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THE READING TIMES, READING, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 19 38 G.0.P.WILL PAY LINCOLN TRIBUTE DISNEY FEATURE Fired for And War Talk 20 Years Ago, University Professor Gets Vindication BLAMES 'REEFER' PACKS THEATRE IN $2.10 MURDER 9TAND INS MABY IPO ISL3oftSfWU.YTCMPLE TVenfy TVo Movie Scrapbook First Night Crowds at Park Indicate Record Run for Snow White 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Walt Disney's first feature length mction picture, had its Pennsylvania premier last night at the Park Theatre, where the first night crowds indicated that it might reach a record breaking run tor Reading. picture has so many important and interesting things that it is a bit puzzling to know where to start telling about them. In the first place, it is the world's first full length color drawing motion picture, which makes it a major milestone in the development of the cinema. In the second place, it is dene in a new medium called "multiplane technicolor" which gives it three dimensional qualities never before achieved in celluloid. That makes it mechanically unique.

Faithful Translation In the third place, it has Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, translated faithfully from the pages of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and it makes of them, all at the same time, the drollest, saddest, funniest, most beautiful persons this side of Never Never Land. As a matter of fact, of course, they're not this side of the golden river of dreams. They're in a land of rare and potent enchantment, a land where moih and rust do not corrupt, a land where all of us spent most of our childhood hours, a land where most of, us would gladly give much of what we have to be again. Therein lies the picture's ineffable charm in 'the escape from traffic, tears, and taxes that it. bestows for its little while.

It transports its rapt beholders, in less, time than it takes to read this line, into a world of unspeakable beauty and whimsy that doesn't cloy, and makes them forget completely that the characters whose destinies they are observing are pen and ink people. Stirs Emotions It is a curious fact, but it must be recorded, that last night's audience wept freely when the lovely little princess died and was mourned by the dwarfs and her friends of the forest. Persons sitting on each side of us quite unashamedly used their handkerchiefs, and there was a dither of ill suppressed clearing of masculine throats in the row in front of us. But by and large, the predominant note is one of gayety and charm. It is sheer delight to watch the princess' pigeon friends react to echoes from a wishing well, the quaint antics of a baby blue bird hitting high for the first time, the industrious oapers of the animals as they spruce up the dwarfs' untidy tone, the labors of the little men in their diamond mine; and the endearing inanities of Dopey, the mute dwarf who out Harpo's Harpo Marx and out Savo's Jimmy Savo.

Music Appropriate It would be futile to attempt to set down all the moments of unadulterated happiness the film has captured in celluloid. But the charm of the action is only part of the picture's greatness. Add to effectiveness of action colors that are more breath taking than anything that yet been on the. screen and that is a pluperfect background and complement and you have seme very foggy idea of how grand the picture is. Be advised, also, that it is not exclusively a children's picture.

It is bound to add something important and wholesomely exciting to any child's experience, but it also is an experience that no adult can have without the keenest satisfaction. To summarize: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is lovely; it is significant; it is a joy to adults as well as to children; it is unique. Somebody has said that it is the 10 best pictures of the year. It might be added, by the. way of paraphrase, that it is the best picture in 10 years.

E. M. S. The state of Michigan has 7,647 miles of railways within its borders. Warm moist air feels warmer than warm dry air.

Women Just Hound Culbertson Now That He's Bachelor Again EW YORK, Feb. 10 iJP) Ely Culbertson, the bridge expert who sailed for Europe two months ago lamenting because his bridge partner wife was getting a Reno divorce, returned today on the Bremen even sadder. The cause of his grief there simply seems to be no escape, he said, from the "army of women," aged 16 to 70, which has been hounding him with proposals of marriage. "Unfortunately," satd the lanky bridge ace, "now that I have become an eligible bachelor I have not had a minute's peace. "I have been pestered with new proposals of marriage from an army of women, varying in age from 16 to 70, and in social positions from a chambermaid to a duchess." He said his only consolation after his wife's divorce was the 'hope that he might find some solitude in which to devote himself to the writing of books.

FIREMEN TO HOLD SPELLING BEE BOWMANSVTLLE, Feb. 10 Fire company will hold a spelling bee on Saturday, February 19, in the fire hall. Uncle, ijack and His Gang will entertain. Mrs. Verna Frederick and daughter Dolores and Mrs.

H. L. Kern ariH son Nevin, who accompanied the Rev. and Mrs. W.

S. Brendle, of Denver, to Florida, for several weeks have returned home. Sunshine class of St. Paul's S. S.

will have its class meeting and Valentine party Saturday evening, February 12, at the home of Arlene and Richard Sprecher, president. Miss Evelyn Renninger, near town spent the weekend with Miss Dorothy Lane. Mrs. Ralph Kern spent several days In Allentown. TOMORROW PICTURES 2 FEATURE NO.

2 STALLION' iTfrVTTnvrarr. qtamram fly Evening Balcony ISQrchestro 20 TODAY and 2 BIO. FEATURE FEATURE NO. I EXTRAS. wt0M iTIoof Has Another Job Now, But Intervening Years Were Hard Sledding MINNEAPOLIS, Feb.

10 (NEA) Associate Justice Pierce Butler sits in his robes with the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington. Governor Elmer A. Benson sits in the governor's chair at St.

Paul. Dr. William A. Schaper sits in the chair of finanace at Oklahoma University. These men are far apart.

Twenty years have made changes. For a moment, 20 years ago, they were close together. Then Butler was a leading St. Paul railway and utilities lawyer and a regent of the University of Minnesota, Benson was a young man reading law in Butler's office. Schaper was head of the political science department.

There was a war, just aeciarea the United States and Germany. Dr. Scha.per was outspoken about it. He thought it was wrong, and said so. Zealously patriotic citizens had complained to the uni Dr.

Schaper was summoned before the board of regents. Prominent on the board was Butler. The two had clashed before, when Schaper had been an advocate of government regulation of utilities, and Butler had opposed him. Fired Without a Hearing What passed between Schaper and the regents was never recorded in formal minutes. But it is considered certain that the strong willed Schaper and the equally strong willed Butler clashed again.

Without benefit of an open hearing or even of counsel, Schaper was summarily fired. It was too late that year for Dr. Schaper to get another teaching job, even if he could have. He joined with friends in a venture to build washing machines, then a new device. It prospered at first, then went broke when the War Industries Board cracked down on materials.

1 3 Yn 1 'J Vindicated after 20 years, Dr. William A. Schaper, above, has no bitterness for the war tiine animosities that cost his job almost his career. Time has restored what wair destroyed. Lean years followed.

Dr. tried selling, even peddled from door to door. Sometimes he tried to get back to teaching. In 1922 it looked as though he would. But Just then President Harding nominated Butler to the Supreme Court.

Friends sent Dr. Schaper to Washington to oppose Butler's confirmation. He had hoped, he explained, to be let alone. "How big is this army of women?" he was asked. "You can write anything you i want about how big the army is," Culbertson answered.

Since there apparently was no escape, he might have to ask his former wife to remarry him, he remarked. Won't Play On Ship He said he remained away, as siduously, from the card sharps abroad on the trip because "although card sharps are bad bridge players, they are good card dealers, and any one of them can beat the best of the Culbertsons." A happier note about Culbert son's arrival: He was accompanied by his niece, Gabrielle Perutz, who is 23, and pretty. He said she plays the piano and violin, is a White Russian, and speaks six languages. RETURN FROM AUTO TRIP TO FLORIDA FOGELSVTLLE, Feb. 10 Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar Heilman and and Mrs. Earl Haas returned from a two weeks' trip to Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs.

Peters had their infant daughter baptized, Sunday. The name is Mary Estella. Miss Ruth Kern, a student at Kutztown State Teachers' College, spent the weekend with Miss Clara Herber of Seipstown. Lester Shade bought the house formerly occupied by Rosa Brunner, at public sale Saturday. Church services will be held Sunday evening in St.

John's Lutheran Church at 7:15. Illinois is the third most populous state in the union. LAST TIMES TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE CHARLES STARRETT "Outlaws of the Prairie" BRUCE CABOT "LOVE TAKES FLIGHT" TONIGHT AT 9 P. M. 1mrOU famrite' STARTS SATURDAY A BDIT tUUI oiKS uAwnraYt mMmmmUicnm "SUDDEN BID Of fu i mr i Holds No Grudge Against Minnesota Regents Who Fired Him Again Schaper lost.

Butler was confirmed, and the resulting, publicity lost Schaper his chance to get a teaching post at Wisconsin University. For three more years Dr. Schaper worked at anything available to a 50 year old who is denied the work for which he has been trained. Then in 1925, came the chance to teach again. Dr.

Schaper was offered the post of professor finance at Oklahoma University. His eyes filled with tears, bid associates remember; when the aging much of the bluntness burned out of his personality by eight years of exile, told them of his good fortune. But the young man, Benson, who had been a law clerk in 1917, ha? not forgotten. He was Farmer Labor governor of the state now. He wasn't much interested in Schaper personally, but he was interested in justice.

And he could not forget the professor who had been fired so long ago. Got Back Salary Then it happened. The University of Minnesota's regents reinstated Dr. Schaper as emeritus professor, and voted him $5, 000 for loss of salary during the 1917 18 year. Dr.

Schaper is 69 now, too old to return to Minnesota. But he holds no grudges. "I look upon the University of Minesota as having given me the opportunity of my life," he says. Those who know Justice Butler say that the iron willed Irishman no longer objects to the regents' action, remembering the war days. And so 20 years balances the human equation: three men, plus war time passions, plus 20 years, dvided by three men, equals some approximation of Justice, with hard feelings canceled out by the 20 years.

SLAYING IN CHICAGO LAID TO LIQUOR WAR U. S. Asked to Make Investigation CHICAGO, Feb. 10 Investigation of the hand shake slaying of big Sam Costello veered today to the wildcat liquor trade. "It now appears that the operation of illicit stills and the peddling of alcohol was responsible for the shooting," said Capt.

Daniel Gilbert of the state's attorney's police. "The bakery in Chicago Heights, scene of the shooting, is in our opinion just a front and is in reality gang headquarters." He announced he would ask E. C. Yellowley, director of the federal alcohol tax to make an inquiry. The government official promised to cooperate.

Costello was slain and three companions were wounded yesterday by two hoodlums who shook Costello's hand before they sprayed bullets through the suturban bake shop and then fled in an automobile. Lake Ascotan, Chile, source of half the world's supply of borax. Is 15,000 feet above sea level. JUL 'irtction Wil THE PEttF1 ST0 1 lautst TIM MOlT EXTRA ADDED The U. 8.

Documentary Release "THE 'Th Rivr," Provide Interesting Every Man, Woman and SNAPSHOTS BASS 'jm Jersey Girl Says Smoking Of Marihuana Cigarets Led to Crime NEWARK, Feb, 10 4 HConf easing the slaying of a bus driver, Mrs. Fthel "Bunny" Sohl, 30 year old daughter of a Newark policeman, testified today the smoking of Marihuana cigarets made it "seem right" to steal autos and commit holdups. On trial with Genevieve Owens, 18, for murder in the killing of William Barhorst, Mrs. Sohl said the loot of three holdups $67.10 in all went for "good times, mostly for the movies." Given Cigarets by Husband Her 23 year old husband, William, testified he gave her "reefer" cigarets to relieve pain from injuries she suffered in an auto accident. "They make you feel happy and forget pains," he said, adding that he purchased them on one of this city's main streets.

"Bunny," slim but athletic she once captained a girls' basketball team blamed Marihuana for her short and tragic career in crime. She said the cigarets "made wrong things seem right at the time." Under cross examination by Prosecutor William A. Wachenfeld, she said she knew "the next day" stealing was wrong and "I don't know why I didn't make restitution." Asked why she didn't tell police about the cigarets, she Whispered: "It was bad enough that I did these terrible things without telling them what caused it all." Wachenfeld has demanded the death penalty for both defendants Re enacts Murder Scene Nervously, Mrs. Sohl showed the all male Jury how she held the sawed off .22 caliber rifle when Barhorst was slain it was her third holdup in a bus last December 21 Barhorst black garbed widow. Theresa, who has verged on hys teria several times during the trial, burst into sobs as the gun clicked.

Common Pleas Judge Daniel Brennan denied the request of defense counsel that she be escorted from the courtroom. In one holdup, the mannish looking defendant said she used her father's service pistol. Patrolman Frank Strouse, one of many officers who had worked on the Barhorst's case, plans to take the stand in her defense. Mrs. Sohls counsel contend she was "insane from Marihuana" at the time of the slaying.

Miss Owens is scheduled to tes tify in her own behalf, possibly tomorrow. AMERICAN BUILDING IN CHINA BOMBED By ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI, Feb. 11 (Friday) For the second time in a week Chinese terrorists early today bombed the building occupied by the United Press and the American owned Shanghai Evening Post. No one was injured. A hand grenade exploded on the ground lloor of the bitlding, shat tenng the partitions and furniture and blowing out the windows.

a lew minutes later two Chinese riding bicycles were arrested after a chase in which several shots were fired. A similar grenade exploded against the building February 5. No one was injured. 7 STARTS TODAY mar and Vincent lh.t capture. when bearumee1 wW.be HWnlT.

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"Their families have Becn PINCHOT PROMISES A SQUARE DEAL ALLENTOWN Feb. 10 (F) Gifford Pinchot, seeking the Republican nomination for a third term as governor, told 600 people here tonight that if elected he will continue the fight for the principles of his previous administration. He promised that he would: Put the government of the state on a strict business basis with one dollar's of service for every dollar spent for state government. See to it that business is not persecuted out of the state of Pennsylvania. Take proper care of the roads and rights of the farmers.

Protect the rights of labor and of citizens and see to it that everyone gets a square deal. He warned that "whoever indulges in violence, wherever it may be, will have me in his hair the first minute I can et there." The United States paid for the Danish West Indies. starring NELSON LI AN OR POUL Ftatuiing FRANK CDNA MAY MORGAN. OLIVER RAY BOAGER HOMMSSfT IH.IT GIIMRT REGINALD OWEN ScmnPlarWrittea, Produced by Wm. Anthony McGuire Directed byW.S.Van Dyfc II SAT.

at 1:30 Chapter No. 1 SOS COASTGUARD THEATRE HSl COTTON ST. Information 4 tflH Golden Harireit Dlnnerwer FREE lo I.ldlea Bit Double Feature GENE AUTRV In Mutlcal Western and "ATI.AXTIC FLIGHT" With Dirk Merrill Bit Kiddie Show Tomorrow Shillington Theatre Toni(ht, Sat. Mat. and M(ht SIMONE SIMON LOVE and HISSES' With Joan Darn and Sea Bernlt Abo Cartoon la Teehnleolor TODAY SAT.

A (WM i A i v. I Mary lou's part in'Widi'' REQUIRED Cl STOOP IN fOR HER 15 years HOSPITAL AIDES GUESTS AT PARTY KUTZTOWN, Feb. 10 Mrs. S. E.

Rager, Lower Main street, entertained the hospital auxiliary at her home today. Prof. W. W. Raker and H.

B. Yoder attended a principals' meeting at Harrisburg. Mary McClelland, Bucknell College, and William Yoder, State College, spent the weekend with their parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles H. Esser are spending two weeks in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Delworth, Walnut street, returned from a trip to Chicago and Milwaukee.

CONTINUOUS SHOW Box Office Open COMMENCING 12 NOON 11:30 A. M. Adults, 25 1 Till 3 P. M. CHILDREN All Day 15 1 IT TOOK 3 YEARS TO MAKE THE SHOW THAT MADE THE CRITICS SAY: "As exciting as a western, as funny as a haywire comedy, as sad as a symphony" Time "Completely captvred my heart it on your 'must see' Fidler.

jp ii la marrtlQtu Ualtlplanm vi' fT7 TICHNICOLOB xJ ipex. With all the song and tunes you're hearing on the air hits like "whistle Whit Yru, ww ve Sono" Some vvms V'C Viy fl I fflfj Silly Tune," Marthing Song, etc ,11 NOTICE Reedlni; honored br beinf the 4th City In America to open "SNOW WHITE." VI ri I Day My Ptince Will ewo OWrlhtta no tADIO PicNm ADULTS Urrhettra. at Nlht, Me Today Double Show I JOHN WAYNE In WKtrn "TRAIL BEYOND" And a Comedy Lot nf Frizes! giturdey. One Pt trx niirr in a musical nesiern, aaa ADULTS Raleonr. at Niht.

I5e Extra I And Special Show! 'ATLANTIC FLIGHT' with Dick Merril, Jack Lambie, Paula Stone Fix That Fun Game Errrr Friday Only, Doable Show! Armorea car." ao Short Subjects. Congressmen to Make Speeches Tomorrow on? Emancipator's Birthday WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (JP). Re publican strategy which barred of fice holders," or active office seekers from participation In councils of the party's program committee headed by Dr. Glenn Frank shows, its reverse angle in oratorical assignments for the nation wide Republican fanfare over Lincoln's birthday.

The speechmaking job 'has been given very largely to Republicans in. congress, mostly to house members. A half hundred Lincoln Day audiences will hear from Republican senators or representatives this week end. While only five speakers on the list announced by the Republican national committee are senators, more than 30 house Republicans are included. House Seats at Stake The proportions are significant.

They emphasize that house rather than senate seats are the major Republican stake in this year's elec tions. National committee spokesmen make no secret of the effort of their organization to concentrate right down to the November polling on recouping house losses of the last several elections. Their estimates of seats reasonably available for recapture from the Democrats vary from a modest 50 to a hundred or more, based on a study of elections returns of the last decade. The figures clearly show the possibilities. Many sitting members of the house, mostly Democrats, won their seats in 1936 by margins so narrow that a shift of 5,000 or even fewer votes would have carried Republicans into office instead.

Traced back through preceding elections many of those same districts disclose a traditional Republi can trend for years. It is at these vulnerable points that Republican strategy is aiming. Cold storage of turkeys on Feb ruary 1, 1937, were 40,227,000 pounds, compared with a five year average of 19,000,000 pounds. Emergency rations of corned beef and hardtack are part of the standard equipment of every U. S.

marine. FIRST SHOWING in Pennsylvania NOW PLAYING 3 P.M. Till 5 i After 5 P. M. Balcony .25 1 Balcony Orchestra 35 Orchestra 40 irttTtaK LICTBIO iOUND i.