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Evening star., 1947-01-02
Rites forMrs. Allie Wheeler
Nurse, Set for Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Allie L
Wheeler, 80, of 40 Todd place NE.
who died Tuesday night in Gallingel
Hospital after a long illness, will
be held at II am. Saturday al
the Pumphrey funeral home, 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring, Md
Burial will be in st. Johns Cemetery
Beltsville.
Born in Branchville, Md, she came
here nearly 20 years ago from Laurel
Md. She was a practical nurse. Mrs
Wheeler was an active member OF
the Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, sof the Eastern Star, and
also belonged to the st. Marx &
Guild of Fairland, Md.
She was the widow of Joshua
Wheeler of Laurel.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Clara Martin of the Todd place
address, and Mrs. Nellie MARROW OF
Burtonsville, Md, and a brother,
Charles E. Robey Of Washington.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
Joseph A. Wise, Founder
OF Chevy Chase Dairy, Die!

Joseph A. Wise, 70, co-founder
with his late brother, George A.
Wise, of the Chevy Chase Dairy, died
yesterday at his home, 4106 Forty
second street NV, after years
illness.
Born in Washington, he was life
long resident here. In 1885 he
founded the Chevy Chase Dairy
and was president of the firm when
he retired in 1928, the year In
which all his interests in the firm
now the Chestnut Farms-Chevy
Chase, were sold.
Mr.. Wise is survived by a son
Joseph M. Wise, and two grandSons
Matthew M. and William S. Wise
all of Washington.
Requiem mass will be said at 1C
am. tomorrow at st. AIMS Church
4400 Wisconsin avenue NV. Burial
will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
VA Denies Starr Claim
That Administration
Costs 11% Of Funds

The Veterans of Foreign Wars to.
day struck at what it termed the
unduly high cost of administering
veterans affairs and suggested q
congressional check to make sure
veterans receive every penny pos
sible out of benefit appropriations.
In a statement through the VFW
National News, Comdr. Louis E
Starr declared salaries and persona!
expenses alone for those administer
ing veterans benefits will amount
to more than II per cent of the vet
erans' appropriation.
Asked whether Mr.. Starr was re-
ferring to the Veterans Administra-
ticn, Omar B. Ketchum, VFW legis-
lative chief, said he was. Mr.
Ketchum added, however, that Mr.
Starr intended no criticism of Gen
Bradley or any special part of his
agency"
Agency Denies Charge.
Veterans Administration officials
today said Mr.. Stars estimates
were nonsense" and that salaries
and expenses of the agency's per-
sonnel amount to 3.4 per cent. The
expenses, they said, total about
1927 100000. ....
The VFW chiefs figure for per-
sonnel- expenses was $557 ,287 900,
which he said will eat up better
than IL per cent of the total bud
get"
Mr.. Starr said it is "only reason
able to expect the new Congress to
look into all avenues of public ex-
penditures. Overhead and admin
istrative costs of the public outlays
of cash are always target under
the most perfect conditions"
Says Cost Should Decrease.
Mr.. Starr said he thought that
as veteran activities increase, ad-
expenses should go
down, as we know that costs in
industry have decreased
as production has increased"
Mr.. Starr asserted that "the tre-
nendous size of the operating per-
sonnel involved in veterans affairs
itself is not conducive to tight
checks and balances
In addition to salaries and ex-
penses for about 215,OOO officials
and employees, additional expenses
Of the agency, he said, include
for printing and binding
and $3,500,000 for penalty mail costs.
Rental and floor space is another
huge item which eats into the vet
eran dollar" he added.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
First 7o47 Battle
| Fimdom Won
| By OIeg Cossini
By the Associoted Press

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. I'm tn,
New Years first film fisticuffs, New
York broker Jimmy Costello receiv'
ed a bloody nose-a contribution
says Actress Gene Tierney, from
her estranged husband, Oleg Cas-.
SIM.
In a SILLY argument" she said
over who had whose car keys, tht
two men slugged it out on a park
ing lot at Ciro's restaurant yester-
DAY. Miss Tierney intervened, but
before she could stop the fight, Mr.
Costello's nose was squirting blood
The actress and her sister Pat
Mr.. Costello's companion, drove tht
men home and later said they hae
apologized.
Miss Tierney added that she anc
the designer are not reconciled.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
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Evening star., 1947-01-02

lTurkestan, Adam and Eve" and
How to Strike-Wilen to Strike" !"
which was written in 1910.
Held Foreign Decorations.
He was q commander Of the
Legion Of Honor of France, and was
awarded the Order Of the Crown Of
Belgium and the Order Of the Grown
Iof Italy.
Mr.. Crosby was member on the
Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs Of
Washington and of the University
Club, New York.
A native of Ponchatoula. La. he
was born April 81, 1861, the son Of
George L. and Elizabeth Terry
Crosby. He married the former
Jeanne vouligny of New Orleans,
who died in 1884.
Mr.. Crosby lived at View Tree,
Evening star., 1947-01-02
Sale Of darlington
And Mclean Gardens
Under Negotiation

A contract is being negotiated for
the sale Of two auge District area
Government housing projects
Harrington and Mclean Gardens
and third In Bremerton. Wash,
for a total price of $43, 600 900, q
spokesman for the Defense Homes
Corp. has disclosed.
The offer of two Dallas (Tex.),
men-Leo r. Corrigan, real estate
operator, and Leland Fixes, an oil
operator-was accepted Monday by
the board of directors of DHC and
by the Reconstruction Finance Corp,
which must approve any sale, 1t
was said.
Sale of the properties, it was en-
phasized today, has not been COM
pleted
Terms Outlined.
Under terms of the offer, there
would be $4,000, 900 down payment,
with RFC holding 28-year mort
gage for the remainder at an in
terest rate of az per cent.
The $43, GOO, 900 offer was $3,890, ,785
less than the cost of the properties,
built during wartime to expand
Washington's housing facilities. The
offer also was $7,523 less than the
book value" of $43,607, ,523.
Built III 1912.
Mclean Gardens, built on the
Wisconsin avenue site of the former
Evalyn Walsh Mclean estate,
Friendship, in 1912 at a cost of
s11 1,143, ,784, has 728 apartment units
and an additional 1850 units in
residence halls. Forty -one buildings
are located on the 78-acre site.
darlington, started in 1943 and
completed the next year in Arling-
ton, Va, at a cost of $35 1896, $40. has
3,439 apartments and is said to be
the largest development of its kind
In the world.
The Bremerton project has 180
units and cost $3.50, 1861.
The projects were built by the De-
fense Homes Corp. with funds
loaned by RFC. They have been for
sale for several years. Naylor Gar
dens, sold some time ago to veter-
ans cooperative group, was among
a number of other DHC projects
built during wartime.
The Veterans Cooperative Hous-
ing Association, which finally pur-
chased Naylor Gardens, also had
sought to purchase Mclean Gar
dens hut its bid was rejected as too |
low.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
ArcheoIoqists to Report

DR.. and Mrs. Matthew Stirling will
report on their findings involving
eight archaeological expeditions tc
Southern Mexico at a meeting OF
the National Geographic Society at
Constitution Hall at 8:l5 pm. tomor-
row. DR.. Stirling led the expeditions
sponsored by the National Geo.
graphic Society and the Smithsonian
Institution.
Evening star., 1947-01-02

Warrenton, with two daughters,
Countess Miriam Caraciolo Di Melito
and Mrs. Celeste Crosby Miller. He
is also survived by another daughter,
Mrs. Juliette Crosby Hornblow. and
"a grandson. Terry Hornblow Of New
York.
Private services win be conducted
Friday.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
12S DEATHS CAUSED
By TUBERCULOSIS

DeIaware's tuberculosis deaths
last year numbered 128, including
three nonresident deaths, accord
ing to statistics furnished the Del
aware Anti-Tuberculosis Society by
the State Health Department. The
deaths listed by age groups were as
follows: Under / year, 2; l to 8
years, A: 10 to 10 years, 6; 20 to 20
years,15 3 0to SO years, 18; 40 to
40 years, 26; so to So years, "a; so
to SO years, Is; 20 to 79 years, 13;
80 years and over, 5.
DIR. l.. .. Phillips, superintendent
of Brandywine Sanatorium, and a
member of the executive committee
of the Anti Tuberculosis Society,
states that in the last two years
there has been a marked increase
IN admissions and deaths of patients
SO years of age and over.
In spite of the fact that annual
ly more people live to reach the
fifty year age group, the increase
appears to be an actual one and not
relative one. 'he said.
The 128 deaths were distributed
as follows: White, "a, which was a
rate of OIL per one hundred thou
sand population. The Negro deaths
numbered 54, with a rate of 1922.
The society is conducting its for
ty-first annual Christmas Seal sale
for tuberculosis funds to maintain
its anti-tuberculosis activities il
the state during the ensuing year.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Kills Wife as She Leaves
Him; Turns Gun on Himself

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. "A 32-year-
old bus company mechanic shot his
attractive blonde wife as she packed
her suitcase to leave him, police
said, and then turned the gun on
himself.
The bodies of Charles Stewart and
his wife, Virginia, q, were found in
their upstairs apartment by taxi
cab driver who was bringing Mrs.
Stewards sister to the home.
Detective William F. O'Rourke
said it was obviously a case of
murder-suicide.
O'Rourke said Mrs. Stewart had
been shot twice through the head.
Her body was in chair and her
open suitcase was on a nearby
davenport.
Stewart was sprawled on the floor
near the door of the living room at
the top of stairway. He had shot
himself through the mouth.
A note on the fireplace mantel was
addressed to a Cleveland man and
signed by Stewart. 1t read: Thanks
for breaking UP our home. 1t must
have made you very happy"
Police said Mrs. Stewart was sta
toned in Cleveland while a member
Of the Waves during the war.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
COLISEUM Is POPULAR
NIGHT SPOT NOW
AT WOODLAND BEACH

Originally constructed for sum-
mer use only, the management of
the Coliseum has announced that
workmen started on Monday to
completely remodel the entire in
terror. The plan is to construct a
ceiling with a height of ten feet to
be covered with Insul Board with
panel effect. The side walls will be
built out, covered and insulated fol-
lowing the same lines as in the
ceiling. The front entrance and con-
cession room will also conform to
the same idea.
The decorating scheme. as plan
ned, will be done in blue with APP
propriate lighting effects. Upon
completion, the dance hall proper
will be known as The Royal Room.
With the addition of the remodel
ing, as outlined above, along with
the recently installed heating sys-
tenn, people of Smyrna and sur
rouding towns will find it just about
the coziest spot around to spend ar
evening of relaxation and fun.
On Auguest 18TH. the Coliseum
was opened with the idea of pro
viding sizeable and suitable dance
floor to accommodate large crowds
where one might go and enjoy al
evening of clean fun, good musk
and table service for all. AS of thii
interview, the management EN-
phatically states that this policy ha,
been adhered to at all times ant
will continue as such.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
SUSSEX HOMEMAKERS PLAN
CHRISTMAS PARTIES
CONTINUED from nrst page,

m. Program is planned for the
group.
Loves Cross Roads Club-a fam
lily party at Loves Cross Roads
Hall on December IL at 1880 D. m.
Program is being planned with re-
freshments afterwards.
Omar Club is having club lun-
cheon at Mrs. Howard Peppers, the
club president on December II at
1890 p. m.
Piney Grove Club-family party
with refreshments and games on
Friday December 10 at 500 p. m.
at the Community Hall. Santa will
arrive for the children.
Reliance Club is having a fam
lily Christmas party at Reliance
Community Hall on December 26
at 1880 p. m. Games will follow.
Shawnee and Shawnee Evening
Clubs are having a family dinner
at the Grange Hall in Milford on
Friday December IL at 500 p. m
Entertainment will follow.
Wesley-Cannon Club is having a
club Christmas luncheon at Can
non Community Hall at 1890 p. m
on December 18. Exchanging oi
gifts will be the highlight of the
afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Ampntees TO GET Better
Arms Says Bureau Head

WASHINGTON Veterans ad-
ministration has announced what it
described as the first marked inn
provements in artificial arms "since
the Civil war"
Chairman Robert S. Allen of the
VAS prosthetic advisory committee
said that three new models, the
products of joint government and
industry research, would be made
available at once to veterans and
civilians through $50 dealers in the
country.
"They will be heart stirring to the
men and women who have lost
arms" he said. "They are light
weight arms that offer some utility
to the wearers without requiring
them to pay a tremendous cost"
Veteran amputees will. receive
their choice of one of the three
types of arms free Of charge from
Veterans administration, while the
cost to civilians will be far less than
for old models, Allen said.
He emphasized that the new type
arms were mot revolutionary or
miraculous developments" but did
constitute great advances in manu-
facture and design.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
DEAN ARM TO SPEAK AT
DOVER ON DECEMBER II

Dean David L. Arm of the Uni
versity of Delaware's School of
Engineering will be the principal
speaker at meeting of the Kent
County Alumni Club of the Uni
versity in Dover on the evening of
Thursday, December IL. Dean Arm
will include in hrs talk a report on
the university of today.
The hour and place of the meet
ing, which will be the second of the
year for the club, will be announ-
ced subsequently by Ernest f.
Smith, Jr., of Kenton, president of
the club. as
Also on the program will be a
showing of films of one of the Del
aware football games for the past
season,
In addition to Mr.. Smith, Kent
county club officers are John N.
Lyndall, of Wyoming, who is vice
president, and Joshua T. West OF
Dover, secretary-treasurer
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Schools Held AS
Americas Keystone
CcOntinueo from nrst pageo

"The contribution that the citi-
zens of Delaware can make today
and tomorrow are no less signifi-
cant than those which were made
in the years that have passed.
School Heritage
LET us in the schools, therefore,
make our programs functional to
the extent that the heritage dis
played on the Freedom Train and
the activities of those who have pre-
ceded us become an integral part
of the growth of Delaware's chill
dren. Let us make it functional to
the extent that those who graduate
from our institutions have the abilI-
ty to make their place in our socie-
ty-active, intelligent, participating
individuals.
ours is no small responsibility.
May we be worthy of the confidence
placed in our institutions that Del
aware will remain the First State
of our nation"
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Tote $50 Million Through
Streets in PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA. Now it
can be told-150 million dollars
was transported through down
town Philadelphia and only those
involved in the move were aware
of it.
Officials of the Tradesmens
National Bank and Trust COM
pany disclosed that amount was
transferred from the banks old
quarters to its new main office.
Twenty-four special guards
and a squad of Philadelphia po-
lice were on duty in the opera
tion.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Prices, Sales Were
Up In October
(continusd from nrst pake1

October, about $7OO. 100000 over the
figure for September, and about ST.
100000, 900 over the mark for Octo-
ber, 1946.
The wage and wholesale price
figures, both from the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics, were peak hits after
weeks of steady rising.
1t was the third consecutive week
during which new high mark was
hit by the prices of wholesale goods,
and the second month in which wa
ges for the 100000 production
workers had gone beyond record
$50 week. The September wage
average was $50.45
The BIS released the two sets of
figures separately, but it comment
ed that the wage gains were offset
by price increases which it did not
further identify.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Peruvian Girl Is TopIiner
Among Women BuIIiighters

LIMA, PERU.-Conchita Cintron,
23-year-old Peruvian girl. topliner
among a small select band of
woman bullfghters, now has 51O
bulls to her credit.
Conchita took up bullfighting when
is and is favorite in Spanish and
Portuguese bull rings. She claims to
be the only bullfghter. man or
woman, who fights afoot and on
horseback. She says she fights bulls
for the sheer love of it but when she
retires she is going to buy ranch
to rear bulls instead of killing them.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Cost to Plant Forests

1t costs from Sc to $l2 an acre,
depending on the cost of labor, type
of country, equipment and cost of
seedlings. to plant trees. The final
cost of reforesting an area artificial
ly cannot be determined until the
planting is few years old and the
necessary replacement of trees
which die is known. Ordinarily,
more than 60 per cent Of all planted
trees will survive.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Winners In Sussex
Essay Contest Listed
(continued from first pase)

Sussex and state associations, pre-
sided at the meeting which was pre-
ceded by a dinner served by the
Millshoro Auxiliary, Mrs. w. F..
Bachelor, president
Fire Recorder Granville White
reported fire loss. of $23,405 in the
county last month. OF this amount
1906 was in the rural areas. To-
tai alarms were Az and Seaford had
the heaviest loss, $4,550. Milton re-
ported no, fires. Georgetown had
seven alarms.
Among the visitors were: Fred
Burke, state vice president; Past
Presidents Caleb Johnson, Magno-
liza; Fred Brown, Wilmington
Frank O'Neal, Harrington; Colonel
Edgar S. Slayer, Rehoboth; Ro-
land Parker. Milford, Kent presi-
dent; William Kirk, New Castle
county, and John Vanberger, Ches-
void.
Harry Farrell of Wilmington, re-
tired fireman, entertained the
group with humorous stories.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Motor Fuel Tax
Shows Sharp Increase
continued from nrsr parsl

continued from rrsr page)
cellaneous sales, $26,490, a de-
crease of $15,77O.
Total Income
Total income of the department,
given in the report, for the 1946-47
fiscal year was $5,177 ,729, an in
crease of $1,271,659 over the pre-
vious year.
Disbursements for maintenance
of roads in the last fiscal year
amounted to $1,335, ,145, an increase
of $1,000. OF the maintenance dis
bursements, $469,09S was expend-
ed in New Castle county; $685., ,634
in Kent county, and $405,09 in
Sussex county, and $74,321 was for
statewide snow removal.
Expenses
Construction work disbursements
by the department in the last fis-
cal year were $2,161, 1923, an in
crease of $1,019,946 in the previous
fiscal year.
Other expenses included: Admin
istration, $54,274, an increase of
$7,936; fixed charges for debt SER
vice, $615, ,404, a decrease of $75,-
/ I'll; state police division, $434, PA,
an increase of $23,569; motor We
hicle division, $174,705, an increase
of $10,353; outdoor advertising di-
vision, $2,714, an increase of 1854 /;
motor fuel tax division, $10,721, an
increase of $1,704; mosquito con-
troll division, $24,294, an increase
of $4,025, and public lands devel-
opment account, $500, a decrease
of $942.
d Total Outlay
Total disbursements of the de-
partment for the fiscal year 1916
AZ were $4,S20,494, an increase OF
$1,00,685 over the previous fiscal
year.
Current cash assets of the de-
partment now consist of $2,074,784
and the capital assets are listed
altogether as $24, 4,344,434, including
$739,425 in land and buildings
$653,079 in. equipment; $4,000 in
public lands, and $22,S56,930 in
roads and bridges. The bonded in
debtedness is given as $2,652, 900.
The department kept we'll with.
in its budget, as it income exceed
ed the disbursements by 1857 49,
in the year. The report was pre-
pared under direction of Frank v
dupont, chairman of the commits
sion, and Colonel William A. Nc
!: Williams, chief engineer, and re
leased by Ernest Muncy, secretary
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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Russia Rebuilds
100000 Homes

MOSCOW -P)- Two million
rural homes have been built in de-
vastated areas of the Soviet Union
since the Germans were driven out,
according to the government news
paper "Pravda."
But $4,000 families in these areas
are still without homes and are
living in dugouts. "Pravda" stated.
The Germans during their period
of occupation managed TO destroy
more than 100000 rural houses,
"Pravda" said.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Burgulars Are Finicky
About Housekeeping

BILLINGS, Mont. -(P)- Bur-
glars who stole a rife, two pipes
and can of tobacco from Joe Wer-
sails house took time to cook them
selves a snack and coffee.
Wersal was a bit less put out
when he found the men had also
stayed long enough to rinse off
their dirty dishes and sweep the
floor.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
state Aid Highways

State aid for highway improve
ment. as the term now is under
stood, began in New Jersey with a
law of 1891. BY 1917, all states had
laws providing for engineering as
sistance. and some states also
granted money for aid of highway
improvement
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Bridge Takes Hearing
Out of Business Double

DENVER -(P)- A rural dele
cation was asking the Colorado
Highway Advisory Board, which
makes up the states highway bud
get, to replace bridge in its COM
munity when the meeting was in
terrupted with this message: "The
bridge has just collapsed under the
weight of heavy truck"
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
An Honored Profession

Shoemaking..was an honored pro-
fession in ancient Egypt. A stone
carving 1900 years old shows an
Egyptian shoe factory in operation.
with a workman cutting leather
soles out of tanned hide.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Women in Russia

Women news dealers. street clean
ers and traffic cops are common
sights in Russia but housewives ara
scarce.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Too Tiny to Be Weighed at
Birth; Now Hits l6 Pounds

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.-Rich.
ard Davis Mann, so small he
couldn't be weighed at birth. tippeo
the scales at l6 pounds wnen he
celebrated his first birthday anni-
versary,
Butch" one of the smallest
babies ever to survive. weighed an
estimated one pound when he was
born two and half months ahead
of schedule. Doctors kept him in an
incubator for a month. feeding hin.
with an eyedropper.
The first class of pilots to be gra-
duated from West Point completed
it's work May 81. 1943.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Lloyd Ricards To
Address Lions Here
continued from nrst pass1

NCUHIuIueu IIUnI ufst paseJ
years past, tickets or bids have
been made available to only a Sc
lect few. The purchaser of tickets
for this years affair also receives,
at no extra cost, a bid which he
may pro-offer to any friend living
without the Milford area. Clifford
Wilson is the chairman for this
years affair.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05

Only a quarter of the area of the
Union of South Africa has a mean
annual rainfall of more than rs
inches.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
STORAGE
IDENTIFICATION

space for writing in the
type of food stored in
each compartment is
provided on the locker"
doors. No need to hunt
through several to find
the food you want.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
POSITIVE
REFRIGERATION

Constant zero tempera-
ture is maintained at all
times by the famous
Norge ''Rollator" her
metically sealed cold
maker. Each compart-
ment is individually re-
frigerated by refriger-
ating coils under each
shelf.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05

Find out about the Norge
Freezer how it saves
time and labor and lowers
living costs. Learn how the
new Norge will actually pay
for itself!