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Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest News United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition Fair, Less Humid Weather Conditions, Tides, Temperatures, Page 4 VOL. 136 NO. 52 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, TUESDAY. AUGUST 30, 1949 THIRTY PAGES PRICE FOUR CENTS COACH FIRM AGREES TRUMAN SAYS Reveals Wartime Williams Details of $1,500,000 Lawsuit Filed Against Pilot For Crash Injuries TO" END SKIP WITHOUT ANY STOPS APPEAL Black Market in State Senator Charges New York Racketeer, U. 5.

Aide Responsible for Poultry Shipments, Says Probe Completely Exonerates Delaware Farmers of Illegal Acts By GLENN D. EVERETT Pleasant Weather Returns After Storm Batters State Washington Correspondent, News-Journal Papers WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. Details of a huge wartime racket In black market poultry in the Delmarva area involving a well-known New York racketeer and a government official were revealed in the United States Senate today by Senator John J. Williams (R-Dei).

Climaxing months of investigation, the Delaware Senator charged that this official, still on the government payroll issued hundreds of Company Will Give Old System 'Reason able Trial9 Starting In About 30 Days If Test Not Success Action May Then Be Taken Before State Public Service Unit The Delaware Coach Company has decided not to appeal the order of the Wilmington Public Utility Commission requiring it to give up the skip-stop system and return to the old system of s-opping for passengers at nearly every corner alonj its routes in the city. P. T. Reilly, vice president and general manager, announced last night that the company wil prepare immediately to comply with the commission's order, and will give the old system a "reasonable trial." If that trial shows "that tha interest of the public is not best served by the old system" the company may take action before tha new state Public Service Commission. The firm has until Oct.

15 to put the old system back into effect, but expects to do so in about a month. First it must apply for permission of the Street and Sewer Department to mark the additional curb stops, and prepare new schedules for its coach routes. Reilly's Statement Mr. Reilly's statement follows in full: "This company regrets that the Board of Public Utility Commissioners for the City of Wilmington has directed it to abandon its present system of trolley coach stops and to resume the old stopping system which was. in effect prior to Nov.

6. 1942. Great changes have occurred in traffic since 1942. Notwithstanding these changes caused by the heavy increase in the number of automobiles now using the streets, the present system of coach stopping and new traffic regulations made from time to time by the city authorities permit passengers and motorists to get to and from the business district of the city within a reasonable time. The company believes that the order is a step backward, not only for a majority of the people who use the transit system, but also for the traffic system of the city.

"At the public hearing before the Commission held Aug. 15, it was pointed out: "that safe, convenient and satisfactory service was the company's paramount objective; "that the passenger would get more comfortable ride under tha present plan; "that schedules could be better maintained, thus providing more adequate service; "that increased stops would increase street accidents: "that the present plan is pre- See SKIP-STOP Page 12 HOOVER JOINS RANKS OF GREAT-GRANDDADS PALO ALTO, Aug. 29 (IP). Herbert Hoover became a greatgrandfather today. A seven-pound, four-ounce boy was born to the wife of the former President's grandson, Herbert Hoover III.

The child will be named Steven. The mother, the former Meredith McGilvray, and baby were reported doing nicely at the Palo Alto Hospital. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, of Pasadena, and Mr.

and Mrs. Mal- comb McGilvray of Palo Alto. Great-Grandfather Hoover is In New York. Index of the News (J. S.

WILL AID GREAT BRITAIN Legionnaires are Told England Can Count On America's Help In Hour of Crisis 100,000 View Motorcade Through Philadelphia; President is Awarded Legion Service Meda By Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. Fresi dent Truman promised Great Britain today that the United States will help in her hour of financial crisis. The President spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at the American Legion's 31st national convention after a roaring, confetti-spattered welcome by 100, 000 Philadelphians and visitors. He said the United States will examine Britain's plight in a "spirit of friend liness and helpfulness." British and Canadian representatives are coming to Washington next week to seek U.

S. aid in solving the British dollar shortage. The President laid down this four point program he said "must be carefully kept in mind" in these talks 1. "That a sound and expanding economy is essential to world peace." 2. "That we are trying to expand the exchange of goods and services among nations.

We are not looking for trick solutions to deep-seated problems." 3. "That we cannot succeed Unless we keep everlastingly at it." 4. "That the democratic nations are not proposing to interfere with one another's internal politics." 100,000 ViewMotorcade Mr. Truman rode in an open car through Philadelphia streets on his arrival from Washington. A crowd estimated by police at 100,000 watched the President's motorcade, showering paper and confetti on him from downtown skyscrapers.

"It was a wonderful turnout," said the President. He called attention to Philadelphia's First City Troop, famed horse guard which led the motorcade. "It makes a horse artilleryman homesick," the President said, "to see horses once more in use." Mr. Truman received the American Legion's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presented the medal to Mr.

Truman, stating that the President is "the first Legionnaire with active military service" to become President and also win the medal. The late Franklin D. Roosevelt xpas awarded the Legion's medal nosthumously. Johnson said that Mr. Truman, who served with Battery 129th Field Artillery in World War "has never forgotten that he once served in the ranks.

He knows what it is to be a little fellow." "The whole world looks to Amer ica, under your leadership, to hold the peace," the Defense Secretary said. Familiar Territory tvia "Prpsirient in accenting the medal from Johnson, told the dele srates: "I am reminded that I have been this hall before for a different nurnnse It was nearly a year ago when the Democratic National Conven tion, meetine in the same conven tion hall, nominated Mr. Truman for th Prpsirienev. Today it was not quite so hot as it ma ml ms4 was in the sweltering, jam-potu the nitrht. Mr.

Truman was Ainu See LEGION Page 4 HALF-BUNNY, HALF-CAT, GROWL ALL ITS OWN BALTIMORE, Aug. 29 (IP). Front view, it's a cat: rea- view, a rabbit. This freak fugitive from a lost thoi -hased out of the woods at Back River near here to rihv i.fator. the community mon grel.

It ran smack into a net held TonarH and Ed ward Claridge. From the waistline north, the creature has every appearance of a docile tabby. But south of that border, it's all bunny. It stands like a cat with a sagging stern, but it sits and hops like a bunny. It has a growl all its own nothing like a cat or dog.

And it eats only raw meat. Right now it's in a pen with Major serving as outside guard. The Clar-idges said they plan, to put it on exhibition in a couple of days and eventually hope to domesticate it. New Fountain PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29 (IP).

A $1,500,000 suit for injuries allegedly suffered in a plane crash was filed today in U. S. District Court by a New York woman. The plaintiff. Gloria Gerst-man.

22, named Samuel E. Poole, 26, an Air Force captain, as the defendant. Poole, a bomber pilot in the war, lives at East Palatka, but now is in Valley Forge, General Hospital with injuries suffered in a second crash. In the second crash, which occurred one month after that described by Miss Gerstman, Poole's wife was injured fatally. Miss Gerstman charges in the suit that she; her former husband, William Markowitz, 24, who is a Tyngsboro.

nightclub operator; Poole, and several others were at a "drinking party" July 11, 1948, at Dracut, Mass. The group decided to fly to New York to "continue the drinking party" and to get some Chinese food, the suit states. The plaintiff says she did not want to go along, but Markowitz, to whom she was then married, and Poole "compelled, See PLANE. CRASH Page 8 WEATHER, MARKET CUT STATE Prices Drop to New Low on Yields Not Affected by Drought The net income of Delaware farmers this year will be the "lowest in many years," Ralph R. Peters, executive secretary of the Dela ware Farm Bureau, predicted yes terday.

The twin risks of the weather and the market have operated against the farmers this year. he declared. He said that those farmers who managed to get through, the heat and the drought to produce large crops found that the bottom had dropped out of their markets. Most of the others, assured of adequate prices by the federal price support program, got unusually low yields because of the weather. This vas true, said Mr.

Peters, for farmers producing wheat, lima beans, peaches, tomatoes, corn, and milk. Growers of apples and soy beans are not sure yet how they will make out this year, and broiler growers have been plagued by a severely fluctuating market. In that list are the principal products of Delaware farms Wheat Yield Half of Normal Explaining in detail why "Dela ware farmers are having a time making ends meet this year," Mr. Peters said that wheat growers find that their yield is about half of normal. Thus a farm which normally produces 30 bushels to the acre this year will produce 15 to 18 bushels, he said.

The reason for the low yield in the case of what is that the winter weather was not favorable for the plants, which are sown in the fall and that heavy storms knocked their blossoms off in the early spring. The price was all right because it is supported, but most Delaware farm ers lost money on their wheat this year, Mr. Peters said. The growing of lima beans, an other big crop, was another casualty to the weather. Farmers normally getting a yield of a ton to an acre are getting only 350 to 503 pounds this year.

The heat and the drought are blamed here again blossoms dropped off early in the development of the plants. Peach growers, on the other hand, have had their first good crop in See FARM INCOME Page 21 REVOLT PLOT SMASHED, CZECHOSLOVAKS REPORT PRAGUE, Tuesday, Aug. 30 (IP). The official Czechoslovak press bu reau announced today the govern ment had smashed a group of spies and terrorists who were "upon the point of executing a well-prepared revolt" in this capital city. The press bureau said six of those convicted as terrorists had been sentenced to be executed, 10 to fife imprisonment and an unspecified number to lesser prison terms.

They were accused of high treason and spying "on behalf of a certain Western imperialistic power which they had been in contact." ARM Dying Hurricane Rips Into Central Maine, Still Doing Damage; One Death in N. J. NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (TP). The lashing tail of Florida's hurricane whipped north into Maine tonight, still doing damage.

It claimed one life and left a swath of uprooted trees, snapped power lines, smashed windows and swollen streams. Winds that struck New York at 70 miles an hour early this morning eased to about 40 mph as the gale crossed into New England. The storm was dying, but it still was a killer. Henry Reims, 75. of Garfield, N.

was electrocuted in a driving rain when he stepped on a broken power line. New Jersey was fairly hard hit. The strong gale winds, which ranged to 62 miles per hour in gusts, tore down trees and power lines, and cut electricity and tele- See HURRICANE Page 4 CITIZENS, 19 TO 50, TO BATTLE REBELS Government Soldiers Reported Occupying Cochabamba Airport By Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia. Aug. 29.

The embattled Bolivian government, struggling against Rightist revolutionary forces, tonight ordered the general mobilization of all citizens between 19 and 50 years of age. Immediately after the mobiliza tion decree was promulgated, it was announced that reservists 20 to 24 years old will be called up in the military district of La Paz tomorrow. At the same time, the government announced its planes had again bombed Cochabamba, where rebels have held out for three days in defiance of air raids and a government ultimatum to surrender. Reports have been received here that' government troops were beginning to occupy the airport at Co chabamba, drving the rebels from the field. Tonight's bombing of Cochabamba was the third raid there in two days.

The place was bombed earlier today, along with Santa Cruz, farther east. The revolutionists apparently still were holding Santa Cruz and Potosi, other cities in the tin mining district where the revolt has centered. Another report received in the capital said General Ayoroa, military chief at Riberalta on the northeast border near Brazil, had joined the revolutionary movement. This would open the attack See BOLIVIA Page 18 MAN FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO Levi Deputy, 65, who lived on the Bowers Beach Road north of Fred-erica, was fatally injured when struck by a car after he had alighted from a bus on Route 113, north of Milford. last night.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Kent General Hospital. State police at Dover said Deputy had suffered a compound fractured skull, fractured spine and crushed chest. His death brings the highway fatality toll in Delaware this year to 53 or 11 more than the corresponding period a year ago. The car that struck the victim, according to police, was operated by William B. Hering, 32.

of Milford who was traveling north on the highway. He will be arrested on a technical charge of manslaughter, police announced pending an investigation of the BOLIVIA MOBILIZES TO FORCE TO CUT BODCEJFMLS Senate Vote on Plan Is 49-28, Three Short Of 2-3 Majority Required for Passage $14,800,000,000 National Defense Appropriation Bill, $500,000,000 Less Than President Asked, is Passed By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. A Senate move to force President Truman to slash spending to a level 5 to 10 per cent below his advance esti mates was defeated in the Senate today by the narrow margin of three votes. The vote was 49 for the cut order and only 28 against.

But a two-thirds majority was required for passage. (Delaware senators voted with the majority.) The plan, offered as an amendment to a big defense appropriations bill, would have required the President to hold spending for the current fiscal year seme $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 below the estimates he made last January. To carry out the directive, he probably would have had to turn back some appropriations voted by Congress. He would have had discretion' in picking the places to cut. Foes of the proposed cut order said it amounted to passing the economy buck to the President.

Supporters of the directive said the President was in the best position to determine where to cut. Defense Fund -Voted After the decision on this issue, the Senate passed by voice vote a $14,800,000,000 appropriations bill to pay for national defense the costs of the army, Navy and Air Force. This was some $500,000,000 less than President Truman asked. It also was about $1,100,000,000 under the $15,900,000,000 figure voted by the House. A compromise Senate-House committee will try to reach an agreement.

In the process of passing the gigantic money bill which represents more than a third of all government costs, the Senate also: 1. Defeated 45 to 31 an amendment by butter state senators to prevent use by the military of oleomargarine for anything but cooking purposes. A similar proviso has been a standard feature of the appropriations bills, but House and Senate committees tossed it out fhis year. (The two Delaware senators split their votes. J.

Allen Frear, Democrat, voted for the proposal and John J. Williams, Republican, voted against.) 2. Voted down 49 to 25. an amendment by Senator Douglas (D-Ill) to send the bill back to committee and order another $273,000,000 reduction. Senator McClellan (D-Ark led a big group of Democrats and Repub licans in attempthv to nail onto the bill the "rider" requiring President Truman to cut total McClellan told the Senate this would mean a minimum saving of $2,000,000,000.

He estimated that Congress already has held appropriations $1,750,000,000 below budget estimates so far. Lucas Battles Rider Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois, battling the rider as an at tempt to shift responsibility to the President, disputed McClellan's figures. He contended it would mean that Mr. Truman probably would have to cut another $700,000,000. Most of this, Lucas said, would have to come from defense and foreign See ECONOMY Page 21 5 RUSSIAN POLICEMEN SURRENDER TO GERMANS FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.

29 (U.R).' Five young policemen fled from the Russian Occupation Zone today and surrendered to German police on the Bavarian border. American headquarters, announcing the incident, said the Germans, all single and ranging between 13 and 25 years of age, entered the American zone near Hof early this morning. They still wore the blue and silver uniforms of the Soviet Zone and carried regular German Army type rifles, pistols and ammunition. The Germans said they were stationed in Saxony and fled because of a recent Russian order saying that all members of the East Zone Police would be recruited for military service. The Russians have been organizing a highly militarized police force in their zone.

among about 16,000.000 ex-servicemen. The dividend will be paid early next year. Every World War II veteran who bought service insurance will get some part of the dividend payment. Officials emphasized that essential information on the application form includes full name, mailing address, serial number, branch of service, birth date, VA claim number, if any. and signature.

Meanwhile, treasury officials said flatly that World War II veterans See GI INSURANCE Page 13 ME Til Six Scouts Rescued From River; Falling Tree Slices Home In Two at Glasgow (Illustrated on Page 4) Regular summer weather returned to Delaware yesterday a few hours after a driving wind and rainstorm swept over the state causing property damage, power line failures and narrow escapes from injuries and drownings by 11 persons. The storm, the remnant of the Florida hurricane, caused little property damage in Wilmington aside from tearing down a few tree limbs and ripping off awnings and signs. No personal injuries were reported. In the lower part of the state and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, however, damage was considerable. Crops, especially corn, suffered heavily.

Many broiler houses and seafood packing plants were damaged. Barns and farm houses were See "WEATHER Page 4 FIVE PERCENTER TESTIMONY GIVEN TO PROSECUTORS Justice and Revenue Bureaus Get Record; Vaughan Will Appear By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. The Senate investigation sub-committee turned over to the Justice Department and the Bureau of Internal Revenue today copies of all testimony received in the "five percenter" inquiry.

It was learned that the U. S. district attorney's office had arranged to study the record to determine whether there was reason to prosecute anyone for perjury or on any other charge. William P. Rogers, counsel for the sub-committee, advised the district attorney that the Senate group has some financial data not included in the record.

The transcript included all testimony in the case of John Maragon. An accountant testified last week that Maragon had deposited in banks during a five-year period in which he has said his income was only around $30,000. Some senators suggested at the time that Maragon had left himself open to possible charges of income tax fraud and perjury. Vaughan to Appear Meanwhile, Maj. Gen.

Harry Vaughan, President Truman's Army aide and his friend for 31 years, will be called on tomorrow to answer whether he has taken unfair advantage of that friendship. The questions will be put to Vaughan by the Senate investigations sub-committee. There probably will be a lot of them, for Vaughan's name has turned up every day during the five percenter hearing. The subjects of the questions are expected to range from molasses to perfume to a race track, and to See FIVE PERCENTERS Page 26 YUGOSLAVIA ASKS AMERICAN LOAN Tito Appeals for 25 Million From Export-Import Bank To Buy Mining Machinery WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (IP).

Yugoslavia has formally applied to the Export-Import Bank for an American loan, government officials disclosed tonight. This marks the first time Marshall Tito has appealed directly to the United States for financial help since he split with Moscow nearly 15 months ago. Secretary of State Acheson is understood to be strongly supporting the Yugoslav request as a means of helping Tito combat the tight economic blockade imposed by Russia and her satellites. Officials said the Yugoslav gov ernment wants around $25,000,000 to buy American mining machinery and equipment for its lead, copper and zinc mines. Under the proposal, the loan would be repaid by Yugoslav shipments of strategic metals to the United States.

Lead, copper and zinc are among the materials being See YUGOSLAVIA Page 18 Tforged poultry authorizations, sign ing the names of well-known Delaware farmers without their know ledge or consent, and that the poultry sent out of the state on these authorizations found its way to the New York black market. Senator Williams named Clifford W. Shedd, Delaware state director for the War Food Administration, as the official responsible for the forged papers which enabled poultry bound for the New. York black market to clear that military road blockade. 'Notorious Racketeer' Named He named Charles Herbert as the "notorious racketeer" in New York whose poultry corporation, the West Seventeenth Street Poultry Com pany, a west sevenieentn toireet, was the market to which much of the forged-paper poultry was shipped for sale at above-ceiling prices.

Senator Williams said that Shedd is still employed by the government in a high position in the Department of Commerce. He said that he has been raised in salary. Senator Williams said the dis closure of the results of the investigation "completely exonerates Delmarva farmers of the false charge that they engaged in black market operations during the war while our boys were fighting overseas." Senator Williams told his col leagues that this charge had been widely publicized by the Office of Price Administration and War Food Administration and had finally led to the promulgation in December, 1944, of War Food Order 119 set ting aside for government purchase 100 per cent of the poultry raised in the Delmarva area. The senator recalled that Federal troops had been stationed at all roads leading from the Delmarva poultry area to check the papers of trucks loaded with poultry. In Top Secret File Senator Williams also charged that a fully documented report on abuses in the poultry program under Mr.

Shedd's direction had been held in a 'top secret file in Washington for four years and that no attempt at prosecution of any of the parties involved has even been made by the Department of Justice. The Delaware senator said that names of other persons involved in the wartime poultry racket could be given but that he was refraining from doing so because of the possibility that an innocent person might be unjustly accused thereby. He suggested that a full if belated investigation be made by the Senate Investigations Committee to learn and publish the full facts. Like many" another disclosure which Williams has made to the Senate this one was fully docu mented. Williams gave the file numbers and contents of the top secret" investigation reports and a word-for-word survey of their contents.

He did not say how he had secured copies of them, but told his colleagues precisely where the reports are filed in the Department of Agriculture archives. Williams said that proof of the wartime fraud first came to light when income tax investigators from the Bureau of Internal Revenue be gan questioning Delaware farmers concerning unreported poultry shipments. The farmers. Williams charged, have been questioned sharply by revenue agents who accused them of trying to hide black market profits. It was when these allegations were thoroughly investigated that farmers began learning that their names See WILLIAMS Page 21 B-30ATATEAK Navy Probers Questioning Whether Worth Violated Security in Allegations WASHINGTON, Aug.

29 (U.R). A special Navy court of inquiry today asked Secretary of Air W. Stuart Symington and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews whether any military secrets were given away in the now-famous anonymous document charging political influence on B-36 bomber purchases. The three-man court, headed by Admiral Thomas C.

Kinkaid, was appointed by Matthews last week to find out how many Navy men had a hand in the document and whether they committed any punishable offense. Cedric R. Worth, suspended special assistant to Undersecretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball, has admitted writing the document and circulating it to congressmen and Baltimore plane-builder Glenn L. Martin.

He told the House Armed Services Committee, which launched an investigation of the B-36 on the basis of the anonymous charges, See NAVY PROBE Page 12 BEING EXAMINED Egyptian Fails In Channel Try-After 14 Hours FOLKESTONE, Aug. 29 (IP). Egyptian swimmer Marie Hassan Hamad tonight failed in his bid to swim the English. Channel, after being in the water 14 hours. He was dragged aboard the accompanying boat Britannia in a state of near collapse.

At that time he was estimated to be less than four miles from shore. The swimmer was brought to Folkestone Harbor where he arrived at 9:15 p. m. GMT. (5:15 p.

m. Wilmington time). He stepped wearily ashore a few See CHANNEL Page Hi BRITISH LEADERS READY OWN PLAN i FOR DOLLAR TALKS Said to Ask Retention Of Social Program, Ignore Devaluation By Associated Press -LONDON, Aug. 29. Britain's Labor cabinet today approved a 000-word plan to throw on the table at the Washington dollar conference.

An informed source said it stands strongly for keeping up British so cial services, such as free medical service, and makes no mention of possible devaluation of the pound, now pegged at $4.0325 to the dollar. Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, and Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, will take the plan with them when they sail for New York on the Mauretania Wednes day. They start a conference Sept. 7 with United States and Canadian officials on the world shortage of dollars, especially Britain's short age. It has been authoritatively re ported "that Britain's pool of gold and dollars, a reserve she needs to back the pound in international trading for her food and raw mate rials, will be down to $1,200,000,000 by Sept.

30. That is $800,000,000 under what was set by officials a tew months ago as the danger line. 'Helpful and Encouraging The British Foreign Office said in a statement tonight President Truman's pledge of American "friendliness and helpfulness" towards the British in his Philadelphia speech was "most helpful and encouraging for the success" of the Washington talks. "The point of view expressed by the President is fully appreciated and shared in London," said the statement. The cabinet met for four hours and 10 minutes today at Prime Minister Attlee's residence, No.

10 Downing Street. Attlee, Bevin. Cripps, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and other cabinet ministers called some non- members to sit in. These included Food Minister- John Strachey, Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell and chiefs of the armed services. All these agencies spend a big share of Britain's dollars.

Some United States opinion has favored lowering the official dollar value of the pound. With devaluation, a U. S. buyer would need fewer dollars to buy British goods. Devaluation thus would enable such eoods to sell more readily in America.

John W. Snyder, U. S. secretary of the treasury, said last week this See BRITAIN Page 21 is Dedicated The new fountain is a large circu lar structure placed at the northern section of the Dark on the site formerly occupied by a pond. It consists of a small center basin of granite set in the center of a larger basin from which eight sprays are played on the smaller center-piece.

A sunken red-bric walk encircles the large basin. Near one of the steps leading down to this valk is a stone of polished Brandywine granite carrying the title of the fountain. In his remarks, Mr. Kemp expressed particular appreciation to See FOUNTAIN Page 26 Paget Amusements 21 Bascom N. Tim mon 6 Births 4 Classified 26-27-28-29 Comics 20 Deaths 4 Editorials ft Financial 25-26 Marquis Childs 6 Obituaries 4 Radio and Television 26 Society News 10-11-12 Sports 22-23-24 Westbrook Pegler 6 Woman's Page 13 Demand for Sewer Projects Exceeds Supply Facilities 1 2,000 Application Blanks Issued Here forGI Dividends At Rites in Cool Spring Park The demand for sewer projects by county communities far exceeds the ability of the Levy Court, with its present facilities, to supply them, John J.

Hartnett, court president, pointed out last night. Mr. Hartnett made his comments on the situation at a public hearing on a proposed Arden Sanitary District at which some opposition was voiced to the proposal. The court president said that the court already has established a waiting list for communities and its present facilities do not permit it to seek additional projects, especially where the residents may be in opposition to the proposal. i He emphasized the court's desire to expand the sanitary program as widely and as rapidly as possible, but pointed out that the court muse stay within the limits of its capacities.

The opposition last night came from a trustee and a resident of Ardentown. Both claimed that the vast majority of people in Arcen-towr would be against being included in the proposed sanitary district. Charles Pettit, the trustee, and M. Ray Levinson. the resident, forestalled action by the court in es- See SEWERS Page 8 More than 12,000 application blanks for National Service Life Insurance dividends were picked up at the Wilmington postoffice yesterday by Delaware Veterans of World War II.

Although many veterans made errors in filling out the forms and had to get second copies, it appeared that more than one-third of Delaware's estimated 30,000 veterans rushed in to get the applications on the first day they were available. The applications will be used in filing claims for a share in the melon to be divided The Thomas S. Be Hah Memorial Fountain was dedicated yesterday at an informal ceremony in Cool Spring Park attended by officers of the Wilmington Fountain Society and officials of the Water Department and Park Board. In his brief remarks at the dedication, Robert Kemp, the president of the fountain society, said, "To the citizens of Wilmington and patrons of this park, we feel that this fountain will not only be an ornament and a pleasure to all, but that each one of you should consider that you are a part custodian cf same and help to see that noth- occurs to destroy its beauty.".