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rf 1 i fci TWO THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 19C ANTI-RED ACCORD STIRS POWERS RIVALRY (Continued from Page One) "beer cellar putsch." proclaimed the ready power of the "great world political triangle." France apparently was planning to answer the new front by striving to bring her two closest allies. Russia and Britain, into closer harmony and to strengthen her ties with the little Entente Yuogslovia. Czechoslo- vokia and Rumania) and Poland to combat Italian-German activity in that sphere. Europe's democracies showed a mounting uneasiness over the alignment of the world's three big "have not" powers--Japan. Italy and Germany.

Markets in both London and Paris were depressed Monday. The isolationist London newspaper. The Daily Express, in a front page editorial warned: "If it is 1914 over again keep out!" The editorial argued that if Britain tied herself more closely to the Soviet Union and France--both of are linked defensively with Czechoslovakia British citizens might find themselves fighting in trenches around Prague to keep 3.500.000 Germans by force inside the Czechoslovakia state. Diplomats watched closely to see if Moscow would follow up Monday night's protest to Italy by severing diplomatic and trade relations. Fascist officials indicated Italy had--or would--reject the protest on the grounds that the accord was not directed against any other power but only against international communism.

"Russia has no grounds for reprisal." said one Italian official. The United States, it was felt in London, could not ignore the potentialities of the pact because of South America. Some quarters cited Italian and German explanations of their intervention in the Spanish civil war--as a fight against Bolshevism--as an example of how the new alliance might work in other parts of the world, including South America. Personal Mention and --Social Happenings-- TELEPHONE 72 OR 91 CHI OMEGA ALUMNI TO MEET WEDNESDAY The November meeting I a meeting of the American hotel sociation. TERMINAL HEAD KILLS WIFE, WOUNDS FRIEND of the Gettysburg Chi Omega Alumnae as- Miss Virginia Myers entertained the members of the Acorn club Mon- sociation will be held Wednesday day ni nt at hcr home on chambers- evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home street.

The next meeting of of Miss MaeBelle Hereter. Cham- the club will be held with Mrs. MOo bersburg street, with Mrs. Lycurgus Dichl of McKnightstown. Long, aii associate hostess.

The pro-j gram will be in charge of 'he Misses Margaret Hanawalt, Mary Eliza- Johl1 Lippy. Chamoersbura: 55 Voluntary Prisoners Tax Tennessee Lock-Up Cleveland, Nov. 9 (AP)-Fifty-five voluntary prisoners in the county jail who, in the words of their leader, "aim to stay there until the cows come home, strummed banjos and guitars today while authorities decide what to do about the unwelcome'guests. The men, striking workers of the Dixie Foundry company, marched to jail after refusing to make bonds on contempt of court citations for alleged violations of an injunction. Their spokesman, B.

Watkins. secretary-treasurer of International Iron Moulders union local, said the men were striking for higher wages, union recognition and better working conditions. The president of the company, S. B. Rymer.

said the strike was called because the firm declined to reinstate a union official who Rymer said had' violated shop rules. Baltimore street, were usitors to Mrs. Harold Cufp lias returned to York today. Indiana, after spending two weeks .1 with her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Wil- Frederick B. Hacr, Ham Shealer. Chambersburg street. I Seminary avenue, visited relatives at Indiana over the week-end.

Robert Crawford. Tyrone, is visit- ing his grandfather, G. W. G. I Mr aTM 1 Ir Ita 'P Barley have Heagy Stemwehr avenue.

returned to their home at Hunting- Mr Crawford. Miss Laura after a week-end visit with Mrs. Miss Louise Mundorff and Barley's parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Mil- Earl Heagy spent the day in Coch- ton R. Remmel, East Middle street. ranville with Dr. and Mrs. H.

F. C. Heagy. The Thursday Afternoon Bridge Mrs. Levi Diehl.

Hanover stroct. has returned from a visit in Selinsgrove with her son-in-law and club will meet at 2 o'clock Thursday daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. afternoon with Mrs.

Jarncs P. Keller. Mr. and Mrs. Keller and Cairns, Springs avenue.

son Richard, accompanied Mrs. 2 TRAPPED BY FOREST FIRE Welch, W. Nov. 9 bodies of two school boys who were trapped on a mountain rock ledge by a forest fire were found today by their parents who had organized a searching party. Harry Faust, 19, and Thomas Jones, 12, who lived in the mining community of Worth near Northfork, had gone up the mountain with others Monday to see if the fire had damaged a cabin which the schoolboys had bmlt.

Ten of the party returned after seeing the cabm was all right but Faust and Jones remained behind to watch the blaze. Mrs. Benjamin Strause, Harrisburg. is visiting her son-in-law and daughter. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry M. Scharf. Hotel Gettysburg. The Inter-Faculty club will meet this evening with Prof.

G. S. Warthen. Dr. A.

R. Wentz will have the paper. Dr. Maurice Bender, of New York city, visited friends and relatives in Gettysburg over the week-end. 4 The class of Christ Lutheran Sunday school, taught by Daniel Leisher, will hold a supper meeting Wednesday evening in the social rooms of the church with the husbands of members as special guests.

The committee in charge of arrangements includes Mrs. Robert Young, Mrs. Lcisher. Mrs. Frederick B.

Haer, Mrs, Robert Fortenbaugh and Mrs. Harold Reuning. It is expected that about 40 persons will be in attendance. Mr. and 3Irs.

C. C. Trestle and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wierman, York street, spent the week-end at Watsontown as guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Lester Deiniger. The lecture given in Harrisburg by Miss Margaret Slattery. noted author, under the auspices of the Harrisburg Y. W.

C. A. on Monday night, was attended by the following members of the local Business and Professional Women's club: Mrs. Guyon Buehler, Miss Elizabeth Woods, Miss Esther Tipton, Miss Margaret Galbraith. Miss Margaret Howard, Mrs.

Ray Kitzmiller, Mrs. Irving Bierer. Miss Louise Woodward, Miss Mindelle Weikert. Miss Lorene Galbraith, Mrs. Harold Cromwell.

Miss Ellen Spangler, Miss Viola Sachs. Miss Mildred Moser and Miss Helen Baker. Officers and teachers of the Gettysburg Presbyterian Sunday school will gather in the social rooms of the church this evening at 6:30 o'clock for a covered dish luncheon which is to be followed by the monthly business session. Mr. and Mrs.

William Hamilton and children, of the Ambassador tel, Atlantic City, were Sunday night guests of Mrs. Henry M. Scharf. Hotel Gettvsburg. They were cnroutc to Pittsburgh to attend son Richard, accompanied Diehl home Sunday.

C. C. Trestle. York street, spent Monday an Baltimore. The Rev.

and Mrs. Luther A. Gotwald and daughter Ethel Grace. Hanover street, visited with friends in Baltimore over the week-end. IVIiss Ruth Jones, of Shamokin, arrived today for a visit with Miss Maud Whitcleather, Hanover street.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Leeds. of the Chalfont-Haddon hotel.

Atlantic City; Mr. and Mrs. Blumfield Huhck. of Loch 'Arbor hotel, Allenhurst. New Jersey, and Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Bell, of the Em- pu-e hotel, New York city, spent Saturday nights as guests of Mrs. Henry M. Scharf, Hotel Gettysburg. All were enroute to Pittsburgh to attend a meeting of the American hotels association.

Henry M. Scharf, manager of Hotel Gettysburg, is attending a meeting of the Pennsylvania association and the American hotel association in Pittsburgh this week. John D. Lippy. who was en- route from a lecture tour through Virginia and Washington, D.

to Cleveland, Ohio, spent the weekend with his family at the Eagle hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Garrin and three children have returned to their home in Philadelphia, after a week-end visit with Mrs. Garvin's brother-in-law and sister, Burgess and Mrs.

Wilbur Stallsmith, East Middle street. Glendale. Nov. 9 (AP) -i Paul Wright. 38, president of the Union Air terminal, shot and killed his wife.

Evelyn, and then critically wounded John Bryant Kimmel, air- I port traffic manager, early today I when, he told police, he found his 'wife and Kimmel in an embrace. Chief of Police E. B. Browne said told him he shot his wife i and Kimmel, an old friend, in his i palatial Verdugo Vista home. i The shooting occurred at 4:10 a.

shortly after Wright and Kimmel, for years close friends, returned from Hollywood where they participated in an initiation ceremony of the O. B. club, an organization of aviators. Kimmel was taken to the Bur- 1 bank hospital for an emergency operation, but physicians said chances of surviving were slim. Wright called police immediately 'after the shooting.

Browne said. He told Browne he had suspected his wife of "stepping out" for two I years, "but I never thought it was 'with my best friend." He told police he had gone to his for a short nap and when he returned to his living room he found Kimmel and his wife sitting on the piano bench in an embrace. "Everything went white," he said. "I went to the bedroom, got my I pistol out of a dresser drawer, and (shot them." The Wright's three-year-old daughter, Helen, and a Negro maid, iwere not disturbed by the shooting. After the shocting Wright walked to Verdugo road, seven blocks from the home, and met the police there.

directing them to the house. Mrs. Wright was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. McBride, of Detroit, Michigan. Wright came here from Milwaukee. Wisconsin. An aviator in the World war, i Wright has been connected with I transport flying in recent years.

He was with trans-America and Stout air lines in the pioneer days of commercial aviation, and came here in October, 1935, to become president of union air terminal after serving as assistant to the' president of United Air Lines in Chicago. Mrs. Wright was 33 years old and 35. Upper End Communities News notes from the Biglerville--Arendtsville Bencters- ville section as gathered by special Time? correspondent. Call Biglerville.

No 8. Miss Blanche Bender, of Altoona, has been visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. I.

Weidner, of Norman Tyson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Tyson, of Gardners R.

v.ho. lor days, following an operation for the removal of his appendix, was not getting along very well, is reported to be very much improved in condition. Mr. and Mrs. G.

IV. Koser, of Biglerville, were visitors to Carlisle today. Mr. aoid Mrs. B.

W. Kadel have returned to Baltimore after spending the week-end at their home at Bridgeport. Parade to Move At 1:30 P.M. on Armistice Day QUEEN MARIE IMPROVES Bucharest, Rumania. Nov.

9 (AP) --Dowager Queen Marie, suffering from an internal hcmmorhage, appeared somewhat improved today. Specialists were more optimistic after Monday's consultation at which treatment was formulated. King Carol, however, gave the impression of deep concern. (Continued from Page One) home Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock in order to form in the Armistice Day parade- which will move at 1:30 o'clock. The ladies will ride in cars in the parade.

Mrs. Howard Sheffer, chairman of a committee that conducted-a card party at the Legion home on Octo-- ber 29, reported that $2.87 had been cleared. The following committee was named'to arrange for the next party: Mrs. Elmer Dillman, Mrs. Emma Mundorff.

Mrs. Sheffer, and Mrs. Howard Hartzell. Miss Mary Grove, president, pre' sided with about 20 members pres- i ent. ARLISS RETURNS TO U.

S. New York, Nov. 9 (AP)--George Arliss, the British actor, arriving from Europe today, was asked about a report he would portray the late John D. Rockefeller on the "They have been saymc that since Rockefeller started looking like me." he replied." And die he object to the comparison? "Oh. no." he smiled, "it shows he not a vain man." WASHINGTON'S KIN DIES Alexandria, Nov.

9 Eleanor Selden Washington Howard. 81, last of he Washington family born at Mount Vernon. died here Monday. She was the great- great-grandniece of George Wash- 1 mgton. HUDSON" PLANT CLOSES Detroit.

Nov. Ji Hudson Motor Car plant today in a depute over laving oil of eight men in the department. The company has twcen 10,000 and 12.000 employes. Spokesmen 'or the corr.par;'. and the United America said negotiations progress and predicted plan: would re-open Hudson company is the automoDile manufacturer to b- closed by a labor dispute tr.c current production season WANTS MOKE SAILOR Washington.

Nov. 9 'Admiral Adolphus Andrews. of the Navy's bureau of navigation recommended today in his annual report that the fleet be manned at lull war strength. The 102,500 saii- ors authorized by Congress fur thc current year, he said, permit crews averaging only 86.1 per cent of ft 11 complements. BRAKEMAN KILLED Philadelphia, Nov.

9 from a freight train, James P. McCarthy, 47, of Philadelphia, a Pennsylvania Railroad, brakeman, jras killed Monday, The T. club will meet Friday night with Mrs. U. S.

Kleinfelter, of Biglerville. Mrs. E. A. Meyer and Mrs.

Richard C. Walton, of Biglerville, spent the day in Harrisburg. The Blue Ribbon club will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Reynolds Criswell, of Arendtsville. The Rev.

G. E. Soldner, of Bluffton, Ohio, was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. E.

A. Meyer, of Biglerville. Mr. and Mrs. W.

C. Weaner had as guests Sunday at their home at Bendersvillc, Mrs. Mary Mickley and Mrs. J. B.

Wineman and daughter, Kathryn, of Gettysburg. Miss 1L Louise Creasy entertained the Bridgettes Monday evening at her home in Biglerville. High scores were held by Mrs. J. Willis Beidler and Miss Sara E.

Rife. The club will meet next week with Miss Marian Garretson, of Flora Dale. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Boyer, of Millersville, were guests Monday of Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph E. Arnold, of Biglerville. CHINESE QUIT SHANGHAI AFTER 3-MONTH BATTLE (Continued from Page One) to the great delta lands of the lake region west of Shanghai where China has several so-called Hinden- i burg lines. During the day.

about 50.000 Chinese refugees entered the French concession and thc international settlement. Many of them stormed barbed wire barricades and barred whi'p police to hin- dle distracted Chinese throngs. Approximately 6,000 Chinese soldiers, cut off on all sides by advancing Japanese, took up positions in the Nantao area adjoining the French concession. Barricading themselves. 600 of the isolated troops declared they would hold out to the death.

To prevent further Japanese penetration of the Nantao district, the Chinese blew up bridges spanning a network of creeks and canals and set fire to buildings which might be used for military purposes. Japan occupied China's great medical center, the Chungshan hospital, to which the Rockefeller foundation has contributed. Japanese invasion of the southwest borders of the French concession precipitated the most exclusive foreign residential section of Shanghai into a war zone. The Shanghai American school, which houses' at least 150 American children and refugee parents from other parts of China, is within a few hundred yards of the area occupied by the Japanese. Continuing- their advances.

Japanese army units reached Lungwha. south of Shanghai. Japanese troops were said to be pursuing about 2.000 Chinese soldiers toward Tsingpu from Sung- kiang, 22 miles southwest of Shanghai. PROFESSIONAL Watch Repairing Service Remember that even the finest watch in the world requires an occasional cleaning and oiling. Perhaps your wat'ch requires some minor adjustment which, if taken care of now.

may prevent serious injury to the delicate mechanism later on. Bring in your watch now--there's no charge for inspection and estimates. BLQ CHER'S CHAMBERSBURG ST. BEFORE WBNTER SITS ON YOUR Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Miller" and daughter, of Johnstown, were Sunday guests of Mrs. Miller's sister. Miss Charlotte Walhay, of Mt; Tabor. Mr, and Mrs. Russell Weaner, of Bendersville, entertained at their home Sunday, Mr.

and Mrs. Dale Bachman and daughter, Dorothy, of Middletown, Miss Elizabeth Starner, Mr. and Mrs. D. M.

Hoffman and Charles Weaner, of Bendersville. Mr. and Mrs. James Black, of Biglerville, had as guests Sunday, Guy Thomas and children, Jean, Marie, Dolores, Edgar and Franklin, of New Chester; Mr. and Mrs.

Thurman Turner and son, of Arendtsville, Miss Maybelle Cool, of Hunterstown, was a week-end guest in the Black home. I I A I A i this towcrinj: coiffure awarded first prize among historic "monuments" entered in international hairdrfssinj: competition in Paris. Sausajcc curls flanking thc sides and feathered toque atop the pompadour arc in thc Two Delegates Named by 'Y' to 1 Capital School (Continued from Page 1) ship program to be conducted by I the Business and Professional Wom' en's club on the evening of Thurs' clay, November 18. at the Y. W.

C. A building Reporting on the house and personnel committee. Mrs. Robert Fortenbaugh stated that the roof of the association building has been repaired and that the floors are to be repaired during the Christmas hohdajs while the building is closed. The regular reports of the office sec- ictary and thc Rotary committee also were received.

Harrisburg Delegates Named The board elected Miss Margaret Hanawalt and Mrs. W. Clayton Jester as delegates to a two-day school of Christian Living to be conducted November 15 and 16 in the Fifth I Street Methodist Episcopal church in Hnrrisburg. Mr? H. B.

Pearson and Mrs. A P. Myers reported to thc board that the adult group at York Springs conducted a successful Hallowe'en I party on November 2. Miss Margaret Myers, chairman of membership, reported on prep, arotions for a revision of the membership files of the organization, mskiiii; use of the new of purpose of the Details of the for thc membership renewals r.ro to bo announced later. Tee board voted to use the $20 receuetl from the Bon-Ton department of York for 'he use of the buildmc during a recent drapery display as the basis for a lunri to be tiswi purchrt.sc a new lefriserator for It was decided also that any contnbu- men by lorn! societies meet- ur; at tho association building should be wtnic fund I Ropojts weie henrcl on cunent ac- i i i i tile Hiisine-vs Women's club the Annie Dai.ner cl.ib The next ri-sulnr nx-ciing of the i bourn is scheduled for Monday, De- I ccir.ber ix Mr.

and Mrs. Rudolph Arnold and family. Aspers R. visited recently with Mr. Arnold's mother, Mrs.

Mary Arnold, of Biglerville. OBITUARY Biciv Wright has returned to Washington, D. after spending the week-end with his parents. Mr. i His death, and Mrs.

Walter Wright, of Biglerville. Infant Is Buried Roland Guy Cutshall. infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cutshall.

Biglerville R. died at the Annie M. Warner hospital Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock from complications. Surviving, in addition to the child's parents, are Mr. and Mrs.

D. S. Slaybaugh, Aspers R. 1, the maternal grandparents, and Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Cutshall, Biglerville R. 1. the paternal grandparents.

Funeral services were held this morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Routsong funeral home. Bendersville, conducted by the Rev. H. W. Sternat.

Interment in Arendtsville cemetery. RaJph Milton Myers Ralph Milton Myers. 39. of 522 Lo- cust street, Hanover, a steam shovel operator the state Department! of Highways out of the York office, was stricken Monday afternoon while working on a s'tate road near Shrewsbury and died at 10:30 o'clock Monday evening in the Hanover General hospital. Death was due to cerebral hemmorhage, according to Coroner L.

U. Zech, of York 1 made an investigation. Mr. Myers was taken to the office of a Shrewsbury physician in an unconscious condition by fellow em- ployes. The physician advised his removal to -the hospital, where he was admitted at 4:15 o'clock Monday afternoon.

He remained in an unconscious state until the time of PROTECT IT WITH SHERWlN-WlLLIAMS PORCH AND DECK PAINT Summer's been hard enough on your porch floors and steps. Now that Winter's on his stormy, freezing way they'll need plenty of protection. Give them a coat or two of S-W Porch and Deck paint. Solid-covering, wear-resistant, this paint gives your porch the full protection it needs and beauty that will make you proud of it! Washes easily, economical buy 0 apply. Mr.

and Mrs. W. Clayton Jester and son. Billy, of Biglerville, visited with friends at Arlington, Washington, D. over the week-end.

Mr. and Mrs. Rfchard Simmons, of Frederick, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Bream, of Biglerville.

Dcnald Buchcr, of Washington. D. spent the week-end at his home in Biglerville. Mr. and Mrs.

.1. Willis Beidler and son. Garry, of Biglerville. spent Sunday at Quakertown with Mr. Boidler's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Beidler. Doctor Zech stated that Myers, a large man weighing about 260 pounds, had been suffering with high blood pressure for some time. The deceased is, survived by his widow. Mrs.

Mabel Myers: one daughter. Rosa Myers, at home; his mother, Mrs. Florence Myers, Lit- tlestow'n; three step-sisters and two step-brothers. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mrs.

Mary B. Hoy Mrs. Mary B. Hoy, 74, for more than fifty years a missionary in Ja- pan and China for the Evangelical and Reformed church, died Friday I at Hankow. China, according to word received by the Board of For- eign Missions of the denomination, Mrs.

Hoy. was borp in Mechanics- i burg, and was well-known in Littles- 2 II. S. STUDENTS KILLED town, having resided there while hcr Bedford. Nov.

9 (AP)--Two father, the Rev. John Ault. served as hiRh school students died today of i pastor of Redeemer's Reformed injuries resulting from thc crash of charge, which at that time consisted an automobile in which they wcrci 0 Redeemer's, Christ and St. Luke's i i i riding to see a school play Monday night. Thc dead were Robert Kaufman.

16. and-Helen Worrell. 17. both of Osterburg. Severely injured when the machine collided head-on with a truck were Jchn Claar.

of Queen, driver of the truck: Richard Walter, also of Queen, and David Bit- tingcr, of Imlcr. who was riding in Kaufman's car. CONVICTED OF SLANDER New Orleans, Nov. 9 Kay. 47, who said he was whipped by churches.

She left Littlestown in 1880. when her father died while pastor of that charge. Whenever i returned to this country on furlough she spent some time i visiting in Littlestown and in Hanover. Her last visit was made several years ago. Surviving are three children.

Rites Held for Reuben Schwartz -J Funeral services for Reuben Schwartz, 79. Gettysburg R. 1. who died Saturday afternoon at his i Kay. 47, wno saici nc wuj aieu a 27-year-old girl last August from injuries received when her father and two brothers accused struck by a truck last Friday morn( him of slanderous remarks, has ing.

were held this afternoon at 2 been convicted of slander. The case o'clock from the H. B. Bender and was tried before Judge J. Arthur Charbonnet Monday.

Kay did not testify. Alfred Willis, father of the girl, Elolse Willis, told police last August 8 that he and his sons had tied Kay to a tree, and that the girl had flogged him for alleged slanderous stories. Son funeral home conducted by the Rev. Spencer W. Aur.gst, pastor of St.

James Lutheran church. Interment in Evergreen cemetery. The pallbearers were George Jeffcoat, D. Ellis Schwartz, Howard Schwartz. Harry Wolf, John Funt and Milo Diehl.

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