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SECOND SECTION Wilmington Morning News JULY 8 WEDNESDAY. 12, 1944 1 IN BONDS SOLD AT RALLY Wings Over Jordan Chorus Sings Before 1,000 Dover Folk; Governor Speaker Speciai to The Morning News DOVER, July 11-More than $2,500 In sales of war bonds and stamps was realized from the war bond rally held in the armory last night, which featured the Wings Over Jordan Chorus, according to report of the Rev. G. Emory Matthews, pastor of Mt. Zion A.

M. E. Church, sponsor of the rally. A otal of $2,175 was disposed of in bonds, and net proceeds from the affair, amounting to between $400 and $500, will be invested in bonds made out to the board of trustees of the church. Gov.

Walter W. Bacon appealed to the 1,000 or more who attended to give cognizance to the admonition of General Eisenhower against false optimism and complacency and cited the casualty lists which should serve as warning to all Americans that they most not fail in their obligation to support the men on the fighting fronts with war bonds. Mayor J. Wallace Woodford, referring to the Wings Over Jordan Chorus as the principal feature of the rally, spoke of the significance of music in national life and as a builder of morale. Music, he said, is universal language and he recalled the stirring war songs of the first World War.

Other speakers included Dr. Howard D. Gregg, president of the Delaware State College for Colored Students: Harley F. Taylor, professor of agriculture teacher training of the same institution, and the Rev. William L.

Cheatham. After Mr. Matthews had opened the meeting, William K. Paton, Kent County War Finance chairman, introduced the speakers. Dr.

O. A. Bartley, president of Wesley Junior College, said the invocation. Mr. Matthews directed the selling of bonds.

The entertainment followed the speaking program. The chorus was conducted by the Rev. Glynn T. Settle, founder and director of the group of singers. WASHINGTON, July 11 (P)-Increased farm machinery production has made it possible to reduce from 31 to 19 the types to be left on the ration list after July 20, the War Food Administration said today.

Overall farm machinery production is now at an annual level which approximates production in 1940-a better than average year--and maintenance of output at this level for the 12 months beginning July 1 is anticipated. The 19 types of implements which will continue to be rationed include: Combines, corn binders, corn pickers, manure spreaders, mowers, sidedelivery rakes, hay loaders, pick-up hay balers, tractors, grain drills, potato planters, potato diggers, silo fillers, irrigation pumps, power sprayers, garden tractors, deep and shallow well water, systems, power pumps and coolers. FARM MACHINE RATION LIST TO BE SHORTENED KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OFFICERS INSTALLED Newly elected officers of the Bishop Monaghan Council, No. 2872. Knights of Columbus, were installed last night at a meeting in St.

Elizabeth's School. They include William Savery, grand knight; the Rev. Francis Desmond, council chaplain; John V. Ryan, state deputy; Stewart Lynch, state advocate; Frank Doherty, state secretary, and John Golden, warden. The meeting was opened by Mr.

Savery and the installation, after a short business session, was conducted by Mr. Ryan. Brief speeches were made by the news officers and by Harold J. Butler, grand knight of the Bishop Curtis Council. SUBURBAN GRASS FIRES The Minquas Fire Company of Newport was called three times to quell a persistent grass blaze at Belvedere yesterday.

The fire spread over several acres and threatened a house at one time but firemen prevented any damage. The Five Points Fire Company of Richardson Park was summoned to extinguish a grass fire on the B. A. Beste farm on Boxwood Road. Flames here 1 also threatened buildings but were quickly extinguished by the firemen.

4 WIN SCHOLARSHIPS AT RELIGION SCHOOL Scholarships from St. Anthony's Religion School to Salesianum CathSchool for boys to be used, beginning next September, have been awarded to Richard Leone, Joseph Davia, John Fierro, and Anthony Bernardo for attendance and proficiency during the past year, it was announced yesterday by the Very Rev. Dr. J. Francis Tucker, O.

S. F. pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church. The winners have been students at the Bayard Junior High School.

St. Anthony's Religion School, conducted throughout the scholastic year, and also through part of the summer, has an average attendance of more than 400 boys and girls of the parish attending public schools. Classes are held three days a week after public school hours. High school students from this parish attend regular sessions of the Newman Club which sponsors a doctrinal and social program once a week. CITY ENDS FISCAL YEAR WITH $745,644 BALANCE Wilmington ended its 1943-44 fiscal year with a balance of 644.29, the largest in the city's history, was disclosed yesterday by City Treasurer Alexander R.

Abrahams. The balance and the receipts brought forward as of July 1, 1943, totalled $4,177,550.65, also the largcomparable starting balance in the city's history. The year end figure of $745,644.29 compares with $690,473.23 at the end of the 1942-43 fiscal year; $649,795.63 at the end of the 1941-42 fiscal year, and $456,965.61 at the end of the 1940-41 fiscal year. Under post-war planning when the city may attempt capital: improvements both to provide work and to complete desired projects a large balance, of which some part can be diverted to public works, will be desirable, it was explained. Peninsula Deaths E.

Hilan Wharton LINCOLN, July 11-Funeral ser7ices for E. Hilan Wharton, 45, will be held tomorrow at 2 p. from Lofland Funeral Home, Milford. thee Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milford. Mr.

Wharton, a gasoline station survived wife, his parents, operator, died. on Sunday. He is Mr. and Mrs. E.

M. Wharton of Ellendale; a sister, Mrs. Montilles Webb, Greenwood, and three brothers, William a Deepwater, Allen Greenwood, and Walter, Georgetown. George Littleton Blades HARRINGTON, July 11-George Littleton Blades, 76, of Burrsville, died this morning a few hours after he had been removed from home to the Kent General Hospital in Dover. He was born in Kent County, and had lived near the Maryland Line all of his life.

He was the son of the late William Henry and Margaret Jenkins Blades. He retired as a farmer after suffering a slight paralytic stroke some time ago. He later served as clerk in the general store of Harry Porter Burrsville. Funeral services will be held from Wesley Methodist Church, Burrsville, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of the Rev. Frank McCorkle, assisted by the Rev.

T. J. Sard of Wilmington. Interment will be in the Denton Cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Mary Elma Blades and one son, former State Rep. Harlan Blades; five grandchildren, one of whom, Harlan R. Blades, with heavy field artillery, just left for foreign service. Also one sister, Mrs. J.

W. D. Tubbs, Viola, survives. COURT CLERK ENDS LIFE CHICAGO, July 11 -A body recovered from Lake Michigan by Lincoln Park police today was identified as that of Maurice McGrath, Detroit Circuit Court Clerk, who leaped from the lakes steamer, City of Grand Rapids, on July 8 after leaving a note at his hotel saying he would not return from a moonlight excursion trip. REPUBLICANS LACK CONTESTS IN KENT Party to Nominate Slate On Saturday; Candidates Announced by Chairman Special to The Morning News DOVER, July 11--The Republican Party of Kent County will nominate its slate of candidates for county offices, Levy Court, and State Legislature at primaries Saturday afternoon with no contests to be decided.

Because of the absence of contests, the primary election will be a perfunctory affair with the polls to be open only a short time, D. D. Wharton, chairman of the Kent County Republican Committee, said tonight. Candidates Withdraw The two contests which had developed for sheriff and for commissioner from the First Levy Court District were removed by withdrawal of Deputy Sheriff Henry Weaver, near Harrington, as a candidate for sheriff, and by the withdrawals of Frank D. Wright, Dover, and William H.

George, Smyrna, from the Levy Court race. James Edward Melvin, Felton, is unopposed for sheriff and Coroner W. Millaway Broadway, Smyrna, is unopposed for Levy Court commissioner. The remainder of the slate, with candidates for representative from the Sixth Representative District and for Second Levy Court District commissioner, to be chosen by the county committee, was announced tonight by Wharton as follows: Prothonotary, Magistrate Charles duPont Ridgely, Camden; register of wills, William W. Simpson, Harrington, present sheriff; coroner, John T.

Benson, Dover; comptroller, Frank P. Walker, Harrington, incumbent. Levy Court Districts Levy Court, Second District, Jonathan L. Willis, Milford, incumbent. State representatives, First District, James Davidson, Smyrna; Second, former-State Corp.

John H. Conrad, Dover; Police, Norman D. Short, Clayton; Fourth, Howard F. Schweitzer, Hartly, incumbent; Fifth, Benjamin F. Johnson, Dover, incumbent; Seventh, C.

Fred Feifer, Wyoming; Eighth, Thomas E. Moore, Magnolia, incumbent; Ninth, William G. Humes, Harrington; Tenth, George A. Swain, Milford, incumbent. State Senators, Second District, Samuel Weigel, Kenton; Fourth, Archie C.

Ford, Harrington. Frank Attix is the present Senator from the Second Senatorial District and Charles L. Sipple from the Fourth. Both are Democrats. The holdover Senators from the other three Senatorial Districts are Republicans: William Deanne Johnston, Dover, First; Harry R.

Jones, Rising Sun, Third, and Robert H. Yerkes, Houston, Fifth. WAGE INCREASE PLAN OFFERED FOR POST- -WAR WASHINGTON, July 11 (U.P.)Vice-President Richard T. Frankensteen of the United Auto Workers (C. I.

today proposed a continuing scale of wage increases during the reconversion and postwar period as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Testifying before the Senate military affairs war contracts subcommittee on reconversion in the aircraft industry, Frankensteen said that unless wages are increased, reductions in overtime and shorter hours will reduce the totals of wages and salaries by as much as 40 per cent even if there is no change in wage rates, and even if there is no net reduction in employment. Let freedom ring on Uncle Sam's cash register! Buy U.S. War Bonds and Stamps! Hands -BURN and are rough dry, often And longed-for lief in the bland, comforting action of RESINO AND SOAP FREE! THIS WEEK ONLY! 3 New Rose Dawn Plants If you'll send 25 cents for postage and handling To advertise our unique method of selling direct from nursery to you through the mail, we'll send you three well rooted Rose Dawn perennial flower plants, ready to set out in your yard. These are the new flowers you have been hearing about through radio stations and the garden magazines of the country.

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Now you may have three selected two-year-old specimens for the cost of postage and handling, 25 cents. Offer good this week only. Send your request, enclosing 25 cents. to: CLARK GARDNER Route 1, Box 187 Osage, Iowa LINCOLN CITY MAN DIES IN ACTION ON D- DAY Special to The Morning News LINCOLN CITY, July 11-A veteran of the North African and Sicilian campaigns, Pic. George C.

Beebe, 24, son of Mrs. Grace L. Beebe, was killed in action on D- Day in France. In his zeal to get into the armed forces, Private Beebe voluntarily underwent an operation, when rejected because of a disability from enlisting in the Pfc. G.

C. Beebe 198th C. and immediately after his recovery enlisted in the Army. In addition to his mother, he is survived by a twin brother and sister, Gerald and Geraldine; three other brothers, Private James L. Beebe, in New Guinea; Sergt.

Charles Y. now at Camp Haan, Richard, at home, and five other sisters, Mrs. Nathan E. Wing, Dover; Mrs. William Spencer, Milton; Mrs.

Grace E. Hughes, Lincoln; Miss Virginia Beebe, and Miss Isabelle Beebe. RFC TO SELL SURPLUS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY WASHINGTON, July 11 (P)-The Surplus War Property Administration announced today that all surplus governmer real estate, except industrial real estate, maritime commission property, and property controlled by the National Housing Agency and the Federal Works Agency, has been assigned to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for disposal. As a matter of general policy, the announcement said, agriculture land will be disposed of in family-sized farms, and original owners will be given preference if they want to repurchase the land. W.

L. Clayton, surplus war property administrator, said the selection of RFC followed a report of a committee representing the Army, Navy, the Interior Department, the Justice Department, the Maritime Commission, the RFC, the Agriculture Department and the National Housing Agency. NEW CHAPTER OF WIPS TO BE FORMED TODAY A new chapter of Women in Production Service will be formally mobilized today at the Wilmington Company. The chapter will be Shops of E. I.

duPont de. Nemours instituted by Mrs. T. S. McElrath, chairman of the WIPS Central Committee at the DuPont nylon plant, Seaford.

Women Marines, WACS, WAVES, and SPARS will participate in the ceremony which start 3:15 o'clock. E. F. Gehret, assistant manager, will entertain the group at luncheon and will conduct a tour of the shops. Organized March 1, 1943, at DuPont's Spruance rayon plant, near Richmond, the WIPS have the primary purpose of assisting to win the war in the shortest time possible.

The organization offers rewards for outstanding achievements in attendance, safety, plant production service and War Bond purchases. TWO JOIN AIR FORCES In the latest group of 17-year-old youths enlisted in the Army Air Forces at Camden, N. for active duty after they become 18, are two from this area: Joseph S. Stachow, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Stachow, 620 Townsend Street, a graduate of Wilmington High School; and Leroy Benge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Benge, of Kennett Square, a student at the Kennett High School. HAVILAND TELLS OF POLICE WORK Superintendent Speaks To New Castle Rotarians On Plans to Assist Children Special to The Morning News NEW CASTLE, July 11-Paul W. Haviland, superintendent of Delaware State Police, addressed the meeting of the Rotary Club of New Castle and expressed the belief that within the near future the state would have the most outstanding organization.

He explained the training received by the troopers at the present and added that they are instructed in the latest methods of law enforcement. Future plans cover the assistance to be given to the youth. in an effort to overcome juvenile delinquency before it has a chance to start. According to Superintendent Caviland this is part of the obligation of the police. Prior to coming to, Delaware, the superintendent was associated with the FBI and he outlined some of the technique followed by the organization and he paid high tribute to J.

Edgar Hoover, the head of the bureau. George T. Lyon, program chairman for the month, introduced speaker and announced that Vaile Cosler of the DuPont Comwill be the speaker next week pany on "Synthetic Rubber." The carnival being sponsored by the Good Will Fire Company will open for business tomorrow night on the field opposite the William Penn School. At a meeting of the firemen tonight final plans for the affair were completed. Jesse A.

McKay is general chairman of the committee. Proceeds of the affair will be used by firemen for equipment and for the maintenance of their present equipment. Fire today destroyed a straw stack and a wheat field on the property of Mrs. Fannie Mendinhall on the River Road. The Good Will Fire Company responded to the call and had the fire under control when assistance came from the Delaware City and Minquadale Fire Companies.

Recently the mansion on property was damaged by fire. The blaze today was caused by a thrasher. removed Lena Lightner was today, to in the the Wilmington Good Will General amHospital bulance. Mrs. Helen Law was taken to the Delaware Hospital today from the Delaware Rayon Company.

The firemen tonight extinguished a grass fire at the State Road Garage. No damage was reported. BRACK-EX SCHOOL WILL HOLD PICNIC ELSMERE, July 11--The annual picnic of the Brack-Ex Methodist Sunday School will be held next Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock on the church Games, stunts, and contests for young and old are being arranged and prizes will be awarded. Those attending are to bring a picnic supper. The Sunday School will serve an ice cream treat following the supper.

The committee in charge of the arrangements includes Raymond L. Sneath, William C. Lang, Mrs. Betty Davis, Mrs. Frances Boyer, Mrs.

FRANK H. ESCOTT SON NOW LOCATED AT 813 ORANGE ST. PLUMBING HEATING INDUSTRIAL PIPING PHONE 4-2434 Walter F. Marshall, Mrs. Watson Ross, Mrs.

Rosser Taylor, and Mrs. Warren H. Reuss. The session and the board of trustees of the Elsmere Presbyterian Church will each hold their monthly business meetings tomorrow night 8 o'5clock in the church. The Rev.

at Clarence S. Hoffman, pastor, is moderator of the session and will preside. Charles C. Dawson, president, will conduct the meeting of the trustees. The Rev.

John Edward Jones, pastor, will conduct the mid-week prayer service at the Brack-Ex Methodist Church tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock. CO- OPERATIVES TO AID SUNNYBROOK COTTAGE Financial and maintenance assistance for Sunnybrook Cottage, the anti-tuberculosis home for children, will be undertaken as a service project of the Wilmington Co-Operative Club, it was announced last night at a dinner meeting of the organization in the Hob Tea Room. The service committee of the club, C. L. Lyman, chairman, will direct the assistance, Robert W.

Armstrong, club president, said. Other members of the committee are J. J. Fidanza and C. A.

Eckman, The next meeting of the Co-Operative Club, scheduled for Tuesday evening, July 25, be held at the Sunnybrook Cottage as will the Aug. 22 meeting, it was amounced. The Aug. 8 meeting (the club is holding but two meetings a month during July and August) will be a business meeting at the Hob. OWNERS ARE LAGGING IN RELICENSING CARS With approximately 19,000 automobiles to be reregistered in New Castle County by Sept.

30, only 50 car owners have secured the new plate inserts, according to Frank L. Reed, manager of the Wilmington office of the Motor Vehicle Department. It was estimated that out of a total of 28,919 cars in the state whose plates expire at that time only about 100 have been reregistered. Department officials urge prompt renewals to avoid a last-minute rush during the final weeks of September. Cars in this group became eligible for reregistration July 1.

TWO BOYS ARRESTED The boys 13 and 16 years old who, police charge, shouted too loud when playing cards near Second and Scott Streets, were arrested yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct. The boys had been warned previously to cease their actions, police said. They were turned over to Juvenile Court authorities. TO DISCUSS TOWNSEND PLAN RIDGELY, July Townsend National Recovery Plan" will be the subject of a lecture by George Woodson of Clarksburg, W. at the Methodist Church House here Thursday at 8 p.

m. In the Bean ground to order Its time to Coffee! turn to AsP Buy Eight O'Clock, mild and mellow or Red Circle, rich and fullbodied or Sekar, vigorous winey your friendly AAP Store. You get finer, fresher flavor! OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED All Day Thursday In Respect and Memory to Our Associate EDWARD A. MUNCH Secretary of THE CROSBY HILL CO. George C.

Kaehn Frank F. Morton President Executive Vice-President and Treasurer BOOKS ARE SOUGHT BY TRAVELERS' AID Campaign Begun to Collect 5,000 Pocket-Size Volumes for Those in Service The Travelers' Aid Society is starting a campaign to collect at least 5,000 pocket size books for service men and women who pass through Wilmington, Mrs. Henry T. Bush, president, announced yesterday. The books are kept at the U.

S. Aid lounge at the Pennsylvania Railroad station for members of the armed forces to read or take with them. Contributions of the small booksfound to be the only convenient size to be carried by the service men and women--and old or new packs of playing cards, which are also sought, are to be left at the Wilmington Institute Free Library. Actual distribution of the books will be handled by members of the Women's Aid, Pennsylvania Railroad. Business and industrial organizations, service clubs, the Hercules and Atlas Girls Clubs, the Wilmington Teachers' Association, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the A.

W. V. S. and the Junior League will cooperate in the drive. BRIDGE TRAFFIC INCREASED PHILADELPHIA, July 11 (P) Traffic over the Delaware River Bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, N.

increased 48.56 per cent in June over the same month RESORTS--Atlantic City, N. J. DELAWARE CITY HOTEL Tennessee 2nd from Beach. Rooms $1.50 up day. Special Wkly.

Private baths. Run': water. $2.50 day. Wm, Laird. a year ago, Joseph K.

Costello, general manager, reported today. Total traffic for June was 976,974 vehicles, an increase of 319,385 over 1943. BOY HIT BY COACH HAS SKULL FRACTURED Two children were injured in vehicular accidents yesterday, one of them suffering a fractured skull when struck by a trolley coach at Third and Monroe Streets. The latter child, Frederick Lopez, 6, of 505 West Twelfth Street, was struck when he ran from the sidewalk into the side of the coach operated by Joseph Bagg, of Holloway Terrace. The child was taken to the Delaware Hospital.

Bagg was arrested by police on a charge of assault and battery. Jacquelyn Finch, 2, of 920 Jefferson Street, suffered a possible fractured skull when she was struck by a car operated by Samuel Cotillo of 403 Third Street, near her home. was taken to the DelaWesthe ware Hospital. HALIFAX BECOMES EARL LONDON, July 11 (U.P.)-Viscount Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, who was raised to an earldom in the recent birthday honor list of the King, has taken the title Earl of Halifax, it was announced today. RESORTS Wildwood, N.

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