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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Diploma Ruling
Changed By Board
Youth Awaiting Induction
Must Continue Studies Un-
til Receiving Final Notice

High school juniors anticipating
induction must continue their sem
ior studies until the time they re-
ceive their notice to report for in
duction in order to qualify for
their diplomas under the war
emergency rule providing for di-
ploshas for boys called into the
services before graduation.
The change was made by the
State Board of Education last F'di-
day afternoon after DR.. H. V. Hol-
loway. state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, informed the board
members that DR.. John. Shilling
assistant superintendent in charge
of secondary schools, had called
attention to several instances of
boys, completing their Junior year.
failing to continue their senior
class studies while awaiting induc-
tion notice.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Important Red Cross
Meeting Held Here.
Captain Earle LandtrOOp
Guest Speaker At Ses-
sion Tuesday Night

Captain Earle Landtroop, chap
ain of the Dover Air Base was the
guest speaker at the regular meet
ng of the Red Cross Area No. on
tuesday evening at the Caulk Aud
torium. His subject. THE Chap
ain and His Relation to the Ar
n.y." was interesting and timely
n that he spoke of his coordinated
work with the Red Cross. Captain
Landtroop comes from Texas. He
lauded the work of the Red Cross
for the help it gave to service men.
Mrs. Jopothan S. Willis, chair
nan of Canteen, reported the work
of the local members at the Dover
Air Base. giving the number of
2,292 men as. having been served
during one week. The Milford Can
teen serve at the Base every three
weeks.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Election Record Set
BY M. w. Stevenson
PrOthOnOtary Has Distinct OF Be-
ing First To Win Office Times

Prothonotary w. Marion Steven
son, Erederica, has gained the
distinction of being the first Kent
County official to be returned to
office for third term by the cleo
torate of the county.
Moreover. the honor has come to
him without his seeking it, and it
came at the recent election by the
largest vote and by the widest
margin of any candidate on the
Kent County ballot with the excep-
tion of President Roosevelt and
Vice e-President-elect Truman.
Roosevelt received 1900 votes in
the county and a plurality of S31;
Truman. 1882 votes and a plurality
of S27. Stevenson was given 1857
votes and a majority Of 637 to lead
In Kent county the Democratic
state and county tickets. on which
the candidates for u. s. represen-
tative and governor trailed their
Republican opponents.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
1923, APO, 900 In
State War Contracts
Huge Amount Placed In Delaware
Since June, 1910

Contracts for war work placed
by the government in Delaware in
the period from June 1910 to Sep
tember 1914. amounted to 1923, ,420,-
900, T. E. Doremus, Delaware dis
trict War Production Board Mana
ger, announced this week.
OF the total, which are for the
Army. Navy. Maritime Commission,
Treasury Department procurement
division, and also for foreign pur-
chasing missions, $3.50, $4,000 are
supply contracts.
These include: $19,I76,0O0 for
aircraft: S145. 100000 for ships;
$54.05S,0 for ordance, and $751;
$4,000 for all other contracts.
Facility projects. through August
1914, reached $42,S50,000. of which
S21, 1,118,000 are industrial contracts,
and $21.732.0O0 are military con-
tracts. Mr.. Doremus said.
OF the total allotted Delaware in
war contracts, $298. .109, 900 were
for plants in New Castle County;
S15,1S5,000 in Kent, and $11,0SS, 900
for Sussex.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
AAUW Award Made
To Rosalie Selby
Recipient OF Membership Is FaeuI-
ty Member At Caesar Rodney

At a recent meeting of the Della
ware Division of the American As
sociation of University Women. il
was announced that Miss Rosalie
May Selby. of Delmar. had won the
Delaware Division award of a
years membership in the American
Association of University Women.
She was graduated from the WO-
mems College of the University of
Delaware in August with the high
est scholastic average of her class.
and is now a member of the faculty
at Caesar Rodney School. Wyoming
While at the University she was
elected to the honor society, Phi
Kappa Phi. and her degree was con-
ferred with hOnors in course. She.
also, served on the Student coun-
Gil and was chairman of the May
Day in 1914.
This is the first year that such
an award has been given. II is the
intention of the A. A. U. W. to make
a similar award each year to the
girl graduating with the highest
scholastic average.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Temple Lodge Kent Firemen
Plan Meeting Select Slate
For Tonight For New Year
H. C. Tee Of Harrington,
To Be Next President;
Competitive Program
Is Explained.

Harry c. Tee of Harrington was
nominated for president of the
Kent County Volunteer Firemen's
Association at the monthly meet
ing in the Caesar Rodney School
last Thursday night.
Other nominations are: First
vice-president, Fred f. Burke,
Clayton; second vice-president,
Newlin Wood, Hartly; Henry Allen,
Camden-Wyoming, and Roland
Rasker, Milford seeretary, John
NJ. Roe, Dover; treasurer, Willard
Barcus, Cheswold; directors. John
Morris, Smyrna; George W. Swain,
Harrington; Arley Jackson. Cam
0en-Wyoming.
A dinner served by the Young
Adult Fellowship of WhatcOat
Methodist Church. preceded the
program. The Rev. A. w. GOodhand
offered the invocation.
Chief Thomas Baker of Dover
led a discussion on a proposal that
each company maintain an. equip
ment chart listing each piece of
equipment available to another
company in an emergency.
State President Herald Britting-
ham of Lewes reviewed the years
competitive program with cash
prizes available to each fireman in
the county. He also asked for a
county record of activities. includ-
ing fire drills, essays, and fire
schools.
OtherSspeakers were: Past Pres
ident John Moore, Past President
Howard Sheldon, Past President
Frank c. O'Neal. State Fire Recor-
der Layton Baynard. and William
Kirk who was congratulated on
his fist birthday anniversary.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
ReGrrange Plans
For Farmers Week
Short Course In Agricul-
ture Scheduled To Begin
January 8

Farmers Week-the University
of Delaware's blitzkrieg short
course in agriculture which begins
January S-is being scheduled by
subject matter days covering the
most outstanding agricultural en-
terprises of the State. according to
G. l.. Schuster.. dean of the COllege
of Agriculture.
Under this new arrangement. all
information concerning a particu-
lar agricultural interest will be
given on the same day, rather than
carrying over for an hour or two a
day throughout the week as origi-
nally planned. Departmental heads
setting up the program felt that
this system would offer farmers
and other persons who could not
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
City Will Be
On The Air
Next Monday
Will Be Featured For An
Hour AS A Part OF The
"Valley Forge Cara
van" Over KYW.

The spotlight will be turned on
Milford's war efforts next Monday
evening, November 9th from
Radio station KYW at 11:05 p. N.
and the program featuring this
city. will continue for one hour.
This is being done without any
solicitation from Milford, but this
City was selected in Delaware for
the splendid work done here in the
War Loan drives. This City raised
more per capita in the drives than
any other community in the State,
and received a special citation
from the U. S. Treasury depart
ment.
The program which will be apart
of the Valley Forge Caravan" will
be announced with Milford report
ing for victory.
During the Srogram the History
of Milford. its war industries, the
special National awards. its orga-
hizations, and personnel engaged
in the war campaigns will be fea-
tured.
For proper reception Of KYW
dial 106 on your radio.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Air Field At Georgetown
viii Have Flight Deck

job for which nearly 100 timber
cutters and laborers are needed
Immediately.
The airport has been used by the
Navy for months to train filters of
the Wildwood, New Jersey, Naval
Air Station. The Georgetown air.
port is listed as an outlying field
of the Wildwood station, and was
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Clarence Clark
Fatally Stricken
Members OF State Education Board
Died At Dover Army Air Field

Died At Dover Army Air Field
Clarence d. Clark. 54 years old
of Camden. a member of the State
Board of Education and a former
deputy state treasurer, died sud
denly of heart attack last Satur-
day at the Dover Army Air Field
where he was a clerk in the post
engineers office.
Mr.. Clark, who had been in fail
ing health. was a member of the
Board of Education from 1887 to
1941. serving part of the time as
vice president. and was appointed
again to the board last June. He
was deputy state treasurer from
1871 to 1943. He was connected with
the Farmers Bank In Dover as a
teller for many years prior to thai
time.
A veteran of World War 1. Mr..
Clark was a member of Walter L.
Fox Post, No. 2. American Legion.
He also was a member of dupont
Lodge. A. F. and A. NJ. Hopewell,
Va, and Delaware Consistory, Scot
tish Rite of Freemasonry.
Mr.. Clark left the employ of the
DUPONT Company in Hopewell. Va,
during the first World War to en-
list in the Richmond Blues. As a
sergeant he served IA months over
seas and was with the Army of Oc-
cupation in Germany.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24

The Milford clinics of the State
Board OF Health are going to miss
Mrs. Frank P. Conlin of this city,
who is moving to Wilmington, for
she has given 666 hours of her time
to free service in the clinics since
she began to help with them back
in 1871. With the shortage OF
nurses because of the war, it is
such outstanding volunteer assist
ance as that given by Mrs. Conlin
which helps clinics to continue to
function effectively.
Eleven other Milford women
have been acting as volunteer aides
in these clinics. Second to Mrs.
Conlin is Mrs. Peter Hammond with
50h hours of service to her credit;
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Houston Bond Rally
Tuesday, Nov. 28
Restricted Films VIII Be Shown
By Sergeant Martin Quillen

Senator Robert H. Yerkes, chair
man of the Houston War Finance
Committee, announced today that
plans had been completed for the
Sixth War Loan Rally at Houston.
to be held next Tuesday evening.
November 2S, in the fire house.
According to Chairman Yerkes.
Sergeant Martin Quillen of the U.
S. Army, has secured two restrict
ed films, made by the United States
Signal Corps, which will be shown
Mayor Edward C. Evans, chair
man of the Sussex County War FL
nance Committee, is expected to be
present and speak. Other speak
ers will include Wallace F. McFaul,
chairman of Milford Kent county
side and member of the state
staff.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Traffic Increase
On State Roads
Gain Reported In October Over
Last Year

An increase of 2.13 per cent in
traffic as. indicated by four auto
matte traffic counters on state
highways is shown last month over
the October, 1943 figures, but a de-
crease of All per cent under 0cto-
ber, 1871.
The October traffic report of W..
B. McKendrick. Jr., assistant chief
engineer of the State Highway De-
partment gives the following fig
ures: 0.S8 per cent increase last
month as compared with October
of last year and 1915 per cent de-
crease as compared with October,
1871, at counter ON State Route 2.
east OF Newark, increase of 0.S3
per cent as compared with October
of last year and decrease Of 39.41
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Dover Group Planning
For Concerts Again
Cooperative Association Plans To
Bring Three Concerts This Winter

DElHS AuTct NOuCtTtS Auls W iuttE
The Dover Cooperative Associa-
tion is endeavoring to bring to Do
yer this winter three concerts, the
quality of which will equal those
given there a few years ago. Pros
pectuses have been sent to former
members of the Community Con-
cert Association and it is hoped
there will be enough interest to
warrant contracts being made.
Murphy School Auditorium has
been suggested as the place for
holding these affairs and since the
seating capacity is smaller than
places formerly used, those who
subscribe first may not be dis
appointed. Mayor Wallace Wood
ford is president of the association,
Mr.. Glenn Gildersleeve, member
ship chairman, Mrs. Emma N.
Stewart. secretary and Mr.. Gordon
L. Willis. treasurer. Former con-
certs have been enjoyed by people
from Milford as well as from Do
yer and surrounding vicinity.
Memberships are five dollars, plus
one dollar tax.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
COf c
Is Planning For
Membership Drive
CHRONICLE OFFICE
WILL REMAIN OPEN
ALL DAY SATURDAY

Beginning with tomorrow.
Saturday. November 25. and
continuing through the bal
ance of the winter months,
the business office of the
Chronicle will remain open
all day Saturday. Hitherto
the business Office has been
closing at noon each Satur-
day. This is being done for
the convenience of our rural
patrons. who. come into town
on Saturday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Local Women Aid
With Health Clinics
Mrs Frank p Conlin, Presently To Become A
Resident of Wilmington, Has Given 600
Hours OF Her Time; Eleven Other Women
Have Served AS Aides; Motor Corps Under
Lieutenant Sara E. Grier las Been of Great
Assistance To Clinics

third is Miss Dorothy Derrickson
with 23 hours; and fourth, Mrs. AL
fred Houston with 141s hours. Ad-
ditional assistants have been Mrs.
Sidney Schwach, Mrs. Harry Pack.
Mrs. Harold Bunting. Mrs. Martha
Benson. Mrs. Bertha Swanson. Miss
Sara Nutter, Mrs. Handy and Mrs.
Myrtle Mitten.
The Red Cross Motor Corps, con-
sisting of Lieutenant Sara f. Grier,
chairman, and her active commit
tee. has also been of great assis-
atnce with the clinics because they
have driven patients back and
forth from their homes for the tu-
berculosis, the crippled children,
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Paul Burkholder
To Address |. o. o. F.
Gala Affair VIII Be Held In Temple
Monday Evening, December 4

Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 10,
1. o. o. F., is holding another of its
gala nights on Monday evening.
December 4, when Kirkwood En-
campment is presenting an Ameri-
can flag to their Milford sponsors.
There is a very close tie between
both organizations. in fact $50 of
the membership of Kirkwood En-
campment are members of Crystal
Fount Lodge.
A feature of the evening will be
the address of Paul Burkholder,
supervisor of Kent county schools,
whom Kirkwood members are
bringing with them to make the
presentation address.
In addition to the Kirkwood En-
campment program, Crystal Fount's
entertainment committee, headed
by Past Grand Wallace F. McFaul,
is staging another of its pleasant
entertainments that will feature
several musical numbers.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24

A simulated aircraft carrier
flight deck will be laid out on the
Navy airfield at Georgetown, where
improvements have been ordered
to make the field one of the best in
the East, 1t was revealed this week.
The first step in making the i'm
provements will be the clearing Of
approximately 500 acres of wood
lend adjacent to the field-a rush
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Federated Clubs To
Buy Another Bomber
Club Women All Over State win
Aid In Drive To Sell Bonds

Coincident with the opening of
the Sixth War Bond campaign.
came the announcement from Mrs.
William B. Huston of Seaford. state
chairman of War Service that club
women all over the state would take
part in another drive to sell bonds
and buy bonds in an effort to pur-
chase a Play Liberator Patrol
Bomber. costing $2S0,00O. 1t will
be remembered that club women
were given credit for the sales in
the last loan drive that purchased
three planes that are now being us
ed in the war effort. More than
10000 volunteers will be working
throughout the, state the next six
weeks to meet Delaware's quota
of which women will take their re-
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Kent Foster Parents
To Meet Nov. 27
Gathering VIII Be Held In Chapel
OF Peoples Church In Dover

A meeting of all active foster
parents in Kent county is being
held by the Homes for Delaware
Children Committee in Dover on
Monday, November %. The spon-
soring committee is comprised of
the State Board of Welfare. pub
lie child welfare agency. and the
Children's Bureau of Delaware.
private child care agency formed
to procure foster homes for 20 ne
elected children in the state. who
are critically in need of such care.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Sanitary Measures In
Pork Butchering
DIR. ]. L. Cherry Discusses Neces-
Sary Sanitary Measures

Proper bleeding of the pig is i'm
portant when butchering pork for
the more blood left in the animal
the more possibility of the meat
spelling while curing. says Dr.. j.
l.. Cherry, veterinarian with the
Sanitary Division of the State
Board Of Health, in discussing the
sanitary measures necessary for a
job which is claiming the atten-
ton of many rural Delawareans
now that the Thanksgiving season
is here.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Rotarians Aid Bond
Drive $33,625 Worth
auction Sale Promoted BY Service
CiuB is Again Successful

The Rotarians have "Dood'' it
again. This time they selected the
opening day of the Sixth War Loan
Drive for one of their famous bond
auctions, and their opening gun
was loaded heavy for exactly $685.
G25 worth of &c" bonds were pur-
chased by the rs Rotarians pres
ent
Elbert "Bill' Williams again cap
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06
Detroit Filler Missing
In Raid on Germany

First 1t. Clifton c. Helfer son
OF Mr.. and Mrs, Boyd Heller 91Ss
Dundee, is missing in action over
Germany, according 10 word ne
ceived from the war department
by his parents today.
Ii. Heller. a Llberator bomber
pilot. failed 10 return from his
seventeenth bombing mission over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06

Germany, March S. He had been
awarded an Air Medal and two
oak leaf clusters Heller formerly
was q Wayne University student
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06
Wanted! Men and
Women Who Are
Hard of Hearing

To make this simple no risk hearing
tesf ~ sou are temporarily deAfsned,
bothered hy ringing. burning head noises
sue to hardened or coaEulated wax (ceru-
that - many say mas enabled them 70 near
sell again You must hesr better after
making this simple test or you get your
money back a. once Ask about Ourne
tar Drops TO-DAY az cunniughams Kinseis
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06

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ings In the big sunday Times Want Al
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-06
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-16

loo HetuS-Hlty luG@ Aorr'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-30
2}>Ytsa1

THEY call her THE Wasp" pre-
sumably because whenever she's
y loose someone gets stunE, but it's
not a good monicker. A wasp stings
only once and Marion Brazier has
stung several thousand times. She has
written more words and numbers on
checks than there are in Gone With
The Wind" and if you ask those who
try to cash them, the romance was
named after her
She won't be singing for a while,
of course. A New York judge has
Just given her three years-he could
have thrown the book at her: that
arrestinF idyll, "Baumes Laws, or
Life Terms for Habitual Criminals
But if she isn't out and buzzing
around before three years it will be
because she can't get girdle. The
last one she broke Jail with, little
number evidently run up by the
Bethlehem steel Co, was loaded with
saws and pliers and junior croWbarS
where there ought TO be stays. They
called them "corSets" then, and they
were no-Way stretch.
Not so her checks. War time or
no. She always uses the best rubber.
ii began back In l9O0-Sh says
She is 50, but a New York Depart
ment of Public Safety record calls
her 60 when, according to one story,
She started in a modest way by con-
serving = few steaks and roasts
from "A restaurant she worked in,
probably inside a refrigeratortype
corset.
The other story is that she took up
writing fiction, on little slips Of
paper after an income OF $4,000 a
year suddenly stopped There is this
much to back up the second story:
After numerous arrests and convic-
lions she still acts like So, 900 a year,
10 January no. 1917
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-30

away a spoiled deposit slip, retrieved
it, deposited a few dollars 10 his ac-
count as a convincer, then drew out
the rest in his name, which she had
learned 10 write very prctthy.
Then came the Lady Robbins cpl
Sodc.
II happened in a New Jersey town
so Swank that they fed the pigeons
with crepc-suzette crumbs. Lady
Robbins, equipped with limousine, liv-
cried chauffeur and British accent,
explained 10 a real estate man that
she was i'm a dreadful hurry having
the Ambassador 10 tea and all that
sort of thing but she did so fright
fully want TO rent a largish estate for
the summer and did he have any
photographs?
He did, and she selected one, wrote
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-30

other people, including, it is said
Tiffany's $4,000 here and a Boston
man appropriately known as Gen
erous Tom wye, who went bankrupt
buying her short stories back from
their first purchasers.
But then a middle-class sort OF per
son who ran a roadhouse stupidity
failed 20 be impressed by the accent
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES layout, and She
landed in the brand.new county Jail
i'm HackcnSacl1, New Jersey
She landed complete with corset
however, and il wasn't long oct. D.
1928 before she unlandcd herself
leaving behind a SaWed-off cell bar
and thoughtful note explaining
the presence of the figuremoulding
hardware and concluding The ma
iron who searched me couldn't find a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-30

lilt tOOl IT, WHICH,
was n OF written
by a Chincse.)
Anyhow, s h o
next worked in de
partment Sto res,
which w ere I'M
aware of the fact
for some tim @.
Her job was this:
She would hide
her hat and coat,
tuck a pencil in
her hair and. pre-
tending TO be a
SdleSW oman, Wa y
lay little cash
girls and ia X e
sales money from
them.
Resuming t h @
literary life, in a
Baltimore y 4 n X
she watched until
a wcalthy-enOugh
&c ntlCman threw
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-30
There Was "a
Sting i'm the Note
the Elusive
Wasp" Left
After Her Jail
Break, and
There's Plenty
Left in Her
Today.

out a laTgish check
as a deposit and got
a receipt for II.
With the receipt
s n g So impressed
tradespcoplc fro m
whom She ordered
supplies for the es-
tate that they nc.
cepted in payment
largish C n q C. X s
made out 10 her
and gave her the
difference I'm cash
So did a lot Of