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WEDNESDAY EVENING MAY 19, 1937 Admits Shooting Estranged Wife and Her Employer HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FARMER KILLED BY ACCIDENT POTTER CO. SHERIFF SAYS Drags Ulysses Farmer From Bed and in Scuffle Gun Is Fired Coudersport, May 19, JP) Sheriff S. B. Sawyer, of Potter county said today that Robert Smith, 32, admitted he fatally shot Harold Johnson, 38, another Ulysses, farmer. Johnson was killed as he aimed a shotgun at his estranged wife last midnight in Smith's home.

Coroner Philip Shaw ordered an investigation. Smith, who employed Johnson's wife, Hazel, as housekeeper at his Ulysses farmhouse, told Sheriff WEST SHORE NEWS ENOLA FIREMEN'S ANNUAL OX ROAST WEEK OF JUNE 7 Enola Fire Company No. 1 will hold a popularity contest in con nection with its annual ox roast and festival during the week of June 7 at the fire house, Altoona avenue. The contest will open Monday at a meeting of the committee on arrangements in the fire house. Any girl, between the ages of 11 and 14 years, residing in Enola or South Enola will be eligible to compete.

The winner will be chosen on the final evening of the ox roast. Awards will be made to the first, second and third place winners. POPPYALE The committee for the 1937 sale of Memorial poppies sponsored by the Camp Hill American Legion Post, No. 43, has been announced. Members are: Mrs.

K. W. Lauer is chairman of the sale. Her aides are: Mrs. Inez Ulrich, Mrs.

Roger S. Powell, Mrs. William Tate, Mrs. Howard M. Capper, Mrs.

John L. Rauch, Mrs. John E. Martin, Mrs. Ray Wertz, Mrs.

Paul Farber, Mrs. Robert W. Griffiths, Mrs; Ivan Craig, Mrs. C. E.

Boose, Mrs. Clar ence Berner, Mrs. David Gabel, Mrs. William Graham, Mrs. R.

Cunningham, Mrs. Clarence Wolf, Mrs. William Coombe, Mrs. A. Thomas and Mrs.

U. G. Fry, and for the Junior Auxiliary, Jeanette Erickson, Dorothy Wolf, Betty Wolf, Trudy Stailey, Marjorie and Natalie Siebert, Avis McCarter, Susanna Nickols, Maxine Wether all, Evelyn Van De Boe, Jean Hard Werk, Jane Topliss and Jean Farber. MOTHERS FOOD SALE New Cumberland, May 19. The Mother's Club, Troop 82, Boy Scouts, St.

Paul's Lutheran Church will hold a food sale Friday, March 21 at Third and Bridge streets. CAFETERIASUPPER New Cumberland, May 19. The Progressive Sunday School Class of Baughman Memorial Methodist Sunday School, will hold a cafeteria supper, May 27, in the church basement. WHITE HILL CARD PARTY The Ladies' Auxiliary to thel Lower Allen Fire Company will hold a card party tonight in the new firehouse at White Hill. Five hundred and pinochle will be played.

ELKWOOD FESTIVAL The Elkwood Fire Company will hold a festival Saturday, June 12, at the firehouse, Eighth street, New Cumberland. MOTHER DAUGHTER SUPPER A mother and daughter supper will be held Thursday evening at 6.30 o'clock in the social hall of the Baughman Memorial Methodist Church by the Junior Civic Club of New Cumberland. 3 ALUMNI MEETING All alumni of the Enola High School will attend a meeting tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock at the high school building 4 JUNIOR SENIOR PROM New Cumberland, May 19. The junior and senior prom of the high school will be held at Hershey on Thursday night. SERVICE AT HARRIS A.

M. E. will be held at Harris A. M. E.

Zion Church, the Rev H. S. Roan, pastor, at 7.45 p. "The Old Fashioned Church," will be the subject for the speaker, the Rev. A.

M. Nichels, of Mt. Holly Springs. Edward Beasley is chairman of the committee ar ranging the service. ELIAS RE ELECTED David A.

Elias, vice president in charge of the Harrisburg Division of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company was reelected at the annual meeting of the company at Allentown. All other officers and directors of the company, headed by J. S. Wise, president, were re elected. a S.

ill Sawyer that Johnson came to his home and dragged him from bed, Smith said a gun that Johnson carried was discharged into the floor as the two fought for pos session of it. Sawyer said Smith told him Johnson reloaded the gun" and roused his wife from her bed in another room. Smith added that Johnson then raised the gun to his wife's head. The sheriff said Smith admitted grabbing the weapon and shooting Johnson. IN RECITAL MISS GRETCHEN VAN DE BOE Miss Gretchen Van De Boe, daughter of Major and Mrs.

De Van De Boe, of 155 North Twenty fifth street, Camp Hill, will be heard in recital Sunday at Wash ington. She will read her own in terpretation and arrangement of Marjorie Benton Cooke's "Bambi." Miss Van De Boe is a sopho more at the School of Speech of the Marjorie Webster Schools at Washington. She is president of Eta Tau Sorority, a member of Orchesis national dance organization, a member of the school chapter of Delta Psi Omega, National Dramatic Honor Society and a member of the Student Council. MIDDLETOWN PARTY IS GIVEN FOR TRI HI MEMBERS Middletown, May 19. Senior members of the Middletown High Tri Hi Society were honored at a farewell party in the high school gymnasium.

Short speeches were made by Miss Permelia Rose, Miss Mary Wealand, Miss Louise Lee and Mrs. George W. Feaser. The Senior members honored were: Nelda Mathias, Clara Judy, Frances Flowers, Pauline Baum, Norma Rose, Margaret Smith, Ruth Dougherty, Miriam Clouser, Margarei Peters, Dorothy Kinsey, Jean Martin, Margaret Love, Kath arine Murto, Betty Groupe, Dorothy Hess, Mae Weirich, Anne Hummel, Marion Giberson and Dorothy Myers. 3 CLUB TO REHEARSE Middletown, May 19.

Members of the Middletown Dramatic Club met recently at the home of Miss Margaret Bitner, West Main street. Plans were made to start im mediate rehearsals for their next comedy production, "Poor Married Man," to be presented as a bene fit for Boy Scout Troop, No. 100, of town, in the Community Build ing. RESEPVTOFFICER TAKES NEW POST The rank of lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the 578th Field Artillery, Reserve Regiment, was taken by Major Henry Elmore Smith, officer in the unit and an instructor at the Harrisburg Academy. He succeeds Major William C.

Fisher. Major R. C. Mallonee, United States Army and instructor for the unit, swore in the new commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Smith enlisted in the United States Army in 1917; was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant April 8, 1918, and! was sent to France; commissioned second lieutenant in the reserve corps in 1921; promoted to first lieutenant in 1923; captain, 1926, and major, 1931. Colonel Wilbur Barker, former commander of the unit, presented Smith the sil ver oak.

EARLE'S '34 OPPONENT RESIGNS FROM BENCH The Governor's office today an nounced receipt of the resigna tion of Judge Charles D. Copeland from the Westmoreland county bench. Judge Copeland, who gave health as his reason for resigning, was Governor Earle's oppon ent for the gubernatorial nomination in the spring of 1934. HERSHEY EMPLOYS 4587 WHO COME FR0M39 TOWNS One Worker From Cham bersburg; Six Counties Represented Contrary to wide spread belief that the Hershey Chocolate Cor poration and the Hershey Estates employ only residents of Hershey, officials of the two companies today pointed out that the workers live in thirty eight towns, exclusive of Hershey, and six counties. The greatest distances, it was explained, from which the employes come are Millersburg on the north, 38 miles; Robesonia on the east, 30 miles; Lancaster, on the south, 29 miles, and Cham bersburg on the west, 57 miles.

4587 Employed The Hershey Chocolate Corporation employs today 2662 the estates, 1925 a total of 4587. Of this number, the Chocolate Corpora tion employs, 985, and the estates 661, all of whom live In Hershey Qn the Hershey rural delivery route live 129 employed by the Chocolate Corporation, and 286 by the estates, a total for Hershey and the rural routes of 2061. These figures indicate that 36 per cent. employed by the two companies of Hershey have their homes Her shey, and 44 per cent, live within the rural free delivery route. In other words, more than half the employes of Hershey live else' where than Hershey or the con fines of the rural delivery of Her shey.

Dauphin county is represented by: Bachmansville, Deodate Grantville, Harrisburg, Highspire, Hummelstown, Linglestown, Middletown, Millersburg, Oberlin, Penbrook, Royalton, Rutherford Heights, Steelton, Swatara Station, and Union Deposit. Exclusive of Hershey and the rural delivery section of Hershey, 699 persons from Dauphin county are employed in the chocolate plant, and 425 in the Estates, making a total of 1124. This means that 3185 persons are employed from Dauphin county. From Hummelstown Outside of Hershey, the largest number employed by the two com' panies are from Hummelstown and the rural delivery district. In all 457 from Hummelstown are em ployed by the Chocolate Corpora tion, and 299 by the estates, making a total of 686.

Union Deposit is second with 124 in both companies, and Swatara Station third with 119. Harrisburg is in fourth place with 85 which includes the rural delivery section; Grantville fifth, with 44, and Middletown sixth With 37; Bach mansville, 10; Linglestown, Highspire and Penbrook, Rutherford Heights and Steelton, 2 each; Deodate, Millersburg, Oberlin, and Royalton one each. These figures include rural districts. Lebanon county is represented by A i 1 1 Campbelltown, Cleona, Colebrook, Fredericksburg, Jonestown, Lawn, Lebanon, Mt. Gretna, Ono, Palmyra, Quen tin, and Richland.

Of the Lebanon county towns, Palmyra sends the most employes. The Hershey Chocolate Corpora tion employs 529 from these, and 83 on the rural route. The Hershey estates employe 279 from Palmyra, and 46 in the rural area, making a total of 937. Lebanon is second. The Chocolate Corporation employs 34 living there and 38 on the rural route; the estates employes 41 from the city and 27 outside a total of 140.

Other Lebanon county towns are Campbelltown, 80 employed in the factory, and 40 in the estates; Annvills 17, and 17 in the rural belt employed by the Chocolate anityair KNEELAST OTnrKiMno 0 Miss Winifred Bigler, Edison Junior High School to the revue. Tap dancing Corporation; the estates employ 29 from the town, and 25 on the rural routes. Lebanon County Twenty two persons are em ployed in the chocolate plant and the estates from Cleona, Cole brook, Fredericksburg, Jonestown, Lawn, Ono, Mt. Gretna, Quentin, and Richland, also in Lebanon county. Ninety come from Lancaster county, 42 being employed in the factory, and 48 in the estates.

They are from Elizabethtown, Manheim, and Lancaster. Three come from Cumberland county, living in Carlisle, Enola, and Lemoyne. One man comes from Chambersburg in Franklin county, and another from Robesonia in Berks county. JAC0BS0N ELECTED TEMPLE PRESIDENT Morris E. Jacobson was reelected president of the Ohev Sholom Temple congregation at the annual meeting last night at the Temple.

Other officers elected were: vice president, M. Lee Goldsmith; financial secretary treasurer, Jacob Miller; recording! secretary, Jacob S. Lowengard; welfare director, Miss Maryj Sachs; trustees, idward W. Schleisner and Ephraim Brenner. Al J.

Simms, who relinquished his" office as welfare director after a service of 33 years, was presented with a traveling bag. 4 SCALP CUT IN FALL Reported by physicians to have! been injured in a fall from a car at a local junk yard where he is Grant Warren, 56, Edgemont, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital for a cut of the scalp. Others treated were: Helen Myers, 13, 1424 Green street, arm probably fractured in a fall near her home, and Edward Schreffler, 22, Marysville, right ankle sprained when he twisted it accidentally on a stone. 4 STAG NIGHT AT CLUB The West End Remibliean Cluh' will hold a stag night tomorrow it night at the clubrooms, 1410 North Third street. .15 (3 Prs.

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Sizes 14 to 20. 1.25. COMMITTEE NAMED FOR FOREMEN'S CLUB Jacob B. Eisenberger, president of the Foremen's Club of Harrisburg, last night announced committee chairmen at a meeting of the club in the Central Y. M.

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Grunert will be delegates to the National Council of Foremen's Clubs in New York City, Friday and Saturday. The principal speaker last night was A. A. Nicholson, New York City, manager of the Texas Oil Company. Music was presented by Mrs.

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Hospital physicians said death was due to internal injuries. 4 MOTORIST ARRESTED An hour after his automobile is alleged to have collided with another machine at Cameron and Herr streets, Francis A. Russ', 31, North street, near Third, was arrested early today at Third and North streets. He was charged with a violation of the State Motor Code and failing to stop and render assistance. SOCIETY TO MEET A review of the co operative movement in the Scandinavian countries will be given at a meeting of the Harrisburg Co operative Society in the Central Y.

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