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Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of Elwood
Kemp. Register of Wills, in and for Kent
County. Delaware. dated August 10, 1913.
notice is hereby given of the granting of
Letters of Administration on the estate of
Raymond L. Wright, deceased, on August
13. 194S unto Charles L. Harmonson as Ad-
ministrator. All persons having claims
against the said Raymond L. Wright are
required to exhibit the same within one
year after the date of granting of such
Letters of Administration. or abide by the
law in that behalf which provides that
such claims against the said estate. not so
exhibited. shall be forever barred.
CHARLES L. HARMONSON,
Administrator of
Raymond L. Wright deceased,
Dover. Delaware.
Elwood Kemp,
Register of Wills.
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NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of Elwood
Kemp. Register of Wills. in and for Kent
County. Delaware. dated August 3rd A. d.
1913 notice is hereby given of the granting
Letters Of Administration on the estate of
Bertha Short on the 3rd day of August
A. d. 194s. All persons having claims
against the said Bertha Short are required
to exhibit the same to such Administrators
within one year after the date of the
granting of such Letters. or abide by the
law in that behalf. which provides that
such claims against the said estate not so
exhibited shall be forever barred.
FLORENCE SHORT.
Administrators of
Bertha Short. deceased.
Signed: Elwood Kemp.
Registered of Wills.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
BOY KILLED IN AUTO CRASH

Robert Vogt, IL, of Greensboro,
Md, Killed When Car Hits Tree
Robert Vogt, age IL, of Green's
boro, Nd, was killed Saturday af-
'ternoon when the truck in which
he was passenger ran off the side
of the highway and crashed into a
tree about one mile north of Smyr-
ma. The driver of the truck was
Charles Bradford, II, also of
Greensboro. Both were taken to
the Kent General Hospital in Do
yer, where Vogt was pronounced
dead on arrival. Bradford's condi-
ton is reported fair.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19

Louise Hoffecker, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert d. Hoffecker. and
Mr.. kshworth Burslem, son of Rev.
George Ashworth Burslem and
Mrs. Burslem, of st. Georges,
formerly of Dover, took place Fri
day evening at six o'clock in st.
Georges Presbyterian Church. The
bridegroom's father oficiated.
JOSEPH NAYLOR BROWNS
Joseph Naylor, so, of Smyrna
was drowned Sunday in Delaware
Bay near Pickering's Beach when
he lost his balance in a fishing
boat and fell overheard. A short
while before Naylor fell into the
water but was rescued by his COM
panions. The second time, how
ever, he disappeared before they
could give aid. Searching paEties
combed the area all that day until
dark and resumed the search Mon
day and Tuesday morning until
they recovered the body. Coroner
Harry Caper took charge of the
case and held an inquest in Smyr-
ma yesterday morning. Their ver-
dict was accidental drowning"
For several years Mr.. Naylor con-
Quoted a fish market in the small
building next to his residence.
CAPITOL THEATRE REOPEN
The Capitol Theatre, Dover,
which has undergone a complete
with entirely new dec
orations, draperies and furnishings
will reopen tomorrow, August 10,
with a special program.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
Mustard Family

Mustard family provides several
varieties of greens. One known as
Tendergreen will produce edible
leaves in 81 days from sowing, and
if the roots are left undisturbed will
produce eight or nine crops ir the
season.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19

The amount of humus in soil is
an important factor in determining
its degree of fertility.
The state of Connecticut has be-
en- a pioneer in the development of
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
Orr Vanishing Timber

Annual cutoff of merchantable
saw timber is not far from so per
cent higher than the annual
growth. About 65 per cent of the
original forest area of the country
remains.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
so YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
CAPITOL THEATRE REOPEN

True Life Crime Stories of Della
ware. Read the Bill Conner series
in the Sunday Star. 12c.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
LIvESTOCl
LIVESTOCK
Pair large Black MULES.
40 Head of Cattle

81 pure bred with papers, Milk
ing Shorthorns; 3 grade COWS; 18
milking; 8 close springers; 10 Heif-
ers, Bulls, ages 1 month to two
years: TB tested and vaccinated
for Bangs, all young but two; reds,
whites and roans.
I have raised most of these cows
and they are good dairy cows.
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
Rite-Way milking machine, 2
single units; dairy hot water heat
er, Wilson zero-Flow electric milk
box, Scan size; dairy wash tubs;
20 milk cans, buckets, and strain
er.
j. o. COUNCIL
w. S. Warrington, Auctioneer
Lunch will be served by the lad
les of Friendship M. E. Church.
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at loo o'clock p. m,

Holstein bull, year old; Hol-
stein COW, Guernsey COW, 2 heifers.
/ mare, 5 years old; mare, 10
years old; 1 mare, 10 years old.
International combine, 4 years
old, tractor and plows; new 194S
International pickup 1s-ton truck;
International farm wagon with
rubber tires; international moving
machine, New Idea manure spread
er, International tractor disc and
cultipacker, hay rake, walking
plow, walking cultivator, saw at
tachment for tractor, disc harrow,
lime drill, International grain drill,
16 spouts; John Deere corn plant
er, Fairbanks scales, grain fam
grain elevator, International gaso-
line motor, new brooder stove, air.
tight stove, lard press, sausage
stuffer, butter churn, milk cans
and buckets, lot of bai1ed hay, 1
brood sow, 8 shoats, 9 pigs, lot of
hand tools and implements and
other farm equipment and imple-
ments used on 200 acre farm and
too numerous to mention.
TERMS OF SALE
Cash, and no articles to be re-
moved until settled for.
CHARLES L. HARMONSON,
Adm. of
Raymond L. Wright, deceased,
Dover, Delaware.
]. c. Walker, Auctioneer
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Schreiner,
Clerks.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
MYSTERIOUS DEATHS

The death of Mrs. j. D. Dean
and her sister, Mrs. Dunning, wife
of j. P. Dunning, newspaper COR
respondent who went with the
army to Cuba, both residing in
Dover, has caused intense interest
wherever they were known. Mrs.
Dean died on Thursday and Mrs.
Dunning on Friday evening. Mrs.
Dean had been in her usual health
until Wednesday evening, when her
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dunning, re-
oeived in the mail a package of
candy. The family all ate of the
candy, as did also three or four
neighbors. All who partook of the
candy were sick; the Peningtons
especially suffered severly. The
symptoms resembled cholera NOR
bus. The funeral of the two ladies
was on Monday afternoon, and one
of the largest ever attended in
Dover. The services at the house
were conducted by the Rev. ]. F.
Stonecipher, who married Mr.. and
Mrs. Dunning on February 1881,
and the Rev. Joseph Brown Turn
er, the pastor of the Presbyterian
church there. Both ministers spoke
feelingly of the death of the sisters
and told of the Christian lives they
had led. They also spoke words of
comfort to the grief-stricken par
ents.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
NOTICE

I will pay small price for dead
or disabled horses, cows, mules and
hogs.
CHARLES POORE,
Smyrna 3747
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
Just
Ten Years Ago

QUIET CHURCH WEDDING
The wedding of Miss Frances
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL


Mrs. Hannah Spruance and
daughter, Miss Emily Spruance,
left on Friday for visit to Allan
tic City.
DR.. D. T. Smithers, Postmaster
t. B. Megear, and Undertaken
VIM. A. FAIRIES left on Saturday
for visit to Ocean Grove.
Announcement cards of the we'd
ding of DR.. John Allen Johnson, of
this town, to Miss June Adeline
Jacquith, of Indianapolis, Ind, on
Wednesday, August 10th inst,
have been issued. They will be
"At Home" after September the
first.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

oM lima ANIL FuNl4N1l
Complaint has been made
against the boys who go swimming
in Lake Como. During these sum-
mer days they go there in large
numbers, and the residents in that
part of town are continually an
noyed by them. They seemingly
show no respect for themselves or
those around them, and on several
occasions they have come down as
far as the gatehole. 1t would
seem that these boys would have
more pride than to expose their
person along the public thorough
fare, and it would serve them right
if our policemen would arrest a
few and make object lessons out of
them.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19
SMYRNA AND VICINITY
KENTON

William Leathy (colored) was
arraigned before Squire Slaughter
last Tuesday, charged with selling
whiskey at the colored camp held
in Mudge's woods on Mondey even
ing. Leathy was held under bail
to answer to court, but he was al
lowed to go out of the Office to
look for some one to go his bail.
He is evidently still looking, as he
has not been seen since.
Smyrna times., 1948-08-19

The idea is well worth trying
and its results may be the answer
to your hopes for more pep AMI
less fatigue.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
New Yeor, 1949

Emerson wrote: 1.-THE days come and 60
like muff1ed and veiled figures sent from
q distant friendly party; but they say
nothing, and If we do not use the gifts
they bring, they carry them as silently
away" What the Concord Sage meant by
his beautiful, musical words is subject to
any ones Interpretation. But he seems to
have wished to express the fact that each
twenty-four hours in the calendar of hu-
man experience is an opportunity which
people may employ for purposes good or
ILL according to the values and qualities
within themselves.
New Year, in any case, is proper occa-
sion for reconsidering the significance OF
time. The minutes of our lives are coins
of a sort which we necessarily pay out for
the privilege of breathing, for the license
to strive toward whatever goals we choose
to seek Men and women in the modern
world very commonly desire the best OF
gains for themselves and for their neigh
bors. Few indeed are the number who
deliberately prefer unworthy objectives.
Millions have been educated by compelling
events to understand that peace and tel-
lowship and nutuality are preferable to
creed and distrust and contention Living
generations are abundantly familiar with
the price which is exacted for conflict
between nations, creeds and classes. No
American in his senses would prefer con-
tinued turmoil to tolerance and co-opera-
ton.
The difficulty which the individual in
svitably faces is that of how to make his
hopes, his prayers effective. He sees noble
schemes of world equity fail, he beholds
the tragic Illustration of plans for world
order which appeared to promise nothing
less than universal justice when first they
were formulated. Even God is mocked by
the willfulnesS of certain ruthless forces,
and multitudes are shocked and terrorized
by the spectacle of such wanton denial OF
divine principle. But the question remains:
What shall we do? How shall we meet
these dangers to all that is left OF civil
ization? What use shall we make OF the
days ahead?
No easy answer is available. The troubles
Of mankind are not susceptible to easy
cure. If humanity is to be spared final,
all engulfng disaster, the dynamic power
of q vast popular endeavor must be de-
veloped. The people, under the law OF
their Creator, must save themselves. This
realization is not new. 1t traces back to
the most remote ages. Every New Year
that ever dawned was a challenge to our
species. The fruits of our acceptance OF
the opportunities thus offered is history
and progress.
There are many reasons why people
should be hopeful at the start Of 1s4s. One
of them obviously is to be found in their
survival of the trials of its forerunners.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
The Tsetse Fly Beaten

Medical science has scored another
major victory over disease which ranks IN
Importance with its triumphS over malaria,
cholera and yellow fever. The British Co.
lonial Office has announced the perfection
OF a new drug, antrycide, which both cures
and immunizes against sleeping sickness.
the dread plague which attacks animals
and human beings alike in many parts OF
Africa.
The carrier of the disease is the tsetse
ny, whose range extends from the southern
borders of the Sahara Desert to the north
ern fringes OF the South African Union.
This means that the tropical belt OF the
African continent, with an area of some
$500 900 square miles (half as large again
as the United States, is infested with
noxious insect whose bite has been fatal to
all forms of domestic animals and danger
Gus 10 man as well. Remedies had already
been found for coping with the human
form of sleeping sickness, but such meth
DDS were too difficult and costly for use
among animals. The result was that vast
areas naturally suited TO cattle raising
were debarred from this pursuit and we're
left unproductive. determination of the
tsetse fly was impracticable, because, un-
like the mosquito, 1t is not dependent upon
water but thrives wherever there is even
the moderate shade given by bush or low
scrub.
This major handicap to the develop
ment of tropical Africa was a standing
challenge alike to medical science and to
colonial planners. Accordingly, team of
eminent British chemists, biologists. phar-
macists and veterinarians went to work
on the problem four years ago, setting up
research laboratories in several of the
worst-infected areas. The outcome of their
labors Is a drug which not only cures and
immunizes against all forms of animal
sleeping sickness but can be easily and
safely administered by the average lay
man. Now in quantity production at mod
crate cost, enough of the drug can be sent
to Africa during the coming year to safe
guard at least 100000 animals.
The economic consequences of this new
cure promise to be portentous. A fresh
cattle-growing area four times the size of
Argentina will be added to the worlds
meat production. Added to large-scale
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Unfair to Teachers?

To the Editor Of The Star:
The letter written by F. c. Sumner and pub
lished in The Evening Star on December 81 Is
based on a rather obvious Inconsistency. Mr..
Summer belittles the NJ "A. degree. yet he wishes
us to put premium on it. If any high-grade
moron can secure q Masters degree, why
should the School Board be forced to reward
one for getting it? Certainly If an MA.
amounts to nothing, 1t is illogical to give one
who possesses it $500 year more than the
teacher who has only B.A. degree or no
degree at all.
Again, the citizens Of Washington should
not be told that any teacher can order brand
new MA. from one of our degree factories
and have it delivered to his residence for
nominal sum. Graduate degrees are not Of
fered a dollar a dozen at any corner grocery.
I am not arguing whether 1t takes any lntelll-
gence to secure an MA, Ph.D. or x.Y.z. degree.
1t certainly takes good bit Of time and money
to get Masters degree. You know, even arti-
ces sent cod. must be paid for. The people
of the District should realize that the present
low salaries leave very little money for their
teachers to chase degrees around the country.
The price Of these degrees, like everything
else, has gone up faster than the pedagogues
salary Under the present imitation our teach
pearances.
Besides much of Mr.. Summers witty dis
cussion is irrelevant. Local q does not object
to the MA requirement set up for those now
entering the public schools of the District Of
Columbia. We hope the board can secure highly
qualified teachers with the salaries 1t can now
offer 1t would not be beneficial, If our sys-
tenn were entirely stated by temporary teach
ers We, however. object strenuously to the
fact that Congress made this requirement ret
roactive, so as to apply to those who entered
the Washington school system before Public
Law 1853 was enacted. No amount of sophistry
can disguise the fact that the rules. of this
game have been changed in the middle. Teach
ers qualified under one set Of rules but must
work under another.
The position of the AFT on this matter is
that the board may have been right in raising
standards for the incoming teachers; but we
oppose setting up of the MA. requirement by
Congress for teachers who had already quail
fed under a different contractual relation.
Such ex post facto legislation is un-American
and should be wiped of the books by the In
coming Congress. DON GOODLOE,
Legislative Representative, Local 27, AFT.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Much Bindinq, Etc.

Some questions are more satisfying than
their answers, and the mystery of the
British Broadcasting Corporations comedy
show, Much Binding in the Marsh" may
well fall into this category. When the
Associated Press reported recently that
Princess Elizabeth's first public appear
ance after the birth of her baby was a
visit to the Much Binding" studio Ameri-
cans everywhere thrilled with speculative
wonder There will always, of course, be
an England. Where else would a comedy
show go by such a name? What does 1t
mean? What kind of binding? What
marsh? The hunt was on.
An expert in semantics soon advanced
the theory that binding" is a term per-
tanning to the sport of falconry. The phrase,
he explained, might loosely be translated,
"The Falcon Is Selling or Graphing With
a Lot of Game in the Marsh" This did
not seem to help much. Another school
of inquisitives pored over Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations." proceeding from
the not unreasonable postulate that Much
Binding in the Marsh" was an obscure
quotation from somebody like Oscar Wilde
one of those tantalizing, diSmembered
novel-titleS, like For Whom the Bell
Tolls" or Cry the Beloved Country"
Well, The Star finally got to the bottom
of the thing and the public is entitled
to the, findings even If they do constitute
something of letdown. The fact is, the
title is not supposed to make sense. The
AP erred; the show is not called Much
Binding in the Marsh" but rather Much
Binding in the e-Marsh." 1t is the name of
a mythical town in the Cotswold Hills of
Gloucester-the kind of one-horse, null
tiple name locality that P. G. Wodehouse
used to make fun of. There are many
towns like that in Englands among them
Moreton in the Marsh, Much Hadham,
Stow-on -the-Wold and Tiddlecombe- on
the-Piddle. We have our own Hastings
on-the Hudson.
Much-Binding-o -the-Marsh, be it then
recorded, is simply a place like Duffys
Tavern or Aliens Alley where, according
to a BIC circular, there unfolds "a slick
and sparkling show of stop-press
topicality." BIC says further that "the
whole thing is colossal lark" The Star
trusts Princess Elizabeth was not disap-
pointed.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
"A Sickeninq Sham

Communism's odious record supports
Acting Secretary of State Lovett's denun-
citation of the arrest of Cardinal Mind
szenty of Hungary as "a sickening sham. =
The charges against the primate have
every indication of being part of pattern
of religious persecution that is being fol-
lowed by the Reds not only OF Hungary
but of other satellites Of Moscow. The
case of Cardinal Mindszenty is sadly rem
iniscent of that of Archbishop Stepinac OF
Yugoslavia, who was imprisoned at hard
labor by Marshal Tito for alleged Grimes
against the state
It is indicative of the trend. Anti
religious campaigns have been reaching
new heights of vehemence in Poland and
Czechoslovakia recently Reports from Po-
land have told of the sentencing Of priest
for encouraging hostile attitude toward
the government" of further restrictions
on use of church property, of the arrest
of Catholic newspapermen and of the BAN
ming of Christmas carols from the public
schools. Within the past few days the
Communist minister of schools in Czecho-
slovakia issued a warning to Protestant
as we'll as Catholic churches to put their
ranks in order with the state" He charged
that the path of every antistate act leads
to q monastery, church or priest"
And the Prague radio has continued its
vilification of the Catholic Church in gen.
eral and of Archbishop Josef Beran in
particular, asserting that cardinals and
archbishops have become "spokesmen of
fascism"-a charge also made against the
Hungarian primate.
A long list Of accusations against Car
dinal Mindszenty was announced, ranging
from "fascistic" activities to espionage.
The cardinal has been held incommuni-
cado, so that his answer to the charges
is not available. But an interview which
the cardinal gave to Dutch correspond
ent shortly before his arrest throws light
on the reason for the Communists de-
cision to remove him from circulation. In
the interview, Cardinal Mindszenty boldly
called Hungarian-style religious freedom
a mockery He accused the government
of stationing spies in churches to take
down sermons in shorthand, of conducting
a systematic campaign of slander against
the churches, of intimidating priests by
wholesale arrests.
Evidently the primate was among church
leaders who refused to be intimidated 1t
is hardly surprising, Communist tactics
being what they are, that the Reds de-
cided that something must be done to
eliminate so effective a critic from their
midst, just as Tito eliminated Archbishop
Stepinac. The Pope has excommunicated
all Catholics who aided in the cardinals
arrest. Presumably there will be trial,
as there was in the Stepinac case, but un-
less communism has suddenly changed It's
ways the trial may be expected to be no
less sham than the arrest. Every lover
of personal freedom will admire the cou-
rageous stand against oppression-Nazi as
Evening star., 1948-12-31

reach that conclusion? I doubt and deny its
validity and ask for proof. Then the commo-
dore makes certain remarks about false leader
ship and in that respect I desire to ask the
commodore whose determination is it that the
leadership is false? If it is his alone, ask
what is his competence to make such deter
mination?
OF course much Of what the commodore says
in regard to progress and social psychology Is
true, but the argument Is always how to apply
our professions of democracy and Christianity.
Many folks say that these things are all right
as long as the Negro does not aspire to their
attainment, or as long as no white people have
to recognize the Constitution, our laws, and the
Christian religion in respect TO less-favored
groups, such as the Negro. When the Negro
discovered that he, too, was covered by these
great institutions and agitated to gain his
birthright, then he is boatrocker, hothead
in the opinion of many. On the other hand
when he sits back and lets nature take its
course, then we hear that he is satisfied with
his lot What course would you propose that
he take?
deny that white people pay most of the
costs of Negro schools. What percentage of
Negroes pay excise and other indirect taxes in
the District? Moreover, in the matter of real
property taxes, what percentage is paid by
Negroes, even If they are renters? 1t is a
known fact that the tenant has the tax passed
over to him as part of his rent. And in this
respect the Negro thus pays taxes to the extent
of his occupancy of real property, quite ire
spective of whether he is an owner or renter.
AS see the matter in perspective, I think
that the white leadership of this country has
had moral or ethical awakening. More and
more responsible people are developing the con-
viction that the practice of democracy in this
country, as well as Christianity, is considerably
less than our professions; that world leader
ship requires us to clean up some of the skele-
tons in our closets, lest our conscences still our
tongues in the forums of world opinion. I ask:
Is it more important that the millions of Asia
believe our professions of good neighborliness,
good will, and honest dealings than to cater to
the prejudices of irreconcilables in our midst
who would throw all this overheard rather than
see one Negro operate streetcar on the streets
of Washington, or eat a hot dog at an F
street shop? c. S. BROWN.