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as these are . rebuttal to the cyni-
cism I have met in high places"
Notification" to u. 3.
Referring to the Palestine situa-
tion, Mr.. Crum declared: THE
United Jewish Appeal drive, this
year will be the strongest
notification given to the United
States and Britain to stop playing
power politics, stop playing with oil,
and instead think Of human beings. !"
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld as
serted that I'VE stand united this
evening as Americans OF Jewish
faith and rising to common re-
sponsibility."
Co-chairman of the local drive are
Rabbi Gerstenfeld, Rabbi Isadore
Evening star., 1948-04-07
United Jewish Appeal
Launched Here With
Pledges Of S1,02O,OOO

The United Jewish Appeal was
launched here last night with MEM
bers of Washington Jewry pledging
q total of $1,O20,000 towards the
District goal of $2,500 900.
The 1948 goal for the entire Ma
tion Is $250, 900, 900.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., former
Secretary Of the Treasury and now
national chairman of the appeal,
and BARLEY C. Crum, member of
the Anglo-American Inquiry Com
mission on Palestine, spoke at the
Hotel Statler event which was at
tended by more than 400 persons.
At similar dinner last year, over
$700 900 was raised.
The funds from the campaign will
be used for relief and rehabilitation
of European Jews, for immigration
and reception In Palestine of $4,000
homeless Jews, including $4,000 chill
dren, and for reception and care Of
refugees who WIN enter the United
States in l948.
Solicitation Starts Soon.
Washington mass solicitation will
start as soon as drive divisions are
organized in the next few weeks.
Ofi1cials, said they hope to recruit
5000 or more volunteers. Other
large gifts also will be raised at a
series of functions for different
trades and professions and among
Government workers. About $4,000
individual persons contributed dur
ing 1947's drive.
Mr.. Morgenthau said the problem
Of looking after, and keeping alive
the Jews Of Europe and Palestine Is
a problem for the world and the
United Nations.
with such leaders as you have
here" he told the group. II am
confident you will reach your goal
without too much difficulty"
Mr.. Crum said that meetings such
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Breslau and Joseph Cherner, who
also spoke.
Morris Cafritz Is president OF the
Washington United Jewish Appeal
and co-chairman, with Col. Benja-
min Ourisman Of the special gifts
unit. Louis Es Spiegler is drive
Evening star., 1948-04-07

The conference Is sponsored by
the School Of Public Health, Uni
versity Of Michigan, and Is under
the direction of DR.. Henry Vaughn
dean and former health commits
sioner of Detroit. Mr. Simms has
been invited to participate in the
panel on eating place sanitation.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Simms Invited to Join
National Health PurIey

Inspector Joseph s. Simms Of the
Health Departments Bureau OF
Food Inspection has been invited
to appear at the Nationwide con-
ference on public health problems.
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months and % DAYS.

months and % days.
Mrs. Graf came to America
at an early age settling in New
York City where she was mar
ried to Charles F. Graf. Then
in 1904 she moved to Zion with
her family. She was a men,
Der Of the Brooks Faith Home
and faithfully attended all the
meetings there.
Surviving to mourn her loss
are six sons: Fred, of Kenosha,
William of Waukegan, Oswald
of Gary, Indiana, Gustav and
William of Waukegan, Oswals
Henry Graf of Oshkosh, Wis
consin, Pastor of the Glad It'd
ings Tabernacle in Oshkosh;
and one daughter, Mrs. Mable
(Joseph) Wartzenluft, of Zion.
Also surviving are IL grand
children.
Mrs. Graf was preceded in
death by her husband 81 years
ago this month, and by one Sis
ter.
Funeral services were held
from the Christian Assembly
Church on Wednesday after
noon, May 10, 1913 at 2 80 P.
M. with Rev. Rex Andrews Of
ficiating. Burial was made in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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the lheOCrat

the 4-day Memorial Day Holt
day period, predicted Charles
M. Hayes, president of the Chi
cago Motor Club.
Heavier tolls were experlen-
ced only in 1887 and 1910.
Over the 3-day Memorial Day
period last year Illinois exper-
fenced 10 fatalities and 8O6 in
juries.
Mr.. Hayes recommended the
following four-point program
to motorists:
Cd Schedule Holiday &C
tivities so as not to be
driving when fatigued;
do not consume any al
cohol.
(2) Schedule trips to re-
duce or eliminate night
driving, producer of two
thirds of all fatalities.
60 Increase margins of
safety particularly In
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-05-26
LITTLE WOMEN"
Presented in High School Au-
ditorium Last Friday Even
ing, May 21st.

The Zion players presented
the dramatization of Louisa
Alcott's Little Women" in the
Zion-Benton Township High
School Auditorium.
The dramatization is one
prepared by Ravold and pre-
sents an excellent impression
of the book.
A large audience was pres
ent to enjoy a very fine pre-
sentation by the Zion Players.
The group was under the
direction of Madam Young,
dramatic director of Zion Pas
sion Play.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-05-26
OBITUARY
MRS. ROSA GRAF

Mrs. Rosa Graf was born on
May 24th, 1871 in Stuttgart,
Germany and departed this
life May II, 1913 at her home,
3019 Gideon Avenue, Zion, IL
Hnois at the age Of 76 years, IL
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-05-26
MEMORIAL DAY

Twenty-three Traffic Fatal
tiles and 874 Injuries through
Illinois will mar the opening of
the summer motor season over
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-05-26
ZION YOUTH FELLOW
SHIP TO HEAR REV.
VERNON ELLIOTT

Next Sunday evening the
Zion Youth Fellowship will be
privileged to hear Rev. Vernon
Elliott of Central India Mis-
sion at the regular service at
7:45.
Rev. Elliott is home on leave
from his work in India. He pre-
sents an intensely interesting
picture of the Mission work in
Central India, where he plans
to return in the near future.
All are welcome to come
and hear Rev. Elliott.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-05-26

Mrs. Frances L. Williams,
librarian of the Harvey Public
Library, announced that the
program has been completed
for regional library meeting
to be held at the library at
Harvey.
The meeting was the final
one in a. series of seven of the
3Oth annual regional meetings
sponsored by the Illinois State
Library.
The morning session opened
at $3.50 a. m. Cd. S. To-
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passing, and following
distances, reduce speed
at intersections, and on
curves.
(4) Make sure that your
brakes, windshield WHIP
ers, light, and all safe
ty equipment are in
good working order.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Mercury Outboards I
Score In Marathon

On Sunday, June 13, about two
hundred of the country's finest
outboard motorboat racers took
part in the gruelling grind that
constitutes the 136-mile race on
the Hudson River from Albany to
New York City Regardless of rain
and fog conditions no regatta event
since the invention of the gasoline
engine ever attracted as many en-
trants as this sixteenth running of
the Albany-tO-Manhattan mara
thon.
The now famous green Mercury
Outboard motors, manufactured by
the Kiekhaefer Corporation and
distributed locally by the Vinyard
Shipbuilding Company of Milford,
swept the day in the winning
classifications. These full ball
and roller bearing motors clearly
demonstrated their stamina and
remarkable speed.
In class III the 1O-h.p. Mercury
Lightnings, competing against mo-
tors of 25 percent greater piston
] displacement, annexed the hrST 11Ve
4 places in order and made up twelve
of the first thirteen motors to fin
ish. The versatility was shown
when Ed Powell of Atlanta took
second place with a brand new
! Mercury motor with only three
hours pre-race running time, while
third place went to similar mo-
tor with six hundred hours of pre-.
race operating time.
In class l green Mercurys also
closed in the first five places, leav
ing all competitive motors well il
the rear. These seven and a hal
horse power rockets competed
against motors with as much al
II percent greater piston displace
ment, definitely proving the higl
speed and staying power built int
these motors.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

the unanimous choice again for
this important office. A World
War 1 veteran and former COM
mander of Diamond State Post,
Richardson Park, Ableman was
nominated by the Blue Hen Post
delegation and elected by acclan1a-
ton.
John Babiarz, a World War IL
veteran and past commander OF
White Eagle Post, Wilmington,
was the choice for judge-advocate
of the Department Babiarz sue
ceeds ]. Barrett Simpler, another
World War ii veteran and a mem
ber of the Adams-Simpler-Ware
Post. FELTON,; Simpler was subse-
quently chosen department chap
lain. William Brewer, commander
of the j. Ferdinand Speer' Post,
/ Wilmington, and Department ath-
letic director the past two years,
defeated John w. Berry, also Of
/ Wilmington, in a contest for the
post of department surgeon.
Immediately upon conclusion OF
the election, Omar B. Ketcham,
National legislative officer of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, install
ed the newly-elected officers.
Ketcham was also principal speak
er at the annual banquet held Sat
urday evening at the Dover High
School cafeteria.
In his banquet speech, Ketcham
stated that the present Congress
had "sabotaged" some parts of thc
National Preparedness Program
advocated by the Veterans of For
. eign Wars, but advised that much
constructive legislation sponsored
by the V. F. w. had been passed
Other speakers at the banque
were retiring State Commando
Ricards; Commander Hutton; tht
J Hon. ]. Caleb Boggs, Congressman
: from Delaware, and a former De
' partment officer; w. H. Chadwick
I National Rehabilitation Officer o
= the V. F. w; Col Thomas w. Still
!. well, manager of the Delaware re
f gional office of the Veterans Ad
= ministration; the Hon. j. Osborn
e Willis, Mayor of Dover; Mrs. Flor
= ence E. Stark, past National Presi
\ dent of the Ladies' Auxiliaries o
the v. F. w; Mrs. Hazel Dewitt
o retiring president of the Depart
! ment of Delaware's Ladies' Auxil
. iaries. and Mrs. Catherine Higgins
newly-elected president of the de
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Armory Open Daily
For Enlistrnents
CONTINUED IrOm nrst pagsJ

bill by the President, will be ex-
empt from the draft inasmuch as
the National Guard is subject to
call to active duty in event of ma
tional emergency. Announcement
to this effect was made Tuesday
morning by Captain William X.
Kenton, commanding officer of
Battery C, Milford.
Members of the local battery will
be stationed at the local Armory
each day and evening for the next
week to receive inquiries regarding
enlistment and to process men
signing up with the local detach-
ment. First Sergeant Clement ].
Nevins, who is in charge of the
current membership drive, stated
on Tuesday that he expects the To-
cal battery to fill it's quota within
the next few days and urged all
young men of Milford between the
ages of 1S and 25 to contact his
membership group Immediately.
From all over the country have
come reports that National Guard
units have been beseiged the pasi
few days by youths seeking to en-
list in the guards before the draft
i bill becomes effective. Throughout
THE state, the armOries are being
manned day and night to take care
of the rush of prospective recruits
During the recent carnival, eigh
teen Milford youths "signed up
with Battery C. The local batter!
had an eye-catching display o
equipment on the grounds all dur
ing the carnival with guard mem
bers presetn to explain the advan
tages of affiliation with the Ma
tional Guard. Battery c also par
ticipated in the V. f.. w. Encamp
ment parade at Dover Saturday af
ternoon and won first prize for bes
. appearing equipment.
The guard is in the midst of
recruiting drive and it's top Off
cials are elated by the enrollmen
rush. Goal of the drive is 271,O0
national guardsmen by June 81
The figure had reached 247,0OO i
, mid-June.
Once Mr.. Truman signs the bill
he must set a date for registrs
ton of 100000 men Is through 2
/. years for military service.
t The 18 year olds can escape tn
' draft by enlisting for a years SCI
= vice and then joining reserves. II
= ductions of others for q month
!, service are to begin 80 days aftt
: the President signs the bill.
y Navy and Air Force recruitin
: officers hope to fill their quot;
from enlistments, while the Arm
J. expects to take 1900 draftees
n month for the first year.
X This would mean the inductiC
: of about 100000 cOnscripts Il
: first year, as compared with 900
600 a year under the cOuntry's fir
peacetime draft act before the la
war.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

William Prince and the Henlopen
Playhouse Company are ready for
the opening performance of John
Loves Mary at S:45 p. M, at the
Henlopen Playhouse, Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware, on Monday night,
June %. Mr. Prince has been in re-
hearsal with the resident company
for a week and Hans Rothe, the
director, feels that the audience
can expect an excellent perform
ance Monday night. The work of
the technical staff is completed.
The spotlights are in place, the
drapes are hung and the stage is
set.
John Loves Mary is the story of
the return of a young G. /. John,
to his fiancee, Mary, who has been
waiting to marry him for two
years. He's not in a position to
marry her but he can't tell her
why he is not ready for the we'd
ding. The situation becomes fun
nier and more complicated in each
scene as Mary's father, Senator Nc
Kinley insists on an immediate
wedding. John and his buddy
Red think of all kinds of tricks to
postpone the marriage date and
become more and more embroile6
as the action proceeds. All ends
happily after three rollicking acts
William Prince will play the par
of John, a role he created in New
York; Barbara Anderson will ap
pear as Mary; Carl White as Sen
ator Mckinley; Jim Karen as Fred
Johns G. 1. buddy; Charlie Stein
metz will play Lieutenant OLear'
and Elena Allegro will be Mrs. Nc
Kinley.
The curtain goes up at S:45 I
m, and arrangements have beel
made to facilitate parking. The bo
Office is open daily from p. m. un
til 10 D. m. and will be well man
ned on opening night.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Blue Hen Post GiUen
National Recognition
Continued from nrst pagel


With 16 delegates and Is alter
mates, Blue Hen Post had the lar
gest authorized delegation of any
down-state post, and the fourth
largest of the states 81 V. F. w.
posts.
The eighteenth annual Encamp-
ment was a highly successful one
from every angle and climaxed a
year of progress, growth, and
achievement. In contrast wi h
other years, a spirit of harmony
was much in evidence, particularly
during the annual election of Off
GERS, with the elective offices being
distributed among the states four
districts. Six of the seven elective
offices, including that of State
Commander, were filled by World
War II veterans.
Hamilton M. Hutton, a World
War II veteran from Middletown
was the unanimous choice foI
State Commander. A colonel in the
o. r. c., who saw service both in
the E. T. o. and in the American
Theatre, Hutton has gained gen,
eral recognition throughout the
length and breadth of the state
during the past two years as a ca
pable and qualified leader of vet
! Grams. During the year which end
ed with last weekend's encamp
ment, Hutton served as senio
vice-cOmmander of the Department
of Delaware and also served al
commander of the Sgt. William
Lloyd Nelson Post, MiddletOwn
Hutton is an instructor in the his
tory department of st. Andrew
School, Middletown, and was prin
cipal speaker at the Memorial Da,
exercises held here at the Milfor
High School the past May 81. Hut
, ton succeeds Lloyd w. Ricards
Wilmington realtOr and veteran @
World War l, who led the Depart
ment of Delaware through tn
most successful year in the his
. tory of the V. F. w. movement i
Delaware.
Raymond Loose, past junior vic
= commander of the Department an
e commander of the Diamond Stat
1 Post, Richardson Park, was elect
6 ed to the office of Department ser
r iOr vice-cOmmander. Richard ]
Rayne, a member of the MasoI
: Dixon Post, Selbyville, and Depar
= ment surgeon the past year, We
= elected junior vice commando
e Like Hutton, the successful cand
d dates for the posts of vice-cOn
5, manders are veterans of WOr
d War II.
7, Samuel D. Ableman, who hi
S served the Department as qua
termaster for several years, WI
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
CHAPLAINS CHAPEL

Children's Services will be held
at Chaplains this Sunday evening,
June q, 1948, at 8 p. m. An interes-
ting program of recitations, songs,
drill and pantomines is being
planned We hope you will plan to
spend the evening with us.
Please keep in mind the Sum
shine Minstrel which we are
sponsoring in the Greenwood High
School Auditorium this Friday
evening, June 25, 194S, at 8;15 p
m This will be an evening of jolly
entertainment packed with mil
lion laughs. If you can't laugh
you had better not come. This gala
fun-packed program will make you
forget your cares. and troubles oi
the last six months. Don't miss itl
We are, also holding bake con,
sisting. Of cakes, pies, dressed chic
kens and candy, in connection will
/ the minstrel. We solicit your help.
The regular afternoon service a
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
partment,s Ladieg, Auxiliariea..

partmentS Ladies AuXlllarleS.
An estimated 1000 delegates,
alternates, and members of v. F.
w. posts and auxiliaries con-
verged upon Dover for the en-
campment. Saturdays parade,
which, in addlton 70 marching del
egations from the states v. r. w.
posts and auxiliaTies, also featured
the Ferko String Band of Philadel-
phia; Drum and Bugle Corps, sew
eral community bands, and four
detachments of Delaware National
Guard, plus many of the peninsu-
las fire companies, drew to Dover
an estimated 10000 spectators, re-
putedly the largest crowd ever tC
witness a parade at the state cap.
itol Battery G., D. N. G., Milford
participated in the National Guard
division and was awarded &
plaque for having the best equip
ment in it's division.
The time and place committee
acting in behalf of the Department
and its Auxiliaries, accepted tn,
% invitation of Rehoboth Beach il
deciding upon site Of the 1949 en-
campment
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

Chaplain's will not be held this
Sunday. We will meet at the
church at $3.50 a. m, to rehearse
and decorate for the Children's Day
program.
Little Rosalie Wiley spent a
few days last week with her aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie West.
Mrs. Myra Moore is entertaining
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Nora Hill Of
Wilmington.
Mrs. Hester Smith is still on the
sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Webb. Sr.,
entertained number of relatives
and friends at a Fathers Day din
ner on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Asks For Drink,
Finds Her Daughter

MANILA - (P) - A house-hunt-
ing woman who stopped at a store
for a drink of water was handed
the glass by little girl whom she
Immediately recognized, as her
long-lost daughter.
The reunion was a dramatic eli
max to a 39-month search for nine
year-Old Violeta Ngo by her par
ents, the police and the Philippine
Red Cross The child, separated
from her parents in liberation days
was picked up off the streets and
adopted by the Briones family
owners of the shop where Violeta's
mother stopped for the water.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
First Professional Nurse

Americas first trained nurse,
Linda Richards, also pioneered in
psychiatric nursing, establishing
methods of training followed by the
$1,000 nurses now practicing in
mental hospitals. Linda Richards
became a professional nurse in
1878.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
TJnsafe Smoking Places

There are certain places about
the home where smoking should
not be permitted under any condi-
tions. These include barns. ga
RACES, and other places where there
are materials which flash or burn
readily. Smoking in bed is a decid-
edly unsafe practice. Many people
lose their lives because. of it.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Need to Diet

One good reason for poisoning
grasshoppers is that they will eat
their own weight in green material
in about 16 hours. If human appe-
tites were on the same scale, 150-
pound person would eat $50 pounds
of food every day.
Evening star., 1948-05-14

Albert Fink, who built iron bridges. Fried
rich Munich developed grape culture as .
science and wrote standard textbook on
the subject which still is worth study
Christian Friedrich Theodore Steinway,
4 musician Of distinction himself, estab-
lished 4 piano manufacturing industry
which remains going concern today. A
long list OF contemporaries fought in the
Union Army-Franz Sigel and Friedrich
Karl Hecker most notably.
But it was especially in groups that the
Germans of hundred years ago, arriving
by the dozens, affected American culture.
Their impact is demonstrated in the
Library display by reference to the Ger
mania Musical Society, which gave no less
than 82s concerts in six years, Carl
Zarrahn directing. Such contributions
were significant at their start; and they
are not inconsequential now after ten
decades, when they have been merged In
the common tradition of the United States
as a composite of all other nations.
Evening star., 1948-05-14
While Hawaii Waits

Senator Knowland's resolution to dis
charge the Senate Public Lands Committee
from further consideration OF the Hawaiian
statehood bill should be approved. There
is no legitimate reason for keeping that
bill bottled up another year in committee,
while another delightful junket to the
islands Is arranged. The people OF Hawaii
have met every test for statehood. They
are overwhelmingly in favor OF 1t. They
have been Investigated. as to their fitness,
inside and out. The House has passed the
bill. The two political parties have favored
statehood under conditions which have
been met. 1t is probable that II the Dill
reached the Senate floor Hawaii would
become q State now
That Is the principle at stake in the
Knowland resolution. Every fair-minded
citizen will concede the wisdom OF the
power over legislation which Is vested IN
congressional committees. It Is only when
q committees use Of this power raises
serious questions Of justice and right that
1t is ever questioned. And on those rare
occasions when 1t is, the record and the
facts should decide the issue.
the islands in 1885, was favorably i'm
pressed, but recommended another in.
vestigation of the statehood issue by a
Joint committee. A joint committee visited
the islands two years later, was favorably
inclined but recommended a plebiscite
30 the people themselves could make
decision. The 1910 plebiscite favored
statehood by two to one. The war delayed
further progress but House subcommit-
tee visiting the islands in 1946, unani-
mously recommended immediate statehood.
The bill was kept in the House committee
another year, but the House approved 1t
last spring.
Senator Gordon of Oregon visited the
islands for the Senate Public Lands Com
mittee, heard the testimony of more than
two hundred witnesses and last March
made a report recommending immediate
statehood. In April the committee de-
cided to get the views OF people living in
continental United States. The testimony
1t received was overwhelmingly favorable.
But 1t has decided to defer the bills re-
port. What for? While members OF the
committee make another journey to the
islands this summer
There are arguments against statehood
They are not particularly convincing, but
they deserve to be heard. The place for
them now is on the Senate floor, not the
cloakrooms II the bill is to be defeated
after debate, that is one thing. But it is
highly unjust to the people Of Hawaii and
prejudicial to our own interests as a
Nation to keep delaying test that should
come now, especially when the delay is
based on the pretense that the committee