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Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

The remodeling and renovation
of Grace Methodist parsonage is
nearing completion. Rev. Milton r.
Elliott and family, who have been
making their home in a cottage at
Delmarva Camp. hope to move back
to the parsonage soon.
Jack Burnham, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dorsey Burnham, of Milton,
returned to Fork Union Military
Academy, Virginia. on Tuesday. He
was accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs
Burnham, who were expected to re-
turn home Thursday.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Lockwood, of Dagsboro. at
Milford Memorial Hospital Sunday
Mrs. Lockwood will be remembered
as Sarah Darby, formerly of Milton
Captain and Mrs. Charles E. Dar-
by, of Philadelphia. are guests Of
Captain and Mrs. l. c. Darby al
their home on Walnut street.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. v. Register were
dinner guests of his aunt, Mrs. L
C. Darby, on Thursday evening.
Mrs. G. c. Williams and sons
Lou and Willard, of Philadelphia
spent the weekend with Capt. ant
Mrs. L. G. Darby.
Amos Donovan has accepted {
position with the local American
Store. Mr.. Donovan recently re
turned home from a stretch witt
the Army, Is months of which wai
spent overseas.
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Spencer
and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Beheler ar
spending some time in the Smitl
cottage at Broadkill Beach.
Il Miss Loleta Belts spent the week
end with Mrs. Falkner, at Midway
4 Mr., and Mrs. W. A. johnson at
tended the homecoming of Trinit,
Methodist Church. Goldsboro, Md
on Sunday. as guests of Rev. AM
Mrs. G. S. Ross, the pastor
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Short, o
Philadelphia, spent Friday and Sat
| urday with his sister, Mrs. Mani
| Reed, and family.
Wilbur Moore and a party o
/. friends, of Philadelphia, spent Sun
: day with his sister, Mrs. Raymon
| Lank.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lank spen
j Sunday evening at Rehoboth.
2 Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Canno
: and son, Teddy. and Mrs. W. "
Crouch spent Sunday afternoO
/. with Mr.. Cannon,s mother, Mr.
I Matte Peterson, in Dover.
z H. Allen Lewis, son of Mr.. an
Mrs. Harmon Lewis, has returne
to the Fork Union Military Acat
/: emy. Virginia
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl McIlvane al
Y the proud parents of baby gir
]. born on Monday, September Is,
t Milford Memorial Hospital Motl
: err and daughter are doing fin
}. Mrs. McIlvane will be remembers
o as Miss Beatrice Hastings. daug1
t ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hasting
Sr.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

Clendaniel, Philip McInnis, Elbert
Palmer and Price Snyder, Jr., Uni
versity of Delaware, Newark, Della
ware; Charles Brueninger, School
of Osteopathy, Philadelphia, Pa;
Pasquale DeFino, School of Chiro-
pody, Cincinnati, Ohio; Nelson
Bennett, Dickinson College, Car
isle, Pa; James White. Temple Uni
versity, Philadelphia, Pa; and Der
rick McInnis, who win continue to
serve as an apprentice pilot.
| Quarterly Conference Held
The first quarterly conference of
Goshen Methodist Church was held
last Wednesday evening preceded
by a covered dish supper at the
Parish House.
DR.. Thomas Mulligan, district
superintendent, presided. Mrs. Null
ligan and sixteen members attended.
Rev. Davis reported plans for the
new season beginning with visit
to every church home in prepara-
tion for Rally Day and World Wide
Communion on Oct. 5; also, that he
has officiated at two funerals, three
weddings and baptized II children.
In addition. Sunday School was
held at Brodkiln Beach with a total
attendance of 88 people.
The Sunday School superinten-
dent reported gain of 25 per cent
in attendance during the past five
months, an elaborate anniversary
and children's day program and a
very successfully conducted daily
vacation Bible School.
!. Plans announced by the Womans s
Society president, Mrs. Bernice
Tyndall, were: Continue visits tc
aged and shut-ins; observe Prayer
and Self-Denial Week." gain new
members; study the book, World
Evangelism" observe the seventh
anniversary of the local w. S. C. S
with the Rev. Vaughn as guest
pledge support to the work of the
local public school sponsor :
director for youth choir, and hold 9
bazaar in November.
Infant Chrlstened
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Clendanie
attended the morning service a
!, Centreville, Maryland, last Sun
} day, and had their son, Donald Otis
7 Christened by Rev. Joseph B
: Vaughn. minister. Mr.. and Mrs
2 Henry Clendaniel accompanied
: them
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
MILTON


Milton school having been closed
FOR two weeks as a precautionary
measure against polio, opened Mon
day morning. There were three
cases reported in the Milton COM
nunity which caused DR.. Thomas
Tobin Nlilton's only physician, to
advise that the schools be closed,
and church schools and the movie
theatre be closed against children
under is years of age. This was
done but the quarantine has been
lifted and those places are now
open. The churches will resume
services next Sunday morning.
No deaths were reported from polio
and the three cases reported from
this community are recovering in
Wilmington hospital.
Severely Burned
Milton r. Graves received first
degree burns of the left arm when
a can of gasoline exploded as he
attempted to fill the tank Of trace
tor while the motor was running,
on one OF his Broadkill Neck
farms on Saturday. Mr.. Graves
was using the tractor to haul a
bean-puiler preparatory to delivery
III the beans to nearby viner. DR.,
Thomas Tobin rendered first-aid to
the wounded man and sent him to
the Milford Memorial Hospital for
further treatment He is now al
home in a serious condition.
Iylslocated Wrist
Joseph Moore. an empl0ye of the
Reed Trucking Company of Milton
sustained fiisl0cated left wrist or
Saturday when a case of goods ht
was helping to unload from a truck
fell upon him. He was taken to the
office OF DR.. Tobin who rendered
medical aid. Mr.. Moore will be un.
able to resume his labors for sew
eral weeks.
Master Peter Wall, son of Mrs
Faith Wall, sustained a fractured
hand on Friday of last week in al
accident at the home of his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r
Dutton. The fracture was re
duced by a physician at Milforl
hospital.
The official board of Beaver Dan
Methodist Church, Harbeson, hav
awarded the contract for painting
The exterior of the church and par
sonage to Linford Wiley of MiltoI
The work will begin the latter par
of September and completed durin
October.
Services at Grace Methods
Church on Sunday, September 2l
Sunday school at 10 A. NJ. follOwe
by morning worship and sermon b
the pastor, Rev. Milton R. Elliot
Evening worship and sermon 9
1880 o'clock. Mid-week prayer ser
vice on Wednesday evening at 73l
The public is cordially invited t
attend any or all these services {
rThe Friendly Church" I" Come!
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
FARMINGTON

A quiet. but lovely wedding took
place in Elkton, Md, at the Par
sonage of Rev. VIM. F. Hopkins
when Miss Catherine Dickerson and
Mr.. Rodman Mills were united in
marriage with the double ring cere-
mony. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mills
were their only attendants. After
short wedding trip the couple will
reside near Milford
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

The population Of Colon, Republic
of Panama. consists principally of
descendants of laborers imported
from the British West Indies dur
ing various periods of construction
on the Panama Canal.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

The PHILIPPINE Islands form a
huge triangle 1852 miles from
north to south and 6SS miles from
east to west.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
. Chevy Chase

Mrs. M. Frank Rupert and her
daughter, Mrs. Paul May, enter
tanned in the home of Mrs. May at
a luncheon and shower Wednesday
in compliment to Miss Katherine
Davis, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Harrison Davis. whose mar
riage to Mr.. William Carrico of An
nandale, Va, will take place the
latter part of August.
Mr.. and Mrs May, Miss Rose
Mary May and Miss Anne Costigan
will leave today for a vacation at
Capon Springs.
Mrs. James Lee Oliver entertained
at tea on Wednesday.
Mrs. Marcel j. Foret was hostess
at a bridge luncheon Thursday, en-
tertaining Mrs. Wilbert F. Thomp-
son, Mrs. Augustus Gumpert and
Mrs. Ralph Whitley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bell were hosts
at a buffet supper Thursday, enter
tanning in their garden. The guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Don-
nell, Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Burkland
Mrs. Elizabeth Crabb and Mr.. Rob-
ert Pitman.
Capt. ]. D. Wood has Joined Mrs.
Wood in the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Rogers. Capt
Wood has just returned from a year
and a half in Korea and is now on
terminal leave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert D. Walser
and their son Robert, jr., of Cleve-
land are guests of the formers par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Walser.
Mrs. Cyrus Whitney Culver left
Friday for Canada to visit her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Edward Elliott, at their
summer camp on Lac D'es Isles in
the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec
Mrs. Walter Miles left Wednesday
for a vacation as the guest of her
son and daughter -in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Miles, jr.. at Sner-
wood Forest. Mrs. Miles has just
returned from Spring Green, Wis
where she spent a month with her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Daffron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice v. Dawson
have as their guest the formers
aunt, Mrs Alma Skinner of Grand
vile. Ohio.
After a trip to Ottawa, Canada
Mrs. Harold Hedges. accompanied
by her two nieces, Miss Catherine
Defer and Miss Janice Hedges
have returned.
Miss Pricilla Anne Patterson OF
New York is visiting her mother
Mrs. Robert w. Patterson, for IL
days.
Mrs. Nathan r. Smith will leave
tomorrow for vacation as the guest
Of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles L. Huisking, jr.
| at Huntington, Long Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. George v. Graham
are spending the week end as the
guests of Comdr. and Mrs. H. l.
Reiter at Dahlgren, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Richards are
on a vacation at Niagara Falls, N. Y
Mrs. Helen Hosmer, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hosmer, left
Thursday for vacation as the guest
of Miss Gwen Davies, daughter oil
DR.. and Mrs. A. Powell Davies ir
their summer home at Booth Bay
Harbor, Me.
DR.. and Mrs. C. H. McDougald left
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Pa. Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert spent q
week In the Pocono Mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Z. Yost and
their SON, George Franklin Yost, left
Thursday for q vacation at Lake
George and win also 60 to Montreal
and Quebec, returning home by the
way Of Thousand Islands.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Koehler have
as their guests over the week end
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Edwards and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris Edwards of
Williamsport. Pa.
DR.. and Mrs. Harry w. William
son left Friday for . trip through
the Smokey Mountains.
Mrs. e. A. Merritt and her daugh-
ter. Mrs. E. M. McPeak, left Friday
for visit with Mrs. Merritt's broth
er-m-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Yesterday for q vacation in South
Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Frank Rupert
have returned after a visit to their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Martin, at Carbondale
Evening star., 1947-08-03

o. A. Miner. In Red Oak. Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Harrison
have as their guests the formers
brother and sister -in-law. MIR. and
Evening star., 1947-08-03

The bride of Mr.. TSWen ling
Tsui, Counselor of the Chi
nese Embassy, is the former
Miss Pauline Woo, daughter OF
DR.. and Mrs. John Y. Woo of
Marking. The 1Dedding took
place July rs in the garden at
T1Din Oaks and the Chinese
Ambassador, DR.. v. X. Wel-
Hngton Koo, o6fciated at the
ceremony. -HesSIer Photo.
Evening star., 1947-09-12

lican candidate last year had to
pledge to the National Association OF
Manufacturers to go along with
Republican leadership in Congress
If that is true, he added, govern
ment of, for and by the people is
gone in the United States.
The convention adopted a resolu-
ton to seek immediate repeal OF
the Taft-Hartley Act after hearing
it denounced by Walter Mason, per-
sonal representative of William
Green, AFL president. He chal-
lenged the contention the law was
the fruit of "a mandate from the
people" and asked the delegates to
carry their views back home and
make them effective.
Suspension Upheld.
In another resolution, the con-
vention upheld the unions EXecu-
tive Committee in suspending for
two years IL members of a local in
Joliet, ILL.,, charged with wildcat
oIl1hC III fAOAdt1OIl VI O11AOiA 1QiCo
Mr.. Bradley pointed to this as an
indication the Hartley Act is
not needed and workers can settle
their own disputes.
Resolutions adopted urged more
careful observance of union labels
in buying goods, called for expan-
sion of union research to educate
and instruct the membership, sup
ported the Labor Department ir
informing American workers on in
ternational problems, asked that
election day be made a nationa
holiday, advocated health clinics
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Fight on Labor Act
Pledged at Session
OF Chemical Workers

Some 10000 unionized chemical
workers today were prepared to
launch a fight to kill the Taft
Hartley Labor Act, after unani-
mously agreeing upon this action
in the closing session of their an
nual convention here.
Members of the international
Chemical Workers Union, one of the
AFL's strongest bodies, also urged
yesterday that the parent body join
with the CIO in an all-out campaign
to eliminate the law.
Chemical Union President H. A
Bradley of Akron, Ohio, in a closing
address last evening in the Annapo-
lis Hotel, warned the 285 delegates
the Taft-Hartley Act leads the way
to dictatorship.
Sees Fight as Expensive.
Mr.. Bradley declared this g
Fascist bill" and said it was the same
type of vehicle used by Hitler ane
Mussolini. He said union treasure!
may be drained by the demands o.
fighting the act and the need fol
expensive legal talent. He told tht
convention he has information from
| a private source that every Repub.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Miss Ford Tells Group
OF Baptist Congress

Highlights of her trip to Copen-
hagen, Denmark, where she at
tended the recent Baptist Worlc
Congress, were discussed last night
by Miss Jessie L. Ford of the Bap-
tist World Alliance. She returned
last week.
In addressing a group in the Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
NV, she told of the work accom-;
plished at the Congress by more
than 5000 delegates of 46 nation
alities, on the theme of ''World Re.
sponsibility of Baptists.'
Miss Ford said the trip was fea-
tured by a luncheon given by the
Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. She
and 300 other Baptists travelled or
the Queen Elizabeth.
Evening star., 1947-09-12
Polio Authorities Gather
Monday at Warm SPRINGS

Authorities on infantile paralysis
throughout the country will gather
Monday at the Georgia Warm
Springs Foundation to marx the
goth anniversary of the polio treat
ment center, founded by the late
President Roosevelt.
The three-day conference will in
clude reports by $50 medical lead
ers on the latest developments ir
the diagnosis of the disease and
the care of its victims.
Among the subjects to be studied
are the possible transmission of in
fantile paralysis by flies and sew
Evening star., 1947-09-12

age. The doctors also will discuss
clinical symptoms Of polio and lab
oratory tests to detect it, treat
ment during the acute and conva-
lescent stages and methods of re-
turning the patient to his commun-
ity with minimum of physical
disability.
One-third of the population of the
United States lives in 80 cities of
more than 100000 population.
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bershop and got into a discussion
as to the relative merits of life
in Soviet Russia and the United
States. And according to him, the
Communists have it all over us, in
every particular. In that utopian
land there are no class distinctions,
so he thought Everyone there
works for the same wage or salary,
to hear him describe the land of
his dreams. He was fanatically sure
that the Communists of Soviet Rus
STA have developed an almost per-
feet government, a paradise for the
wOrkingman.
When he was told that he was
badly mistaken, that the standard
of living was far below what it
is here, that human slavery is COM
mon in that supposed-to-be work
ingman'S paradise, that there are
no liberties as we understand them,
that those who dare to oppose the
tyrannical dictates of a cruel police
state are 'liquidated," he shrugged
il all off with the stock argument
that all such statements are merely
lies. put out by the Associated Press
in behalf of the capitalist system
and to delude the people of the
world Every proof that went con-
trary to his own delusions he dis
missed with the statement that they
were all lies.
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it anonymous? Was the person who
sent it afraid to stand up for his
own convictions? He or she
shouldn't be. This is free America
Here we have freedom of speech.
Here everyone is entitled to his own
convictions and the right to express
them. We demand that right for
ourselves. We must, therefore, grant
the same right to everyone else
Voltaire once put this wisely and
well when he said, Il wholly dis
approve of what you say but viii
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1t Is Good
For America
To Give Thanks
By Charles ID. Rowe

Seldom in the history of this
great nation has there been great
er reasons for its people to give
thanks to a beneficient Providence
than there is today
To be sure, the world is full of
trouble Problems Of the greatest
Importance beset us on every hand.
Tasks that need the highest states
manship for their solution must be
met and wisely handled. The forces
of evil seem to be running rampant
throughout the earth. Selfish, fana-
teal, deluded men are waging a
campaign looking toward world
domination, campaign that must
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be met and overcome if we are
to retain the liberties that are worth
more than life to U.S. Mems minds
are filled with fear for the future,
/ and one of the greatest of those
fears is fear of a third world war
with all its beastly h orr or s.
Throughout the earth one finds the
grim spectres of hunger and sick
ness, selfishness and hatred, dis
illusionment and despair stalking
through wide portions of what
should be happy world, but that
isn't
The skeptic, viewing this black
picture, might ask in derision what,
under the sun, is there to give
thanks for?
The answer should be easy for
every American; and we should
know that Thanksgiving Day is in
large degree, an American Gus
tom. First, we should give thanks
that we are Americans, thanks that
our lot in life has been cast in so
favored a land Much of the de-
spair that grips the world in its
cruel and cold grasp does not touch
us here. Hunger we do not know.
We do not have to suffer the heart
rending grief of watching our little
ones grow weak and i'll from lack
of proper food. Nor do we also
have to suffer the pangs Of hunger
that is never fully satisfied. We
meet the cold of winter with an
abundance of warm clothing and
with our warm homes. We do
not have to go shivering through the
cold winter because of lack of suf-
ficient clothing and fuel.
On this Thanksgiving Day mil
lions of people throughout this ma
ton will sit down to richly laden
tables, to the usual Thanksgiving
feasts. And they will gorge them
selves to a degree that the doctors
insist is often not good for them.
A contrasting picture comes TO
mind, of which / recently read.
American officials in the American
zone of occupied Germany recently
a mimeographed sheet
among our forces there urging them
to eat less. One of those sheets
fell into the hands of a former
German officer. He read it and
then laid it down with the remark:
THAT is a clear example of the
abysmal difference between the
United States and conditions here.
Yes, the people of America surely
have ample reasons to give thanks
not only today but every day Sure
" the God of the universe has
turned horn of plenty onto this
fortunate land. To be sure. there
are grievous problems to be solved
but we shall meet them like men.
We can truly join with that Ameri
can patriot who once said, at a
critical time, Gods in his heaven;
alls right with the world. We
should find encouragement in
the assured conviction that while
troublesome days may come, even
tuslly all will again be right with
the world. For the blessings of
today: for the faith that is within
us and for the hope of better days
to come, let US all send forth our
thanks to the high throne of heaven
from humble and grateful hearts.
Yes, we have them here the real
article: red Communists with a deep
and radical sympathy for Russia.
One of them, Lincoln county man,
1900. s-tz ;kL4,
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Today Americans throughout the
world pause to observe Thanksgiv-
ing Day. Practically every home
throughout our nation will serve a
special dinner or attend a special
dinner served at the home OF a
friend All will be merry and af-
ter the dinner, football games, dan
cling and gay parties will claim the
attention of hundreds of thousands.
It is well to be merry and enjoy
this great American holiday as long
as our celebrating is done with
decency and sobriety, but should
we not also remember what the
day originally stood for as a day
of thanksgiving TO God for his
blessings, first to the Pilgrim Faith
ers, and later, to our fathers fathers
and our nation down through the
years of its existence.
So let us be merry and celebrate,
but in the midst of happiness, let
us pause at least long enough to
realize that our blessings come from
a Divine source and that we, through
our greediness and goddess living
have imperiled our national safety,
values in our lives, can we hope to
keep America a country in which to
enjoy freedom, and to have blessings
for which we may be thankful. Let
us give thanks where thanks is due
Now the hunting seasons are over
most law abiding citiztns will clean
their artillery" and put it away
to await the legal shooting in l948
Some will shoot varmint, thereby
doing a good turn for the game; and
others will shoot a few rabbits, but
the rank and file will do no more
outdoor shooting till next year. Let
us hope that we as hunters, may
also deserve the name of sportsmen,
and by protecting our game during
the closed season, do our part to
conserve good shooting for coming
years
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defend to the death your right to
say it,"
So please don't send US any more
anonymous letters or clippings. II
you believe a thing, have the cOur-
age to stand for it. That is your
American privilege. God forbid
that it will ever be otherwise in this
land of ours.
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Some unknown person recently
sent US a clipping from some I'M
known publication containing an
article by David Lawrence which
stated that the present high cost
of living might defeat the Republic
cans in the next presidential cam
paign. Perhaps it will; no one yet
knows what the outcome will be.
But, by the way, David Lawrence
is one Of our favorite writers. We
value his judgments highly and
read him every week In fact, we
have taken for years a publication
in which he is the chief editorial
writer
But there was one thing about
the mailing of this clipping to US
that didn't appeal to US. Why was
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age descent of 5000 feet from source
to state line.
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OF course, it is useless to argue
with such a one Because there
is no one so blind as he who will
not see. And what a comfortable
feeling it must be to know, beyond
every possible doubt, that one is
absolutely correct in all ones con
victions And how comfortable it
must be to dismiss every argu-
ment with the easy answer that
all opposition to ones own con-
victions is based on lies. o well,
it takes all sorts of people to make
a world.
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Yes, we have them here; the real
red Communists with a deep
and radical sympathy for Russia
One of them, Lincoln county man,
recently stepped into a Libby bar