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Evening star., 1948-09-24
By Harry Lever

The flower shop with the beaver
board walls occupied what used to
be the lobby of the Deutsche Bank.
The rest of the flve-story building
is a ruin, with only the walls stand
ing.
Across the street in downtown
Berlin, the people stop to look at
merchandise ,on display. There are
brand-new store fronts built into
structures which are burned hulks.
There is a new Treasury building
under construction near the Bran
denburg Gate. The Russians have
built a marble monument to their
war dead near the Reichschancel-
lery. A few dozen dwellings are going
up. And handful of government
buildings.
This represents the major recon-
struction going on in Berlin today.
In other German cities there isn't
even that much. Thousands OF
bombed-out buildings stand against
the sky.
Comeback Seems Slow.
The German people appear to be
making a comeback, but 1t is
slow one. 1t takes bulldozers to
clear the rubble and money and
materials to rebuild. All are scarce.
The German authorities told me
It might take from so to rs years
to clear away the ruins and make
a new city. But many residents
aren't waiting. They have built
'homes" behind the flre-blackened
walls of ruined apartment houses,
using few bricks, some rusty pip
ing and a quart or two OF black
market paint Still others are even
living in the rubble.
But in some cases, like the full
mile of bombed-out apartment
houses in the Nettelbachstrasse, not
far from the Russian sector, the
people say it's almost hopeless. One
hausfrau has been coming back to
the ruins of her formr apartment
regularly, in the hope OF meeting
the landlord so she can adjust her
insurance. She's beginning to think
he may be dead.
In the main, the puDllc puliulIieo
In Berlin lie just as they have been
since the war ended. The Reich
stag, the Reichschancellery, the old
General Staff Building. all just of
the heavily weeded Tiergarten. are
gaunt ruins.
Other Cities Look Same.
Most of Berlin looks like that from
the streets and from the air. And
as you fly on the airlift, other cities
of Germany don't look any different.
Kassel appears almost totally
leveled, with the people living in
cellars. Darmstadt, Wurtsburg,
Augsburg and Mulhausen. are no
better. Nor is Munich, with its
wrecked Banhoff. where the trains
and black marketeers come and 60.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Briggs Strike Settled
After 15-Day Dispute
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Sept. pa 15-day-
old strike of ITO Briggs Manufacture
ing Co. plant guards, that had left
nearly $4,000 Detroit automobile
Idle, was settled yesterday, labor
mediators announced.
State Labor Mediator Robert Lo-
masney announced an agreement
and said representatives Of both
sides were ready to Sign o con-
tract" He did not announce details.
The strikers, members Of the in
dependent United Plant Guard
Workers of America, walked out
September 8 in a demand for pre-
MUM pay for week ends and Is min
utes overtime daily to allow them to
get ready for their Jobs.
Federal and State mediators had
Evening star., 1948-09-24

Carl B. Jansen, Of the Dravo Corp,
Pittsburgh: Charles Sattler, presi-
dent Of the International Associa.
ton of Governmental Labor ofii-
cials, Charleston, w. Va; former
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins, and Rear Admiral Ross +.
McIntire, former presidential ply
Sician.
Vincent p. Ahearn, executive di-
rector of the conference, said that,
Evening star., 1948-09-24

worked with the two sides for sew
eral days In an effort to bring them
together.
When the plant guards set up
picket lines, CIO United Auto
Workers refused to cross them. As
a result, Briggs closed its eight De-
troit plants, throwing $4,000 persons
out of work.
Packard Motor Car Co. and Chrys-
Ter Corp, which use auto bodies
made by Briggs, halted production
and laid on more than $4,000 en-
ployes. Industry sources said as
many as $4,000 other workers in
small supplier plants may have been
thrown out of work.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Flower Shop Built in Gount Ruin
Of Bombed-Out Bank in Berlin

One or two Germans actually have
found way to make a living out
Of the rubbIe. They are people
like Herr Potarek, who lives in
Hitler's ReichSchancellery.
Anybody who goes to the big ruin
on a sightseeing tour meets Herr
Potarek, an old man who always
looks wider than he is tall. The
reason comes out eventually.
AS you wander through the wreck
age, he pulls packages from his
pockets, each time lessening his
bulk. Every package contains a
piece of mosaic ripped from the
walls.
And so for two or three cigarettes,
you get piece of the Reichschan-
celery. Its good souvenir for a few
smokes. And cigarettes can buy
many things in bombed-out Berlin
today.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Industrial Safely Session
To Be Held Here Next Week
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

Byfhs Asseeioisd Press
A conference on industrial safety
will meet here next week to map
ways of reducing last years $3.-
SOC, 900 900 industrial accident toll.
About 400 representatives of la
Dor, management and the Govern
ment have been invited to attend
the meeting, which was called by
President Truman.
The three-day session will open
Monday. White House Assistant
John R. Steelman will represent MIR.
Truman.
Other speakers. on the opening
day will be Labor Secretary Tobin,
Evening star., 1948-09-24

FOLLOWING Is the third OF a
series BY Star Reporter Harry
Lever, toho has Just returned
from a trip to Germany. He
fen the airlift to Berlin seUerat
times and DiSited many cities
in the occupied nation.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Comp Fire Day PIunned

Camp Fire Girls from Washing
ton, Arlington, Alexandria and
Prince Georges, Montgomery and
Fairfax Counties, will hold q Play
Day tomorrow at Palisades Recre-
alton Center, Dana and Sherrier
places N. w. from noon to pm
Evening star., 1948-09-24
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. C. A-31


In addition to the financial loss
from industrial accidents. 1900
persons we're killed last year, 2,000,-
900 injured and $1,000 permanently
disabled.
Evening star., 1948-09-24

British restaurants now serve
bread without restrictions, for the
first time in two years.
Evening star., 1948-09-24

Siomese Mission to U. S.
Siam has sent two officials to the
United States to study American
mining and prospecting methods
and also visit American oil wells.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Juniors heels mount higher

And see how smart is the result ].
the comfort Of your dowr,-to-eorth flat
heels but q better, more
beautiful proportion with longer hem
lines. Neot touch ;. the colfskin pencil
lines on black suede. Thot
wolIed toe and petoled ir1step, by
the way, ore comfortable as they
ore hondsone. Perfect shoe for your
town tweeds and even movie going
velveteens. Sizes Az to o-----So. .oS
w&I-J,mior Misses Shoes, Second Yloos
Evening star., 1948-09-24
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as every clever junior knows -.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Painter Burned In
Compressor Fire
Engine Backfired Setting His
Clothing Ablaze

Michael Smith, one of a crew who
have been painting buildings with
a power spray, was seriously
burned last Saturday while working
at the farm Of Oscar Robbins near
Milford.
Phe crew was painting a barn,
and when Smith endeavOred to
start a gasoline compressor, it
backfred and set his clothing on
fire.
Robbins and his son, David, tore
the clothes off Smith and rolled
him in the dirt to extinguish the
fire, but despite this he was seri-
ously burned about the face, arms
and chest. He was rushed to the
Milford Memorial Hospital, where
his condition is reported good.
The Carlisle Fire Company was
called and eXtinguished the fire on
the truck.
The tiremen also answered two
calls to the Greenhouse near Lin
coin, the housing development of
the Sussex Poultry Company, where
they extinguished a fire which
burned one house and threatened
two more.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Number Of u. s.
Doctors Gaining
Increase Of Seventeen Per
Cent Since 1910
Disclosed

There are II per cent more doc
tors as of this date than there were
in 1910 while the population of the
United States has increased ap-
prOximately 12 per cent in the
same length of time.
DR.. Frank G. Dickinson, director
OF the American Medical AssOcia-
uon's Bureau of Medical Economic
Research in Chicago, estimates on
the basis of punch card tabulation
that on June 1 there were 199,755
living physicians in America. In
1910 the A. M. A. directory listed
only 170,163.
Some of these doctors are retir-
ed, some are not in practice and
some are employed by federal, state
and local health agencies, DR.. Dick
lnsOn points out.
Five states with more than 10000
doctors are New York, California,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio.
Five states with fewer than 500
doctors are: Nevada, with 1913; Wy
Oming, 252; Delaware, 439; North
Dakota, 467, and Idaho, 47O.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
School Band
Booster Night
Will Feature All Musical
Pre-Game Program
Next Tuesday Night
At Ball Park.

Something different in the way
of a Boosters Night will be pre-
sented at the Milford Baseball
park this coming Tuesday evening,
August 81, when the Milford High
School Band sponsors a special
night" While previous boosters
nights" have featured such pre-
game attractions as contests for
kiddies, prize drawings for fans
and even a beauty cOntest-the
band-spOnsOred boosters night"
will be the first to feature an all
musical pre-game program built
around sOlOists, instrumental and
vocal.
Approximately One-half a hun
dred musicians, drawn from school
boy and school girl ranks, will be
in the marching formation that
will open the program at 7:15 P.
M. Tuesday evening. After going
through certain intricate drill and
parade ground maneuVers, the To-
cal scholastic musical group will
go into the second phase of the
pre-game program, which features
solo work by three of the COM
munity's most promising musi-
clans.
A former state high school
champion fiutist, Dick Faix, will
give several solos on the flute.
While still a student at the local
school, young Faix won state hon
Ors in 1946-47. Another Milford
youth, Harry Humes, will render
the difficult Clarinet Polka" on
the clarinet, following which John
Frick, director of the Milford Com
munity and High School bands,
will do a vocal solo and also in
strumental solos on the musical
saw. Sometime ago, at another
local affair, Mr.. Frick sang the
novel Negro spiritual, Bone Come
a-Knittin' and since then he has
had several requests to repeat this
particular number, In response to
these requests, Mr.. Frick has
chosen this unusual number for
his vocal solo Tuesday evening.
Mrs. A. c. Davidson will render
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
WILMINGTON MAN
HEADS LOCAL SCHOOLS

The Board of Education of
Milford announced today the
appointment of Ramon G.
CObbs as superintendent of
the Milford Special School
District. Mr.. CObbs succeeds
Mr.. Shaterian, who resigned
to accept a position in Ocean
City, N. J.
Mr.. CObbs has been in
school work for the past fif-
teen years and during the
past year served as supervis-
ing principal of Richardson
Park. Mr.. CObbs graduated
with the degree of Bachelor
of Science from Mount Union
College, and received his
Masters degree from Kent
State University. During the
past four years Mr.. Cobb
completed the academic re-
Quirements for the Doctors
degree in secondary educa-
tiOn and school administra-
tiOn at Temple University,
and has spent the summer
writing his dissertation. He
is we'll recognized as one of
the educational leaders in
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Udr1eT, Frear Are
Named TOHead
Democrat Ticket
McGuigan Picked For
Congressional, Bayard
For Lieutenant Cover
nor Post At Evening
Convention.

delaware Democrats Unanimous
Iy approved their candidates for
the November election in Dover on
Tuesday night during their state
convention.
Ihe candidates named are:
FOR U. s. Senator, ]. Allen Frear
Jr., Of Dover.
For U. S. Representative, J. Carl
McGuigan of Wilmington.
For Governor, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Elbert N. CarVeI of Laurel
For Lieutenant-Governor. Alexis
l. DUPONT Bayard of Wilmington
For State Treasurer. Willard n
Boyce Of Dover.
For State Auditor, James w
Baker of Georgetown.
For Presidential Electors. Henry
I. Graham of Wilmington for New
Castle County; Charles L. Harman-
son of Smyrna for Kent County
and Howard S. Abbott of George
town for Sussex County.
Daniel J. WOlcott, Wilmington
attorney, was keynOter for the con-
VentiOn.
He spoke at the night meeting
which followed a day that saw the
rejection of proposed general en-
dorsement of President Truman's
Civil Right program and the addi-
ton of plank to the proposed plat
form which calls for equal edu-
catiOnal facilities for Negroes.
Mr.. WOlcott, the New Castle
County Democratic chairman, at
tackled the Republicans on both
continued on page 19)
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Worms 'Chawing' Up
Milford Alfalfa Fields

Army worms began their attaol,
on farm crops in the Milford aroo
after the vicious fashion that tboin =, I,.
name implies, playing havoc viii with
alfalfa fields and leaving great asli
leaves. 'iielr
Extension service experts have
been warning farmers of tbo 'isSe a..
pending attacks of these voracioI,s rlri
crop destrOyers, but many of So tbo
growers neglected to heed their
earlier advice about SPRAYING "
The pest now "On the march, is
what is known as the late armv "
worm which appears late in tbo fly
summer and specializes in forsno t.o
crops. They have appeared in great sf
numbers in both the Milford Eooi. e%t
section and in the Laws CbnToh roh
neighbOrhOod. - vi
Continued on page ls)
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Sound MOUie Being
Made Of Peninsula
Is Part Of Plan To Pub
licize Delmarva To
The Nation

Completion of sound-colOr
movie of Delmarva intended to
publicize it nationally soon will be
realized, according to a report of
the Peninsula PromOtional Cam
paign Committee.
Several typical scenes of the
Peninsula already have been taken
by Rainbow Films, Easton, Md.
and others which will make up the
Commute color journey through
the Shore are in the making, ac-
cOrding to d. Ernest Matthews,
campaign chairman. ChfncO-
leagues pOny-penning is among
the shots as are the Harrington
Fair, Chicken-Of- Tomorrow Festi-
val, highlights of truck farming,
poultry, seafOod, and the Chesa-
peake Bay Fishing Fair
Two days this week were spent
filming Ocean City's beach and
deep-sea fishing.
tcOntinued on page I'D
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
September l
Registration
Day At School
All Pupils Entering Ele-
mentary School, viii
Report At Elementary
Building On That Date

Registration day for all children
who are entering the elementary
school for the school year will be
held in the elementary building
Wednesday, September 1. The Of
flee will be open between 1O:OO A.
M. and $500 P. M. All children who
have not already registered will
please report at that time to the
office and then to the nurse.
Parents of pupils who are enter
ing the first grade are requested to
bring the birth certificates of their
children. Boys and girls who are
changing schools will please bring
all records with them.
The Milford school will reopen
on Wednesday, Sept. 8th. A com
plete schedule for reopening will
appear in the next issue of this
newspaper. Superintendent Ramon
Cobbs is preparing the schedule.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Sussex COUNTY
COP Primary
Receiver Of Taxes Is
Only County Office For
Which There Is Not A
Contest; One Contest
For Legislature.

The Republican Primary will be
held in Sussex county tomorrow.
There is only one county office
that is uncOntested, that of Re-
ceiVer of Taxes. Earl L. Isaacs of
Ellendale is the candidate.
For Levy Court Commissioner
Norman B. Baylis, William B.
DOrey, John c. Mitchell and Man
ford Penuel.
For Receiver of Taxes-Earl L.
Isaacs.
For PrOthonotary - George r.
Fleetwood and Robert 0. Hunter.
For Orphans Court and Register
in Chancery-Charles Short and
Oscar G. Vickers.
For Comptroller - Lorenzo r
Birmingham and Leonard c. Rayne.
For Sheriff-JOhn L. Cannon and
John H. Donovan.
For George B. Atkins
and Daniel J. Short.
For Senator End Senatorial Dis
trict-JOhn Kenneth Fleetwood.
For Senator 4th Senatorial Dis
4N"AA IL L,OWGIl.
For Representative First District
Clifford J. Donovan.
For Representative Second Dis
trict-Benjamin w. COnOway.
For Representative Third Dis
trict-RObert G. Gilbert.
For Representative Fourth Dis
trict-Charles T. Hastings.
For Representative Fifth District
-Silas J. Lewis.
For Representative Sixth Dis
trict-J. H. Dobson.
For representative Seventh Dis
trlct-NOrman c. Calhoun. Jr.
For Representative Eighth Dis
trict-Harvey H. Lawson.
For Representative Ninth Dis
trlct-RObert D. S. Mustard, Har-
vey B. Spicer.
For Representative Tenth Dis
trict-Kenneth Givan.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Cooperative Group
To Meet Sept. End
Session VIII Be Held At John NJ.
Clayton School

Presentation of the animal re-
port of Southern States Cooper
atiNe, and election of new members
to the local Southern States Advis-
ory Board and Farm Home Advis-
Ory Committee will be among the
highlights of the Southern States
annual membership meeting at 8 D.
m. Thursday, September 2, at the
John M. Clayton School, Dagsboro.
A business session and enter
talnment will be features of the
session according to Wilson Camp
bell, DagsbOrO, advisory board
member who will preside. APPROX
mately 400 Southern States mem
Ders and other farmers and their
families are expected to attend.
Nominees for vacancies that will
occur this year on the Advisory
Board are Andrew Hickman, Rus
sell ClOgg, Benjamin E. TimmOns
wilson Campbell, Dagsboro. and
Bennie Wharton, Ocean View. Nom
lnees for posts on the Farm Home
Advisory Committee include Mrs
Benjamin E. Timmons, Mrs. Rms
sell West, DagsbOrO; Mrs. Vernon
Lynch, FrankfOrd, and Mrs. LOuisa
Wharton, Ocean View. Other nOmi-
nations may be made from the
floor.
The Southern States Cooperative
annual report will be presented in
the form of a brief film slide SER
les by M. G. Hillsman. Southern
States district manager for this
area. j. Frank Johnson and Nor
man Hickman, managers of J F
Johnson, and Norman Hickman
DagsborO, agencies, local. Coopera-
tive service, will report on SER
wees rendered locally. Prizes will
be awarded winners of several
contests.
The Rev. Leon Ross, Dagsboro
Will give the invocation. Groun
singing will be led by William
Powell, FrankfOrd. Entertainment
Will be furnished by the Hooker
Brothers Trio, Ocean View.
Chairmen of several committees
that will assist in staging tbo
meeting are: receiving, Frank A
IlmmOns, DagsbOrO; ushering Nv
erett Gray, Dagsboro; refresh
mehts' Mrs. Norman Hickman
DagsbOrO. ''''''' IL
An organization meeting of Ad-
Vlsory Board and Farm Home com
mittee members will take Mace
Following the regular session Re-
tlrlng members of the two gronns
are norman Davidson, Mrs. An
drew M. Hickman, Dagsboro: CIav-
ION. ION townsend FrankfOrd, and Mrs
Sallie McCabe, Selbyville
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Choose RehobOth
For Convention
Sussex YOiture To Play Host In
1919; Dover Session Planned

Chef de Care Fred L. Marvil
Sussex VOiture, 1920, Society of
Forty ct Eight, has announced that
the Central Atlantic Association of
the society will hold its animal
Grand Promenade next year at Re
hOboth Beach. The dates selected
are June 3, 4, and 5.
Sussex Voiture Locale 1920 will
be host to the convention.
Members of the Sussex VOiture
who will serve as delegates and
alternates at this years Grand
Promenade, Department of Della
ware, to be held on Sunday, August
20, are as follows:
Delegates: Chef de Care Marvil.
AvOcat Edgar S. Slayer, and Vow
ageure G. Clifton Maull. Sr. Alter
mates are GaTde de la Post Arthur
M. Lockwood, Jr.; Lampiste Milton
T. West, and VOyaguere Paul J.
Davis.
The membership of Sussex Vol
ture will attend the Promenade and
Wreck on September 18 at Ocean
City, Md, when VOiture Locale No
122 Of Salisbury, Md, will be host.
This is during the annual cOnven-
ton Of the Department of Mary
land, American Legion.
The following LegiOnnaires will
be obligated into the Forty ct Eight
membership by VOiture Locale No
l of Wilmington on August 90; Mil
ford Post, 3, Edward c. Beswick.
Reese Jester, Oscar T. Moore, Hen
ry L. Orkins and Thurman Rogers.
HenlOpen Post, 5, Rehoboth
Beach, Benjamin S. Albertson. Sr.
and James E. Hudson.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Ballot Place
lis Asked Bv
Party Files Petitions In
Three Counties; Will
Hold Convention Later


The Progressive Party of Della
ware has filed petitions in all three
counties to have it's candidates
placed on the ballots for the cleo
tlon November 2, and revealed that
the party is planning to nominate
state ticket.
whether the party will enter a
complete state ticket or Onlv a
partial one was not disclosed. Ham
lltOn ID. Ware, state chairman. said
that a convention will be held later
Inls month to name the candidates
The call for the convention has not
yet been issued, but it is under
stood the meeting will be held on
August 80, at the party's head
quarters, 2 East Fourth street. Will
mingtons
The party also filed the names
OF It's presidential and vice Dresi-
Dental candidates and it's presiden-
tial electors.
The petitions, each bearing about
zI5 names, were filed with the three
county clerks of the peace, in Will
mlngton, Dover and Georgetown.
while the other names were filed
with the Office of Secretary of State
William J. Storey at Dover.
Mr.. Ware filed the names of Hen
ry A. Wallace, presidential candi-
date, and Glen H. Taylor, vice pres
idential nominee. He also filed the
names Of the electors, who are JO-
seph StrandarOwski, William Fur
rowh and Mrs. Beulah Derrickson.
all of New Castle County.
Mr.. Ware, Vice Chairman Gene
DerricksOn and other officials of the
party filed the petitions with the
clerks of the peace.
Continued on page 2O)
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-27
Registration
For Delaware
Draft Has
Been Set-Up
DR.. Victor d. Washburn
Reveals Schedule For
A &c Groups; Advises
Data Wanted.

Registration schedules for the
drafting of Delaware young men
subject to the nations second peace
time selective service call, begin
ming hext Monday, we're announced
this week by Dr. Victor d. Wash
burn, Delaware's state director of
selective service.
The schedule follows:
August 80, all men born after
August 80, 1922; August 81 and
September 1, all men born in 1923; +;
September 2 and 3, all men born in
1924; September 4 and z, all men
born in 1925; September 8 and 8,
all men born in 1926: September
10 and III, all men born in 1927;
September 1S and IA, all men born
I'm 1928. September Is and 16, all
men born in 1929; and September
~ and Is, all men born in 1880 be-
fore September 49,
Residents of Wilmington will
register in the council chambers of
City HaN. Residents of New Castle
County outside Of Wilmington may
register in the county building in
Wilmington, and in Claymont,
HOckessin, Newark, New Castle or
Middletown. where the exact lOca-
tion of registration places will be
announced later.
Residents of Kent County will
register in the Legislative Hall at
Dover, or at station IN Harring-
ton, also to be announced later.
Residents Of Sussex County. may
register at BridgeVille, Georgetown,
Laurel or Milford. In Milford the
State Armory viii be used for reg
istratiOn
tcontinued on page t0l