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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 2, 1940 Consul Calls Million Dollar 'Bid For Hitler Childish THURSDAY EVENING German Agent Denounces Carnegie Institute Offer Nazi Says 82 Year Old President of Organization Is More English Than American Pittsburgh, May 2, (JP) An offer of a million dollar re. ward for the delivery of Adolf Hitler to the League of Na tions for trial is described by here, as "just childish. Dr. Samuel H. Church, 82 Institute, made the offer on the behalf of a group of unnamed Pittsburgh men and women in a letter to the New York Times.

He proposed the German chancellor be tried before the League for "crimes against the peace and dignity of the world. Knopfel said Church had "al wavs been more English than and added: "It is just childish. It is the same as the 'Hang the Kaiser' movement in 1914. I don't think as head of the Carnegie Institute he should make such a disgrace of himself." Meanwhile, Dr. Church re mained in seclusion at his home here.

His wife told newsmen he had no further statement to make at this time. Club Not Involved Church's report to the times that he had discussed the reward with some members of the exclusive Duquesne Club here drew from Gordon F. Flagg, club secretary, this comment: "The Duquesne Club knows nothing about this reward for the capture of Adolf Hitler. The club itself has nothing to do with it and Church is not authorized to speak for the club." Church frequently has attacked Hitler in the Carnegie Magazine which he edits. In an article last month, he declared there was "growing demand" for Hitler's "public execution." Educational Week For Blind to Close Women of the Lutheran, Evangelical and Episcopal denomina tions in the city and ot the Mid riletown churches will be in charge of the final program tomorrow in the fourth annual Educational Week for the Blind observance in Pomeroy's Auditorium.

Jewish women were hostesses today. Mrs. J. Paul Charles, chairman tomorrow, will be assisted by Miss E. A.

Potts, Mrs. W. J. Ken nard and Mrs. William Beisser.

The week's activities have been sponsored by the Auxiliary to the Dauphin County Branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. Mrs. S. A. Blumenstein is president of the Auxiliary and Mrs.

Leslie H. George served as general chairman of the special observance. $5100 Damage Claims Filed in Auto Crash Two suits for $5100 each were filed in Dauphin County Court against John Baisch Brown, Reading, and Susan Baptiste, Harris burg, for injuries in an automobile accident April 31, 1938, on the Jonestown road five miles east of Harrisburg. According to the statement filed by John Mcl. Smith, the two claimants, Vivian Long and Ruth Seyler, both of Reading, were guest passengers in the ma chine operated by Brown when the collision occurred.

Home 3Ianager Visits Washington Project Cassius M. Brown, 625 Briggs street, who has been named by the Harrisburg Housing Authority as manager of the William How ard Day Homes, the city's first low rent housing project manage ment operations at the Langston Homes. Mr. Brown will remain in Wash ington for about two years and on his return will manage the Day Homes now under construction for 200 Negro families. Dauphin Minstrel Show to Be Held Wednesday Dauphin, May 2 For the benefit of the Zion Cemetery Association a minstrel show will be given Wednesday in the Dauphin town hall by Mrs.

Ida Hocker, Mrs. Harry Singer, Miss Esther Mins ker, Mrs. Esther Putt, and a minstrel group of five men and four Lower Paxton Pupil to Play in State Band George Preston, Harrisurg R. D. 1, a freshman at Lower Pax ton High School, has been selected to play third clarinet in the all state band sponsored by the! Pennsylvania Music Association.

The band of 220 pieces from 163 schools will give two concerts at Sharon on Saturday under the di direction of Guy Frazier Harrison I of the Rochester Civic Orchestra. Pave "Bottleneck" Laying of concrete in the west lane of the widening proj'ect underway in the Lemoyne bottle tleneck will be started within the next two weeks; District Engineer H. Ray Wertz announced. Curbs which bounded the highway and street car tracks have been reset, Wertz said. Willy Knopfel, German consul year old president of Carnegie Women Sainted By Pope Pius French Nun and Humble Italian Girl Remember ed at Vatican Rome, May 2.

A French nun and a humble Italian girl the first persons to be canonized by Pope Pius XII attained sainthood today at solemn ceremonies in St. Peter's. The sainted women were Marie Euphrasia Pelletier, who founded the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and Gemma. Galgani, who was noted for her reported stigmas, or marks corresponding to the wounds that Christ received when crucified. I he canonizations preceded a series of beatifications, prelimi nary steps toward sainthood, for five other persons which will take place during the next two months, Among the beatifications will be that.

May 12 of another French nun, Mother Philippine Rose Duchesne. She introduced the So ciety of the Sacred Heart in the United States and died at St. Charles, Mo. The great church of St. Peter's sparkled with the brilliance of thousands of electric candles for today's ceremony.

Twelve thousand lights glistened in 600 chandeliers especially hung in the naves while other thousands shone from 170 immense candelabra. Thousands of nuns," priests and laymen crowded the Basilica to see the Pope enter on the Sedia Gestatoris, or portable throne. Six silver trumpets heralded the approach of the Pontifical procession, in which marched Cardinals, Bishops and uniformed officers of the Papal Guards. Junior High Principals to Confer at Curtin Teachers and students will be host to the Junior High School Principals' Conference of Eastern Pennsylvania on Friday at the Camp Curtin Junior High School. Dr.

R. R. Abernethey, superintendent of schools, will deliver an address of welcome at a luncheon served in the school cafeteria. The principals, from schools throughout the Central and Eastern part of the State, will visit class rooms in the morning and will be entertained during a special assembly session by students with music and dances. 3 and 4 threads in "Per sonaLengths" short, medium, long! HOSIERY, Main 253 Signed In City Drive Commerce Chamber Teams Set New Record; Top '39 Campaign by 100 With the biggest goal in the his.

tory of the organization, 110 mem bers of Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce completed their annual spring (membership roundup by enrolling 253 business and profes sional men as new members, thus setting a new high record and exceeding their quota for the year, The drive netted exactly 100 more memberships than were reported at the conclusion of a similar effort last year. Combined with the objective of adding new members to the Chamber was an intensive campaign to enlist the personal support of business executives in boosting their home community. "The affiliation of 253 more individuals and firms with the Chamber of Commerce makes doubly sure the continuation of an aggressive pro gram for the promotion of Harris burg community's business during the ensuing year," Walter Burns, vice president in charge of members' service, said today in reviewing the unusual results ob tained by the membership organi zation headed by E. A. Doepke, Jr.

Although the membership com mittee and its associates devoted the entire day to calling on their neighbors, a number have volun teered to continue their activity during the next thirty days, Gen eral Chairman Doepke announced today. Competition for the seven prizes offered by the Chamber's Goodfellowship Cruise Committee will end June 1, Mr. Doepke said, and many new members are ex pected to enroll this month. Spirited competition between divisions, teams and individuals marked the entire day's activities, which opened with a breakfast at the Penn Harris Hotel and con tinued with report sessions at noon and at 4.30 o'clock. Leading all of the fifteen teams was one cap tained by William Arnold, II, with 36 memberships to its credit.

The high division, led by Robert R. Burtner, was responsible for 83 new members. Highest producer of the round up was Frank Wilsbach, who established an all time record by proposing the applications of 27 new members. Second individual production honors went to L. G.

Handwerk, who was awarded a week end trip to Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City. Other high membership producers in the order of their standing were: Ross S. Jennings, John Tivney, Arthur Koplovitz, Harold R. Prowell, James Wear, David Fair and Harry Levin. Snow Forces Queens to Dance in Galoshes Chicago, May 2.

Galoshes were in vogue for May pole dancers in several middle western states as April's farewell, showers turn ed to wet, swirling snow. Budapest, May 2, (JP). Snow. hail and heavy storms marked May Day throughout Southeastern Europe. knows best Mother's years of experience have taught her to look for quality first.

She probably wears NoMend Stockings and would love to have you choose them for btr gift on htr day. Silk Stockings 1.15 3 prs, for 3.25 Floor OWN STOflS DINNER SPEAKER 90 Judge Henninger will be principal speaker at joint banquet of Y. M. C. A.

and Y. W. C. A. Saturday as part of annual State Y.

M. C. A. convention. Open House at Curtin High Miles C.

Hummer, principal of Camp Curtin Junior High School, announced that open house will be observed following the P. T. A. meeting tonight. Exhibits from class rooms, clubs shops, home economics, science and art departments will be dis played as follows, (location, ex hibit and teacher in charge).

Room 107, english, Virginia Davis; Room 106, crafts and aca demic, Claudine Melville; Room 105, history and civics, Garth Kelly; Room 113, English. Sara Kohrer; Koom 115, general busi ness, Mrs. Mary Henrie, and Drew Shroad; Room 117. typewriting, Glenroy H. Bishop.

Room 201, mathematics, Wm. H. Reindel; Main Hall, art and handi craft, Dorthea Ilgin; Room 201 mathematics department, Wm. Willoughby, Ruth Martin, Mary Crane and Minerva Kreider; Room 113 English, Grace McLaughlin; Room 110, latin, Lillian M. Kell and Elizabeth Halbert; general science, W.

H. Loban; Room 105, history, P. L. Hocker; Room 105, history and civics, Mrs. P.

G. Room 108, special aca demic, Mildred A. Burke; school magazines, Dorothy L. Sponsler: Main Hall, metal, Jay D. Boyer, Main Hall, wood and sheet metal, Hugh Roberts; Main Hall, elec trical display, George Walter: Main Hall, woodworking, Alvin R.

urove; auditorium, musical or ganizations. AftAlftU' OWN rto 1.1 Every Harrisburg Junior will want one of these Gad About i i i President Approves Susquehanna Bridges Approval of the bridge bills of Congressman John C. Kunkel by President Roosevelt today grants Federal permission for the construction of bridges across the Susquehanna River at Millersburg and Middletown. Legislation authorizing con struction of these bridges, how ever, died in the House Appro priations Committee of the Gen eral Assembly last year. Society Honors Late Members The Engineers' Society of Penn sylvania paid tribute to the mem ory of six members who died William F.

Miller, past president William R. Denehey, Robert Irons, E. W. Hess, E. Clark Cow.

den and Benjamin N. Phillips. Miller, who was a civil engi neer for the Pennsylvania Rail road, was eulogized by Dr. Herbert Snow; Denehey, former chief clerk to the general super intendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, by William B. McCaleb Irons, for 22 years president of the Central Iron and Steel Com pany, by G.

S. Eastburn; Hess, Clearfield borough engineer for 25 years, by Ross H. Swope; Cowden Harrisburg city engineer for 14 years, by V. Grant Forrer. Phillips who lived in Halifax, was a former State district forester.

John C. Dight, program chair man, presided. VFW Wants Assurance State Will Repay Fund Lloyd C. Pike, Pennsylvania commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has asked Gov ernor James for assurance that money transferred from the Vet. erans Compensation Fund for re lief would be returned by the 1941 regular session.

The transfer is contemplated by the special ses sion which starts next week. Pike, in a letter to the Governor, said: "The Department of Pennsyl vania of the V. F. W. assures you of its willingness to cooperate in aiding those who require relief and, therefore, does not object to transferring the unexpended bal ance of the compensation fund to the sinking fund, but we do re quest your assurance that compensation fund moneys transferred during the forthcoming special session of the General Assembly be restored to the fund during the next regular session of the Legis.

lature, in order that persons eligible to the benefits may secure that to which they are entitled." The Treasury Department re ported today the veterans fund had a balance of $1,807,000. 2 I' vk i TOPPERS tt 5 95 You'll be mad about these smart toppers, fashioned of cotton gabardine choice of two styles: one with zipper front, the other double breasted. You'll motor in it; golf in it; and walk in it. You'll sling it over summer cottons, too! Sizes 9 to 17! third floor junior thop New Dealers Feel Fight Won On Wagner Act House Votes Indicate Drastic Revision Proposals May Be Avoided Washington, May 2. Repeated House votes against sweeping wage hour amendments led New Deal members to express belief today that they would have a good chance of defeating far reaching proposals to revise the Wagner Labor Act.

Five days of wage hour argu ments, it was learned, have caused them to soft pedal their campaign to prevent the Wagner act con. troversy from coming before the House. Although Democratic leaders have not yet placed Wagner, act amendments on the calendar, it was considered likely that the subject might come up the week of May 13. The chief issue before the House as wage hour debate was resumed today was an amendment which Representative Buck (D Calif) temporarily wrote in attempting to clarify the present exemption for employes "engaged in agriculture." There have been argu ments over the extent of that provision. Two other amendments were tentatively approved yesterday.

One would permit labor contracts to abrogate the present 42 hour maximum work week, providing that no more than 2080 hours SCIENCE AIDS By Associated Press Amherst, May 2. The Massachusetts State College experiment station instituted a series of today which it hopes will evolve a new technique of washing: dishes. Ralph L. France, assistant research professor of bacteriology, said the station would conduct a bacteriological examination of' glassware, silver and dishes washed by student helpers in fraternity and sorority houses on the Mass. State campus to determine whether the dish washing is efficient enough to prevent transmission of disease organisms.

were worked within a year. The present yearly limit is 2000. The other would let the wage. hour administrator fix piece work rates for employes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Church Trustees Elected Three trustees were re elected at the annual corporate meeting of Pine Street Presbyterian Church test night for three year terms, They are William H.

Neely, Vance C. McCormick, and William Bennett. The annual financial re port was presented by Ritchie Lawrie, treasurer. Irvin Koons 111 Irvin Koons, 71, 30 South Twenty eighth street, Penbrook, became ill on Court street, near Market, today and was removed by. ambulance to the Harrisburg Hospital.

2g lllilfB I 0 Vwr fc III TR0N MExrCff ANP BEYQND COMES THIS GAy TWE FlERy CIRCLES ItfSflKeb PULU FICHTFRS 6 THlR flOOK TACHION New Road Bids Are Due May 17 State Department of High ways Planning For Nine Projects The Department of Highways will open bids May 17 on nine projects involving the improvement of 22.26 miles of road. Projects are: Allegheny Route 28, Tarentum borough and Harmar township, .59 of a mile of widening West 7th Avenue. Berks U. S. Route 422, 4.33 miles of concrete between Mt.

Penn and Douglasville. Berks U. S. Route 222, 5.56 miles of concrete and an I beam bridge between Shillington and the Lancaster county line. Butler Route 8, 1.91 miles of concrete between the city of Butler and Unionville.

Delaware Route 891, 3.15 miles of concrete between the city of Chester and the Maryland line. Lackawanna U. S. Route 6, city of Scranton, Dickson city borough, .94 of a mile of concrete. Montgomery U.

S. Route 422, Whitemarsh township, .1.67 miles of concrete between Barren Hill and Plymouth Meeting. Potter U. S. Route 6, 1.14 miles of resurfacing 22 feet wide between Roulette and Coudersport.

Sullivan Route 87, 2.97 miles of macadam between Hillsgrove and Barbours. Fire in Brush A brush fire at Hillside nnd Vineyard roads, Bellevue Park, was extinguished last night by Royal firemen..