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Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

! Scaled proposals will be received by
the Delaware state Board of Fish and
Game Commissioners at it's offices in
! Dover, Delaware, until 200 =. NJ
-. ID. ). 7. Q:00 p. NJ, +. S t.
! May l9, 1854, and at that time pub
! licly opened for a contract involving
the following approximate quantities:
CONTRACT 1242
GRIFFITH POND DAM
Kent & Sussex Counties
L. S. Clearing & Grubbing
2,7OO 9. Y. Excavation for Dam Pro-
lection
so c. Y. Borrow Pit Stripping
z5U &. \. Excavation for Structures
1000 c. Y. Selected Borrow
LOO Q. Y Special Borrow
O.9 Nj. Ft. CreOsOted Timber Struc-
$50 c. Y. Cement Concrete Masonry
100 ;. Y. Waterproofing
5000 Lbs. Reinforcing Steel
2z0 l.. F. CreOsOted Timber Piles
9:5 M. Ft. Cntreated Sheet Piles
12O S. Y. Rip Rap
"%*"
Attention is called to the Special
Provisions in the proposals, the speci-
1cations and the Contract Agreement
The employment agency for this
contract shall he the Delaware State
employment Service whose offices are
located at COL Shipley Street, Whining
ton, 307 S. State Street, Dover, and
the WagamOn Building, The Circle.
Georgetown.
Performance of contract shall COM
mence within ten 10) days after exc
cutiOn of the contract and be com
pleted as specified.
Monthly payments will he made for
ninety 600 per cent of the construc-
ton completed each month.
Bidders must submit proposals upOn
forms provided by the Board.
Each proposal must he accompanied
Dy surety bond, certified check, or
money to the amount of at least ten
(lO) per cent of the total amount of
the proposal.
The envelope containing the pro-
posal must be marked Proposal for
the construction of Contract No. 1912. "
The contract will be awarded or re-
Jected within twenty 600 days from
the date of opening proposals.
Ihe right is reserved to reject any
or all bids
Complete sets of specifications NAV
be obtained upon receipt of five dol
lars (S5.OO) for each set which amount
will not be refunded
Make checks payable to the Della
ware State Board of Fish & Game
Commissioners.
DELAWARE STATE BOARD OF
FISH & GAME COMMISSIONER
Norman Wilder, Director
Of Conservation
April g. 1854
Dover, Delaware 4-3O-2t
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NOTICEl

For Roofing ard Water ProoHng
9ervice call A. H. Short and Son,
Ellendale. Phone Greenwood 7745.
l-5-f
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NOTICEl

! will not be responsible for any
bills unless contracted for by my
self. James E. Dalious, Lincoln,
Del. 5-7-3tp
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SATURDAY, MAY sth, 1854
BEGINNING AT 100 p. M.
The following:

HOUSEHOLD GOODS
Glass, China, 5-piece Maple BreaiSfs Of
Set, 2 Metal Utility Cabinets. Base
Cabinet, Kelvinator Refrigerator, Kel-
XlnatOr Deep Freeze, De Luxe Hot
6Hoint Electric Range, Old Pine Blanket
SneSt' Maple Bed, Bureau, Mirror.
Solid Mahogany Bedroom Suite. Law,
son Sofa (nylOn and foam rubberO
Lounge Chair--Ottoman, Wing Barrel
Chair, pair Mahogany Lamp Tables.
ODD Lamps, Coffee Table, Bookcase,
SSoli,u CnerEy Governor Winthrop Desk.
Mohawk Wool Twist Rug. Q X 10.
Coleman Space Heater, Curtains, Pic.
lures, and Blankets
TERMS: CASH.
THOMAS c. PHILLIPS
VIRGINIA H. PHILLIPS
Albert w. Phillips, Auetioneer. 5-7-1t
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PUBLIC SALE
OF
Personal Property

We. the undersigned, will offer N
PUBLIC Sale at Seaford, Del, on Route
I5-A, adjoining residence of Charlie.
Hurley, on
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Q. s. MAIL SCHEDULE ron
MILFORD, DELAWARE
Mails Arrive

Mails Arrive
4:f5 A. NJ $3.50 2. NJ.
1000 A. M $3.50 pm
Nails Leave
1900 A. NJ 4;00 P. M.
10000 A. M. 1880 P. M.
Lobby. closes at 7:46 P. n.
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The Future

George w. Mason, president of
American Motors (the result Of the
Hudson-N Nash merger). looks at the
future this way: .
1.-THE independents obviously can't
live on 5 per cent Of the BUSH
ness" But. he says, they can do
good job Of working together, pool
ing facilities. cooperating on de-
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What Happened When Reds Went Underground in Guiana?

which gives them a ready-made
audience for their propaganda. Other
new tactics range from something
like Mahatma Gandhi's civil dis
obedience" to outright terrorism.
Z One Communist leader used his
prison cell to organize a Communist
group. Cheddi Jagan, 34-year- old
dentist, former Northwestern Uni
versity student. and deposed major
ity leader Of the party, was preach
ing to fellow inmates at Sunday
religious services. A sermon on the
Commandment, "Thou shalt not
steal" for instance, was turned
into a TRADE against capitalism.
To prevent him from indoctrinat-
ing other inmates, he was placed
in isolation.
The continued presence Of Red
influence was indicated in charges
pressed against the prison super
intendent and his deputy. The Gov
eminent charged them with coddling
Jagan by permitting him too many
visits and altering his prison record.
His wife Janet was arrested one
day while addressing a large outdoor
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sign, and thus accomplish great
economy short Of q merger.
There is no reason why one COM
pany can't build axles, another
transmissions and so on. There's no
reason why we can't cooperate on
assembly plants" Mr.. Mason says.
James j. Nance, president of
Packard, pointed out just before the
Packard Studebaker merger became
official. that the combined sales Of
the two companies-in both civilian
and military work-totaled nearly
81 billion.
"How many billion-dollar cor
porations are there in the coun-
try?" he asks. Certainly not many.
And II there isn't q place in this
country for q company doing o
billion dollars worth Of business
then the country and free enterprise
are certainly in bad shape"
AS far as Studebaker is con-
cerned. Board Chairman Paul G..
Holman has this to say:
Some financial writers-with the
best Of intent-created a real prob
lem by worrying so much about us.
If the public starts worrying about
you. you're damned near out of
business. It creates an adverse
psychology.
I'm not worried. I fully expect
that Packard will show
the largest sales increase of any
company in the IS model field"
Despite recurrent rumors to the
contrary. the last word from Presi-
dent Edgar F. Kaiser was that
Kaiser WHY'S Is in the automotive
business to stay. The company, he
said. will stress sales and manufac-
turing efficiency to Offset the Csc
rious, depressing effect" of the
Ford-GM fight on the independents.
ASSOCIATED Press)
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Current Picture

Competition in the industry has
been intensely cutthroat because the
stakes have been high. New cars
have always been the darling Of the
American consumer, to the tune Of
billions Of dollars q year. And for
durable goods" cars are a fast
turnover item. compared with re-
frigeratorS or sewing machines.
When Mr.. America can't have q
new car, he misses 1t terribly. His
pent-up wartime demand took more
postwar cars than the Big Three
could produce. The independents
prospered on the overflow, corner
ing almost 20 per cent Of the 1948
market.
The industry turned out more
than sc million cars In its record
year, 1850, and after the limited
Korean war squeeze, sold 81 million
In 1858 for its second biggest year.
Though the industry was ready
to go about again this year, some
thing happened. The initiative in
the market passed from seller to
buyer, and by the start of 1854 it
was apparent to Detroit that things
were going to get tough.
So Ford launched "the blitz"-
o sales campaign with the an
nounced goal of making Ford the
No. seller at the expense of GINS
Chevrolet. So far, the Ford Chevy
battle has been nip and tuck.
--latest Official reports. based
on five months Of 1854, show
Chevrolet still slightly ahead of
Ford in the race for first place.
However, there have been month";
to-month fluctuations between the
two leaders. A dispatch out of
Detroit last week put Ford In first
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blasts, apparently from Communist
sources. One Of these blew the head
off Queen Victoria's statue in the
capital city Of Georgetown.
Mrs. Jagan was recently SEN
fenced to pay an $85 fine or serve
three months for illegally possessing
a top-secret riot manual Of the gov
eminent police. The manual was
described as a highly confidential
document for the protection of life
and property in the event Of riot"
This disclosure indicated the
party may still have some Of the
police under its control.
Security precautions have been in
creased in the wake Of o rise In
terrorist activities. A huge ring Of
electrically charged wire has been
thrown up around the Governor
Generals residence. Security troops
have been more heavily armed.
Propaganda Flows On
Despite desperate efforts of the
British to seal OF the colony from
Iron Curtain links, Communist
propaganda continues to stream
into the colony. Police recently ar
rested several Reds and seized large
quantities of Communist propa-
ganda in their possession. One pub
lication was Culture in the Ru-
manian Peoples Republican Asset
of Free People"
This continued communication
link with the Iron Curtain raises
speculation over whether the party
is In contact with Luis Carlos
Prestes. Brazilian fugitive and one
of international communisms top
agents. He has been reported or
ganizing q Red army In remote Bra
lillian jungles about so miles from
the Guiana border. There have been
several unverified reports of meet
ings between the two groups.
It is obvious that the Reds are
resorting to carefully drafted plans
to halt Britain's social and eco
nomic development of its Guiana
colony-a long range program es-
sential for political development
there. But what the Communists
long range detectives are In difa-
cult . fsssrmins.
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Last year Great Britain landed
troops in its colony Of British Guiana
and expelled the first openly Com
munist-led government in the West
ern Hemisphere. Wherever the de-
posed Red leaders went-to jail, into
the pulpit or underground-they
have continued to cause trouble.
Today communism still hovers
menacingly above this steaming
jungle Of sugar plantations and
bauxite mines on South Americas
northeast coast. A small band of
Reds Is showing how q wel1-dis-
ciplined cadre can harass a govern
ment and halt progress from the
underground. These Communists
may also be showing pattern Of
behavior that can be expected when
puppet governments In other coun-
tries fall.
The Communicated Peoples Pro-
gressive Party won substantial con-
troll Of the colony's government early
in 1858. This election was the first
exercise Of universal suffrage under
. new constitution granting local
autonomy. The party exploited
nationalism. racialism, poverty and
ignorance in o country that is one
half East Indian and one-third
Negro.
Led by Cominform
The ranks Of the party were said
to be made UP Of nom Communists
who wanted more food and less
British in their country. They were
docile followers of o hard core Of
Communist leaders apparently under
orders Of the Cominform In Bucha-
rest.
After the party governed ire
sponsibly for several months, Britain
suspended the constitution, deposed
the government and declared a state
of emergency last October. Britain
charged the party was planning a
coup and the establishment Of q
Soviet satellite state.
Now underground. the Reds have
switched their tactics to suit the
occasion. They have abandoned
atheism and taken up religion.
y
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crowd. Janet, q pert blond from
Chicago, who is said to be the mas
ter mind in the Guianese Com
munist movement. was wearing an
Indian shawl and claimed she was
conducting a Hindu religious cere-
mony. The Judge said the religious
trappings were an 'unholy farce"
and fined her $40 for holding an
illegal political meeting.
Hunger Strike
Five party leaders staged a hunger
strike when Jailed ct the outset Of
emergency rule last fall.
That was about the time Jagan
conferred with Communist leaders
in India and returned to British
Guiana with big plans for a civil
disobediance drive. BY that time.
however, the party was being UNI
masked and was losing some Of the
mass support such o movement
would require.
The party still has retained the
support of many fanatics who are
being used in an increased terrorist
drive. The government has an
nounced three recent dynamite
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mist Party was a conspiracy and
then said it could no longer exist as
legal entity. No penalties were
prescribed for membership in the
party.
When the dust had settled at the
end Of last week, Congress found it
had passed all three bills in one,
plus numerous amendments to all
three. There was the Humphrey
plan with modified penalty clause,
the House substitute and the orig
inal Communist-union bill. Final
passage was 70 to 0, in the Senate
and 264 to 2 In the House. The
bill apparently was not opposed by
Attorney General Brownell.
There were still arguments, how
ever, about the meanings of the
outlaw" sections of the bill.
Senator Humphreys allies claimed
from the start their plan was the
only one which really would wipe
out the Communist Party. But the
opposition said the House measure,
on the contrary, was the real out
law plan and emphasized it was the
only one the administration would
hold still for. Other arguments
against the Humphrey plan: It
would drive the party underground;
1t would repeal the two basic anti
Communist legal weapons, the Smith
Act and the Internal Security Act,
0Yd ~ rx,0 rYvNnv. -
Outflow Problem
First, the OUTLAW" question.
Both plans in effect would have
outlawed the party. The Humphrey
bill aimed at party members. In the
DRY, 1t would expose or jail all mem
bers. The House plan would abolish
the party from legal point of view
even though no one would be Jailed.
In either bill, the above-ground,
"soap-box" activities Of the party
would disappear. This would be no
great stride forward, because the big
Communist menace lies in the un-
foreground conspiracy, not the small
scale. discredited surface politicking.
Is it desirable to drive the Com
munists q few more feet UNDER
ground? The Humphrey bill was at
tackled by administration forces on
the grounds that 1t would make the
FBIs job harder. FBI Director j.
Edgar Hoover always has opposed
outlaw bills.
But the Humphrey side quoted Mr.
Hoover to prove the party already Is
far underground Mr.. Hoover de-
scribed In detail before a congress
sional committee earlier this year
the elaborate methods used by the
party to keep it's membership and
activities secret.
The dispute boiled down to loud
disagreement over a small point
whether the party could get much
further underground.
The Smith Act
Would the Smith Act surviye?s
That n tho law which has sent 21
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antitrust violations in the auto in
dustry. Mr.. Crumpacker comes
from Studebaker's home town.
Studebaker says this is only coinci-
dence and insists it did not inspire
Mr.. Crumpacker's move.
Regardless Of what happens in
Washington, many people in Detroit
are wondering just how much of the
market GIN Is shooting for. Earlier
in the year, President Harlow H.
Curtice said the target was 48 per
cent.
With the GIN slice Of the market
now around 40 per cent. there are
those in the industry who are con-
WINGED the giant corporation will try
for more.
Which will become No. /, Ford
or Chevrolet?
Ford hasn't taken away anything
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Squeeze Is On; Victims
Are 3d-PIoee Chrysler,
Independent Makers

DETROIT.-During recent lull
In Detroit's spectacular battle Of the
big wheels, Ernest r. Breech. execu-
tive vice president of the Ford Mo-
tor Co., received with satisfaction
but without gloating-the news that
current Mercury deliveries were run
ming SO per cent over normal.
This information impelled the
square-faced Mr.. Breech to observe:
This is a fast competitive game.
There are lots of risks. Somebody
has to get hurt"
Left unsaid was Mr.. Breech's clear
belief that the Observation-Disclosures
somebody" wouldn't be the Ford
Motor Co.
Mr.. Breech's satisfaction-and his
comment-are sidelights on the ave-
some struggle of the giants now
shaking Americas big. powerful,
rich automotive industry.
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GINS Role

Over at GIN you get the impression
they're not mad at anybody. The
corporate attitude seems to be that
GIN is not in production war, but
is tending to its own knitting, only
producing cars as the market re-
QuireS.
People who should know say this
is traditional GIN public relations.
The huge corporation is always con-
scious of the possibility that some
one will cry out for an investigation.
Someone has. recently. Represen-
tative Crumpacker. Republican, Of
Indiana. asked for q probe of possible
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Anti-Red Scramble
Almost Universal Desire of Lawmakers to Get
On Record Against Commies Caused Confusion

Stout Of heart and stern OF visage.
regiments Of congressman marched
back and forth against the Com
munist Party in recent days and
then retired, bloody but unbowed.
to try and figure out what the
dickens they had done.
It was a surprise engagement for
the attackers. They had no idea they
would outlaw" the Communist
Party until one quiet afternoon 10
days ago when Senator Hubert III.
Humphrey. Democrat, Of Minnesota
shouted Death to the Communist
Party" and charged in direction
he said was forward.
Then for more than week Sena-
tors and Representatives attacked
UP and down one rampant or an
other, disagreeing on how and where
to smite the foe. but agreeing that
each man would yield to no other
In his enthusiastic opposition to
communism.
The Motives
What were they trying to do?
First. score some political points.
Second, find a more effective way
to fight communism.
There were a good many un-
charitable observers who believed
the primary goals were political.
And it looked like the Democrats
were ahead. They had, by their sur
prise offering of an outlaw" bill,
put the Republicans in a position
Of either helping the Democrats
with what they all thought was
vote-getting bill or blocking the bill
and taking the blame.
Two PIons
Actual debate, however, was de-
voted to the merits Of the two prin-
cipal proposals.
The first was the Humphrey plan,
offered as substitute for q minor
league bill to cripple Communist
dominated unions-a bill being
steered through the Senate by John
Marshall Butler, Republican. Of
Maryland.
AS amended on the floor, the
Humphrey plan defined the Com
munist Party as conspiracy de-
voted to attempted overthrow of the
Government and declared that any
person who was an active member
OF the party, knotDing its aims.
would have to register publicly as a
member or be subject to up to five
years Imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
The other measure was the House
substitute, which had the admins
tration's reluctant acceptance. The
bill declared also that the Commu-
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Who's Ahead?

Who's winning so far in this fight
for the auto market?
Ford clearly has gained the most
ground-but not at the expense Of
the gargantuan General Motors
Corp. So the answer to the ques-
ton. who's losing?" is answered
with the names of Chrysler and the
independents Studebaker, Pack
ard, Hudson, Nash and Kaiser
WHY'S.
How much have they been hurt?
Chrysler, as an example, out its
second quarter dividend from $3.50
to Is cents q share. studebaker
lost nearly 50 million In the first
half Of the year and announced 1t
might have to close its South Bend
(Ind.) plant unless its workers took
Q pay cut. They recently agreed to
the cut.
The most dramatic phase Of the
fight revolves around the question of
who has what share Of the total
market. Those allergic to statistics
should remember that even q frac-
ton Of q percentage point means
millions Of dollars year. Even the
smallest competitor In the auto
motive industry Is big business.
The industry's business Is divided
approximately this way. percentage
wise (1953 figures compared with
indicated 1854 figures):
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Effects of Battle

What does this intensified COM
petition mean? According to the
CIO United Automobile Workers. 1t
means that since April. 1858. about
$4,000 workers have been laid of
in auto factories and supplier plants.
To dealers, it means thinner wal
lets: The $4,000 concerns that sell
cars and trucks in this country have
seen their average operating profit
shrink from $201 per unit last year
to about SAL at present, according
to the National Automobile Dealers
Association.
Both the labor and dealer pictures
can be traced to the "Big Two"
battle.
When Ford launched the blitz,
dealer prices began to tumble, either
through discounts or higher trade
ms. Ford's explanation Is that 1t
simply encouraged good hard sell
ing" GIN says it met the COMPETE
ton but did not overproduce.
Chrysler and the independents
say that In their fight to outsell
each other, Ford and GIN encour-
aged greater volume sales at the
expense Of profit per car.
On the dealer level, whatever the
cause, the effect was one Of virtual
price war. Screaming ads offered
Tremendous discounts, trade or no
trade No down payment until
March !. If your present car more
than covers the low. low down pay
ment. we give you the difference in
CASH."
Most buyers began to assume that
they did not have to pay list prices
for q new car. This sort Of compe-
tition, Chrysler and the independ-
ents say, hurt them most.
But the underdogs are full Of
fight.
L. L. (Tex) Colbert, president of
Chrysler, predicts that his corpora
ton will get back its 20 per cent
share of the market next year.
Chrysler is expanding and modern
izing (aided by $3.50 million. 100
year Prudential insurance loan), Is
reorganizing its corporate structure
and beeflng up its advertising pro-
gram.
Mr.. Colbert says three things hurt
| Chrysler this year: ssti
l. The fight between GIN and
Ford, Of course.
2. Styling. There's been SO much
talk about our style lot Of it
from our competitors. This has had
some effect on the public"
8. Chrysler's plans. 1T has been
an open secret that Chrysler will
come out next year with brand
new line, from stem to stern. A lot
Of people have been waiting for our
IS models and not buying the
'54s.,'