Milford chronicle., 1949-06-24
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Colonel Donald L. Dutton, SEN
ior Army instructor with the Della
ware National Guard, has announ-
ced three officers have been assign
ed by Headquarters Second Army,
Fort Meade, Md, to serve as in
spectors Of the state guard during
the annual field training at Fort
Miles, July 81 to August 13.
They are Colonel Charles W.
Higgins, University of Cincinnati,
Ohio, professor of military science
and tactics at that institution; Ma
jor Bernard I. Greenberg, an Ar
my instructor with the Delaware
Military District, 726 King street,
Wilmington, and Captain Freder-
ick H. Hadden, from the Third Ar
mored Division, Fort Knox, Ky.
DEGREES nisi of divorce we're
granted in six suits by Judge James
b. Carey in Superior Court at Do
yer last Friday. Under new law,
the DEGREES will become effeetive
in three months instead of year.
The suits in which DEGREES were
granted and the grounds alleged
are:
Maurice ]. Mitchell VS.. Leslie
Nugent Mitchell, desertion, Err
nest f. Dill VS.. Beulah III. Dill, de-
sertion; Annabel Angstadt Nor
row VS.. Norman H. Morrow, Sr.
desertion; Cordelia Johns Baynard
VS.. Thornton Baynard, cruelty;
Vivian Marie Fugil Phillips VS.
Charles Frederick Phillips, deser.
tion; Edna M. B. Byron VS.. Gilber
". Byron, desertion.
Two cases were continued; Edit
Walls Patterson VS.. Frank Patter
son, Jr., and Elizabeth Naomi Trib
bitt VS.. John Robinson Tribbitt.
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Wright G. Dizer, 76, one of Della
wares most colorful political fig
ures for more than half cen
tury, died last Thursday Afternoon
at the Governor Bacon Health Cen
ter where he had been a patient TO
about six weeks.
Mr.. Dizer, widely known pOliti
cal writer and outspoken dry,
was born in Wilmington May 4
1873, the son of the late Thopa
Jefferson and Virmadela Come
Dizer. Until his illness this sprini
he had written the column "Demo
cratic Musings in the Sunda
Star under the pen name of Thoma
Jefferson.
A life long Democrat, he was
personal and political friend of tn
late William Jennings Bryan an
state president of the Nationa
Bryan Memorial Association. H
became interested in politics at a
early age and had been active i
Delaware Democratic affairs sine
reaching voting age.
With only five days remainin
before the deadline, June 80, al
most .one-half of the $4,000 moto
vehicles in the state with tag
which expire at that time remai
to be inspected and have tags re
newed.
Frank L. Reed, state motor We
hicle commissioner, said the lane
have a capacity for inspecting IL
to 1000 cars day.
If a large number wait until nel
week congestion at the lanes
inevitable, Mr.. Reed said.
He added that new cars are b
ing acquired in Delaware at Il
monthly rate of 1000 to 1900, b
that the rate of reflections is ST.
high.
Reflections are most frequent f
defective lights with brakes in sc
ond place. Persons who wait un
the last few days and then ha
their cars rejected suffer inconve
ience and delay the operation
the inspection lanes, Mr.. Reed sa
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Louis Cor Luke Graham, W
would be aged if living, or /
children or grandchildren, are b
ing hunted in Delaware and Ea
tern Maryland to claim a 500
estate of which they obviously ha
never heard.
This became known when w;
ter C. Cox, probate genealOgi
2OS S. LaSalle street, Chicago, W
specializes in, tracing missing r
atives to settle estates, assum
charge of the search with sea
clues on which to proceed.
Graham is reported to ha
settled in the -Easte
Maryland area many years ag
Mr.. Cox said. "He was born
about 1875, which would ma
him IA years old if still living.
"Our best information is that
married and had a family If this
correct then his living children
grandchildren would succeed h
to claim to the sizeable fortune
they can be located and prove tn
relationship.
I'VE could also like to loc
other relatives, such as nieces {
nephews of Graham, in the hi
that they can give us informal
about the family"