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Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
CLAYTON CENTURY CLUB
Annual Coverd Dish Luncheon To
Be Held Thursday, February Is

The annual covered dish lunch
con will be held by the Clayton
Century Club on Thursday, Febru-
airy 18th at noon. Mrs. P. G. Ell
lott, president of the State FEEDER
alton, and Mrs. Reilly Brown, Kent
County vice-president, have ac-
cepted invitations to the luncheon
and will address members of the
club at a short meeting afterward.
The committee has stated a change
in the customary charge. Guests
who do not bring dishes will be
charged sixty-five cents for the
luncheon, while those bringing
dishes will continue to pay the
same charge of twenty-five cents.
On March LIST the program will be
centered on Legislation. Felix w.
Mick, principal of the Clayton
School will visit the Club and
speak on proposed legislation con-
corning education in Delaware.
Chairman for the day will be Mrs.
Herman Sevil, Mrs. Carl Hurd and
Mrs. Bertha Sevil. Mrs. c. w.
Hammond visited the club on Feb
ruary LIST and made arrangements
to install State Lending Library,
which will be conducted by the
members of the club. The books
have not yet arrived but as soon
as they are ready, library hours
will be announced. There will be
a varied collection including books
of interest to men, women and
children. The entire community is
invited to enjoy the use of the Lib
rary and with this beginning it is
hoped that the Library will be en-
larged from time to time.
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
WHOLE NO. ALA
MANY CASES
OF MEASLES
State Health Head Gives In
structions to Protect Chill
dren Against Disease
MANY CASES IN SUSSEX

With the spreading of measles
in the lower part of the state with
in the last few weeks, DR.. Edwin
Cameron, executive secretary of
the State Board of Health, warns
that the disease is especially dam
gerous because of the eomplica-
lions which may follow, chief of
which are middle ear disease and
broncho-pneumonia. As So cases
have been reported in Delaware up
to the end of January, many of
them in Sussex County. DR.. Cam
eron reminds parents that measles
are dangerous especially to infants
less than one year of age. He
warns parents to keep children
with colds away from babies. The
symptoms of measles are similar
to those of a cold. Statistics show
that out of every 100 persons who
die of measles or its complications
"a are less than five years of age.
1t is during the early stages that
measles is most contagious. Then
the child may appear to have only
a cold but the mother who sends
the child to school or allows him
to play in the street is helping
spread the infection. The virus
which causes measles is present in
the nose and throat of the sick
person and is easily spread to
Others by coughing and sneezing
and even by talking. One child
may catch measles from another
even in the early cold stages be-
fore the rash appears.
Symptoms Listed
Early symptoms are: 1. Slight
fever appearing about 10 days af-
ter exposure. 2. Red, watery eyes.
8. Symptoms of a -sneezing,
running nose, and cough. Later
symptoms: The rash consists of
red spots usually appearing first
behind the ears, on the forehead or
on the cheeks and then spreading
down the body. The spots collect
in large red blothes and usually
itch. The rash usually lasts about
5 days and then fades. The skin
peels in fine flakes for or days,
sometimes longer. The incubation
period of measles is from to IA
days. This means that it may be
that long after child is exposed
to the disease before any of the
above symptoms occur.
What To Do
IF your child shows signs of
measles, the state board recon-
mends that you: Keep him out of
school, indoors, in bed - away
from other children. Call your
doctor at once in order that he
may begin the proper treatment.
Protect the child's eyes from di-
rect bright light or glare. Keep
everyone out of the sick-room ex-
cept the physician and the person
caring for the child. This not only
helps prevent the spread of meas
les but protects the child from
germs of other communicable dis
eases which even well people may
carry. Do not let the child get up
until the doctor says that it is safe.
Take him to the doctor again in a
few months to be certain that
there have been no bad after eff
fects. An ear infection may result
in mastoid disease and possible loss
of hearing. Measles may also
weaken the body's defenses against
tuberculosis infection which the
child might otherwise have resist
ed. Broncho-pneumonia is present
in nearly all fatal cases.
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
CREDIT ASSOCIATION MEET
Organization To Loan Money to
Farmers Is Cooperative

Farmers Is cooperative
The organization meeting for the
year of 1915 for the Delaware Pro-
duction Credit Association, a farm
ers cooperative credit organiza-
ton which loans money to Della
ware farmers for production pur-
poses, was held in the State office
at Dover, on Thursday, February
list, at 1920 o'clock. The five di-
rectors as follows were present: L.
D. Caulk, Woodside; E. Laird
Kratz, Greenwood; Lucius C.Webb,
Lincoln; Victor P. Kohl, Middle
town; and I. G. Ellison, st. Georg-
es. w. Dorsey Hines of the Pro-
duction Credit Corporation of Bal
timore, the supervising agency for
the Association, was also present.
L. D. Caulk, Woodside, was re-
elected president; E. Laird Kratz,
Greenwood, vice-president; S. M.
Harrington, Dover, secretary-treas-
urer; Albert o. Gray, st. Georges,
field assistant secretary-treasurer;
Miss Rachel B. Bastian, Dover, as
sistant secretary-treasurer; Miss
Jane M. Dawes, Dover, stenograph-
er and clerk; and Miss Helen v.
Schneider, Wyoming, stenographer
and clerk. Mr.. Caulk, Mr.. Kratz,
and Mr.. Harrington were reap
pointed as the Loan and Executive
Committee for the ensuing year.
The directors and Office personnel
were guests of Mr.. Harrington at
the Pleasant Inn for dinner.
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
SERIES
STARTS FEB. II.
Sponsored by Rotary Club To
Bring World Affairs Adj
dresses To Citizens
FOUR LECTURES

The first of series of four lee
lures sponsored by the Rotary
Club of Smyrna will be given next
Monday night, February 18th, in
the auditorium of the Smyrna
Sschool at o'clock. The speaker
for the evening will be Hugh C.
Stuntz of Nashville, Tenn. Mr..
Stuntz, whose subject will be THE
Role of The North American Con-
tinent," is college president, and
has spent seven years in Chile,
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
CELEBRATES 96TH BIRTHDAY
Thomas jefferson Entertained by
Citizens Hose Company

Thomas Jefferson celebrated his
96th birthday yesterday and was
entertained by the members of the
Citizens Hose Company at the Fire
Hall with birthday dinner. Mr..
Jefferson is the oldest as well as a
charter member of the Hose Com
pany and until last year was a
daily visitor at the Fire Hall. More
recently he has not been able to
walk on the streets and has been
confined to his home. He is still
interested in the news of the day
although unable to read for some
months past. He is the oldest
citizen of Smyrna and was born
and has lived all his life in the
house he now lives in.
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08
COL. RAU NEW
COMMANDER
Dover Air Field Has Veteran
of European Theatre For
New Command Post
SUCCEEDS COL. DIXON

Colonel Harold j. Rau of Hemp
stead, L. l., 34-year-old fighter
pilot veteran of the European the
alter who is credited with downing
five enemy airplanes during IA
combat missions, has assumed
command of Dover Army Air
Field. He succeeds Colonel Edwin
M. Dixon, who had served as Do
ver's commanding officer since
March 1914. Colonel Dixons new
assignment was not disclosed at
air base headquarters. Colonel Rau
mac broad background of exper-
fence with fighter aircraft in COM
bat which will prove an important
asset in commanding the Dover
Air Base. Dover's primary mis-
sion is to provide final combat
training for PAT Thunderbolt
pilots readying for overseas duty.
Was Head of Fighter Group
The colonel returned to the
United States only a few weeks
ago after completing q months
foreign service, climaxed with the
unusual assignment as command
ing officer of the Goth Fighter
Group in which he had served as a
buck private less than a decade
before. The goth Fighter Group
gained considerable distinction un-
der his command and played an
important role in the "softening-
up" and invasion of Europe. Lo-
connective destruction was one of
its csief detectives before and after
D-Day and the unit was crediated
with destroying 800, and claiming
damage to 400-500 more, according
to the fiier. Son of Jacob H. Rau
of 1913 Belmont Parkway, Hemp
stead, L. l., the colonel entered the
Regular Army as an enlisted man
in January 1929 and served seven
years as a private, including over
four years with the goth Pursuit
Group. He went to Randolph
Field, Tex, in 1886 for air crew
training and received his pilots re-
serve commission the following
year. Four years as pilot of BIT
and Bis bombers, one over the
Caribbean Sea on submarine pa
troll followed year with the First
Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field,
Mich. It was in September 1913
that the colonel entered the Euro
pean Theater of Operations, lead
ing a PAT group to England. He
later served in wing operations
headquarters before being assign
ed in, March 1914 to command his
old fighter unit, the goth Fighter
Group. He was promoted to full
colonel two months later. The
fiier's wife is the former Alice E..
Wyant of Detroit, Mich, now a
WAC technician fifth grade on
duty somewhere in France. She
was one of the first WACs assign
ed to duty in North Africa, They
were married in June 1889 at
Mount Clemens, Mich. Assigned
to widely separated warfronts, the
Raus had the unique experience of
being united for a short time IN
Naples several months ago. The
colonel located his wife in a rou-
tine checkup of APO locations
when he landed in Naples while
leading a fighter escort on mis-
sion from England to Russia to
Italy. Mrs. Rau's WAC contingent
had Just moved into Italy from
North Africa Colonel Rau wears
the Silver Star, the Distinguished
Flying Cross with two oak leaf
clusters, and the Air Medal with
eight oak leaf clusters.
Smyrna times., 1945-02-08

Clayton Home Demonstration Club
The Home Demonstration Club
of Clayton will meet at the home
of Mrs. Carl Hurd Friday after
noon, February 9th, at 1870 o'clock.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23
Safe-Drivinq
Class Gets
Under Way

A driver education and train
ing program is now underway
in the Mount Clemens high
school in an effort to teach
young girls and boys how to
operate a car properly and to
reduce the number of auto ia
talities caused by inexperienced
and poorly trained drivers.
Vernon c. Johnson, metal arts
instructor at the high school, is
in charge of the program and
has been instructing a class of
IS students.
Every two weeks the students
leave the classroom where the
theory of driving is taught to
actually drive under close su-
pervision of the instructor.
A section of Grand avenue
near the intersection of North
avenue has been allotted for
that use to Johnson, who en-
phasizes timing and control of
the machine.
Police Chief Arthur I. Rosso
has commended johnson on his
program and felt that it should
90 a long way to reducing traf-
fic accidents in this area.
Rosso has consistently urged
operators to drive at slower
rate of speed and to adhere to
all the rules of the road.
The cunt Clemens City Conn.,
mission which has granted john
son the use of the road has also
given Its approval Of the pro-
ject.
The program has been foster
ed by the Auto Club which has
waged a vigorous campaign to
cut down automobile accidents
among school children.
johnson is graduate of the
Driver Education Institute held
last Summer in Traverse City.
In emphasizing the need for
proper training in operation of
a car, johnson said that out of
all car accidents, six per cent
were caused by faulty cars, nine
per cent by other conditions and
the remaining IS per cent were
caused by faulty driving.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

at the Methodist church, Utica,
on Saturday evening. Dec. 1st,
a. Z o'clock. Twelve guests were
present and the honoree receiv-
ed many lovely gifts. A delicious
lunch was served at midnight.
Mrs. Mark Harrington of Port
Huron, Pearl Houghten Of Big
Beaver, and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wright were dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Nate Curtis on
Tuesday.
Dolores Hire entertained at
dinner on Thursday at her home
on Van Dyke road, guests be-
ing Rae Combs. Ronnie Barg,
Joseph Mas, James Jackson,
Betty Delmotte, Russell Miller
and Pat Johnson of Rochester.
The members Of the Board OF
Managers Of the Utica Library
Association are very gratified at
the success Of their games party
held at st. Lawrence Parish Hall
on Friday evening. A large
crowd attended and receipts will
be used for the operating ex-
penses Of the library.
On Saturday the Utica Tues
day Club is sponsoring q Tag
Day for the library when young
ladies will be on the streets
selling tags. The committee in
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Union street, formerly the Earl
J. Mcclellan property. to Guida
Saltarelli and have moved to
Lansing where they have pur-
chased a home. The house has
been rented to Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Hopp.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23
Presidency a Great
Job; But Pay IS Poor

NEW YORK, Nov. 23-(R-
The Presidency of tie United
States is "the greatest job on
earth" but as for the pay-well,
here's what Jonathan Daniels,
former presidential press secre-
tary, says In the current issue
of Golfers magazine:
The $4,000 yearly salary re-
ceived by President Truman ac-
tually nets him only $4,000 after
he pays $4,000 in federal taxes,
81 900 in state taxes, and $25, 900
for w, ..te House expenses over
and above what is met by the
government.
Mr.. Truman faces the pros
pect of leaving the presidency
some day with . heavy personal
debt, Daniels said.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

The Red Cross Knitting Club
have accepted an invitation TO
meet with Mrs. George Collick
at her home in Royal Oak. The
meeting will be held on Monday
next and members wishing to
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher. Betty
Fletcher and Eddie Wilcox will
attend the wedding of Wilfred
Sweet. former commercial teach
er in the Utica schools and Jean
Caller, in Midland, Mich, on
Friday. Fred Fletcher and bride
have just returned from their
honeymoon spent in Dayton,
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Havel have
purchased of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Hetz their house and lot at 4695
Deshon street and expect to
move to it soon. They are offer
ing their home on Van Dyke
avenue for sale. Mr.. and Mrs.
Havel expect to leave soon to
visit their son, George Havel,
and family in California.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

STREET, proprietors a ~ 49,
Street Market have pssrchaoo1 =
lot from c. o. Crissman On ~
north side Of Auburn (leolB)
street near the Dean and 0lody
garage and expect % build =
large market there soon.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. H owar d G..
Crissman and family were guests
Of Mrs. e. o. Emory in Royal
Oak Thanksgiving Day.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Harry Magahay attended the
wedding last week of Betty
Drinkwater. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Drinkwater. Of
Detroit. The reception was held
at the Red Run Golf Club.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23
Around the Town at Utica

UTICA - A roast duck din
ner was enjoyed by the Utica
Rotary Club at their meeting
Tuesday night at Trinity Luth.
eran Parish house. A number OF
the members who had been deer
hunting have returned and were
present and the club is antici-
patins q venison dinner, fine
buck having been brought down
by Henry Scheper, . member.
Speaker of the evening was
the Rev. Louis G. Heinecke, pas
tor of Trinity Lutheran church,
who talked on the Thanksgiving
theme beginning with the first
Thanksgiving.
Henry Scheper was presented
with his five-year pin by Presi-
dent Carl Gladly and James
Church was the guest Of his
father, Clarence H. Church.
The degrees of the Order Of
the Eastern Star were conferred
upon Mrs. c. S. Waggoner at a
meeting of Utica Chapter Tues
day night. Over so members
were present with visitors from
Mount Clemens and Davis chap
tiers. Worthy Matron Violet Ty-
ack presided. In the absence of
Jacob Getz, worthy Patron,
John Wright assisted in the
work. Mr.. Getz is north deer
hunting.
Refreshments were served in
the dining room Of Masonic
Temple by a committee of ladies
with Mrs. Shirley Winkleman as
chairman.
Mrs. Ellen Magahay enter
tanned the members of the Oui
Club at her home on north Cass
street on Friday evening last.
Mrs. Thomas B. Dimmick of
Arlington, Va, Is guest of her
father, c. Omer Crissman and
other Utica relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Pardee,
of Jackson, were Thanksgiving
guests of their daughter, Mrs.
l.. r. Hirth, and DR.. Hirth, on
Thursday.
Supt. of Schools William r.
Davis and Mrs. Davis had as
their guests on Thursday, Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Davis of
Ora 1 Rapids, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence w ON a c k, of New
Hudson, Winfield Womack of
Flagstaff, Arizona, and Mrs.
Nicholas Stavios. and daughters,
of Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Patrick en-
tertained three tables at cards
at their home on Clinton River
Drive IN Saturday even ing.
Present were Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Eppler, Maude Mae Wright, Mr..
and Mrs. Ds.n Marsh. Mrs. Earl
Siemen, jamie Wagner and Mrs.
Dean Wright.
Lorraine Malow entertained
at her home on MalOW street
Saturday evening at linen
shower onoring Betty Fletcher
who will become the bride of
Eddie Wilcox, of Norfolk, Va,
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

attend will meet at the home
of Mrs. c. M. Foster at 1:30 p.
m Transportation will be pro-
vided. Mrs. Collick is a former
member of the Utica unit.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

returned from a visit with the
doctors mother and other rela-
tives in Minnesota.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mrs. Dean Wright is the guest
of her daughter, Mrs. Dean
Marsh In Detroit.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mosquitoes could be worse.
Only adults bite, and then it's
only certain species, and of these
species It's only the females.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. l.. Mottashed
have sold their home at 1881
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Ohio, and Clarksburg, West Vir-
ginia.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

charge II Mrs. Ed Smith and
Mrs. Russell Gierman.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

On! Sunday evening the st.
Lawrence Church sponsored a
games party in their hall on Van
Dyke avenue and were greeted
with q capacity crowd. Their
net receipts were over seven
hundred dollars.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Victor DeClercq and Remi
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Many Of the deer hunters are
returning from the north woods
with their deer. Among those re-
ported are Ed Stadler, Henry
Scheper. Leo Bornais and Earl
James Mcclellan, Jr.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mrs. Theos A. Grove and
daughters Gloria and anie have
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Lorraine Malow entertained
at her home on MaloW street
Saturday evening at linen
shower onoring Betty Fletcher
who will become the bride of
Eddie Wilcox, of Norfolk, Va,
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mrs. Ellen Magahay enter
tanned the members of the Oui
Club at her home on north Cass
street on Friday evening last.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mrs. Thomas B. Dimmick of
Arlington, Va, Is a guest of her
father, G. Omer Crissman and
other Utica relatives.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Pardee,
of Jackson, were Thanksgiving
guests of their daughter, Mrs.
l.. r. Hirth, and DR.. Hirth, on
Thursday.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01
KILLED
IN ACTION

Staff Sgt. Alfred M. Kohn. %
of Miami Beach, Fla. In the in
vasion of southern France, bv
Nazi machine gun fire.
Pvt. Nathan II. Arenson, 30 of
Eta, Ala. In France.
1t. William E. Jacoby, 30. Of
Miami, Fla. Northern Italy. A
Flying Fortress bombardier, he
held the Air Medal and three Oak.
leaf Clusters.
1t has been learned that Lieu
tenant Meyer Leibovitz, son of
Mrs. Lillian Leibovitz of Jackson
vile, Fla, has been killed in
action. The army air force navi-
gator was previously reported
missing. His plane was seen 60
ing down over Germany.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01
linton Strikes at Native
Edscisn1' "Higher Ups

of a literature that has struggled
through the fogs of proletarian
social consciousness before emery
ing from the establishment OF
the hard-boiled introvert Hem
ingway school, to the novel OF
social implication, which is the
category to which TN Secret Bat
tie" belongs.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01

Postwar plans for the develop
ment of Tiberias, twice postponed
by events, were announced in
Palestine. Tiberias is to replace
Wiesbaden and Aachen, Germany,
as health resorts.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01

The Christian Front and the
German American Bund were re-
ported to have organized coatli-
ton, with headquarters in Phila-
delphia, to press for conditional
surrender" terms to Germany.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01

Combating a law against anti
Semitism proposed by Govern
ment commission, the Swedish
Nazis alleged that American Jew
nv gave a Swedish official "a mil
lion dollar bride" for the laws
passage.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-01-01

novel
The Editor
Lawrence Upton is hard-hlt-
ting writer in his novels no less
than his journalism. His con-
victions are deep-rooted, they are
Convictions: his lines carry integ-
rity. and are imbued with his de-
sire to serve good purpose. He
is daring in standing up for his
convictions, and too few writer's
DARE in these expedient times.
In Secret Battle" his second
novel, just published by D. Apple
ton-Century, deals with the sub
versive movement in the United
States. Whereas Lewis Browne
in See What l Mean" Sinclair
Lewis in 1T Can't Happen Here, !"
and James T. Farrell in Tommy
Iallagher's Crusade" dealt with
he substrata fascistS, the Horst
Vessel" William Dudley Pelley
nd Joe McWilliams elements,
Upton strikes at the higher ups,
some of the people who con-
-tituted the American First Com
mittee, at the social lions" who
served as intermediates between
the plug-uglies and the industrial
tycoons: he strikes at the high
society" saboteurs, at the consci-
Gus and unconscious sabotage car
ried on by some so-called dollar
a year" men, in Washington.
Although there IS only one Jew
ish character in it, the novel deals
with subject matter of profound,
extensive implications for the
Jew. The Jewish character,
Freeman. is a small progressive
industrialist, expounding on CO.
operation between capital and or
gained labor, plugging away for
maximum service for the war eff
fort. Stewart Baldwin, his OPP
posite, is a conservative business
man. a tycoon who unwittingly
falls prey to the anti-New Deal
jargon and the intricate conspira-
cies of Marshall Trumbull, Nazi
agent par excellance.
This book seems based on ma
terial with which readers may be
familiar from their reading of
John Roy Carlson's Under Cow
er. and of exposes by John L.
Spivak (''Plotting Americas Po-
groms'') and Richard Ronalds
Il Find Treasury. Which means
that this novel is of the fabric
Of real life as all good novels
should be. Mr.. Upton writes
well, and his descriptions are neat
craftsmanship. In spots, however,
his novel is too well-written.
The vocabulary. at times, OBJ
-truct the image. This is fault
shared by other members of the
Hollywood writer's colony (Ben
'Hecht, Gene Fowler. The movie
influence is very strong in Lip
toms second novel. It is true that
the subject matter is such that
the novel must be paced liked a
thriller. But Mr.. Upton, ap-
parently, is too expert at the
movie technique. to the detriment
Of his work. Too often his peo-
pie are types rather than char
acters. There is nothing especial
~ individual, for instance in
Michael Jarvis, the liberal radio
commentator, as depicted by Lip
ton. But the thrillers pace is
certainly such as to preclude the
dropping of the book, once you
have picked it up, before you have
read it through to the very last
page.