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THIRTEEN WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29, 1939 SALISBURY REHOBOTH BEACH LAUREL NEWS OF DELAWARE AND EASTERN SHORE ELKTON FEDERALSBURC LEWES Declamation Winner PARTIES ENJOYED ITALIANS, CHINESE, SEEK MARKSMEN $425,000 ASKED FOR WATERWAYS SCO! GIVE VIEWS IN DELAWARE CITY OF CLUB RVVA term expires May 1. Mrs.

Pillsbury has been active in civic and social work, and has organized junior Red Cross chapter in the county schools. The petitions are said to be sponsored by the A. associations and women and civic club leaders. The proponents point out 14 Maryland counties have women members on their school boards. The appointment is for six years and is made by the governor.

DENTON M. P. ARRANGES HOLY WEEK PROGRAM Special to The Morning News DENTON, March 28 Holy Week services will be conducted at the Denton M. P. Church, beginning on Palm Sunday, by the Rev.

Thomas J. Turkington. The Easter morning service will be In charge of the Sunday school. A birthday party was given at tha parsonage last night for the Rev. Milton S.

Andrews who has been pastor of the Denton M. E. Church six years. Mr. Andrews has been s-sismed to a new pastorate at Ocean City.

Other State News On Page Eleven Federalsburg Gunners Own Benefit, Birthday and Other Events Attract Interest; School Girl Touring World Range and House; Students Spring Here! Herring Caught by Angler, 75 Special to The Morning News DELAWARE CITY, March 28 When herring appear, spring is here! So say many old fishermen. Joseph Shorter. 75. the first fisherman to try his luck in the Delaware River for a number of years, was out fishing today and caught the first herring of the season here. He also caught the second one, and seven catfish and nine white perch besides.

Last year he caught the first herring of the season on March 19. "This season will be a fine year for herring and shad," he predicted. Four Teli of Homelands In 'international Program' Of Rotary Club at Laurel Special to The Morning News LAUREL. March 28 Three for Return in Spring Vacation Request for Eastern Shore Would Give Federalsburg $225,000 for Flood Work Special to The Morning News SALISBURY, March 28 A $225,000 appropriation for the Marshy Hope Creek flood control Special to The Morning News Fassett Farm in Cecil Sold ELKTON. March 28 John B.

Fassett has sold his farm in the Ninth District to Robert A. Cissell of Washington. D. C. The new owner will take possession on June 1.

The farm had been in the Fassett family for more than a century. FEDERALSBURG, March 28 Special to The Morning News DELAWARE CITY, March 28 Parties of various kinds have drawn the attention of women in this vi Efforts are being made to revive the Federalsburg Rifle and Pistol Club, of which Clarence Heine is president. The club owns a rifle cinity. Last night a party was held at the home of Mrs. J.

Albert range and clubhouse near town, eign nations were represented on an "international program" presented at the Laurel Rotary Ciub last night. To foster better understanding among persons of various nationalities represented In the community, the international service committee, under R. S. Brock, invited foreign-born people of the community to speak. Anthony Riggerio and Frank Rumpel of Port Penn for the benefit of the Parent-Teacher Associa where shooting contests have fre quently been held.

tion. A large number attended. project at Federalsburg is included in the request by U. S. Rep.

T. Alan to Congress for for three Eastern Shore of Maryland waterways projects. Partial dredging of the creek, with use of the dredged material to construct a levee, is sought in the program to prevent a repetition of the flood of September. 1935, which Inundated sections of the town with ten feet of water. Other projects asked in the shore Among college students arriving this week for a spring vacation are Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Lester of St. Georges gave a birthday party yesterday afternoon in honor of the Calio. both native Italians, the Milton Harper, freshman at Lehigh University, and Philip Jefferson, sophomore at Yale University. A number of Western Maryland and fourth birthday of their son, Bailey.

SILVER FOX SCARFS Twin or Single also Twenty-five little guests were GROUNDS LEVELED FOR COAST GUARD The Delaware Cih' Business and rani ar: I Professional Girls' Club were entertained at the home of Mrs. Charles Washington College students already have returned to their homes here for the spring vacation. The long-delayed work on the Houston's Branch Road has been started by the State Road and it is hoped that it may W. Jefferson tonight. Miss Mary I Melvtn was hostess.

flj A benefit party is being sponsored i Freak Silvers A $131,000 dredging project in Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River, for a channel seven feet deep and 60 feet wide from the head of the present Levering Creek channel to Swan Point, at the bay entrance of Big Thoroughfare River; construction of 2,000 feet of stone jetties to protect the channel. by Mrs. Kirk Lynch of Port Penn. Miss Helen Brannon, and Miss Mary former a farmer, and the latter owner of a shoe repair shop, discussed their homeland conditions as they recalled them. They expressed appreciation of the advantages and freedom in the United States.

Chinese Victory Seen Chang Hum, a native Chinese, who was educated in this country and is a recenf graduate of the University of Delaware, discussed conditions in China, especially as to the war with Japan. He expressed the opinion the Chinese eventually would win the war. The United States, he said, is the only nation China can trust in the world today. He expressed appreciation for the work of the American missionaries in China, especially during: the war, and he ventured the opinion that America now has Six-Acre Inlet Site is Made Ready for Constructidn Of New Station Building Brannon for tomorrow evening in the St. Paul's Hall for the benefit SELMA BECKER As winner of the Crisfleld, High School contest, she will represent her school in the Somerset County declamation competition in Crisfleld on April 13.

The girl also won first honors in Crisfield school last year. of St. Paul's R. C. Church.

Miss Janeth McTurk, daughter of Mrs. Theresa McTurk, and who was a student in the local high school, is now on a world tour. She will arrive in Hawaii Easter be completed this summer. Filling, grading, and draining are being done preparatory to hard surfacing. The road begins at the extremity of East Central Avenue, facing the new lake built at the Ada Elliott Chambers Memorial Park and extends about three miles beyond, serving a closely settled area.

Rotarians were addressed at their current meeting by County Agent George W. Clendaniel, who was introduced by Christian Nagel. His Special to The Morning News REHOBOTH BEACH. March 28 WPA workers are assisting in level su. ing oB the huge piles of sand on the west side of the Indian River A $74,000 allotment for dredging a channel connecting Plain Dealing and Oak Creeks, seven feet deep and 60 ieet wide, providing a shorter and protected route for seafood and pleasure craft.

Sought For Three Tears The Pederalsburij flood control project has been sought for three years. Two unfavorable reports have been returned on the project by the U. S. Army Engineers, and" a third, and partially favorable, report has been submitted to Congress. inlet, south of Rehoboth Beach.

$5,300 WPA PROJECT The site, which covers about six acres, is the one selected for the the best opportunities ever offered FOR LEWES APPROVED subject was "Why a Government Sunday. The Delaware Power and Light Company is putting up new lights on the street corners of the city. The Sons of the American Legion will sponsor a dance in the Service Hut at Fort DuPont Wednesday evening, April 5. The high school will be closed Friday, as the teachers will at ior extending Christianity in China. George May.

a native of Scotland, Agricultural Program? J. Max Chambers of Preston has Special to The Morning News Sold on the budget plan if so desired-no interest charges. also spoke. Other visitor? Included LEWES. March 28 The Delaware been named temporary chairman ofj John Kriisen of the Salisbury Rotary Works Progress Administration of the Caroline County Cotillion Club, 9 Also 2 Club, and C.

A. Lanier of Laurel fice in Wilmington, received word succeeding Paul Croll, resigned. A spring dance is planned. and 3 Skin Martens Many homes in Laurel recently have been opened up to the rapidly growing population. Many families Appointment of a woman to the i Wicomico County Board of Educa- tion is requested in petitions pre- pared here for presentation to Gov.

Herbert R. O'Oonor. Mrs. Pillsbury Favored Mrs. Richard T.

Pillsbury is sug- have remodeled their homes to in COURT RULES MILFORD HELD LEGAL ELECTION from Washington yesterday that a new project at Lewes had been approved and that $5,300 of federal funds had been set aside for this work. The project calls for the construction of a new comfort station, work FISHERS clude an apartment. A score of families connected with construction ofhe DuPont nylon plant at lord have moved here. Firemen Elect April 10 gested on the petitions as a sue- erection of a new Coast Guard station. Large shovels operated by tractors are dragging the big sand hills down, and the WPA workers are leveling the grounds in preparation for erection of the new building, which will begin when the government gives it final approval.

Girl Scouts held an old-fashioned taffy-pulling last night at the home of Mrs. Jacob Thomas, with their captain, Mrs. Edward Stephens, and her lieutenant, Mrs. Thomas Calhoun, as hostesses. Miss Ruth Schabaker of the High School faculty and Mrs.

J. Edward Tikiob were special guests. Mrs. W. S.

Corkran, executive secretary of the Rehoboth Beach Art League, announced today 45 different designs for an official Rehoboth Beach letterhead have been received. Entries in the statewide contest, in which cash prizes tend the New Castle County teachers meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sutton of St.

Georges are the parents of a baby son, born yesterday in the Delaware Hospital, Wilmington. Capt. Didrik Ostensen of Port Penn has returned from the South, where he has been visiting. He will leave for Staten Island, N. the first of the week, where he will be in command of the dredge Absecon.

The junior class of the high school will hold a roller skating party at Deemer's Beach tomorrow evening. cessor to Emer C. Heaster, whoe on the park system of Lewes, and the construction of a number of tennis The annual election of the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department will be courts. Work will not be started, how ever, until word is received from Washington on the action of Con giess on the President's request for an additional $150,000,000 for WP work. held Monday, April 10.

Nominations were made this week as follows: President, Andrew J. Ellis; vice-president, Lewis C. Boyce and Lin wood Mitchell; chief, William D. King; assistant chief, John assistant chief, Raymond Johnson, C. A.

Turner, and George Pusey (two to be elected); treasurer. Robert Hastings; secre Special to The Morning News GEORGETOWN, March 28 Chief Justice Daniel J. Layton ruled in Superior Court today that Milford's city election held Jan. 24 was legal, but that proxy votes should not have been authorized. The Chief Justice held that the "illegal votes" could be purged from the rolls.

The effect apparently would be to seat Clarence B. Downing as member of council from the Second Ward instead of Donnan Holz-mueiler, against whom Downing brought the quo warranto proceedings. Hoizmueller received 162 votes, but it was shown that 42 were proxy votes. Downing received 132 votes. In a second plea, Hoizmueller contended he had been QUASH MOTION ARGUED IN DISPUTE OF JUDGES Peninsula Deaths will be awarded for the best de- i Special to The Morning News Mrs.

Sarah Howard SALISBURY. March 28 A tary, J. Alton Knowles; janitor, John Crockett; engineers, Edgar Outten, signs, will close on Friday. The I league is supervising the contest. DENTON.

March 23 The motion to quash two warrants and funeral for Mrs. Sarah Howard, 75 consequent proceedings against Sirman Callaway, and Roland Figgs (two' to be elected); assistant engineer, Harry R. Mitchell and Robert wife of Walter Howard, former mem People's Court Judge Marion A ber of the Republican State Central Committee, will be conducted from Humphreys before Magistrate Frank Hastings (two to be elected); fire Pilgrim, Delmar, was argued in Wi the home here Thursday at 2 p. marshall, Harry R. Mitchell.

Additional nominations will be allowed bv the Rev. Milton S. Andrews The judges are expected to meet here April 8 to select the winners. Later the drawings will be shown in the Studio of the Art League. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Rapkin of here, who are in Florida, are the parents of a baby son, born at Jacksonville, Fla. A home bake has been planned by the Women's Guild of the Westminster Presbyterian Church for Saturday, April 8, at the home of Miss Anne Hazzard. Burial will be in Concord Cemetery comico County Circuit Court today. The judge and the magistrate have sentenced each other in their respective courts during the course a next Monday.

Organ To Be Dedicated Mrs. Howard died at her home yesterday. She and her husband had elected Jan. 19, 1934, for four years or until qualification of a successor. Arguing that the electorate had been given to understand proxy voting would be permitted, he contended no legal election had been held, no successor had qualified, and hence he should retain office.

An electric organ recently install judicial feud. ed in St. 'Philips Episcopal Church celebrated their fiftieth wedding an niversary four years ago. Warrants charged Judge Hum phreys acted "in a disorderly man will be dedicated and used for the first time at the 11 a. m.

service Besides the husband, she is sur ner in the Wicomico County Court House" and assaulted Clarence T. vived by one daughter. Mrs. Lacey Palm Sunday. At 3:30 p.

Frank Murphy of Denton; one grand Campbell of the John Wannamaker reporter of the Salisbury scores again with tfl Clipper daughter. Miss Sarah Murphy of Times, on March 1. or BIG BROTHER WALKER KILLED Denton; one brother, John Andrews J. Edgar Harvey, attorney for of Denton, and one sister, Mrs. Wil Humphreys, argued that the dis orderly conduct warrant was faulty.

liam B. Willey of Preston. Mrs. Ida Dyer Should the warrant be consider ACTS QUESTIONED ALONG DUAL ROAD ed valid, he declared, then proceed music department, will give a recital. Mrs.

Jean Barber Callaway will sing. The organ is a memorial to Isaac John and Matilda Fowler Wootten, and is a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carpenter, Jr. The redecora-tion of the church was also a gift from Mr.

and Mrs. Carpenter. The Woo tens were active members in the church when they lived in Laurel and Mr. Wootten was a member of the choir. ings were voia because docket entries from Magistrate Pilgrim's court failed to show that the de DENTON, Md, March 28 Funeral services for Mrs.

Ida Dyer, widow of John H. Dyer, merchant of Denton. Princess Anne and Ridgely, will be conducted from the home of he: Eikton Man Struck by Car As he is Returning With Lewes Rotary Speaker Says Value of Such Gestures To Small Nations Debatable son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and fendant had been informed of a right to a jury trial. Chief Judge Benjamin A.

Johnson and Associate Judge T. Sangs-ton Insley took the motion under advisement, announcing they expected to hand down a ruling Monday. Mrs. William C. Stevens, In Queen Anne Thursday at 2 p.

m. The Rev Tire to Stranded Machine C. M. York will officiate, and burial will be in Denton Cemetery. Special to The Morning News LEWES, March 28 In an address to Lewes Rotarians last night at the Hotel Caesar Rodney, Prof.

John Special to The Morning News ELKTON, March 28 Arthur Clark, Oxford, was released on his own recognizance on a technical MAYOR, 2 COUNCILMEN TAKE OATHS MONDAY A native of Delaware, she had lived in recent years at the home of Mr. Stevens, a retired rural mail carrier. Her husband died 17 years ago. Besides Mrs. Stevens, she is Forest Test to Be Studied Special to The Morning News EASTON.

March 28 State Forester F. W. Besley has announced that a close study will be made shortly of results of the General Seth Demonstration Forest of turpentine pines. The 65-acre tract was planted 10 years ago as an experiment to determine whether turpentine pines could be grown on a large scale on charge of reckless driving after a car which police said he was driving struck and killed Harry Butler, 25. T.

Byler, history instructor at the Lewes School, said that "playing the big brother to weaker nations. of this town, on the Philadelphia survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Mabel Sullivan of Wilmington, and Mrs. Beulah Sard of Ridgely. Thomas E.

Beauchamp Road near Havre de Grace last night. the Delmarva Peninsula. regarded by some as an evidence of Americanism, Is an imperialistic gesture on the part of the United States, and one that has already proved debatable as to best results." FEDERALSBURG, March 28 Special to The Morning News CHESTEETOWN, March 28 Mayor Philip Wilmer. and two members of city council will take the oaths of office and start new terms the monthly meeting of council next Monday night. The two members are Charles F.

Wheatley, who will begin a third term, and Dr. William H. Moyer. who Won his first term at the recent city election. Mayor Wilmer will start his third term.

All the terms are for two years. Th- Rev. H. Huchins Ward will Professor Byler, however, said NO, NO! there were dangers of isolation, which tends to weaken a nation, limit world trade, and invite decay. He approved of Sweden's theory of exercising "democracy" by building up its own nation.

He added that in Officer J. R. Buckworth of the Maryland State Police reported that the victim was improperly walking along the ''fast lane" of the dual highway, carrying a tire back from Havre de Grace to where his auto had been stranded by a blow-out. The man was pronounced dead at the Havre de Grace Hospital. Clark, police said, was passing a truck, when the accident occurred.

Butler had left his mother. Mrs. Daniel Butler, in the parked car. but an Eikton resident picked her up and brought her home in her son's absence. She did not know of the accident until notified later by police.

Her son and she were returning from Baltimore where they had gone to leave her younger daughter at a hospital. Spring and summer improvements will be the chief topic at the meeting, especially a projected $62,000 sewage disposal plant. conduct the funeral services Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Thomas E. Beauchamp, who died here yesterday at the home of his sister. Mrs.

Ira Lewis. The service will be held from the Adams Funeral Chapel and burial will.be in Union Grove Cemetery. Mr. Beauchamp. who was 71, was born -in this county, near Preston, the son of the late Andrew and Louisa Fluharty Beauchamp.

His sister, Mrs. Lewis, with whom he had made his home in recent years, is his only survivor. He was a retired carpenter. Charles Blake ELKTON, March 28 The Ridgely C. of C.

To Hear of Trip Special to The Morning News RIDGELY. March 28 Calvin D. Lynch, former president of -the Ridgely Chamber of Commerce, who building up democracy within the United States this country will fit itself best for helping other countries. A son was born yesterday, March 27, to the Rev. and Mrs.

Nelson Waite Rightmyer, of Lewes, in the Beebe Hospital. He has been named Thomas Nelson Rightmyer. This is their first child. Mr. Rightmyer is rector of St.

Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. Dr. W. F. Corkran, father of Wilbur S.

Corkran, mosquito control executive, who has been ill in the Beebe Hospital two weeks, is reported somewhat improved. Until his illness. Mr. Corkran served as pastor of the Gumboro M. E.

Church, resigning at the close of the present conference year. He is 85 years old. has returned with Mrs. Lynch and Mr. and Mrs.

Marsh Gollner of Salisbury, from' a winter vacation in Nassau and Cuba, will speak on his Cecil Homemaker Clubs Exhibit Special to The Morning News CHERRY HILL, March 28 An all-day meeting for the 14 home- trip at the April meeting of the Ridgely chamber Thursday, April 6 funeral for Charles Blake, 52, who died Sunday at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, were held this afternoon from the home of his wife's parents at Roanoke, Va. Interment was in Roanoke. Mr. Blake was born and spent his maker clubs of Cecil County will be The talk will be illustrated with col-held at Cherry Hill on Friday undsr ored motion pictures, shown by Mr. the direction cf Miss Helen Irene HGollner.

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