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Twelve Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, February 26, 1946 Recital a 200 in Smyrna i an Havoc Restoration Leads Leives C. of C. Project List Converted Doll House Provides Vets to Get Aid Testing Place for Insecticides On Insurance Tinv Structure of Four Rooms Houses Well-Cared Cros Home Service 3 Engineers From India Asked To Attend Cooperative Meeting Choptank Electric Annual Election of Directors At Denton to Give Asiatics Idea of How Rural Electrification Works on Shore Trade Group Wants New Boardwalk, Pavilion, And Department to Provide Necessary information Specie Which Are Subjected to Chemicals Produced by Hercules Company Clean-Up of Beach; Comfort Station, Lifeguards Are Sought; Committees Named for Program for Year LEWES. Feb. 26 (Special).

The restoration for the coming A f5ur room doll house with an attached barn has been converted summer season of the boardwalk and DENTON. Feb. 26 (Special). The eighth annual meeting of members of Choptank Electric Cooperative. will be held at the Dentonia Theatre in Denton March 4 at 1 p.

m. for, the election of directors, the reading of reports of the officers, and the transaction of other business. Three electrical engineers from India who are making a study of rural electrification in this country into a Uie-and-deLh testing house for insects by V. Parker, a Hercules their National Service Life Jnsur-Pjvier Company fellow the University of Delaware. ance policies has resulted in an an- Th- builduig houses elit and weU-cared-for roaches, moths, other offer from officials of the Home Service Department.

Delaware rr.ee; oes and files that are subjected to insecticides applied to the ort-. OT. -cc demolished by the disastrous hurricane of Sept. 14, 1944, is one or tne objectives of the local Chamber of Commerce in its annual program just adopted by the organization. oi 1 1 USSCX Llillir.Cll Northern Kent Audience Hears Wilmington Organ-! ist; Faculty Club to Meet SMYRNA, DeL, Feb.

26 (Special). The organ recital given Sunday at St. Peter's Church by Harrison Walker, organist of St. Andrew's Church. Wilmington, was attended by more than 200 persons from northern Kent County.

This recital was the first one on the new Moller organ, which was installed last summer. The committee on arrangements was headed by Reynolds Bradley. Miss Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russell, is one of five students at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, recently elected to Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dramatic society.

Miss Russell, a senior in the college of home economics, was active in dramatics at the John Bassett Moore School and the Smyrna Little Theatre. Meetings of group circles of the Woman's Society for Christian Service of Asbury Methodist Church are scheduled at the following household furnishings. Police Watch Theft of Money Officers, Poised For Raid, See Woman Rob Patron Two Police officers who were looking through a hole in a back curtain of an apartment in the 200 saw a theft of aoout set) irom one; the customers before they en tered, they reported in Municipal I Court todav. I t-v, i A A A V. 1 1 liie ilhj uiots.

amuxy oucct, ills, doll furniture, and miniature The house will go on display ic user row tor executives ana editors i r.e McGraw-Hill Fuoiismng Walls Installed Walls dividing the house into four rooms were removed, and glass walls Installed in their place. Each room, in turn, was divided in half by a glass wall. The back wall of the house is made of glass, with small tr.e e'gnt sections. Ore half of each, room has been prayed or coated with a Hercules Insecticide. The other half of each room is left untreated.

Insects are V. L. Moth larvae placed on an un- attack the rug with vigor. ir. a matter ox seconds.

The screened -in porch Is also to me r.ouse tarougn entrances Ln th back waU. cVcrVtb West Street last Fridav were more, ana to convert icnii msm- pSSor the home chamm service chairmen outside tnirVt- Nn 1 Miss Anna. Beckett, leader, at her home, South Main Street; Coleman, leader, at home of Mrs. John L. Johnson; No.

3. Mrs. George Robinson, leader, at home of Mrs. Thomas Russell; No. 4, Mrs.

Thomas UiiUtri Mali iu. vajui vijrciiiiv S5ini nn a charee Kenton: Mrs. Winifred McCosh. GereraI eons on a cna ge oi Dovfr. Mr, Byron Dunn Camden: Mrs "4 T.l ded -a" the veen 0n'slt'uls uivix) I August Faix.

Milford; miss Maaaiyn Parsons of Holly Oak. Parsons was-Tharp. Harrington: Mrs. Herbert Zdgeli, S.ae COa.e an insecticide. witness Greenwood: Raymond Hailman.

Seaford; fly unharmed in the un- ioU Dau as a 11 Edith Jones. Georgetown; John Fish.r, 'de bu a- filled on the agaln5t Milton: Mrs Hannah Morris. Lewes: Mrs. f.v Beulah M. Allison, Who IS said tOjWilliam Henning.

Rehoboth; Mrs. Walter agaU1Stibe the OCCUpant Of the apartment, Ben, M.Usboro: Mi, Ahe. Gum or Mr. A miniature bam. divided in sentenced to three months a glass wall, bears witness to! the Workhouse for seh ng liquor tne ettectiveness Of catt-e Sprays! tested.

Stable flies admitted current sentence oi i 7f to the treated section are killed in-! contributing to the dehnqency of ,.,,,1 -t- minor boy who was in the apart-i while flies put in se-'o i The were arrested after ThV houseTnd bam are mounted! officers had been watching on a tumtabie to facilitate displav- through the curtain for 4o minu.es. Loses Rector Maj. R. K. White, Leaving Army, Goes to Scranton Instead of Georgetown ELKTON, Md, Feb.

26 (Special). Maj. Richard K. White, -who is here with his wife and two children on terminal leave after four years' service, will not return to St. Paul's 7 7-1 J2i mi i lain rofn Inn rw'Jci St.

Luke Church Scraftton, Pa. His wife, the former Elizabeth Groome Con-! stable, and her children made their home with her family here Maj. R. K. White during the past1 four years.

Major White, who has been awarded the commendation ribbon for Legion of Merit, American Theatre and Victory Ribbons, entered the service about four years ago to represent the Episcopal church as an Army chaplain from the Diocese of Dela ware. He was the only Episcopal clergyman who volunteered from the Diocese of Delaware. He was first assigned to the 31st Engineer Combat Regiment at Fort Belvoir, and in 1942 was promoted to captain. Supervised 15 Chaplains Later he was transferred to the the position of group chaplain of 1114th Engineer Combat Group. He served as chaplain for the Officer Candidate School of this group.

In 1945 he was promoted to post chaplain of Fort Belvoir, and later was raised to the grade of ma jor. At Fort Belvoir, he supervised the work of all the chaplains connected with the post and was also a mem ber of the commanding generals staff. He had under his jurisdiction about 15 chaplains. While at Fort Belvoir, Chaplain White was frequently commended by the commanding general for his work and has been the recipient of two commendation awards and has been recommended for the legion of merit citation. Wanted in Regular Army Chaplain White was offered a com mission in the Regular Army as major but he preferred to return to his pastoral work.

Chaplain White was lormeny rec tor of Trinity Episcopal Church, Elkton, from 1931 to 1933, from which he went to St. Paul's at Georgetown for nine yeaors. Their two children are Richard K. White, 9, and John Patter son White, 6. Court Denies Mothers -4fi tion as rector iney saw twO unnsatumu in yiiii beef and liquor were sold, and on one occasion the minor took the money, they reported.

Patrolman Monroe Ellis said that he saw Miss Dennis take a waLet from Parsons hip pocket and re-; move seme money from it. added that she gave $20 of He the money to Miss Allison but a charge of larceny of that amount against her was retired when she pleaded guilty to the other two charges. The minor boy told police he was 16 years of age, but when taken home his mother said he was 18, Patrolman Ellis reported. He was not arrested. Action Reducing Par 11 if.

Yalue 0f Stock Attacked All a Md 1HCU ill WUUi JX Chancery today seeking to set aside an amendment made last October to the charter of the Diamond State Brewery, by which the par value of Class A stock was reduced fom $1 to 50 cents per share. The company is named as defend ir.z tr.em. Mr. Parker, who works under Dr. A.

Stearns, head of the depart of entomology at the university, does research on preliminary testing of the many in sec --irides developed by the Hercules Naval Stores Department laboratories. More than 35 McGra.w-Hill journalists will visit the Hercules Experiment Station tomorrow. After a tcur cf the Hercules station, the visitors vvill meet with Hercules executives for a luncheon at the Hercules clubhouse Luncheon will: be followed by an informal talk by Charles A. Higgins, Hercules president. The McGraw-Hill personnel in the afternoon will meet and interview officials of the DuPont Company and i.f Ha rwrrmflntr ari air.r.er.

C. of C. Opposes Potman Measure Little Future Held For Housing If U. S. Bill Wins Passage Asserting there will be little future in home building in the next two years if the Patman Bill, to control costs of homes, building materials, and rents is passed bv Congress, the construction industries section Chamber of Commerce, has asked its defeat.

'ant by James J. Cahill, executor A East Sixteenth tne estate oi junn sr. nuix. street, for three years in the Air died in 1939. The action states thatjForces Alaska the late Mr.

Cahill owned 10,000 Bernard T. Sew ell. 18. son of Mrs. shares of the Class A stock, which i Grace D.

sewell, 607 East Seventh had been given preferential treat- i Street. "graduate of the Howard The increased number of return- ins service men who have dropped to provide information and assist ance for reinstating their insurance service. Mrs. J. M.

Brentlinger, chairman of the home service committee, pointed out that about only one out of every four service men keeps his insurance in effect and said that many of these policies were held by men who will have difficulty in passing physical examinations for commercial life insurance. Red Cross home service workers in every community in the state have the forms necessary to reinstate insurance, change benefici aries, claim waiver of premiums due to total disability for six months or the city follow: Christiana: Mrs. Robert Quilien. New Castle; Mrs. J.

Lamont Jones. M.ddletown: Mrs. Henry Lester. St. Georges; Mrs Horace Van Horn.

Town- 5. ri Mrs Lee Deakvne. Smyrna: Mrs p.gsboro: M- J. Cordrey McGee. McCabe.

Selby- Hastings. Delmar, and Mrs. Prank Oliphant. Laurel Elirone tierdlis ojic Enlisted in Armv Veteran of the campaigns in Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland and Central Europe, Walter H. Empson, 22, of 402 Walnut Street, this city, enlisted ivionaay at jthe U.

S. Army Recruiting Station. Postoffice Building, for three years with the Quartermaster Corps. His wife is Mrs. Georgiana Empson of the Walnut Street address.

Donald L. Jones. 18, of Hockessin joined ttie Air Forces for three years. Six Wilmington youths joined up during the day. James T.

Russell, 17, of 919 Lombard Street; Matthew Flowers. 18, of 316 Taylor Street; James T. Kinamon. 17, of 1021 Poplar Street, all QMC, three years; Linford R. Howard of 708 Curlstt Street, Air Forces, three years; James R.

Adams, 17, of 815 Lombard Street, 18 months, and Clifton Cof-field, 18, of 331 East Second Street, 18 months. Others enlisted today are Charles Warner, 20, ton of Mr. and Mrs Charles Warner, 6 Cedar Street, a graduate of the Wilmington High School, who enlisted for three years in the Air Forces for service in the Caribbean Sea area. William K. Cann, 17.

son of Mrs. High School, for 18 months to learn a trade. DeMolay to Install The public installation of Wilmington Chapter, Order of DeMolay, will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the consisvory rooms of the Masonic Temple. The place announced in these columns last night was incorrect. Appointed Secretary Mrs.

Eva A. Willey. 802 North Broom Street, formerly connected with the selective service system office at Eighth and Wollaston Streets, has been appointed secretary in the office of Capt. Selwyn Kershaw, Army recruiting office, Postoffice Building. ISew Safety Device DELAWARE CITY, Feb.

25 (Special). The Delaware City Fire Company has received a Scott air mask to add to its equipment. This is a portable oxygen tank device which permits the wearer to work in smoke or gas-filled rooms with safety, in dependent of outside sources of air. Lynford T. Alexander Dinjan, the" former officer had ample opportunity to study the daily life and customs of the Nagas and his observations will be illustrated on Friday evening by lantern slides taken during his visits in the Indian hills.

Mr. Alexander, who received his discbarge last month, is manager of the direct mailing division of the advertising department of the Du-Pont Company. pavilion at Lewes Beach, which were to promote this restoration ior tne Ttown and beach colony, and in addi tion, ask for a general cleaning up the beach area along the summer colony waterfront. The construc tion of a public comfort station ana showers for bathers also are on the project list. Want Lifeguard Service The chamber officials also feel that there should be lifeguard service for the protection of children bathers.

Toward carrying out this beach project, Charles J. Rickards was appointed chairman of a committee from the chamber, assisted by Captain Earle Poole, river pilot, and Wilfred M. Melvin, to present the need to the town board. "Now that the war is over," says President Alton L. Brittingham, "we can again expend our energies toward peacetime activities." Project Committee Named Besides the beach front project, other projects for the current year, and the committees appointed, are as follows: New advertising- folder, Edson C.

Lodge, Kenneth D. Givan, and Raymond R. Atkins. Community building as a war memorial. James W.

Marshall, Clifford E. Morris, and Theodore R. Bryan. New industries. Joseph L.

Marshall, C. E. Morns, and Cornelius C. Marshall. Ciean-up program for the town, Howard Green.

Dr. Gilbert M. Wiltbank, and George Gibson. Clearing sidewalks after snowfall. Virden.

R. Bryan. Miss Virginia L. Larrimora. and Howard Derrickson.

Beautiflcation of Memorial Park and all other public parks, including the Pennsylvania Railroad Park on Kings Highway, Commander I. B. Steele. U. S.

C. retired, chairman: Commodore John B. Win of the Lewes Yacht Club, and Charles S. Rickards. Promote active interest in ail town affairs, and fjrm a public relationa committee.

Daniel H. C. Littleton. Theodore R. Bryan, and Samuel C.

Pierce. Committee for new businesses and industries. John E. MoGovern, E. W.

Brittingham, and 6. G. Clifton. Back street parking and relief of traffic congestions. Waiter C.

Feaster, Jack Luzzi. and Arthur H. Morris. Marking of parking lanes on Second Street. G.

Edward Wyatt, Irving GiiUs. and Horace Culver. The chamber further recommends that the organization go after better street lighting for the town. Seaford Methodists Name New Officers SEAFORD, Feb. 26 (Special).

Officers of Gethsemar.e Methodist Church at Reliance wera; elected at a membership meeting Sunday. Those elected are as follows Trustees. A. H. Smith, I.

P. Truitt. E. W. West, G.

E. Phillips, G. E. Norman Tull: stewards, Mrs. Mary Tuii, Mrs.

A. H. Smith, Mrs. Henry wheatley, Mrs. Theodore Handy.

G. E. Phillips, E. W. West, O.

G. ODay: parsonage trustees, Ralph Day, Harold Smith, I. P. Truitt. Walter Tull.

Herman Darby: treasurer. G. I. OBier; communion stewards, Mr. Mary Tull.

Mrs. Walter Tull; organist, Miss Clara G. Smith. Dr. T.

C. Mulligan, district superintendent, will deliver the sermon at Gethsemane next Sunday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. Elderly Negro Burned As Fire Levels Home MILFORD, Feb. 26 (Special). Charles Higgins, an elderly Negro who lived alone near Houston, was badly burned early Sunday morning when his home was destroyed by fire.

Residents of Houston saw the blaze about 6 a. m. and driving to tle scene found the house and contents burned, and the owner in a burned and dazed condition. He was taken to the Milford Memorial Hospital, and found to be burned badly about the face and hands. His condition is said to be fair.

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Protein -to help build body tissue essential for growth. Get ALL-BRAN at your grocer Made by Kellogg's of Battle Creek and Omaha. The chamber will bend every effort Alton L. Brittingham The president of the Lewes Cham ber of Commerce appointed a committee to seek the restoration of the boardwalk and pavilion that were demolished at Lewes Beach by the hurricane in the fall of 1944. New Sanctuary ReadyinElktoii Service Will Be Held In Main Body of Edifice Starting INext Sunday ELKTON, Feb.

26 (Special). The Rev. Dr. Walter A. Hearn, pastor of the Elkton Methodist Church, has announced that the main sanctuary' of the church, which has been closed for several weeks, undergoing repainting and redecorating, will be reopened next Sunday for services.

While the work has been in progress, the Sunday school room has been used for church services. Next Sunday will also be observed as Laymen's Day, and Mr. T. Blair Ely, lay leader of the Peninsula Conference, will be the guest speaker. The first television program ever presented in Elkton is scheduled to be given at the Elkton High School next Mondav evening.

The proceeds will be donated to the organ fund illiuty jri uitsmuu jyisujai Church The Rev. Richard M. Green, executive secretary, board of education. Peninsula Methodist Conference, will be a member of the faculty of the Cecil County Church Workers' School for the Maryland sub-district of the Wilmington District to be held in the Elkton Methodist Church, for five nights during March. During the past few days the following persons have announced their candidacy for nomination for office at the June primaries in Cecil County: For house of dele- gates, Arnold N.

Crawford of Cecil- vuuuiv itMiHuiasiuircij, Davis J. Randolph of Bay View; Robert K. Fears. of Chesapeake City; for judge of the Orphans' Court. Charles Keithley.

Elkton; for states attorney, J. Albert Roney, of North East. Coast Guard League Receives New Memhers LEWES, Feb. 26 (Special). Progress in the membership drive of the Lewes Branch.

Coast Guard Welfare League, was reported at the February meeting held at the residence of Mrs. John M. Quillen in Quakertown. near Lewes. Mrs.

Members are recruited from coast guard men and members of their families and friends. Thousands of sufferers from the torturing; pains due to simple piles are irrate-ful over their discovery of HEM EX. This marvelous triple-action formula quickly relieves the maddening pain and itching. HEM EX coats piles with soothing, protective medicine. Really works fast.

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Sold by leading druggists everywhere. Caution: Use only aa directed. Always in stock at UN RAT PRIG STORFS in i.iini in i of under the sponsorship or tne am- ish embassy will attend the meet-; ing as a part oi ineir nisLruciiuii. John W. Asher, personnel director of the Rural Electrification Administration, will accompany the three to Denton.

Their names are O. P. Bhason, R. Ramakrishna, and P. Pappu.

The foreigners will be invited "to speak. The principal speaker will be W. D. Hemker, supervisor of the rural electrification section of Westing-house Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh, who will tell how the use of electricity can eliminate some of the drudgery of farm chores. The slate of directors to be submitted by the nominating committee for election consists of Olin Davis, of Sassafras, Kent County; Harry A.

Moore, of Queen Anne; Harry H. Nuttle, of Denton; Walter Lankford, of Salem, Dorchester County; Harvey Pusey of Snow Hill, Worcester County; Russell T. Ad-kins of Mardela Springs, Wicomico County; Harry Keenan of Princess Anne, Somerset County. The list includes two new names, Olin Davis, who will succeed Herbert Ford of Galena, and Harry Keenan. who will succeed Martin C.

Voss of Denton. The cooperative operates approximately 1,300 miles of rural electric lines in Cecil. Kent. Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worchester Counties. Although construction work has been delayed because of bad weather, the cooperative has "cut in" four miles of new line near Hillsboro and construction has started on the Chestnut Woods and Oil City sections, in Caroline County, and the Chapel and St.

Joseph's sections of Talbot County. Two Counties Meetings om Kent and Queen Anne's Homemakers to Meet In Centreville March 23 CHESTERTOWN, Feb. 26 At a recent meeting of the executive board of the Kent County Council of Homemakers held in the office of Miss Helen L. Schellinger, the county home demonstration agent, plans were completed for holding the annual bi-county meeting of clubs of Kent and Queen Anne's Counties on Tuesday, March 12, beginning at 10 a. m.

in the Centreville High School auditorium. A. B. Hamilton, agricultural economist of the University of Mary-' land, will speak on the present peace program, while Assistant County Agent Stanley B. Sutton will talk on recreation.

Plans were also made for attending the rural women's short course at the University of Maryland during the early summer, and the an nual 4-H Camp for clubs In Kent, Queen Anne's and Caroline Counties at Camp Tochwogh. near Betterton, which will also be held during the early summer. Trappers Prosper Joseph Lambert, one of the largest buyers of muskrat furs in this city, reports that the revenue from the trapping industry is increasing. Buyers were paying a better than average price for select pelts on Saturday. The supply was considerably-more than that of last year.

The season will close on March 15. The following young men have enlisted in the Regular Army through the local recruiting station: Charles J. Stevens, Wilmington, William H. Cooper, Chester-town, both students at Washington College, and Samuel J. Johnson, of Worton.

Receive Discharges SP (G) 3C Robert E. Cronshaw, U. S. has received his discharge at the Bainbridge Naval Base. Cronshaw will resume his duties with the state police force shortly.

Robert Lee Larrimore has also received his release from the naval service at the Bainbridee Naval Center and has returned to his home in Rock Hall. Thomas Medford Elburn has also received his release Iron, the naval service at Bainbridge and has re turned to his home in Rock Hal U. S. Inspector Resigns At Dover Canning Plant DOVER, Feb. 26.

After having ueen stationed at tne Richardson and KODDins canning plant here since August, 1942, Dr. M. O. Robin son nas resigned Irom the IT. Poultry Inspection 'Service, effective on Marcn 2.

Dr. Robinson, before coming to Dover, was professor of bacteriology ana immunology at the Veterinary iscnooi, Alabama Polytechnic Insti tute. Auburn, Ala. He has announced that he will now devote all of his time to handling and breeding Great Danes at his and Mrs. Robinson's "Robindane Ken nels," near here, which is one of the largest breeding establishments in the East.

Laurel LAUREL, Feb. 26 (Special). The Laurel firemen extin guished an automobile fire on Tenth Street Saturday evening. A Maryland car, which was parked, evidently caught fire from a short circuit and w-as badly damaged before the flames were checked by the firemen. The regular meeting of Laurel Post No.

19 will be held Monday evening, March 4, at 7:30. The Woman's Society of Asbury Methodist Church will hold a. bake in Calio' Shoe Shop Saturday, March 16, beginning at 9 a. m. The oi.l is being heard bv the; been.

Hjuse of Representatives banking The action also asks an Injunction and currency committee today. against any payment of dividends Waiter E. Sawdon, chairman, con-j to Class shareholders until ac-s'ruction industries section, Cham-jcrued dividends are paid to Class A ber of Commerce, has sent copies of holders at 7 per cent a year for a communication opposing the bill jthe past 12 years. Onlj7 1 cent to the members of the construction per share has been paid, it is stated, industries section, the real estate! wy -ia alien oi niningion, ivirs. iva I lea to Ixesjaill vIllHliingram, Mrs.

Helen Miller, Joseph lgram. sr. nionucj, iu. IRov Donovan, leader, at home of iMrs. Lucy Lattomus; No.

6, Mrs Henry T. Price, leader, at home of Mrs. Harvey Polen Mrs. Henry C. Webb, Smyrna, and Miss Ellen Combs, Middletown, members of the U.

S. O. junior host ess advisory committee, will attend the dinner-meeting of junior host- esses, to be held tonight at Pleasant Inn, Dover. A meeting of the Faculty Club of the John Bassett Moore School is scheduled for Thursday when the subject "How to Learn" will be discussed by Mrs. Dorothy Meyer, Miss Bess Matthews, and Miss Arie Hill.

Mrs. Charles G. Harmonson of Baltimore, formerly of Smyrna, is an overnight guest tonight of Mrs. C. Ernest Rowland.

She will leave for Philadelphia tomorrow. Wife of Mayor Ennis, Smyrna, Dies in Hospital. SMYRNA, Feb. 26 (Special). Mrs.

Dorcas Deakyne Ennis, wife of Mayor S. Creadick Ennis of Smyrna, died -this morning in Delaware Hospital in Wilmington after a long illness. A daughter of the late Wiiiard and Lillie Hutchison Deakyne, she was born in Smyrna. Surviving are her husband; a son, Victor D. Ennis; a daughter, Elizabeth Jane who live at home; three brothers, Lee H.

Deakyne, Reuben R. Deakyne of Smyrna, and WiUard S. Deakyne oi Newark. N. J.

Mrs. Ennis was a member of Asbury Methodist Church and an active member of the auxiliary of David C. Harrison Post, No. 14, American Legion The son. a lieutenant in the American Air Force, was a prisonerj jui naa ill jrtriuiaiijr jikji mail a year, ana at tnat time nis motner was seriously ill, but improved and lived to see her son return.

Mrs. Sara E. Rogers MILFORD, Feb. 26. Mrs.

Sara E. Rogers, 55 years old, wife of Reedy Rogers. Milford contractor, died suddenly at her home Saturday evening. Funeral services will be held at Calvary Methodist Church tomorrow at 2 p. m.

with interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. Milford. Besides her husband she is sur vived by six children: Mrs. Marie Rogers, Willis Rogers, and Reedy jRgers Jr- of Milford. -u unr uwu SMYRNA, Feb.

26 Spe- cialt. Mrs. Ella Price Wood. 89 years old. widow of John F.

Wood of near State Road, died in Wil- mington yesterday, daughter of Henry and Susan A. Price She was the Pratt Massey both of Dela- ware. Funeral services will be held at the W. A. Faries and Son Funeral Chapel, Smyrna, on Thursday at .1 o'clock.

The Rev. Frederick M. survived bv two sons. Norman S. Wood.

State Road, and Frank F. Wood, Wilmington; a granddaughter. Mrs. Calvin D. Porter, Wilmington; and one great-grandson.

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M. C. A. Club members and any person wishing to play are requested to bring their own chess sets and a nominal fee will be charged for the matches. Mr.

Koltanowski, who at one time played 34 opponents in an exhibition, will play all comers at tomorrow night's meeting. ELKTON. Feb. 26 Special. Mrs.

Louise V. Buckworth of Elk ton, who instituted habeas corpus proceedings in the Circuit Court here during the past week to obtain the! custody of her 5-year-old daughter from her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Buckworth of Elkton, has been denied the writ and the court has dismissed the petition. The plaintiff charged her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Buckworth, with the unlawful detention of her and testified that her husband, Ralph, took the child last month while she was asleep and placed I i her with his mother.

Barton, former rector of St. Peter's Quillen is chairman of the drive. Buckworth joined in his mother's! church, will officiate. Interment Commander Irvin B. Steele, pre-answer to the charge contending; at Odd Fellows Cemetery.

She is: sided. Ex-Naval Officer to Describe Stone Age Culture of Indians section, and the Wilmington Clear- ing House Association. nd to U. S.i Rep Philip A. Traynor.

Teen-Age Book Show-To Be Held in Schools The Wilmington Library and the New Castle County Free Library in cooperation with the public and parochial high schools and private schools of the city and county are planning a "Teen Age" Book Show during the week of March 11-15. Tne plan of the project consists of a colorful exhibit of books which be displayed in the lecture hall c-n tine second floor of the Wilmington Institute Free Library during tho week. Librarian Harland A. Carpenter announced the following committee: Leupold. Mrs.

Catherine Murphy. Rom Murphy. Mim Made-C. P.aov. Clpiinei o.

Mary Ridingt. Mih Marjorie E. Miss Dorothy William. Grace K.oc. Pauline A.

Young, the ReV John Hrei, M.ss feiiie Morton, Miss Ziirit. Cheavens, Mother Agatha, Justine P- Wood a 11. M. Channlng Wjjr.e:. M.ss Jane Oriver.

Mri. Gladys Gs-btr, Gertrude Kruse. Miss H.r. Levy. Mrs.

Margaret Ross, and Miss I rr. E'tTtn. In addition to the above features, there will be many special book events in the various schools. Ottawa Mayor Sends Greetings to Herlihy Greetings cn behalf of J. E.

Stanley mayor of Ottawa, capital of Canada, were extended today to Mayor Thomas Herlihy. at his ficex in the Public Building. The! and a book "Ottawa" tells the tory of the Cana-j can city, were presented to Mayor! Gerald M. Geldert, di-! lector of publicity for th city of Ottawa Ir. 1937 Mayor Lewis and a group of his council members visited They were so much impressed b7 Wilmington's city build-tr: that they patterned a new city tmilding in Ottawa after the Public BuHdint; hre.

Mayor Lewi ave the key to the city V) a irrcip of members of the Ii-Mar-Va Press Association when that roup mide a Canadian tour in 1339 The book which was presented to Mayor Krllhy wan written by Lu-eien Bra il, honorary historian for Cw Mr Gldrt also vi.si'd tfe ofSce y-m trv dprtmnt of the papers today. that the plaintiff was not a fit mother to have the child. E. Kirk Brown represented the plaintiff, and H. D.

Barnes was counsel for Ralph Buckworth and his mother, Mrs. Mary Buckworth. Gold Star Services CAMDEN-WYOMING, Feb. 26 (Special). The Adkins Cub-bage Auxiliary, assisted by Post No.

1207, Veterans of Foreign Wars, held a gold star dedication Sunday at Zion A. M. E. Church, Camden. A gold star was placed over the blue star in honor of William Pas-kins a Sunday school boy of Zion Church who gave his life for his country.

Gifts were presented to gold star mother from the post and auxiliary. Cheswold Man Fined DOVER, Feb. 26 (Special) John H. Dwyer of Cheswold was fined $10 and costs by Magistrate W. D.

Dwyer of Dover yesterday on a charge of failing to signal before making a turn. Dwyer's car, state police said, was involved in a collision on Route 13 three miles north of Dover when he turned in front of a car driven by Michael A. Genovese of Stamford, Conn. Advertisement RELIEVE THE PAIN OF Rheumatism TODAY! QUICKLY! For quick symptomatic relief from tortur-ng patn of Rheumatism, Arthritis. Neuritis Sciatica or Lumbago, use genuine "K-7 TABLETS." a tried.

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Alexander, Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the meeting of the Archaeological Society of Delaware in the lecture room of the Public Library. Mr. Alexander, recently discharged as a lieutenant from the "Cloak and Dagger" military group, the Office of Strategic Services, was ordered to Kunming on the secret training mission but found himself stymied by the flow of priority transportation of men and supplies across the Himalaya mountains. Forced to wait at the American outpost in Dinjan, India, the officer dis covered the existence of a tribe of Nagas, an Indian tribe whose culture approximates that of the European stone age. "The Nagas are unlike many other primitive peoples in that they expend much time and effort on things of little importance solely to enhance their social prestige," Mr.

Alexander disclosed. "Their Mega-lithic culture seems comparable to that of the primitive stone-age tribes of Europe and this prehistoric mode of life still nourishes in the village of Suntog. in th? hills of Assam Province." This tribe, Mr. Alexander explained, has been called the happiest of any Indian savage group fierce tribal feuds, disregard of the sanctity of human life, and raiding of settle border villages in search of ids and slaves still per-! stst. During his three-month stay in.

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