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Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Milford Lions Club Is
Sponsoring Annual Af-
fair; Carl March Is
Chairman; Date Selec-
ted Is December 10Th.

Carl March, chairman of the
Christmas Formal committee, has
announced that his committee has
secured the musical services of one
of the nations better known "big
name" bands, the Alex Bartha Or
chestra, for the annual Christmas
Ball, sponsored here each year
during the Christmas holidays by
the Milford Lions Club. This year,
the LiOns-spOnsOred Christmas
Formal will be staged on Wednes-
day evening, December 20, at the
Milford ArmOry.
The Lions Club was most fOrtu-
nate in securing the Bartha Or
chestra, which is now completing
tour of college campuses before
flying west to fulfill engagements
in Hollywood, Seattle and Los An
geles; in fact, its appearance here
may we'll be the final eastern ap-
/ pearanCe of the Bartha Band for
quite sometime as the fight to the
West Coast is scheduled to take
place a few days after New Years
On their current tour of the col
legiate circuit, the Bartha group
is playing for formals at Yale,
Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Buck
nell, Temple, Dickinson and Villa
nova, among others. Appearing
with Bartha and his band are fea-
tured vOcalists Duane Camp and
ROnnie King, and that increasing
ly popular quartet, the Slzyliners.
All of this group have repeatedly
appeared on cOast4to-cOast radio
hOOkups over NBC, CHS, ABC, and
Mutual systems.
While on the West Coast the
Bartha group will most likely make
stage and screen appearances in
support of the nations top singers
and comedians. In seasons past the
\ group has appeared with sucl
' headliners as Bob Hope, Dinal
: Shore, Abbott and Costello, Bett
Cradle, Eddie Cantor. and Ja
o Pearce.
9 A limited number of bids to thi
years Formal will be made avail
able to the public; members of tn
: public desiring information as t,
? how these may be obtained, shoull
: contact Mr.. March or any membe
! of his committee.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Tableau On
Nativity To
Be Erected
By Chamber
Will Be Located On John
r. SCOtt's Parking Lot,
Next To w. T. Grant
Co. Store; ChOirs Will
Be Invited To Sing.

According to Harvey M. Phillips,
Jr., and Harry Pierce, officials OF
the Milford Chamber of Commerce,
work on the tableau depicting the
Nativity scene, IS progressing nice
" in the studio on the third floor
of the Shore Theatre building. The
work is being done by Calvin Ball,
manager of the Shore Theatre and
Roland DOWnes, Jr. Both Mr.. Ball
and Mr.. DOwnes are accomplished
designers and painters, and the
figures, life like in size, are being
conditioned to stand the elements.
The tableau will be located on John
r. ScOtt's parking lot next to the
Odd Fellows Building. Present
plans call for singing by the var
ious church chOirs of Milford
churches several nights before
Christmas. The tableau will be
open for public viewing on or
about December Is.
Santa Claus, according to an ice
o-gram recently received by cham
Der president, Mr.. Phillips, is
scheduled to arrive in the city on
Saturday afternoon, December 4
He will arrive in an aiTplane al
the Milford Airport and will be
escorted to his holiday headquar-
ters in the "Story Book House" or
the Walnut street bridge panel
Advance notice of Santa's arriva
will come from the air, when San
ta's helper Ted Aber will drop then
on towns in lower Delaware mex
Monday or Tuesday. The kiddieI
are especially advised to watch 70,
these letters from old Kris, as sOmt
of them will be good for a toy whel
presented to Santa at his head
quarters.
City Manager Harry Bressler hai
this week been placing the laure
roping in position and the lights
and other decorations will be com
plete by Wednesday, December 1.
The majority of the local stores
will have their interior and eXter
iOr decorations and lights in posi-
ton by that date also, and the bus
mess section promises to be a yer
liable faiTyland.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
DMTA To Hold
Xmas Party Dec. 9
Truckers Big Event Will BE Held
At Shrine Club

At Shrine Club
The Delaware Motor Truck As
sOciatiOn, Inc. will hold its annual
Christmas party on Thursday, De-
cember 8, at the Shrine Club, To-
Gated at State Road, on Route 13,
opposite State Police Station No. 2.
This annual party which the truck
ing association puts on has grown
until it is now the biggest event in
this area for truckers.
The association is composed of
over 100 members with businesses
located in lower New Jersey,
southern Pennsylvania, the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, and Delaware,
and is composed of truck Oper-
atOrs, truck dealers, insurance peo-
pie, and parts and supply firms. At
this annual party they all get to-
gether for an evening of fun.
Eight acts of vaudeville, inter
spersed around a turkey dinner are
on the program. Immediately fol-
lowing the dinner the only note OF
business will be when Dan Haye OF
Brake and Equipment Co., Will.
mingtOn, the new president, will
be introduced. The committee il
charge of the affair is headed by
Hugh Gallagher, Jr., Union Parl
Motors, Wilmington, as chairman
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Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Police Seek
Owners Of
Huge Loot
Yield At Dover
Articles ImpOunded By
Dover Police Include
Typewriters, S, Guns,
Jewelry And Money;
Six Are Held.

Delaware State Police at Dover
ten days ago arrested a man and
his wife and four others, charged
them with a series of 81 rObberies
in the Dover area during the past
two years, and recovered more than
two truck loads of alleged loot.
The arrest of Carl F. Coventry,
.3S years old; his wife, Helen, "a
years old, and their four alleged
accOmplices, was made November
.9.
Last Saturday police we're still
trying to find the owners of hun
dreds of articles which they said
had been stolen in the twO-yeaT
series of thefts.
A mass of material, including
typewriters, guns, jewelry, cloth
ing, money, a large clothes press
ing machine, and hundreds of Other
articles are on hand at the Dover
State Police Station being held as
evidence.
While much of it has been claim
ed by the owners, there are scores
of articles, ownership of which Is
not established.
The rObberies were in the are;
in and about Dover, Wyoming, anC
FELTON,.
State police said the value of th'
articles stolen was approximate!
$S,3S3.
Under arrest now are Coventry
being held on charges of breaking
and entering in 80 different in
stances, and larceny in sever
others.
Mrs. Coventry is charged wit
being an accessory in the breaking
and entering and larceny cases.
others arrested are SmOry BeT
ry, 40 years old, Wyoming, chaTg
ed with being a principal in fOu
of the cases, and accessory in tn
others; David Hughes. 81 years oil
of Houston, charged with being a
accessory in two or three eases
Andrew Arnaudo, 40 years old. {
Dover, charged with larceny of
cow in one case; Edward Tercht
! 80 years old, of Dover, charge
with larceny of 60 bushels of SO
beans.
/, Lieutenant James Collins of d.
yer city police. made the initial a.
> rest; started the investigation tn;
resulted in the six arrests, brOE
up the theft-ring. and recovery
the stolen property.
Arrested on Suspicion
Lieutenant Collins arrested Co
. entry on suspicion, and detaint
: him. State police participated
= the investigation.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
POultrymen Study
Virginia Set-Uu

A number of Sussex county
pOultrymen will study broiler
raising practices as being carried
on in the Valley of Virginia, dur
ing a three-day trip to that area,
according to w. c. Sloan, assistant
county agent. The group will
leave Georgetown on Tuesday
morning, November 80, and return
on Thursday, December 2.
Plans call for visiting -four
farms to see central heating sys-
tenn in operation and study the
feeding and management practices
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Milford Hockey Team
Beats RehobOth, so
HumeS And Clancy Pace The
Local Attack

The Milford Girls Hockey squad
turned in a win at the expense of
RehOboth High on MilfOrd's home
grounds
The Milford hOckeyists scored 3
times in the first half and twice in
the second period to defeat RehO-
both by an overwhelming score of
so. Eleanor Humes, the captain,
and Barbara CLANCY paced the at
tack with two tallies each, while
Jane Greene scored the remaining
one.
Continued on page %
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
e. o. P. Saws
Not
Court, Should
Decide Seat
Chancellor w. w. Har-
ringtOn Has Signed Or
der Fixing Tuesday,
November 80, AS Re-
turn Date On Manda-
mus.

Republican stTategists trying to
save the party's majority of one in
the lower house Of the 115th Gen
eral Assembly believe that the con-
stitutiOnal provision relative to
qualification of members is their
strongest defense, it was learned
this week.
The seat in question, that won
by Robert L. Armstrong in the
Second Representative District by
81 votes over the Democrat, Rob-
ert H. Wahl, gives the Republican
Party a majority of one, Is seats to
the Democrats seventeen.
But the Democrats have petition
ed the Supreme Court to order the
Board of Canvass for New Castle
County to correct the returns. 1t
is expected that the Supreme
Court will hear the Democrats pc
titiOn next Monday.
/ The Republicans may challenge
the jurisdiction. of the Supreme
/ Court, using Section s of Article II
of the State Constitution which
states, in part, Each House shall
be the judge of the elections, re-
turns and qualifications of its own
members; :"
The laws also provide for a meth
cd of cOntesting an election fOl
members of the General Assembly
and, separately for cOntesting elec.
tiOns to other offices.
How the election of Mr.. Arm.
strong could be contested in thr
next House which, if he were t.
stand aside for that purpose, wOulC
leave a vote of II to II, is one O
the questions that was being askeC
widely.
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26

the nations tremendous strides in
all other fields, our educational
facilities are still inadequate to the
nations needs, resulting in the
presence within the United States
of an estimated 2,SOO,OOO illiterates.
He also pointed out that 659,000
young American men, otherwise
qualified, were rejected for armed
service during World War ii be-
cause of lack of even minimum
educational background and train
ing.
Mr.. Durkee attributed much of
Americas educational problems to
the fact that too small a portion
of the national income is being
spent for education, resulting in
inadequate facilities and a short
age of trained teaching personnel
Continued on page -
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Methodist Hospital
To Solicit Funds

The Methodist Hospital in Phila-
delphia announced plans yesterday
for a $1,250,000 Embarrassing cam
paign to begin January 13.
OF this total, 100000 is to be used
for the construction of new nurs-
es' training school building, accord
ing to James I. Buckley, chairman
of the executive committee of the
PhilcO Corporation, and general
chairman of the hospitals cam
paign committee.
Other purposes outlined for the
building and development fund in
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Two New Towns
In Shore League
Chambersburg And Frederick Take
Milford And Dover BeTths
By The Associated Press

Qy uC EAOOOO4CtbCu / 1899
The Eastern Shore Baseball
League will function next year, but
it will have to change it's name.
Chambersburg, Pa, and Frederick,
Md, were granted franchises in the
Class d circuit at a meeting in
Salisbury last Sunday.
Robert P. Leonard, league secre-
tary, said the board of directors of
the Glass D loop will recOnvene in
RehOboth Dec. 1 to discuss the
new name.
He said another item to be taken
care of then is the election of a
successor to Dallas d. Culver, re-
tiring loop president. Among pos
sibilities mentioned for the job was
Frank (HOme Rum Baker, former
major league slugger who now
owns several farms in this area.
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26

tuberculosis Society for 40 years.
The appeal this year is signed by
DR.. William Marshall, of Milford,
president of the Society. The letter
of appeal which will go into thou
sands of Delaware homes is as
follows:
For many years this annual
Christmas Seal appeal for tubercu-
lOsis funds was signed by our late
president Miss Emily P. Bissell.
For more than 40 years she led our
Society in it's statewide anti-tu-
berculOsis program that has helped
to prolOng and save thousands of
lives of our citizens. Will you
help us carry on the fight so ably
directed and developed by Miss
Bissell until this devastating dis
ease has been completely eradi-
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Highway Deaths
Show 9 Pct. Increase
October Figures Are Included In
Current Report

For the first 10 months of the
year highway fatalities in Della
ware, outside Wilmington, were
nine percent higher than for the
corresponding period a year ago
according to a report released by
Maj. Herbert Barnes, commanding
officer, Delaware State Police.
The report also shows all acci-
dents for the 10-mOnth period this
year were II percent higher than
the like period last year, while
injuries increased three percen
over 1947.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26

Indicating that the program
would start in the near future, Dr.
Miller stated that we must be in
creasingly vigilant to provide clean
and sanitary school buildings for
the students and teachers of the
state.
The details of the program are
being developed by B. F. Lowell,
state supervisor of buildings and
grounds. Mr. Lowell revealed that
the program will be divided into
two phases. Four custOdians will
be trained as instructors for cen
ters that will be established in the
various areas Of the state In
cluded in the instructor group will
be: Clarence w. ShOckley, Har-
rington; William II. Hickman
ClaymOnt; Edward Caldwell, Alex
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
POores Opening
New Store Today

Handsome Building Is Filled With
Well known Brands OF Furniture
J. Brainard POOre and sons,
Brainard, Jr., and Herschel, today
(Friday, November 26) are holding
open house at their handsome new
furniture and appliance store on
South East Front street, nearly
opposite their present grocery and
hardware store.
The building is substantially
built out of steel and concrete and
(GOntinued on page D
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
University Girls
Set Budget Record
Home Economics Group Show What
Can BE Done On $1,000

Shirts, Jackets, Overalls, dresses
and stuffed toys for seven pre-
school children-all on a SIS budget
is the record of seven University
of Delaware Home Economics stu
dents.
The girls, members of a Family
Clothing Problems class, made 18
garments and seven toys in cOOpera-
tiOn with the Welfare Committee of
the Newark New Century Club,
which financed the project, and Miss
Alice Leake, district nurse, who sug-
gested families which might be in
need of such assistance. Each stu
dent took responsibility for one
child, and supplied clothing for him
after studying the need in cOOpera-
tiOn with his mother.
Participating in the project were
Cathrine Bilderback, Wilmington
Milene Clark, Wilmington, Jean
Continued on page y
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Sale Of Christmas Seals
Opened In Delaware Monday

Monday throughout TubrculO
Delaware AnTubercuoss Society and
42nd
Seal Sale which originated in Wilmington in 1907 by the
P. Delaware
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Spoke On Nations
School Needs 1t Local School

Milford High
the Delaware State Educational Asoca-
Milford Elementary School PT of the weak the
DUrkee
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-26
Plan In-Seryice Training
Program For School CustOdians

training
ned under the direction Of Dr. George Miller r State Supentend
the keeping
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Evening star., 1948-05-23
Luncheon to Salute IsrueI

The Ladies Auxiliary of Slobodkey
Yeshiva here will give q luncheon
in honor of the State of Israel at
1890 pm. Tuesday at the Beth Sho-
lom Congregation, Eighth and Shep-
herd streets NV. Rabbi Harry j.
Kaufman will be guest speaker.
Proceeds of the luncheon will be
used to benefit Haganah, the Jewish
militia in Palestine.
Evening star., 1948-05-23

white or cream: Mrs. Simmons
Charles F. Lee, Mr.. Cole; senlidouble
or double, named light pink: Mr.
Cole; semidouble, named dark pink
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. William Church
I'd and Sd; semidouble or double
named red: Mrs. Keyser; unnamed
varieties: Mr.. Lee.
Other flowers, pansies: Mrs, Wal
ter D. Addison; oriental poppies
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Church, Mr.
Phelps; other perennials: Mrs. Ad-
Olson, Mr.. Lee; Towering shrubs
Mrs. Simmons, Mr.. Lee, Mrs. Ad-
olson.
Arrangements, a vase, using
peonies and other material: Mrs
Keyser; Victorian arrangement OF
any material: Mrs. Boyden. Mrs
j. E. Schrider; bowl Of peonies, no
other material: Mr.. Phelps.
Judges in the rose show were
August P. Holman, 1716 Evarts
street NV, and DR.. v. L. McKin-
stry, 4515 Burlington road, Hyatts-
vile, Md, and arrangements, Mrs.
Robert Ash, 1921 Bradley boulevard,
Bethesda, Md.
Judges Of the peony show included
DR.. Earle B. White, Kensington, Md;
other flowers, Miss Smith, and ar
rangements, Mrs. Ash.
The joint exhibitions were held
yesterday from to 8 pm. in the
Takoma Park Branch of Takoma
Public Library, Fifth and Cedar
streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-05-23

for her dark pink" display; Mrs.
H. F. Keyser, 1885 Military road NV,
with Red Queen" took second hon.
ors and Mrs. Kathryn N. Simmons,
518 Aspen street NV, with "Fes-
tiva Maxima," white variety, was
third.
Winners in the various classes in
this show were: Collection Of three
named varieties: L. H. Cole; single
entries, semidouble or double, named
Evening star., 1948-05-23

A month drought In British
Guiana last year has cut sugar pro-
duction.
Evening star., 1948-07-04
Miss BrO1Vm Bride

Miss Edna Earle Brown, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee L. Brown Of
Culpeper, became the bride yester-
day of Mr.. Joseph Allan Turner, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Turner. The
ceremony was performed in st.
Dominic's Roman Catholic Church,
the Rev. j. B. Conolon officiating.
Mr.. James E. Finks, brother-in-
law of the bride, escorted her to the
sanctuary, where Mr.. Turner and
his best man, Mr.. Virgil Mawyer,
awaited her. She was attended by
her sister, Miss Ina Brown, and Car
rol Drinkard was her flower girl.
Messrs. Kerbey Hendree and Rica
Franzoni were ushers,
Evening star., 1948-07-04
Miss Freeman Bride

Miss Margaret Jean Freeman,
daughter of Mrs. James Edward
Montague and Mr.. Frank I. Free
man of this city, became the bride
yesterday afternoon of Mr.. Algie
Bernard Murphy, jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Murphy, also Of Wash
ington.
The ceremony took place in st.
James Church, with Father Alfred
@. Plank officiating.
Given in marriage by her STEP
Evening star., 1948-07-04
General
Escorts Niece

In the chapel of Fort Lesley j.
McNair yesterday afternoon, 1t.
Gen. ]. Lawton Collins, deputy chief
of staff, escorted his niece, Miss
Evening star., 1948-07-04
On Vacations

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Riefkin sailed
Friday from New York for cruise
OF five weeks to South America.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Gewirz and
their son and daughter, Carl and
Norma, are at Newport, r. l., where
they have taken cottage for the
summer.
Miss Tillie Steiner will leave to-
morrow for Los Angeles to visit her
cousins, Mrs. Albert Hoffman and
Mrs. George Post.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Harry Sherry have
opened Woodstock Farms, their
country home at Beallsville, Md, Tor
the summer. They recently re-
turned from an extended visit IN
Cleveland.
Evening star., 1948-07-04
1t SIMMER Resort

Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar kaufman are
spending the holiday week end in
Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Stern, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Newmyer and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Guggenheim are among
Washingtonians at Bedford Springs,
Pa, over the holiday week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lehman are
spending several weeks at Bedford
Springs.
Evening star., 1948-07-04

Paris Is like a jewel with so many
facets that one can't possibly take
In all its beauty at one glance.
There is so much to this city that
one could spend 3 lifetime getting
acquainted.
Right now it's the crossroads of
the world and at the height Of Its
social season. Tourists have so
many places to go and so much to
see that 1t is wonder that they
can see straight. Between sight
seeing excursions they can dine at
Maxims where the smart interna-
tional set 60 every Friday night
dressed in the dernier cri to see and
be seen, or they can look out upon
the Seine, the lie de Ia Cite, the
towers of Notre Dame, through the
glass walls of the Tour d'Argent, the
excellent restaurant that now at
tracts the haute monde on Wednes-
day evenings. There the specially
is pressed duck which is pressed be-
fore your eyes. Each duck is num-
bered and for anybody who might
work up some curiosity about such
things, my duck was the 186,692d
they have served since 1890.
Or they might 60 to Big Ben,
which may be the smallest rendez-
vous in Paris and has some of the
best music, or whip over to Florence
(Which is not woman but Chichi
night club. I saw the Marquesa de
Zahara, the former Betty Byrne of
Washington, there the other evening
and also young, attractive Lord
Duncannon of the British Embassy
here, who was much in the limelight
as onicial escort to Princess Eliza
beth and the Duke Of Edinburgh
during their visit to Paris.
Then, of course, there are events
such as La Mutt du Louvre, a ball
which was held at the Palace Of the
Louvre, in the luxurious salons of the
Ministry of Finance, where Napo-
leon III entertained during the
prosperous 1865 and Cos. I went
with the handsome and elegant
young Prince Michael Cantacuzene,
who makes his home in Paris and is
the nephew OF Princess Cantucuz enc
of Washington. The American Am
bassador and Mrs. Jefferson Caffery
were there and the British Ambas-
sador, Sir Oliver Harvey, and Lady
Harvey, and others glimpsed in the
gold-edged paneled room with its
painted vaulted ceiling and gorgeous
7-ton crystal chandelier. were the
much decorated Gen. Pierre Koenig,
French Commander in Chief in
Germany; Diana Bowes-Lyon, niece
of Queen Elizabeth. and Paul
Domergue, the well-known French
artist.
Luncheon ut the Douglas Mac