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GOOD EVENING I with a wife, if a nan Rays he wins in a walk he means a walk- away. THE IQSAIHBB Wtrmer Sunday. THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Menber of The AfMdatod Pttm Truth, Our Guide--The Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody IB Coutfl TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR GETTYSBURG, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 2nd, 1929. PRICE THREE GENTS AMOS BASEHOAR ELUDES ARREST PITTSBURGH Pays $50 Fine And Makes a a Before Detectives Can A rest Him "Off DICKINSON PLAYS HERE WEDNESDAY Dickinson's crew of cage artists will furnish the final basketball at! traction of the season at Getys' burg college, Wednesday night, when the Bream-coached tribe will attempt to avenge the defeat at Dickinson two weeks ago. This is the last game of the season for the Orange and Blue, and a crowd, expected to exceed the large audience at the Temple game last Wednesday, is anticipated by college officials.

Dickinson has established an enviable record.this year and they are confident of defeating the Hoover Changes Residence on Monday Treasury 'Head Gone Bullets again next Wednesday. again. On again again. Here's the connection: Amos ILJBasehoar, albs Robert White, formerly of Littles town, wanted in Hagerstown for bolding up the Crown Oil and Wax filling station on the night of De- comber 31, 1927, was muter arrest in Pittsburgh revcrat days ago but subsequently released on payment of $50 fine. State police notified Ilagersto'-vn To acquaint residents of Gettys- uuthoritks Tuesday of Basehoar's burg and Adams county with the apprehension but when word was products manufactured in the flashed to Pittsburgh the reply county, the Gettysburg National EXPQSimUL 8E HELD IN BANK Gettysburg National Will Present Series Of County Products; Begins March 16.

W. MELLON came back thr.t bon released. Immediately Pittsburgh (tetcctives took up his trail. Pays Fine and Leaves The detectives were unaware tlvat Basehoar was wanted in Hagerstown and they charged him simply with being a suspicious character when he was arraigned bank today announced a series of industrial exhibits to be held at its banking- house on York street. The first of the series of exhib- I KB is expected to be ready for i public inspection on March 1C.

i Pioducts of ten or twelve indus- tries will be shown during the industrial exposition, giving: each SHEELY'SBILL police magistrals. The exhibitor week in which to dis- magistrate imposed a fine of $50 play his manufactured products. which Basehoar paid. Diversified Industries Hagerstown authorities Slate Organization Supports Measure Calling For Pupils To Take Allegiance Oath. A resolution, sponsored in the i That Adams county's industries', general assembly by Representa- nothing of Basehusr's arrest until' arc more diversified than most i George D.

Shealy, of New Ox-, a Pennsylvainia state policeman at people suspect is revealed in the ford, requiring the oath of al- Harrisburg learnsd of the and statement of I. L. Taylor, presi- kjriancc to bs given at opening ex-1 -wired ro them. Washington conn-i dent of the bank, sponsoring the ercises each in the ty'authorities immediately i series of exhibits, that between Pennsylvania, is receiving the ac- to Pittsburgh asking that Basehoar 85 and 90 industries will be asked tive support of ths Pennsylvania bo held for Hagerstown. Home to show their products.

camp, Patriotic Order. Sons time later they were advised that "Nor is that number the extent of America. Through its legislative Basehoar had "been released, but of industries in the county," Mr. i committee, the P. 0.

S. of A. is ac- that Pittsburgh detectives had Taylor said, adding that before the tively interested in having the again taken up the search for bank's list of industrial establish- resolution pass the house and scn- nan ments is complete between ten and 'ate at the present session. Wanted in Many Places i twenty-five more places will be; Representative She sly, who Basehoar and his bride of a little! added. framed and introduced the resolu-j Pftore than a year -figured in a se- The bank will extend invitations tion, is chairman of the Adams! --ies of sensational cpsisodes in this i to the manufacturers on Monday, county P.

0. S. of A. section with the result that the a asking them to participate in the The resolution follows: kc-; leged bandit is facing charges in! industrial show and help make i solved (if tho Senate concur) nat i Cumberland, Hagerstown and is a success. Upon the affirmative jit is the senses of the General As-1 wanted for federal charges.

replies from the heads of the sembly of the Commonwealth of On December 31, 1927, Basehoar various business enterprises in the Pennsylvania that the authorities is charged with having stolen the C0 unty depends the success of the in charge of all schools and educa- automobile of a Cumberland clergy- venture, the first of its kind ever tional institutions of every char- man and it to Hagerstown. 1 attempted here. iacte1 in lhis Commonwealth should Then, it is charged, he drove to a To Last Two Months at tho opening exercises each day gasoline filling station along the; Floor space and stands for the require the pupils and students at- Funkstown 'pike and attempted to exhibits will be provided by the tending to take with fitting cere- hold up the attendant, Harvey I bank in its main banking foyer mony the following pledge: Stockslager. The two engaged in i and the manufacturers will be al- I allegiance to my flag a pistol battle and both were se-! OW ed to furnish their own decora- riously wounded. tive features so as to set off their War Secretary Business Girls At Inter-City Party Eleven members of the Business i and Professional Girls' club of the C.

A. attended an inter-city i party held by the York club at the W. C. A. there, Friday I A delightful program, which in- eluded games, dancing and music, was offered by the York business girls.

Those from Gettysburg who attended were the Misses Olive Hoke, Nina Merrow, Pauline Littly, Helen Sheely, Merle Stauffer, Etta King, Mary Kissinger, Thelma Ross, Grace Hummer and Mrs. John liaf- fensperger. THIEVES STEAL 175 CHICKENS DEATH GUMS TWO COWIANS DURING NIGHT Mrs. Annie C. Beamer, 66, And Mrs.

Mary E. McDerntitt, 73, cumb. Two natives of Buchanan Valley, both members of old Adams county families, Mrs. Annie C- Beamer, ArendtsviHe, and Mrs. JMary Elizabeth New State Police Baffled By Theft Of $400 Worth Of Pure- Bred Chickens In County, Local state police are confronted an epidemic of chicken stealing in Adams county.

After an all-day, exhaustive- investigation Friday into the theft of 175 pure-brad chickens from tho farm of Martin Mehring, one mile north of Gettysburg, state police admitted they were up against blank wall as far as clues to the identity of the; thieves wora coit- cerned. Tho chickens stolon from the f'aim, including 170 Ply i mouth Rocks and five Jersey I'luek The January morbidity report of i a wprc va ue( al No Clue In field 0:1 Ifehiinir ff.nn. 859 DIPHTHERIA CASES IN STATE January Record Is Far Below That "Of First Month Of Last Year, Report Shows. the bureau of vital statistics shows that aside from pneumonia, which TOP PHOTO SHOWS THE HOOVER RESIDENCE AT 2300 STREET, WASHINGTON, WHICH WILL BE VACATED, MONDAY, WHEN THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTRY MOVES INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, SHOWN BELOW. Full-Length Pencil Taken From Abdomen of Man, 62 i was very prevalent, following the i which is just influenza epidemic, the state was unusually free from the more serious communicable diseases in the first month of 199.

There were 859 cases of diphtheria reported as compared with 112I5 in January, 1928. This is a new low diphtheria record lor the state for the month. Another new- low January record was reached in reports of typhoid fever. Only thirty-four cases were reported in the entire state for the month. Low Record for January This is not only a low record and to the republic foi which it stands one nation "divisible a Basehoar remained in the- hos- products to the best possible ad- with liberty and Justice for all Exhibitors will be ex- remove their Tho legislative committee of the 0.

S. of A. consists of the Rev. 1 William B. Forney, of camp 50, who is the chairman; of camp G34, Mor- pital and for a time it was thought i vantage.

he would die. Guards at first were stationed at his bed-side, but were displays. later removed. At noon one day Manufacturers who agree to Basehoar ran from the hospital and exhibit will be informed by the -p leaped into an automobile which; bank comm ittee in charge of the! ton, and Clinton A. Paul, of camp had drawn up to the door of the industrial exposition when they institution.

i rjn expected to show their Car Is Stolen wares With ten or twelve manu- Subsequent investigation reveal- ac turers exhibiting each week, ed, police said, that when Basehoar expos ition will extend over a was caught in Hagerstown, his: ner iod of more than two months, 54, Altoona. The state secretary, Charles Bruinm Helms, acts as sec: rotary for the committee, and at- tends to the correspondence. Let- ters have been addressed to tho members of the state Senate, in ap- peal for support for this resolu- Rockville. March 2--A full-length lead pencil, sharpened at one end, was removed from the intestines of a patient undergoing an operation for peritonitis in Providence hospital. Washington, it was learned today.

The patient is James H. Nicewarner, of Rockville. The case is 'one of the most unusual reported in the history of the hospital. Mr. Nicewarner, who is 62, said he had no recollection of swallowing the pencil, and physicians concluded it must have occurred he was too young to remember.

The pencil is said to have given Mr, Nicewarncr no trouble until several weeks ago. In January he sustained a fall, his condition becoming worse shortly afterward. He wjas removed to the hospital several days ago. ago. It is believed that when the victim fell the pencil punctured the covering- that had grown around it.

The condition of Mr. Nicewarner, who formerly lived in Charles Town, West Virginia, was said to be critical. for January, but it is the lowest monthly morbidity rate for this disease for any month for which reports are available. The previous low record which is still the twelve chickens, low record in point of actual num- on the farm, her was thirty-three in April, 1928, but as April is short of!" th, Harrisbure i B. Davis Ployd (,.

-Maurer, of thi'-'wil ub- suuion, found the of eight the chickens, hut no i automobile i marks about the chicken or barr which might furnish a clue to the robbers. Trooper Davis expressed the opinion that thsi robbers left their automobile on the concrete highway and curried the chickens from tho farm in bags. Mr. Mehring told the officers ho and his family had retired about 10:30 o'clock, Thursday night, and heard no noises during the night Oxford, died during the nig-ht. Mrs.

Beamer, wife of Noah R. Beamer, a former county commissioner, died at the Beamer home in ArendtsviHe at 1:30 o'clock this morning, after being an invalid for mortj than thirteen years, following a fall in which she broke her hip. Three weeks ago, she became seriously ill from a complication of diseases. Four days ago she observed her seventy-sixth birthday. Mrs.

Beamer was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart Miller, and was born in Buchanan Valley. She spent her entire life in Adams county, and was a member ol" Trinity Lutheran church, ArendtsviHe, for many years. Surviving besides her husband are two daughters, Mrs.

Hartman and Mrs. Philip Hartzell, both of BigkrvillcR. four sons, Luther L. Beamer, York; Blaine O. Beamer, near York Springs; Ralph H.

Boamcr, Biglerville R. and Harry C. Beamer, at home. Twelve grandchildren, three arreat-grand- childfcn one- sist-ey, Elizabeth Hall, Buchanan Valley, also survive. Funeral services Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the jiorae, the Rev.

George B. Ely officiating. Interment in Greenmount cemetery, ArendtsviHe. month and as the estimated population has increased the rate for January ported. When Mr.

Mehring went to the chicken to feed his flock in the- morning, the robbery was discovered. The thieves left only White Leghorns, Earlier in the week, a number of chickens were stolen from the farm of Blair Caphman, Stone Jug. but the theft was not reported to state is the. lowest ever re- police until Friday, and the almost impassable condition of country There were 472 new cases of tuberculosis reported in January. loads leading to the Cashman place made it impossible for the officers wife, a pretty young girl, went i nrnis participate.

Baltimore and obtained employ- from the bank in i tion, the legislature, having already ment there in a restaurant in thsj of the exposition comprises of A will ilso in MS i XS-S From this man, police say, she; measure to display the obtained about, $400. Unknown to i JVlOuier oc f-Amencan flag at polling places DENTLER HELD FOR GRAND JURY Of Near Dillsburg Is Arrested Following Fatal Accident To Friend. him she went to an automobile ing company in Baltimore and rented a car. It was in this car, maintained, that Basehoar escaped from the hospital, The automobile was never return- t-d to the Baltimore concern. Since that time detectives and federal agents have several times been close on the trail of the eoupla, but each time they have eluded their pursuers.

Once the couple was nearly trapped in Canada and twice they escaped in Ohio. i during elections. 2 Babes Burn; She May Di'eT BABYDRINKS Charge Man With Violating Klinefelter, Hanover, was arrested Thursday by Detective Jesse Crabbs on a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace Lewis D. Sell, charging him on oath of Mor Patrolman C. W.

Achenbach, of the Gettysburg station, with violation of the state mlotor code. Klinefelter is alleged to have tampered the serial number of an automobile engine which is contrary to the motor laws. He entered ibail for a hearing. FARM WEATHER REPORT aadvlightly colder tonight. Sunday inereaainff cloudiness and Rein Sunday night.

Monday NEW spA'PEiifl IC Ii 1V Little Marsh, March 2 off by flames from the bedroom in which her two small sons were sleeping, a mother, herself probably fatally burned, was forced to watch the death of her children and the complete destruction of her home after a kerosene stove had exploded today, in the kitchen of her farm home. Louis, six, and Francis, five, infant dipped The three-year-old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Elmer Shrader, Irish- town, is improving from severe bums of the mouth and throat, received when he swallowed a quantity of lye solution Wednesday morning. The infant is supposed ing officres.

'29 AUTO SHOW SHOWS PROFIT This was lower than in the cor- to investigate there, responding months of 192(5 and 1927 and in view of the better reporting of this disease in the past two years the low figure for the month is considered favorable. Scarlet fever reports totaled 200G in January. This wws below the average number and lower than in any coi'responding month since 1923. Many Pneumonia Cases Mrs. A.

T. Spangler Is Buried Friday The funeral of Mrs. Annie Tost Spangler, wife of Daniel L. Spangler, who died last Monday evening, was held Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Brief services were conducted at the hom-a of her son- Oil the other hand the number in-law and daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. Excejs Allah- Of 192cS; Dealers of case reports of pneumonia was the highest on record for the month and next to the highest for any month since the influenza epidemic of 1928. This was due to the isflucnza W. Ci'one, York, after which the cortege proceeded to Bendersville. where concluding services wore held in the Lutheran church.

The Rev. Joseph Baker. Cljfton Dcntler, near Dillsburir, was held for the action of the April grand jury by Alderman Walter F. Owen, of York, ai'U'r hearing Friday morning on a charge of possessing and selling intoxicating liquov. Dentk-r, how- ever, was declared by common- wealth witnesses to be tool of To Hold Banquet At Hotel Gettysburg Thursday.

epidemic of De- i psistor of St. Matthew Lutheran Although attendance at the re- cem ber and January, and also to church, of York, conducted the cent 1929 Gettysburg automobile more complete reporting; show was less than at the 1928 ex- There were 6104 case reports of measles in January, making at the house. The Rov. hibit, the profits were slightly above those of last year, according to a report given at a meeting the month the highest January for measles since the epidemic year of 1926. The lf73 case reports of Mr.

Coble, of Bendersville, officiated i't th? church. Three sons, Merle William M. and Charles W. Mrs. Mary McDermitt McDermitt, 73, widowof Hugh McDermitt, formerly of New Oxford, died at the home of -a daughter, Mrs.

Rose M. Spanker, near, Abbottstown, at 8:15 o'clock, Friday evening, after a week's illness of pneumonia. Since the -death- of Mr. McDermitt last November, Mrs. McDermitb lived with her daughter, Mrs.

but. they wei-o planning to move back to- the McDermitt home i New -Oxford, when Mrs. McDermitt died. She was tho oldest daughter of the late Francis and Sara Cole, and was born in Buchanan Valley. Her father was a former state assemblyman from Adams county and a brother, James C.

Cole, Buchanan Valley, was formerly chairman of tho Adams county Democratic committee. Surviving are four daughters. Mrs. H. I.

Taylor, Altoona Miss Jane E. McDermitt, "a nurse at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore; Mr.s Joseph P. Smith, New Oxford, and Mrs. Spangler, near Abbottstown; three sons, Francis F. McDermitt, near Fiiirficjld; James B.

McDermitt, near Caledonia, and Hugh I. McDermitt, York Springs; four brothers, John Cole, Albert W. Colo, James C. Cole and Francis Cole, all of Buchanan Valley, and three sisters, Mrs. George Tato, York; Mrs.

Hugh O'Connell, Mt. Ranier, Maryland, and Mrs. Beezer, Los Angeles. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic ch.urch, New Oxford.

The body was removed to the home of the deceased, in New Ox- this afternoon. Test, and a son-in-law, George W. Crone, served as pallbearers. the Adams county Automobile hooping cough is a higher figure ial was in the Mountain City ceme- Dealers' association at the court than any corresponding month lery, Bendersville. The increase pro fits this year since 1921.

Another January has passed a notorious bootlegger," now cvr.d-1, were explained as resulting from jtj 1 case reports of smallpox. i the fact that expenses of the 1929 fhe i as January smallpox cases I i 1 I 1 I A nw i i i i to have mistaken the solution Dcntler was arrested on Mont'ay, snowjvere a water. The child's grandmother was making soap, and had set) the x- i and more dealers and February 18, following- an invent. this ycar we're asleep" in a bedroom adjoining the kitchen when Mrs. Dewey Lapoint arose to get breakfast.

As she lighted the Btovd it exploded showering blazing oil about the room chdj setting her clothing afire. Before she could extinguish her blazing clothing the kitchen was in flames and rescue of the children impossible. Hie husband and father had left to do the farm chores and the woman was 'alone in the home with the children. The house was destroyed. by reprcMn Un ago, exhibitors than last.

were two in January, 1926. caustic lio.uid and drank it. A phy- tician was summoned' as soon as the child's plight was discovered. of Dillsburg Route 4, from injuries ing to the treasurer's report. I The dealers decided to hold a Tribe 0 Red Men Suspended FOUR BURN TO DEATH Steubenville, Ohio, March 2 persons were burned to death when fire destroyed the home of William Primm, 12 miles from today.

SLUSHY GOING; STREAMS RISING Slushy streets, roads and sidewalks remained this afternoon following a snow storm which began early this morning, after an inter- of i 4. -u-nii i lllt; owners utxiuuu LU uuni Dickcwaris tribe, 189, Improved he sustained after a iall ovei .1 wa 11 fm the TOcm On cr of Rod Mcn Ncvv Ox ford, is intq a concise guuei. it wa bers of the a a tjon and other ono seventy tribes in Tennsyl- 6 tAgcdv under the in- exhibitors at the 1929 vnnia suspended for non-payment Thursday evening in flucnce of liquor that was chased by Dcntler. Owing to tho condition his companions from of man's wife, Mr. Rochow appealed I to the magistrate to reduce amount of the bond.

After suf-1 testimony was offered that i the Hotel all assessment levied by the Gettysburg, and committee, com-1 a i lodge. The Now Oxford prising of E. Francis, E. C. Ott tribe 1 is the only on? in Adams Ll ie andj E.

L. Weikcrt, was named i county which refused to pay tho make arrangements for the af- assessment. Several tribes in melted as rapidly as it fell, al eK cd conditions cxistc.1, the ing country roads into bogs and Id rman conMn a reduction fair. In tho absence of the president, T. Jennings, Mr.

Krancis prc- lay evening meet- ltlcfl at lhe York are among those suspended. A decision of a Lancaster judge in upholding tin; authority of the making walking in town disagreeable. in the bond to $1,000, but the defendant was unable to furnish it; The day's precipitation may raise Pm nc as committed to jail. streams in the county to flood! Jf therVa anrtMnc TOO wont, yon can Bolder weather appeared in offing for tonight, and the weather TlmM Jl)Bt no Mba bureau predicted rain for Sunday. tnwMl at Ttaaw lodge- to levy an.

as 20 cents on every Red Man in i lt country resulted in the auto- RAIN ON MONDAY i a i suspension of the seventy tribes in Pennsylvania. Washington, March 2 A The suspended lodges in York weather bureau forecast to- will hold a mass meetin.q; this oven- i day that it probably will be rain- inpr to decide tho course of future i Monday morning, tho day in the matter of lhe suspcn- Herbert Hoover's inauguration. 'sion. HOOVER'S PROBABLE Secretary of State--Henry L. Stimson, of Now York.

Secretary of tho Treasury-Andrew M. Mellon, of Pennsylvania. Secretary of War---Tames W. Good, of Iowa. Secretary of Navy--Charles F.

Adams, of Massachusetts. Attorney General W. T. Mitchell, of Minnesota. Postmaster General--Walter S.

Brown, of Ohio. Secretary of Agriculture--Arthur M. Hyde, of Missouri. Secretary of Interior--Ray Lyiqan Wilbur, of California. Secretary of Commerce--Robert P.

Lnmont, Illinois. Secretary of J. Davis, of Pennsylvania. ices Monday, meeting at the house at 8:30 o'clock with a requiem high mass at 9 o'clock in St. Mary's Catholic church, New Oxford, the Rev.

Father Joseph Whalen. officiating. Interment in St. Ignatius cemetery. Buchanan Valley, along side the body of her husband who preceded her in death.

Mrs. Caroline C. Noel Mrs. Caroline C. Noel, widow of Henry died Thursday evening at 7:15 o'clock at the Hanover General hospital following an operation.

Death was due to complications. She was aged 58 years of age. She had been removed to the hospital a week ago from her residence in McSherrystown. The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Hufnagle and was married January 2, 1892, to Henry S. Noel, who preceded her in death ten years ago. are the following children: Charles F. Noel, Paul J. Noel and Henry N.

Noel, Mc- Sherryatown; and Sister Mary Eymard, Bayonne, N. also seven grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: William Hufnagle, I.ansdale;.- Charles Huf- naglc, Sellersville; Joseph Hufnagle, Hanover; Mrs. Sarah Little, McSherrystown; Miss Kathtyn (Continued on Second NE WSP.APE.Rr.