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GOOD EVENING If you're not having a little fun every day you're missing something. Cooler tonight THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Truth, Our Guide--The Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody. Ill Adams Cootttx TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR GETTYSBURG, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1929. PRICE THREE CENTS Outdoor Advertisers 1 Re-Elect Officers At Closing Session Here Dinner Dance And Tour Of Battlefield Brings Convention To Close. 100 ATTEND MEET Re-Elected Director of Advertisers Re-election of 'all officers and directors, a dinner dance and a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield concluded the two-day convention of the Associated Outdoor Advertisers of Pennsylvania, in session here Monday and today.

An informal luncheon at noon at the Hotel Gettysburg was the closing on the program. The election of officers took place late Monday afternoon. It was decided to conclude all business at Mondays second session and to make the battlefield tour thq only part of Tuesday mornings program. Re-Elect Officers The following officers were re- elected: Tom Nokes, Johnstown, president; E. A.

McKee, Rochester, vice president; J. Arlington jjen Johnston, Rees, Scranton, secretary; Max the most active directors Ludwig, New Castle, treasurer. The directors named to serve another term are: Al. Norrington, of Pittsburgh; Harry L. Carey, of Wftlliamsport; A.

L. Bauers, of Philadelphia; Fred R. Holmes, Kane, and Hen R. Johnston, Reading. The Outdoor Advertisers pledged themselves anew to the statewide movement to rid Pennsylvania highways of "illegitimate" outdoor advertising, such as fence-posters, barn posters, and the covering of every available open space with posters of every -ription this making the state unsightly and gaudy.

100 In Attedance Engineer Shocked Sitting On a i William Sheads, East Middle street, an engineer on a Reading railroad freight, had an unusual experience at Biglerville, Monday afternoon. With his train on a siding there, waiting for a passenger train to pass, Mr. Sheads sat on a rail. While sitting on the rail, Mr. i Sheads suffered a severe electrical shock from the waist to his feet.

The electricity was believed to have resulted from lightning strik-1 ing the track somewhere north Biglerville during a heavy storm which passed over upper Adams county, Monday afternoon. Spam Continues Search But Practically Abandons Hope of Finding Four Lost Fliers WOMAN DIES OF SKULL FRACTURE Injury Suffered Six Months Ago Proves Fatal To East Berlin Native. of of A fracture of the skull, suffered six months ago, resulted fatally at jthe West Side sanitarium, York, I Monday afternoon, for Mrs. Flor-. i ence Loss, wife of Charles Loss, Hanover, and native of East Berlin.

Mrs. Loss suffered a fracture to one of ncr last December when she of the struck her head on an open kitchen- Associated Outdoor Advertisers ofl cabinet door. She suffered pain in Pennsyhania, who was re-elected the head for almost six months before having- an X-ray picture made, which revealed the fracture of which she and her physicians had previously been unaware during that length of time. to that office at Monday's session here. NEW ACT WILL AFFECT G-BHRG Ten Per Cent Maintenance Cost Of Streets Removed Bv Griffith Bill.

TWO SEAPLANES AND FOUR DESTROYERS SCOUR SEA NEAR A Madrid. Spain, June 25 (AP). --A second unconfirmed report reached here today that thc wreckage of an airplane which might be that of the missing Spanish trans-Atlantic fliers had been cited about 100 miles off the Azores. This report was given by the Trans-Radio company stating lhat it had been picked up from the Portugeuse fishing boat. Madrid, June 25 increased here today that disaster had overtaken Major Ramon Franco and his three companions in their hydro-airplane which disappeared Saturday morning in the course of a trans- Atlantic flight.

Premier Prime De Rivera was pessimistic remarking that the plane could perhaps float for a few hours in a calm sea but unfortunately he said it was believed a heavy sea was running and if the plane fell, rather than came down gently, it probably sank immediately. Minister of Marine agreed this As apprehension increased efforts to locate the missing plane were doubled. Two huge seaplanes and four torpedo boat de- Lost Spanish Ocean Flier I rf REFUSES TO OBEY ORDER FROM COMMISSION Ordered by the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania to cease operations in this state the Nevin Bus Lines, has announced that it will not obey the order and will appeal to the superior court. The Public Service Commission received a complaint against the Nevin line from the Pennsylvania railroad, which operates a bus line Pennsylvania, leasing its right to the Greyhound lines. The Nevin lines operates from Philadelphia over the Lincoln Highway, via Lancaster, Columbia and York to Gettysburg.

From here they run to Emmitsburg and then bach into Pennsylvania via Wlaynesboro to Greencastle and McConnellsburg. Less than ten miles of the route are in Mary- I land. While the detour is in ef- i feet the line has been passing through Hanover. A-nnmitfrt Prf-iy I'hotn Maj. Ramon Franco, Spanish pilot, who took off Jane 21 from Spain enroute to New York city via the Azores, and who has not been heard from since 12 hours after the hop off.

Spanish destroyers and airplanes scour the sea for him his ship and his three companions. FLETCHER WILL LEAVE OFFICE Resignation Accepted By Hoover; May Run For Seat U. S. In Senate. stroyers scouted today in direction of the Azores.

the SELECT JURY FOR INQUEST Mrs. Loss was 56 years of age. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lapham, East Berlin.

Surviving are her husband, Chai-les Loss, and six children, as follows: Mrs. Paul Sherman, Hazleton; Mrs. i inquest into the death of Dale Preliminary to the holding of an William Crook, East Berlin, and Virgil, Harry, Claude and Louise Loss, at home; her parents, Mr. Robert Smith, 4, son of Mr. and ra D.

Smith, Gardners Route and Mrs. Claude Lapham, East cr i onc i ter, Mrs. Charles Gettysburg is one of 024 boroughs Pennsylvania, with an Eisenhart, East Berlin; one broth- The Outdoor advertisers in con- Aggregate population of 2.387,444. or, Byron Lapham, Hanover, and vention here are urging the adop-, which will benefit thiough the op-. five grandchildren, tion of the uniform board.

Every eration of the Griffith act, which removed the ten per cent cost of maintenance connecting system and placed an additional assisted by is member of the organization using the same type of board and etate organizations throughout the east and middlewest are doing the same thing. It is the purpose of the outdoor advertisers to have a uniform board throughout the country. These boards will be Funeral services at the late home, Thursday afternoon at 2 of borough streets; o'clock, the Rev. O. C.

Dean, pas- the highway tor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, iTM" the Rev. E. J. Baync, who was struck and fatally injured by an automobile at the home of Emmanuel Smith, near York Springs, Sunday afternoon, Dr.

Edgar A. Miller, Adams county coroner, this afternoon empanelled a jury to view the body of the little victim at the L. C. Pitten- maintenance cost of $110,000 a year on the department of highways, James Lyall Stuart, secretary of highways. pastor of Grace Evangelical church, officiating.

Burial at Mt. Olivet cemetery. to- placed'at uniform distances from day. William B. King the highway, according to officials Under a former law, boroughs Clayton king Gettysburg of the avocation in convention were billed for ten per cent of the 'leceived word of the sudden death of the associa maintenance cost of Greets his brother, William B.

King, Approximately 100 men and i.ecting with the stau- hiehway son of Mrs Amanda King, women attended the dinner-dance system, when such maintenance Detroit, Sunday. fnThe Hotel Gettysburg, Monday (work was dene by the department The body will be taken to in tne noiei uen-y i hi(fhwayc and thc fin a i ton where funeral services will be held 'dition of a considerable number of afternoon the smaller boroughs was such from the that even this small charge was' King, burdensome. In these cases, the I department of highways had dif-1 Mrs. L. M.

Mackenthum ficulty in collecting the ten per centum of the maintenance cost. parlor, York Springs. Taking of testimony will follow the week, the coroner child was run down by an automobile, driven by James E. Grandon, of Lemoyne, Sunday afternoon, and died at the Warner as hospital seven hours later. FURNISH BAIL IN CRASH CASE Washington, June 25 The resignation of Henry P.

Fletcher as ambassador to Rome; has been accepted by President' I Hoover. Mr. Fletcher, whose home is ii: i Greencastle, retires of own volition after 27 years sen-ice in the diplomatic corps. During i i he has represented the Ameri-1 can government at such important posts as Mexico City, and Santiago, Chile as well as in Rome. He also Oldest Odd Fellow Dies Suddenly, In Baltimore, Today AndrewUtz, 84, Member Of Local Lodge For 63 Years, Resided Here During Three Days' Battles; Body Will Be Return- ed Here For Burial.

Andrew Utz, 84, former truant officer ot Gettysburg, and oldest member of Gettys lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, died suddenly at the home of Parker Wampler, Baltimore, this morning. Mr. Utz, who had lived at the home of M. F. Wil- Hams, West High street for several years, went to Baltimore two weeks ago, to visit at the Wampler home.

Death occurred suddenly, but the exact cause was not contained in first reports. In 1926, Mr. Utz celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his initiation into Gettys lodge of Odd Fellows, and fellow-members honored him at that time by holding a special meeting at which he was presented with a jewel- led pin. Record Attendance Not only was Mr. Utz probably one of the oldest Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania, but he held a record for having attended every meeting of the local lodge for 23 years.

In 1924, following the death of his wife, Mr. Utz missed his first meeting of Gettys lodge by reason of illness. AWARD CHIMES CONTRACT FOR LOCAL CHURCH Baltimore Company Will Install Set Of Chimes In St. James Church. NOVEMBER Two Place $500 Before Sheal- grve as under-secretary of statt er On Aggravated Assault And Battery Charge.

i under Charles Evans Hughes and 'he accompanied Mr. Hoover on his South American good-will William Gastley, Frederick, and shortly after Mr. Hoover's eloc- John Gastley, Gettysburg, were released under $500 bail each for court at a preliminary hearing on charges of aggrevated assault and battery before Justice of the Peace John C. Shealer this morning. Seven witnesses were heard by the prosecution.

They were R. K. Rice, Baltimore, formerly of Gettysburg, prosecutor in thc case; for theccasion. 5 8 A A I BOYS CONFIRMED Fifty-eight boys of the Para- Graft Skin On Local Farmhand Elmer Wisler, Gettysburg farmhand, who was severely burned home of Mrs. Amanda about the arms and body in April when he poured kerosene on a smouldering fire, submitted to a second skin-grafting operation at the Warner hospital this morning Mrs.

Lottie Mauss Mackenthum, of Philadelphia, daughter of Mr. that the and Mrs. Jacob Mauss, Gettysburg individual borough' The deceased is survived by her savings and one son, Wilbur, her smaH the ng the following broth- "While it may rn1e SC The rr a Sunda; i "en "er centum of maintenance a complication of diseases. Right Rev. Philip R.

to each Devitt, Harrisburg, was in charge TMa of the ceremonies which took place in the chapel of the protectory before a large audience of relatives and friends of the boys. Members of the Knights of Columbus of York, Hanover and McSherrystown stood as sponsors for the boys. The bishop gave an address following the service. The boys' choir participated with Miss Bernadine Poist presiding at the organ. The Knights of Columbus present were served after the services Skin from his thigh was transplanted to his left arm, shoulders and side in today's grafting.

Two weeks ago new skin was grafted on his right arm. The first grafting was a success, and Wisler now enjoys the use of his right arm. a luncheon The. priests attending the services included the Rev. L.

A. Reudter, rector of St. Mary's church, McSherrystown; the Rev. Stephen Zajac, of St. Mary's church, McSherrys- considerable," Sec- ers and sisters: John A.

Mauss retary Stuart said, "and thc ef and Frank R. Mauss, of Gettys- fect of this may be appreciated in burg; W. W. Mauss, of York; the adding of $57,500 to the fixed James Mauss and Mrs. M.

L. Slay( annual maintenance costs of the baugh, of Aspers, and Mrs. Amy department of highways." Tender Farewell To Rev. E. H.

Jones E. Guss, of Philadelphia. Funeral services Thursday afternoon from her Philadelphia home, with interment in Philadelphia. The congregation of the Pres-' (flinty NatlVC byterian church will tender a fare- well reception to their pastor, the Rev. Edward H.

Jones, in the lecture room, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, following the mid-week Is Laid To Rest Monday Evening Funeral services were held Monday evening: from the homo, fol- i I 11 town; the Rev. John O'Donnell, the arrangement hope that all prayer service. Those in chrvge i owed by interment in Evergreen VT rector of Conewago chapel; the Rev. John Zebrowski, of Conewago chapel, the Rev. Joseph A.

Whalen, St. Mary's church, New iford, and the Rev. Edward oTlyn, St. Aloysius church, Littlestown. Former Trooper Is Night Officer Floyd Maurcr, Baltimore street, a former member of the state police, stationed here, has been appointed night officer of Gettysburg to servo during the absence of Officer Paul B.

Shealer, who married Miss Elizabeth Swish- tr, Monday. WEATHER REPORT members of the congregation, and friends of the pastor will attend. The Rev. Mr. Jones will leave later in the, week for Los Angeles to spend- two months with his parents.

Traffic Agents Tour Battlefield Baltimore and Philadelphia Passenger Traffic Agents' association spent the week-end at Buena, Vista Springs hotel. The Balti- cemetery here, for Charles A. Plank, native of Adams county, and prominent farmer of near Dillsburg, who died last Friday morning at the Harrisburg hospital after an illness of two weeks. During the World War, Mr. Plank was superintendent of the tool shop at Hog Island in the employ of the government.

Prior to that he was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad for a number of years. He was a member of Fernwood Masonic lodge No. 543, Philadelphia. The deceased is survived by his widow, Maud, one daughter, Mrs. B.

F. Bard, Enola, and two sons, Three Operations At Mrs. Ada Fenton, Bendersville; Charles Phillips, East Berlin, and Lloyd Shuey, Littlestown, were admitted to the Warner hospital and submitted to major operations this morning. Mary and Roy Carbaugh, Arendtsville; Kenneth Kug- Icr, Westminster; Ernest Bushman, Arendtsville; Mrs. William Seabrook, Westminster, and Miss Helen Scholl, Westminster, were discharged as patients.

The effective date of Fletcher resignation is yet to be determined but it will probably be September 1 at the expiration of the leave of absence upon which he foon is to start. So far as has been disclosed the president has not yet selected his successor. Mr. Fletcher will return to the U. S.

shortly and although his The contract for the installation of a set of chimes in the belfry of St. James' Lutheran church, York street, was awarded to the McShane Bell Foundry company, of Baltimore, the Rev. Earl J. Bowman, pastor of the church, announced today. The chimes were made possible through a legacy given for that purpose under the terms of the will of thc late William H.

Dull, letired farmer, who was found dead in bed at his home on Car- A. E. Hutchson, Leslie Vaughn, ans are no known some of his lisle street here. December Ifi, Carrie Vaughn, Mrs. Annie Vaughn, Detective Charles E.

Wilson 1927. T(le say he may run for the y. S. Senate from Pennsylvania in T(le bu i of Ml Dull's and Patrolman C. W.

Achenbach. the event that the scat of Wil- nrtn Attoney J. Donald Swope, Rice's llam are should be declared estimated from $.,,000 to attorney, examined the witnesses. vacan or at the expiration of the was left for the installation The Gastley's were represented by orm hich Vare was elected, a Philadelphia attorney. Their defense to the charge also was heard.

The charges are the out-growth of an automobile accdent on the Emmiitsburg road in February in which cars, driven by Rice and County Man Is Married Monday Miss Mary Eleanor Nelson, of William Gastley, collided. Four Knoxville, Maryland, and William persons were hurt in the hearon crash, which occurred during a dense fog. more delegation made the rl aT and Delmont in a large 25-passenger special bus of the United Railways. The PKiladlephia delegation went by train to Harrisburg. There iht party was divided into two Eastern Pennsylvania: Showers this afternoon and earl, tonight followed by generally Mr Wednesday.

One part went to Buena Vista by way of Chambersburg and the other came by way of Gettysburg, where a sightseeing tour of the Cooler to- battlefield was marie. One hundred 'made up thc entire party. a Judicial Conference Closes fBedford Springs, June 25 (AP). --The second annual Pennsylvania judicial conference in session here adjourned today after numerous recommendations were receivp.i for legislation to improve judicial proceedure in the state. A number of committees were named to investigate various legal questions.

These committees will report to the 1930 conference. PREXV SEEKS DIVORCE Littlestown Boy Wins Scholarship Harrisburg, June 25 of 80 scholarships by the s-tate department of public instructions to as many hig-h school graduates in Pennsylvania was an-' nounced today. The awards carry a prize of $100 a year for four years to be applied to the cost of a college education. Among the winners are Emory P. Weaver, Littlestown, Adams county, and Lucetta Taeagargen, Chambersburg.

Frank Gastley, Gettysburg, were married at the parsonage of the BigUervtille Lutheran at 7:30 o'clock, Monday evening. They were attended by Mr. and estate, $8,000, of chimes at St. James' church. In the will.

Mr. Dull directed that with the installation of the chimes, "a modest little plnte" bt erected, bearing the inscription. For many years, he was truant officer here, and prided himself on the fact that no truant boy or girl ever escaped him. He was janitor at the court house for many years, and worked at various positions in Gettysburg for 75 years. He was born near Gettysburg, it had lived here for more than three-quarters of a century.

Three years ago, he recalled that only 23 residents of Gettysburg were residing here who lived in town 75 years ago. He resided in Gettysburg during the battle in 1863, and his memory of that, stirring time was considered Burial Until a few years ago, Mr. Utz was the self-appointed census taker of Gettysburg, and each year he kept a detailed record of the people who moved in and out of town, the new houses and business places erected and the ber of persons residing in the borough. Mr. Utz leaves only nieces and nephews to survive him.

Milton Bender went to Baltimore upon receipt of word of Mr. Utz's death, to bring the body back to Gettysburg. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. "Presented by Emma J. Dull William H.

and for the praise of God, the enjoyment of saints and the wooing of sinners." Set of 11 Chimes At first, church officials, felt that the legacy was insufficient to have the chimes installed immediately, Mrs! Charles Nelson, brother and and consequently, the bequest was sister-in-law of the bride, and Gastley, Gettysburg, a brother the bridegroom. Hamilton i fA AtternOOn stalled put at interest. With the re-building of the church, following the fire last fall, officials felt th.it the time was at hand for installing; the chimes. A set of 11 chimes will be in- MONT ALTO TO KEEP IDENTITY Retention identity of of all the the State physical Forestry school at Mont Alto with a number of improvements was decided by the advisory council appointed to determine the future of the institution. The proposed merging of the forest school with State college through the action of the council will mean nothing more than the in the bell tower of the I matitution at Mont Alto becoming Arrested For Blocking Alley Ottavio Conti, Hanover street, posted $50 before Justice of the Peace John C.

Shealer, Monday 'evening, on a charge of obstructing an alley, for a hearing next Monday afternoon. Conti, who arrested by Tnooper J. M. anaugh and Night Officer Floyd L. Maurer, is alleged to have parked a large truck in an alley in the rear of his home.

Funeral services for Miss Edith Hamilton, who died at her home on North Washington street last Saturday morning, were held from the house, Monday afternoon, the Rev. Earl J. Bowman officiating, i ings will be ready for occupancy Interment was in Evergreen ccme- by the congregation. The set will consist of eleven chimes, with the keyboard at the the co ge, and by it Following ad- the re-constructed church edifice, a Rev. Mr.

Bowman said. The chimes ITUTnSteiCU will be the first in Gettysburg, and meeting CoL enry W. arc expected to be hung by maker the chairman of the coun- vember 1 about the time when announce that a school with church and Sunday School QnQ am one hal ars course nrlll 1-iVirltr Trtf IM1 I i tery- Pallbearers were Elmer Hatchison, Henry Kalbfleisch, Parke Noel, Jesse Shryock, Mr. Shelter and Mr. Albion.

organ consul. Plans are being made to have the chimes played by the church cally. organist or automati- was Cav- Farmer Accused Of Manager forest research institute will be established next year in addition to the regular four year course in forestry. It will be necessary to enlarge the faculty, and although the present facilities of the school will the student body to eighty, construction of several additional buildings was discussed to take The name of Ann Arbor, Mich, June 25 (AP). --Dr.

Clarence Cook Little, retiring president of the University of Plank, Philadelphia; parents, Mr. i Michigan, last week filed suit here and Mrs. Emmanuel Plank, Get- for divorce rom Mrs. Catharine tysburg; six grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Levi Reinecker, Gettysburg; Mrs.

John Rinehart, Harrisburg; one brother, Emory Plank, I Little, it became known today. Cherry ptekera wanted: Will jiokinu Thnrprtajr, 27. Orrjannn Canning company. SIGNS BOULDER DAM BILL I Washington, June 25 Hoover today signed a proclamation making operative the dam bill. STOCK REPORT New York, June 25 prices showed a decided inclination to advance today despite the stringency in call money.

Early losses of one to five points were largely wiped out by early afternoon and a long list of issues sold one to It points higher. New high recoids at least a stocks. were score established by of individual Rochester, N. June 25 (AP). --Accused of torturing a 14-year- old boy by holding him over a bonfire until his right leg and hip were seriously burned, Frank Cromwell, 56, a farmer of Greece, Plant I care of an increase.

At Bigler riani the school will abo be H. E. Bester, of will manage the Biglerville cold; storage plant, acquired last week I by the Inland Utilities company, New York city, according to a Is Married Today Misg Pall ne staub, daughter of N. was in jail today awaiting' announcement by Bismark King, am Mrs Fabian Staub, of a hearing. joperaitng executive of the Central, Bonneauville, and Charles Law- The boy, George Foley, has been Atlantic State Service coiporation.j ience Jr son of Charles Law- nViircinion whifh will oooratc the plants of i wpro married under the care of a physician since the assault.

According to the story told by boys who were which will operate the pi the Inland corporation. Mr. Bester also will manage with Foley they had been swim-' three ice and storage plants in ming in a pool and had lighted a Hagerstown and a similar concern fire to warm themselves Martinsburg. West taken Cromwell appeared. Cromwell is (over by the Inland Ut.l.t.es corn- said to haw seized Foley whom he pany along with the county plant NO OILING HERE No roads in Adams county are scheduled to be oiled this week, according to an announcement by the state highway department.

rcnce, of Hanover, were married at 7 o'clock in St. Joseph's Catholic church, Bonneauville, by tht Rev. Fr. P. J.

Enright, pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Paul of Midway, were the attendants. Following the ceremony a- wedding breakfast was served at the home of the brido's parents, after which the ncwlyweds left for Washington.

will return this James L. Kirby, of Littlestown, even to attend a reception to Well baby clinic for Gettysburg had his driver's license revoked be tent ere them at thf home of will be held Wednesday afternoon a charge of driving while bride's parents, from 2 until 4 o'clock in the court dor the influence of liquor, tnr accused of starting the fire. WELL BABY CLINIC LOSES LICENSE bureau of motor vehicles house, M'ss Kate Briel, state nurse, bureau of Announced today. nounced today. Wiintcd- York itrwt.

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