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niinril nfiti tinri mMmA Mi? I3f sji. rv Meet the class of '36, Reading High school, the largest ever to be graduated from the Reading High school. It has 621 members, and it probably will be many a year before as large a class gets The picture was taken by Kaufmann's Furniture company, and William P. Sheidy, the manager, following a custom of a number of years' standing, has sent a copy of it to every member VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL PLANNED Calvary Reformed Church Announces Program to Begin July 1 Sponsored by the Calvary Reformed church, a daily vacation Bible school for children will start July 10. Launched to train children to be useful Christian citizens, the school sessions will be held daily from 9 to 11.30 o'clock each morning except Saturdays and Sundays.

Children from four to 14 years of ag are eligible, regardless of creed or denomination. Registration may be made at the church Saturday morning between 9.30 and 1130 o'clock, The instruction will consist of graded Bible studies, character stories, hymn studies, music and hand work. These teachers will be in charge: Faculty director and senior leader: Miss Anna M. Kenderdine; assistant, Miss Alice Lebo. Intermediates: Mrs.

Hayes McClelland; Miss Catharine Hilc; Juniors, Mrs. E. K. Shollenberger; assistant, Miss Margaret Leinbach; primary, Miss Carolyn Artz; assistants. Miss Elizabeth Fake, Miss Mildred Meek; beginners, Mrs.

John Specker; assistants, Mrs. Paul BJunberg, Miss Geraldine Hart man, Miss June Oswald, Miss Jane Kahler; hand work, boys, Mrs. Wayne Heinz; assisted by Richard BJunberg; girls, Mrs. Robert Reber, assisted by Miss Marjorle Schoen berger. Music, seniors.

Miss Grace Mover, assisted by Robert Saul; juniors, Mi.s Sarah DeLonj. Every Wednesday morning there will be an assembly in the church auditorium at which Dr. Albertus F. Broek, pastor of the church, will speak. SEEKS WPA AID FOR TREE PLANTING Application for another WPA project, lor planting of several hundred trees on various spots on Mt.

Penn. will be filed in a few days by Councilman Charles F. Sands, head of the department of parks and public property. The city will pay for the trees, but will ask the WPA to carry the labor costs. Many of the trees will be placed in parks in the city and on playgrounds.

Standing of Crews Engineers: Kintzel, Dauber, Patterson, Zechman, Kershner, Ymgst, Reed, Leininger, Sterner, Mull. Firemen: Weiss. Rolland, Hahn, Bender, Davis, Wanner, Maurer, Brown. Adams, Andrisch, Kauff man, Stoudt, Jones. Brakemen: Bryan, Yarn ell, Graul, Alderman, Bender, Thompson, Keffer, Sanders, Hummel, Nlckle, McAllister.

Herbster. Conductors: Pennebecker, Cul bert, Tobias, Dankle. ft (inrnnjl to i "I feel and look better there is color in my cheeks my appetite is keen my weight is back to normal. "This I am noting In mv Dlnry and I give full credit to S.S.S. foreaim ing mc to 'feci like myself So we suggest Don't try to get well in a this is asking too much of Nature.

Ilemem ber, she has certain natural processes that just cannot be hurried. Therefore, if you are pnU, fired, lack a kten appetite, hare hut weight vnd fttl frequent sign that your blood cells are weak, with a tendency towards anemia tlien do try In the simple, easy way so many millions approve by starting a course of 6.S.S. Blood Tonic. NA 5 of ca fat to Go to fsonx not Here's the Class of 1936, Largest Ever Graduated From the Reading High School To Give Lebo Audit To Court Today A REPORT of the audit of former Clerk of Quarter Sessions Harry D. Lebo, together with recommendations will be submitted to the court and commissioners today, County Controller Ralph E.

Schoener announced yesterday. The rfport, which declared Lebo owed the county $301.24, which later was reduced to $277.39, and the state $6,558.44, made public several months ago was not submitted to the court or commissioners because Schoener was suddenly stricken ill. John P. Wanner, Schooner's solicitor, said yesterday the recommendations would be "interesting." NAUTICAL BOYS TO OPEN CAMP Colors Will Be Unfurled On Neversink Mountain Tomorrow Colors will be unfurled at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at the 1936 camp of the Nautical Boys clubs of Reading and vicinity on Neversink mountain, on the site once occupied by the county has Club members wilr attend In full uniform. The Mercy init.

made ui or girls taking instruction in first aid and hospital worker, will be visitors. Miss Violet Plank, 1936 graduate or St. Joseph's hospital, was enlisted in the crew, and appointed officer of the deck. She was sworn in last night in the room of Gerber Schafer, honorary commander, in St. Joseph's hospital.

To Close Charters When each ship crew meets the week of June 29, the club charter will be closed for new members. It will be reopened September 1, when the enlisttncnt fee will be slightly raised because of additional expense of the central headquarters. Only two French horns, a bass, two clarinets and two saxophones are needed to complete the band cf 30, to be known as the John Philip Sousa band. A dinner and dance Is being planned by the clubs for September to raise funds for band uniforms. DEAD WHALE LIKES MARBLEHEAD FOLK MARBLEHEAD, June 18 Riddled with machine gun its nanks bruised by the sharp prow of a coast guard cutter, its flesh proclaiming to high heaven.

long dead whale headed tonight for a barren island, somewhere on" exclusive Beverly. There, with luck, five miles off shore, the salt laden winds of the Atlantic and the excoriating pebbles a rocky beach will complete a job begun days ago. Gioaster folk had the mammal on their hands last week. Three times they bade it farewell but it seemed to like Gloucester. The last time coast guardsmen dealt severely wit it.

They rammed it, they shot it up, they st it adrift 15 miles away. Today, on the spacious bosom of the Atlantic it was borne onto the beach of exclusive Marblchead neck. Marblehead men, descendants of hardy sailormen accustomed to action decided "it's got to go tonight." During the day they put a rope abound its flippers. Tonight E. S.

Graves, boat yard master, started towing it out to beach it on an island, where, with luck, he said it would stay this time. Five thousand silkworms must 125 pounds of mulberry leave make enough silk for one kimono. Painful Piles Quick No Cutting No Salves It takes only one bottle of Dr. J. 8.

Leonhardt's prescription HEM ROID relieve itching, bleeding or protruding piles. This Internal medicine sets quickly even In old stubborn cases. HEM ROID succeeds becauM It helps to heal and restore the affected parts and relievos blood congestion In the lower bowl the cause of olles. Only an internal mediolne ran do this, that's whv salves and cuttlnp often fall, Kennedy's Drun Store and other druggists say one bottle of HEM ROID Tablets must relieve you of your Pile misery or money back Adv. THE READING TIMES, A 1 ATf GERHART DEFICIT CUT TO Bondsmen's Friends Attack Cook's Tactics On Appraisal (Continued From Pace One) total collected to date to $31,807.26, not including a $25,000 claim against the St.

Paul Mercury Indemnity company, of St. Paul, which posted bonds in that amount for Gerhart, and $35,000 for which attorneys for receivers of the Deppcn brewery company recently declared the brewery may bs liable to the county, The bulk of the receipts yesterday came from three sales at which sc curities of George A. Ravel, Read ing; Mahlon A. Moyer, Robesonla, and George W. Geraart, father of the former treasurer, also of Robe' sonia, brought $14,866.45.

Cook did not attend either sale. Sell Livestock Snyder's livestock and farm equipment brought $1,442.15. The county purchased 10 pieces cf farm machinery for $324. The balance of the equipment, tcgether with all the livestock and feed, was purchased by a daughter, Miss Evelyn Snyder, through a neighbor. Commissioners also were subjected to some criticism for purchasing equipment which they will use at the county farm.

Charles Moyer, farm superintendent, bid in the machinery. Twelve bonds owned by Ravel and bid In by the county brought a total of $6,480.50. They included four John Keppleman bands, numbers 39, 40, 49 and 66; three Kauffman bonds, numbers 75, 40 and 38, and thre Corbit Brothers bonds, numbers 152, 153 and 154. Two hundred shares owned by Moyer were the first put under the hammer by Auctioneer Irvin Straus burger. Shares and purchasers were: Ten shares Arizona Edison, 6'4 pre ferred.

Sailor Lauer, $1, lot; 10 American Commonwealth Power, 6'4 first preferred, Lucien Bloch, $4, lot; 20 American Commonwealth Power, 7 percent, Lucien Bloch, $10, lot; 49 American Casualty, Dawson Muth, five shares Robesonla State bank stock, George Kintzer, $63.75, lot; 50 Berks Warehouse, Sailor Lauer, 20 cents, lot; 25 shares Penn National bank, no bidders; one share William S. Rhode, No. 28, Allan K. Grim, 60 cents; 60 shares Peoples Trust, No. 28, Lucien Bloch, $420, lot.

Mortgage Brings Half An $11,000 mortgage cn a property in Robesonla owned by the treasur er's father, was bid in by Harry aLso purchased 20 shares of Wer Moyer. Robesonia, at $0,000. Moyer ncr. Bank stock, owned by Ger hart, for $1,420. A $1,000 mcrtgass on a proixrty at Robesonia went to Sailor Lauer for $315.: County Solicitor Dawson H.

Muth and Ralph C. Body assistant, attended both sales. Commissioners Reuben Bell and Amos Lesher were at the Snyder farm in the mornlnj, and Commissioner James Lesher and the solicitors at the sheriff's office in the afternoon. Forty or mere farmers attended the Snyder farm implement sale, and all refused to bid. In groups about Auctioneer William Stupp.

of they shook their heads when Moyer continued to bid on every article offered. They had hoped that relatives of Snyder, whom they regarded as an innocent victim in the Gerhart shortage, would be able to regain possession of his property without offering top prices. Daughter Has Bidder Oliver Mull bid in the livestock and equipment for Miss Snyder. Former Judge Edgar S. Richardson who represented the father, said she was making the purchases out of her own personal bank account.

The daughter teaches in the Spring township schools. Other sums already collected by the solicitor's office in the Gerhart case Include: $5,000 each from William C. Bitting and E. Richard Meinig sureties; $3,500 on a note owned by Gerhart; $240 realized from the sale of personal property of Louit F. Kraemer last Saturday, and $1,658.66 in the personal banking account of Mahlon A.

Moyer. REPAIR PERMITS Work costing $2,000 is called for In a repair peimit issued yesterday by City Building Inspector Alfred E. Eckcnrode to the Reading Medical Arts Building company, 230 N. Fifth st. Ullman Brothers, 21 27 S.

Seventh were granted a permit for a $200 repair operation, and a $40 permit was issued to Ida V. Zohner. 1500 N. Ninth st. 50 2 I I I $1,000,000 Mark Passed In Bonus Bonds Here Certificates Filed Yesterday by 412 Addi tional World Four hundred twelve Reading World War veferans certified their bonus bonds at the Armory yesterday and boosted the total value of the certified bonds to date past the $1,000,000 mark.

The 412 veterans certified 3.425 bonds with a face value of $171,250. Thus far since the certification started Tuesday, 2,583 veterans have certified 23,276 bonds with a value of $1,163,800. The number of veterans going to the Armory to have their bonds certified has been halved each day since the certification started on Tuesday, the day after the bonds were delivered to the veterans. Today, post office officials said, will be the last day for certifying bonds at the special headquarters established at the Armory. They urged every veteran who has not already done so but Intends to get to the Army today.

'We shall keep this special office open only one day more," Moses Herbein, suprrintendsnt of mails. said last night. "It will be open Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of 75 Pieces Goal of Committee A Philharmonic Symphony or chestra consisting of 75 musicians was the goal decided on last night at a meeting of the executive board of the orchestra. The orchestra at present is composed of 36 persons. Enlistment or graduating members of High school bands and orchestras is one way the enlargement Is expected to be brought about.

Prospects of a new hall to practice in were discussed. At present the KILLING PREACHER BEGINS 5 YEAR TERM HUNTS VTLLE, June 18 The Rev. Bdgar Eskridge, two gun preacher, entered state prison todav to serve five years for the shotgun slaying of Police Chief Ed O'Reilly, member of his Baptist congregation at Orange. The vice crusading minister who wore two pistols, a cowpuncher hat and boots in his church work, expressed a hope he would be given a job "riding a horse." A few convicts herd cattle for the prison system. Enroute here, Eskridge bemoaned a report that O'Reilly was shot in the back when he was slain on a downtown street the day after he had disarmed Eskridge.

"I shot him in the side of the face," the prisoner said. PITTSBURGH WOMAN CHILDREN SLAIN PITTSBURGH, June 18 (flV Police found Mrs. Eleanor Feely, 30, wife of a University of Pittsburgh assistant professor, stabbed to death and her two small children strangled In their spacious home tonight. Police Lieut. George Schmotzer said the bodies of all three were found in the children's play room on the third floor of the home.

Schmotzer said a scarf was twisted around the neck of five year old Robert and a. rope was found around the neck of Janice, 3. He added that the mothers body bore stab wounds, made apparently with an ice pick. The woman 3 husband, Martin J. Feely, Is assistant physical education professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

He is at a summer camp in Pottervllle, Somerset county, N. J. REBUILT AVTRORIKCn FACTO FARTS AND EXFEBT BEFA1RINO wiiniisa penn Street All Mak Sold, Repaired, Ovrhaultd. Quotations Submitted. General Typewriter Sertict FRED F.

VOOEL Dial 2 7820 or 84S3 ID MORNING? War Veterans from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. Friday, and that will be the last.

There will be no certification Saturday, but on Monday we shall open a special certification orfice in Room No. 8 at the post office. Veterans wishing to have their bonds certified after Friday night at 10 o'clock should bring them there," Herbein pointed out that, al though a few representatives of veterans organizations would be present at the post office beginning Monday to help identify bonuseers. the number would not be as great, and henoe the ease of identification not as great, as it will be on the final session at the special Armory office today. Meanwhile, checks for their bonus continued to be delivered in the regular mails by carriers to the bonuseers yesterday, and it was ex pected that by the end of the week approximately $1,000,000 will have been translated from bonds to cash and found itself into the channels of trade in Reading.

Almost as much is being distributed in county boroughs and townships. orchestra practices in city hall auditorium, but objections have been raised by members who claim the hall is too large for rehearsal. The board also conducted the possibility of a larger music library Attending the meetnig were: Ralph Fisher Smith, chairman; Mrs. Paul Hess. Frank Diefenderfer.

Rex S. Sternberg, the Rev. Harry S. Kehm, pastor of Zlon's Reformed church: H. Agustus Meyer and Herman Miller.

LANDON SUMMONS KANSAS ASSEMBLY TOPEKA, June 18 W) Gov. Alf M. Landon called a special session of the Kansas legislature for July 7 today to initiate a proposed constitutional amendment to enable state participation in all phases of the federal social security program. A proposed amendment has been drafted by the legislative council. Governor Landon's call will bring the legislature to Topeka the day following his return from a vacation In Estes Park, Colo.

The Republican presidential nominee announced today he would leave Wednesday, returning July 6. No speeches were planned en route and the governor said he did not expect to receive any callers while away. NEW N. Y. CENTRAL TRAIN TO BE TESTED INDIANAPOLIS, June 18 (JPh The New York Central will pull back the curtain tomorrow on its new experimental stream lined seven car train, "The Mercury," on a 200 mile test run from Indianapolis to Sheff, and return.

The train, built of light steel, is an innovation in passenger service, with smoking rooms in its two coaches, a dining compartment for coach passengers, a combination bar and lounge ear and a glass enclosed observation platform. It is alr condltloncd throughout. After it has been thoroughly tested and christened it is to be put in service on a Cleveland Toledo Detrolt one stop run. OUR BUDGET PAYMENT PLAII Arranfd to Suit Your Pur Ltt Us Explain It to You. DR.

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JUNE 9 7 9 3 3 FREE TO SPEAK TO ENGINEERS National President Is Coining to Reading for State Convention Frank W. Lovejoy, of the Socony Vacuum Oil company, will be the guest speaker at a banquet featuring the state convention of the National Association of Power Engineers which will convene next Friday in the Berkshire for a three day session. Three hundred and fifty persons are expected to attend the banquet which will be held June 27. Bonnie Brownell and her review will entertain afternoon, and an orchestra will play for dancing. R.

A. Free, president of the national organization, and Fred W. Raven, national secretary, will attend the banquet, Edwin H. Elsenhower, chairman bf the convention committee sail last night. With 62 exhibitors planning to show various products in which power engineers are interested, the convention will have an educational interest, aside from the business sessions.

The mezzenine floor and lobby of the hotel will be arranged to show to the best advantage the motors, stockcrs, valves, packing and other things used in power plants. The convention will wind up with an outing at the Lake View Country club near the Antietam lake. TEN ARE INDICTED IN STAMP RACKET BOSTON, June 18 A secret investigation of a nation wide stamp racket which has cost the govern ment thousands of dollars, U. S. Attorney Francis J.

W. Ford said tonight, resulted in the indictment of 10 Boston brokens. bankers and stamp collectors today. Their indictment by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to alter and reuse cancelled documentary stamps issued by the U. Internal Revenue department was the first of its kind in the countrv.

Ford said. He estimated the operations of the alleged ring in New England alone had cost the government $300,000 to $400,000 in revenue. He added, how ever, that the men indicted in Bos ton were not connected with similar rinss he said were operating in New York and the west. On and Off the MainStem Informal Liltle Snapshot of oin a Comings, and Doings Yesterday SERGT. MA COM GIFT counting his golf balls BILL BRISAN trying out a set of weights MISS SOPHIE KALINA packing lunch for a school picnic CAL LIEBERMAN wearing a new suit and driving a new car WILLIAM KIEFER repairing his automobile IRVIN ZELLERS discussing the high price of potatoes RALPH BIGONY bidding the time of the day to a friend at Ninth and Washington streets BERT RAIR talking about the bonus HARRY NYE readying, to go Visiting ALFRED ECKEN RODE off to a meeting MISS POLLY FRY complaining about the "chilly weather for swimming," O.SOGt OW ry IBBBBBSBBB BuBBSBBBB WHATI NO AIROPLANI LANDING ON TAFT ROOF? That's all we've misted in providing the last word in mod amity.

Plus tha utmost in convenience, service and economy. MM MOM WITH UTH. DOM I.S mt IT wm MONTH HOTEL Alfred Lewis Mgr. NEW YORK TAPT nni rncxi net Fifth Street Bridge Bid Asked July 3 BIDS will be opened at Harrisburg on Friday, Jnly 3, for three state highway bridge One la a 200 foot project on North Fifth street, the replacement of the bridge over the Reading company's Lebanon Valley railroad tracks. It calls for a plate girder overpass of reinforced concrete, and two 10 foot lanes of reinforced concrete.

This la a federal financed work project, free of coat to the city. NEW LUNCHEON CLUB ORGANIZES Members Meet Every Day, But Will Dine Formally Once a Year Ten local businessmen, three of them "bonuseers," last night organized a new luncheon club. Its members meet every noon, but they will have only one formal gath ering each year. At the session last night, held at the Mountain Springs hotel, Mt. Penn, the name "Rustic Lunch club" was adopted.

The first formal gathering will be in August at the same hotel. O. D. Brown was elected president, William Kline vice president, Philip Howard secretary, and C. R.

Mc Glnnes treasurer. Other members are John McGlinn, Peter Waulkcr, Otto Sehettler, Clyde Donahower, Charles H. Hoffman and V. Roy Ribble. Ribble, Donahower and Hoffman are the entertainment committee and Walker, Howard and Kline the "bonuseers." ACCUSED SLAYER ADMITS SIX WIVES LOS ANGELES, June 18 (p An alienist quoted Robert S.

Janes today as saying Mary James, who he is accused of slaying in a diabolical drowning plot, was his sixth wife, not his fifth. James, red haired master barber. has told authorities he was married five times, but Dr. M. J.

Rowe of the Norwalk State Hospital for the Insane reported James admitted yet another woman was wedded to him. This hitherto unmentioned wife, number one, threatened his life and put ground glass and poison in his food, James told Dr. Rowe, so he left her. He declined to discloss her name. Dr.

Rowe reported to Superior Judge Charles Fricke he was convinced James is sane and was sane when the body of Mary James was found in a fishpond last August. James and Charles Hope, ex sailor, face trial next Monday on first degree murder charges. The state alleges they killed Mrs. James by drowning after exposing her to the fangs of rattlesnakes. The Indian elephant ranks third highest among intelligent animals; the chimpanzee is first and the orang utang.

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YON A SONS diplomas from TJIiil. of the clasa lantz to PLAY DIRECTORS Recreation Head to Name Playground Personnels Tomorrow Thomas W. Lantz, superintendent of public recreation; Miss Elizabeth Kerling, song leader; Elmer L. Manning, Miss Marlon Shelmerdine. Miss Anna Kowalska and Robert M.

Shultz were on the playground institute program In the Y. W. C. yesterday. On today's program are Miss Kerling, leading the singing; Ralph Benjamin, Lantz, Miss Shelmerdine.

Shultz, Gordon Williams and Miss Catharine Freehafer. Lantz will assign his leaders tomorrow to various playgrounds, and Charles Carabello, picnic specialist; Miss Shelmerdine and Claude R. Buck will complete the series of institute talks. The institute ends at noon tomorrow. Buck will present playground activities motion pictures.

All male leaders will take part in the city wide track meet on George field Saturday afternoon, starting at 1 o'clock. South of Penn swimming pool is scheduled to go into service tomorrow and the Dlavzround season offlciallv will open Monday morning. SAYS PARDONS ONLY IN WORTHY CASES HARRISBURG, June 17 WP) The: board of pardons served notice today that attorneys asking clemency for convicts with long prison rocords or with "unworthy" pleas are "only wasting time and their client's money." Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti paused in the midst of a long calendar today, to warn "you attorneys might as well know her and now that you need expect nr attention from this board unles your clients are worthy and youi cases are well prepared. Samuel D.

Bard, Erie, serving to 20 years for the slaying of Hi way Patrolman Russell T. Swanson, in 1929, asked for commutation, but Margiotti told Attorney Rober' J. Firman, that Bard and the twi others implicated with him "shoult have been sent to the chair. The only pardon in this case should be given to the jury." Vacations 1 ntic Lake Louise AND Emikaid Laki ThREE vacations in one: set magnificent Banff, lovely Lake Louite and Emerald Lake! Motor 126 thrilling miles through this wonderland. Play golf.

Swim 10 warm sulphur or fresh water pools. Ride, dance, mee delightful people. The hospitality BanS Springs Hotel.Chateau Lake La ui and Emerald Lake Chalet will deiig you Stay longer at moderate co; Minn Days July 24 to 26; Trail Ri July 1 Aug. Trail Hiit, Aug. 7 10 I I woiorrui vavt niL triasi 2 din BtnlT Springs Hotel; 2 riirl Chttetu Uke Louiw; Side trip Mo taiaeLake.

ViaitmcnldUkeChalc $5S 6 Wonderful Day nx vmn 2 dtri Banff Spring Hotel; 2 dm It Cninau LtkeLnuie; 1 diTonnoou at either; I day Emerald Lake Chalet. Tkm Tnn Hart Banf titld. Aid tail bb ifnntt nttti tpw jj. (, I Lamm, tmtnit Lam uw to. Rovjid Trip Fare, 16 Days 990.3& 45 Day Round Trip $101.10.

Low Season Fares Also, All Expense Tour to Pacific Coaaf and Alaska Ree Loral Travel Atent. nr Canadian Pacific, lftoo I.oruit Phil? CANADIAN PACIFIC H0TEI gn.