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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Two Frederick
Men Killed In
Auto Crash
Driver, Passenger Were
Victims Of Crash
With Truck; State Toll
At 8.

Two Frederick men died as the
result of an automobile accident on
Route 113 in. Frederica last Sat
urday night. Automobile accidents
resulted in injuries to seven other
persons throughout the state over
the weekend.
The victims were Harley john
son, 30, and Lawrence Brock, 21,
driver and passenger in a car
which sideswiped a small truck.
Johnson died almost Immediately,
while Brock succumbed nine hours
later in the Milford Memorial Hos
pital
State police at Dover said john
son, driving the car, crossed the
center line on the highway and
crashed against the side of the
truck, operated by Joseph +. Bur-
rows, 25, Of r. d. 4, Dover. The
entire left side of JOhnsOn's car
was crushed in against the driver
and Brock, who was riding in the
rear seat.
Johnson suffered a compound
fracture of the skull and his pas
senger died from severe lacera-
tiOns of the neck.
Highway Toll Jumps To Eight
Relating incidents leading up to
the accident, state police said Bur-
rows sWerVed his car to the right
and was up against the steel guide
wires along the highway when
JOhnsOn's car crashed against his
truck. The accident raised Della
wares highway death toll to eight
this year
Other passengers in the Johnson
car and their injuries were:
Beatrice Ruffin, SO, cOntusions of
the head and decorations of the
lace; Nellie Holland, q, lacerat-
ions of the head and face, and
Elijah Farmer, so, decorations of
the face and bruises. All the vic
inns live in Frederick.
Although Burrows escaped in
jury, his wife, Ethel, 26, was treat
ed at the Milford Memorial Hos
pltal for decorations of the head
State police said Brooks throat
was cut by flying glass when the
windows of the car We're crushed
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Ralph II. Grier
Dies At Salisbury
Prominent Civic Leader Stricken
With Heart Attack

Ralph H. Grier, 81 years old, of
Salisbury, businessman, manufac-
turer, and we'll known civic leader,
died last Friday night in the Pen
insula General Hospital in Sails
bury, a few hours after being
stricken with a heart attack. His
wife, Mrs. Margaret CTOdd) Grier
died about year. ago.
President of the r. ID. Grier and
Sons Company. foundry and ma
chine shop, founded by his father,
Mr.. Grier was identified with many
other business and civic projects.
He was a member of the Sails
bury Award board of trustees since
it's inception in 1926 and a former
chairman of the organization
which gives an annual prize to the
most worthy citizen of the city.
Mr.. Grier himself was the winner
of the Salisbury Chamber of Com
merce Civic Award last year.
Among his activities, Mr.. Grier
was the third president of the Sal
isbury Rotary Club, chairman of
the Salisbury Chapter, American
Red Cross, in 1923 and 1924. was
instrumental in founding the Wi
cOmicO Hotel, which was a com
munity project when opened; a
member of the Chesapeake Bav
Bridge Authority from 1925 to 1929
was a director of the Eastern Shore
State Hospital at Cambridge, Md.
and chairman of it's board. member
of the advisory board of the Sal
walton Army, and during World
War II was chairman of one of the
Salisbury draft boards. He was
president of the Chamber of Com
merce in 1912 and was active in
Masonic orders.
Firm Marks Century
Surviving Mr.. Grier are two sons
Hall and Todd Grier; two brothers
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25

instrument and shot gun wounds
ne autopsy was performed last
Saturday night.
Lived Alone On Farm
Heppard, who lived alone in his
huge farm house, was last seen
allVe by neighbOrs on Wednesday
iast' Well known in the vicinity
ne had been engaged in dairy
FARMING for the past Is years.
The body. lying in a pile of hav.
was found by Robert Collins, who
was delivering a load of hay to the
Heppard farm early Saturday
morning. Collins Immediately mott
fed state police.
Coroner Rogers said there had
apparently been no struggle in the
larm house as the furnishings in
the nome We're not disarranged
Neither state police nor the cOro-
ner We're able to uncover clues in
the death.
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
40 ct 8 Rites
WereHeldHere
Last Sunday
48 Candidates Inducted
By Legion Fun Making
Unit; Pre- Ceremony
Parade Held.

The first combined promenade
and initiation under the auspices
of Sussex VOiture No. 1920 and Vol
ture Locale, No. of Wilmington,
was held in the State ArmOry in
Milford last Sunday at II o'clock
when 4S candidates from IL vol
lures in Delaware and five in Mary
land took the oath and obligation
into the 40 ct 8, fun and honor So
Ciety of the American Legion. Over
200 attended the ritualistic and fra
ternal ceremonies.
Fred L. Marvel, grand chef de
train of the Grand VOiture of Della
ware and chef de gueFre of Sussex
VOiture No. 1920, presided at the
exercises.
Downtown Parade Held
Preceding the initiation exercises
a downtown parade, featuring the
candidates in their clown cos
tunes, makeup, and circus regalia,
attracted city-wide attention and
drew hundreds of spectators.
AeCoooClllUlliS dJ Tie dIIuOIY,
Mr. Marvel was assisted in deliver
ing charges to the class by Edward
A. MulrOOney, chef de chemin de
fer passe; Walter c. Crawford
grand chef de guerre, Department
of Delaware; E. H. BarcuS, chemi-
not rationale; Howard M. Bayne
chef de guerre, VOiture Locale No
4; Edgar S. Slayer, grand cOnduc-
teur; Noble J. Morgan, grand dra-
peau. Department of Maryland
Charles r. Foster. correspondent
Locale No. 4; John J. Neyland
grand correspondent; William J
B. Regan, grand chef de train
passe; James r. Eckersley. chef dc
guerre, Eastern Short VOiture No
1872; John E. KERN, grand com
mandsaire intendant;; Ralph B
PieTsOn, correspondent Sussex Vol
ture No. 1920 and Sous CheminOt
nOtiOnale, and Frederick G. Har-
vey, grand chef de guerre passe
Voiture No. ia, Washington, d. G
The initiation ceremonies were in
charge, of the 40 ct 8 degree team
of VOitUre Locale No under the
direction Of COnductPur Fred I.
Pace assisted by Grand Conduc-
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Hoover Unit Asks
Postal Reforms
Asserts Department Should BE
Freed OF Politics
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON II The Hoover
Commission recommended recently
that the Post Office Department be
completely divorced from politics
and put on a strict business basis.
In the fourth of a series of re-
ports on it's studies on reOrganiza-
tion of the government. the com
mission told Congress:
l. The postmaster general should
be barred from heading national
political committees, as has occur
red several times in the past.
2 He should be given an exper-
fenced director of posts to serve as
operating head Of the department
while the postmaster general deter
mines policies.
3. The postal service should be
decentralized into Is regions, with
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
252 Kent All Club
Members Have Units

Kent County has 252 All Club
members enrolled for 1949 carry
ing All Club project, announced
Margaret Webb, All Club agent.
Each club member has chosen and
received a project book for the
year. These projects are to be
completed by October 1, with the
help of their local leaders and
county club agent and turned in to
the county office. Each member re-
ceives a All Club pin upon salts
factOrily completing his project
and taking an active part in the
Continued on page l5)
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
MillsbOro v. F. w.
To Hold Carnival

The Sussex Memorial Post No.
7422, at NIillsborO, announced this
week that they had signed a con-
tract with the Eastern Shore At
traction Co., to hold a carnival at
MillsbOrO from June 10Th to 25th
inclusive. Proceeds of this carnival
will be used toward the construc-
ton of new Post Home. which
will be started in the near future
on plot of land, on the dupont
Boulevard, one mile south Of Mills
boro, which the Post has recently
purchased.
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Milford Quintet Is
NJ Os t Outstanding
Girls Basketball Team
On The Peninsula; ;
Have Scored 663 Points
In 19 Games.

194S-49 champions of the Mar
Del Girls Basketball League and
principal cOntenders for recogni-
ton as the peninsula's most ont
standing girls team are the Milford
Blue Hens, local V. F. w. Auxiliary
sponsored team, which clinched
Mar-Del titular hOnOrs last week
victorious in IA out Of Is league
tllts, the Hens are now approx
mattel " six games ahead of the
second place FELTON, Vetnettes. with
only one league game remaining.
In addition to compiling an inn
pressive record in league play. the
Blue Hens have also done well in
competition against nOn-league op-
position, splitting a pair of games
with the Georgetown County
seaters' and defeating the strong
Laurel "Owlettes." Playing as the
Milford High Alumnae, the Blue
Hens cast added still another win
to their already lengthy string by
defeating the local schools girls
varsity.
In the 19 games played to date.
the Hens have scored an impressive
total of 663 points, while holding
the opposition to 352 points. OF
the 663 total, Betty Favinger. di-
minutiVe sOuthpaw forward. has
personally contributed 225 points
to stay up with the peninsula's
scoring leaders; two other Milford
forward, Pearl Hunsberger and
Mary Steen have scored over 100
points each, Miss Hunsberger hav-
ing 125 points. and Mrs. Steen l1S-
Approximately 20 girls. most Of
whom were formerly outstanding
players on scholastic teams of sea
sons past, tried out for the 1888
Milford Blue Hens team, and six
teen of this group are still avail
able, giving the local team pIents
of reserve strength and keepins
competition for positions very
much alive
The Hens have available EIGHT
forwards. each of whom has brok-
en- into the teams scoring column
at frequent intervals. In addition
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25

circuit JnlS coming SedSOH dS Ie-
suit of still another change made
in league roster at the Dover meet
ing.
Milford and Milton replace
Houston and Hartly in the popular
semi-prO mid-peninsula diamond
loop, which, through the changes.
retains its makeup of four Della
ware towns and a like number
from the Maryland Eastern Shore.
HOldOver members of the Mar-Del
circuit are Camden Wyoming and
FELTON,, in Delaware. and Chester
town. Rock Hall, Greensboro, and
Denton, in Maryland.
Entry of Milford and Milton into
the Mar-Del League will give this
section the fastest brand of semi
Continued Oh page 81
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
League
Title Is Clinched
By Blue Hen Girls
SCOUT FUND DRIVE
UNDERWAY HERE

w. Dean Kimmel, chairman
of the Boy Scout Fund Drive,
announced today that the
drive for funds will continue
through next week. The goal
is set at $1,OOO.OO and it is
hoped that it will be over
subscribed. Mr.. Kimmel said
any member of the Lions and
Kiwanis clubs is authorized
to receive subscriptions or
persons wishing to make
donation may contact him
personally. There are three
Scout troops in Milford at
the present time.
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
State Cage Champions
To Play Here Monday
Will Be Second And Final Appear
anCe Of Smyrna Hornets

The 1947-4S Delmarva cage
champions, the Smyran Hornets,
will make their second and final
appearance of the season here on
the Milford High School court this
coming Monday evening, meeting
the Milford Vets in the featured
game of another dOubleheader of
the Milford Community Basketball
Program. The Milford Blue Hens,
newly crowned champions of the
Mar-Del Girls League, will meet
the Milton girls team in a non
league exhibition tilt in the first
halt OF the evenings doublebill.
The Smyrna team won recOgni-
ton as peninsular champions by
wading through formidable OppO-
sition in last March's Champion
snip InvitatiOnal Tournament at
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
234 Civilian Planes
Registered In State

The state of Delaware now has
z64 civil aircraft registered within
It's bounds, the Civil Aeronautics
administration reported this week.
us year-end count shows 122 air.
craft registered for flying in New
Castle County, 50 in Sussex Coun-
ty and So in Kent County.
Throughout the United States
95'9SS civil aircraft are now regiC
tered, according to the latest CAA
figures.
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Potato Support
Program Set-Up
Support Price Is Announced By
{. E. Ocheltree, Director

huIbpWAt AACC Is AuuVWuPeO Nv
{. f. Ocheltree, Director
A single price has been set as
the base support price for all eli
gible potatoes under this years
program, it was announced todav
by c. E. OCheltree, chairman of the
Delaware Production and Market
ing Administration State Commit
tee.
The price for Delaware growers
will be $16O per hundred for tho
months of July. August, September
and October. This will apply to all
potatoes which qualify as u s
No. 2 grade, 1B inch minimum or
better. The price is designed IN
insure support at 60 per cent of
parity, in accordance with the Sec
retary of Agriculture's announce
ment of November II. 1948 The
support price for the same period
in 1948 for Delaware growers woS
$2.75 per cwt. for U. S. No. rs and
Sl.37 for U. S. No. 2's and B's
Continued cn page 81
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25

bond issue. Completion of steel
work is scheduled for June, 1851.
The location Of the new bridge
Is about midway between Wilm-
ingtOn and New Castle on a line
about half a mile below Pigeon
Point on the Delaware shore and
Deep Water Point, near the town
Of PennsVille, on the New Jersey
shore.
The channel crossing will be a
suspension bridge with a center
span Of 2.15O feet and two side
spans 75-feet long. The eastern
approach, consisting of continuous
deck-plate girder spans and deck
truss spans. will he 3.O87-feet long.
The western approach. of similar
construction. will be $40 feet in
length. Vertical clearanees will be
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25

Board unanimously voted to reduce
the tax rate two cents on each one
hundred dollar assessment. This
reduction is in keeping with the
provisions made at the time the
people of Milford Special School
District voted to bond themselves
in 1941. At that time the people OF
Milford Special School District
elected to bond themselves to the
extent of $159,195.OO to be paid at
the rate of $6.OOO.OO per year and
at an interest rate not to exceed
SO per annum. This sum of $l59'-
1880, raised locally, was supple
mented by $143.73117, the States
contribution to the 1941 building
Improvement fund. The local
building program was delayed on
account of the second World War
CONTINUED on page .
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Floyd Mills To
Play Here March 16
Will Furnish Music For V. F. w,
st. Patrick'S Dance

A longtime favorite of dance
enthusiasts here on the peninsula
and throughout the east, Floyd
Mills will return on March 18th,
when the popular orchestra leader
brings his nine piece dance band
to the Milford ArmOry for the ST..
Patrick's Dance, being sponsored
here by Blue Hen Post No. 6483.
V. F. w. Announcement to this
effect was made Tuesday evening
by Walter Quering and Willard
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Kent Grand Jury
Indicts Sixteen
Emory Berry, Coventry AcCOmplice
Charged With Four OffenSes

Charged with two offenses of
breaking and entering and four OF
grand larceny, Emory Berry, as
serted accOmplice of Carl F. Gov
entry in a number of breakings
and thefts in this area, was indict-
ed by the Kent County grand jury
Monday afternoon.
Berry, farmland for Coventry
who recently pleaded guilty to four
separate charges and was sentenc-
ed by the court, is accused of
breaking and entering the home OF
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Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Milford And Milton Land
Berths In Mar-DeL League

Despite loss Of representation in the professional Eastern
Milford will
plenty sport having
held
Sunday likewise be represented
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
Contracts Are Let For Memorial
Bridge Over The Delaware River

Contracts for structural steel cable steel wire and erecting mate
Delaware Memorial bridge
United subsidiary
$1,000, it announced yesterday
toll bridge Jersey
by the Delaware
Milford chronicle., 1949-02-25
School Tax Rate
Has Been Reduced 2 Gents

Ramon Cobbs Secretary Of the Board
debt school beginning July 199 The cur
OF Education held Friday. February H. 1949
Upon recommendations OF the
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
Fugitive-
Continued from Page One

they tried three-four times I o
make me do it to somebody else,
And if you hear bout it later and
ask what happen, you know what
they say? They say I'm a bad
niger; and that ! jumped on an
other niger and that he kill me
in self defense And how anybody
gonna prove he didn to-
Jackson's return was not inn
minent. Presiding Justice Peck of
the Appellate Division, acting on
the motion of the Workers De-
Tense League voluntary attorney,
Curtis F. McClane, issued a tenn
porary stay of Hammers extra
dition order, McClane has indieat-
ed that he intends taking Jack
sons case into the Federal Courts
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
4 Great Victory
For All Americans

William L. Patterson, National
Executive Secretary of the Civil
Rights Congress, which defended
the Trenton Six termed the New
Jersey Supreme Courts unanim-
Gus reversal of the conviction OF
six Negro citizens of Trenton on
a murder charge "a great victory
today in the fight to maintain the
constitutional liberties and the
civil and human rights of the
Negro people, and, therefore of all
Americans"
He urged that letters pour in
TO the offices OF Governor Dris-
coll and Attorney General Parsons
of New Jersey, demanding that
the case be thrown out, and that
Prosecutor Volpe and police offiei-
ais responsible for the frameup
be removed from office and pun
ished'.
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08

third area Of investigation with
the main line inquiry directed To-
ward doeumenting the efforts or
lack of efforts by local and state
authorities TO apprehend the
lynehings
A fun report of the committees
findings will be among the doeu-
ments to be submitted to the Bill
OF Rights Conference on July To-
II at the Henry Hudson Hotel,
New York City, Sponsors of the
national conference with offices at
Suite 822, II West And Street,
New York City, include more than
500 educators scientists, labor lead
ers' artists and ministers,
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
Jurors
Continued from page one

This almost unprecedented break
in the campaign to free the 10
year old victim of what has been
labeled police frame-up, was
revealed when personal letters
from each of the ten Jurors, in
GLIDING the foreman, were pre-
scented to Judge Frank Smith, the
presiding Judge. who is now con-
sidering Jenkins plea for a new
trial.
Ali the jurors based their plea
for jenkins on new evidence un-
covered after they had convict
ed the youth of murder last June
8, on the sole evidence of re-
pudiatcd confession " which
Jenkins charged police forced
from him.
The new evidence centered a.
round a confession to the murder
two weeks after the trial by He
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08

can, 1t was said, had requested
Mayor Darst and his Public Wei
fare director OToole to reseind
the order making the eity.owned
swimming pool available 10 Ne
groes, but OToole explained that
the city of St Louis has no state
or local law requiring segrega-
ton of the races except in ele-
mentary and secondary schools
III Negroes apply for admission
to municipal swimming pools they
are not to be refused said o.
Toole, They pay their taxes, they
are citizens. and they have a right
to use public property"
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
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Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
Testify On Discrimination In New
Orleans Post Office Employment

Gardner Cowles, actor Rex Harri-
son, Mel Tonne. These big peo-
Pile gave their names and in some
cases their time and energy but
still the affair failed to go over
AS headed by Mrs. Mollie Moon,
the League Committee had in
mind raising $4,000 from the sale
and auetioning of clothes, food,
contributed by manufactures A
like sum they had raised earlier in
the year from the sail Of paint
ings by famous people never
known to WELD a brush, But re-
ports have it that the League no
where near met their second goal
Reasons given were that the big
names failed to bowl over the Me-
groes to supporting the League
venture. Negroes hardly even came
out to the Center during the three
day stand and those that did were
wary in purchasing the wares. The
Leagues own complicated system
of buying in advance tickets which
could be used for purchasing items
only discouraged sales. Then too,
poor statesmen, who were more
social workers than barkers, flat
tened the affair even further,
And lastly, Negroes were not
used to supporting affair of this
type and though the bazaar is US
ed in other fund raising projects
as the United Jewish Appeal and
with huge success, Negroes must
be educated in advance to get the
best results.
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08

Washington--Fifteen Negro com.
plainants who charged they were
denied employment as postal
clerks in New Orleans solely be-
cause of their race were represent
this week before the Federal
Pr Employmnt Board by Cla-
rsaee Mitchell. labor secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People;
William c, Jason. welfare direc-
tor of the National Alliance of
Postal Employees; and Arthur ].
Chapital, a national officer of the
Alliance.
Testimony showed that Negroes
have not only been denied APP
pointment while less qualified
whites were hired for postal clerk
Jobs, but also pointed out that
Negro employees have for forty
years been denied supervisory APP
pointments despite high qualifiea-
tons and many years of seniority.
Post office policy on this point
was made clear by the introduction
of a letter from Postmaster Gen.
eral Jesse NJ. Donaldson to Sen. J.
Howard McGrath. chairman Of the
Democratic National Committee, in
which the post office stated that
in almost all cases il is post Of
Zee practice to appoint the senior
qualified men to supervisory jobs
Several Negro applicants for
Jobs testified that they had been
denied appointment while white
with bad records were appointed
The NAACP labor secretary re-
Uealed that New Orleans postal
officials, when confronted with this
charge, had declared that they
passed over Negro applicants for
good and sufficient reasons"
Mr.. Mitchell challenged the rule
of the Fair Employment Board
denying the public admission to
bearings of this kind, asserting that
CHS secrecy provides special pro-
<ection for government officials
sNhe discriminate.
Arkansas State press., 1949-07-08
Here and There
Continued from page seven

bout fighting when he was in the
army. He came out of the army,
started off, cautiously stumping
the tanktowns and never had pick
ed up a heavy check until they
paid him off in Chicago something
over $4,000.
When Charles was crowned
champion, Jake Mintz tainted and
when he revived, his first words
were; What hath God wrought"
Well Charles was the first IL
tie contender with a mustaehe and
Waleott was the first ttal con-
tender Of all times with six chill
dren.
Ezzard Charles came from the
cotton fields of Georgia.