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GOOJU EVENING The world trusts a man' who sul- i i onions. WEATHER Fair tonight THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Press Truth, Our Guide--The Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody In Adams County ESTABLISHED 1902 GETTYSBURG. FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 13, 1931. PRICE THREE CENTS X.

A ALLOWS OPTION GO BY DEFAULT Does Not Press Appeal Because Property Does Not Hold Same Value. LAND FOR HEALTH PURPOSE F. X. Colgan, McSherrystowii. Ad- Miss Anjia Keef'er Dies At Home Of Sister, York Springs 11 i Miss Anna Ruth Keefer.

52, died at the home of her Mrs. William Hoopert, Latimore township. near York Springs, at 5:30 o'clock, i Thursday evening of complications. She was a daughter of the late George W. and Lydia Keefer.

and was born in Huntington township. Surviving are two sisters. Mrs. Hoopert. with whom she resided.

and Mrs. Charles Kennedy, Hunt- ington township, and George Keei'er, Steelton, and Thad- deus Keefer, Huntington township. Funeral services i'rom the Hoop- ert home, Sunday afternoon a'. 1:30 i o'clock, the Rev. B.

Hafer, pas- May Be Chaplin's Leading Lady York Veterans Plan I To Attend Spanish War Session Here i tor of the York Springs Lutheran ams -county sealei-of weights and church, officiating. Interment in Sunnyside cemetery, York Springs. NO DECISION IN DEBATE HERE Team Leaves On Tour Of South Mondav For Four Contests. measures, today informed the Gettysburg Times thai ne allowed an appeal to the superior court in the case brought by him against F. X.

Klunk and his wife, Mrs. Emma Klunk, also of McSherrystown, over an alleged contract for the purchase of a piece of land iri McSherrystown. to go by default because the present market value of the land is worth less than the amount specified in the option. The superior court upheld the decision of Judge Donald P. McPher- son, rendered in 1928, to the effect i Tns debate tearr oi Gettysburg that Mr.

and Mrs. Klunk need not I college held a no decision debate be compelled to carry out the terms I with Dickinson college here Thurs- of the alleged contract sell the ay night in the Y. M. C. A.

build- I land to Mr. Colgan, who was'act-ij th auestion Resolve that i i the several states shoulo snact. i legislation providing for compiil- sory unemployment insurance to i which the employer shall con- i 'tribute." Another team debated a simi- 1 question with Dickinson After the decision of the lower court. Attorney John P. Butt, who) represented Mr.

Colgan, took the appeal, but no c5orc maclg on! ing in an individual capacity in the purchase. Since the alleged contract was entered into, the Newark shoe factory in McSherrystown has been erected on part of the land in dis- Held In Slaying Arrangements to attend the aii- a convention of the United Spanish War Veterans of Pennsyl- 1 vania. to be held the latter part of June in Gettysburg, were made by 'the members of Col. Edwin B. Watts U.

S. W. of York, at a meeting there Wednesday. i A committee to arrange for the camp's part in the convention was appointed and is as follows: John Winfelter. W.

J. Seifert. R. L. Arvoii, Yemen S.

M. Mcldrum and W. P. Lindemuth. The Kiltie band, the I musical organization of White Rose post.

No. 556. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will head the delegation in the parade to be held as part of the i staleconvention. THE committee will" provide transportation for all members of Watts camp who have 1 no way of attending the convention. NEW FOREST AREA Firemen Unable To i a After Alarm Here Associated Press P7tot- I Mrs.

Fred Nixon-Nlrdlingrer. 26, beauty contest winner in 1923, was on charges of shooting- I and killing- her husband, a Philadelphia theatrical magnate, in their apartment in. Nice, France. Tho Gettysburg fire company re- sponded to two alarms within quick succession this morning, but the I firemen were unable to find one of the fires. The first alarm, received by tele- phone, was that the firemen corne to "West Middle street in a hurry" for a grass fire.

The fire "'laddies" hurried to West Middle street, but although they searched from one end. of the street to the othc-r no trace of a grass fire or any other conflagration could be found. Half an hour later, the alarm sounded again. This time the lire- men found a chimney ablaze at the i home of Mi's. Prank Penn, West High street.

The fire was evtinguish- ed with the use of chemicals. No 1 vlii damage resulted. i i Shortly before noon, the company was'called out by a third a a This was a chimney fire at a. house- on South Washington street owned by W. E.

Olinger and tenanted by James Cease. No damage was reported. "Valedictorian; York Student Is Second. 1S FINISHES WORK IN THREE YEARS Would Turn 200,000 Acres In FlinkhoUSer Denies ii. of Frederick, anci C.

flic-hard Jacobs. York, ano salutalc'- ul Gettysburg college exercises at. the North street school will be held June 8. Schildlinechf. recently was e'cctou in Phi Beta Frederick County Into State Preserve.

aim to'establish state forests totaling 200.000 acres in Maryland was told to forest wardens of the Catoctin-South mountain area in their conference Thursday at Frederick by F. W. Besley. Maryland forester. The tracts would be Rumor Of i Office To Hagerstowii Roy P.

Funkhouser, general manager of the Victor products North Washington street, today denied emphatically that the offices of the corporation were to be centralized at Hagerstown. Rumors Mr. Colgan's part to press -for a reversal of the local court's decision I lar question with Dickinson at The local team uoheld the negative side here, the visitors taking the affirmative, while at lisle the situation was reversed. Associated. Press Photo Rumors in Britain say Sari IVIaritza, British actress, may become supplementary to the areas in had been current here for several Washington and Alleghany coun- 1 days that such would be the case.

Maryland. Thirty wardens attended the Charlie Chaplin's next leading; lady. Chaplin singled her out for a solo pornin ession of the conference, tango at a recent -party in London and has been attentive to her. county land is erni- The team debating for the college included: Carl Mumfort. owing to the depreciated value of james Br stoi ancl Lawrence Ander- the land under option.

son while the team ac Carlisle The committee which acquired composed Samuel Philson. laud for the shoe. factory, compris- i Thomas Kline and Viggo Swenson. ing Mr. Colgan, Clarence G.

Smith The debating team will leave on a and F. J. Martin, is now being wee k's tour of the Monday! pressed by the state department of accompanied by Dr. Thomas L. i health to secure part of the land in 'ciine.

head of the English depart- question to dispose of certain efflu-j nt and coach for the team. HOTEL ANNEXIASKS FARMERS inenuy suited lor settle -forest areaar' jMr. Besley pointed out. "It is part "There's absolutely nothing to it," Mr. Funkhouser said.

"There has been some talk of a merger, which might result in centralization of the LABOR REF OFFICE MO Workmen's Bureau Office Transferred To York Thursday. lor hi? stanc'iiiu a scholar. the regular four-year in tic -is in 5H Until October i. Mr. Jacobs was at the haar: cl class this Ke typhdui fever on Juiv 24 and wag cciUiiied to the Side saru- Compensation tariuin.

York, until September. He- 'was not able to rohu-n to college October Ths- Yon: with included major-Latin ir.inor- He the Garver Greek prize in his freshman year. He was The office of the Workmen's Com- pensation referee now located at Lancaster is transferred to York by i order of Governor Pinchot's execu-i mr-mbcr of tive board in session at Harrisburg i Thursday. The referee hears various OHLtes of--the curporaUoii. i ams- but even that is so remote we are BURNS AT RE SORT ent of the factory now 'running into an open sewer.

McSherrystown's council will be asked by the committee to acquire part of the land for the purpose asked for tho department Blue Ridge Summit Is Endangered As High Winds Fan Flames. The students making the trip will include Thomas Kline and Viggo A spectacular fire which for a Swenson who will debate the i "me threatened to spread wide de- afrfniitive side of the same" ques- struction in the summer vacation LECTURER WILL TALK ON PLANTS Noted Naturalist To Show Pictures Of Flower tion at two colleges, and James i Bristol and Lawrence Anderson who i will debate the negative side teams from two other institutions. The debates will be held with i Washington and Lee at Lexington, i Virginia: Lynchburg college at iLynchburg; Richmond college at (Richmond, and William and Mary at Williamstaurg. The last will be broadcast over a i radio hook-up. colony at Blue Ridge Summit, early Thursday, destroyed the twenty- room Old Stone inn.

used as an an- no; to the Chapman The- flames, which originated in the annex, a building seventy-five years old. used at various times as church, school and freight station, spread to an adjoining building and of the Western Maryland rail- TO of the 600,000 acres of land in no talking about it." being neglected, providing no reve- i Bushman Points Out Value Of Care In Bnrn- ing. Brush. Leo E. Bushman.

Adams county game warden, today solicited the cooperation of farmers in this county whose lands are adjacent to woodlots or forests to exercise care while burning brush around their nue. As state forest land it would serve an admirable purpose, and it could be procured at a low price." The forest. Mr. Besley continued, is the only place in the state where the hunter is welcome. The area over which he can hunt wit-Rout Deihg- "molested is shrinking all the time.

Value of Timber Land "But the inteerst of the sportsman is only one benefit in the preservation of our forests," the state warden said. "While we are conserving our wild life, through proper re- premises to avoid the possibility of ictio :5 we are also conserving i our timber supply. There is hope forest fires. Mr. Bushman suggests that brush i fires be started only on calm days and that the fires be placed suffi- for bringing the timber industry back to the, plane it once held.

"Then there are the watersheds. A STORY ACCEPTED Festival In Japan Is Subject Of Article In Magazine. The action was taken at the request of Dr. A. M.

Northrup. secretary of labor and industry, to whose department the office is attached. It was the first meeting of the ex- cii'ring his junior ano sopno- Years and a member of t'ne eci- Ad- itol a i staff of the during his freshman and sophotnon years. Mr. Jacobs is also -i member of tin 1 Philhellenic society, honorary classical organization of ths campus, aud a member of Theta Kappa Su, na- cient distance from wooded area to This easte rn section of our country, prevent, flames from reaching there, nrith its teeming population, is look- "Japan Overseas Travel Magazine" has accepted an article written by J.

W. Ostrom, instructor in the English department at Gettysburg college. The "Japan Overseas Travel Magazine" is one of. tiie leading magazines on the Orient. "A Mountain-Building Festival of Japanese Shintoism," the subject of ecutive board.

P. S. Stahlnecker. secretary to Governor Pinchot. will serve as secretary of the board.

Lutz in Charge Lancaster office is in charge of Harvey E. Lutz, of Lancaster, who serves eight counties in the state. It is also indicated that the office of the state department of labor and industry now in Lancaster will also be moved to York. A shake-up among referees, which be'gan almost immediately after yesterday's action in moving the office, makes it possible that a York county man may be appointed referee. The present referee.

Mr. Lutz. receives a salary of $5,000 a year. In addition to the referee, the of- tional social ternity. He clectcc 1 this yeur to membership in ths Phi Beta Kaypa.

Mr. prepared for college at the York high school, from vhich he was Graduated the class o'i" 1927 as one of Ilia honor students 381 3 Elizabeth Evans Drills Members In Dance Routine. Growth. i Congressman Talks Arthur C. presents! At Chlirch Banquet part of the Western Maryland rail- Bushman also noints out the cne an.icie SU omiu.eu uy fi employs an expert atenc lays property housing signal ap- brush and The appear ln May and a typist.

namel 1 it he describes -Owari Fuji i The nnd snarks Vlde TM Shelter iOr the crca They hold it and supply it carfully Matsm meaning "Little Fuji Fes- flp ml nnr nt bl tures who build their homes in such I :nct.pari nf ereat floods to ti ce lo xorK UUL in colored moving pictures plants, shrubs, flowers and other forms of plant life actually growing befc.ro the eyes, will give a lecture and show at the Majestic theatre Monday morning at 11 o'clock, it is announced by Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg college. This is offered as one of the outstanding features of the lecture program at the college and, in line with the policy of the institution, Doctor Hanson again invites the people of Gettysburg and Adams county to attend, no charge being made.

Quoting the "Popular Science" Doctor Hanson pointed out that Mrr-Plllsburi- reveals "tug secret of what takes place in the heart of a rose, as it unfolds from the bud, in an amazing: motion pic- ure n3m mads the aid of an X-ray tube." He added that "most of the scenes are beautifully colored and the lecture as a whole is one of rare beauty and amazing, and a very unusual biological study." Gettysburg college wants as many persons who can. possibly attend "to be our guests at the Majestic theatre Monday morning at 11 President Hanson said. Congressman Harry L. Hames, and sparks. Fireman Injured Waynes boro fireman was cut on i he "hand while the fight to control ti 1L blaze, lasting more than an Red Lion, spoke on the topic.

"The 'hour, continued. Nearby 'homeswere Fifth Loaf," at the twelfth annual showered with embers, and the banquet of the Men of Trinity Re- could be seen for miles. No formed church. York street. Han- estimate of the loss was available, over, Thursday evening in the Flames were seen rising from the church chapel, which was attended u-ool of the hotel annex, a tliree- story building unoccupied during the winter season, by Dr.

Charles Davis, i He sent in an alarm and shortly William S. Mason, secretary of the a his arrival Fire Chief Jesse Thompson called for the aid of iWaynesboro firemen. vide food and shelter for the crea- Tney nol a it and supply it carfully Matsuri meaning "Little Fuji Fes- tures who build their homes in such i ns tead of allowing great floods to tival TMs re ij i ous i tc which is places. Bob-white, quail and other come down from the hills, filling a nart of shmtoism. is held an- i he in turn should do everything possible to keep them about his farm-lands.

useful bu-ds love to frequent the old reservoirs with mud and silt." fence rows and as these birds are such a valuable ally of the farmer i IVTfin Charge Brought By Gettysburg: Girl offices. Tha Greensburg office was transferred to Uniontown, and two by over 100 men. The Rev. Edgar HcfTmeier, pastor of Emmanuel Reformed church: Date For Shoot Of League Hanover Chamber of Commerce; former Congressman A. R.

Brod- Charles E. Babner, York, who was i several released from the York comity jail Ostrom 4 i Wednesday after serving' 120 days. In Adams County i beck, and the Rev. E. M.

Sando. pas- The firemen with their two chem- at endec i tor of the West Manheim Reformed ical engines concentrated their ef- charge, also gave addresses. John Shaffer presided at the v. M. Sando said i forts on saving' surrounding prop- trarnjuet.

The I erty fires. and extinguishing incipient I i i A ij. AYA. 4 i i I I I i grace at the table. A social session Sparks set hre lo the 100 ol appear before Alderman James A.

Jones, of York, on Saturday Moses Bair and Robert Bell, rep- i afternoon at 2 o'clock, to answer two resenting the Gettysburg charges of disorderly conduct and i. meeting of representa- f. assault and battery. Mary Living- thc? Susquehanna trap- stone. York, is the prosecutor in the league at Selinsgrove.

former case and Beulah Ruppert, of dinner at Gettysburg, the prosecutor in. the i presi- i nually in July, at Avhich time they begin at night to carry stones to the top of the mountain. Some gather in groups, carrying large stones, others carry all sizes. It is the only one of its kind in Japan. Shinloism is the native religion of I Japan, while Buddhism is imported.

yeans a Professor i "delphia ofnce. two years. lit English in 11 govern- ment school near "the scene of mis I understood, lor political referees were dismissed. Those removed are Thomas C. Seidel.

Reading, for years Republican chairman of Berks county, and a referee since 1917. and J. William Ditter, Ambler, referee in the Phil- removals. it i.s activity Two song-aiid-dance choruses art-, being- groomed a i iii musical numbers and intricate dance steps for the three-act, musical comedy. "Pickles." which Gettysburg: high school talent present in tht-; i high next Thurs- I day cver.iii:{.

Th': is staged for tho benefit ui' i-he fund. The art' being drilled m. their by 'Miss bofh Miss Jului Am 1 the musicai 11 unique festival. 1 against Governor Pinchot last year, In the Gypsy iElonr.or Elected Trustee lives of i shooting I Thursday G. R.

Thompson. Baltimore street. The two dismissals and the two transfers in office, following close i upon the change in Uie entire per- sonne U1 Workmen's i jsation board, is believed at the ca))- ital to presage a general shake-up Mary Ucu-uir Cook. followed the dinner, with Mr. Shaffer serving as toastmaster.

Music was furnished by the Sunday school orchestra tinder the direction of Emory Gobrccht. The address by- Mr. Haines followed. home of Mrs. Stella Mengel.

about 200 feet from the old inn, and the i flames roared toward the railroad ed the meeing. The Gettysburg club was again station. also caught fire. Several railroad crosstics honored by being chosen as the host club for the, opening shoot of the Harry Zepp Is Held '2 Dog amount Of S800 for his appear bail as trustee in tho bankrup r- estate of SU in the entire staff of men i i aw. township at a meeting of credi- ince before Alderman Jones SatM--i QQ i da I tors at the office of J.

Donald Swope. Jr OrtCl Jtilltt, IS Babner was arrested on December I ti'ustec in bankruptcy. Thursday. Victim Of as the man who caused I Louis W. Wagaman, Donald a I I VL Alrl i 11, 1930, the riot at the corner of South Harley street and College avenue.

York, when he.engagcd in a fight with a policeman and assaulted Beulah Ruppert. Previously he broke up furniture in the boarding Han-y Zepp, Straban township, was arrested this morning by Constable George Aughinbaugh. Gettysburg, on two charges of violating the state dog laws. Zepp was charged with harboring an un- Icensed dog and allowing another dog to run at large without a license. The informations against Zepp were laid by John Z.

Miller, Straban township, before 'Justice of the Peace D. Myers. Oxford. Zepp posted $50 bail on each count for a hearing before 1 Justice Myers. Monday morning at 8 o'clock.

Lht- Kditor ot" Tht- Beverly Hills, March 12-As there was more money spent on cold cream and cosmetics last year than on bacon and beans, why, naturally there must be more people interested in beautifying themselves. The International Beauty Congress met in New York yesterday and they figured out that tills rubbing- something on your head to prevent baldness is really what causes it. They claim that you gxt to take stuff internally for it, so from now on if you sec a bald-heaclecl bird reach for his flask, don't ask for a swig: its only irrigation juice for his roof. Yours, Chiel Thompson said the railroad i-season, Apiil 8. i signal apparatus was put out of Dates of tne other shoots in the commission.

Susquehanna league this year fol- The Chapman Manor hotel and'; Iow: Vacation lodge, were in the path of Ma Jersey Shore: May 27. the flames, but did not catch fire, i Wilkes-Barre; June 17, Hazletoii; The old building destroyed was i 8, Scranton: July 29, Harris-! located about, seventy-five feet from burg; August 19. Williamsport: Sep- the Maryland state line. It was tember 9, Berwick; September 3 0 formerly by Mrs. Me- Northumberland, and October 12, Wm ln cel Comas and now belongs to the Lee Milton.

Chapman estate. mers and William E. Oliiigcr were named appraisers. Tho trustee's I Porter Blltt 8J dicd ln Cur.Ux'i-- land township at 11:30 o'clock, evening, of i He was a son the lat-c Henry a appraisers, bond was fixed at $3,000. STOCK RKI'OKT New York, Mar.

13 A 'Margaret (Bolclen. Butt, ancl Ihou'se of Mary'Livim-stone located i stock market was adversely in the vicinity of Knoxlyn. on the northwest corner' of the today hy He rc.s.ded the wesr. Babner was i the rails and sellinp of hi priced years, returning to Adunis i i a HI: sti-ect intersection. taken to city hall and the police had specialties.

Prices fluctuated uncertainly during: the first half hour and then the downward trend SPECIAL Autos Crash On The special evangelistic services I in the Memorial United Brethren came more- fletiniti 1 six years ago. Surviving are one half SISUT. Mrs. George Sanders, Hanover, and one (Continued on Second Di Phi Qamma Belts TO Hold Banquet i Christ church, West High street. Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Gettysburg college, which initiated i eleven members, February 3, will celebrate the event with a dinner at the fraternity on the campus, i Saturday evening-.

Many alumni of the chapter are expected to return for the dinner. Albert. Bell and Howard Stauffer, i both of Gettysburg, were among those initiated into the fraternity. will continue during the coming Automobiles driven by Robert week. These services are held each Smith, Gettysburg, and M.

H. Pike. night, beginning at 7:30. i Drexcll Hill, near Philadelphia, were damaged in a crash in the third Action on Charge of IJIJITH A block of Chambcrsburg street Thurs-j Bardstown. Mar.

13 i coni erred today on A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. day afternoon. No one was injured. whctncr ne "son will plead guilty stillc to re I'aul M.

Hawkins, Horn Dak-, at a both cars were able to proceed sentence or on I 111 0 sinUonco 1 Warner hospital, Thursday. Both under their own power. guilty. ur.i i a ollei ol i i i rccommenfi a youth pleucled am Nelson. I 11VO I I 1 i I 1 1 4.1 I I mother and child are reported to be Smith was driving west in the an- trial and risk death in the cit-ctric rll do vcr yon think best." Th(? American a i i cartl WEATHER REPORT Fair tonight.

Saturday increasing cloudiness. Slowly temperatures. rmrl.y. Tiicsdny afternoon, Mnrch 17. n( the legion homo, lainl Admission GOo.

Prizt-s riicely. tomobile of Jorn D. Keith, Carlisle chair has been put up to Mrs. A the youth fcold the lawyer. --You street.

Pike, a traveling salesman, ncs pjotrowsky. of Detroit. I didn't Uill anybody and I FfOSPITAI, REI'OKT endeavored to turn around in the'; Hor son trial here under the am not Brook Hull, Fairfiold; Mrs. Paul middle of the block when he crashed ainc of Anthony Peterson, had his "Thon 1 promised 1 would a i R. (JUS), ni: tif routs ami Skf mr iu) on nnothor M.

Hawkins, Flora Dale, were admitted as patients to the Warner hospital. Carmel Kelly, Emmits- was discharged as a patient. Kloomintr rwtted plants nl: rcnsonnblo prices. Variety into the Keith car. Public snio ot wcond-h front, of Court IToii.su Snlnrony, 14.

one o'clock. R. w. Wcntz. I attorney telephone her today, ask- your mother on the telephone r.ud ling what to do.

following the con- ask her what she wants me to do." iviction and sentencing to death last iii.s lawyer replied. Sec our window Mooming plants. Gardner's Variety night of his companion in the slay- ling of a railroad official. Young Peterson and his attorney Circuit Judge Tudor savt- a tho church UM: Rev. couple a few hours to hear from the Sutton.

of Filey's mother. ofiicwtmg. SPAPESJ.