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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09

Fifty years ago this week,
the Cuban instruction of 1906
had been going on for some
time. On September 8, 1906.
The Star reported: Havana
may be taken. There are
persistent rumors that the
rebels intend to attack the
city, and the water supply may
be cut of. The situation
grows hourly more serious.
Telegraph lines are being
destroyed. bridges burned.
and there was three hours
hard fighting today. There is
great opposition to an extra
session of Congress. Minor en-
counters are reported near
Placetas. Peace is a distant
vista. There are large
forces of rebels south and west
of Havana and persistent
rumors are current that it is
their intention to attack the
city. aided by rebels within.
- BY the following week
end, the situation had become
so grave that The Star re-
ported, on September IS,
1906, that Secretary of War
Taft was en- route to the Car
ibbean, accompanied by a
fiotilla Of warships, in an effort
to make peace.
Bomb Plot
Russia continued to seethe
q half a century ago, with
plots and counterplots against
the cars government. On
August rs, 1906, in a story from
st. Petersburg, The Star said:
Twenty eight persons are
dead and twenty-four wounded
as the result of a dastardly
attempt this afternoon to as
sasSinate Premier Stolypin
with q bomb while he was
holding a public reception at
his country house on Aptekarsy
Island. The premier was
slightly wounded in the face
and neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the pre-
mier's fifteen-year-old daugh-
ter, who had both legs broken
by the explosion and subse-
quently succumbed to her in
juries OF the four cons
pirators who engineered the
outrage, two we're killed with
their victims, while the third,
who acted as coachman for the
party, and the fourth. who
remained inside the carriage,
were badly wounded and are
now at st. Peter and st. Paul
fortress. Whether the assas-
sins who entered the crowded
reception hall threw their
bomb or accidentally dropped 1t
probably never will be known.
as all Of the immediate eye
witnesses we're killed :"
The Season
The New York theatrical
season was getting under way
at this time so years ago. On
September 2. 1906. The Star
said In a dispatch from New
York: with the oaening TO-
night Of a number Of the best
houses. the theatrical season
may be said TO be fairly
started. Wallsch's began with
the new American play, The
Judge and the Jury" from
the pen Of Henry d. Cottrell
and Oliver Moresco, both new
writer's. Ida Conquest took the
leading role. At the Knicker-
booker, FRITZ Schen began her
second season with Mile. Mo-
diste." and scored her usual
success. The Hippodrome pui
on "A Society Circus" tonight
under new MANAGEMENT and
ct the Savoy. Rose etahl wal
seen in James Forbes play
The Chorus Lady" David
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-09
Artcitic

AS a local artist. I was both
amused and pleased 70 discover
that your art critic, Miss Flor
ence S. Bergman. could not
decipher the calligraphic squib-
bles Of Mrs. Dorothy Goldberg
at the Bader Gallery. Rather
than say in 80 many words that
she did not care for Mrs.
Goldberg's oily literary gyra-
tons. Miss Bergman skipped
the unpleasant task Of truth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
Riot of Prisoners
Wrecks Workhouse

ST. LOUIS, April 4 (P.-The
city's 100-year-old wo-khouse
was a wreck today after a third
riot in 10 months erupted in the
building which was condemned
only six days ago by a Circuit
Court grand jury as "St Louis
No. l public disgrace"
The riot broke loose last night
and ragged for more than an hour
as 256 bowling inmates smashed
windows and cell doors, threw
furniture outside, burned rags
and ripped out plumbing in their
cells.
Water gushed over the second
floor of the whitewashed con-
crete building. Firemen quickly
put out the blazing rags.
Prisoners broke from several
cellblocks, but couldn't get Out
of the building. Warden Harold
E. Baynes said the cell doors are
so antique a strong man car
push them open and a clever
man can fashion keys.
Inmates of the first floor were
rounded up quickly and marched
to unused cells in the women's
building of the workhouse. The
first wave Of police was drenchec
with cold water by second floor
inmates who barricaded them.
selves inside with beds and bed
springs.
Police carrying clubs subduec
them about II pm.
Register now at the District
Building, and vote In the Dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

BolSheVik history as the lost
manuscript" What outsiders
will get will be the carefully
chosen reports from Pravda and
such reports as that of Warsaw's
Roman Werfel, whose latest ex-
PLANTATION of the rewriting of
Communist history has been cir
culated among top United States
officials as must" reading.
This reporter can testify per-
sonally as to the "agonizing re-
appraisal" in Mr.. Werfels article
Last August, as one of the first
American newSmen admitted in
several years to Communist Po-
land. I lunched with Mr.. Werfel,
editor of the Trybuna Ludu,
member of the Central Commit
tee Of the party and. at that
time. a blunt contender that
Stain could do no wrong.
Put Blame on Beria
Pressed by an American inter-
viewer on apparent Communist
failures. the Werfel of last Au-
gust had a pat explanation:
THAT was Beria's doing" Every
thing he could not defend he
blamed on the purged chief of
the secret police.
you mustn't blame Stain"
he insisted. I'm his later days
he, too, was misled by Beria; it
was his only mistake"
Now Mr.. Werfel, returned from
the Moscow congress, finds many
Stain mistakes" He lists them,
and explains in his article how
q good Communist must accom-
modate himself to the sudden
zig in party line.
Written informally as q "let-
ter to a comrade" who cannot
understand. Mr.. Werfel recalls
an exciting day Of his Communist
past:
1T happened over 80 years
ago." he states, when both of
us one night got literally drunk
reading a pamphlet just received.
The pamphlet was entitled: On
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

the Foundations of Leninism'
its author was J. Stain.
Years went by. Do you re-
member the discussions Of COL
lectivization, the disputes about
industrialization. the report on
the building Of Dneprostroy, the
bulletins of the first five-year
plans? This name appeared in
all of them, and in our minds. 1t
became an integral part of his
wonderful heroic epoch. I ex-
Iperienced this, together with
you"
Quotes From Romans
To start his readers of on the
new" line, Mr.. Werfel quotes
from the Romans: plato is my
friend but an even greater friend
is truth" Nobody. he warns.
must deny Stains leadership in
the building of the new Russia
but the decisive execution" he
says, must be credited to the
workers and soldiers of Russia
who have heretofore been de-
MED that credit.
Their credit, Mr.. Werfel
charges, was denied "by the cult
of a man (Stalin) who at one
time put his own will over the
party and over the masses"
This willfulness," he con-
.tinued, lied to grave political
Imistakes-for instance, the OBJ
Istinate failure to see, until the
last moment, the danger Of Hit
lerite invasion in the summer Of
l941. lighthearted treatment Of
all warnings and neglect of all
safeguards, the undertaking of a
number of rash operations dur
ing the war. contrary to the views
of the military experts, opera
tions which cost the heroic So
Wet nation many lives"
Mr.. Werfel says all this was
discussed by party faithful as
sembled for the recent Congress.
SANDER Became Weapon
"It discussed" he wrote of
the congress. things hard and
difficult - the sword which,
sharpened by the party in
Lenin's time against the enemies
of the revolution. began to cut
deep into the living flesh of the
party; SANDER which became a
deadly weapon; party heroism,
which was alleged to be proof of
hostility to the party; men who,
when they tried to defend their
party views in a party way, were
branded as alleged enemies of
the people and liquidated.
Would all that have been
possible If the whole power had
not been concentrated in the
hands of one man; II the will of
one man had not been decisive
where decisions should have
been taken by the party organs;
If this very man. overcome by a
pathological suspicion, had not
gradually removed everything
that was an obstacle on his
way to autocracy, eliminating
democracy within the party,
party organ. and the Central
Committee?"
So. says Mr.. Werfel, Stain
must be dehorsed. But he adds
Ia warning: The faithful"
mustn't go too far in trampling
on the dead leader.
"One must" he wrote, firm
ly say to oneself: We must re-
consider Stains activity"
Stain must be approached
Justly and the whole truth
about him told. Within this
truth, there will be room for
undermining the correctness of
the theological struggle waged
against the Trotskyites and
rightwingers and against con-
Iceptions the victory Of which
would have endangered the very
existence Of the Socialist state. /"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
Polish Editor Approises
Talk 'Debunkinq' Stain
By MARTIN S. HAYDEN

ruthless Polish editor with the flexible good
Communist has given the West what regarded the most
rate account of the nowamous speech in which Nta Khru
shchev destroyed the myth of Joseph Stain.
Experts here suspect that the exact text of Mr. Khruhche
February 26 speech the Moscow party congress may
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
RESPONSIBILITY DIVISION
REPORTS ACCIDENT INCREASE

There was a large increase in
the number of motor vehicle ac-
cidents involving damages in ex-
cess of 500 reported to the FL
nancial Responsibility Division of
the Motor Vehicle Department
during July of this year than for
that same month in the two pre-
yious years. officials of the Divi-
sion explain that in their opinion
a tightening of the regulations
on these accidents caused reports
of more of them to be submitted
during July of this year than in
the previous years. According to
the records compiled for Mrs.
Hattie Tarburton, Director of the
Financial Responsibility Division,
there were a total of 671 of these
accidents reported during July of
this year. This is 217 more than
were reported during July of last
year and an increase of 211 over
the number reported DUNG July
Of 1854. Damages resulting from
the accidents reported in July of
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16

this year totalled 1926, sos, an in
crease of $122,830 over the
amount of damage reported in
July of last year and $102, $50
more than was reported for July
of 1854. Of the accidents that
took place in July of this year,
444 were in Wilmington and New
Castle County, an increase of 133
over the same month of last year
and 144 more than took place in
July of 1854. Kent County had
SO of these accidents in July of
this year which is 81 more than
were reported in July of last year
and 16 more than in July of 1854.
Sussex County had 131 of the ac-
cidents in July of this year, an
increase of Al over July of last
year and 81 more than in July of
1854. Of the operators involved
in the accidents during July of
this year, 305 were from out Of
state and 107 had no insurance.
There were a total of PIT persons
injured in these accidents.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
DOVER DISTRICT wsCs TEA
Will Hold Annual Tea at Home
of President in Rehoboth


The Dover District Woman's
Society Of Christian Service will
hold its annual tea at the home
of the president, Mrs. Granville
Tyndall ut 212 Stockley Street in
Rehoboth tomorrow from two un-
til five o'clock. Officers of the
District will be hostesses for the
occasion and officers of Peninsula
Conference will pour. Mrs. Tyn-
dall's home is delightful place
for such an affair and it is ex-
pected that members and interest
ed friends from all parts of the
Conference will attend. A table
of exhibits has been arranged
and will denote the progress of
the work of the organization as
it illustrates how some of the new
work may be carried on. Women
are urged to attend the tea, meet
members of other societies, enjoy
the fellowship as they learn of the
goals of the coming quadrennial.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
ENLISTMENT
CAMPAIGN ON
National Guard Opens Exten-
sive Enlistment Campaign
For New Recruits
BALANCED RESERVES

In recent publication received
from the Adjutant General of the
State of Delaware, the Delaware
National Guard has opened an ex-
tensive enlistment campaign. This
campaign has been initiated to
implement fully the provisions Of
the Reserve Forces Act of 1855,
to provide more new men for
training in defense of our coun-
try. The augmentation of this
program will also create a well
balanced ready Reserve. If you
are between the ages of II and
1871 years of age it will be most
beneficial for you to join your loc-
al National Guard unit. At pre-
sent Headquarters and Headquar-
ters Battery is located here in
Smyrna and is gradually filling
the ranks of its. assigned author
ization. The present needs of this
unit are personnel desiring to be
trained in communications and
radar. The National Guard has
access to alT~ types of training
schools both for personnel who
can physically attend or for those
personnel who through no fault
of their own have been forced to
seek employment prior to COM
pleting their education. Your en-
listment in the National Guard
automatically makes you eligible
to continue your education in your
desired field without any cost or
major obligation on your part.
Your local National Guard unit
has just recently returned from
annual summer field training and
is presently preparing for another
yearly training cycle. Why not
get in on the ground floor and
learn while you are completing
your military obligation to your
self, your community, and as a
citizen, to your country. Former
servicemen as we'll as those elig-
ible or about to become eligible
are urged to contact your local
armory. Full time personnel are
at the armory daily and the local
unit conducts its weekly forma-
tion on Monday evenings between
8 pm. and 10 pm. For further
information stop in at the armory
or call Smyrna 2751. Learn your
obligation now, and receive con-
crete advice as to the best way
to fulfill your military obligation.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
COUNCIL TALKS
STREET WORK
Problems to Be Faced When
Commerce Street is Torn
Up and Resurfaced
TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN

At the regular meeting of Town
Council on Friday night Town
Manager Rex d. Gilmore led a
discussion on the problems to be
faced by the police and by busi-
ness men when Commerce Street
is torn up during the widening
and resurfacing project which will
take place during the next
months. Chief of Police John W..
Jacobs, Jr. was also present and
presented his views. The council
men decided that the details of
the handling of traffic during that
time should be worked out by the
town manager and the police de-
partment. 1t was agreed that
where necessary parking meters
should be removed during the
construction period, but kept in
where practicable. The problem
will be that of meeting the situ-
alton as it arises, and decisions
will rest with the police and the
town manager A letter from Ern-
est Davidson, traffic and planning
division of, the State Highway
Department, was read with his
recommendation of the type OF
traffic control . to be used at the
intersection of Commerce Street
and Main Street. This matter was
also left to the discretion of Mr..
Gilmore and Chief Jacobs. Action
was deferred at this time on the
purchase or lease of a street
sweeper. Mr.. Gilmore reported
that a large-scale map of this
area would be taken to the De
partment of Geology at the Uni
versity of Delaware in prepara-
ton of a survey to be made by
them of potential water resources
here. Mr.. Gilmore was authorized
to buy an electric typewriter for
use in the town office, and to turn
over to the police department the
machine now in use by the town
office staff. A report was heard
on completion by the town of
work on the Wroten-Pratt and
Colonial Hotel properties prepar-
atory to the reconstruction of
Commerce Street. Carpenters will
Continued on Page Twelve
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
German Visitor In smyrna

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Bobzin
had as their guest last week Mr..
Gunther Weber, of Hamburg, Ger
many who arrived in New York
on the SIS. Italia. While in Smyr-
ma he was taken to visit in Wash
ington, D. c. and he will also Wis
it in New York City before his
return to Europe. A printer by
trade he was interested in seeing
the office and printing plant of
The Smyrna Times, and was
shown about the newspaper office
and composing room as well as
the various machines used. He
showed great interest in one of
the presses of German make
which is like one he uses in Ger
many. Mr.. and Mrs. Bobzin have
been in this country for about a
year and a half and expect to be-
come American citizens.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
KentOn Methodist Church

The Kenton Methodist Church,
the Rev. F. Charles Louhoff, Jr,,
minister, announces services for
Sunday, August 22nd, as follows:
10 am, Church School, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Pratt, superintendent. We
are happy over the attendance to
the Church School, yet there are
still many who should attend. We
invite you to come out and get
acquainted if you are not attend
ing any other Church School.
IL am, morning worship, Mrs.
Clifford Clark, organist. Selection
will be rendered by the Choir.
Sermon will be by the pastor.
Subject: Gods People. While
we are proud of the attendance
to the worship services, there are
still many more who should come
to Church. We all need to get
closer to god, and it takes all of
us working together to keep the
enemy of the soul from capturing
our young people. Many of the
young as well as the older folk
are attending the services, but we
need you too. Do not disappoint
your Lord nor the Church. Go to
Church next Sunday.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
HOLD FAMILY REUNION
Reed Family Holds Third Annual
Reunion Here Sunday


The third annual reunion of the
Millard F. and Sophia Lurty Reed
family was held Sunday August
IL on the lawn at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Reed, Jr.,
Greenspring Road, near Smyrna
The following new officers were
elected: Mrs. Mildred Corby, Del
aware City, president; Mrs. Ethel
Unruh, Odessa, vice president;
Harold Reed, Elsmere, secretary;
Clifton Reed, Middletown, treasur-
er. There were 76 members pre-
sent and three visitors. William c.
Reed, Union Street, Smyrna, son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Millard
F. Reed, was the Oldest member
attending. He also celebrated his
birthday on Sunday. Richard Lee
Mccain. four-weeks old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Mccain, near
Smyrna, was the youngest MEM
ber present. Ice cream and cake
were served, followed by games
and other entertainment. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Reed, Sr. have invit-
ed the members back again for
the fourth reunion on the second
Saturday in August.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
SEVERE STORM
MONDAY NIGHT
WashOuts On Main Street
Cause Four intersections
To Be Closed
CELLARS FLOODED

Water was higher at Lake
Como during the severe storm on
Monday night than at any time
since 1941 when the lake went
out, washing out sections of Du-
Pont Parkway, according TO Chief
of Police John w. Jacobs, Jr. The
flood gates were opened and no
damage resulted from the storm,
The water was still running over
the dam the next morning with
the force of flood waters. The
towns electric and street crews,
police department, and volunteer
firemen worked until 4 am. to
handle the problems which arose
from the heavy rainfall and light
ming. The police had to block off
four intersections from traffic due
to washouts which occurred at
points where construction of lay
ing storm sewers is in progress.
The intersections affected were at
South and Main, Frazier and
Main Lake Drive and Main, and
Hamilton Lane and Main Streets.
George & Lynch, contractors on
the storm sewer project, had
crews at work early in the morn
ing and all intersections were soon
filled in and ready to handle traf-
fic. On South Main Street, corn
er Lake Drive, a section of the
sidewalk in front of the Grover
King property was upturned and
the storm sewers exposed. Fire
men pumped out cellars at the
Aumack and Hufschmidt proper
ties. The heavy rain on West Com
merce Street, where sewer work
is also being done, flooded the
area in front of S & S Products,
flooding the store itself. A wash
out also occurred at the entrance
to the property. High water ap-
preached the new sewage disposal
plant near Lake Como but did not
reach the plants watts and there
was no damage. Town Manager
Rex D Gilmore reported that four
transformers cut out, but the
town lights were only out for a
few minutes. Town street crews
worked at am. to put in wat
CONTINUED on Page Sikh
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
Death of William e. Foard

William E. Foard, veteran print
er who worked on several news
papers in Wilmington and Phila-
delphia, died Saturday night after
a lengthy illness. He would have
been SO years old in October. At
the time of his retirement in 1945.
Mr.. Foard was linotype operator
for the wilmington Morning News
which he joined some years before
after leaving the Sunday Star. He
previously was with the old Even
ing Journal for a number of years
Born in Elkton, Md, he was the
son of the late Richard and Mary
E. Bowen Foard. He attended Elk
ton schools and received a schol-
arship to Elkton Academy. On the
death of his father, he became
a printers apprentice, learning the
trade with two uncles, John and
Levi Bowen, who owned the Della
ware Ledger of Newark. Later he
went to work in Philadelphia Tor
the Philadelphia Press and the
North American. He came to Will.
mington in 1915 when he 1olUeh
the Evening Journal. Mr.. Foard
lived at 902 West Ninth Street
which had been his home for many
years. For a few years he occu-
pied a place at Blackbird but re-
turned to Wilmington about eight
years ago after a hurricane des-
troyed the farmhouse. He was
member of West Presbyterian
Church and the international Ty-
biographical Union, Local 123, with
which he had been associated for
about 40 years. Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Rebecca HendricksoH
Foard; two stepsons, Robert M
Hendrickson, Miami, Fla, and G.
Merrill Hendrickson, Wilmington;
and six grandchildren. He was
Continued on Page Twelve
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
LOCAL POLICE
CASES HEARD
Glen J. Cahall Fined $500 on
Five Charges Smyrna
Police Report
OTHER CASES LISTED

Glen ]. Cahall, Smyrna, was
fined a total of 5000 at the court
of Magistrate Frank Fleming,
Clayton, on five separate charges,
according to the report of the
Smyrna police department. He
was fined $50 each on three
charges, that of reckless driving,
speeding, and failing to reduce
speed where a hazardous condi-
ton exists; also, fined $25 each
on charges of failing to stop for
a traffic light, and failing to stop
at the command of uniformed
police officer. Also taken to The
court of Magistrate Fleming was
Donald j. Trimble, Bethlehem, Pa,
fined $40 for following too close.
Alderman William M. Doughten,
Smyrna, imposed fines on the fol-
lowing cases: James Koton, Clay
ton, reckless driving, fined $25;
and no license to operate motor
vehicle, $40; Ruba Cruz, Smyrna,
drunk on the highway, fined $40;
Leonard Smith, Locust St., Smyr-
ma, and Daniel Wilson Palmatory,
Sudlersville, Md, each fined $40
for being drunk on the highway;
John Henry Hill, Viola, Del, COM
mitted to Kent Correctional Insti-
tuition for thirty days, in default
of $25 fine for being drunk on
the highway, second offense in
IL months.
Smyrna times., 1956-08-16
Final Jaycee street Dance

The final in the summer series
of street dances sponsored by the
Smyrna-Clayton Junior Chamber
of Commerce on Market Street
Plaza will be held on Wednesday
evening, August % at 7:30 pm
The dances have been given under
the supervision of Philip Denney
and Richard Ennis, assisted by
other Jaycees.