The Gettysburg Times from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

GOOD EVENING Isnt there any otter to the on the tax. neck? WEATHER Showers. THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Press Truth, Our Guide--The Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody In Adams County ESTABLISHED 1902 GETTYSBURG, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1932. PRICE THREE CENTS "Jafsie" Is Making Mysterious Trip to New England States DETECTIVES TRAIL HIM ON SECRET JAUNT Haines Votes War Budget Cut Receives Communications Along Way; Drives 60 Miles Per Hour. SEEK MARYLAND MAN IN -NEW CLUE Danbury.

May 21 (AP)-John P. Condon, of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, arrived at a roadhouse on the outskirts of this city shortly before noon today after driving here from New York at a high rate of speed. Two New York detectives, trailing him in another car, said they did not know themselves where he and they were going. Doctor Condon said his next stop be Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and that also wanted to go to New Bedford, Mass. "I have received a said, "and expect to receive other communications along the way." He did not say what the communications were.

Witnesses following the cars haul that-a speed of more than 60 miles an hour had been maintained. Seek Bootlegger Baltimore, May 21 CAP)--A man long identified with New Jersey liquor running activities was disclosed today as the "mysterious gangster in Maryland." sought for in the lindbergh kid- case. The man who remained unnamed informed Arthur Mills, a former Maryland state policeman, that the body of the kidnapped child would be found within five miles of the Lindbergh estate two days before it actually was discovered. Mills said the rum runner further informed him that the baby had been killed by blows on the head and that the body had been hidden near the flier's home. Hopewell.

N. May 21 (AP)-The hunt for the Lindbergh baby killers revolved about a pair of vague police clues and the aid of the white-haired "Jafsie" Friday night after autao.itice once absolved John Hughes Curtis, hoax negotiator, of suspicion iu their main quest. The official attitude toward Curtis, moot subject of a two-day series of statements, finally appeared definite when Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, state police superintendent, announced the Norfolk (Virginia) boat builder was in a New York hotel the night of April 2 and "his actions are accounted for." Reverts To Original Statement Colonel Schwarzkopf then employed virtually his exact words of Thursday in saying "there is nothing that would indicate that Curtis was connected either with the kidnapping or the collection of the ransom." It vas on the April 2 that Dr. John P.

Condon (Jafsie) tossed a packet of $50,000 in currency to an extortionist in a New York cemetery. In between these assertions, however, the police head had told of continuing his check of Curtis' whereabouts, saying it would not be completed and corroborated until next -week. Salient Developments Salient among Friday's devclop- (Continued on Base Two) In voting against war department appropriations for reserve officers' training corps and citizens' military training camps for one year, Con- igressman Harry L. Haines, of the 'Adams-York district, said he had been asked by his constituents to vote for economy measures in the lower house at Washington. "The people back home keep writing in and asking us to economize," Congressman Haines said, "and 1 believe these activities can be deferred for one year without injury to the country.

We can save more than $5,000,000 by this particular economy." Amelia Earhart Is First Woman to Fly Atlantic Ocean Alone COUNTY SCHOOL TO GRADUATE 10 ON WEDNESDAY A i Voca- i tional Seniors Hear Baccalaureate Sermon, GO TO CAPITAL NEXT THURSDAY Local Knights Go To Scranton Knights of Columbus District Deputy Edgar P. Hamilton will head the local group of delegates, alternates and visitors who plan to attend the annual K. of C. state convention 4b Scruiiuja, opening Sunday afternoon with the conferring of an honorary life membership degree on Supreme Councillor James A. Flaherty.

Gettysburg council is represented by Grand Knight George F. Hemler, F. B. Rowe and Peter C. Stock.

Deputy Hamilton and Grand Knight Hemler will be aides on the staff of State Deputy John R. P. Magill in the third degree ceremonies Sunday evening. Police have pinned their hopes of picking up the trail of the Lindbergh kidnappers on John F. Condon, aged educator who made the $50,000 ransom payment.

Despite orders of his doctor that he rest, Condon appeared before a Bronx county grand jury and related how he paid the money to the supposed kidnappers. REBEKAHS HOLD ANNUAL DINNER Mrs. J. Price Oyler Presents Past Grands' Jewels To Two Women. 2 County Girls Graduate From Nurses' School Two Adams county girls were among the 28 students graduated from the Harrisburg hospital training school for nurses at commencement exercises in the William Penn high school auditorium.

Harrisburg, Friday evening. Those from Adams county, who were graduated, are Miss Ethel Margaret Frey, of East Berlin, and Miss Jean C. Linah. York Springs. At the exercises.

Miss Frey was presented with a nurse's set of surgical instruments for the best in the operating room. The Rt. Rev. Wyatt Brown, bishop of the Harrisburg diocese of the Episcopal church, was the principal speaker at the exercises, and stressed the opportunity of the nurses to serve suffering humanity. Eighty members of Mary Gettys Rebekah lodge, 105, and invited guests, attended the third annual banquet at Trinity Reformed church, Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock.

Mrs. Lester Scott was toastmistress and song leader. The social room of the church was attractively decorated in a color scheme of pink and green, the colors of the lodge. The table appointments also followed the colors of the organization. The following program was presented Invocation, the Rev.

Howard S. Fox, pastor of Trinity Reformed church; piano solo, Mrs. Naomi Schwartz; greetings, Mrs. Emma Mundorff, noble grand of the lodge; response, J. E.

Snyder; piano" duet, Mrs. Howard Hartzell and Mrs. Edna Tipton; reading, Mrs. Sewoll E. Kapp; address, the Rev.

Herbert P. Beam, pastor of the Gettysburg Methodist Episcopal church: quartet, Miss Viola Sachs, Mrs. Florence Grinder. Harry Wentz and Gervus W. Myers; vocal solo, Mrs Edna Tiptop accompanied by Mrs.

Hartzell; presentation of two past noble grand jewels to Mrs. Naomi Schwartz and Mrs. -Herbert Oyler, by Mrs. J. Price Oyler.

district deputy; vocal duet. Mrs. Criswell and Mrs. Miller, both of York Springs; monologue. Mrs.

Robert E. Tipton. and song, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." Each woman present was presented with a corsage bouquet, and each man was given a carnation. The committee in charge of the banquot comprised Robert E. Tipton, Mrs.

Florence Grinder, Mrs. Ethel Tipton. Mrs. Lloyd Palmer and Mrs. Howard Hartzell.

Graduation exercises for the 'senior class of the Arendtsville vo- cational school will be held Wednesday night. May 25, at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium, it was announced today. i A class of ten students will be Those receiving diplomas will be the Misses Kathleen Gulp, Mary Stover, Cora Hartman, Mildred Dunlap, Jessie Slonaker, Alice Weikert and Emily Herring, Herman Hartman, Sterling Sell and Paul Showers. The entire program will be in charge of the students, class day having been combined with commencement. The program follows: invocation, the Rev.

George B. Ely; class president's address, Herman Hartman; class hictory, Miss Mildred Dunlap; music by a double quartet consisting of Misses Jeanne Myers, Kathleen Gulp and Mary Stover, and Harold Rebert, Henry McDannell, Herman Hartman and Sterling Sell. Class will, Sterling Sell; class poem. Miss Alice Weikert; class prophecy, Miss Mary Stover; presentation of gifts, Miss Cora Hartman. Miss Jessie Slonaker, Herman Herring and Paul Showers; address, "Build for Character, not for Fame." Miss Kathleen Gulp; presentation of diplomas by P.

S. Orner, president of the executive board; music by the class, and the benediction by the Rev. Ernest W. Brindlc. Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Zion Reformed church of Arendtsville, with the Rev.

Ernest W. Brindle, pastor, delivering the sermon. The class will take its annual trip to Washington next Thursday, spending three days in the capital. Professor Charles Taylor will be in charge of the group. TWO COUNTIANS ARE ORDAINED Rev.

Francis Conrad And Rev. Charles Weaver Are Commissioned As Priests. HOSPITAL REPORT Mrs. T. N.

Boate, Buford avenue; Edward Kauffman. Gettysburg R. Mrs. Harold McMurray, York street, and Mrs. Charles Myers, Thurmont, were admitted as patients to the Warner hospital.

Betty Andrews, Cashtown. was discharged as a patient. STOCK REPORT New York, May 21 (AP)--The stock market maintained a good undertone in another sluggish session today. A sag in the first hour carried a number of leaders off a point or so, but 'these losses were largely regained. The market closed with a steady tone.

The Rev. Francis Conrad, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Conrad, McSherrystown; the Rev. Charles Weaver, son of Mr.

and Mrs. F. X. Weaver, McSherrystown, and the Rev. Joseph Guy Gotwalt, Hanover, graduates of St.

Vincent's seminary, Latrobe, were ordained to the priesthood this morning. Many friends were present at the ceremonies, this morning and will attend the celebra- tion of their first solemn mass, Sunday. The ordination took place in St. Patrick's cathedral, Harrisburg, this morning at 9 o'clock, daylight saving time, by the Rev. Dr.

Philip R. McDevitt. The Rev. J. Guy Gotwalt will celebrate his first solemn mass Sunday morning at 10 o'clock in St.

Joseph's Catholic church, Hanover. A reception will be held at the home of his mother Sunday afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock. The Rev. Francis Conrad will celebrate his first mass Sunday morning at 6:30 o'clock in St. Mary's Catholic church, McSherrystown.

The Rev. Charles Weaver will sing his first mass in St. Mary's church, Sunday at 10 a. m. Press Photo Amelia Earhart Putnam with Bernt Baichcn just before she hopped off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Friday afternoon at 4:51 o'clock on her solo-jaunt to Paris.

New York, May 21 (AP)--Word was received here this afternoon that Mrs. Putnam had taken off in her own plane for London. Cnlmore, Ireland, May 21 (AP) Amelia Earhart Putnam brought down her red and gold monoplane in a field near here this afternoon and became the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic alone. She landed on this side of the ocean five years to the day after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris successfully completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a man.

"I've done it!" Mrs. Putnam exclaimed when she got out of her ship. She had intended to go to Paris but it was necessary to cut the flight short because her exhaust manifold had burned out and the gasoline line was broken causing a little leakage. Woman Is Unhurt Mrs. Putnam -who tonk off from Harbor Grace, N.

3t 4:51 p. m. Friday got a lift by motor to Londonderry, 5 miles away, where the first thing she did was to get on the telephone to report her success to London in order that her husband, George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher, and her friends back home might know that she was safe. Her plane was not damaged in the landing and she was unhurt. "For a lot of the way," Mrs.

Putnam said, "I was flying- through storm, mist, rain and a little fog. "To my friends in New York I want to send this message. I am very glad I have come across successfully but I am sorry indeed I did not make France." It was the flier's second airplane trip across the Atlantic. In June 1928, before her marriage, she made the that time as a passenger. "There is no comparison," she said in reply to a question about which trip she liked better.

"On this go I was flying low the whole time and had to rely on myself." The field in which the landing was made is fairly level and the owner of it was the first to greet Mrs. Putnam. Miss Earhart traveled approxi- 2,000 miles and was about 600 miles north of her set course. Weather reports said that a storm had blown up in the late morning 1 and the wind is believed to have blown her off her course slightly. Harbor Grace, N.

May 21 (AP) --Amelia Earhart Putnam, smiling and confident, took off from Harbor Grace late Friday in her crimson, gold-striped plane, with Paris her destination. Five years to the day after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh sped out from New York on the first solo flight to Europe, Mrs. Putnam took off at 4:51 p. m.

(Eastern standard time), determined to be the first -woman to fly over the Atlantic alone. Like (Continued on Page Two) County Firemen to Join In Franklin County Fete Numerous fire companies in Adams county are planning to participate in the Franklin county firemen's association convention which will be held at Mont Alto June 13 to 18. Already the Mont Alto company has received favorable replies from fire companies in Harricburg, Camp Hill, New Cumberland, Mcchanics- burg. Carlisle, Shippensburg, New Oxford, Abbottstown. Arendtsville, Aspers, Bendercville, Biglemllc, McSherrystown.

Cashtown. Fairfield, Emmitsburg. Westminster, Gettys- Funkstown. Middletown, Boonsboro, Williamsport, Clear- spring. Hagerstown, McConnellsburg, Newvillc.

Mt. Holly Springs and York Springs. Memorial Service The program will be full of instructive and entertaining features. A memorial service for the departed firemen of Franklin county will be held in the United Brethren church in Mont Alto, Sunday evening, June 12. The order of service is as follows: The Rev.

J. W. Yohe. Fayettevillc. presiding.

Invocation. Scripture lesson, hymn. "Nearer My God to prayer, song, mixed quartet; reading of names of departed brother firemen: song by male quartet: memorial address, the Rev. J. W.

Yohe, chaplain of Mont Alto fire company; hymn, "Abide with Me." and benediction. To Stage Pageant In keeping with the desires of the Washington bicentennial commission a pageant entitled "The Life of wspAPER IV Washington" will be presented ui- der the direction of Mrs. Ira Shenefelt, Monday evening, June 13, on the Monta Alto athletic field. Tuesday evening, June 14 (Flag Day), a pantomime. "Making Old Glory." will be enacted.

The, business session of the Franklin county firemen's association will be held in the auditorium of the United Brethren church at Mont Alto Wednesday evening, June 15. The committee has secured F. E. Soule, of Coatesville, to address the convention of "Fire Hazards and Fire Prevention." Mr. Soule has had a wide experience in this work, beintj county fire marshal of Chester county and secretary of the eastern association of fire chiefs.

He is a graduate of the New York city fire coljege and a member of the Philadelphia fire board. Fire Chief M. M. Tawney, of Harrisburg, will be present to talk on the "Advantages of Closer Cooperation Between the General Public and the Fire Company." Mr. Tawney is also a graduate of the New York city fire college.

Plan Parade Thursday evening. June 16, at 6 o'clock, the parade will move. The parade will be in three sections: First, military; second, firemen and floats; third, exhibitors. After the parade a demonstration of equipment will be Riven. Later in the evening an athletic show under the management of W.

W. Shaffer will be given on the platform on the playRround. Awards will be made (Continued on Page Two), SEVERS ARTERY TO END LIFE IN VETS' HOSPITAL Dr. P. W.

McLaughlin, 49, Commits Suicide At Coatesville, Friday. WAS GRADUATED IN CLASS OF '03 Dr. Perry W. McLaughlin, 49, prominent Norristown physician and surgeon and graduate of Gettysburg academy and college, ended his life, Friday, at the United States veterans' hospital, Coatesville, by severing an artery and allowing himself to bleed to death. Dr.

McLaughlin had been a patient at the hospital since April 25, when he suffered a nervous breakdown. The surgeon, who had lived at Norristown for the last twenty years, was a native of Mason-Dixon, Franklin county. In British Army His wife, who was Marion Wildman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wildman, of Norristown, survives, with three children, Betty, Jane and Nancy.

Dr. McLaughlin with the rank of captain, served as regimental medical officer of the Thirty-second infantry division of the British expeditionary force which went to France at the outbreak of the World war, and was on duty at the front lines until the armistice was signed. Dr. McLaughlin was graduated from Gettysburg college in the class of 1903, and from Johns Hopkins medical school, Baltimore, in 1907. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

COUNTY WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Jacob Wiley, Bermudian, Suffers Heart Attack In Harrisburg Apartment. Suffering a heart attack Friday in her room in an apartment house, at 211 North Second street, Harrisburg, Mrs. Annie R. Wiley, wife of Jacob Wiley, near Bermudian, before she could be given medical aid.

She was 55 years old. Mrs. Wiley was employed by Wolfe's shop, a ladies' ready-to- wear store at that address, to clean the rooms of the store and the apartments, five days a week. She had a room in the apartment house and it was there that two tenants found her very ill. They summoned Dr.

J. Arthur Daugherty. and upon his arrival he pronounced the woman dead. Coroner Howard E. Milliken, of Dauphin county, issued the death certificate.

The deceased woman had lived at her home, near Bermudian. for tho past two years. Surviving besides her husband are the following sons and daughters: John E. Wiley. York; Irvin Wiley, Thomasville; Mrs.

George Livingstone. East Berlin; Mrs. Gilbert Bncker. Rossville: Parker J. Wiley.

Dover; Luther Wiley, at home; Elmer Wiley, York; Mrs. Roy Nell, Gettysburg; and Dorothy Wiley, at home. Fifteen grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Robert King, York; Mrs. William Farrance.

Spring Grove: and Mrs. Lloyd Zmn, Hanover, also survive. Brief funeral services will be held at the Wiley home. Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, with further services at Mummert's meeting house, near East Berlin. Interment In the cemetery adjoining the church.

WEATHER REPORT Mostly cloudy with light showers tonight and possibly in south portion Sunday morning. Cooler Sunday and in north portion to- Memorial Day Plans Are Outlined by Committee; peak Rev. Frank M. Huston, Of McKnightstown, Indiana, Will Read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address At Exercises In National Cemetery, May 30; Parade Plans Told. REV.

DR. F. H. KNUBEL, HEAD OF U. L.

TO GIVE INVOCATION Detailed arrangements for Gettysburg's observance of Memorial Day were announced today by the Rev. L. B. Hafer, chairman of the Sons of Union Veterans' committee in charge of the program. The speaker for the occasion will be Henry Prather Fletcher, of Greencastle, former United States ambassador to Italy.

Preceding the exercises at the cemetery, the customary parade from the center of town will be held, with J. E. Snyder, chief marshal, and Leroy E. Winebrenner and Robert E. Tipton as aides.

In the procession will be public and parochial school children, Boy Scouts, Spanish war veterans, the American Legion, the National Guard unit here, the Son's of Veterans, members of the G. A. the speaker, committee and invited guests. Boys' band and the Citizens' band, of Gettysburg, and the Hanover Legion drum corps will furnish music for the parade which will move promptly at 2 o'clock. BIG CROWD AT MAY DAY FETE 1,800 Persons Witness Teutonic Olympic Staged At Local High School.

Approximately eighteen hundred people, including some twelve hundred students of the Gettysburg public schools, gathered on the playground, Friday afternoon, for the annual May day fete sponsored by the physical education department of the high school. Miss Rhelda Green and Eugene Martin, instructors of physical education at the high school, were in charge of the pageant, which was in the form of a Teutonic Olympic. Attractively garbed in appropriate costumes, the participants presented a colorful picture to the large audience that gathered. Miss Meyer Queen Intricate dances, clever folk songs, drills and games featured in the performance. Miss Dorothy Meyer reigned as queen of the "olympic with Miss Eva Sachs as her maid of honor.

Attendants were Misses Mary Marion Stoner, Mary Bell, Frances Myers, Virginia Mitchell and Josephine Codori. The program follows: Call to attention, by the heralds, Edward Hughes and Harrison Harbach; procession, with music by the orchestra; flower girl, Miss Doris Glenn; crown bearer, Freddie Haehnlen, queen of the Olympic, Miss Dorothy Meyer; maid of honor. Miss Eva Sachs; attendants, Misses Mary Stock, Marion Stoner, Mary Bell, Frances Myers, Virginia Mitchell and Josephine Codori; court jester. Miss Mary Riley. Participating groups: sophomore girls, American baseball and drill and game; sophomore boys, marching: freshman girls, German singing and game; freshmen boys, wand drill; junior girls, English milkmaids and sailors; sophomore boys, review of Olympic; sophomore girls, Polish country dance; freshmen boys, games; freshmen girls.

Irish lilt; mixed group, pyramid building; freshmen and sophomores, wreath dance; group, maypole dance; taps, by the heralds, and the recessional. Mrs. Mary Yeoman Is Buried Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Yeoman, a native of Adams county and wife of Dewey Yeoman, of Harrisburg, who died in the Harrisburg hospital, Wednesday morning from injuries suffered in an automobile accident a week ago.

were held Friday afternoon from the Bender funeral home, Carlisle street, the Rev. W. M. Seattle, pastor of the Gettysburg United Brethren church, officiating. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.

Six members of the Albert J. Lentz American Legion post here of which the woman's husband is a member were pallbearers. They were Norman E. Tatc, Joseph Howard, Harry J. Troxell, Harry J.

Lackner, Howard Kem and Edwin Ross. At the national cemetery, the ritualistic service of the Corporal Skelly G. A. R. post for departed comrades will be held at "the Collls marker, after which the school children will strew flowers over the graves of the thousands of known and unknown soldiers who lie buried in the semi-circle around the national monument.

The exercises at the rostrum will follow. McPherson To Preside The Rev. Mr. Hafer win open the exercises by introducing Judge Donald P.I McPherson, of Gettysburg, who will preside. After music by the Boys' band, the audience will join in the singing of "America." This will be followed by the invocation by the Rev.

D. Frederick H. Knubel, of New. York city, president of the United LtitKefan church in America. To read Lincoln's Gettysburg address, the committee has secured the Rev.

Frank M. Huston, of McKnightstown, Indiana, in-chief of the Sons of Veterans. After a selection by the Citizens' band, the address of the afternoon will be given, followed by the benediction pronounced by the Rev. Dr. M.

Coover, of Gettysburg. The formation of the various divisions of the parade was announced by the committee as follows: Parade of Children The schools will form on the East and West High streets and march to the entrance of center square, moving at 1:45 o'clock, from which point they will counter-march and proceed to the cemetery. Boy Scouts, with band, will form at the southeast corner of the square, and fall in line following the school children. Division two will form on Springs avenue and move so as to reach center square at 2 o'clock. In this division will be Spanish war veterans, American Legion posts and two drum corps.

The Citizens' band will head the third division and will form on East Middle street, near the G. A. R. post room. The Sons of Veterans will fall in behind the Citizens' (Continued on page 2) WEATHER FOR WEEK Washington, May 21 (AP)--The weather outlook for the week beginning Monday is: Generally fair and cool Monday and probably Tuesday.

Showers and warmer middle of week and generally fair and cooler nt end week. 4 YOUTHS PUT ON PROBATION York Boys Plead Guilty To Robbing: Two County Garages. Fred Rodkey, Edward Klaiber, Stewart Bailey and Charles Fleigle, all of York, arrested last week on charges of breaking into two garages in Adams county, were placed on probation for two years by Judge Donald P. McPnerson in court this morning. Each of the youths, whose ages range from 16 to 19 years, was ordered to pay one-fourth of the costs which amounted to S72.52.

The boys pleaded guilty to breaking into the garages of Joseph P. Staub. Bonneauville, and John Fleigle, Mt. Pleasant township, the latter the grandfather of Fleigle and Klaiber. The court also placed John Cullison.

of Fairfield, on parole. Cullison served a term in jail for a statutory offense. Two processes for bench warrants for the arrest of John H. Deatrick and Claude Wagner, both of whom, it is alleged, are in arrears in alimony payments to their wives and families, were signed by Judge McPherson. Deatrick is alleged to be $126 in arrears and Waener, $9(1 behind.

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