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Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
STATE SAFETY
MEETING HELD
Health Department of Della
ware Call For Probe of Rise
i'm 1916 Accidents
LIST 1913 ACCIDENTS

The all-day safety institute held
in Dover Saturday under the aus
pices of the State Board of Health
was conducted because of the 1913
accidental deaths in the state dur
ing the year. The public was in
vited to attend the institute, at
which time DR.. Edwin Cameron,
executive secretary of the board,
pointed out that accidents are
fifth place in cause of deaths last
year and comprise seven per cent
of all deaths in the state.
Auto Mishaps Lead
Of the 1913 accidental deaths, rs
were killed in motor vehicle acci-
dents, while home accidents ac-
counted for IS more. Among the
latter, 26 were due to fires, burns
or explosions, and 10 were from
falls. Other home accidents in
cluded those caused by ABSORPTION
of poisonous gases, choking on
food, drowning in a bathtub, clean
ing firearms, and mechanical suf-
location. Occupational hazards,
sunstroke or freezing, and drown
ing were among the other causes.
Accident Prevention
DR.. Cameron, in opening the
meeting, stressed that public health
personnel need to know about ac-
cident prevention as well as the
prevention of disease, in order to
be able to aid in cutting down the
toll of accidental deaths in the
state.
Poor Driving
Most accidents are from poor
driving rather than from poor cars,
said Sergt. C. K. Lynch of the Del
aware State Police, who told the
morning session that there had
been $50 persons injured and AZ
more killed on Delaware Highways
outside the city of Wilmington up
until Nov. i, of this year as 8 re-
suit fthe 1,239 traffic accidents
which have occurred. The state
policemen's job, he stated, was to
make the highway safe for anyone
who wished to use it, motorist and
pedestrian alike, and to this end
5,169 arrests had been made and
53,1S2 reprimands had been given
up to Nov. 1 in an effort to teach
safety to the public.
Injury in Homes
John Fader of the Delaware
Safety Council spoke on Safety
in the Home" in the afternoon,
pointing out the many small haz-
ards found in homes which often
lead to serious injuries of the fam
lily, and urged the public health
nurses to teach accident prevention
in homes they visit.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
Fire Report of Month

Four rural calls and one town
call are reported for the month of
November by Harry Pusey, fire re-
corder. Four of the fires were
dwellings with loss of 5000, one a
barn. Dirty chimneys were main
ly responsible for these fires. An
average of Is men responded each
time. Clayton Fire Company re-
sponded to one o fthe fires.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
FIREMEN NAME
NEW OFFICERS
Regular Meeting Monday Eve
ming Brings Out Record
Attendance
23 NEW MEMBERS

The meeting of the Citizens Hose
Company at their room in the Fire
Hall, Monday evening was one of
the most interesting ever held.
Two old members were welcomed
back from the armed forces and
each told something of their exper-
fences and said he was glald to be
home again. They were Fletcher
Truax and Horace David. Truax
was former chief and David a
former assistant chief of the COM
pany. Among the important re-
ports was one for the red light
over the fire alarm on the outside
of the building, which will be in
stalled just as soon as materials
arrive for the work. There has
been a change made in the phone
ssytem at the Fire Hall. No long
er will there be any delay in an
alarm if someone is on the line at
the station. Phones are now in
stalled whereby a cut off can be
made and one will be known as a
house phone and one an alarm
phone. The alarm phone will not
have any change in number. The
number of house phone will be CIV
en- at later date.
23 New Members
Harper Jones gave an interest
ing report on the Kent County As
sociation meeting at FELTON,. Hous-
ing and building committee named
are John Jacobs, John Morris and
Clifford Jones. The membership
committee had a banner night with
the largest number of new MEM
bers ever reported at one meeting.
New names presented are: Will
liam w. Harris, w. Y. Rutter, ]. o.
Banta, Howell H. Barnes, Martin
R. Boyer, John c. Still, Jr., Guy c.
Edmondson, Sr., Stanley M. Mid
dleton, John w. Dukes, Warren G.
Plantholt, Leroy P. Piper, John H.
Fearon, Robert e. Clough, Morgan
l.. Parry. William s. Wilson, Rich
ard L. Cochran, Walter j. Reed,
Jr., Stanford c. Marvel, Franklin
H. Dougherty, Calvin E. Foxwell,
Arthur c. Dickerson, and two pro-
bational members, Francis Sylves-
ter and Glenn Matthews.
Nominations For Officers
The following were nominated
for officers in the Citizens Hose
Co. President, ]. Stout Bickling;
vice-president, Fred Slaughter;
secretary, Reynolds Bradley; treas
urer, John Mannering; fire chief,
Julian R. Stats; 1st assistant
chief, Temple Heinold; End assist
ant chief, Russell Foxwell; fire re-
corder, Harry Pusey; fire inspec-
tor, John Long; chaplain, Rev.
Frederick M. Barton. Trustees for
the year are John Hurd, Clifford
Jones and Gi FAIRIES. The Board
of Directors were named as fol-
lows: John c. Mannering, Stout
Bickling, Robert Jacobs, Reynolds
Bradley, Fletcher Truax, John
Hurd, Homer Short, John Morris,
Horace David, Clifford Jones, Allen
Moffett, Russell Foxwell, and
Harper Jones.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
Death of John F. Moore, IA

John F. Moore, age "A, died at
Smyrna Monday, December 3. He
had formerly lived at FELTON, and
was a son of Nathan and Eliza
Hutchison Moore. Funeral SER
vices will be held at FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock with Rev. Robert E. Green
in charge. Interment will be in
Odd Fellows cemetery, Camden,
Del. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Maud w. Moore of Harring-
ton, and a son, John F. r., in the
U. S. Army.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06

Possibility of the Delaware State
Guard holding two-weeks en-
campment for field training at
Bethany Beach next summer in
stead of a one week training per-
iod will be discussed at a meeting
of officers of the State Guard at
1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Jan.
13, in the State Armory, Tenth and
DUPONT Streets in Wilmington. All
officers of the State Guard from
Wilmington, New Castle, Newark,
Middletown, Dover, and Milford
units will attend. Col. j. Paul
Heinel, commanding officer, will
preside. Maj. Ralph E. Buckalew,
plans and training officer, will
summarize the training scheduled
for 1946.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
ID. of A, Dinner Meeting

The Daughters of America,
Council No. 9, will hold their
Christmas dinner Tuesday evening,
Dec. 11th at The Wayside Inn. All
will meet at the Wayside
at $50. Mrs. Hilda Hufschmidt is
chairman of the affair.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Mrs. Sadie L. Holt Died in Will
mington Thursday, November 20

Mrs. Sadie L. Holt, died at the
residence of her niece, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Duling of Wilmington, Thurs
day, November 29th. Mrs. Holt
was a native of Massey, Md, the
widow of Harry Holt. She was a
daughter of John and Sarah Pardee
Loller of Maryland. Funeral SER
vices were held at FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel, Sunday, December End, at
2 p. M, with Rev. Frederick M.
Barton officiating. Interment was
in Odd Fellows cemetery, Smyrna.
Mrs. Holt is survived by one broth
er, Earl LolIer of Baltimore, Md,
and one sister, Mrs. Joseph Quinn
of Chestertown, Md.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
COUNTY AGA ELECT
Jay Price OF Townsend Vice Chair
man Of County

The New Castle County Agricul-
tural Conservation Association has
elected the County officers and
Community Committeeman to con-
duct the Agricultural affairs of the
Association during the coming
year. Barton T. Hopkins, of New
Castle, was reelected chairman and
Jay Price, Townsend, vice-chair-
man.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
AIR SHOW AT
BASE SUNDAY
Founding of Dover Army Air
Field TO be Celebrated With
Air, Ground Program
TO DISPLAY B-29

Fourth anniversary of the found
ing of the Dover Army Air Field
just ten days after Pearl Harbor
in 1941-will be observed formally
at the mid-Delaware air base this
Sunday with an elaborate air show
and ground program.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
To Display B-29

Feature attraction will be the
first public. display of a B-29 Su.
perfortress in this area, complete
with all its combat equipment and
accessories. Also on display will
be a C-54 Skymaster transport
from the Crescent Caravan fleet
The public will be adfimitted to the
airfield throughout the afternoon
and a continuous program OF
events is planned.
Target Plane
In addition to the Superfortress
and Skymaster, a large array OF
combat appliances and combat equip
ment will be on display, including
several of the Army Air Forces
latest combat developments, such
as the remote controlled target air.
plane.
Started i'm 1941
Dover airfield, now one of the
key fighter bases of the AAF on
the Eastern Seabord, was acquired
by the Army on Dec. II, 1941, just
10 days after Pearl Harbor, when
a lease was consummated with the
City of Dover for the use of the
Dover Municipal Airport. The or
iginal municipal airport plot of 587
acres since has been expanded
more than three times and the or
iginal tarred runways have been
enveloped by wide concrete strips,
plus the usual pattern of taxiways.
The three runways-all over 1000
feet, or about a mile and a third
each-are among the longest on
the seaboard. capable of accom-
modating any modern airplane.
A Fighter Base
Dover was created initially as a
base for coastal patrol operations,
but since mid-1943 has ben primar-
lily a fighter base of the First Air
Force for final pre-combat train
ing of PAT Thunderbolt pilots.
Presently, the base has dual mis-
sion in pre-separation processing,
and recruitment of personnel for
Regular Army service in the Army
Air Forces.
Trained Many Pilots
Hundreds of AAF fighter pilots
have trained at Dover under the
expert tutelage of combat veterans
themselves. All of Dover's opera
tions and flying training staff are
combat veterans, headed by Colon
ell Harold j. Rau, base commander,
who commanded a fighter group in
the European Theatre, and Colonel
Kenneth R. Podell, deputy base
commander, who commanded fight
er units in the Pacific area.
Rocket Research
Since August 1914, Dover has
been the center of AAF airborne
rocket research and experimental
tion. Originally a highly-secret
project, the Air Technical Service
Command unit maintains its own
hangar and shops, also its own fir
ing ranges, etc. Col. Donald B.
Diehl heads the organization.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
SECRETARIES AT SCHOOL
Southern States Cooperative Has
School For Petroleum

School For Petroleum
Mrs. Louise D. Luff, secretary
for the Southern States Dover Pc
troleum Cooperative, Dover, at
tended the School for Petroleum
held by Southern States
Cooperative in Richmond, Va, No
vember q and %. The group,
which included secretaries of
Southern States petroleum cooper
atives in Maryland, Delaware, Vir-
ginia, and West Virginia, were in
structed in methods for keeping
records and making reports.
Smyrna times., 1945-12-06
Inspection to Start

The final quarterly inspection of
the State Guard for 1945 will start
next week. Inspection will be
made by Colonel Heinel, Lieut.. Col.
Victor Clark, executive officer of
the regiment, and Major Buckalew.
The schedule provides: Inspection
of the Wilmington units: Compan-
les A F, the Grenadier Platoon,
and Medical Detachment, Dec. 10;
Company D, Middletown, Dec. IL;
Company G, Newark, Dec. 12;
Evening star., 1945-02-26

sary power to render harmless the
enemies of the people. 1t must estab-
lsh firm order and represent Germany
with dignity to the outside world. There
are forces in the German Army which
are loyal to the country This govern
ment will Immediately cease military
operations, recall the German troops
to the Reich's frontiers, and embark
on peace negotiations. In this manner
it will obtain peace and once again
place Germany on an equal footing
with other nations"
6. Shall / say that Miss Winters re-
ports that every German prisoner of
war in Russia has been invited to get
in touch with the Free German Com
mittee, that many of the German off,
GERS are genuine converts, that pris-
oners are asked to answer question:
naires regarding the form of a future
German governmental this, and more.
is tissue of poisonous lies? a..
But should / SO recant, just where
do we stand? Would 1 be convinced?
Are the Soviets? or the American pub
lie?
Students of the Soviet government
know that changes of policy are ac-
companied by purges, and covered by
denials that the previous policy ever
existed. This has had queer effect on
the Soviet history. During the lifetime
Of the Soviet-German pact things were
said by Mr.. Molotoff, which were after
ward expunged from the record. Soviet
histories pass over the role of Trot-
sky in the Russian revolution, I doubt
whether future Russian histories will
contain any account of the long period
of close collaboration between the
Reichswehr and the Red Army in the
l920s, nor of the official Soviet attacks
on the Treaty of Versailles. But what
can be unsaid in Moscow cannot be
unsaid in New York, and it is extremely
silly of the Soviet press to try to do
it. Here it is not crime to change
ones mind.
But the Justification of history cannot
be maintained in world of free jour-
nalisn, whose writer's try to discern
truth. and are not organized propa-
gandists for one policy or another. To
try to present this search for truth as
a conspiracy will fail. American jour-
nalists are intelligent enough to see
through such transparencies, and so is
the American public.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1945-02-26
B-2os, Carriers and japan

With their latest attack on Tokyo,
our Super Fortresses may be said to
have come of age as major menace
to the Japanese homeland. When
they first struck from the Marianas
against the imperial capital last
November, their mission was more
or less experimental Since then,
however, they have learned much,
and their powerful Sunday assault
makes clear that they are now
equipped-both in "know-hoW" and
numbers-to launch a sustained
large-scale offensive against the
enemy.
More than 200 B-29s took part in
the attack, unloading perhaps 1000
tons or possibly even 1000 tons of
bombs on the target area. Thus
there seems to be beginning for
Japan proper the same kind of scar
ing air punishment that has been
visited upon Germany by our Flying
Fortresses and Liberators and the
great night bombers of the Raj.
Sundays blow on Tokyo at any rate,
is officially described as the might
lest yet struck by the B-29s, and we
may safely assume that in the weeks
and months ahead the same thing
will be repeated over and over again
on an ever-increasing scale.
Not the least spectacular feature
of this latest achievement of the
Supef FortresSes is the way in which
the attack was co-ordinated with
the Fifth Fleets second great carrier
strike against Tokyo. The 200 B-29s
came over the capital after hundreds
of naval planes-maybe as many as
1,200-had struck the city from
their floating bases in Admiral
Mitscher's mighty Task Force So.
This constitutes operational cooper
alton of the most significant kind
between the Army and Navy air
arms, and it may we'll mark-as,
some authorities SUGGESTIVE start
of a new phase of the war in the
Pacific.
Premier Koiso, in the ceremonial
language the Japanese use when
they speak of their Emperor, says he
is filled with trepidation" because
some bombs fell near the imperial
household. He has reason to feel
that way, all Japan has reason to feel
that way-not so much because
Hirohito is endangered, but because
the whole homeland now faces the
immediate prospect of constant at
tack from the sky. What the B-29s
and our naval planes have just
accomplished is merely a foretaste
of far more deadly blows to come
Evening star., 1945-02-26
A Modern Parable
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

to me like this rock foundation you set
such store by has been pretty badly
battered and eaten away by all these
storms. Like as not it's been under
mined, too. Like as not it's got so it
isn't any safer'n the sand down where
we live. Nope, Ezra, the only way we
can all be safe is to all get together and
build a strong stone breakwater right
across the mouth of the cove, like we
wanted to do last time, only you backed
out on U.S."
"That'd be an awful lot of work" says
the householder, land maybe it wouldn't
hold together anyway"
Maybe not, but we gotta try it. It's
our only hope"
"It's not my only hope" retorts the
householder. I've got my strong house" "
But he wasn't safe. The time came
when the rains descended and the floods
came and the winds arose and beat upon
that house, and it fell. And great was
the fall thereof.
And now, upon another time, there
are certain Americans-a good many
Americans-who believe that they, too,
live in security.
They think-or rather, they feel by
some perverted but stubborn instinct
that they still have freedom of choice
as to whether or not they will make
some sacrihces to join with their neigh
bors in building common defense
against common danger.
1t is the instructive ancient feeling
of security which lies at tbs root of all
their hesitations, all their unwillingress
to join with others to make every one
safe by common effort.
They prefer to take chance on the
next storm on the thory that there
will be plenty of time to do something
about 1t when the first black clouds
appear, rather than send some Of the
: boys every day to do little work on
the breakwater.
If the householder of old was fool
ish man. what shall we say of these?
t(Copyrisht. 1945.)
Evening star., 1945-02-26

Once upon a time there was man
who built his house on the sand.
What happened to him has been I'm
mortalized in Holy Writ.
The evangelist dismisses him sternly
as foolish man.
But that is to judge him in the light
of after-knowledge. Did he really know
that the foundations of his house were
insecure?
It seems more likely that he was
rudely surprised when a foundation
which he thought was rock turned out
to be only sand after all.
We might imagine conversation be-
tween this stubborn householder and
q neighbor who lived down nearer the
shore.
It is the day after big storm.
Ezra" says the neighbor, I'VE folks
down on the shore are in pretty bad
shape"
YOU'RE telling me, Jehu," says the
householder Fact Is, I'm getting kind
of tired of rushing down with my sons
and relatives to help you people out
every time little storm blows in from
the sea. I've built my house up here on
this nice, safe, high ground, but you
insist on living where you get the full
force Of wind and surf; so down we have
to come to help you build levees and
prop up your houses and drag your kids
out of the ruins. Couple Of my boys got
hurt yesterday, too. I've got good mind
to stay home next time and let you
stew in your own juice"
"Yah!" says the neighbor. Don't
hand me that line, Ezra. Only reason
you and your precious sons came at all
was because the sea was piling up along
the beach so strong that you figured it
was going to roll over your own place
if you didn't take hand building those
levees. It'll get you one Of these days,
too, same as us. Those storms are get
ting stronger every year"
"Let 'em come, Jehu," says the house.
holder. Far as I'm concerned, can
take it. I've got the strongest house in
these parts. It was strong enough for
my pa, and grandpa before him, and
I've weathered two bad storms in my
own time, haven't I? And helped you
people out into the bargain? At q
mighty heavy cost to me and my family.
too One Of my boys Is going to get
killed some OF these times"
You're all wrong about your being SO
safe. Ezra" says the neighbor. Looks
Evening star., 1945-02-26

the major powers which at this time
have strong armies, navies and ail
forces.
Hence, it is difficult to see why the
countries which have lost their mill
tary equipment and armies in this war
should insist on rearming as quickly
as possible even at the expense of their
own countrymen who unquestionably
would prefer food and clothes and agri-
cultural implements to tanks, artillery
and other weapons of war.
Neither France nor Greece can bring
any material contribution toward the
fnal defeat of the Nazis. It takes a
long time to transport war equipment
and train men in modern warfare. BY
the time the French have organized 10
or more divisions and the Greeks have
organized half that number, the war in
Europe will certainly be over.
At present, the French have seven di-
visions which are fighting on our side
and these will be ample as a police
force. After the German armies have
been utterly defeated, large groups of
German men will start across the bor-
ders Of the former Reich to do recon-
struction work for the Allies Accord
ing to some figures, no fewer than TO-
000,0 Germans of military age will be
requisitioned by the Allies in Europe
to serve as laborers and repair the
devastation caused by the war.
Under these circumstances, it is
hardly justifiable to say that all the
victorious European nations must keep
themselves armed to the teeth in order
to Offset another German aggression.
The great hope for peace lies in the
fact that the countries which have
suffered so much from the five years Of
war will settle down and pursue policy
of moral and economic reconstruction
Any reconstruction Of their military
power beyond that of good internal
police force is incomprehensible and
leads most observers to suspect that it
might be used to maintain the present
provisional governments in power.
II first things must come first, it
appears useless for those nations which
have lost their armies during the
war to start a powerful rearmament
program, instead of leaving this matter
until after they have taken care of the
economic needs of their people.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Bill of RIGHTS

AIlGIlCdIlS COIuIIlOlly are eye
minded" They like to see for them
selves. So it happens that literally
millions of men, women and children
have made pilgrimage to the Library
of Congress to view the Declaration
of independence and the Constitu-
ton of the United States. A logical
supplement to the latter now has
been added in the form of one of the
thirteen original copies of the First
Ten Amendments, generally known
as the Bill of Rights. The document
was presented last week by Barney
Balaban of New York, who offered
it to the greatest photographic insti-
tuition on earth in generous &C
acknowledgement of the freedom which
his parents, natives of the Russia
of the czars, had found on this side
of the Atlantic.
The significance of the gift is
enhanced by the fact that it symbol
ICES the new apprehension and the
new comprehension of liberty which
everybody gradually is cultivating
under the influence of events. Rela-
lively few individuals so brief time
ago as decade back realized or
understood the elemental meaning
of democracy. The word was used,
but only small minority of more
or less professional philosophers
consciously tried to appraise or
evaluate it accurately. 1t was taken
for granted that so long as people
were possessed of freedom there was
no particular need to worry about it.
Inevitably, an awakening came.
With only the merest shadow of
warning, the United States was in
volved in a struggle which had
started in far-away Manchuria in
1881, in distant Abyssinia in 1885, in
Austria in 1888, in Poland in 1899.
The liberties of communities about
which Americans never before had
troubled to think suddenly were
illuminated by the flames of war
and, thus "spotlighted," were seen to
be important to the whole human
race! Freedom of religion, freedom
of the press, freedom of peaceful
assemblage, freedom to petition for
a redress of grievances, freedom to
be secure in person, houses, papers
and effects, it gradually became ap-
parent, meant little anywhere unless
their application was acknowledged
everywhere.
OF course, the contest is not ended.
Victory over the Axis powers will
not settle all the issues, solve all the
problems of hum 1nity. The work in