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Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
FACULTY HOLDS MEETING
Mrs. Ethel Powell Elected Vice
President of Faculty Club

Miss, ,Arie Hill, Miss Bessie Mat
thews and Mrs. Dorothy Meyer
conducted a symposium on "How
We Learn" at the regular monthly
meeting of the Faculty Club at
John Bassett Moore School here
on Thursday, February %. Miss
Matthews provided definitions of
terms necessary as basis for the
discussion, and outlined the entire
subject in all of its ramifications.
Few persons, Miss Matthews con-
cluded, learn up to the limits of
their ability; it is the duty of
every teacher to see that every
child is given the fullest possible
chance to develop his learning
powers" Miss Hill declared that
the art of learning can and should
be taught to children at a very
early age, so that each may de-
velop powers of concentration,
powers of perception in distin-
gushing relationships, in selecting
pertinent facts, and in arriving at
conclusions. Mrs. Meyer empha-
sized the necessity of teaching
each student to read as a prere-
quisite to ability to learn, and
pointed out the correlation between
child's vocabulary and his ability
as a student. Mrs. Ethel Powell
was elected vice-president of the
Faculty Club to succeed Mrs. Bar
bara Gee, resigned.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
Delaware Real Estate Sales

The following properties have
been sold through the Delaware
Real Estate & Insurance Company:
Mrs. E. S. Dwight's house to Mrs.
George Carter; Mrs. E. S. DWight's
apartment to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. d.
Niles, Jr., Townsend; A. Finger
property to the Everhart Brothers;
L. Jordan property and lots to S.
c. Ennis and l.. H. Deakyne.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
Everhart Bros. New Stand

Everhart Brothers. who have
purchased the corner property, S.
E. Corner of Commerce and Main
Street, for several years the loca-
ton of the American Store in
Smyrna, have started remodeling
the store, and will move their
electrical supply display as soon as
work is completed. The building
now occupied by them will be
made into apartments.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
st. Peters Church News

st. Peters Episcopal Church SER
vices for the first Sunday in Lent
will be as follows: 10 a. M, Church
School; IL a. M, morning prayer
and sermon. Friday the 18th at
7:3O p. M, Lenten service and ad-
dress. 1t is hoped the few services
we have during Lent will be well
attended.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
John G. Still BUYS Property

Mrs. Mary Francis Markland has
sold the one-story double store
property on Main Street, for many
years the poultry and produce
store of the late Jack Francis, to
John G. Still. Mr.. Still will tear
the buildings down and erect a
block building for his news stand
with several apartments above.
Work will be started as soon as
supplies are available.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
SPECIAL SERVICES SUNDAY

District Superintendent to Preach
at Delaney's and Clayton Sunday
DR.. T. G. Mulligan, district su-
perintendent of the Dover District,
will preach at Delaney's Methodist
Church at 8 p. m. and at st. Paul
Methodist Church at 7:30 p. m,
on Sunday, March 10th. This will
be the first time DR.. Mulligan has
preached at either of these church.
es since assuming the superin-
tendency. A cordial invitation is
extended everyone to attend these
services.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
Worlds Day of Prayer

The Worlds Day of Prayer" as
sponsored by the churches of
Smyrna, will be held in Asbury
Church Friday, March 8th, at 2
o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
Lenten Season Opens

The Lenten season opened at st.
Peters P. E. Church yesterday,
Ash Wednesday with the reading
of The Litany followed by an ad-
dress by the Rev. Frederick Marx
Barton, former rector, at 7.30 pm.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
w. @. T. u. Meeting

The regular meeting of the w. c..
T. u. will be held at the home of
Mrs. Walter Myers, Mt. Vernon
Street, Tuesday evening, March II,
at 7:45 o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1946-03-07
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Matthews f. Slaughter, Farmer
Near Smyrna, Died Tuesday


Matthew Ford Slaughter died at
his home near town Tuesday,
March 5th following a short illness.
He was a son of Ezekiel and Mary
Ford Slaughter and had lived in
this community all his life. Fun
eral services will be held at his late
residence Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock with Rev. Robert E. Green,
pastor of Asbury Methodist
Church, in charge. Interment will
be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Mr..
Slaughter is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Carrie Carpenter Slaughter,
two children, Mrs. George w. Ben
son of Centerville, Delaware; How
ard G. Slaughter, near Smyrna; his
mother, Mrs. Mary Ford Slaughter
of Middletown; three sisters, Mrs.
Ida S. Eckard, Newton, N. j.; Mrs.
Emma Reynolds, Middletown; Mrs.
Eugene Minner, Carol Gables, Flor
ida and a brother, R. w. Slaughter,
Clayton. Two grandchildren also
survive.
Charles Temple HynsOn, ST., 6S.
Funeral services for Charles
Temple Hynson, Sr., age SO, who
died at the Fairview Nursing
Home were held in Dover at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon. Mr.. Hyn-
son, a native of Smyrna, attended
the Smyrna public school. He was
an employee of the Diamond State
Telephone Company, starting with
that company as a lineman in 1904,
later serving as installer and re-
pairman, then becoming in 194O
the corporations right-of-way rep
resentative. He married the for
mer Miss Nellie Mattiford OF
Smyrna who survives him with
three daughters and five sons. Also
surviving are his mother, Mrs
Robert Glass, two sisters, Mrs
Margaret Lutz and Mrs. Warren
Barnett, and brother, Frank
Hynson, all of Philadelphia.
! Mother of DIR. v. Lay Phillips
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen Phillips
age go, widow of Alonzo w. Phil.
! lips, died at the home of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Edna P. Kennerly, in Bal.
timore, Md, on Sunday, March 3rd
Mrs. Phillips was born and raised
near Salisbury, Md, but spent the
later years of her life in Smyrna
She was a member of st. Peters
p. e. Church. Funeral services
will be held from st. Peters
Church, Smyrna, on Thursday
March 7th, at 2 p. M, with the
Rev. Mr.. Berg, of Baltimore, of.
ficiating, assisted by Rev. F. M
Barton, former rector of st
Peters Interment will be in Ode
Fellows Cemetery. Mrs. Phillip:
is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jos
ephine Thomas of Wilmington, {
brother, DR.. l.. o. Waller, Philadel
phia; three children, Mrs. Kenner
I ly, DR.. V. Lay Phillips of this town
and Emer l.. Phillips, Needham
Mass; also four grandchildren.
Death of Mrs. Alice ID. Wiley
4 Funeral services for Mrs. Alice
Delaney Wiley, H. widow of Viii
liam M. Wiley, of Ridgely, Md.
were conducted at the home of hel
daughter, Mrs. William E. Mat
thews, Jr., at Smyrna, Tuesday af
ternoon, February 26. The Rev
Robert E. Green officiated and in
terment was in Odd Fellows Gem
etery. Mrs. Wiley, who died OF
Saturday, is survived only by he
daughter, Mrs. Matthews, and two
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
WAA Willing 10 Collect
Sales Taxes on SurpIuses
by the Associotsd Press

Maj. Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn
War Assets Administration chief
said today his agency will help COL
lect sales or use taxes from pur-
chasers of surplus property located
in States or municipalities where
such taxes are imposed.
Gen. Littlejohn made his decision
known in letter to be presented to
the National Association of Tax
Administrators meeting at Seattle.
A WAA official said seven States
had raised the tax question-Cali-
fornia, Washington, Utah, Colorado,
Kansas, Ohio and Missouri.
In his letter, Gen. Littlejohn said
a system already had been worked
out to assist Ohio in making collec-
tions. Under this system, the WAA
furnishes the State with the names
of purchasers, commodities bought
and the prices. State authorities
then proceed to collect the local
taxes.
However, Gen. Littlejohn said
other local tax officials feel that
actual collection should be made by
WAA and Ito that end we are pre-
pared to undertake to collect ap-
plicaole local sales or use taxes =
for each local taxing authority which
feels that such collection is needed
for its protection
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Hair Tufts Are Only Clue
To StrongIing at Lewes
BY the Assooioted Press

LEWES, Del, Aug. 5.-A few tufts
OF grayish black hair clenched in the
fingers Of man strangled and then
horribly battered" on the head was
the only clue in mysterious Staying
that has baffled Delaware State Po-
lice, Sussex County Coroner w. I.
Conoway reported today.
The mans body was found lying
III a sandy field mile from the
beach.
Lewes police tentatively identified
the victim as Edward Franklin
Schumacher Of Baltimore, about 40.
Coroner Conoway said "the man
was .strangled and may have died
from strangulation before his face,
forehead and skull were dubbed so
savagely."
State police said they believe the
man put up a terrific struggle with
his assailant and wrenched a fstful
Of hair from the slayers head.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Pilot Injured in Leap
From Falling SaiIpIane
BY the Assoeioied Press

ELMIRA, N. Y. Aug. 5.-Robert
Boardman, 25. Elmira, was injured
yesterday when he parachuted from
sallpane which became caught in
doWnraft and crashed SO minutes
after taking off in a contest flight
during the second day of the 18th
annual national soaring meet.
His condition was reported fair"
at the Arnot-Ogden Hospital. The
pilot, Eugene P. Miller, %, Detroit,
only other occupant of the craft,
also parachuted from the sailplane
and escaped injury.
The pair had been heading. for the
Fu-City airport at Bingframton,
which had posted a sl00 goal flight
prize for the first pilot in the con-
test to arrive there.
Other pilots aiming for the~same
destination, made the best fights OF
the day. Raymond H. Parker,
TWenty-nine Palms, Calf, landed
near Endicott, As airline miles from
the take off point, and Franklin
HURT, Elmira, landed at Candor, 80
miles from the take off point.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
'StroegIers' in Berlin
Reveal Black Market
BY the Assoeioted Pres.

BERLIN.--"St "Stragglers" have put
American military government wise
to an extensive black market in
food-ration cards.
The ordinary citizen comes prompt
ly to the city Offices in which ration
cards are distributed and lines up in
the course of the first five days of
each month, when new cards are
handed out.
"Stragglers," who appeared in tens
of thousands, are men and women
who apply for their new cards about
the middle of the month. Food Of
flcers wondered how anybody could
let 10 or more days of the month
pass without feeling hunger.
They found that thousands of
Berliners called for their ration
cards, promptly sold them in the
black market for fabulous prices
Zone man collected $4,000 from the
sale Of his family's food cards. and
then Joined relatives, in the country
who had food.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Farm Bloc 10 Push
Drive 10 End Subsidies,
Boost Parity Prices
BY the Associoted Press

Members of a group of farm legis-
lators promise drive will be pressed
in the 80th Congress convenine
in January to wipe out agriculture
subsidies and boost parity prices.
A spokesman, Chairman Flanna-
gan of the House Agriculture Com
mittee, said yesterday, the main
projects are:
l. Elimination of farm subsidies
with an open market on agricultural
products.
2. Upward revision of parity form
ulas to include cost of farm wages
parity is figure set to guarantee
farmers a price for their products
high enough to insure purchasing
power equal to that in past favor
able periods)
3. Establishment of a number of
Federal fertilizer experimental sta
tions.
4. Consolidation of all Federal
agriculture lending agencies.
The parity revision proposal
passed both the Senate and House
in various forms during the last
year but never became law.
The lending consolidation plan
passed the House this year but be-
came stalled In the Senate.
Regarding subsidies Mr.. Flan-
nagan declared:
What the farmers want, and
justice and fair dealings demand
they have, Is fair price in the
market place. The farmers, like
every one else engaged in business,
want to look to the market place
and not the Government for their
pay"
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Baltimore Policemen
Face Financial Quiz
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 5.-Baltimore
policemen were pondering today a
recommendation" by Commissioner
Hamilton r. Atkinson that they fill
out the questionnaires on their
financial affairs prepared by the Of
fee of States Attorney J. Bernard
Wells in connection with the grand
Jury's inquiry into the police de-
partment and the July 4 holdup at
the Century Athletic Club.
In letter to be read to members
of the force. Mr.. Atkinson said a
previous letter of instruction was
not intended as advising against
compliance" with Mr.. Wells re-
quest. He repeated, however, that
his current recommendation was not
to be construed as an order.
The questionnaires, distributed
last week to personnel holding the
rank of sergeant and above, call for
detailed information Oh the total
income, bank accounts, stock hold
ings and other assets of those Of
lcers and their wives.
Gov. O'Conor said Saturday night
he had conferred with Attorney
General William Curran, who agreed
with him that policemen should
answer the questionnaires
Il am sending word to the police
commissioner to request his men to
answer the questions and furnish
any other information which the
States attorneys Office may re-
quire," Gov. O'Conor said.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Rojoh Wins Back
Life and Title,
Then He Dies
BY the Assoeioied Press

LONDON, Aug. 5.--An Exchange
Telegraph Agency dispatch from
Calcutta said Ramendra Narayan
Roy, Rajah of Bhowal, who won a
25-year fight in the courts last week
to prove he was legally alive, died
Saturday in Calcutta while waiting
for King George VI to sign an or
der restoring his vast domain.
The Privy Council, highest Judi
cial authority in the British Empire,
last Tuesday recognized the Rajah's
claim by dismissing the case of
Rance Bibhabati, widow of the
Rajah. who said Roy died at Dar-
jeeling in 1909 and was cremated.
The Rajah maintained that while
his funeral pyre was burning, a
heavy downpour drove his mourn
ers to shelter. The rain revived
him, he said. and he was rescued by
passing beggars with whom he lived
for IL years while suffering loss
of memory,
Evening star., 1946-08-05
3 Young Pioneers From East
End Up With Colorado Police

by telephone with authorities in
Endicott:
The 9-year- -old learned the COM
bination to his grandfather safe
and borrowed $4,000 in currency
mostly los, 20s and Sos. Then the
young pioneers hurried West as fast
as they could-by bus, train, plane
and taxicab
In Greeley they bought three sad
die horses, three saddles, field
glasses, two rifles. pistol and mis-
cellaneous outdoor equipment
When police began asking ques-
tions, the boys disclosed they had
$500. .09-of which $1,000 was hid
den in boot and the rest in a
paper sack.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Connecticut 10 Treat
Alcoholics in Clinics
Operated by State
BY the hssoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-The cure of
alcoholism has become official State
business in Connecticut.
Three other States, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey and Alabama
have earmarked funds for treatment
OF alcoholics and IA cities through
out the country have established
committees for education on alco-
holism.
This was reported today by the
Council of State Governments which
said surveys showed there are 750.-
600 alcoholics in the Nation, in ad-
dition to 2,250,000 Chronic" exces-
sive drinkers.
Yale Plan Adopted.
The Connecticut Commission on
Alcoholism has taken over the Yale
plan clinics for treatment of alco-
holics and the council described this
move as "a major step toward
broader public sponsorship of efforts
to cope with the fact that one male
adult out of every II in the United
States is an alcoholic or chronic
excessive drinker."
Under the Connecticut program.
the Yale plan clinic and its Hart
ford clinic branch will serve as pat
terms for similar units in other large
cities in that State.
The clinical treatment provides
for counselling without institution
alizing those who come voluntarily
or are sent by relatives or the courts.
The clinics are stated by a psy-
chiatrist, general physician, lay
therapist and psychiatric social
worker, and cooperate with Alco-
holics Anonymous and with public
and private agencies.
One Half Cases Cured.
The Yale clinics reported that
drunkenness has been checked-and
sometimes cured-in so per cent of
the cases whose trea atment has pro-
gressed beyond the diagnostic stage,
during which the patient talks to
staff members about his background
and problems.
During the guidance period, which
may run several months, the patient
has several talks week with a psy-
chiatrist. The patient also may drop
in or telephone the clinic when a
special problem arises.
The State spends from $50 to 500
to treat each patient.
Cities with local committees for
education on alcoholism, the coun-
Gil said, are Austin, Dallas and Fort
Worth, Tex; Boston; Charleston,
w. Va; Daytona Beach; Des
Moines: Pittsburgh; Rochester. N.
Y; Youngstown, Ohio; Seattle;
Washington, D. c.; New York and
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Churches Told 10 Use
New 1eehniques 10
Impress Politicians
BY the Assoeioied Press

CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. S.
Churches need to develop new tech
niques to impress the politicians, -
DR.. Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia
told churchmen from Is nations
today.
Opening a debate on the most
effective way to SELF world leaders
on the application of Christian
principles to international politics,
the American said: Effective work
in the political field demands the
use of more than pious phrases"
DR.. Nolde, dean of Mount Airy
Theological Seminary's graduate
school, addressed an international
conference on world order sponsored
by the World Council of Churches.
an organization of Protestant and
Orthodox religious groups.
Russian Question Cited.
John Foster Dulles, alternate
United States delegate to the United
Nations Assembly, yesterday urged
the conference to discuss the "ex-
tremely urgent matter" of tension
between Russia and the west.
DR.. Nolde declared:
THE churches should bear their
witness, in the most united man
ner possible, to the significance of
the Christian faith for the life of
the nations at a time when the
political world is in chaos because
OF its failure to follow the teach
ing OF our Lord"
DR.. Nolde urged the Christian
leaders to ''go the limit in applying
all possible personal contacts" to
bend the worlds political leaders
toward Christian solution of polit-
lcal problems. Calling on the
to attack the underlying
causes from which wars arise" DR..
Nolde observed that there is fairly
common agreement that Christians
must work through accredited DO
litical agencies" to try to prevent
war
No Place for Power Politics.
Sir Alfred zimmern, emeritus pro-
fessor of international relations at
Oxford University, declared the
churches must enter" the field COW
cred by the United Nations Educa-
tional, Scientific and Cultural Or
ganization.
Power politics have no place in
UNESCO," said Sir Alfred. who is
a temporary adviser to UNESCO's
commission. The task
Of the churches is to develop public
opinion which will support the
higher motivations represented by
this aspect of world organization.
Mr.. Dulles said yesterday that 1.-The
moral and spiritual forces of the
world, inadequate as they are, still
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Record Tobacco Crop
May Top z Billion LBS.
BY the Associoied Press

A record breaking American to-
bacco yield was forecast today by
the Agriculture Department, which
estimated total world production
this year will be 10 per cent larger
than the 1945 output.
The new crop in the United States
was estimated at 2.126,000. 900
pounds, which is per cent larger
than in 1945 and 40 per cent above
the l940-1944 average
The world crop estimate for 1946
was placed at 6,654, 100000 pounds.
Western Hemisphere and African
crops are expected to be we'll over
prewar production figures. The yield
in Europe and Asia is seen as being
considerably below the prewar levels
but somewhat higher than in 1915
Evening star., 1946-08-05
Hershey PLEDGES Aid
In Deferring Of Men
Vital 10 Reconversion

In the face of protest from the
American Chemical Society that
new selective service rules, if hon.
estly applied, would virtually elm
mate all occupational deferments,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey dis
closed today he had told a recent
White House meeting that selective
service would do everything pos
sible to protect" a certain group of
men
In this group, as described by the
selective service director, are men
who were of such Importance that
their removal from civilian occupa-
tlon would adversely affect recon-
version as well as scientific re-
search"
Alden H. Emery, secretary of the
American Chemical Society, had
written Gen. Hershey that the So
clety was informed the only men to
be deferred, except those specified
in the Draft Extension Act. are
those indispensable and fireplace
able to the national existence"
Since no individual can be de-
scribed in such terms with propri-
ety." Mr.. Emory said. this in effect
eliminates all selectivity."
Gen. Hershey replied that in linn
iting occupational deferments to
registrants whom local boards found
to be irreplaceable in and indispen-
sable to an activity essential to the
national interest, selective service
did provide for the deferment of
essential men in industry and edu-
cation.
The new rules, he added, define
this essential activity as one of such
Importance that any disruption of
it would adversely affect the physi-
cal well-being, public safety or
economic life Of the community or
the Nation.
This language" added Gen.
Hershey, lis intended to give local
boards full discretion in determin-
ing who is and who is not essen
tial. Obviously the scientifically
trained individual who is engaged
in important research or other
work of value to the physical we'll
being or economic life of the coun-
try would be entitled to defeTment
consideration"
The September call for selective
service - first since June - totals
25,000 men, which averages approx
imately four men to each draft
board
Evening star., 1946-08-05
How to Free Trapped Beor
Puzzles Woman Hunter
BY the Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex.-A bear
weighing more than 200 pounds was
in trap which Iva Young had set
as Government trapper.
Because he wasn't a tock-killing
bear, the law required Mrs. Young
to free him, but 1t wasn't as easy
as it sounds.
She edged her truck near the
trapped animal. The bruin scram-
bled under the vehicle, snubbing
himself to. the rear axle with the
trap chain.
Gingerly, Mrs. Young tied him
with a rope, then cautiously sprang
the trap and-from a distance
loosened the rope.
The bear went up the nearest
tree, hastily.
Evening star., 1946-08-05
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review Saturday night, Senator
George said:
Il don't know whether circum-
stances will justify more reduc-
tions in those two departments. ]
would have to study the recon-
mendations of the military men
more thoroughly.
But those are the only two
places major savings can be made.
We can save little by cutting
down on the number of Federal
employees, but not enough"
Meanwhile, Chairman Thomas of
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee, said: Things have gone so
well in the occupation of Japan and
Korea that more than S1,000,0O0, 900
can be saved in the cost of occupy
ing those countries"
Elections Have Some Bearing.
One development which could
throw Senator Georges calculations
out of kilter would be the election
OF a stable group of congressman
committed to lower tax rates. In
such an event, it is conceivable that
a "quickie" bill might be enacted to
take effect by midyear.
Senator George wants to avoid
that kind of legislation and draft a
comprehensive measure only after
full deliberation. That is why he
to put a subcommittee to
work on the problem soon.
The Finance ComuuJuee Chairman
also plans to appoint five specialists
from outside the Government, in
accordance with a resolution the
Senate passed Friday. to go into
every aspect of the social security
question and make recommends
tons,