Lebanon Semi-Weekly News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

GOOD EVEN Rttll, Most of Held hy Mm Who Sip rmlrrwenr I'niil I Vol. 55. EIGHT PAGES LEBANON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1932. EIGHT PAGES PRICE $2.00 A Y2J0J LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD UNITS TO LEBANON COUNH BAL LEAVE FRIDAY MORNING FOR CAMP SCHOOLS ARE TO Captain Tucker, of Battery and Lieut. Bow man, of Headquarters Detachment, Have GET $74.791.53 Lebanon Guardsmen Ready For Trip to District Treasurers to Receive State Vouchers Aug.

1st Virginia Beach, Virginia Will Be Gone For Two Weeks. Captain George T. Tucker, commander of Battery 213th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft), and Lieut. Ralph O. Bowman, commander of the Second Battalion Headquarters Detachment of the same regiment, and their non-commissioner" officers and men are "all set" for the departure tomorrow of both units for Virginia Beach, Virginia, for the annual two- weeks' tour of Held instruc.ion.

Officers and men are all ordered to report for duty tomorrow morning at 6.30 o'clock at the Lebanon Armory. Although the outfits wil) not leave the city until 11 o'clock, there will be plenty to do to make last-minute arrangements, packing, for the Journey. According to present arrangements, the two units will board Seventy-four thousand. seven aru a hundred ninety-one dollars and special car attached to the 11.16 cents (.574.791.53) Is train on the Reading road. At Read- ne amount of the August payments ing the car will be attached to a spe-1 thef Lebanon county school dist- cial train conveying the Allentown, cts "'oni the State according 10 Easton, Reading and other units of notification received today by Prof.

Harry Meyer, superintendent cif Baltimore, The city's last lamplighter will pass into history within a few days. Jim Bateman and his dog, Teddy, will retire when the remain- lug gas lamps are lighted by clocks. COMMISSIONERS ADOPT SCHEDULE FOR CO. BRIDGES the regiment. This train will go to Wayne Junction, near Philadelphia, where the county schools.

Of this amount $4,200 represents for REDUCTIONS OF $18,884,977 IN STATE GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSE WILL BE VOTED ON BY SENATE NEXT MONDAY It will be shunted to the Baltimore a srho and Ohio lines to Baltimore. Here losed 'n the county. the soldier outfit will take to ne alt th f. appropriation Chesapeake Bay on a transport of 00r Selha ere ar two the Chesapeake Steamship close( ner ed today that next year there will he approximately six additional schools closed permanently. The treasurers all school districts In the county will receive tho vouchers from the state by August County Commissioners George Speck, William Svvanger, and Ray C.

Weber, at their weekly meeting permanently I Wednesday adopted a schedule of This portion I speed and weigh) measures which (Cunllnued on Paeo Harrisburg, Senate Appropriations committee today cut $3.337,834 from the, $22,000,000 economy program passed by the House last week. The total reductions In State governmental expense, upon which the Senate will vote finally next Monday night, Is $18,884,977. In completing its report made to a handful of Senators attending the Senate session, held especially to receive the report and the bills carrying I the reductions, the committee headd by Senator Scott, Centre, announced a re-check of the House bills had shown the total reductions approved by the House were $22,222,831. This was $65,000 less than the total reported by the House committee. The following shows the comparative cuts provided by the Senate amendments and the origina.1 House program: Governor's office Greater Pennsylvania Council Lieutenant Governor's office Auditor General's office Treasury Department Agriculture Department Banking Department Forests and Waters Department Senate 60,400 150,000 75,000 162,400 335,286 17,000 185,650 Health Department 180,800 Insurance Department Internal Affairs Department of Justice Department of Labor and Industry Department of Military Affairs Department of Property and Supplies Department of Public Instruction Public Service Commission Department of Revenue State Department Department of Welfare Special administrative commissions Miscellaneous administrative Legislative department Medical surgical hospitals (1931) special sions appropriation Comparative reductions In items other expenses are shown by the following: Agriculture: Egg laying contests Animal indemnities Plants Indemnities Forests and Waters: Purchase of State forest land Pymatuning Dam project Parks, canal boards and commissions Internal Affairs: Aeronautics Commission Military Affairs: Repairs to armories, etc Property and Supplies: General supplies Heat, light, power, etc.

Insurance bonds Automotive supplies Capitol grounds buildings Buildings land outside Capitol group Public Instruction: Public school subsidies State aid to school districts Teachers' retirement fund 4,305,000 State schools for deaf 65,000 Universities, colleges 567,747 Welfare: State-owned hospitals 82,000 100,000 145,000 115,325 403,200 691,185 6,722,801 6,477,147 55,000 100,000 29,500 2,375,502 62.000 1,915 1,100 3- 200,000 than salaries 1 7,000 150,000 1,000 100,000 No cut 93,000 419,500 530,000 300,000 No cut 200,000 No cut 5,487,301 193,000 No cut House 4,400 150,000 250,000 162,400 861,286 17,000 885,850 253,800 100,000 145,000 203,525 253,200 691,185 7,968,680 I 6,833,840 55,000 I 270,000 29,500 I i are to prevail in the use of county bridges. Action was taken on the recommendation of James Long, of Norrlstown, a bridge expert, who has been in the employ of the county for some years. The schedule in the report Involves only eighteen bridges of the thirty-three which are under county control. The rest, of the forty-six bridges In the county are under state control. That different engineers and different experts have ideas regarding different bridges is evident.

by the varied reports submitted to local and state bodies. The commissioners took action on Wednesday with respect to eighteen bridges in the county, most of which are of wooden construction, but also included The Water Works bridge over the Swatara. While this one is seemingly of concrete, it is really a steel bridge covered with concrete, and therefore was included In the limitation schedule. Loads taken over It over twenty tons will be at the risk of th Miss Elizabeth By aCtion ot ti lo commissioner. tJVl illia Peters, on Wednesday, all of the bridges of Buffalo, N.

V. and John E. wln J6 pi acarded at once. Dlffer- Sowers. son of Mr.

and Mrs. John iit laws appear to control the E. Sowers of 1.24 Oak street, this I situation, as- the wooden bridge over city, will be the principals In a nup- 1 lne Swatar a creek at Llckdale Is a tlal event of particular interest to state-controlled affair, and State Lebanonians, which will take place engineers have placed the weight tonight at 7 o'clock in Buffalo. i a only two tons. (Continued on Page Three) MISS E.T.PETERS BRIDE TODAY OF J.E.

SOWERS, JR. JOHN D. TSCHUDY HELD BIGAMIST; 1ST TOIN LEB. Second Spouse Seeks Divorce in Reading Court Attorney Franklin E. Kantner, master In the divorce proceedings of Helen E.

Tschudy, of North Eleventh street, Reading, against Jc hn D. Tschudy, nu Inmate of the Berks county prison, filed a report In the Berks County Comnnn Pleas Court, recommending that tho marriage be declared null and void by reason of the fact, that the bus- band had a wife living from whom he had never been divorced when ne married the I The parties were married on Jan. 27, 10211, at ChMterlown, and at the time of securing the mnr- riagr- license the respondent sta.ted, under oath, he was single man. It is alleged. The parties lived together until March.

1930, when, according to the report, the husband, while under the Influence of liquor, told her he had wife living In Lebanon, from whom he had not been divorced. Mrs. Tschudy testified she to the homo of her husband's fnthor and a.skcd If the statement made by her husband that he had another wife was true. She avers that she was told the first wife's name was Hilda I. Tschudy, of Lebanon.

The master's report revealed that the second wife cc.me to Lebanon, Interviewed the first wife, and the. I latter, went to Reading and identl- fled her husband tit the Jail. The, master recommends that the mar- riage annulled. The man IB in Jail on another charge. INDIANA NATI TO NAL GUA Sheriff Wesley Williams, Sullivan Notified Today by Gov.

Harry G. Who Will Accompany Non-Union Confined In Mine Without Food. I Dugger, i companies of Indiana National Guardsmen were ordered today to the vicinity of the Hoosier coal mine, which twenty non-union workmen refused to leave until assured protection from rfiore than a thousand union sympathizers maintaining a picket, around the shaft. Sheriff Wesley Williams, of Sulll-l van county, was notified of the this morning by riov. Harry O.

Leslie, who said ho would accompany the troops. Companies from Indianapolis, Attica and Ladoga were called. Officials explained the move was precautionary, pointing out the men In the mine have made no attempt to come out and that the attitude of he plcketers should Inny al tempt to do so was pro'hle-niatlcnl. Thus far the 1,200 rtlckctr-rn luive been orderly, said Shorlff Williams. They Include miners and their wives.

Both Governor Leslie and Sheriff! Williams Indicated their major In- terots was to remove tho miners who hnvo been in tho shaft more than twenty hours without food. said the workmen were armed itiS. expressed fear they might. deapera.te If they remained much longer. The Hoosier mine Is one i In the southern Indiana ha.ve been operated on a i basis.

The Indiana Coal Association and District 11, Mlno Workers of America, renow their contract when Jt'i March 31. For several months the shaft been under protection of a restraining order preventing ers from Interfering with the ers. A few days ago about miners picketing a mine under a similar Injunction rested but were released. Sheriff Williams said he no arrests as long as the 1 remained orderly. The men picket lino spent lost night sitting under trees smoking their pipes.

Bplnning yarns, the sheriff said, wnliSlsfl their wives served them and coffee solicited In 'owns. 2,709.502 G2.000 1,8 In 1,100 and 250,000 general 7,000 500,000 1,000 300,000 400,000 155,000 South Park Presbyterian church will be the scene of the wedding and the ceremony is to be performed by the pastor. The double ring ritual will be used. Attending the bride as maid of honor will be her sister, Miss Eleanor Peters. Richard E.

Hurt, of Springfield, a classmate of the bridegroom at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will be the be-st man. There will be a reception following the event, after which the newly married couple will leave on an extended honeymoon tour through the West. I Miss Peters, who is a former resl- In every instance the bridges are to be placarded, and those who pass over them with heavy loads will do so at their risk as indicated by the signs on each structure. GOV.PINCHOTTOSPEAKAT OCEAN CITY CREBRATION ORPHANAGE WAS CLOSED BY TOWN AUTHORITIES MT. GRETNA THRILLED LAST NIGHT DARING AIRPLANE DEMONSTRATION! Ocean City, N.

Governors of New Jersey, and Plnchot, of Pennsylvania, and Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, great-great-grandnephew of George Washington, are among the distln- dent of this city and well known In gulshed guests expected at tho Lebanon social circles, is a graduate Ocean City bicentenial celebration of Elmlra College, and taught in the July 29-31. Lyons High school. I A parade will be held on the Mr. Sowers Is a graduate of Leba-' board walk July 29, a colonial bail non High school, class of '25, and in the evening, tableaux and page- pursued an electrical engineering ants and camp square July 30 and course at Rensselaer Polytechnic In-; religious services July 31, Sunday, stltute, receiving his degree In June. I The Oecan City's fishing club Mr.

and Mrs. John E. Sowers, Mr. annual surf casting contest, for Blythevllle, (IP). The Samaritan Army Home and I Orphanage, housing 27 children, hns been ordered closed hy the city council following' complaints of brutal treatment of Inmates.

A report of county and city health officers and a Red Cross worker said the children face blindness through i exposure to a contagious disease, I that one baby died of malnutrition and Improper treatment and that 21 I of the 27 children belong to ten adults who operate the home. and Mrs. E. U. Sowers.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude H. Sowers and Miss Catherine 90,000 i Sowers will be among the local guests at the affair. 630,000 22,885 400,000 94,000 I 6,164,301 I I 195,000 250.0HO 4,305,000 75,000 591,747 MINSTREL SHOW AT ST.

CYRIL'S PROVES SUCCESS trophy 16 years ago, August 13. donated will be by tho city held hero Forgotten Prisoner Belleville, Today. (fP). Eighteen years ago Joseph Douglas, Negro, was sent to the penitentiary to serve one to 14 years for he Is still there. torney Ray T.

Hendrlcks, declaring 'authorities apparently forgot about Douglas, will petition for release of the "forgotten man." KIWANIS CLUB OFFERS AID TO LEB. SEA SCOUTS Lawyers Immune 162,000 LLOYD WEIDMAN SEVERELY i TWO WOMEN VOTED BUT HURT IN FALL FROM TREEj WERE NOT NATURALIZED Several hundred patrons gathered 'at St. Cyril's auditorium, Wednesday I Chicago. Today. evening, to enjoy tho minstrel pre- can be speed demons with impunity by a group of talented en-; if they are pn route to or from coun.

tertalners. The troup presented Accused of cracking the speed laws, I fast moving repertoire of snappy Attorney S. L. August dug up a mel- i Jokes and peppy musical numbers low statute saying lawyers are im- and kept the audience in a gay mood When ho fell from a tree and struck a fence, Lloyd Weidman, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Weidman, of 998 East Lehman street, suffered a possible fracture of the left shoulder and lacerations of the scalp. The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon shortly before 5 o'clock. The! neither is a citizen. So they lad was treated at the Good Samaritan hospital and referred to the dispensary. AIRPLANE TRIES TO CHECK MOUNTAIN FIRE BY USE OF CHEMICALS TODAY Soughtington, airplane sprayed chemicals over Waterbury Mountain today in an effort to check a forest fire believed to have started from a clgaret from another, plane.

Tcnvanda, Katherine and Molly Barry, of this borough, hav 6 voted at every election since women had the right of suffrage. In applying for passports to Ireland this week, they learned that will as throughout, with a continual round of gay repartee. Delightful vocal and instrumental selections were given by the circle which embraced a group of well-known musicians, and the program was unexcelled In every detail. Peter Winter enacted the role of Interlocutor and the circle was comprised of John Ralph Quarry, R. Ondrusek, P.

Ondrusek, S. Feeman. Joseph Smetana, P. Smetana and D. Klrkwood.

Mrs. Anna Shiratu played the piano accompaniments. The performance was given as part of the silver Jubilee celebration being held this week at Sts. Cyril and Methodius parish, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Us existence. Tonight the Sodality girls will pre- Ossining, N.

(ff), sent the entertainment, which wil! big crowd came to see a ball consist of dramatical sketches, vocal numbers and dance numbers. The affair Is scheduled for d'clock. Following the show, -will be a bingo partj mune from arrest while going to and from court. He won tho argument. oTLif make the trip, but will return aliens.

Both were brought to this country thirty five years ago by their fatllfer who died soon afterward. Took French Leave Cleveland, Today. Charles Slvka should live pretty well In his native Czechoslovakia. After being deported as us alien, he was awarded $18 a week for life, by the State Compensation Board because he was injured, while working In this stale. THAR I'P Work Jiag been started In North Lobanonftcwnship on the tearing nf the old trolley tracks from Eleventh avenue eastward to Avon.

This work will take a number of tlays to complete. here Sunday, but one more than a big crowd left, and that is what's worrying Sing Sing prison officials. Anthony De Bernardo, serving 16 years, mingled with jhe crowd whlcli saw the prison, nine perform and cozed right out an The girls assure everi- one ap evening of pure entertain- ment and are anUojpatfag a large patronage. ir NOTICE Dr. Weiss' office will be closed Friday afternoons, during July Scoutmasters and county council officials are about to realize a lonK- cherished nnbltlon.

in a few weeks when Half Moon Trotp, of Trinity Lutheran Church. Sea-scouts of Aril- erica, will have a ship of its own in real water, and when other troops of' the same national organization, will later have similar aquatic headquarters. Steps to this end worn effected at neon today at the weekly meeting of tho Lebanon Kiwanis Club, when the clubmen voted unanimously to accord Half 'Moon Troop a place at Ebenezer Dam, owned by tlm club, l.o ereci a ship on which to carry out the intents and purposes of the trcop. The Kiwanis Bathing Beach Committee also was authorized to ex- lend similar priviledgos tri other sea scouts troops, on tho sump body of water, at such positions as will not Interfere with the Kiwanis Hiitli- Bead), A lease, at a nominal rental of about $1 a year, will bn required, for a term riot exceeding five years. The beach commitler.

is authorized to act for the club In the negotiations. In the cane of each lease given, thn Klwanls Club will bo exonerated from all liability case of accidents or mishaps of any kind. Ralph Shay, commodore of the Half Moon will be dealt with in according space on the dam tor the Half Moon ship. Other sea scout masters will act (Crmtlnuud un Some hundreds of Lebanon visitors and cottagers In tho various summer settlements al. Mt.

Gretnu, together with several thousands of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, on Wednesday evening witnessed a thrilling demonstration of airplane flights at night. Flying in battle formation In tho darkness, with nothing but. their trulsing lights on tho wlngtips and tails to tell their postions, Ilia fleet of airplanes started the demonstration lit tho Mlddlelow.n a.lr- port. They skirted Ihirrlsburg. and then reached positions on the north side of the Sonl.li Mounta.ins, so that the lights could bo dimly seen from Lebanon.

The (irotna people, however, gained the best Idua of the purposes In view, as the flyers droppeMl flaming flares repeatedly as they passed over the Uretiifi camp and parade grounds. That the pilots knew where they were seemed to be'cpnj' elusive from the fact that the landed on drill rode grounds and did no tenuige or buildings on the. erty. The airships were i to 10:30 o'clock, and that period covered a vast While officials said ther "yet but three planes In the fleet, lights were so confusing that Jna thought, there were from six planes in the n.lr. Attached to tho 103rd tlon Squadron, Pennsylvania Natloii-S'l al Guard In camp at the pilots of the ships tti demonstration flight from Mld town to Ml.

Gretna and return der the command of Uallln. Thoir spin within slgui Lebanon, made on the return was to "put. In some the said. The planes landed at town on their return at o'clock. MRS.

ROLLAN BRISTOW KILLED HER FAITHLESS HUSBAND AND PARAMOUR Pittsburgh, A negro maid tcda.y shut nud killed her chauffeur-husband and "the other also a negro. Tho shooting occurred in Ihe garage of Attorney Harry Mil I he exclusive section of the east lend residential district. Awakened i by the gunfire, Nes'hll found his negro chauffeur, ttollnn Brsitow, 2-1, and an unidentified ne.gro woman mortally wounded. Hrlstow's wife, Fanny, 19. a maid In I he Neshlt homo, WHS arrested.

Sho told pollen her husband had been entertaining friends In the Nt'sbit automobile during the night. HAS BEEN CANCELLED THE WEATHER Eastern Penna.s Local thunder t. 'showers tonight and probnbly Prland August, due to taking day. not quite-no warm Friday aft- special course in rectal diseases' ernoon and night. in Clearfleld, Today.

The seventy-third Clearfluld Connly Fair I has been cancelled IIWMUSH county agricultural society officers liavn been unable to raise to meet last year's deficit. About $1,200 was contributed to meet. 1931 obligations, ijut fair officers feel the financial risk of going ahead with this year's exposition would be too great. Born on Street Car Chicago. The daughter of Mrs.

Sarah Johnson, 25. negro, rode Into the. world in a street car last night. Conductor M'. W.

Stenmeler shooed his passengers out and called a doctor. At a hospital where the mothar and babe were taken, Mrs. Johnson said the circumstances also had provided a. name for the'child. "We'll cail her Caroline," 1 she aald.

KIN OF WASHINGTON WILL FLY THROUGH 14 STATES ON Newark, N. (ff). Anno Madison Washington, greatV-Sfei greut-greul-grandnlece of Washington. Is going to go places.S.jiil; whore the first President went.onihii^i/JI tho method of locompifeflfil tlon will 1m different. Sho will fly with Major James Doo.lli.tle, speed ace, when he off Monday on a 2.900-mile dusk flight to commemorate lEJ7ih anniversary of the post'at'-Sft' service.

The night will follow ilyl path of Washington through fpur-iW 8 states. MR. AND MRS. S. MAGDULE Mr.

and s. 1258 Willow street, today are brailng tholr fourteenth anniversary. The happy coupl wnro felicitated throughout the da, host of friends who their best wishes for mpr happy years of wedded life. J(r. is proprietor of a si ore on Willow street.

as Kills Cattle an Fredoricksburg, Today. After slashing the throats 'Of era! head of cattle on his farinS Woodford, forty miles from. Joseph Dulbak, 40, today himself by touching off five atjjifSlSI of dynamite. He left a five children, on a cripple, Must Deposit To be' eligible for lief here, automobile', deposit their car keys and cards with the pqor new ruling, Persona with will not cet poor boarij VM.OKV;.