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42 Established 1851 MIDDLETOWN, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY TWELVE PAGES PRICK THHEK CENTS HITTER NAMED CHAIRMAN OF JUBILEE BODY Former Chamber Head Selects Group to Determine Scope Of Celebration COSTS, DURATION AMONG FACTORS TO BE STUDIED Executive Committee to Base Flans on One Year Older Than a Century Report Due Friday C. Fred Hitter, former presiden of the Chamber oX Commerce, was elected temporary chairman of the Committee on the Fiftieth Armi versary of the Incorporation Middletowri at an organization meeting that group last night Mr. Hitter appointed -a committee of investigation to probe the various possibilities of type, scope, dur ation and expense of the Golden Anniversary celebration in June. The entire group of twelve appointed by Mayor Robert P.

Anderson to serve as an executivt committee in charge of a sub-coni- mittee structure representative of all interested groups and organizations, attended the inaugural session in the Mayor's office. There was copious discussion and much speculation on the kind of a celebration that would be most appropriate and most feasible for the anniversary occasion. Group to Report Friday Inasmuch as there were no facts nor figures available to define the type of program best suited lor a golden anniversary, Mr. Bitter, with the consent of the executive board named a committee of inquiry comprising Clayton, Jones, Supervisor Walter D. Lukens, Charles C.

Chappell, Alderman Wilmot Decker and Paul Sorg. They wil convene during the next week am render reports on the costs ant possibilities of one-day, two-day three-day and all-weei celebrations. On their findings the executive group is expected to base its choice of observance. The full executive committee wfll meet against Friday to receive the report, and at that time the first definite commitments towards the June birthday celebration are expected to be made. -Mayor.

Anderson addressed the and" their ambitions and town on the 3nap." He urged their constant cooperation to make the fiftieth birthday anniversary memorable occasion in community Alderman Sherman G. Robinson, a committee member, expressed his personal policy that members of the city administration on the committee should remain in the background of so that the occasion might be completely nonpolitical In character. Mr. Robinson then nominated Clavton Jones, American Legion Commander, for chairman. Mr.

Jones protested, however. He would be away from I the city a month and therefore I unable to devote adequate time to I the chairmanship, he explained and 1 asked withdrawal of his name. 'Mr. I Sorg then nominated Mr. Hitter for permanent chairman.

Post Hade Temporary Before the election was effected, lit was agreed, on the request of I Mr. Ritter, that the post be a temporary chairmanship, and a I permanent head date. be chosen at a Questions arose frequently darling the long discussion as to the of a. celebration. This was idered especially pertinent be- Icause of the lack of any budgetary for the occasion.

Authoritative answers could not be inasmuch as members had DO preconceived idea on the type duration of the birthday party. Guesses, not based on fact, rang' from for a one-day affair uprising chiefly a historical le. to $5.000 for an all-week am of diversified character. Jembers agreed that a substantial of whatever funds would ult- be necessary could be raised efforts, including the iceeds of a souvenir program, neral discussion indicated there some sentiment for the one- ay festival, as well as for the week suggestion. Others, too.

fav- a two or three day observance ling xnis strong for a program would have stress on the edu- tional and historical aspects of ic occasion. I. It was Mr. RiiSer who checked widely divergent proposals con- nplated when he requested the Ippointment of the committee of ulry to draft plans and cost ates for all -tvpes of celebra- Prom the committee's flnd- the executive croup win select ITDC deemed most suitable to (fiddleUJwn's fjolden anniversary. id future planning Tfll be based its requirements.

9 DIE IN CLOUDBURST i WELLINGTON. N. 2--Bodies of jK-rspns were recovered today nd II wrre filer i-odtarrt trijraUed a conrtruc- i camp Northern Hawkcs Bsy. wen were sleeping whm uip hit. UtUe hope was held at the elewn missteB had KCHKOEDEI.

DIES WARWICK--Chartes nt al Nfw fork SUlf Trstotor School Jor to Waiwlefc, to HoqsJtaJ. Mr. wpertntendtal at Urp Jwt jrw. Miss Frances Knapp, Sullivan County's oldest residnit, was pictured this week in her Narrowsburgh home where she observed her 101st birthday today. Bom in Bloomingburg February nineteenth, 1937, just before Andrew Jackson, the seventh President, left the Whitehouse.

She does her own housework and-has an apartment of her own. She has lived at Narrowsburg eighty-six by Ober. Household Tasks Enjoyable To Narrowsburg Woman. 101 Miss Knapp Regards Birthday as Occasion for Reflection and Thanksgiving That She Has Retained faculties and Health NARROWSBUHG--Her ear.ly ambition to reach the century-mark safely-behind her, Miss-FraBceB Knapp, who has. lived here since JT 5 of "fifteen; today marks her special celebration, Im ttents ot other iliss KBapp is by hel usually become.

5-and-first btrthday. There was no fetapds called to visit and reeHItbe decrepitude bad been her lot, for ss invalid which persons of her age s-refuses to live with, relatives And maintains' her own apartment, which she keeps in order without assistance. Housework, she thinks, is enjoyable. Miss Knapp believes her birthday calls, not for the usually attendant fuss, but for reflection and gratitude that she should, at her age, retain the faculties and physical ability that enable her still to enjoy life. She-wears glasses, but despite recent breakage of a lens, she manages to read with the other lens pending repairs.

Her hearing is a good--indeed, so good that when the reporter was discussing her with a relative at the other end of a room in which sevral people were conversing at once, Miss Knapp called: "Why doesn't he ask me that?" She has a mind and win of her own tempered with, a cheerful disposition. Usually amenable to suggestions of members of her family. will not argue with her once she has made up her mind. When she refused to be photographed at request of her sister and niece, they gave up. Soon afterward, however, she agreed to the photographers jroposal that she have her picture aken and posed willingly.

Born to Bloomlngburg February nineteenth, 1837, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Knapp, the family moved soon afterward to Bethel and, when Frances was fifteen, to farrowhborg. She now lives in a louse adjoining that of Mrs. Mary Knapp, a sister-in-law, who celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday Wednesday.

Miss Knapp did her own housework and cooking until he Autumn of 1536, when the fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a fracture of her collar-bone, which resulted in complications. During convalescence, she stayed with Mrs. Cnapp. but returned to her own tome the next Spring. Since then, Knapp sends her meals in to ler.

But the ventenarian has seen no physician since the accident, and says she needs none. She stffl remembers the first JEWELRY THIEF WOTS HOME OF CONGRESSMAN WASHINGTON The home oJ Representative Scott W. Lucas of Illinois, in the fashionable broad branch district of the capital, was looted last night of Jewelry valued at $3,525. Metropolitan police sought a clue to the burglary today in a ladder the thief presumably used to enter the second floor bedroom while the Lucas family was dining downstairs. The ladder was found about 200 yards from the house.

TRAIN SHOVES RUCK ALONG GOSHEN RAILS Tkrw Peroai, laclaf Slightly Hart in Crcss- iaf Acddeat PORT JERVIS RESIDENT IS CRITICALLY INJURED Newbsrgh Bet Also Hnrt By Motorcar While Crossing Street Near Home Three traffic accidents, one of them a collision between a truck and a freight train at Goshen. caused injury to three persons in this area during the last twenty- four hours. Two of those hurt were pedestrians, In a critical condition at St Francis Hospital. Port Jervis. was Thomas Saintmire, seventy-seven, of that city, who was struck by an automobile yesterday.

Less seriously hurt was Edward Denton, seven-year-old Newbargh boy. who was hit by an automobile near his home- Mrs. Rose Pargament. dsty of Brooklyn suffered a fracture of the right arm in th? crossing accident and is in Goshen Mrs. Pargament was an occupant of a northbound delivery truck operated by her brother.

Isadora Klein of Woodridge, which reached Stewart's Woods crossing of the Erie's Pine" Island branch. Just north of Goshen on Route Seventeen, as a three-car freight train was backing on to it. about nine p. m. A step on the locomotive tender strack the left front wheel of the truck and shoved the vehicle one bunder and fifty feet along the track toward Goshen.

The body of the truck was not greatly damaged, however. Klein who apparently was unhurt asserted the crossing signal light was not operating. Sheriff William SchoonmakTr who was at the scene shortly alter the accident, said the train engineer told ftfoy, however, that he had seen two cars waiting from the train on the north side of the crossing, indicating that, the was operating. ACCIDENT IN PORT JEEVTS POUT JERVIS--Suffering a poe- sthle fracture of the skull and lacerations to the left temporal the condition of Thomas Saint- mire, seventy-seven, of twenty-ode Hornbeck avenue was described as critical at St. Francis hospital lest nfght Saintmire was struck and knocked down by an automobile owned and operated by Charles James, strty- two, of Huguenot as he attempted to cross Ball street on a cross wlk last night James who bad emerged the Pike street grade crossing elimination and was fnalriny a.

left turn into Ball street, told police that he did not see the man and did not know where be came from. Saintmire was taken to the hospital in the ambulance of Willis Quackenbush who was summoned by police. Shortly after he was ad(Continued cm Page 2, CoL 6) IN CONFUSION Austria is Given Assurance Of Great Britian's Interest Experts fW Meutt ef Ef ftdkf Price Balance PoEcy SPEAIER AwfLEADER OF GOP DISAPPOINTED At BysV Set- petted of DeliTHSf Flood Central Report Citizen Again After 31 Years WASEnasmv -experts tamed ta fesCatfoctary and federal Eeensiag measures is search of a aseans to ataietf Pro- Sdeot BooserelMi hope ef i inj; the price structore. Failure of Mr. SoasrreU to roj- 1 Best the machinery through which I to raise some nices arid depress.

others tn an effort to stabStee all created pottfrnioa and grombBng oc Capitol Rifl. bat two definite pro- posate were most widely discussed, i Senator Etoer Tbtaaas ef Okb- hnrmi declared the President's state- Port Council of Unemployed Turns to Workers Alliance $5,800 OF BANK WOT RECOVERED BY POLICE Large Amamid Fnad in Log; Brigg, Still Sotghi POUGHKEEPSIE BUB searching for Ralph Briggs, alleged bank bandit, police revealed today that they bad recovered (5,800 of the All Former Officers Retifi With Transition to Pres- Gronp ment meant the been forced to adopt an polky. He beBered the coold be wiihoot issuance of new currency because the AdminSstrasion now had fan power to put other i inflationary machinery, itich aa 1 open market opo-adorts by the Fedral Reserre, into action. The President gave assarance. however, that the Hitler's Address ToTouchOffFete By Vienna Nazis Autrut'i Jewi Nenrom Tkey Retail FfrtccutKHii of Ccn- tnriei Aft) V1ENKA BniUU suits Aattria UittMxt' inurcat In triumphant ef llwir victory, LONIXN Msaston ou AUHrtitci iM Itnliiui proUlroM; odcu oa BMTIlt.

i PAIUS and tlrltfeKj IP up foreign at If German? nwkr.i (ur- Uxfr on BEH1JN atrmatt)- nreiuutt lo )r6r UHler worUi plara In to tneoch, lor IlriC Uaw, to relayed by radio Iw lomwrow TO When die was seventeen. Miry Anna QTWL ol Greenville AdfljJnistrtticn Township, married Cari Oil. Uiec a Jorrain of mechanics Jor Use did not contemplate flutter drfaln- Straquebacna raaroacl. He a ciUzeE of Gennany. Under a law ation of the doDar or other tafia- I ri 8 since been chanted, Ifo.

Sort her U. S. ciliserishtp. FU- tioaary exuedients. Tie Pieddmrs ea children born of whom thirteen survive.

Yesterday gist j-imuoiiB jjjj. jtajjjj a ejiiasj in MttunOiawioQ court Ooshen before Justice Graham Wltsehief bat at the Ume fie dropped the name of her husband wbcsn bass't axn Its- natrty years. She pictured with her oides Carl William by Adolf Jfclcr his to HIP RrtcSiaUf; In lin ionmrrow will empimstzc that Germany fully recognises Aiwlrla's fiscal and ecorxank aciTisarshed warned that additional ntrrency Se- Taluatlcn SucJudcd the dacger of disrupting trade pacts and the le- lihood of attracting foreign cold to the United States. The second method discussed the bffl by Senator waUan Z. Borah and Senator Joseph C.

to issue federal licenses for all interstate corporations as a nvtns of ending monopiy snd preventing prfce-fbnng. Ifeitber Borah nor would comment except to say that they expected to bare a simplified and bill reagj today, Ttew, however, is that by mMnfrrtCTg monopoly the root of the Maladjustment of prtcd wouW be dettroyed. price; intasesit Speaker B. Backhetd and the House fOattixtiei on Page 2, Col. S) rtiy, clrclra cloe to Uct Game Wardens Believe Deer er in Park Checked Court Restores Citizenship Lost by Marriage to Alien Mrs.

Mory Anna O'Dell, Mother of fiftwn of Whom Thirteen Are laving, of Husband She Hoin't Seen Nearly Syven PORT JERVIS--The dUsrcthip fht tort when site married alien rcetomi Mrs. Uerf Wiischirf in Ooshra yestmJay. At the M19PM1' Mrs. O'Drll dtuiiped Uie name of the man she married to U06 and whom eiie 'not seea Sat nearly tfttn Hjtier. sources would wipe in future Germany ji wouw abstaui Ironi soy in Austrian interns! affairs, n(i-r thai Aua- trtk'e btuue German cixaraciei was stewed by the recent changes in Austria, sure PORT JERVIS Acceptance by the Port Jervis Council on unemployment of an offer of assistance --once rejected--by the Workers Alliance of Kewburgh was accompanied last night by resignation of all the Council.

original officers of the The changed attitude to- Few Cenkted Others Still Soifht for CoiumatioB Violation! GREENWOOD JJffiE a game protectors believed today they bad broken up a band eccased of wholesale slaughter of deer in Palisades Interstate Park dnriat the last four months the result of conviction of four Hockland County men and the arrest of another oo charges of violation of the Cutoff- ration taw. Other arreu were expected, nffWHata aid, The four men found gottty of il- ftl yctttatem of deer during ihr closed season, were Percy Hcppw, Peter Hopper, Howard Youmara aiid Conklin. an of the HATCOMPANY REFINANCING EFFORT FAILS ihen AVSTiUA AHHVKKIt OF BRITAIN INTEKEST VIEHNA Chartet QrttlEh miniate; 10 vuitrd Ftorejgn Quida Schmidt today tnd WM in have usurps htm of Great Britain's continued iutnwt in Indc- prmitiurr. It VIA uf.drrtUXKi ttwt iadkated that BriUiii it: flirwitei itnd that tut ttwti BrtUUiv tsA cruttal Knf visit (lib, Irom of pared for a (rla tmUoo UtntotTOW of their into lutt in lite Irntr at Attttrla. laid Adulh stxwh lltlslliLilg.

ixjUllrai prisoner! We let Nut la flirouginwt A o' of Recehrer of for Ctmftaj Ditctuwd Ura. O'Dell only whei the married Carl Orti, boa gtfchank on Uie hfctta ralbad. ted beciini-. uiuier law siner amended, a eiiieu tif Germany. That weddtrw took UiWieOs, IttOS.

Ue Episcopal eJtutdi, Jersry Cfty, and all UK whir- 1 blrtli in Park Ridge, Autrutt first, aa tfeo OkUfiiUr ot Jtn- nk ElinbHb BUxccit turf Abrwn hbd elrm Ixr wrrt lot. In ytara thsi fUUcn chiklrrn IXJTD t6 wwplt of 'Jkrro tjt dcttCi of Ui pwu oT Jerwrr. Although tlw hid fof a tone UOMT nvUn her kfet zetiship. ltl WM haodkappcd bjr a lack of knovtafcr to how U) proceed. Movnrr.

day Lairn OotiiW by dart OKker and hrr uppU-Eof tmotij mi caUon. Wow Use tout peprrt ttw rtxvriarnUl arc bm aud vorfcerv but Una Krw jwiu iw tiju UM'. Msr mother It; Uttnoffew Hit of born Hilkt AIM) re i Uie ef flags Jd out in uiwtu ntui in of oo tI vnoir ltF it her ten. Cwri Oett, not tWrtr. "1Ui wi'e oSlitr ehiiS.

a Moult, of iward the Alliance, offer ww which they believe Bnggs MarTls Benedict of New- Edward Olszewski obtained burgh. appanmUy marked a transl- azid from the Philmont National Bank. Sixteen hundred dollars of this in ob)ectives of the Council I from a orurn for discussion of common problems to a pressure amount was found OlSKfitit i group to cemad meet rcltef from trains that came through the (Cvntinvtd on Page 2, CoL S) DATESSETFOR HOMES EXHIBIT tcrcaining itrw Oty. was discoi-ered hidden io a losr on whpn William P. Grezz, tnnpor- the abandoned Hyde Parfc fsrm on Payt i.

21 where police ay Brircs and Olszew- changed tbeir doUm after the robbery. A shotgun and a revolver also were found hidden in a barn on the farm, and the stok-n automobile plates said to tare bnn on the car used during the robbery were found to a well. Olfarirski ta bclnjr heM in thj Columbia County Jail. of any freih clues to JAPAN'S DIET GFTSWARBILL before MARtnratc Han? J. Sodioan cere, March eighth.

Percy Hopper was given the alternative of ft S100 fine or 100 In Goshen Jail after hia arraignment this week, lie aencd two dan in Jail and vaj ncleasnl whet) to obtain the money for Ute One. Peter llopprr, Youmuu Oemk- lin were eomznltttd to Nmr cny Jail in default erf ana ot lien each yesterday by OifaorDr of Suflern. man rd, were lo be cimrtrd (Costlnufd en face Col. 1) DEATHSilKES A PATROLMAN kill. P.

Coffin In Informed la here. Marey P. prniler.t. of taur rrf hlW. flti.

HBV- liw jtlritui ficim la. Hunt U' list A Iiei5 hare Mr Colnn Wka (4 U.r u-'ii tr fti tw-niiff. (tout thsi.it Mi1 Lroi Ij, i not ftw MAN iS HELD ii FOR ROBBERY at j-i gun for Armory Show MSddktown's Fourti) Annual Homes and Pood Show has oem hsdulod far March tweaty-fishth to April spoond. O. S.

Ail Member of Nrwbarrjj Twct I Dropi in Store FRANCISCO BANK'S I STAFF VOFES ON STRIKE Up frwrml WIl presSdcnt of Uie Chamber of Com- nrrtr. today. Is yet than srvm wwki cst. I Chamber CominrrpF i tn the prrparaUon of rxpodUowi of the kind. prAitr lasrr fv Us sr tn Itsr flitfo nf r.1 Of ml 3 zoc RAN jnenw wt-IJ under war.

II Ss knon-n hat ptoii for nt- and I laaitortal Bex VS in 11 17 1 hi fkior KrtG will be ta UK days, daUd tar Ibr wwk an that or lact yt-tr and apprcndrnatcrf ttx sanw at Mich of the fro prtor to that. Prf- rtotni rtpcrtrnce InfltraitwS Urnt that wnrk at UN- UtrwflMftJ of fiprtnc li a tbrw -rhm public iautml In ll.l.-^ rf thrtr oi lAtrs- rtrtkr. if A tiak tt wsi t.V a ttTSfcr a nojdk lft AP trrwQ noUrr flan FnuKMco btnkn It (Tijlt tir is Vhr bos j- t' ItX. Mf tr for umr and tb io I. Annr ijjwirt Ut af tort a Orinee Courrtr B1 no Sn China, lutfi ai a tnaxtemm and Mtw- when t-'n Tsri te a bwsaailie rf UJT wMr intcnaft tn the rrpraffltrm.

for a tm flff tfynrr. an? of the ito UM tStf, at Rerbm finaacMr. ttv Wit of xi 99 fe M- Coi. Crt.