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72 year old, gray haired woman came from Milwau kee to present her claim to the fortune left by Mrs. Henrietta E. Garrett. She was the first of the 17,000 contenders for the Gar rett estate, now estimated to be worth $20,000,000, to ap pear personally at the hear i i tT'I1 HIT ings conducted Dy wunam m. Davison, special master appointed by the Orphans Court.

The claimant, Mrs. Kather ine Elizabeth Euler, sought to establish that she was a niece of Mrs. Garrett. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is attempting to obtain the entire estate through escheat laws, raised frequent objections during her testimony. Mrs.

Garrett died in 1930, leaving a will which disposed of only $62,000 of the fortune amassed by her husband, Walter Garrett, in the snuff manufacturing business. Mrs. Euler, a native of Germany, said Garrett and her "aunt" went to Germany in 1872 to find out something about the estate of Mrs. Garrett's grandfather. She said Garrett had only one arm.

Charles H. Garrett, who says "locked up" throughout the trial, the members staying at a local hotel under custody of deputy sheriffs. Sentences were: Luther Oliver, Seventh street, near Herr, unlawful possession of alcohol, $200 and four months; Moses Jones, aggravated assault and battery, fioo and six to twelve months and costs of prosecution in counter suit brought against Ber tha Jones; James Jackson, unlawful possession of alcohol, $5 line. Paroled: Leon Banks, Edge mont, guilty of hit run driving; Russell M. Kerstetter, Upper Pax ton township, forgery; John Clark, Harrisburg, assault and battery.

Acquitted: Mary L. Adams, Williamstown, violation of the Motor Code; Herbert E. Markle, Harrisburg, serious charge; Mat tie Barber, 442 Mohn street, Bteelton, larceny; and John G. O'Donnell, Steelton, violation of the Motor Code. REALHTRANSFERS Carrie A.

Shutt and Tillie A. Felty to Samuel L. Dutro, tract of land in Lower Paxton township, $760; Mildred Smith to Robert A. Koppenhaver, property in Wiconisco, William G. Hy man to Alfred M.

Hawley, 912 South Nineteenth street, Clyde B. Grove to David T. Bailey, tract of land in South Hanover township, $1. he is a distant cousin of Mrs. Garrett, asserted that Garrett was not so afflicted.

Mrs. Euler said Mrs. Garrett was her father's sister. She gave her father's name as Andreas Johannes Schaefer. She gave her aunt's name as Elizabeth Schaefer.

Further, she said Mrs. Garrett's father was Johan Conrad Schaefer. Discrepancies in Story Orphans Court Records previously placed in evidence stated Mrs. Garrett was the daughter of Christonher Schaefer, and that she had one brother, John Christian Schaefer, who was a bachelor. Mrs.

Euler said Mrs. Garrett had a brother named John, but that he died in infancy. Orphans Court records stated John Schaefer lived to middle age and resided in a house next to that of Mrs. Garrett. The master at the opening of the hearings last week indicated a large number of claimants will go down automatically if they cannot trace kinship with Mrs.

Garrett on the basis that her father was Christopher Schaefer. Mrs. Euler's brother, Adam Schaefer, of Milwaukee, also a claimant to the fortune, gave testimony largely corroborative of what his sister had said. Mrs. Christina Ernst, of Buffalo, a niece of Mrs.

Euler, presented pictures to support her claim to the estate as a grand niece of Mrs. Garrett. The hearings will be continued today. JURY FREES SON ON SELF DEFENSE PLEA IN SLAYING After deliberating for nearly four hours, a jury in Dauphin iCourtlate ac quitted "George 24, Enhaut, charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his father. Quit Stevenson, last October 30.

The son pleaded self defense. His nerves overwrought by the ordeal of four days of trial, Stevenson attempted to thank members of the jury fo rtheir verdict, but his voice faltered and he wept. After Judge John E. Fox discharged the jury, Stevenson was greeted by relatives and friends who gathered around to express their joy over his release. Mrs.

Bessie Stevenson, his mother, and the widow of the victim, embraced her son as he was freed from custody. The jury withdrew at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon and reached its verdict shortly after 6 o'clock. The two alternate jurors who sat in on the trial were discharged by Judge Fox When the twelve regular jurors withdrew. Samuel E. Fleagle, 19 North Thirtieth street, Paxtang, who was pressed into jury service by deputy sheriffs as he was passing the courthouse last Monday, said that he welcomed the experience.

After being placed on the jury, he became uneasy about his automobile which was parked in Market street near the courthouse, until a deputy sheriff removed it to a place where it would be less likely to accumulate red tags. The jury was V. F. W. POST PLANS THIRD ANNIVERSARY PARTY IN FEBRUARY A the semi monthly meeting of the Sergeant Lawrence L.

Chambers Post, No. 710, Veterans of Foreign Wars, held last evening, plans were made to celebrate the third anniversary of the post to be held during the early The following committee was appointed by Commander Ecken rode which will arrange for a two day celebration: Thomas Reinhart, Daniel Crowley, William Greineer, Jeremiah Mahoney Mark Paich, Raymond Summers, George Selway, Joseph Painter, Rudolph Knuth, Joseph Kambic and John Atticks. 3 Tk Care Not Chances! 3 KIWANIS PLAN TO FORM SCOUT TROOP The Steelton Kiwanis Club is planning to organize and sponsor a Boy Scout Troop in the near future. A special committee appointed by Harry Weidenmeyer, president, is now working on the selection of a Scoutmaster, com' mitteemen, and meeting place. The Boy Scout committee of the Kiwanis Club consists of C.

W. Eisenhart, chairman; R. Houser, E. U. Balsbaugh, Russell Ulrich, the Rev.

Hugh E. Yost, and Dr. Reese Beyrent. 824 INOClEATED AT STEELTON CLINIC Officials of the Steelton Welfare Association announced that 824 children from Steelton and nearby towns have received the diph theria innoculation treatment on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The physicians assisting in the innoculations were Dr.

H. C. My ers, Dr. W. P.

Dailey, Dr. F. J. Cunjak, and Dr. W.

G. Jefferson. FREE DIPHTHERIA SERUM TOMORROW The Steelton Welfare Acsocia tion will sponsor inoculations against diphtheria for children of families unable to pay a doctor's fee tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Municipal Building. The clinic is open to children of Steelton, Bressler, Oberun and Enhaut. Applications must be signed by the parents before treatment can be given, Welfare authorities have announced.

3 DIPHTHERIA CLINIC Another diphtheria inoculation clinic was announced today by the Steelton Welfare Association. It will be held at the Municipal building at 2.30 tomorrow after noon. Children not unable to get to the two previous clinics are urged to come. They will be received not only from Steelton but from Enhaut, Oberlin, Bressler, and Highspire. Welfare offioials said, however, parents must sign the applications before hand or accompany their children to the clinic to sign them or the children cannot be given the treatments.

THOUSANDS FLEE MENACEOF FLOODS (Continued From Page 1) to shallow water when a ferry boat sank at Portsmouth. Sirens and factory whistles screeched the warnings which sent Portsmouth and Lawrenceburg residents fleeing to high ground. In each case the retreat was believed to have been accomplished without loss of life. Levee freaks The Lawrenceburg levee broke after 300 men labored for hours to save it. Fear that Portsmouth wall would cave in had prompted city officials to a compromise with the river.

They ordered storm sewers opened, easing the pres sure. Hamilton county, Ohio, had more than 10,000 homeless and Cincinnati, located in that county, faced estimated property damage of $1,000,000. Flood waters blocked firemen while lire destroyed a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad warehouse. Elsewhere in the Na tion's flood centers the property loss was uncalculated. Supplies Short The spreading waters cut off many cities from light and power sources and flood supplies.

Stricken communities called for serum and vaccine to forestall typhoid and small pox inroads. Five members of one family at Dayton, were quarantined with scarlet fever. At Aurora, flood waters disabled waterworks machinery, leaving only 250,000 gallons, or a three days' supply, available in an untouched tank. Three Indiana towns Troy, Tell City and Can nelton were without electricity. So were Hawesville, Hardinsburg, Cloverport, Lewisport and Irving ton in Kentucky.

Troy and Tell City had no water supplies. The Red Cross called for more relief equipment in Indiana ana special trains rushed supplies to stricken areas. Pittsburgh Menaced Upstream where the Ohio River is born by the confluence of the Allegheny and Mongahela rivers Pittsburgh's "golden triangle" business section was menaced. Chief W. S.

Brotzman of the U. S. Weather Bureau predicted a 29 foot stage, four feet above danger level, but said it might go to 32 feet if rains continued. And rains continued overnight. Governor George H.

Earle ordered Pennsylvania officials to Pittsburgh to prepare for any possible emergency. He said he was determined to avert a repetition of the $200,000,000 Pittsburgh flood disaster of last St. Patrick's Day. Nearby West Virginia counted more than 3500 flood homeless in Huntingdon, Mt. Pleasant and Parkersburg and the Mongahela was climbing out of its banks again.

Disaster Threatens Jan. 22, (JPh Mpsspneers hurried through Southeastern Missouri farmland today, warning 1500 residents to evacuate before the threat of the turbulent Mississippi River. United States engineers warned that the Birds Point New Madrid floodway of 131,000 acres of rich bottomland may be inundated for the first time if old levees fail to hold the crush of water from the Ohio and other tributaries. 50,000 Made Homeless Cincinnati, Jan. 22.

The sluggish Ohio River, overburdened by constant rainfall, mounted higher today, forcing an unofficially estimated 50,000 or more persons to desert their homes. The brownish flood tide invaded broader areas, caused damage here alone estimated by police at far beyond $1,000,000 and threatened to cripple industries in cities lining its winding course. Call Monthly Meetings to Study FItood Prevention Determined to work out a unison plan aiding all affected areas, delegates from flood sections worked all day yesterday in Washington. They came from all over the country. Robert Hall Craig, Harrisburg engineer, vice president, Susquehanna Drainage Area Flood Control Council, represented this territory.

He said today that a sin cere attempt is being made to pre sent a united front and practical plan to this session of Congress. So earnest are the flood prevention advocates that they will meet every month in Washington under the leadership of the United States Flood Control Federation. Even as they met yesterday, half hourly reports came to them, warning some of the delegates that their cities were being in undated for the second time in less than a year. General Tyler and Captain Craig of the United States Army Engineers. Abel Wolman, chair man, National Resources Commis sion, Senator Royal S.

Copeland, who will sponsor a flood control bill, and others, sat in. State Senator W. D. Rodgers, president of the federation, presided. Even after Federal legislation is passed, there must be State compacts, arrangements for land and 'other details, so the delegates know that a long task is ahead, but they are resolute that action must be pressed.

Meeting at the Hay Adams house, delegates resolved to assemble the last Friday of each month. Problems in previous prevention methods have shown that different sections of the country have had various difficulties and years have been required to get action. Delegates are resolved to work as a unit in effecting adequate flood HARRISBURG jggj TELEGRAPH FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 22, 1937 Gray Haired Woman, 72, Claims $20, 000,000 STATE FIGHTING TO KEEP VAST ESTATE WHICH 17,000 SEEK First Contender Presents Photographs Taken in 1872 to Prove Claim Philadelphia. Jan. 22.

A Farm Show Notes THE egg classes winners in cluded Mrs. A. W. Klinger, Gratz; Hershey Farms' Hatch ery. Hershey, R.

D. A. W. Klinger, Gratz; Peeling Brothers, Harrisburg, R. D.

Samuel Base hore, Hershey, R. D. Adam Smith, Harrisburg, R. D. Ray K.

Lerew, Carlisle. Lancaster county took the county banner with 100 points. Unionville Vocational School took the school banner. Farm Show put on sale today 755 dozens of eggs which had been entered in exhibits for prizes. Susquehanna township, Dauphin county, and South Lebanon township, Lebanon county, won honorable mention in the home economics section, vocational school contest.

Hershey won a $30 seventh prize in the agricultural section; Myerstown, Lebanon county, received honorable mention. One of the several State cattle breeding association trophies went to Dr. E. S. Deubler, Camp Hill, for best improvement record for individual cow.

A cup and $12 award for best 4 county calf club went to Juniata county. SOUTH MIDDLETON HIGH SCHOOL, Boiling Springs, won a third prize of $45 in the vocational school home economics window exhibit contest. Spring Grove High School finished fifth, received $35. Included among the winners in the turkey exhibit are: Gantt Turkey Farm, Newport; C. E.

Cassel and Son, Hershey; Lauxmont Farms, Wrightsville; C. W. Bowen and Son, New Cumberland; E. Arthur Benner, Harrisburg; L. H.

Fosselman, Wila. Franklin, Adams, York and Lancaster county growers captured the majority of prizes in the apple section. Also among the winners were Beaumont Farms, Harris burg; C. R. Hoffman, Dauphin; Levi Fishel and Jean Stewart, of Dillsburg.

Jacob L. Landis, Deodate, won a first prize in the edible nuts exhibit. Other winners included Kenneth Beck, York, and H. W. Dromgold, New Bloomfield.

Among the commercial class apiary products winners are: H. M. Snavely and P. M. Beam, Carlisle; Robert Flinchbaugh and Ralph Gable, Dallastown; Leroy Spayd and Ernest Houtz, Myers town; Gillan St.

Thomas; C. F. McNaughton, Millerstown; Enos Hess, Grantham. In the 4 Club section, Raymond Connelly, Pearl Snavely, Book Roth, William and Abner Boldesser, William Lippert, all of Carlisle; Robert, Florence, Pearl and Alda McNaughton, Jonathan Rumberger, Richard and Edward Patterson, Galen Brandt, Stanley Scheffer, all of Millerstown; Earl Horting, and Raymond Hortih, New port; Robert Sealover, Dillsburg; John C. King, York, R.

D. 5, and Leroy Spayd, Myerstown. H. E. STERNER, Williamstown, won two firsts and a second in the French breeds, poultry section.

Honors in the Aberdeen Angus cattle division went to H. E. Mil lard, Annville, and F. A. Woods, Mercer.

Millard won fifteen firsts; Woods, nine. William Carter, Unionville, took one first place. Winners in the Mediterranean poultry division include: Gilmore Matthews, Delta; Mrs. Fabian Fleshman, Hanover; William Zerby, Millersburg; Orchard Poultry Farm, Spring Grove; Dr. H.

W. Blyler and Henry K. Miller, Lebanon; Wizard Ranch, Hellam; Leo O. Fair, Palmyra; Orchard Farm, Wizard Ranch and Mark M. Leese, York, won special awards donated by the Farm Show in various divisions.

SE of dormant and delayed dormant sprays for control of apple aphids was dis cussed by H. N. Worthley, State College specialist, at a meeting of the State Horticultural Association. He also described chemically treated bands and traps and lights for catching coddling moths. Caution in any move relating to retail milk prices was urged by Dr.

F. F. Lininger, of State College, in addressing the State Dairymen Association. He said any move should be made only after consideration of the substi tutes for milk and Standards for fungicides for spraying apples were given to members of the State Horticultural Association by Dr. H.

W. Thurston, professor of plant pathology at State College. Pennsylvania State Poultrymen elected as president, Mark Wit mer, Dalmatia, third term; vice president, John Maitland, Her shey, newly elected; secretary treasurer, H. C. Knandel, State College; and editor, R.

R. Parks, Altoona, both re elected. The Pennsylvania Jersey Cattle Club elected as president, Charles Shrum, Jeanette; secretary treasurer, J. D. Bock, McDonald, Officers elected by the Penn sylvania Guernsey Breeders As sociation are president, H.

K. Mc Cullough, Newville; vice president, George Klauder, Penlyn; and secretary treasurer, Harry Pate, Chadds Ford Junction. GOVERNOR GEORGE H. EARLE won a first and two fourths in the game bantams poultry division. Among the other winners were the Reliable Poultry Yards, Hanover; Charles L.

Min ick, Carlisle; Conred E. Speck, Carlisle; Olaf Carlson, 1018 South Nineteenth street, Harrisburg; H. M. Alloway, Stewarts town; J. H.

Stober and Son, Harrisburg; H. R. Matter, Halifax; Ralph G. Porthemer, New Cumberland; Ray S. Eppley, West Fairview.

Among the winners in the ornamental bantams, poultry section, are: William E. Zerby, Millers burg; Orchard Bantam Yards, Spring Grove; Wizard Ranch, Hel lam; J. H. Stober and Son, Harrisburg; W. H.

Shott, Millersburg; Lentz and Wallace, Bowmansdale; Watts Bantam Yards, Millersburg; H. E. Sterner, Williamstown; Karl W. Bashoar, Millersburg; H. M.

Alloway, Stewartstown; Charles E. Hershey, Dovers, R. D. and Mark M. Leese, York.

Lawrence and Washington counties made a clean sweep in the shorthorn cattle division. In the Shropshire fat lamb section, Lester Longreen, Lingles town, R. D. 1, took eighth prize; Mary E. Boyer, Linglestown, R.

D. 1, ninth; Pauline Hetrick and Irvin Rhoad, Grantville, fourteenth and fifteenth. TALKSONSNAKES At a special assembly of the Steelton High School yesterday afternoon, Jack Raymon presented his lecture demonstration on, "Our Friendly Reptiles." Mr. Raymond, who is recognized as an authority on snakes, has traveled extensively to secure some of his live specimens. DEFHr SENTENCE Lewisburr, Jan.

22, (). Judge Albert W. Johnson deferred sentencing Mrs. Mabel Shipe, Shamo kin Dam postmistress, who pleaded guilty of embezzling $627 of postal funds. He said Henry J.

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