Public Opinion from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • 1

OPINION "On Newspaper Is Better Than Many Criminal Laws." -Calvin Coolidge COOD EVENING! How's the New Deal dealing rrti with you now? iFrattkltn EpoBtlnrg 55th YEAR Entered. Second Clau Matter the Poet Office CbamberaDurg. Under tUe Act of March 3. 187. CHAMBERSBTJRG, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1934.

Published Except Sunday, by The Public Opinion Company. PRICE THREE CENTS RETIRING SCHOOLMAN Ill ill SCHOOL VON SCHLEICHER KILLED WHILE RESISTING POLICE SEEKING TO ARREST HIM JUDGE IMPOSES MAXIMUM FINE ON LOCKSMITH John D. Grove Ordered To Pay $100 Penalty On Girl's Charge ONE SLAIN BY POLICE; OTHER SUICIDES EKH1CEL HITLER WIELDS BROOM IN NAZI FORCE CLEANUP ir 1- 5 4 -9L i it i Prof. J. L.

Finafrock, above, county superintendent of schools, will retire on July 1 after long and useful service as head cf the county school system. More than a hundred schoolmen last night attended a testimonial dinner in his honor. He was presented with a suitably inscribed watch by his associates. POOR ATTENDANCE FORCES FETE UNIT TO DEFER ACTION Showdown Seen Thursday on Proposal to Celebrate Town Bicentennial The representation being insufficient to warrant organization as a permanent body, the executive committee of the proposed celebration of Chambersburg's bicentennial, adjourned its meeting in the court house last night until next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Post cards will be mailed to- each member of the committee in an effort to have a large representation at the next meeting.

Whether there is to be a celebration will beiefinitely decided upon at Thursday night's meeting. The meeting was adjourned on a motion of Craig M. Fleming, secretary, and Assemblyman A. J. White Hut-ton, chairman of the nominating committee.

The executive committee was enlarged to 77 members with addition of two representatives each of the public school system and the post office employes. The postal delegates were named on suggestion- of Mr. Fleming, and the schools delegates on recommendation of Rev. Dr. W.

R. Gobrecht. L. E. Moore-house and Luther Koser were appointed from the post office and W.

R. Appenzellar, director and J. F. Faust, high school principal, from the schools. Only 24 out of the original 73 of the executive committee were present last night.

Assemblyman Hutton called the meeting to order. By an unanimous (Turn to page 6, please) JAP WARSHIPS COLLIDE; NAVAL PLANES MISSING Thirteen Feared Dead; Destroyers Collide At Maneuvers TOKYO, June 30 UP) The Japanese Navy feared a loss of at least 13 men today in the crash of two warships and what appeared to be another tragedy, this one in the air. Four men were known dead, two were missing and four were injured after the new destroyers Miyuki and Inazuma rammed together during fleet maneuvers. Three naval airplanes had been missing for more than 30 hours with crews totalling nine. The planes, left Nagasaki bound for Sasebo.

Other planes and warships have been searching for them since. Both the Miyuki and Inazuma were cruising at high speed when they collided. The former's stern was caved in. The Inazuma was almost a total wreck, with her bow torn off. i ij i r- If Hm hi: SHADOW LIFTS FOR TRIO DEATH HOUSE 4 N.

Y. Governor Stays Executions Pending New Trial Move CONDEMNED WOMAN MAY GET NEW TRIAL OSSINING, N. June 30 () The hand of the executioner was stayed again today for Anna Antonio 28-year old mother of three children and her two men conspiratorsbut for little more than a week. The story that saved them temporarily a death cell statement by one of the men that Mrs. Antonio was innocent of the murder of her husband was branded officially "a lie!" For the second time in 48 hours.

Governor Herbert H. Lehman lifted the shadow of the electric chair from the young mother, Vincent Saetta and Sam Feraci last night, as the hour drew near for their Sing Sing death walk. After weighing The statement for a day, with three lives in the balance, the Governor announced from his home in New York City: "The district attorney, while expressing the opinion that the statement of Saetta has no merit, in the interests of justice concurred that a reprieve should be granted in order that counsel for Mrs. Anna Antonio should have an opportunity to make a motion for a new trial. 'T am granting a reprieve until the week beginning July 9, 1934, in the case of all three defendants." The word was communicated swiftly to Sing Sing prison, to Mrs.

Antonio's cell in the death house. "Oh thank God!" she cried, sinking back onto her cot, sick from the ordeal, and burying her head in a pillow. -Feraci and Saetta were just (Turn to page 4, please) PRESIDENT QUITS DESK TOMORROW Fails to Disclose Action On Important Measures Signed Yesterday WASHINGTON, June '30 UP) President Roosevelt a sailor at heart, wound up landsman's business today for a long ride on the rolling waves. He planned to start tomorrow on a trip of more than a month to the Caribbean end the Pacific. 1 A question mark curied above the White House today as the President labored.

Every one was trying to guess what he had done about twro important bills, the one giving bankrupt farmers a virtual five-year moratorium and the other setting up a uniform pension system for railroads. He acted on both yesterday but withheld announcements fo he could prepare statements. Virtually all of the President's family is expected to bid him goodbye sometime tomorrow. He will motor to Annapolis, where the cruiser Houston lies at anchor, (Turn to page 2. please)' BROOKLYN FLIERS LAND AFTER CROSSING OCEAN Adamowicz Brothers Forced Down By Fuel Shortage PARIS, June 30 OP) The monoplane "City of Warsaw" bearing two Brooklyn fliers landed safely today southwest of Caen, France.

Although their goal was Warsaw, Poland, they were forced to land because of a shortage of gasoline. The two brothers, Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz, Brooklyn soda pop manufacturers, hopped off from Habor Grace, Newfoundland, yesterday at 3:58 A. M. (eastern standard time), in an effort to fly nonstop to Warsaw. In the ship's tank when it took off were 610 gallons of gasoline, enough, they thought, for 40 hours of flying.

They had hoped to cover the 3,000 and more miles to Warsaw in 30 hours, however. DILLINGER IDENTIFIED IN HOLDUP SLAYING SOUTH BEND, June 30 (P) A patrolman was shot and killed today when five men, one of whom was identified by a detective as John Dillinger, raided the Merchants' National Barus. TE HON OH TO CHIEF J. L. Finafrock Lauded For High Service on Retirement Eve IS RECIPIENT OF INSCRIBED WATCH On the eve of his retirement as superintendent of county Schools, a testimonial dinner in honor of John L.

Finafrock of Mercersburg was held last night In the St. John's Church School Building. It was attended by 113 teachers, school directors and guests. Mr. Finafrock retires July 1.

The dinner, attended by visiting superintendents of various counties, directors of school boards, public school teachers and a representative from the State department of education, was sponsored by 'the Franklin County Educational Association. Professor R. G. Mowrey, assistant superintendent under Mr. Finafrock and his successor-elect, was presented by D.

E. Michael, vice president of the county association, as toastmaster for the evening. Judge Watson R. Davison of the Franklin County courts was called upon for the first talk of the evening to speak in behalf of the citizens of the county. Speaking of Superintendent Finafrock the jurist said: "He is a man whose ability I know, a man whose character I admire, whose friendship I esteem.

He is a man it is a great pleasure to be associated with personally. Never has any man filled a position more faithfully than has Mr. Finafrock." "A marl of unusual personal worth" was the tribute of D. A. Kline, superintendent of Perry County schools, in referring to Mr.

Finafrock. Continuing he said: (Turn to page 3, please) OLSON LAUNCHES DRIVE ON LEER North Dakota Governor Is Sentenced to 18 Months In U. S. Prison FARGO, N. June 30 UP) A new move to oust Governor William Langer from office, based on his conviction of a felony and subsequent sentence to serve 18 months in a federal penitentiary, was under way today by Counsel for Lieutenant Governor Ole Olson.

Olson claims he now is the legal chief executive of North Dakota. Counsel for Olson, who took 'the oath as Governor shortly after Langer was convicted June 17 with four co-defendants for soliciting funds from federal relief workers, prepared today to offer a petition to the State Supreme Court asking permission to begin removal proceedings. A previous request by Olson supporters for the Supreme Court to take original jurisdiction in proceedings seeking Langar's ouster was refused by the high court "at this time." The case ordinarily would have to be started in district court. Supporters of Olson claim Lang-er's conviction of a felony disqualified him to act further as Governor. Langer's sentence yesterday by Federal Judge Andrew Miller came two days after the State primary election, in which the Chief Executive was re-nominated overwhelmingly over two Republican opponents.

Besides the prison term, Langer was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. In passing sentence. Judge Miller said "no honest jury would return a different verdict." the heat belt mounted rapidly, even as relief reached many sections. Forty-four deaths have been ascribed directly or indirectly to the heat since Thursday. Scattered storms broke the heat wave in Ohio, where a dozen heat fatalities occurred yesterday.

Eight died yesterday in St. Louis, bringing to fifteen the total fatalities for an eleven-day stretch of tor-rid temperatures. Indiana's third day of 100-degree (Turn to naze x. please! Storm Troops Leader In Berlin Said Under Arrest in Drive REFORM OF HITLER REGIME SAID AIM (Copyright, 1934, by The- Associated Press) June 30 A general housecleaning of militant Nazi forces, with Chancellor Adolf Hitler wielding the broom, appeared to be in progress throughout Germany today. A reliable source said Karl Ernst, commander of the Nazi Storm Troops in Berlin and Brandenburg, had been arrested together with many other Storm Troop extremists.

Capt. Ernst Roehm, national commander of the Storm Troops and one of the most radical leaders not only was deposed from his post by Chancellor Hitler today but was ejected from the ranks of the National Socialist Party. The streets of Berlin were patrolled by police armed with rifles and equipped with steel helmets. Hitler's inner circle of guards his blackshirted Schutz Staffel appeared in force, apparently supervising operations at brownshirt-ed headquarters and sub-headquarters. Premier' Hermann Wilhelm Goer-ing of Prussia was seen to enter secret police headquarters with hi3 galaxy of adjutants.

BERLIN, June 30 (P) In the midst of seething rumors as to the future of Naziism in Germany, assurances came jesterday from the conservatives under Vice Chancellor Frantz von Pa pen that they want to reform the government, not to seize it. Rumors that the present crisis Is heading for a Rightist "putsch" were pooh-poohed at the vice chancellory, where it was stated positively that the present controversy is over the future course of Chancellor Hitler. At the same time one German newspaper, probably influenced by (Turn to page 6, please) GRADUATES OF SCHOOL MAINTAIN GOOD RECORD Dr. Alvin J. Russell Cites Record Of St.

Paul's School Dr. Alvin J. Russell, Negro principal of St. Paul's Industrial School at Lawrenceville, a school for Negro pupils spoke before delegates to the Blue Mountain Conference of the Episcopal Church at Penn Hall last evening. The school of which Dr.

Russell Is principal is one of the largest of nine conducted by the Episcopal church for Negro students. Dr. Russell, in commenting on the pupils that leave the school, stated that not one graduate from the institution has ever been arrested on a criminal charge. Tomorrow morning the delegates to the conference will attend the church services at Trinity Episcopal Church. Rev.

Dr. Charles Town-send, of Providence, R. will have charge of the services. Tomorrow evening in the Penn Hall auditorium Rev. Dr.

Oliver J. Hartz of the St. John's Church, Washington, D. C. will conduct services.

Group classes will be held tomorrow on the Penn Hall campus. Seven Figures Delighting Urchins LETTER HOLDS GHURCH 1T1 OF INJUSTICE Fiery Episcopal Note Sent to All Catholic Priests in Reich NATIONAL CHURCH PROGRAM OPPOSED BERLIN, June 30 OP) Charges that the Roman Catholic Church in Nazi Germany is a victim of suppression and injustice and that priests are being persecuted were made today in a fiery episcopal letter. Drawn up by the German cardinal bishops at their annual meeting at Fulda early in June, the letter was sent to all Catholic clergymen. The document is amazingly frank in its review of the church situation, for the church has denied participation of the Catholic clergy in politics since the advent of the Nazis. Discussing Nazi paganist plans for a new national church and faith, the letter says: "Christ's fount of grape cannot be replaced by an alleged 'mystery of the Nordic blood which has conquered the old Opposing Nazi anti-Semitism, the document says the Ten Commandments hold for the Jews as well as for others.

"We solemnly protest against spreading neo-pagan heresies in our fatherland and protest against all attacks and insinuations being made by their members against God, against Jesus and his holy church, almost daily in written and spoken word. "We emphatically protest against an attempt to undermine church Christianity also, because this is a deliberate attempt against the expressed intentions of the government, which if successful will destroy all hope for security in our state and for a happy future for our suffering people. "The state's authority will break down when it no longer rests on the authority of God." COW BREAKS TAIL IN FALL INTO ABANDONED WELL Crashes Through Wooden Well Cover At Chailes Shank Farm The curiosity of a Holstein cow as to what was inside a fenced off portion of a field on the Charles E. Shank farm along the Molly Pitcher Highwav, near Marion, caused her to fah into an abandoned well on Thursday. The Shank family and neighbors labored two hours before the cow was lifted with block and tacakle from the pit.

Its worst injuries seemed to be a broken tail and scratches. The plight of the cow was discovered by members of the Shank family when they saw other cows of the large herd gathered at the well. The unfortunate animal, which had crashed through the wooden cover over the well after breaking down the fence, was at the bottom of the 28 foot pit, its entire body, except the head, submerged. AST0R TO WED TODAY Scion of Rich Family Takes Bride At Fashionable Church NEWPORT, R. June 30 (JP) John Jacob Astor, 3rd, will marry Ellen, instead of Eileen, at 4 P.

M. today in fashionable Trinity Church, concluding a series of romantic episodes that has kept society in a fever of excitement for months. Ellen Tuck French was to have been Eileen Gillespie's bridesmaid last February, but the scheduled wedding of the Junior League daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L.

Gillespie to Astor never took place. Today, Ellen becomes Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 3rd, while Miss Gillespie and her parents sail for the south of France an hour before the ceremony. PLOT AGAINST NAZIS Goerjng Had Assigned Officers 4o Arrest Former Official VON SCHLEICHER HAD SHORT REGIME BERLIN, June 30 (A) Former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher waa killed today while resisting police attempting to arrest him as conspirator against the government. The police had been assigned by Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goering to arrest the former chancellor, the man who preceded Hitler as head of the German government.

Von Schleicher was alleged to have conspired with the reactionaries against the present regime. Von Schleicher's government lasted 56 days and was the shortest regime since the last Imperial cabinet under Prince Max von Baden which fell before the 1918 revolution. The resignation of Von Schleicher came on January 28. 19.13, after President von Hindenburg refused to give him authority to dissolve the Reichstag and assume a dictator's rule. Hitler was made chancellor two days later.

During the six months of the government of the present vice chancellor, Franz von Papcn, General von Schleicher was minister of defense. When he succeeded Von Papen he continued as minister of defense and became federal commissioner of Prussia as well. The general was never a popular figure In politics and political writers liked to describe him as "The Laughing Sphinx." Virtually all strong parties turned against him as soon as he came into power. The Nationalists opposed his pro gram for dividing big eastern estates into small settlements. The Centrists resented him because to him they attributed the fall of Chancellor Bruening.

He was also reputed to have caused the fall of (Turn to page 6, please) SPANISH WAR VETERANS TO MARK ANNIVERSARY General Joseph B. Hutchinson Camp To Observe Birthday Preparations ate being made for celebration of the tenth anniversary of the General Joseph B. Hutchinson's camp, United Spanish War Veterans, on September 17. Th event will be held In the quarters of the Jr. O.

U. A. place of the Spanish War Vcternru Auxiliary. The camp at that time will presented with a large picture of Company 8th. Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and a bronze plaque of the battleship Maine.

The photograph will be a gift of Weller E. Stover first lieutenant of Company who now Js a resident of Wilmington, and adjutant-general of the Delaware National Guard. The plaque, a facsimile of one belonging to the late Dr. D. Brooks of town will be made of metal from a cannon seized with the capture by United States forcei of a fort In Puerto Rico during tha Spanish-American war.

Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight, Sunday local thundershowers; cooler Sunday afternoon and night. THE HIGH AND LOW A YEAR AGO June 29 95 68 June 30 8768 July 1 6871 July 2 8853 July 3 7355 July 4 8344 July 5 ...1 8753 July 6 8953 July 7 9158 102 71 UlAWi WORTHLESS CHECK PASSER IS JAILED The maximum penalty for fornication a fine of $100 and prosecution costs was imposed upon John D. Grove, 63, operator of a Bur kh art avenue locksmith and tool grinding shop, when he pleaded guilty to that oflmse at today's session of rourt. A 17-year-old girl was implicated In the case. Judge Davison told Grove he was a "very fortunate'" man in that he was not appearing on a more serious charge Involving a 13-year-old girl.

He had been saved, the court said, by the girl, for an unknown reason, changing her story. The Jurist was referring to a second case dismissed at a magistrate's hearing for lack of evidence. Police Chief S. Byers testified to the facts in the case. costs was imposed upon B.

M. Thomas, 34, of Pittsburgh, when he pleaded guilty to passing two worthless checks for $25 and $14.70 respectively at College Inn. The facts were related by Constable Walter ICipp who Thursday returned Thomas here from the jail at Hollidaysburg where he had been held for 90 days for Altoona authorities on charges similar to those lodged here by B. A. Alding- -er, proprietor of College Inn.

Waldo Green cf Lancaster. who June 16 pleaded guilty to the theft cf a bicycle at Middieburg. was released this morning upon receipt of a lettei from the U. S. Department of Justice, stating he did not have a record.

Green was ordered to leave the community immediately. He is a former patient cf the Walter Reed Hospital, having been a World War soldier. FLETCHER MEETS BORAH IN LINEUP CONFERENCE Parley Apparently Fails to Close Gap Between Factions WASHINGTON, June 30 UP) A conference yesterday between Henry P. Fletcher, new chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Senator Borah of Idaho, a leader of the independent faction of the party, apparently failed to close the gap that divides the eastern and western wings' of the party. the details of the conference, it was obvious they had" talked about the political line-up and the issues of the fall elections and found little in common.

Eorah. who was far from enthusiastic at the selection of Fletcher to head the party's national committee, was believed to ave expressed his desire In plain language for a new party policy and leadership. Fletcher's call on Borah was in effect a bid to the independent wing of the party to swing in line in the drive to recover some of the party's lost strength In Congress. This group was openly hostile to the selection of Fletcher as committee chairman, advocating the choice of someone from the West who had not been identified with the previous party leadership. ELECTED BANK HEAD W.

S. Hoerner Succeeds W. K. Sharpe at F. M.

At the regular meeting of the board of directors of the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company yesterday afternoon, William S. Hoerner, vice president, was elected president, to succeed the late Walter K. Sharpe. J. E.

Miller was elected vice president. The regular semi-annual dividend of 50c per share was declared payable as of July 1. TRESPASSERS FINED Major R. O. Dunkle and Charles Martin, both cf town, paid fine and costs of $6.50 before Magistrate Shirley J.

Zarger of Stc ifferstown yesterday on a charge of trespassing. Sergt. R. W. Frutchey of the Szate Police and Constable Walter Klipp were called to the Caledonia cottage of P.

R. Bhler of York on Thursday night after Behler had allegedly found the local men on the premises and the cottage open. Bshler lodged the prosecution. HEADS STATE DEMOLAY LANCASTER, June 30 OP Ken-iig Baer. of Lancaster, is the new Nhead of the Pennsylvania Order of Demolay, General Kurt von Schleicher, above, former German chancellor, was killed today while resisting arrest, and Capt.

Ernest Roehm, below, deposed as leader of the Storm Troops, committed suicide while under arrest. DEPOSED LEADER COMMITS SUICIDE Capt. Ernest Roehm Ends Life Under Arrest Hitler Is Firmly Entrenched SECOND REVOLT AT END BERLIN, June 30 (P) Captain Ernst Roehm. deposed today I as leader of the Nazi Storm Troops, committed suicide today while under arrest. The party press department said Roehm furthermore had conspired with former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher against the government.

(By The Associated Press) That second revolution which German radicals have been talking about occurred today but, from a distance at least, Adolf Hitler appeared at its end to be more firmly chancellor 'than ever. Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goe-ring of Prussia announced, in reference to various ultra radicals: "We warned against a second revolution. Now it is we who (Turn to page 2. please) Man With Name in Goes to Jail for NEW YORK, June 30 (JP) His name is Million Kaymona Minion but at the moment it doesn't mean a thing. It is the case of a man with a name in seven figures but no collateral.

Despite the lack of real money. Million had his good name and a heart of gold as he strolled under yesterday's burning sun down the baking street. The temperature was official 97. Thermometers in the sun were registering as high as 137. Million came upon a dozen little Killing Heat Moderates as Death Toll in Hot Wave Mounts Rapidly (By Tht Associated Prist) Killing heat that has wilted many sections of the country east of the Rocky Mountains for days was moderating today.

Thunderstorms were predicted generally over the week-end. Temperatures as high as 110 were reported yesterday. In New York City a "sttn" temperature reading in Central Park was 137 degrees, while the shaded official thermometer hit 97. Three deaths there were ascribed to the heat. The list of deaths throughout urchins who were tugging with a wrench at a fire hydrant cap, striving to release the cold floods and gain relief from the frying sun.

They begged him to help them, and he did. The water spurted cold delight to little red bodies At the rush of the water youngsters came running from everywhere, splashing eagerly into the fountain of release from torturing heat. Came the cops, they saw Million, (Turn to page 6, please).