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S3 i 1 1 I Si 1 I i 1 1 i I I 8 Harrisburg Telegraph, Feb. J7J948Thakin Tin Maun GyL leader of Speeches Run Heavy In Senate; Help Sought Washington, Feb. 27, (JP). An avalanche of election year speeches, letters and other documents has brought cries for help from the sergeant at arms of the Senate. Edward F.

McGinnis appealed for $5000 to reorganize and staff the "duplicating room" the place where Senators speeches, letters and other data are reproduced by the thousands for the folks back home. McGinnis told the Senate Ap propriations Committee yesterday that "we had 50,000 pages to duplicate in a week last year and 335,000 pages for the corresponding week this year." The committee delayed action on the request. Upper Burma Leader Of Peasants Slain Rangoon, Burma, Feb. 27, (JP) Dispatches from Mandalay today! reported the assassination 1898 tne upper Burma Asso ciation, and Hla Bu, an executive of the organization. The advices said the victims had been shot and bludgeoned.

As a result of the murders all arms and ammunition in Kyaukse district had been called in by Burmese authorities, the dispatches said. Replacement Costs Trouble Steel Corp. New York, Feb. 27, (IP) The higher cost of replacing worn out or obsolete equipment is "one of the danger spots" in the nation's tussle with inflation, Bethlehem Steel Corp. said today.

The replacement cost for the steel company alone is estimated at between two and three times the $980,000,000 original cost of Bethlehem properties, Chairman E. G. Grace said in an annual re port to employes. Issued with the letter to em ployes was Grace's annual report of to stockholders. i inose woncerrui little Fifty Years Of) o6 ue5 green or grey suede 11.95 1948 OUR GOLDEN JUBILEE FURNITURE SALE Still in Progress! HERE'S A REAL VALUE! The New POSTWAR PULLMAN SLEEPER Just the Right Piece of Furniture for Crowded Living Quarters! Have a Sofa and Bedroom Combined for the Cost of a Sofa Alone! Superb styling, rich yet durable covers in a choice of colors! Easy Terms! IMMEDIATE FREE DELIVERY WITHIN v100 MILES Can Be Seen and Purchased Only at Troup Bros The only genuine Pullman Sofa Bed with the original and proved mechanism.

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Nelson, 55, wife of Lloyd Nelson, died Thursday at her home in Dillsburg. She was a member of Arnold Evangelical United Brethre Church and Sunday School and was the pianist for both. In addi' tion to her husband she is sur vived by two daughters, Mrs. Ernest Rider, Dillsburg R. D.

and Miss Ila Mae Nelson, Dills burg R. a brother, Alton Zerby, Dillsburg; and her father and step mother, Mr. and Mrs. Melville C. Zerby, Dillsburg R.

D. Services will be held Sunday at p. m. at the Cocklin funeral home, Dillsburg, the Rev. W.

Kohler, Arnold Evangelical United Brethren Church, official ing, assisted by the Rev. E. H. Wenger, Mechanicsburg. Burial will be in Dillsburg cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday after 7 p. m. GIBSON F. BYERS Gibson F. Byers, 49, Newport, died Thursday a local hospital.

He was a member of the Re formed Church, the Fire Company and Modern Woodmen of America, all of Newport, and was employ ed by the New Bloomfield High' way Maintenance Shed of the State Department of Highways. Surviving are his widow, Mrs, Ida P. Byers, and two sisters, Mrs, J. E. Thomas, Newport, and Mrs.

James G. Kline, Wormleysburg. Services will be held Sunday at 2.30 p. m. at the Kell funeral home, 35 South Second street, Newport, the Rev.

Paul Wright, Landisburg Reformed Church, of ficiating. Burial will be in New port cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday from 7 to 9 p. MRS. JAMES L.

MEEHAN Mrs. Lily M. Meehan, wife of James L. Meehan, died Wednes day at 329 Market street, Wil liamstown. The daughter of the late George and Annie Wise, she was born in Harrisburg.

Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Violet Palmer; a son, John, Wiconisco; three grandchildren and one brother. John Wise, Williams town. Services will be held at the home Saturday at 1 p. m.

Burial will be in Harrisburg cemetery Friends may call at the home tonight after 7. ABRAHAM FREEDMAN Abraham Freedman, 67, man ager of the Harrisburg Waste Paper Company, died Thursday in the company Tenth and Mulberry streets. Dr. S. J.

Roberts, county coro ner, said death was caused by a heart attack. Mr. Freedman was a member of Beth El Temple, Chisuk Emuna congregation and the Modern woodmen of America. Surviving are his widow, Mrs Jennie L. Freedman; two sons, Herman and Robert, and four daughters, Mrs.

Gerson Klineman, Mrs. George Gainsburg, Mrs. Jul ius Shapiro and Mrs. Martin Topper, all of Harrisburg, and seven grandchildren. Services were held today at the Dugan funeral home at 1600 Mar ket street.

The Rev. Dr. Reuben J. Magil, Beth El Temple, and Rabbis Moses Etter and Philip Harris bmger, Chisuk Emuna con gregation, officiated. Burial was in Chisuk Emuna cemetery.

CLOYD S. BOWER Cloyd S. Bower, 52, a templer maker's helper for the Bethlehem Steel Company, died Thursday at ms nome, bil rsiortn becond street Steelton. He was a member of Steelton Lodge No. 184, IOOF, and American Legion Post 420, Steelton.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Ross Bower; a daughter, Mrs. Richard LaRonde, at home; six brothers, Wilmer, Brentwood, Edward, Tucson, Norman, Gladbropk, Iowa; Roy, Mt. Pleasant, S. Harvey, Me chanicsburg, and Marshall Bower, Jacobus, and three sisters, Mrs.

Cleve Gutshall, Columbia; Mrs. Kathrine Haigh, Reading, and Miss Florence Bower, Jacobus. Services will be held Sunday at 2.30 p. m. at the Hoff and Stone funeral home, 408 Third street, New Cumberland, the Rev.

Ward Shultz, Steelton First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery, New Cumberland. Friends may call at the funera home Saturday from 7 to 9 p. m.

JOHN H. FARNSLER Annville, Feb. 27. John H. Farnsler, 69, Annville, died at his home, 35 East Sheridan Avenue, of complications on Tuesday eve ning.

He was a planing mill foreman for D. L. Saylor and Sons, con tractors and builders, where he was employed for 51 years. Three years ago he ietired due to ill health. He was a member of the Evan gelical United Brethren Church, Annville, and belonged to the I.O.O.F.

and the P.O.S. of of Annville. He is survived by his widow, Sadie, nee Crabb; a daugh ter, Elizabeth Reading; two sons, Edward Philadelphia and Richard at home; a step daugh ter, Mrs. Harry Heim, Lebanon Route two sisters, Mrs. Charles Miller, Harrisburg, R.

D. and Mrs, Eden Bowman, Annville, and two grandchildren. Services will be held on Satur day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Kreamer funeral home, Annville, with interment in Mt. Ann ville cemetery. Friends may call this evening from 7 to 9 at the funeral home.

MRS. J. T. CREGAR Shippensburg, Feb. 27.

Mrs. Laura Belle Cregar, 77, widow of the late J. T. Cregar, died yesterday morning at her home in New burg, R. D.

1. Survivors are four sons, Charles, of Welsh, Roby, of Corer, Robert, of McKeesport, and Russel, of Newburg, R. D. one daughter, Mrs. Frank Kitts, of Newburg, R.

D. four grandchildren, and three great grandchil dren. Services will be held Sunday afternoon at the M. Garfield Bar bour funeral home, East King JOHN H. RIDLEY Middletown, Feb.

27. Services for John H. Ridley, 73, a lifelong resident of Royalton, who died Wednesday at his home on Canal street, will be held tomorrow, at 2 p. at the Coble funeral home, West Main street, town. The Rev.

Harry C. Mark, Royalton Evangelical United Brethren Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Middletown cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 o'clock. A former employee of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, Ridley had been retired for the past eight years. He is survived by his wiaow, Mrs.

Mary Elizabeth Ridley; a son, Charles Ridley and a daugh ter, Mrs. Stella Bretz, both of Royalton; a sister, Mrs. Annie Mack, town; fourteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. MRS. CHARLES B.

STRIKE Shippensburg, Feb. 27. Mrs. Sadie B. Strike, 74, widow of Charles Strike, of 20 South Penn street, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Margaret E.

of Wells Tannery. Survivors, in addition to the daughter, are a son, Walter A. Strike; brother, Marshal Mains, both of Shippensburg, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at the M. Garfield Barbour funeral home, East King street, tomorrow at 2 with the Rev.

Percy Boughey, First Methodist Church, officiating. JBunal will be in Spring Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening. MRS. CONCETTA CAPRIO Lock Haven, Feb.

27. Mrs. Concetta Caprio, of 4 Henderson street, who celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary recently and was admitted to Lock Haven Hos pital several days ago, died there Wednesday morning. Surviving are two daughters and three sons, Mrs. Charles Ped alina and Mrs.

Sara Astolf, Thomas and Anthony, Lock Haven, and Salvatore, San Francisco; 17 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Requiem mass will be celebrat ed in St. Agnes Catholic Church tomorrow, at 9 a. in charge of the Rev. Charles H.

Hipp. Burial will be in St. Agnes MISS PAULINE R. HUMMEL Miss Pauline R. Hummel, 30, died Thursday at the home of her mother, Mrs.

Anna Hummel, 530 West Main street, Hummelstown. She is survived in addition to her mother by four sisters, Mrs, Elizabeth Myers, Mrs. Evelyn Ven nell and Miss Bertha, all of Hum melstown, and Miss Betty Jane. Hawaii, and her grandmother, Mrs Clara Caley. Philadelphia.

Services will be held Monday at p. m. at the Bowser funeral home, Center Square, Hummels town, the Rev. D. Leroy Fegley, Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church, Lancaster, officiating, assisted by the Rev.

Frank Aungst, Hummelstown E. U. Church. Burial will be in the Hummelstown cemetery. friends may call Sunday from until 9 p.

m. at the funeral home, HARRY O. BODENHORN Services for Harry O. Boden horn, 79, 1600 North Third street. who died Thursday from injuries suffered Tuesday evening when he fell on an icy sidewalk, will be held Monday at 2 p.

m. in the Fisher funeral home, 1334 North Second street. The Rev. J. Forrest Rehrig, Harris Street Evangelical United Brethren Church, will offi ciate.

Burial will be in Hummels town cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m. Sunday A retired Bethlehem Steel Company employe, he died in tne Jfoiycnnic Hospital from a fractured skull, officials said. He was taken to the hospital Tuesday night after he fell on the sidewalk at Third and Harris streets and struck the back of his head.

He never regained consciousness. Survivmg are three daughters, Mrs. Sterling J. Mathias and Mrs, Donald Wotring. both of Harris burg, and Mrs.

Edward Sloan, PhiladelDhia; two sons, Reuben Bodenhorn, Philadelphia, and Ed win W. Bodenhorn, Huntington, 11 grandchildren; three great grandchildren and one sis ter, Mrs. Mollie Stover, Warren, Ohio. HOWARD L. SMITH Chambersb urg, Feb.

27. Howard Lotan Smith, 63, of 151 Vine street, died at his home Wednesday night after being in ill health for about a year. He was a native or Mont Alto, a son of Mrs. Mary Ellen Wiles Smith, of 791 Broad street, and the late James L. Smith.

Mr Smith was employed for the past 22 years as fireman and watch' man at the. T. B. Wood's Sons plant. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Kearney Lodge, No.

159, Knights of Py thias, and the Cumberland Val ley Fire Company. Surviving are nine sons and daughters: Donald J. and June Smith, at home; Mrs. Guy Pat terson, 223 East King street; Howard L. Smith, Harris burg; Mrs.

Samuel Reisher, 208 South Main street; Merle of 260 East Washington street; Mrs, George Whitlock, of Pomona, Sgt. Richard N. Smith, with the U. S. Army at Aberdeen, and Cpl.

Daniel T. Smith, with the U. S. Army at Mitchell Field, N. Y.

Also surviving are his mother and eight grandchildren. Services will be conducted by the Rev. John F. Stamm at the Barbour funeral home at 2 p. m.

tomorrow. Burial will be in Norland cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 o'clock this evening. ALEXANDER BISIC Alexander Bisic, 65, died Wednesday at his home, 1011 Herr street. Services will be held Saturday at 10 a.

m. at Neill funeral home, 3501 Derry street. Capt. Stanley H. Wright, Salvation Army, officiating.

Burial will be in Shoop's Church Friends may call at the funeral home tonight after 7. 1 Bride Turn Up On British Liner Philadelphia, Feb. 27, (JP) A British war bride who had been reported missing by her former GI husband turned up today aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth, en route to 'England. Pasquale Screnci, 29, of Phila delphia, who reported his wife and their 22 month old son, Rob ert Steven, missing Wednesday night, said he talked to his wife, the former Florence May Capper, 21, by ship to shore telephone last night. The former GI said his wife told him that she was going home for an operation because she would trust only her own family surgeon in Tipton, near Binning ham, England.

Screnci said his wife told him she kept the news from him so he wouldn't try to stop her from making the trip. French Leftists Ask New Political Party Paris, Feb. 27, (JP) A French leftist group, including existen i a 1 i Philosopher Playwright Jean Paul Sartre, called today for a new political party to be added to those already operating in France. There are at least eight of major proportions. The new group would be called the "Revolutionary Democratic Rally" (Rassemblement Demo cratique Revolutionnaire).

The name resembles somewhat that of the rightist "French People's Rally" formed last year by Gen. Charles De Gaulle. Kid Soprano Wins Plaudits of Critics Rome, Feb. 27, (JP). A kid soprano singing her first operatic role came to the tremendous "Jewel Song" in Gounod's Faust last night and found no jewels on stage to provide the pretext for the aria.

But she didn get rat tied. Lilly Windsor, 24 year old Hawthorne, N. girl making her debut, carried off the contretemps with the coolness of an old trooper. Basso Giulio Neri, as Mephis topheles, forgot to leave the casket of glittering treasurers at her doorstep, so Miss Windsor calmly brought it on herself, set it down, turned away, turned back and fetchingly, started with delight and surprise as though she were seeing ic for the first time. Then she sang.

And the critics liked her. Yule Mail Found Along Railroad Churchville, N. Feb. 27, (JP) Christmas returned to this Monroe county community today. Scores of residents received Yuletide greetings, 10 week old checks or newspapers with the notation "only five more shopping days until Christmas." The delayed mail was in a bag found by a section gang working one mile west of the New York Central depot yesterday.

Postmaster Vincent L. Keenan theorized a mail handler "must have been a few seconds late in tossing out a sack of mail" from a speeding train last December 19. Hawaiian Team Buys Ukulele in Seattle Tacoma, Feb. 27, (JP) University of Hawaii basketball players who are touring the west coast have a beautiful ukulele. rinest tonea tenor uke u've ever heard," said one stnng strummer with a nostalgic look in his eye.

'Made in he was asked. "io, was the reluctant con fession. "We pooled our spare funds and bought it in Seattle. They are cheaper than in Hono lulu." Wed in Maryland Lewisberry, Feb. 27.

Miss Buena V. Drake, daughter of Mrs Helen Drake, became the bride of Jack D. Rorapaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E.

Rorapaugh, Lewis' berry, R. Sunday, in Grace Lutheran Church, Westminster, Md. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Elwood Falkenstein. 200 Students Missing Nanking, Feb.

27, (JP) More than 200 teen age Shanghai stu dents today were reported to have disappeared. Responsible sources said they may have followed a modern "Pied Piper" into the Chi nese Communist camp. FERDINAND HUTTA Ferdinand Hutta, 59, died today at his home, 1951 Bellevue road, following a short illness. A master barber in Harrisburg for the past 32 years, he operated a shop at Aberdeen street. He was a member of the Harris burg Chapter of Elks; Harrisburg Master Barbers Association and St.

Michael's Lutheran Church. He is survived by one son, Ferdinand 8142 Ardley street, Chestnut Hill. Philadelphia; two adopted children, Kathenne Sam uels, Philadelphia; and Adam Hutta, Wisconsin; one grandchild. Anne Philadelphia; and a sister and a brother in Austria. Services will be held Monday at 10.30 a.

m. at the Baker Fu neral Home, Third and Maclay streets, the Rev. Robert Koehler, St. Michaels Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in East Harrisburg Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday after 7 p. m. PETER COOPER SUMMERS Mrs. Bessie S. Boone, 37 North 16th street, accompanied by her sister Mrs.

Eloise S. Peake of Philadelphia, left today for Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the fu neral services of their brother, Peter Cooper Summers, 78. Mr. Summers died in San Diego, California, Tuesday while he and his wife were visiting Mrs. Summers' brother, Admiral Douglas Bobbett, U.S.N, retired, and family.

Another brother, Charles Muir Summers, of Chicago, was killed in an automobile accident 'near Chicago last October 31. Valley Class Team Wing With nne nlaver out of the line up, the Harrisburg Chess team lost a Central Pennsylvania League match to the Cumberland Valley Club, 6 4, in Chambersburg, last night. Under the league rules ten man teams must compete and Harrisburg was forced to forfeit one board because of this regulation. Winners for the local club included Louis Schuch, A. W.

Leif and William Werner; draws were registered by H. B. Brillinger and William C. Crowell, while Dan P. Miner, c.

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