The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 22

Journal-Every Evenings Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, August 31, 1944 employed at the nylon plant of the DuPont Company at Seaford. Charles B. Williams Warrant Officer Williams, who was wounded in the fighting in Italy has now recov- Two rCain and AbeV Shootings In Cecil Set for Probe of Jury Electric Sales Boost Finances Dover's Grow I Reported 224,612.73 for Year; Balance Is $91,357 counts, tr $35,128.14. Disbursement liemi included: Operating and general experts, electric department, administrative and general, street department. water department.

police department, $1853325; incinerator and disposal plant. fL- department. $2.669 35. sewer department. $2305.54.

Capital disbursement, retirement of bonds, $75 000; purchase of mill property, $12,720 63; addition to switch house. $11,095 62; surveys and maps. storeroom additions and improvement. new equipment, $2,609.12. Open House9 for New Students, Parents to Be Tried in Kent, Md.

Supt. Louis C. Robinson Introduces New Pre-Opening Feature for Getting Orderly Start; 'Sing' Supporters Vote for One More Rally CHESTERTOWN. Aug. Louis C.

Robinson of the Kent County Public Schools tomorrow will introduce an "open house" feature for parents and new students as a prelude to school opening next Wednesday. The "open house" feature is being held so that all of the children of the county who are entering school for the first time and those who are brother, Private Frank Russell, 24, who was shot in the chest. The injured soldier was taken to the government hospital at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he is still under treatment. Fred Russell was held under bail for the action of the grand jury at the September term of court. In the other case Lockard, charged with the fatal shooting of his brother, is being held in jail without bail.

Dr. R. C. Dodson, Cecil County medical examiner, said the younger brother was wounded fatally by two blasts from a shotgun after an argument over the Army insurance policy of a younger brother, Raymond, who was killed in action in France in June. Poultry Units Urged to Unite Preston Man Makes Plea For Union Wilh Council At Meeting in Salisbury SALISBURY, Aug.

31-(Spe-cial). At a meeting of the Tri-County Poultry Association Tuesday night Harry H. Reick of Preston advocated the organization of the Delmarva Peninsula broiler growers Into a single unit affiliated with the Northeastern Poultry Producers Council. State Senator Wilmer Fell Davis. Federalsburg, urged the poultry men to seek the construction of a new livestock sanitary laboratory building here.

He outlined the first step as inviting the Maryland Legislative Council to the Shore to inspect the $88,000,000 broiler industry. The laboratory could be built on the Salisbury Boulevard, near the State Teachers College, he said. Poultry Expert Speaks Support was given the proposal to unite the broiler industry after Wade Rice, extension poultryman of the University of Maryland spoke In favor of the organization and recommended the development of a cooperative poultry dressing plant. Thomas W. Heits, president of the Rockingham Association in Virginia, which operates a market cooperative, will be invited to Salisbury to explain the procedure of his cooperative to the local poultry group.

Delaware Represented A committee of representatives from Delaware and the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland and Virginia will be appointed to work with the Northeastern Poultry Producers Council in poultry promotion. The councils offices in Georgetown, will be moved to the Downing Building here the middle of September, H. P. Williamson, executive secretary of its hatchery division, announced. Casualties (Continued From Pje One) by his mother.

Last week a telegram had come from the War Department reporting him missing on the date on which he was later reported killed. He formerly served for a year with the Delaware National Guard but was released because he had not reached 21 years of age. He was drafted and inducted into the service in August. 1942. He served with the paratroops at Fort Benning but was unable to complete his training because of faulty sight.

He then went into the airborne troops and was stationed at Camp McCoy, and Fort Benning, before going overseas in June. A former resident of Chester, he was a graduate of Smedley High School there. He was once employed at the Harlan and Hollings-worth Plant before going into the Army. He resided at 52 East Twenty-second Street. His brother, Corp.

Thomas F. Foley, U. S. Marine Corps, is stationed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. D.

C. Fred T. Griskevich Serving with an engineer battalion in New Guinea, Private Griskevich contracted scrub typhus and died in a base hospital there on July 31. Word of his death was received in a telegram from the War Department by his father. Before entering the Army in March, 1943, he was employed by the Pullman Company here.

After receiving training at Fort Belvoir, he went overseas in August, 1943. Surviving are his father, two sis ELKTON, Aug. 31 (Special). Two "Cain and Abel" shooting affrays, one of them fatal, will be laid before the Cecil County Grand Jury during the September term, according to Sheriff Ralph Robinson. Following the arrest of Leonard Lockard, 40, of North East on the charge of killing his brother, William, 36, at the Elk Neck home of their father, Henry Lockard, a farmer, on Monday night, the sheriff revealed that another shooting, in which brothers are alleged to have figured, occurred in the North East section Aug.

16. In this case, Fred Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Russell is charged with assault with intent to kill upon his Bricker Will Speak In Maine, Sept. 22 COLUMBUS, Aug.

31 (JP). Gov. John W. Bricker, the Republican vice presidential nominee, announced today he would make two speeches in Maine Sept. 22 during a swing into the East.

They will be at Portland at noon and Bangor that night. He will keynote the Massachusetts State Republican convention at Boston Sept. 23 and make another speech there that night. The governor said the full itinerary of his eastern tour, which begins Sept. 18, would be announced tomorrow.

He also disclosed that a month-long tour of the West would begin Oct. 1. w-ith tentative appearances in St. Paul Oct. 7 and Duluth that night.

The full western itinerary will be announced next week. Dr. Holloway Urges No Let Up on War Effort DOVER, Aug. 31 (Special). Cautioning that the war is far from won, Dr.

H. V. Holloway, state superintendent of Public Instruction, told elementary school supervisors and supervising principals today it continues to be the duty of every Trusses Flttinr for difficult eases SUPLIE SURGICAL SUPPLY 209 W. 7th St. Phone 4-5823 Ccneord Liquor Stora 2110 MARKET STREET COMPLETE STOCK DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED WINES LIQUORS ICE COLD BEER AT ALL TIMES Open Evenings Prevail in Our ed to active duty.

He is with an armored division. He went into the Army about three years ago and received training at Fort Knox, Ky. He has been overseas 26 months. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Ephraim tWil-liams of near Landenburg, he was residing with his aunt, Mrs. Louis Con- C. B. Williams nell of near Landenburg. when he entered the Army.

He was employed as a farm worker. He was recently promoted to his present rank. William J. Letts, Jr. Corporal Letts was wounded on Aug.

2 in France and is now hospitalized in Eng land. He serves with a mechanized cavalry unit. His mother received a letter from her son on Aug. 25 in which he said that the doctor had assured him that he would be able to walk. This was the first knowledge that he was wounded in the leg.

Before going into the Army in January, 1943, Corporal Letts Corporal Letts was a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He received training at Fort Riley, and Camp Maxie, before going overseas in November, 1943. Walter H. Turner Private Turner, who visited his family in Seaford on July 4, is now reported missing in action in France since Aug. 6.

Prior to his induction in February of this year, he was associated with the Seaford Auto Body Works. His relatives in the Seaford area include his wife and a 4-year-old son, Homer; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Turner of Federalsburg, and three brothers, George H. Turner and Harold Turner of Sea ford, and Private Frank Turner, now stationed somewhere in France.

Solves Tapping Mystery TIFFIN, O. (U.PJ. When Oscar P. Harding returned to his home after an absence of several weeks, he found a woodpecker "drilling" into a wall in an effort to liberate Itself. The bird apparently had been locked in when Harding closed his home.

w-i TT Low Prices i. .4 -mm I DOVE-l, Aug. 31 (Special). Electric current sales gave the city of Dover its chief revenue bulk during the last fiscal year, yielding a gross total of $224,612.73 and con- tributing largely to the cash balance and an increase in capital investment amounting to $139,432.01, making a gross asset value of $233,789.37, is shown by the auditor's report according to City Manager Gilbert L. Wilcox's report to City Council.

The condition compares favorably with the financial statement for the preceding fiscal year, which showed a cash balance of $140,303.11 and an increase in capital investment of $29,073.88, or a total of $169,331.99, Mr. Wilcox explained. His statement shows that $75,000 worth of bonds were retired during the last fiscal year as compared with $15,000 the previous year and the major expenditures to be paid for at the present time consist of the costs of new switchgear at the power plant and the new Silver Lake dam for which contract has been awarded. Other large items of receipts the past year were: Taxes, net of dis MARINE HARDWARE FISHERMEN'S SUPPLIES STORE HOCRS THROUGH I 30: FRI 130 P. SAT, 1:30 t.

I P. M. STELLE STELLE 121 MARKET ST. PHONE 4-K62 GOOD SHOE FORTY OTHER STYLES TO SELECT FROM .50 shoe shoppe educator to support with "every ounce of energy" the men in the war. Dr.

Holloway spoke at the meeting, held in preparation for the opening of schools lor the new school year next Wednesday. Dr. Holloway said that this apparent victory has been made possible by the unparalleled work in the field of industry and by the outstanding work done by education. Since 1940 more than 34,000 persons have been given training in Delaware for war time jobs through the schools, with federal finances. Dr.

Holloway read a letter from Henry T. Bush, state chairman of the Delaware War Finance Committee, lauding the exceptional record of the schools in Delaware In the sale of war bonds and stamps. Lakes Ore Shipments During 1941-1943 shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled nearly 256,600,000 tons hauling tons of ore during 1943 alone. "HOME OF SAUTER'S PERFECT FITTING ytiV, STROLLER transferring, together with their parents may be brought to the schools at the same time; the chil dren to get preliminary instructions and classifications, and the parents to acquaint themselves with the school environment. The school principals and first grade teachers of the elementary and rural schools will be at their schools from 9 a.

m. to 12 o'clock noon to enroll the children and acquaint them and their parents with the school buildings and available resources. One More "Sing" One of the features of the Community Sing program in the city park on Tuesday evening, which was under the direction of the Chester-town Rotary Club, was several vocal selections by members of Company Fifth Battalion Maryland State Guard, of this city, who came to the park following their drill in the Armory. The audience voted to continued the sing until next Tuesday evening, when the Fire Company Band will sponsor the final program of the summer. Substitute Carrier Named The postoffice department has appointed Waters Russell McMenamin of this city a substitute city letter carrier from the Chestertown post-office.

He will assume his duties on Monday. Miss Louise Hepbron has returned to her home in Betterton from Columbia University where she took a six-week course for teachers. She will resume her dutdes as teacher in the Chestertown elementary school. Mrs. Naomi D.

Russell, who has returned to her home here after having taken a special course in music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, will also resume teaching. Letter Puzzles Casualty Kin Siloam Boy's Note Was Dated Day After He Reportedly Fell 9 SALISBURY, Md, Aug. 31 (Special). After receiving official notice that their son, Pfc. Edwin' F.

Smith, 26, was killed in action in France Aug. 7, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith of Siloam are puzzled by the receipt of a letter from him dated Aug. 8.

In the letter, Private Smith told his parents that he was well and described the scenery about the part of France where he was fighting. Private Smith enlisted in Company of the 29th Division at Bel Air and went overseas when the National Guard sailed for England. He had been in action since June 8. Besides his parents, he has three brothers, all in the armed forces. They are Private George Smith, Camp Blanding, Pfc.

J. Gorman Smith, India, and Private Ralph E. Smith, Fort Benning, Ga. He has three sisters and another brother. Seeks Eye Operation ELKTON, Aug.

31 (Special). Former Register of Wills Robert J. McCauley of Elkton has gone to a hospital in Baltimore, where he will undergo operations for the removal of cataracts from his eyes. 1214 MARKET Acting Postmaster Named in Cecil CHESAPEAKE CITY. Aug.

31 (Special). Mrs. Vera M. Ulary. wife of Frank G.

Ulary. has been appointed acting postmaster at Chesapeake City, to succeed Maurice A Dunkle. who will resume his dutie as principal of the Chesapeake City High School next week. In the near future, it is expected, a permanent appointment of a poet-master will be made. Gire a share in America, buy War Bonds and Stamps.

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All regional directors of the War Manpower Commission have been directed by McNutt to get behind the movement. It started in Cleveland and is spreading through Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The idea Is to persuade the less-essential employers to furlough workers to urgent war plants with critical manpower shortages. This is voluntary on the part of both employer and worker. McNutt has said WMC can force such "furloughs" by imposing employment ceilings on the less-essential establishments, but would not resort to this unless all other steps failed.

Duchess of Windsor Undergoes Operation NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (JP). The Duchess of Windsor underwent successfully an operation for appendicitis at Roosevelt Hospital today, Dr. Joe R. Clemmons, medical director, announced.

Elaborate precautions were taken to protect the privacy of the 48-year-old, American-born duchess who married the former King of. England. All hospital entrances were guarded by police, and reporters were barred from the information desk where they sought to inquire about the condition of the former Wallis Simpson, who entered the institution last night. Dr. clemmons issued a statement earlier this morning that "the duchess has one room and one nurse on duty at a time and that's all.

Norris, Semi-Conscious, Is Taking Liquid Food McCOOK, Aug. 31 (JP). Former Senator George W. Norris has been able to take some liquid food although he still has not regained full consciousness, doctors attending the 83-year-old lawmaker siid today. Norris, who has been In a state of semi-consciousness since suffering a cerebral hemorrhage Tuesday at his home here, is still in a critical condition, the physicians said.

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Charles J. Noonan Lieutenant Noonan is now hospitalized in England after being wounded for the second time in France. He went into Normandy on D-Day with the assault wave but was uninjured. He received his first wound on June 17. After hospitalization and some time at a rest camp he went back into action about the middle of July and was wounded again on Aug.

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