acteristic of his administration the
Governors announcement was
boiled down to facts and contained
no fiOwery promises or elaborate
statements. He stated his cam
paign would be based on his pres
ent record and mentions the fact
that for almost all of his term in
office our nation has been at war.
Governor Bacon recognized the
many endorsements given to his
prospective candidacy by numer-
GUS individuals and organizations,
including an unqualified endorse
ment from former United States
Senator John G. Townsend, Jr..
who is serving as chairman of the
Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee and who was Governor
of Delaware during the first World
War. His statement follows:
Il shall be pleased to accept
the nomination to become the Re-
publican candidate for Governor
of Delaware should it be the de-
sire of the Republican State Con-
to have me become their
fTurn 70 rage J. Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Soil Conservation Board
Meets In Kent County

will permit and as conditions will
justify the construction of open
bitches.
Members of the board of super
visors include Harvey f. Wilson,
chairman; Isaac. Thomas. c.
Arthur Taylor, Lyndon d. Caulk, J.
S. Willis. chairman of the Kent
County Levy Court; and Russell f.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Recruits Needed
For Company c
Many OF The Younger Men Being
Called Into Service

Captain ]. Holland Prettyman
commanding officer of Company c
and Lieutenants Laurence Lape
tina and Jacob Fl. Roosa, are ap.
pealing to the men of the Milford
area. not already members of the
armed forces. to enlist in Compan!
c.
The Milford outfit is a vital cos
in the state and national system oi
home defense. 1t has won highest
honOrss in repeated competition
with like units. and the training
received by its members can moi
be measured in dollars and cents
Many of the younger members OF
the outfit have been called to the
colors and others are expected to
leave in the next few days. seri-
Ously imperiling the effectiveness
of the unit in case of an emergen-
cy. Thus it becomes the duty OF
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Nazi Prisoners Are
Taken To 2 Camps
80 Arrive In Sussex County, With
50 Others Going TO Newark Area

German prisoners of war locat-
ed at Fort dupont are being dis
tributed to various parts OF the
state for work in canneries and on
farms.
This was revealed this week by
the German Prisoner of War Off
GERS at Fort DUPONT, who said a
vanguard of 60 prisoners arrived
in Sussex county on Monday.
This group, guarded by military
police, arrived in three trucks and
were Immediately taken to the old
CCC. camp at Lewes, where the en-
tire detail will be quartered while
in Sussex county.
Officers also revealed that so
prisoners were sent Monday to the
Newark Townsend area. They ale
being housed in barracks that were
recently constructed, and will live
there until all the work in the area
to which they have been assigned,
is completed.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Pilot Safe As Ship
Crashes Near Woods
Plane From Dover Field
Wrecked In Harring-
ton Area

A fighter plane from the Dover
Army Air Field crashed and burn
ed near Harrington last Friday. a
short time after the plot para
chuted to safely. Harrington fire.
men went to the scene but the
plane was a mass of flames when
they arrived. The plane crashed
on the edge of woods on the Den
Harrington highway a short
distance west of Andrewville, dig
ging crater eight feet deep in
the earth.
The pilot. who escaped with a
lacerated ear and scratches, went
to a nearby farm home and tele-
phoned the Dover base of the acci-
dent. Later soldiers arrived to take
charge of the wreckage.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16

During sthe past six weeks high
school boys and girls all over Del
aware have been turning out where
ever they were needed to help
farmers with emergency war food
serving as members of
the Victory FarmsVolunteers under
the emergency farm labor pro-
gram of the Delaware Agricultural
Service.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Sussex County Schools
Get $500 To Divide
Under. ancient Ian

Levy Court Commissioners of
Sussex County pursuant to an old
law passed Feb. s. 1921, have
granted the annual $500 allowance
to the Sunday schools of the coun-
ty.
The money is distributed on the
average yearly attendance of the
schools. This year 81 superinten-
dents filed reports with Comptrol-
Ter Henry Roster, as provided by
the statuts. giving the average at
tendance.
The original law provides that
20 cents per annum would he paid
for each white scholar. The a
mount could not exceed 5000 and
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Colored C. 0. P. Club
Receives Service Flag
143 Men Serving In Armed Forces
From Fourth Ward Are HOnOred

The one hundred and forty-three
colOred men of the Fourth Ward,
this city. serving Uncle Sam on a
score of battle fronts all over the
globe, were honored on Wednesday
evening. June IA, when an Ameri-
can flag and service flag were re-
ceived by the COlored Young Mems
Republican Club at impressive SER
vices in the spacious club room.
James Allen served as master of
ceremonies. introducing the speak
ers. who were Mayor Edward G.
Evans. who brought a message of
welcome from the city; Professor
Z. ]. Waters. principal of the Col
ored Junior High School, who made
the address of the evening, in
which he urged the purchase of
war bonds and a united home front,
to back up the men who are fight
ing VIGOROUSLY all around the
world. He urged closer cooper
alton between the two races, and
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16

the average attendance over a per-
iod of three months had to be Civ
en- on which to base the allowance.
Later the law was amended and
yearly appropriation of $500 was
provided.
Liquor Interests Suspected
II is understood that Sunday
schools in New Castle and Kent
Counties did not take advantage of
the law because it was believed to
have come from the liquor inter
ests. Such appropriations. it is un-
derstoOd, have not been granted in
those counties for many decades.
A resolution was passed in 1893
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Report Shows Service Of
Victory Farm Volunteers

School officials have cooperated
readily in helping recruit students
from their classes and in releasing
them from school work for short
periods to save essential foods.
A report on their accomplish
ments and earnings just released
by J. Frank Gordy, state supervis-
or of the emergency farm labor
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16

Satisfactory progress in the
farm drainage program was re-
ported by the board of supervisors
Of the soil conservation district of
Kent county at a recent meeting
held in the Dover office of the Soil
Conservation Service when plans
were discussed relative to cOmplet-
ing the drainage operations on as
many farms this summer as time
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
List Men Inducted
By Harrington Board
Several Local Youths Are
Included In Latest
Call

The following men have recent
ly been inducted by Local Board
No. 2, Kent county, located at Har-
ringtOn:
Howard E. Carpenter. r. ID. 1,
Bridgeville; William ]. Farrell, r.
d. 2, Dover; Thomas F. jenkins,
Pennington; Donald N. Langrell,
Frederica; Louis w. Scott, r. d.
1, Camden; Thurlow Vanderwende,
Viola; Paris X. Warren, r. ID. /,
Pennington; Clarence E. Welch,
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Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
State Gets $2,432,OOO
In Federal Road Bill
Figure Is Based On Rate OF Pop
uIatiOn And Postwar Mileage

Under terms of the revised ST.
500.000.000 Postwar Highway
Building Bill. already approved by
the House Roads Committee. Della
ware is allocated S2,4S2,000 in fed
eral aid.
Under the new bill. federal mon
ey would be disbursed to the states
on a ratio based on one-half pop
ulation, one-fourth area. and one
fourth post-road mileage.
The measure also provides that
during the first year of the pro-
gram states must provide 40 per
cent matching funds and there
after so per cent. Previously the
federal government contributed 75
per cent and the states only rs
per cent.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Democrats To Select
Delegates August S
August S Seen As Date For State
Convention BY Party Leaders

The Democratic state conven-
ton very probably will be held on
Tuesday. August s. leaders of the
party sal dthis week after the New
Castle County Department of Elec-
tions assigned the party Saturday.
August 5. for the Democratic dele
gate election in that county.
The assignment followed a re-
quest for the date by Democratic
State Chairman John c. Hazard.
The request was contained in a
letter to the department.
Delegates elected on August
will choose the partys state tick
ct at the state convention and
adopt a platform.
Milford chronicle., 1944-06-16
Norman Jett Victim
OF Heart Attack
Deputy Warden OF Kent County
Jail Preparing To Go To Work

Jail Preparing To Go To Work
Funeral services for Norman E.
Jett, 63 years old, deputy warden
of the Kent county Jail, who died
suddenly of a heart attack in his
home in Dover, last Saturday NOR
ming. were held at 2 o'clock Tues
day afternoon from his late home
in that city. The Rev. William F.
Edge, pastor of Peoples Congrega-
tiOnal Church, Dover, officiated.
Interment in Lakeside cemetery.
Surviving Mr.. Jett are his widow,
Mrs. Fannie NJ. Jett; son, James
Maxwell Jett. a petty officer in the
Macy. now stationed in the inva-
sion zone; a daughter. Mrs. Mil
dred ]. Hurley, Dover; two grand
children, James and Elizabeth Ann
Hurley; two sisters, and five bro
thers.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
LEND-LEASE:
Extension Debated

With congress considering extern
sion of lend-lease until June 80, 1945,
debate centered around subjecting
the Presidents final settlements
with foreign recipients to legislative
scrutiny.
Under terms of the lend-lease
measure, the President had sole
authority to make final settlements,
but in extending the act to 1945, the
house wrote in an amendment which
prohibits him from negotiating final
settlements involving International
commitments without congression-
al approval.
During the course of house de-
bate on the new measure which
was sent to the senate by 334 to
2l vote, the majority killed Republi-
can efforts to compel foreign ma
tions to return lend-lease munitions
to the U. S. after the war.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
MANPOWER:
Biggest Problem,

During 1914, manpower and not
material will constitute the biggest
obstacles to resumption of the pro-
duction of civilian goods, the War
Production boards planning and
statistical chief, Stacy May, re-
vealed.
Although reductions in certain
munitions programs may reach con-
siderable proportions toward the end
of 1914, the question of converting
facilities to the manufacture of civil
ian goods will revolve around the
army's call for manpower for casu-
atty replacements, May said. Be-
cause of declines in construction en-
ployment and increasing efficiency
in factories, however, more work.
ers may be made available for con-
sumer goods, May declared.
Sufficient steel, aluminium and
copper probably could be obtained
for civilian production later in the
year, May said, but shortages of
necessary parts or accessories
might form serious bottlenecks.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
PACIFIC:
Raid Treasure.House

Storehouse for Japanese oil, tin
and rubber, the Dutch East Indies
were hit by British bombers for the
first time in nearly a year and a
half, with docks, warehouses and
shipping left in flames in the north
ern end of the islands.
While the bombers whacked at
this treasure-house of natural re-
sources which have fed the Japs'
industrial sinews of war, British and
Indian troops continued their des-
perate defense of the Bengal-Assam
railroad in eastern India, feeding
U. S. and Chinese forces hacking
out supply road to China in north
ern Burma.
In the South Pacific area, U. S.
army and navy bombers teamed up
to plaster the Japs' Caroline islands,
gateway to the inner approaches of
the enemy's principal Asiatic
holdings.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
FOREIGN HOLDINGS:
u. S. Stake

After a canvass of more than
100000 individuals, estates and
trusts, and 1000 business firms, the
U. S. Treasury established Ameri-
can holdings in more than so foreign
countries at $500, 100000.
Although two-thirds of the hold
ings of household goods, bonds and
factories are in Allied or friendly
nations, U. S. nationals stake in
Axis or occupied countries totals
S3,775, 900, 1000, of which ST ,29O, 900, 900
is in Germany, S265, 1000, 900 in Italy,
$9O,000,00O in Japan, S65, 100000 in
Rumania and 55,0O0,O0O in Hun
gary.
By far the largest U. S. invest
ments are in Canada, aggregating
$4,375, 900, 900 and holdings in Great
Britain total $1,000, 1000. Invest
ments in Cuba amount to $785, ,000,-
900; Mexico, S42O, 900, 900; Argentina,
1855 100000, and Brazil, $3.50, 900, 900.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
EUROPE:
Unending Raids

An unending procession of U. S.
and British bombers scared over
western Europe blasting the inva-
sion path, while. in the Balkans to
the southeast, Axis forces went over
to the attack to shore up the Rus
slams drive on Rumania and Hun
gary.
Big bombers, medium bombers
and strafing fighter planes all par
ticipated in the Allied aerial attacks
on France, the Lowlands and Ger
many, with rail communications
leading to the invasion coast and
airports and aircraft factories the
principal targets. In one 36-hour pc
riod alone, Allied aviators made no
less than 5000 individual flights over
the west.
Axis counterattacks in the Bal
kans took form as the Russians ad-
vanced on Carpathian mountain
passes leading into the rolling Hun
garian plains, and other Red forces
threatened the rich Rumanian oil
fields around Ploesti. In the Crimean
peninsula jutting into the Black sea,
Russian forces laid siege to the big
naval base of Sevastopol, where
Axis troops flocked after a lengthy
retreat.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
PLAY BALL:
Majors Open

More than 123, 1000 fans were on
hand to witness the opening of the
1914 major league baseball season,
with the largest crowd of 3O,154
watching the Chicago Cubs spank
the Cincinnati Reds, 3 to o, at
Cincinnati, and the smallest of 4,03O
watching the St. Louis Cardinals
blank the Pittsburgh Pirates, to 0,
at St. Louis.
The New York Yankees Johnny
Lindell drove out the majors first
home run against the Boston Red
Sox to lead his team to 3 to 0
victory, and the Philadelphia Athlet-
les and Washington Senators played
the first extra inning game, with
the AS winning in the 18th, 3 to 2,
when Rookie Erwin Hall doubled
home Babe Siebert.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
STRIKES:
In u. S.. Canada

Strikes at Montgomery Ward and
company and the Ford Motor COM
pany of Canada crowded the labor
spotlight.
At Wards, the nations No. mail
order house, the company resumed
shipment of freight and parcel post
after railroad and teamster unions
had tied up deliveries in sympathy
with the CLOS United Mail Order,
Warehouse and Retail Employees
union, which struck over the firms
refusal to extend a bargaining con-
tract upon order of the War Labor
board.
About $4,000 employees of the
Ford company's Canadian plants re-
mained idle after walkout in pro-
test over the firms discharge of CIO
stewards for investigating members
grievances during working hours,
and the companys subsequent can
collation. of the unions contract.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05

New anxieties and burdens may
prove inevitable No sacrifice
and no privation should be too great
to make for Germany Our gift
to the fuehrer is our vow not to lay
down arms until we have assured
the Reich's future
Said Goebbels: Even the
greatest leaders of history will be
faced with occasional setbacks and
defeats 1t will not be possible
to form an accurate and just idea
of the Individual war events and
factors which have been decisive in
the war until the war is over So
to serve our aims means to be loyal
to the fuehrer and to follow him
through all the storms of war. )"
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
COP:
Keynoter Named

Selection of Gov. Earl Warren Of
California as opening speaker, or
keynoter, at the Republican national
convention in Chicago, June "a, has
served to modulate the extreme ma
tionalist and internationalist ele-
ments in the party.
Brawny, 6-foot Governor Warren,
who first jumped into the political
spotlight on the west coast through
his racket-busting, stands by the
COPS Mackinac declaration on for
eign policy, stressing International
cooperation with other nations with
out impairing U. S. sovereignty.
Said Warren: Gas Republicans,
we must avoid discord that would
interfere with our displacing the
White House palace guard with an
administration more competent to
win the war and solve our postwar
problems, domestic and foreign"
Browning chief., 1944-05-05

Fifty per cent of the outdoor ad-
vertising space in the city of Madrid
must be reserved for the use of
Spain's totalitarian party to present
messages of the Phalangists.
One million fewer work accidents
in the next IL months is the goal
set by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins for attainment by American
labor and management.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05

HERO: In a curious case of a
marine hero, who is also deserter
from the marines and the army,
First Class Private William B. Muir
phee of Tennessee left the army
after nearly six years of service and
then Joined the marines to win the
navy cross as a member of Carl
sons Raiders. Walking away from a
marine hospital, he was later de-
tanned and held for discipline.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
B K | E. F S by Baukhage

Gasoline needs in this war are
30 times greater than in the last
one, according to the U. S. Petro-
leum Administration for War.
Since Dunkirk, more than l4,000,-
900 food packages have been sent
by or through the British Red Cross
t. British prisoners of war in
Europe, the British Information
services report.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05

TO clear the mVa-
sion path, Nazi No.
2 Hermann Goering
a n d N ri No. 3
Joseph Goe b b els
used Hitler's. 55th
birthday to loudly
appeal to the Ger
man people for un-
questioned loyalty
during t h e hectic
period to follow.
Said Goering: ga
thousand dangers
IL.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
AGRICULTURE:
Machinery

Because of the necessity of STEP
ping up production of landing barges
and other invasion craft demanding
critical material, farm machinery
output this year may not reach ex-
pected levels, War Food Admins
traitor Marvin Jones revealed.
Although too early to make pre-
dictions, Jones said, machinery out
put should exceed 1910 figures. None
has been allocated to the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
administration or for export, he
said.
AS of April l, Jones revealed, ma
chinery production totaled $4,000
combines, 5000 balers, $4,000 side
rakes, $4,000 spreaders, 121, 1000 trac-
tors and $4,000 cornpickers.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
Labor

At time when Selective Service
was Tightening up on farm defer
ments, the U. S. department of agri-
culture reported that farm workers
as of April totaled 100000 or
about $4,000 less than year ago.
With a better organized farm la
bor program and seasonal help from
volunteer workers, however, the
USDA expected rural America to
meet this years expanded food
goals despite the inroads into help.
Although only 2 per cent lower
than April, 1943, the farm labor
supply was 54 per cent of the pre-
war average, the USDA declared.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
C.. I. BOARD

1t is costing the government less
this year to provide "board and
room" for the millions of enlisted
men in the army. Economies have
trimmed the annual expenditure to
an estimated S465.06 this year.
The estimated figures include
s2l5.35 for food, $l73.7O for clothing,
S44.70 for individual equipment lex
cepting arms and ammunition), and
$31. 81 for barracks equipment. Pro-
duction costs on many items sup
piled by contractors have been re-
duced.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
Demand Loyalty

AS western Europe cracked under
the Allies savage bombing offensive
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
SOLDIERS WIVES:
Arriue in U. S.

Anxious to look over their new
homeland, 80 Australian brides or
fiancees of American soldiers ar
rived in the U. S. from Down
Under" with one expressing the be-
lief that if they got good Irish stew
now and then, they should learn to
get along.
Wife of marine corporal from
Shinnston, w. Va, Mrs. Doris Jean
Lebash, said: ''The American boys
bluntly told some of us, we in
Australia were 10 years behind the
times They told us we couldn't
wear American clothes, and that
we'd never see such beautiful girls
as we'd see in this country"
Australian wives of U. S. soldiers
may apply for citizenship after two
years. Any of their children born
overseas automatically become citi-
zens with five years residence under
the U. S. flag.
Browning chief., 1944-05-05

Wtero whsn opinions
Released Union
Browning chief., 1944-05-05
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Unending Allied Air Offensive Blasts
Nazi's Western Defenses, Railroads;
Lag Seen in Farm Machinery Output;
Dutch East Indies Bombed by British
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
WALTER WNCHELL

IT HAPPENED in the White
L House not long ago. Two
statesmen were working on
paper +. d. r. was TO see and
approve. One OF them mot Mr..
HulD was a proved enemy II
Sumner Welles. whose removal,
rom office he had helped engi-
Dneer.
The President corrected the
paper and signed 1t. Then adj
dressing both men he said: Il
would like 10 be ST. Peter just
long enough TO receive two peo-
pie. The first would be Sumner
Welles. / should say to him:
You are sometimes an awful
fool and you make silly mis-
takes, but you have great abil-
fly and you have served our
country well, Come on i'm"
To the other man F. ID. r.
continued: You were born
with money and talent. You
have used some Of your money
and a lot of your talent destroy
ing a better man than yourself.
You can go 10 hell"
A New Yorker Just back from
"A Argentina alleges that the
majority of the people there are
mt anti-II g or pro-Nazi
Most of the people, said our
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
JACK PICKERING

his very life will depend upon
it in a few weeks?
The answer is simply that
men refuse TO believe that they
are on their way TO the front
lines. / guess Americans are
wishful thinkers; idealism and
imagination are our strong
points, and wishful thinking,
avoiding of reality. is the weak
ness that springs from the same
source.
TT WAS true when I was a
L trainee. We told each other,
We'll get a lot more training
overseas. We won't be in the
front lines for a year. Maybe
a year and half. Maybe we
won't go over at all-we're too
old. or too young, or our eyes
aren't up 10 scratch, or we have
weak ankles" Any old reason
was good enough for us, and
when the cadremen read us let
ters from abroad, from Anzio
and Casino. written by men
who had trained the cycle just
before ours, we shifted ~sus-
piciously.
Jaw, that's a fake, just to get
us to work harder. Why, that
letter he read IL too long to be
In just one V-Mail letter."