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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Wedding Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood wilkins
celebrated their twelfth wedding
anniversary at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Wilkins of Prime Hook
Neck. Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Kenton and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard wilkins and chill
dren, also Hirschel, Roberta, Kath-
ryn, Norman and Donald Wilkins
All enjoyed cake and ice cream.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Milford Native Promoted

Appointment of Gene L. Pratt, a
son of Mrs. j. Lynn Pratt of Mil
ford, as acting sales manager of
the newly-created marketing dis
frict at South Amboy, N. j., was an
nounced in Phila., today by Samuel
B. Eckert, vice president in charge
of marketing Sun Oil Company.
Mr.. Pratt is a graduate of the
Ffeldston School, New York City,
and Columbia University.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Court Is Told Mrs.
Brennan Said She
Shot Hearts Victim
CONTINUED from nrss psss,

which she again said she shot the
victim but upon completion Of the
statement declined to place her
signature on it. The statement was
taken in presence of Col. Herbert
Barnes, commanding officer, state
police, Mrs. Brennan and himself
the witness said.
Mrs. Brennan is accused as an
accomplice in the Staying of Wool
bridge and Robert is charged with
first degree muder. Raymond and
George are charged as accessories
after the fact.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
BEEBE : WRIGHT

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. Harry c. Beebe of Lin
coin of the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Lorraine Mae Beebe, to
Thomas Lee Wright, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas L. Wright of
Denton, Md, on Thursday, Septem-
ber Is.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Ray Kirwin, in Easton,
Md. The couple had as their only
attendants, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Todd of Greenwood. The bride
choose tailored dress of royal
blue faille. with grey suede acces-
sories and a corsage of white rose
buds. Mr.. Wright I'D his bride
are now residing at River Acres,
| Milford.
Mrs. Wright was graduated from
Milford High School and is asso-
ciated with the L. d. Caulk Com
pany in Milford.
Mr.. Wright is a graduate OF
Caroline High School and is with
the DUPONT Company in Seaford.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
WEDDINGS
MYER-WELCH

Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Myer of Sea-
ford announce the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Marie Alberta My
er, to Mr.. George Welch, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Welch, Sr., of Mil
ford. The ceremony took place on
Saturday evening, September 3rd.
at the parsonage of the Methodist
Church in Denton, Md, with the
Rev. j. E. Huntington, pastor, Off
ciating. The couple was attended by
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Welch. Jr., of
Milford. The bride is graduate of
Seaford High School and is now
employed in Milford. Mr.. Welch is
graduate of the Milford High
School and is with the Dupont n.y.
Ion plant in Seaford. The couple
will reside in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. George l.. Tobin of
Rehoboth, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Linda, to
Eugene Dolphus Smith, son of MIR.
and Mrs. Eugene P. Smith, of Mil
ford. The wedding is to take place
in the spring.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
CLIFTON

The funeral of Glenn Clifton, so,
who had lived at the Minquadale
Home, Wilmington, for the last
three years, took place from the
Berry Funeral Home, Milford, Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev.
w. Stanley Grant, pastor of the
Methodist Church at Houston offici-
ated. Interment was made in the
cemetery at Lincoln. Mr.. Clifton
died Wednesday, September 14th, in
the Delaware Hospital after short
illness. He had lived near Farming
ton before going to the Minquadale
Home. Surviving are sister, Mrs.
Bessie l.. Smith of Dover, N. j., and
four brothers Howard Clifton OF
Kenton, John w. and Lawrence
Clifton of Blackiston. Va, and Le-
on Clifton of South Hill, Va.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Mrs. ]. William Wells and
Mrs. Robert Baechler had a
morning coffee yesterday at the
new Wells home on Hall
Place. Members of the young
married set were present for
the affair.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Miss Charlotte Ryder of Will
mington, home for the week
6nd with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Ryder, had num-
ber of friends in Saturday eve
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
JONES

JONES
Mrs. Angelina Marshall Jones
passed away in Detroit, Michigan,
on Friday, September 16, after a
brief illness. She was born in
Georgetown in 1866, and shortly
thereafter moved, with her parents,
the late DR.. William and Mrs. Hes
ter Angelina (McColley) Marshall
to the old home at 27 North Walnut
street, where she lived most of her
life. She was the wife of Allan d.
Jones and lived for a few years af-
ter her marriage in Ridley Park,
Pa, until her return to Milford to
take care of her mother. In recent
years she has lived with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dudley G.. Frazer in De-
troit, Michigan. She is survived by
her daughter, her son, A. Marshall
Jones of Hinsdale, Illinois; a grand
daughter, a grandson and two great
grandchildren. Funeral services
were conducted in First Presbyter-
ian Church. on Monday by Rever-
end Kenneth Kepler and interment
was made in the family plot in the
Odd Fellows Cemetery.
RHEINER
Mrs. Margaret E. Rheiner, II
widow of Harry c. Rheiner of Lew
es, died at the Beebe Hospital or
Wednesday, September IA, after ;
short illness. She had been i'll since
Thursday. A native of Lewes, sn,
was the daughter of the late James
Henry Hopkins and Lydia Barkel
Hopkins. Surviving her are a broth
er, Arthur Hopkins of near Wilm
ington, well-known retired light
house keeper; a sister, Mrs. Lydi;
Dennis; "a nephew, Leroy William
Dennis, and a neice, Mrs. Thelmi
Scott, all of Georgetown, she was
cousin to Herschel M. Holland O
Milford. Funeral services were he'll
Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Atki
Funeral Home, LeweS, conducte
by the Rev. DIR. William Leishma
: Interment was made in the Pres
bytarion Church Cemetery nea
Coolspring.
HUDSON
John Andrew Hudson, n, die
, Saturday evening in his home o
West St., Harrington, after an i'll
I ness of two weeks. Born at Hal
rington, Mr.. Hudson was the so
of the late William and Jane Hicl
| man Hudson. He spent most of hi
life there and up until his Hines
had been employed for many yeal
t by the CULLEN Brothers Lumbe
: Company. He is survived by h
0 wife, Mrs. Martha Bradley Brow
:. Hudson, one daughter, Mrs. Hele
: Harper of Wilmington, two childre
e by former marriage, Arthur HUI
son of FELTON, and Mrs. Florent
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Deaths Of the Week

Dyer of San Bernardo, Calf; one
step-son, Ralph F. Brown; one
step-daughter, Mrs. Viola Smith,
both of Harrington; two sisters,
Mrs. Lois Derrickson of Harrington
and Mrs. Florence Sawyer of Wild
wood Villa, N. j.; one half-sister,
Mrs. William McIntrye, Harring-
ton; 13 grandchildren and seven
great grandchildren Funeral serv-
ices were held at the Boyer Funer-
al Home, Harrington, Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of
Rev. Grier Baker of Pilgrim Holi-
ness Church, Harrington. Interment
was in Hollywood Cemetery, near
Harrington.
WATSON
William Watson, age SO years,
died very suddenly at his home
in Norwood, Pa, on Thursday eve
ming, September 15.
The son of William P. and Sallie
! Ingram Watson of Cedar Neck, he
was born on the farm and lived
there to young manhood, after
which he moved to Philadelphia and
for the past number of years work.
ed for the railroad, which job he
held at the time of his passing
away.
His funeral was held Monday af
ternoon at the Lofland Funera
Home with Rev. David w. Baker O
Calvary Church officiating and in
terment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
The floral tributes testified to tn,
esteem in which Will Watson wa
held by all who knew him.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Porti;
Bozman Watson; three sisters, Mrs
William Higman of Lincoln an,
Mrs. Willard Porter and Mrs. Yer
non Benson of Milford; two bro
! theirs, Harvey of Cedar Neck, an,
Aaron of Norwood, Pa; severa
nieces, nephews, cousins and :
large number of friends.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Mike Homan was seven. on
Monday and in celebration had
nineteen boys and girls attend
a party at his home at four
o'clock and snare the birth
day cake, ice cream and favors
in the yard of his home until
five. Games and a good time
were enjoyed.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Many local friends of DR..
and Mrs. John w. Garner, who
was resident at Memorial Hos
pital during his stay in town,
will be glad to know that, af-
ter a visit in Iowa, they are
now settled in Philadelphia.
Their children, Clipper and
Kent, are attending Oak Lane
School and DR.. Garner. is resi-
dent surgeon at the University
of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Mrs. Elmer T. Williams and
Mrs. Stephen P. Toadvine were
luncheon guests of Mrs. Sim
clair Campbell at her home in
Milton on Wednesday when she
entertained a few friends.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23


Wednesday evening of last
week was the night before
many of the college group were
getting off to studies away
from home. After movies Jack
Messick had a few in for a
final conflab and sandwiches.
These young people have had
good times all summer at the
beaches and home and studies
did not seem too near, but
there had to come the change
and Thursday number were
off to our own University for a
stretch of college and work.
Jacks guests were Patsy
Grier, Eleanor Humes, Ruth
Kiamel, Ethel Clements, Skip
Mayhem, Morris Blessing and
Nelson Camper.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
COLUMN OF SOCIAL EVENTS
OCCURRING DURING PAST WEEK

ming for a get-to-gether. Pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. Larry
Isaacs, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Isaacs, Norman Rockwell of
Wilmington, Mr.. and Mrs. John
o. Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Townsend and Mr.. and
Mrs. Osborne Scott.
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Orchid Show Here
Ito Be Held Saturday

A new type Of orchid with a
fuchsia- -colored bloom and larger
yellow "eyes" on q deep shaded
lip. will be shown for the first
time at the second annual orchid
show Saturday in the lobby of
the American Security and Trust
Co., Fifteenth and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
More than 5000 orchids from,
all over the, world will be on
exhibit from 10 am. to 10 pm.
The show is sponsored by the
National Capital Orchid Society
and the bank.
The new orchid. named Amer
lean Security" was developed in
the orchid nursery in Bergenf1eld,
N. j.. of H. Patterson & Son.
Orchids in the show will be
exhibited by members of the Ma
tional Capital Orchid Society, the
American Orchid Society and
other orchid growers. Specimens
are being sent also from Africa,
Holland, Australia, France. Ire
land. Hawaii. Mexico. Bermuda,
Finland, Colombia, Puerto Rico
and Venezuela. From England
will be IL white orchids of the
same type used In Prince Eliza
beths bridal bouquet.
At 8 pm. tomorrow. at special
showing by invitation only, Daniel
w. Bell, president of the bank, and
DR.. Frank j. Schairer, president of
the orchid society. will present
prizes to exhibitors. Three judges
from the society will select the
winners.
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Maryland Press Group
To Hold Ad Clinic
BY the Assoeiofsd press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.-An ad-
vertising clinic for members of the
Maryland Press Association will
be held here tomorrow and Sat-
urday.
Featured talks Of the first days
session will be by Gov. Lane and
Elon q. Borton. president of the
Advertising Federation of Amer
lea. Gov. Lane is publisher of the
two Hagerstown daily newspapers.
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Official Waits Sentencing
In Second Sex Conviction

Edward F. Kelly. 41-year- -old
Public Health Service official, to-
day awaited sentencing for the
second conviction in 13 months
on the same sex charge, which
grew out of an arrest by Pvt.
Frank Manthos In September
1948. He will be sentenced No.
vember 3.
Convicted of soliciting for i'm
moral purposes from the police
departments "one-man vic e
squad" Mr.. Kelly won a new
trial through his attorney, James
j. LaughIin.
Formerly convicted before Judge
Aubrey B. Fennell in Municipal
Court. he again was convicted
Evening star., 1949-10-27

yesterday, this time before Judge
Thomas D. Quinn. The new trial
was granted by Judge Fennell,
after arguments by MI. Laughlin
that Pvt. Manthos was "discred-
tied" as a witness by subsequent
events in another case. which
led to the policeman's transfer
from No. l precinct.
Evening star., 1949-10-27

Pvt. Manthos testified that he
was approached by Mr.. Kelly as
the officer sat in Franklin Park
and was invited to accompany him
to his room in the 2100 block of
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Prosecutor was Assistant United
States Attorney Raymond E..
Baker,
Evening star., 1949-10-27
Lobster Catch Down

The annual New England lob
ster catch has been reduced from
about 30,0O0,O00 pounds around
1900 to about 100000 pounds in
recent years.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

E.. employed twelve hundred Ne groes during the war, William said there are less than two hundred now so engaged.
 Proposes Quota System
 The speaker proposed that race workers would be better protected if a quota system were installed by unions and companies, provid- ing for the laying off of one Ne gro worker to every five whites.
 Homer J. Tucker, 55 Highland Avenue, protested, declaring such a system would hamper the fight for equality.
 MT. Thompson, the well-liked Ne gro teacher of the Central High School, agreed with Tucker. Thomp- son said that quota systems in schools are deplorable. He felt that, if quota system were instituted, it ought to expire within certain period after it had aided workers handicapped by the present system.
 Other speakers included Mr. Stone, a director of the United States Employment Service, and the Rev. William Sullivan, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Neither were in favor of the quota system, but both agreed emergency measures were necessary.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14
EXHIBITS MODEL FOR ETHIOPIAN PALACE

The Yale University Art Gallery featured a display of a complete set of 12 drawings and a model to be entered in an international competition for a new imperial palace for the Emperor of Ethiopia Friday.
 The competition entry is the work of Thomas L. Dawson, IT,, a senior in the Yale Department of Architecture, of Brooklyn Heights, New York. Dawson made the draw ings and constructed the model as his Bachelors degree thesis.
 The display was open to the pub- lie Friday afternoon, after which it was shipped to the competition in Ethiopia.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14
By N. S. BROWN

BOSTON-While interviewing Mrs. Eslanda Goode Robeson at Mechanics Hall, after her speech last night, she was asked by a wi hite scribe why Negroes were disloyal to America. Mrs. Robe- son quickly reminded him she thought it was the other way around. She answered so sweetly that he hung his head, stumped.
 She went on to say that Ne groes had always been loyal to America, that they had never neared the art, as America ap- peared to have learned, of now to be disloyal. She pointed out that America would have to climb upon the bridge of loyalty with the Ne gro, he seems to be standing alone. She made him see that vast num- bers of whites in America had been nurtured upon the idea of disloyalty, in the North as we'll as the solid South, and it was Amer ica's place to re-educate these peo- pie from disloyalty to loyalty for the American Greed.
 Mrs. Robeson was asked why was Negro professional leaders att
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14
Mrs. Robeson Explains Her
 Conception Of A Negro Leader

tacking Paul Robeson in his stand on Negro rights. She laughed wry- ly, and said that in order to be a leader one had to be free to sacri- flee himself.
 This meant that one could not hold a paid professional office of leadership and follow his conscious. And Negro leaders are often paid by whom?
 This is the main reason she feels so many Negroes condemn him among the paid professional lead CTS. To these, leadership is an oc- cupation not necessarily a spiritual concept, she said.
 Secondly, MT. Robeson does not need job as professional paid leader. He does not seek security as a professional paid leader. It is not his daily income. Hence, when he entered the field, the profession al leader who makes his living at it looks upon him with alarm. They look at him in alarm for fear they may lose cast and cash. This should never happen, and so to let the right people know that the boat isn't rocking from under them they rush to attack him, even though he had not attacked them.
 Real Leader Unfettered"
 A real leader is unfettered by alliances to anyone except the cause he fights for among the
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

group he seeks to lead, and he does not then seek to lead 8 people by claiming to have absolute thought control. He recognizes different opinions in his own group and doesn't condemn it, but recognize it has a right to expression and through expression comes closer consolidation toward the main ob- jective for the group as a whole. : She feels calling MT. Robeson a tool, extermist, radical, is unwit- tingly adding to his stature in his tory not detracting from it, but also gaining more and more of the common respect of the Common Negro who will see that he won't sell out. Because of his frankness, many Negroes will say "amen," and he will be remembered as one who did not put his trust in the symbols of words, but in the spirit behind them, because the word is never the thing itself as so many Fourth of July orators still seemed misguided about.
 And if so many of our paid pro- fessional leaders insists on going around shouting that Gods in his heaven all's right with the world, we'll know what world they are speaking about-their world.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

At the conference Attwell ob- served:
 "Of course a visitor needs to be careful so that commendation out weighs analysis, yet any person visiting Camp Bennett sees the need of a great big ''public rela- tlons" committee to interpret the importance of providing attractive and modern camp facilities. Chil- dren's camp experience should have facilities to make that experience a happy one. For many kids it will Influence their lives for good and provide a foundation for their char. acter and health habits"
 The consultant visiting Hartford this week, addressed a group of Camp Bennett's appeal representa- tives Thursday. The meeting was held at Immanuel Congregational Church Parish House at 500 D. m.
 The need for cabin repair and waterfront improvement will re- ouire the rather modest sum of $10,O00.OO compared to the hundred and fifty acre area covered by Camp Bennett and the value to Greater Hartford of this important project. Dr. J. T. Cabaniss is chairman of the campaign, Roland Cams, co-chairman and Robert S. Morris of 100 Pearl St., treasurer.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

their proper place, in their proper focus, where they belong, that is, side-by-side with the rights and privileges"
 She paused to make the remark that every sensible Negro in this country, professional leaders not withstanding, feels that if he must fight any future war for democ- racy, the proper place to begin such fight is right here.
 Negroes Will Fight
 'tIt is in the light of this normal, reasonable conviction that we must examine the relation of the Amer ican Negro to possible war. If our country is attacked, invaded, I believe Negroes-along with other loyal Americans will raly to our defense"
 tThat's one thing"
 sBut I also believe that if our country drafted Negro-Americans and many other sensible, reason able, loyal Americans,-to fight. a war in Greece, for a king the Greeks don't want, ito fight war in China, for Chiang Kai shek, whom the Chinese people don't want,-to fight war for France and Holland, so that the Indo- Chinese and the Indonesians can be kept in colonial slavery,-I really believe that the government of the United States will have very hard time indeed turing sensible loyal Americans into fighting such a war. Now maybe Walter White can deliver up his 300 900 mem bership in the NAACP,-maybe Adam Powell can deliver up his membership in the Abysinnian Bap- tist Church and his 22nd District in Harlem-and maybe other pro- fessiona1 Negro leaders can deliver up their followers to fight such war, but I doubt it."
 stBut even if they could," she added, "that would deliver up a theoretical two million at most men, women, and children. Then what about the other 12 million un-organized Negroes = the real stvast majority of the Negro peo- ole? Who speaks for them m?"
 \''It may we'll be that a giant Negro-one Paul Robeson-the son of a slave who caught the ear of the world with his golden voice, and who has always used that voice to call attention of the world to the plight of his Negro people in America, in the West Indies, in Africa, and to the plight of all op- pressed people everywhere, it may we'll be that this golden Robeson voice is putting into words some of the thoughts of these un-organ- ized voiceless people,-the vast ma iority of the Negro people in this country. Since he has never asked them for anything for himself, and is not doing so now, they may do we'll to listen to him. They have nothing to lose by doing so.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14
Citizens Aidino Camp Fund Drive

 conferred of
  here recently Attwe nationally
  coner with local leaders in the $1OOOO needed health  guida ~ opportunity @io
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

@ Clarence Williams, former off cer and trustee of the G. E. Local 203, United Electrical and Ma chine Workers of America, said that if the layoffs of Negroes in Bridgeport General Electric plants continued at the present rate, there will be scarcely more than ten Ne gro workers left.
 Reminding his audience that c.
New England bulletin., 1949-05-14

Il was very 1uuCn SGTuCk Dy what Paul Robeson said about American Negroes in relation to a possible war;" she said. "I know it's a little unusual for a wife to pay attention to her husbands pro- nouncements, (you know a Prophet is without honor in his own country in his own home, in his own time but thought this one was pret- ty important, and it certainly raised a storm. He said to quote him ex- actly: Tt is unthinkable that Amer ican Negroes will go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations, against coun- try which in one has raised our people to the full dignity of man kind" (end of quote). The profes- sional Negro leaders rushed into print to refute this statement, and to explain that Paul does not speak for the overwhelming majority of the Negro people,"
 MT. Walter White who attacked MT. Robeson through the white press. she singled out for special attention. but she was not cast1gat- ing. one wondered at the good nu, mor in her voice at one who had recently been so out spoken aga1nst her husband.
 "Walter White" she continued stthe head of the National Assocaa- tion for Co1ored People,-pernaps the best known of those leaders said. and I quote: Negroes. are Americans. We contend for full and .1 equal rights, and, we accept 1uli and equal responsibilities. In event of any conflict that our nation mas with any other nation, we will re- rard ourselves as Americans, ana meet the responsibilities imposed on all Americans (end of quote)".
 sTry To Explain"
 seNow agree that we Negroes are Americans. Of course we are Amer icans. But try and explain that to Rosa. Ingram and Amy Manard ond inc Americans court of justice in Georgia. Try and explain IL to the Trenton Six and the American courts of justice in New Jersey. Try and explain it to the Negroes who worked in the garbage Drl- gades, the laundry and cleaning and labor battal1onS III Ihe fAllSA ican Army in our last war for de mocracy, Try and explain 1t to the Negroes everywhere who are try- inr now to get into American pub, lie housing, hospitals, schools, ana work projects"
 She went on to say: "We Negroes are Americans and we know 1t. But o,1v. count7-v keeDs telling us, time after time, in heartbreaking. ways, that we have no rights and priv ileges as American citizens,--ex- cept those it chooses to grant us when it feels indulgent. So it is natural and inevitable that the ma jority of the American Negroes have come to examine with a iuandiced eye the duties and obli- cations and responsibilities Tn A R n