The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 10

Ten Cleric Predicts Flier Missing In Europe Raid Health Board In Cecil Asked ForMoreAction Mokan Is Restrained In Proxy Solicitation U. S. District Judge Paul Leahy yesterday handed down in federal court a temporary restraining order against the defendants in the case of Richard B. Hand of New York City, stockholder, against the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company, Delaware corporation, and William G. Maguire, Geoffrey R.

Meller, and Charles E. Main, officers and directors of the company. The defendants are restrained in County Agents Pledge Reliable Checks on Deferred Farm Labor Draft Officials, 60 Key Farmers and USDA War Board Members Discuss Problenf at Dover; Assurance Needed So Crop Planning Can Be Begun Soon DOVER, March 10 (Special). The agricultural agents of the three counties have undertaken the responsibility of providing selective service boards with unbiased information on the agricultural status of deferred toey "are dolnK the job for which they are Adopted at a meeting here Wednesday night of approximately 60 key farmers and selective service board. Council Expresses Regret At Death of H.

F. Brown City Council last night adopted a resolution expressing deep regret on the death of H. Fletcher Brown, a vice-president and director of the DuPont Company. The resolution pointed out that by his integrity and sagacity he maintained the "high standards so essential to the well being of society." Copies of the resolution were ordered sent to the family. The meeting, which marked the return of President Shermer H.

Stradley after a three-week absence because of illness, included a motion, put forward by Harvey Y. Wood, Seventh Ward, praising the 900 volunteers who have manned the three district air raid warning centers in the state during the first 27 months of the war. The report of City Treasurer Alexander R. Abrahams showed a cash balance of $1,534,321.85, with collections for the past week totaling $18,776.97. Assembly (Continued From Ttt One) of the members of the armed forces.

He, declared at that time that "those who are engaged today in the battle for the survival of Republic should not be deprived of the right guaranteed them under our Constitution to have a voice in the selection of their elective officers. "We owe it to those men and women who are sacrificing their all that we may continue to have the right to vote to guarantee then-right to vote while they are engaged in this great conflict. vwe, at home, cannot fail them in assuring them of their right to vote. We are backing them up with guns, ammunition and their various supplies. We are backing them up with the purchase of war bonds.

We must continue to back them up by showing them democracy still lives in our country. for one, am not interested in the possible political consequences of a 'soldier vote'. I am interested in the guarantee of their constitutional rights for a free election of government officials by majority I county farm labor committee, and Unsanitary Conditions In Public Places Hit Jury Also Scores Gun 'Packers' ELKTON, March 10 (Special). The Cecil County grand jury, winding up a three-day session, submitted a report recommending that the Board of Health become more active and alert to the growing unsanitary conditions in the county. The jury would have inspections of public places in town once each week.

The jury also stated: "We are aware of a growing tendency, with some of our citizens, to carry concealed deadly weapons. We consider this practice one of the principal menaces to law and order at this time, and consider the matter worthy of the special consideration of our law enforcement officers." 29 True Bills Returned Thirty-three presentments were submitted and 29 true bills were found by the jury which also visited the county jail here in. a body and reported it in a clean and sanitary condition. A committee visited the County Home and reported finding condition to be good. Pastor Candidate to Preach The Rv.

Walter Scholten of Schenectady, N. who is a candidate for pastor of the Elkton Presbyterian Church, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas B. Foster, will conduct the morning service here Sunday morning. The young people of the church are rehearsing a concert to be held in the church Thursday night, March 30.

The church and the Sunday school room have both been undergoing extensive interior improvements for several weeks past. Farmers Club Meets The Ninth District Farmers' Club held its quarterly meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Fox, Principio, with Ralph T.

Wilson, vice-president, in charge of the program. T. K. McDowell told of a scrap drive he supervised which earned $75 for his grange. Mrs.

T. H. Reynolds gave some helpful decorating hints. J. B.

Fassitt read an article on soil conservation. Senator J. W. Hughes was the speaker in the afternoon, his theme being postwar problems and the much discussed soldier vote. Death Takes Two Prominent Delmarva Peninsula Women WT A wai, necruit Program Set Full Day of Events Features Bond Center Activities, Several Radio Programs The public program for WAC-Day, tomorrow, at the War Bond Center at the Delaware Power and Light Company, Sixth and Market Streets, was announced today by Capt.

Elaine F. Monroe and Lieut. Ethel LeBlanc, WAC recruiting officers for Delaware. From 11:45 a. m.

to 12:45 p. there will be selections by the Jive Bombers from New Cattle Army Air Base; solo selections by three WAC singers; Link Trainer "rides," demonstration of the dismantling and assembling of a machine gun, and induction ceremony for WAC recruits. From 2 to 2:30 p. the New Castle Army Air Base Band will give a concert on the steps of the Public Building. From 4 to 4:30 p.

WDEL will broadcast from the Army Air Base a skit showing release of three soldiers for combat duty by three WACs. From 6:30 to 6:45 WDEL will present a broadcast dedicated to Delaware WACs in various parts of the world. The recruiting trailer from New York Cifcy will be on display at the bond center. Sixth and Market Streets all day. From 7:45 o'clock to 8 tonight a broadcast of a conversation of Private Jack Starkey, Buddy Pepper and Sergt.

Anna Jean Horn will be presented. The three WAC singers from Chemical Warfare Service Detach-mant, of Edgewood Arsenal, will corns here through the cooperation of Ray L. Avery, commanding at Edgewood Arsenal. Technician Fifth Grade Josephine Culpepper, Corp. Dorothy Culling-ford, and Private Rita D'Ambrosio were starred as soloists in Edgewood Arsenal's all WAC-Soldier musical show, "By the Numbers," which had its premiere at the arsenal Feb.

21. Private D'Ambrosio, from Ozone Park, New York, was -frequently a radio guest singer at Fort Devens, where she had basic training in the WAC. At Edgewood Arsenal, she is a range guard in the Safety Division of Chemical Warfare Service. Private Louis G. Hawkins of Chemical Warfare School Detachment will also be with the Edge-wood Arsenal group of entertainers.

He will serve as accompanist for the WAC singers. He is well known in New York City where he was a featured pianist at Montauk Yacht Club and at Leon and Eddie's 52nd Street night club. Congregation's Attitude Important to Preacher The attitude of a congregation can do much to make or mar a sermon, the Rev. Dr. E.

Frank Salmon, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, declared today in his last sermon of a series given this week at the noonday Lenten servics in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. The speaker said he had found the Wilmington congregation the largest and the most responsive of all the cities in which he has preached Lenten sermons. Dr. Salmon spoke on "Jesus Christ and Him Crucified," and said that the real test of a good Christian is his loyalty and devotion to Christ.

The Rev. Dr. Clovis G. Chappell, pastor of the Galloway Memorial Methodist Church, Jackson, will preach at Monday's service. Students Hear Livingston L.

F. Livingston of the DuPont Company spoke on "The Chemical Age" at the assembly in the Brown Vocational School this morning. Mrs. Emma Merrick introduced the speaker and Jack Harrington, president of Student Council, presided. 1 Son Born to Abrahams Lieut.

(J. and Mrs. Alexander R. Abrahams, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son yesterday at the Abington Hospital, Abington, Pa. Lieutenant Abrahams is stationed at the Willow Grove Naval Air Base.

Mrs. Abrahams is the former Miss Hazel Hamilton, former supervisor of nurses at The Memorial Hospital. Veterans Plan Soviet Europe Russia to Rule Continent After War, Dr. O'Ferrall Says at Lenten Service A new world order will exist after the present war with Russia ruling the Continent of Europe, the Rev. Dr.

Kirk B. O'Ferrall, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul, Detroit, declarer last night in a sermon at another ot tne series of the Bishop's Community Evening Lenfen Services held in Old Swedes Church. The speaker expressed confidence in the good will of Russia. The Very Rev.

Hiram R. Bennett, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John, introduced the speaker. Dean Bennett announced that Chaplain J. B.

Walthour of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, will speak next Thursday night, and the former high commissioner to the Philippines, Francis B. Sayre, a layman of the Episcopal Church, would be the speaker the following Thursday. A mass is held each day during Lent in St.

Joseph's Catholic Church at 12:05 o'clock. Lenten Stations of the Cross will be conducted in all Catholic churches tonight, concluding with benedic tion of the Blessed Sacrament. In most parishes this Lenten service is at 7:30 o'clock. Priests, a crucifer and acolytes move from station to station of the cross, depicted in relief or painting on the walls of the churches. Prayers and a brief meditation on the event depicted in each station are recited by th priest, with responses by the people.

Volunteers (Continued From Fife One) A. F. S. volunteers accompanied units of the famous Eighth Army as the only American ground force. Now on Beachhead A contingent of A.

F. S. volunteer drivers and their ambulances are at present attached to British forces of the Fifth Army on the Anzio-Net-tuno beachhead. Among these ambulance drivers are Tome and Moore. Tome was a student at Washing ton and Lee University with the class of 1946 when he enlisted for overseas duty.

Moore attended the Nichols School in Buffalo, and Hotchkiss and Westminster Schools. He was graduated from Yale University in 1941-and was employed by Pan American Airways prior to going overseas with the American Field Service. A report from the Anzio beachhead reads in part: "On one trip to his regimental aid post, Douglas Moore had to go directly by an exploding ammunition truck in order to get there. It had been dive-bombed as he was coming down the road. Races Past Truck "He knew he was needed badly at the R.

A. P. as it was loaded with wounded waiting to be taken back. He drove the approach to the burning truck. Small explosions were beginning to throw missies first one direction, then the other.

"There were still a few seconds before the larger shells would explode. Moore raced past during those few seconds." Also with British units of the Fifth Army is Purnell. A graduate of Georgetown High School, he at-tendrd Pennsylvania State College and was a member of the class of '43 at Johns Hopkins University. Among the members of the American Field Service on duty with the British on the Burma front is Chandler. He attended the Putney School in Vermont and Bard College, where he was in the class of 1943.

The story of how Bowles joined up with the American Field Service is said to be typical Holds Ph. D. Degree He received his Ph. D. in geology from the graduate school of Johns Hopkins several years ago.

He was engaged in looking for strategic mineral deposits in the far west and Alaska as a member of a government group, sponsoring domestic de- velpoment of scarce minerals. In 1942 he joined the staff of the Re public Mining Company but last fail. he decided to give up his automatic deferment and join the Army. He resigned his position, notified his draft board to call him and got ready to enter the Army. They looked him over and rated him 4-F due to a heart murmur that he had never known existed.

Not content to be a "4-F Charlie he enlisted in the American Field Servcice. He arrived on the Anzio front just three months later. Practically all the men in the service have had at least some col lege 'education and many have ad vanced degrees. Many of the 2,500 A. F.

S. volunteers who served in France during World War I are lending their sup port to the organization in the present conflict. Typical of these is William Prickett who represents the American Field Service in Wilmington with offices in the Equit able Building. State Tax Office in Gty Extends Working Day The State Tax Department office 843 King Street, will be open until 9 o'clock tonight, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, and until 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. While the state income tax re turns for 1943 and the war emer gency tax for 1944 are not due until April 30, the state tax office is being kept open at night for convenience of taxpayers on the final days of the federal income tax period.

Many persons prepare both federal and state income tax returns at the same time. WE BUY DIAMONDS fir OLD COLD Est. ISSt I I ovt mnm Lieutenant Sheaffer Fails To Reach Base; Another Officer Gets Third Wound One Delaware officer has been missing in action over Europe since Feb. 22, while another has been wounded for the third time in the fighting in the Mediterranean area, according to word received by their parents. Mr.

and Mrs. C. Harold Sheaffer of 38 Prospect Park, Newark, received a War Department telegram Wednesday Informing them that their son, Lieut. Harold Newton Sheaffer, serving as a navigator and bombardier with the Army Air Forces in England, has been missing. He is a graduate of Newark High School where he was active in sports.

A brother, Robert, is also in the armed services. He is grandson of I. Newton Sheaffer. The officer wounded for the third time is First Lieut. William D.

Davis, of 2507 West Street. He suffered the wound in fighting with the combat engineers on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. His father said he recognized his son in a picture in a newspaper showing two soldiers receiving treatment for wounds on the Anzio beachhead. In a letter mailed Feb. 29 Lieutenant Davis told cis parents he was.

in a hospital after receiving the back wound. He said that he was improving and expected to be back in service soon. Lieutenant Davis holds a Purple Heart award for wounds suffered in the fighting in Sicily. In this engagement he was shot in the left hand. Shortly after recovering from this wound he was again wounded in Italy.

A native of this city, he was graduated from the Pierre S. duPont High School in 1938. At the time of his enlistment in April, 1942, he was employed at the Benjamin F. Shaw Company. He also saw service in North Africa.

Lieutenant Davis was formerly active in Asbury Methodist Church. Farewell Party Given For Bank Auditor Employes of the Security Trust Company gave a party last night in the Moorish Room of the Hotel Grande in honor of Donald R. Schnee, formerly an auditor atlhe bank, who leaves on March 21 for Navy training. Mr. Schnee, who has been associated with the Security Trust Company for about 15 years, resides at Wilmington' Manor where he was active in civic affairs and was president of the Wilmington Manor Lions Club.

He has a son, Donald Ralph Schnee, 6 years old. A watch was presented to Mr. Schnee on behalf of his fellow employes by T. J. Mowbray, president of Security.

A. J. Heidrich of the auditing department served as master of ceremonies. Boys' Club Unit Holds Party at Gray School More than 100 members of the George Gray School Branch of the Boys Club attended a party at the school last night. A committee of residents of the area served by the club and the school, assisted Alfred Kamm, director of the Boys' Club, with the arrangements.

They included Mrs. Charles A. Fleetwood, Charles Boyer, Albert PodelL and Charles F. Turner. The committee also discussed plans for building a clubhouse for boys when conditions permit.

There are now 210 members of the Gray School branch of the Boys' Club. 53 Newcoraen Society Members Attend Dinner Fifty-three members of the Delaware Committee of the Newcomen Society of England and their guests attended a dinner last night in the Hotel DuPont when Sir Gerald Campbell, British minister to the United States, was guest of honor. The Rt. Rev. Arthur R.

McKinstry. bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, chairman of the committee, presided. The invocation was by the Rev. Dr. William C.

Munds, rector of Christ Church, Greenville. Among those attending were Gov. Walter W. Bacon, Chief Justice Daniel J. Layton, and Chancellor W.

W. Harrington. Might Coughs ne to colds eased without "dosing. WICKG vaporus Rub1 PROMPT SERVICE REASONABLE CHARGES PEJOrJE 6CC3 AS. S.

LOWE TRANSFER CO. 26th and Gov. Prints Blrf. rra the order from continuing the ser vices of any professional proxy solicitors in preparation for the election of directors. Land Purchase By U.

S. Is Hit Gassaway Points to Loss In State Taxes Caused By Federal Ownership Loss of agricultural production and taxes to the state and its subdivisions is becoming increasingly serious as a result of the large areas of land being acquired by the federal government in Delaware, Ger-rish Gassaway. manager of the Chamber of Commerce, today. "The deadening hand of the government takes the land and it becomes non-productive, as far as farm produce goes, and also becomes non-productive from the point of view of taxes," Mr. Gassaway said.

The federal government now owns more than 30.000 acres of land valued at more than $4,000,000 in Delaware. Counties, cities, and towns in Delaware are now losing revenue amounting to $100,000 a year on this land. Pointing to the Army supply depot being established near Cooch's Bridge, Mr. Gassaway declared the depot comprises another large section of Delaware land which is being taken out of farm production and lost as a source of taxes. "On June 30, 1940, the federal government owned 70 parcels of land in Delaware, comprising 27,146 acres, with a land value of $3,620,130, Mr.

Gassaway said. Improvement value of the land was and total value $18,778,602. I "Since that date, 3.011 additional acres have been or will be purchased valued at $455,000. "The estimated tax levies applied to federal real estate in Delaware amount to something like $100,000 which our counties, cities and towns are being denied in the form of revenue," Mr. Gassaway said.

"One-fifth of the land area of the United States, equal in extent to the 21 eastern states, is owned by the federal Mr. Gassaway suggested attention should be given to the bill introduced in Congress by U. S. Senator Albert Hawkes of New Jersey, which would require the federal government to pay taxes to local governments on holdings of this nature. "We appreciate the fact that the government requires space for various war activities, but believe that such existing facilities as the Wil mington Marine Terminal or unproductive land could be for this purpose," Mr.

Gassaway said. He spoke of the anxiety of the farmers in the Cooch's bridge area, on the question of whether to plant crops or not. Democratic Committee Of County to Convene Tne New Castle County Democratic Committee will meet this evening in party headquarters, 612 French Street, to organize and elect officers. State Senator Paul B. Messick.

who has been appointed U. S. marshal here, is the present chairman of the committee. He will likely be succeeded, due to the appointment. Charles E.

Belton and State Senator Harris B. McDowell. are mentioned for the chairmanship post. Farm Leader Expires While Parking Auto EASTON, March 10 (Special). G.

Brent Rieman, for many years associated with the Talbot County Farm Bureau, died suddenly yesterday morning while parking his car on Harrison Street. Although he had been in ill health for several years, Mr. Rieman had continued his duties as representative of the Farm Bureau Insurance office here. Mr. Rieman was born in Baltimore, the son of the late Henry and Mary Claybaugh Rieman, and is survived by his wife, Ethel G.

Rieman, and four sisters, Misses Mary, Lucelia and Mildred 'Rieman, of Talbot County, and Mrs. George Chandlee of Baltimore. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, from Clark's Funeral Parlor, with interment in Spring Hill Cemetery. Dr. Walter E.

Gunby will officiate. Onion Sets Garden Seeds LUTZ SEED STORE 614 KING ST. Open Fri. Sat. Ertninr D.

COMPLETE GLASSES 'a mt -v u-i I' 1 Guaranteed to conform to your doctor's prescription. First qualify lenses. 50c UJvJthf county USDA war board members. me pian continues past cooperation of the county agents' offices with the draft boards. Those who will provide the information on which will be determined whether a farm worker should or should not be deferred are: New Castle County, Acting County Agent Ralph L.

Walson; Kent, County Agent Russell E. Wilson, William E. Tarbell, assistant county agent at large, and John F. Hernholdt; Sussex, Acting County Agent W. H.

Henderson. The cooperation they have given the draft boards in the past received commendation. Farmers Want Assurance The over which County Agent Wilson presided and in which Maj. H. J.

Dane of the Dela-ters participated, was prompted by the new ruling respecting deferments for agricultural workers and the serious labor situation which is facing the farmers. One of the principal concerns of the farmer expressed at the meeting was the question as to whether he "can start working with any certainty considering the needs of the Army." It was pointed out that without assurance as to the labor supply for harvesting, the farmer does not know how much to plant. Want Honest Cooperation It is not the aim of draft boards to impose undue hardship on the grower, the farmers were advised, but they desire an honest cooperation of the farmers on whether a worker is honestly entitled to deferment. One draft board member admonished that a boy unjustly kept out of the Army "to sit under an apple tree" would bear a stigma through life. The possibility of a changed attitude toward farm deferments was warned of unless the farmer analyze without favor whether prospective farm worker draftees are actually essential on his farm.

Scores Inexperienced City Workers One farmer said that an inexperienced man or a city boy on a tractor can accomplish little in comparison with the experienced farm boy. Boy Scouts and other boys from the city, German prison labor, and imported Jamaicans were mentioned as possible means of assisting, but it appeared definitely that the prospects of an adequate and qualified labor supply is gloomy. Daniel' G. Anderson, Rehoboth Beach, commenting on the recent flareup in Sussex County when a farmer was arranging for American-born Japanese labor, expressed the feeling that any attempt of a farmer to solve a desperate labor shortage situation should not be met with a too-hasty and emotional opposition. He said it is unfortunate when such a cash is not.

considered carefully on its merits and without undue and excited haste. William I. Boyd, Wyoming, told the group that he had the opportunity the past season to observe the activities of the several seasonal agricultural labor groups in eastern United States and Canada, and "of the different groups I observed the Japanese internees seemed to be giving the best satisfaction; at least, I heard less criticism of these people in the area where they were being used than of the other groups. Former-State Senator Louis A. Drexler, while declining to attempt to pass judgment on the Sussex Jap labor dissention, commented that thousands of American-born Jap anese soldiers are fighting under the flag of the United States in Italy like other American soldiers of foreign forebears.

Soldier Vote Bill Approved in Md. ANNAPOLIS. March 10. Final approval was given yesterday by the Senate to the two legislative measures for which the General Assembly was called into special session the soldier vote bill and the renewal of state bonuses. Also moved forward on the Senate calendar in anticipation of sine die adjournment were Baltimore city's $33,000,000 loan proposals.

Both the soldier-vote measure and the bonus legislation received unanimous approval in the Senate. Before voting on the absentee-ballot legislation, two senators said they supported the measure in spite of their dislike of the proposal. Senator James W. Hughes (R-Cecil) asserted that he objected "strongly" to the validation of federal ballots in next November's presidential election, adding that he felt the idea behind the federal ballot "is not to give soldiers the opportunity to vote, but to vote the soldiers." "I think it is going to be abused," he said. For New Home in England, son of Donald R.

Morton, Holly Oak; Dominick D. Nesci, U. S. Navy, now home on leave, and Samuel Moore, disabled veteran of recently discharged from the Army. Irving L.

Jackson, junior vice-commander, Department of spoke on the coming welfare fund campaign of the V. F. W. and Mr. Swenson told of the work of the Red Cross Veterans Clearing House organization at 801 Shipley Street, and of the work of the V.

F. W. volunteer women workers. The post stood in silence in respect to the memory of Joseph A. Iannelli, member of the post, killed in action while serving with the Warning Unit Iii City Closes Birthday Party for Veteran Member of Staff Is Held; Volunteers Are Praised A birthday party for Mrs.

William A. Cook, a member of the staff, marked the closing of the Wilmington District air raid warning center at noon today. State police have taken over he duty of transmitting to civilian defense personnel the raid or blackout warnings sent to the state by military authorities. As the noon hour was reached, George T. Lyon, a member of the committee in charge, who was present with Clark W.

McKnight. chairman, and John R. Fader, another member, thanked the women for their excellent services and cooperation. Mrs. William N.

Cann is supervisor and Mrs. William Barnhill is assistant supervisor. Both have been on duty since September, 1941. Other women on duty as the center closed were: Mrs. Cook and Mrs.

William R. Ersfeld, who have been connected with the center since September, 1941; Mrs. James Mackie, since 1942; Mrs. Charles Scholl. since 1941; Mrs.

John Swenehart. since January, 1942; Mrs. Harvey Y. Wood, since January. 1943, and Mrs.

Ralph J. Stidham, for the past six months. West Street, yesterday afternoon. The funeral will take place from the Windsor Funeral Home, West Street, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. E.

C. Hallman, pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Marvil is survived by two children, Mrs.

Samuel Black. Spart-ansburg. S. and Capt. Fred L.

Marvil, stationed at Como, one sister, Mrs. Harry Black, Philadelphia; a brother, John B. Collins, Laurel, and the following grandchildren; Dallas Marvil, Chicago, Burns Marvil, Delmar, -Private Sirman Marvil, in North Africa, Dr. Samuel Black, Philadelphia, Mrs. C.

B. Barre, Lieut. Fred Marvil, U. S. N.

serving in the Pacific area, and David and Lynn Marvil. Mrs. Annie Fisher Bower DENTON. March 10 (Special) Word of the death of Mrs. Annie Fisher Bower, widow of William Bower of West Collingswood, N.

March 2, has been received by Denton friends. Mrs. Bower was the daughter of the late Dr. George and Martha Bishop Fisher of Denton. Before her marriage, she was a member of the faculty of Denton primary school.

Surviving are a son, Wan-en Bower of Philadelphia, and two daughters. Miss Marian Bower of West Collingswood, and Miss Esther Bower, a missionary, who returned from the Orient aboard the Gripsholm, in December. She also leaves one brother, Col. G. Arthur Fisher, U.

S. retired, and one sister, Mrs. Grace Burkett of Sewell, N. J. Parsons Funeral CHESTERTOWN, March 10.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella F. Parsons, aged 56 years, who died on Sunday in Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia, were held at 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marion L. George, near here, conducted by the Rev.

Lester E. Loder' of Bond Methodist Chapel. Interment was made in Chester Cemetery here. Besides her husband, Marion S. Parsons, living near Pomona, she leaves a son, Maurice Walter Parsons, U.

S. and her daughter, Mrs. George, also four brothers, William, Irving Loller of Pennsylvania; Sudler Loller of Fairlee; a half-brother. Hicks Loller of Worton, and a half-sister, Mrs. Edgar R.

Pennington, Chester-town. William Adkins Dies DELMAR, March 10 William L. Adkins, 43, died yesterday in the Brandywine Sanatorium where he had been a patient for the past seven months. Funeral services will be held at the home here tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev.

C. W. Robb, pastor of Melson's Church and the Rev. David C. Campbell of Ellen-dale will officiate.

Interment will be in the Melson's Church Cemetery. Mr. Adkins is survived by his widow, Mrs. Flossie Adkins and two sons. Private W.

J. Adkins, Camp Cooke, and Alvin Adkins of Delmar, Also surviving him are the following brothers and sisters: Marion Adkins and Mrs. Lulu Tru-itt, Delmar; Virgil Adkins. Norfolk, James Adkins, Wilmington, and Mrs. Mary Entline, Philadelphia, Pa.

Friends may call at the home this evening. Buy War Bonds and Stamps! Buy War Bonds and Stamps! ruie. it is necessary under our form of government for all citizens to vote, regardless of whether they are civilians or in the military service. "We are proud of our armed forces and what they are doing. We must continue to display this pride in every way.

Past Special Session The last special session was called by the late Gov. Richard C. Mc- Mullen on May 4, 1937, and was convened for one day on May 18, 1937. The purpose of the session was to enact legislation providing for an appropriation for the school budget for the followinc biennium and to provide for the diversion or transfer of future franchise tax receipts to the general fund to be used to meet the appropriations required of the state for the University of jeiaware, trie State College for Colored Students and the State tax Department for the following bi ennium. Prior to that.

U. S. Senator jouck nearing completion of his second term as Governor in 1936. called a special session of the General Assembly which convened on Dec. 28, 1936, to consider unemployment insurance measures in connection with the federal social security act.

After meeting for four days, the General Assembly, comprising a Republican Senate and a Democratic House, adjourned on New Year's Eve without accomplishing anything, due to political differences. Federal Vote Backers Opposing Compromise WASHINGTON, March 10 (Unoriginal Senate backers of uniform federal ballots for overseas servicemen appeared today to have abandoned hope of obtaining such a ballot and to be seeking instead the defeat of the compromise soldier vote bill drawn up by House and Senate conferees. They believe the compromise measure would actually reduce the number of soldiers able to vote in the forthcoming campaign, and apparently are counting on a presidential veto to help them defeat it if their colleagues do not do so. The conference report was given to the Senate yesterday by Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex) and is scheduled for debate Monday. A.

S. Summers Dies at Milf ord Military Honors Planned At Funeral Service For Former Officer in Guard MILFORD, March 10 (Special). Arrangments are being made for a military funeral for Maj. Anthony S. Summers, military and civic leader, who died suddenly last night near his home.

The services will take place at the Berry Funeral Home, Milford, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery here. Major Summers was stricken while preparing ground for a garden in a field adjoining his home. Mrs. Summers found the body in the field.

A rural mail carrier from the Mil-ford postoffice, Maj. Summers was organizer and first captain of Company Delaware State Guard, which will provide the honor guard for the funeral. Because of a federal regulation which prohibits a federal employe from participating in state military affairs. Major Summers resigned from the State Guard in May of 1942. In World War I.

Major Summers served overseas with the 59th Pioneer Infantry Regiment and became active in the Delaware National Guard upon his return to Milford. He was prevented by his physical condition from accompanying the regiment when it was inducted into the Army in September of 1940. Major Summers was a leader in the civilian defense organization, was district director of the Aircraft Warning Service for Milford, and was commended for his work by Army officers. He had served as vice-com mander, Department of Delaware. American Legion; secretary, Milford Rotary Club, secretary-treasurer of the club's Boy Scout committee; was a member of Temple Lodge, No.

9, A. F. A. Evergreen For est, No. 49, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and Avenue Methodist Church.

In addition to his wife, the former Eleanor Marsh, Major Summers is survived by a son, Charles, connected with the Philco Electric Company, Philadelphia. Coffee to Burn Brazil, producer of 75 per cent of the world's coffee, in order to regu late prices, burns some $20,000,000 worth of surplus stock annually Coffee not burn naturally, so kerosene is imported at a cost of $1,000,000 annually to keep it afire, and the odor of this burning coffee can be detected 100 miles at sea. SALISBURY, March 10 (Special). Mrs. Edna Sheppard Adkins, 65 years old, one of Salisbury's most prominent women, active in religious, welfare work, and musical circles, died unexpectedly yeste morning at her home on Park Avenue.

She was the wife of Fred P. Adkins, president of the E. S. Adkins and recipient of the Salisbury award last year. Mrs.

Adkins was born in Pitts-vine, a riauehter of the late Wil liam E. and Ella Smith Sheppard. The family moved to sansDury in 1889 and Mrs. Adkins was graduated from the Wicomico High School in 1894. She and Mr.

Ad kins were married Nov. 19, 1902, in the Bethesda Church. She served the church in many ways, including her leadership of the Women's Auxiliary which named her its first president. She sang in the Bethesda Methodist Church choir and was best known as teacher of the Women's Bible Class which she has taught for the past 25 years. Class members had been told last Sunday that she would be unable to continue teaching them.

Although Mrs. Adkins had not been critically ill, her health had declined in the past years. Mrs. Adkins also was a member of the National Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church, and a member of the woman's committee of the Federated Council of Churches. She also was a member of the Senior Auxiliary Board of the Peninsula General Hospital serving as vice-president, a member of the Wicomico County Welfare Board, and of the Park Commission of Salisbury.

Wednesday afternoon she attended a meeting of the Traveler's Club of which she was a member. She was also a member of the Wicomico Woman's Club. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this morning pending the arrival of Mrs. Adkins" only daughter, Miss Bertha Adkins, resident dean of women at Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass. Another daughter, Eleanor, died during the influenza epidemic in 1918.

Mrs. Adkins is also survived by two brothers, William A. Sheppard, and Walter Sheppard, two sisters, Misses Nellie and Bertha Sheppard, all of this city. A nephew, Lieut. E.

Sheppard II, U. S. N. also survives. The postof flee flag will fly at half-mast until after the funeral.

Mrs. Effie Gillespie Of Perryville Dies ELKTON, "March 10 (Special). The funeral of Mrs. Effie Gillespie, widow of the late Joseph E. Gillespie of Perryville, who died at the home of her son, Joseph E.

Gillespie. in Philadelphia, was held yesterday afternoon from Patterson's Funeral Home, near Perryville, with interment in Hopewell Cemetery, near Woodlawn. She is survived by four sons, -Willis M. of Perryville; Raymond W. of Elkton; Joseph E.

of Philadelphia, and Sergt. Allen C. Gillespie of U. S. Army, stationed at K.

E. Coughton Field, also two grandchildren, Alice Gillespie of Baltimore and June Gillespie of Perryville. Mrs. Sallie L. Marvil, 85, Dies at Home in Laurel LAUREL, March" 10 (Special).

Mrs. Sallie L. Marvil, 85 years old, widow of J. Dallas Marvil, one of the founders of the Marvil Package Co. of Laurel died at her home oa Admiral duPont Post, V.

F. W. Members Express Desire to Have Own Quarters Tentative plans for acquiring a post home were discussed at the meeting of Admiral Samuel F. duPont Post, No. 2084, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in the Hotel DuPont last night.

James Arieff, commander, presided at the meeting. The post has been meeting, since organization, in the Hotel DuPont and is planning to acquire a new home in the future. Members of the new home committee are Joseph A. Iannelli, chairman: Lewis Zebley, Paul Podolsky, Lloyd W. Ricards, James RathmeL John Edsell and Henry O.

Swenson. Three new members were elected at the meeting. They are William Scott Morton, now -with the ArmyNavy. I.