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Welcome Qovernors TEE GETTYSBURG TIMES Welcome Qovernors THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944 Gettysburg Extends Royal Welcome To Governors Here For Memorial Exercises OMMUNITY IN HOLIDAY DRESS FOR OCCASION ETTYSBURG today ex-1 tended a rova! i two score governors ates and territories, here for ic annual Memorial Day excises in the Gettysburg- Na- 3nal cemetery. From the North, South, ast and West came the chief cecutives of the sovereign ates of these United States, hey came to pay tribute to ic soldier dead of many wars -tribute to those men who their last full measure devotion" that this nation NAMED FOR GOVERNORS AT CONFERENCE Ohio ay survive. It was the most memor- ile exercise held in the Get- 'sburg- National cemetery nee its dedication by the lartyred Abraham Lincoln, ovember 39, 1863. Two Addresses Accompanying many of the werncrs were their wives, lildren, secretaries and staffs. Members of Governor i Martin's cabinet, legislative leaders, i political leaders and prominent residents of Harrisburg and other i Pennsylvania, communities have been chosen to act as aides, hosts 1 and hostesses to visiting Governors i and their wives this week at the thirty-sixth annual Governors' con- ference at Harrisburg and Hershey.

i An aide has been assigned to each Governor, and their wives or i daughters each have a prominent' Pennsylvania woman to act as hostess. Latest attendance figures received at Governor Martin's office show i Governor Thomas E. Dewey was that 38 State Governors, one ter- Governor John W. Bricker was born in Owosso, Michigan, in 1902.. ritorial Governor and the repre- born in Madison county, Ohio, in He attended the University of sentative of another State Governor 11893.

In 1916 he received his A.B. Michigan and Columbia University' are attending the conference, which degree from Ohio State University, Law School, where he received A.B. opened Sunday at Hershey. and tne following: year was admitted and LL.B. degrees, respectively, Governor Coke Stevenson, Texas, to the Bar.

During the World War, From 1931 to 1933 he served as chief i informed Governor Martin that he he joined the Army, where he rose assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was unable to attend and has designated Claude Williams to repre- and in 1933 became United States i sent him. Attorney. During a period of private practice from 1933 to 1935, he also served as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General. From 1935 to 1937 he was special prosecutor of organized crime in the county of New York, and from 1938 to 1941 he was District Attorney of that county. He was inaugurated Puerto Rico i mm uuuiitj.

lie iiia.uguini^u ach governor was accompan- 1 January 1943 and his term will by a Pennsyh ania aide, expire in January. 1947. ppointed by Governor Ed- ard Martin, Pennsylvania's governor and veter- of three wars. Highlighting today's exer- ises were addresses by two hief executives. Gov.

Leverett Saltonstall of Tassachusetts, spoke "For the Hd North" and Gov. E. Mel- ille Broughton of North Car- Una spokp "For rhe Old outh." Governor Martin presided master of ceremonies. It was a memorable occa- ion for historic Gettysburg, ustodian of the largest and lost beautiful of the nation's rar shrines. Town Decorated Gettysburg Was in holiday ress for the Memorial Dav TM, rogram.

The mam streets of Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell was in sinciairviiie, New York, iii 1891. Equipped with Master's Absent States States which are not represented are Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada. Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Montana. Following is the officially prepared list of the aides to Governors and the hostesses. Where no hostess is named, it Is assumed that the Governor is not accompanied by his wife or daughter.

Alabama, Governor Chauncey Sparks, Secretary of Forests and Waters James A. Kell and Mrs. Frank A. Sinon, daughter of former Pennsylvania Governor Arthur H. James; Arkansas, Homer Ml Adkins, State Treasurer G.

Harold Wagner: California, Earl Warren, Attorney General James H. Duff and Mrs. Gertrude Stauffer, Lancaster; Colorado, John C. Vivan, Secretary of Mines Richard Maize and Mrs. Floyd Chalfant, wife of the Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut, Raymond Baldwin, Secretary of Property and Supplies C.

M. Woolworth and Mrs. Wool; worth. State of iNsIaware" Delaware, Walter W. Bacon, Secretary of Highways John U.

Shroyer and Mrs. James H. Duff, wife of the Attorney General; Florida, Spessard L. Holland. David L.

Law. Healt A stwa a df rs Wl J' rence, chairman of the Democratic han a Freeman, wife of the Bank- State committee and Mrs. George i Secretary; New Jersey Walter H. Earle, wife of "former Governor i a former United States Earle, land Mrs. George Bailey: Senator Joseph R.

Grundy and Secretary of Welfare Sara M. R. Doctor der ees from the wharton DWll were profusely decor- School of Finance and Commerce, ted with the national colors. he taught economics successively at Vom iom fi-iv ndg- Pe nn vlvania Washington, and Columbia UniversUies He taffs, and at curbs, and in Assistant Secretary of the United ront Of most Of the homes in State Department of Agriculture in he community the American 1933. and served as Under of that Department from 1934 to In he was appointed and head of the department of New York City.

He ag waved triumphantly. 1937 The dignity of the Occasion Chairman of the Planning: Commas marked by the solemnity the exercises. Preceding the program at the ros- um in the National cemetery hool children strewed flowers on le graves of the known and un- iown soldier dead buried in that icred spot, made the more sacred the blood of a once-divided, now rongly-united nation. has, meanwhile, been the author of numerous articles and books in his field. He was appointed governor of Puerto "Rico in 1941 for an indefinite term.

to the rank of First Lieutenant After acquiring an LL.B. degree, his career as a public official began with his election as Solicitor of Grandview Heights in 1920. Subsequently he served as Assistant Attorney General, member of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, and Attorney General of the State. He has been three times elected Governor. He is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Governor's Conference.

He was inaugurated in January, 1939, and reelected in November, 1940 and 1942, and his term will expire in January, 1945. and Mrs. F. Clair Ross, wife of the Auditor General; Massachusetts, Leverett Saltonstall, Banking Secretary William C. Freeman and Mrs.

John C. Bell, wife of the Lieutenant Governor; Michigan, Harry F. Kelly, Insurance Commissioner Gregg L. Neel; Minnesota, Edward J. Thye, Speaker of the House Ira T.

Fiss and Mrs. Robert McCreath; Missouri, Forrest C. Donnell, Secretary of the Commonwealth C. M. Morrison and Mrs.

Morrison. State of Nebraska. Nebraska, Dwight Griswold, Secretary of Agriculture Miles Horst and Mrs. Frank Scott; New Hampshire, Robert O. Blood, Secretary of Illinois, Dwight H.

Green, Joseph N. Pew, Philadelphia; Indiana. O'Hara; New John J. Henry F. Schricker, Secretary' of empsey, Secy of Revenue David Commerce Floyd Chalfant and Mrs.

I Harris and Mrs. Alec Wheeler; Lesley McCreath; Iowa, Bourke B. New York, Jtomas Lt. Hickenlooper, Secretary of Internal Affairs William S. Livengood, and Mrs.

Edward Sayers; Kansas. Gov. John C. Bell; North Carolina, J. Melville Broughton, Superintendent of Public 'Instruction Francis B.

Andrew F. Schoeppel. Senator Wei- aasu don B. Heyburn, Delaware county, I North Dakota, John Moses, Judge and Mrs. Samuel W.

Fleming. Kentucky, Simeon S. Willis, Secretary of Labor and Industry William Chesnut; Louisiana, James H. I Robert E. Woodside; Ohio, John W.

Bricker. State Civil Defense Director Ralph C. Hutchison and Mrs. Hutchison; Oregon, Earl Snell. Davis, Secretary of Public Assist- W- and Mrs.

Al- IT Of ance Samuel Y. Ramage, III, and Mrs. Frank Wallace; Maine, Sumner Sen-all, O. J. Tallman and Mrs.

Richard K. Mellon, wife of the State Selective Service director; Maryland, Herbert R. O'Connor, Budget Secretary Edward B. Logan bert H. Stackpole.

Rhode Island Rhode Island, J. Howard Gijath, Senator B. B. McGinnis, Allegheny, and Mrs. Thomas C.

Buchanan, wife of Public Utility Commissioner; South Carolina. Missouri Governor Forrest C. Donnell was jrn at Quitman, Missouri, in 1884. studied at the University of Mis- luri, where he received the A.B. in 1904 and the LL.B.

degree i 1907. From 1907 until near the me of his inauguration Governor onnell was actively engaged in the of law in St. Louis. He has much of his time to the ork of charitable, professional, and aternal organizations. He was in- jguratcd in February, 1941, and his rm will expire in January, 1945.

iETTYSBURG TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION Local 702 Gettysburg Pa. MEMBERS OF THE GETTYSBURG TIMES EXTEND A HEARTY WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, THE STATE GOVERNORS, WHO ARE'OUR VISITORS ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, 1944 A i i. i I A I A A I A I I "Thf Oldest ant) Most Democratic Union'' Chalfant, Commerce Secretary Rose From Carrier To Publisher Floyd Chalfant, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Com- merce, was born on a farm near Fordyce, Greene county. Pa. After nine years on the farm, he moved with the family to Charleroi where he became a carrier boy for the Charleroi Mail, then cub reporter, and subsequently city editor.

From Charleroi he went to Beaver as city editor of the Beaver Daily Times and left there in 1925 to take over and operate the Waynesboro Record-Herald, as publisher and chief owner. Chalfant is past president of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association and recently retired after' two years as president of the Associated Press of Pennsylvania. He is President of the Board of Directors of the YMCA in Waynesboro and has been actively interested in YMCA affairs in the He was Chairman of the Advisory, Committee of the Department of Journalism at the Pennsylvania! FLOYD CHALFANT State College. He served a year as president of TM tar ClUbf county district and subsequently Chamber of Commerce. When the Civil VVorks Admimstra- tion was oigamzed.

he was made Administrator of the Frankhn-Ful- Administrator in an area that included nine counties. He was a member of the Ohio and Olin D. Johnston, Auditor General F. Clair Ross and Mrs. Samuel Y.

i Lake Erie Canal Board in 1924-25 Ramage, III. wife of Secretary a of the Pennsylvania Election Public Assistance; Tennessee, Pren- Commission in 192G tice Cooper, Capt. Edward son of Governor Martin, and Mrs. I He is married and has three children. He is active as a member of the Waynesboro Methodist church.

active member of committee on arrangements for the Governors' Conference this year, which included James E. Duncan; Utah, Herbert B. Maw, A. Boyd Hamilton Mrs. Edward B.

Logan, wife of the I Mas and Sinnei a Odd Budget Secretary; Vermont, Wil- e11 TM and a member of the Na- liam H. Wills, former Governor Ar- tlonal Press Club Washington. D. C. thur H.

James and Mrs. James; He was an act Virginia. Colgate W. Darden, Governor Martin's Vance C. McCormick and Mrs.

Spencer G. Nauman; Washington, Arthur B. Langlie, former State the Memori a' ay program in Get- Senator Scott S. Leiby and Mrs. i tysburg Robinson Simons; West Matthew M.

Neely. House Minority Leader Reuben B. Cohen, Philadelphia; Wyoming, Dr. Lester C. Hunt.

Public Utility Commissioner Thomas C. Buchanan and Mrs. William S. Livengood, wife of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, and Virgin Islands, Charles Harwood, The International Code was devised by the British Board of Trade and accepted by other maritime nations in 1902 Polynesian natives of Tahiti are said ro be losing the graceful walk Franklin Mrs. RoberM associated with their race, for too L.

Myers, Jr. man are ridin gin motor vehicles. MOST FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD IS HOST TODAY; Oovprnors ot the United States meet tor Memorial Day exercises, this year on one of the world's most tamous battlefields. The, North and the South stand together again at Gettysburg, to renew the tribute of memory to thousands American soklier.s who now IIP buried in a gieat national cemetery on thf soil of Pennsylvania. The general facts of the battle at aie known to most! Americans: lew of them--involved now in a of stupendous proper- i lions--realize what a profound na- tional shock followed the first halting news from the little Pennsylvania town.

That was almost 81 years ago. but as yet theie has been nothing to equal it. Historically, the Fourth of July. 1863, was the most glorious Inde- i pendence Day since the Liberty Bell huci intoned its defiant challenge across the rooftops of Philadelphia, four score and seven years before. The news of the victory at burg reached the cities of the North on the evening of the holiday, while at the same time a bearded and little-known Union commander named U.

Grant was accepting the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Confederacy had been dealt two smashing blows in the space of 24 hours. Terrible Cost i But from the standpoint of i human suffering, that Fourth of lJuly was also the saddest day in lour history. The word "victory!" no sooner jumped from the chat- tering telegraphs than hundreds of thousands of Americans were ask! ing the sober question: "At what I cost?" The answer, when it came, distorted bv rumor and error, plunged the entire nation into agonized sorrow. i More than 6,000 men lay dead on these summer fields at Gettysburg.

Another 32,000 wounded soldiers jammed every available house and 1 public building in the little town, which had become a vast, hideous hospital. Hundreds of others still (lay where they had fallen, two or California Governor Earl Warren was born in Las Angeles, California, in 1891. He attended the University of Cali- 1 fornia where he earned A.B. and degrees. He served as a First Lieutenant in the Infantry in 1917- I 18.

His record of public service eludes positions as District Attorney of Alameda county, 1925 to 1933: Attorney General of California, 1939 to 1943; and member of the Ninth Regional Defense Board, Office of Civilian Defense. He was President 1 of the National Association of At- lorncys General for the year 194041. He has a son in the Marine I Corps. He was inaugurated in Jan- I uary, 1943, and his term will expire in January, 1947. three days before.

Fully one-half of the casualties had been left be- Ihind by Lee's retreating Confed- erates, now fighting rain, mud, time i and the bitter sorrow of defeat in an attempt to escape through the I mountain passes before the tlood- ing fords of the Potomac should trap them in Maryland. Appalling- Sight The battlefield was the most appalling sight of the war. Even hardened soldiers were dazed by the frightful result of the three-day conllict. Newspaper correspondents who mai.aged to find telegraph connections did not spare the gruesome' flled brought (Please Turn to Page 2) fl TIONAL MUSEUM OPPOSITE THE NATIONAL CEMETERY HOME OF THE Displaying World's Largest Collection of American Civil War Relics Displaying The Keenactment of America's Greatest Battle On The World's Only Electrical Battlefield NEWSPAPER!.