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DRIVE WITH CARE 1938 Berks Aulu Toll Killed 43 Injured 894 1937 Toll at This Dale Killed 75 Injured 1,075 BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARIES Paal B. HenoVl. Hats. Mm B. Baser, Betlred.

John C. Werner, Boxes! Gm(i B. Bader, Kul Estate. Miis Dorothy Lykfns. Kassell Clark.

Knitter. Gladys Heiser, Katitewn. George B. Rader. Mrs.

Martha Knnkel, Kalztewa. Member Associated Tress Teleplione: 6101 Section Two Page Thirteen READING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1938 Section Two Page Thirteen CHOLIA ous Pehmsylfavtjish Deitchlomdt LOTWARRICII KOCIIA FEB ALTERS Vlel Johr lurich in unserm Ort, Bei kiehle Spotjohr's YVoche, Do sin die junge Leit als fort I'm Lotwarrich helfe koche Was wor dps dorh en Herlichkcit Bei jede Spotjohr Nacht, Do hen die Buwe tin die Maed Ihr leit gut sugebracht. En Dehl hen als die Schnitz gemacht Den Lotwarrich mit ill koche. Die hen geplaudert tin gelacht In selle scheene Woche. Zwee hen als immerfort geriert En Liebeling un sei Schatz, I'n mansche hen gekarasirt Iji jedem dunkle Platz.

Bei Thomas J. Rhoads, M. D. ANGLICIZING GERMAN NAMES: Dr. E.

M. Fogel of Fogelsville, Lehigh County, one time German pro lessor of the University of Pennsyl vania was fond of pointing out that Lehigh is "Dutcher" than Berks be cause Lehigh named its town Fogelsville while Berks used the English Birdsboro. The name of the thriving Berks borough is not an anglicized form of the word Fogel, meaning a bird. Its name is derived from that of its famous founder, Mark Bird, iron master and assistant quarter master general of the Revolutionary War. i Fond Issue to Finance Doubtless Dr.

Fogel knows this quite I on December 20 the board will well and merely used the term in10pen bids for a new $340,000 bond facetious manner. But the story iue, $40,000 of which will be used fives xiae suiue uiuugiu on me practice of changing names into English Equivalents. It seems to me that such practices should be discouraged. If German names were unpronouncable or un spellable there might be some excuse for altering them and bringing about some conformity to English but such a need does not often exist. 10 change ones surname is to confess that one is ashamed of it.

It becomes a reflection upon one's pneestry or tantamount to an alias, one or the other. Recently der Ewich Yaeger visited cemetery in Lebanon Ciunty and there observed several ibstons, inscriptions which were I ipp1 thi rornVo raiPB to off on January 1, at the rate of 102 1 nf rf If1" lthe rcent of the Principal, plus ac 11 there. When crlled lnterest. pPart 0 the $340,000 Proceeds will be used in re or uun me result is i I ie quaint spelling of our German l.es a3 used by early English sra and tax collectors is coning enough to the student of lily history. Genealogical records struck many a snag when con lted by a change in the spelling lames.

It seems absurd that any ons should consciously add to i confusion, merely to gratify ie whim or to conceal their na nal origins, thereby forfeiting 'ir rich heritage as Pennsylvania ioser Reports $943 jpent In Election Congressman Guy L. Moser spent 943.85 to be re elected to Congress Jor a second time, he reported yej 'erday in a statement filed with commissioners. He reported receiving no contri juuuns ana mai. ne incurred no IaUt I .1, i "Jf, Campalgn iiac uccu jjuiu, His largest expense item, $500, 1 paid to the Douglassville post I laster for 50.000 postal cards. An dditional $200 was paid to the emocratic county standing com iittee.

The balance was for print lg and other incidentals. Lost Vatch FOUND 1st Day Adverised Thru TIMES Want Ads FOUND LOST On N. lOtU man Waltham wrist watch; Initials ou back, W. W. K.

Return to 136 Pennsylvania Shll 1 llngton. I Never say Valuables or Pets are Lost until you have placed your message before the thousands of daily TIMES readers. When Quirk Anion Is Needed DIAL 6101 Want Ad Headquarters COAL Yard: Third and 1 MOORE THE COAL MAN fi in lllerr Coal Shipped bj Resdlni Lack of Funds Won't Block School Annex Stale Authority's Financial Status Has No Bearing Here Stories from Harrisburg yesterday, telling of the lack of funds to carry out the Pennsylvania State Authority's extensive school building program, have no bearing on the single school project, financed on a 45 percent basis by the Public works Administration, on the Reading school district's list. This is the second four room annex to the Glenside school, to be erected in anticipation of 150 or more new students from the families to be housed in the Reading Housing Authority project in Glenside. It is the last PWA school project many on the Reading school district's list in the past three years.

The annex will cost $61,000, of which the Public Works Administration will pay $27,720. Muhlen terg. Yerkes and Muhlenberg, archi tects, drew the plans, finally approved by the school board on Monday night. The board set Thursday, December 22, as the date for opening bids. If time permits, contracts for the main job, electric work, plumbing and drainage, and heating and ventilating, will be awarded the same nioht.

so thar. prnitnH ran ho hriton lrcMa iVa I Drrpmhor ji Hm limit in paying its share of the annex cost, plus equipment. School officials, in commenting on the Glenside annex, pointed out that when me main uiensiae school was erected, the school population in the district was far below the building's capacity. Now the building is pracucauy nuea, with the major Dortion of the city's rlwpllino cnn. struction in 1937 8.

calling for more school space, credited to Glenside. Preliminary to issuance of the $340,000 in new bonds, the board on Monday night authorized notice to be given the holders of the best out standing 1934 Mansfield Act 4 tier CPnt bonds, that they will be paid deeming the $100,000 4 percent bonds The school district hopes to I get bids of 2 or 2'i percent. i Protests Per fa nit a Tar i Appearing before the board, Mrs. Frances E. Beard, Eighteenth ward property owner, asked the members why they continue to enforce collection of the $2 per capita tax.

"You collect it from all home owners, including widows," said Mrs. Beard, "and let the other taxables escape this tax. It is unfair, so long as you collect from only the property owners, who are already taxed on their homes." "Would you tell us how to collect the rest of this tax?" asked Dr. J. Vincent Mochel, chairman of the board's finance committee.

"Well, I'd either collect from all, or elre drop the tax," replied Mrs. Beard. "Here's another thing," continued Mrs. Beard, "why do you pay delinquent tax collectors 5 percent for their services, when you allow a property owner only 1 percent re ho ta rtrt Vtio ry Vtn UJ11 i I i in Reading is justly proud of its Members of the board informed 4Vc Pooirl that tU i nanr, vtitaMibtiitu i law Comments on Housing Moves Commenting later on the Glen SKle scni annex and the Glenside n0lIsmg project, Mrs. Beard, an ad vocate of a housing project for Mill mont, part of her own Eighteenth ward, said that the Reading Hous i'f Proceedinf that the Proje.cts me iow income I amines ior wnich such projects were orig inally Intended.

Young Republicans Elect Joseph Homan Joseph Homan was elected chairman of the Reading local of Young Republicans at its meeting last night the Northeast Republican League headquarters. Elizabeth Derr was named vice chairman, Grace Spies, secretary, and Harold Schildt, treasurer. Plans were discussed for the inaugural parade on January 17. The ticket committee reported that 450 tickets for the Frank Hilton testimonial dinner on Friday night have been sold. City Clerk's Annual Game of Tag Begins City Clerk Birch Wilson started playing his annual game of tag yesterday.

Counting police vehicles, other passenger cars, trucks, fire department vehicles and other machines, the city has about 175 cars in service. No license fees are collected of the city, but all city owned vehicles must carry tags. The mail man presented Wilson with several hunrlrid pounds of enameled iron, the 1939 licenses yesterday. When Wil.son started checking over the pile, he found about 45 missing. Buttonwood COAL 58.251 PHONE 4 38841 Railroad Old Blrkorj Anthracite" Two Hunters Paid $150 One hunter reported his illegal shot at one of these backs, and got off with a $50 fine.

The other hunter, trailed by M. J. Golden, district game protector, was assessed $100 for shooting a buck. Golden (right), and Alderman C. Leroy Wanner, (left), are shown examining the illegal kills yesterday morning just before they were turned over to St.

Catherine's and St. Francis' Orphanages. Times Staff Photo. City's Schools Called Leaders Schmehl Sees Them Combatting Evil Reading is helping America combat the world's evils today in providing its youth with a well rounded education, Luther C. Schmehl, attorney, and president of the school board, declared yesterday.

Addressing Rotarians during a luncheon meeting in The Berkshire, he said graduates of the city's schools are properly prepared "to face the problems of life and help solve and combat the problems which beset our nation." Pennsylvania's school system, he said, is one of the best in the country, and the Reading district has attained an enviable reputation for Hciiirvrmpni. norms i rnriem As we JOOK lne wona today," he said, "we see wars and rumors wars' and dictators with their re volting policies and with isms of all kinds. Stretched across the face of the globe are Gortlessness, unemployment and depressions and tendencies to mearure all things in dollars and cents, ease, power and luxury. "America is being attacked viciously and is being undermined by these influences. Only when something is done to combat them will the America of the future remain what we so proudly honor." It has long been recognized, the school board president continued.

that the training and education of the nation's youth will determine the character of that nation in the future. To this end, he said, the great American system of education for all was built up. Proud of Schools "Pennsylvania is among the lead ers in the development of the American educational system," he said. 'hol plant and the policies behind lie education of our 17,000 children in Reading." Turning to the district's finances, lie told the clubmen the present school budget provides for the expenditure of approximately $3,000, 000, acquired through taxation. "Even in good times," Schmehl yaid, "a certain percentage of taxes Idoes not come in during the current vear.

The depression, however, has Haneernns condition. To day, the taxpayers of Reading owe the school district the sum ot $1,050,000. Dr. Thomas H. Ford, superintendent of city schools, was chairman of the meeting.

Give Musical Program At Trinity Tonight A musical variety program, called "A Basketful of Musical Moments," will be presented by the young people of Trinity Lutheran Church in the chapel tonight at 8:15 o'clock. The show is under the direction of Luther C. Schmehl and William B. Schultz, assisted by S. Helen Ahrens and M.

Kathryn LVininger. Julia Chri.stman will be mistress of ceremonies, turning the hands of a clock as the program progresses. High spot of the entertainment will be a chorus of girls dressed in nineteenth century costume, singing "A Tisket, A Tasket" and "Stop Baatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush." Other numbers: Skit. S. Helen Ahrens.

Marguerite Nagle and Harry Kellenberger; duet. M. Kathryn Deininger and Paul Krott; "A Moment with the Old Masters." George R. Snell: recitation, Jean Esterly; cello solo. Esther L.

Miller, accom oanied by Virginia E. Kuhn: quartet, Frhvrri Mr inhP'Tlt. William B. Horace Saner and ro' R. Snell; piano solo, Jane P.

HESS ELECTION' COSTS $181 Assemblyman Warren K. Hess snent $184.95 to be re elected from the city district, on the Democratic t'cket, arccrdine to his account fild yesterday with Bootprints Lead Warden To Killer Of Eight Point Buck In Berks Swamp Two hunters took illegal shots at bucks afield last week. One hunter reported his kill, and was fined $50. The other who left a buck staggrr to its death in a swamp, was trailed by M. J.

Golden, district game protector, and paid a fine of $100. By reason of those two shots, two Reading orphanages yesterday were the richer by a buck apiece not money, it meat. Farmer Finds Buck A farmer summoned Golden late last week to report that he had found the carcass of a buck in a swamp near Fleetwood. The animal had bogged down, and bled to death. It was an eight point buck.

Golden followed the iJloody trail i of the animal, and then picked up the boot prints of the hunter. Along the route he found a shell. Later he found a group of hunters, picked out the one who wore the boots that fitting the trail he had followed. Comfort Station Plans Under Fire Real Estate Board Joins In Criticism Declaring that plans for new entrances to the comfort station at Fifth and Penn streets were "inimical to the interests of adjacent property owners and businesses and harmful to the development of this central and valuable business center." the executive committee of the Reading Estate Boajd yesterday laid formal protest to the proposed comfort station changes before Mayor Stump and members of city council. The Real Estate Board's resolutions of protest weje signed by Harry B.

Davis, president, and M. Duke Sowers, secretary. The boafd told city officials that the proposed changes would "serve no good purpose," would be "harmful to existing values of real estate immediately adjoining" and would "adversely affect the businesses conducted thereini" "The structure," the board said, "would be unsightly and would mar the beauty of the Fffth and Penn streets district which definitely been improved by new structures at the southeast and southwest cor ners, and the erection of any build Junior High, two clubs of Southing in the location contemnlated will I west Junior High, Northwest Junior undoubtedly tend to obstruct traffic." DeHart Elected Head Of Monarch Club Officers for 1939 were named last night a meeting of the Monarch Club, and plans were made for the annual New Year's Eve party. Elected were Franklin DeHart, president; Robert Schuyler, vice president: Anthony F. Sltibler, secretary and treasurer; Raymond Rchenck, Chester Longenecker and Earl Horst, trustees.

John P. Stubler was chosen chairman of a committee to make ar rangements for a banquet early next year. FOUR DAY Regular $3.50 1 MINIT Machineless Permanent Ineludins; Trim, Shat'pwn and Fimer Wave. Complete 3 No Appointment Necessary open till Xaturdaj Lveninf. Up BEAUTY for These The hunter denied the shooting until he was shown the bullet taken from the carcass.

It had not mushroomed and was the same type gun the hunter carried. Golden collected the $100 on the spot and gave a field receipt. Reports Kill In the other case, the hunter who shot the seven point buck near Pricetown reported it to Golden, and paid a $50 fine on the field. Yesterday Golden drove to the office of Alderman C. Leroy Wanner, on Washington street, with the two illegal kills.

He and Wanner saw to it that St. Catherine's Orphanage got one of the animals, and St. Francis' Orphanage the other. "And they call themselves sportsmen!" Wanner remarked sarcastically. "Not only was the shooting of I that buck near Fleetwood illegal, i but it also was inhuman to let the I animal bleed to death in the swamp that way." Godfrey To Speak At Principals' Dinner Hi Congress To Meet Afterward Blake Godfrey, former state secretary of the Mississippi Y.

M. C. will address a school principals' dinner, sponsored by the Doys' work committee of the Central Y. M. C.

in the club dining room tomorrow night at 6 o'clock. Godfrey was one of the speakers at the boys' conference in Allentown last week. The Hi Club program in Berks County will be discussed. J. Ca.lhoun Smith, chairman of the boys' work committee, will preside.

The principals' dinner will be followed by a meeting of the" Hi Clubs' congress in the auditorium. Godfrey again will talk, and a skit, "Up the Elevator Down," will be presented by 11 boys of the Wyomissing Hi Club. A gavel will be awarded to the club with the highest percentage of members on hand. Cha.rles Weitzel, a member of the Wilson Hi Club, will preside, and Carl Sittler, of the eleventh grade Hi Club at Reading High School, will conduct devotions. Clubs present will include the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade units of Reading High, the "Panthers" and "Ravens" of Northeast High, Southern Junior High, Fleet wooa, wiison senior and Junior Highs, Mt.

Penn, Wyomissing. A six reel motion picture, entitled "Robin Hood," will be shown at the Gra, jamboree in the auditorium on Saturday, 2:30, for boys of fifth! and sixth grades. Isaac Mengel, i magician, will perform, and a speaker will appear. PUBLIC SPEAKING Can take 3 adults for class already organized. Wednesdays 6:30 8:30 75c A WEEK PHONE BLAKE H0BBS 3 3967 Berks Trust Rllildiuf SPECIALS Regular $4 SO Oroquignole Permanent Ineludlnir Trim, Shampoo and Finger Wave.

Complete 2 AIDS, 3 for $1.00 Sound Policies Vital To Trusts, Bankers Told Good Investments Man Success, Stephenson Says Sound investment policies are the most vital factors in the success of trust institutions, Reading bankers were told yesterday by Gilbert T. Stephenson, director of the trust rerearch department of the American Bankers' Assiciation. Speaking at a luncheon in the Wyomissing Club attended by bank executives, insurance men and attorneys, Stephenson, recognized as an international authority on trusts, declared that trusts present a desirable means of protecting property because of the trustee' complete legal ownership, the high standards set for trust institutions and the flexibility in their administration. "No matter how modern its equipment may be or how competent its personnel, or even how excellent its personal services to beneficiaries, unless a trust institution has sound investment policies, and what is more, lives up to them consistently. it cannot he declared.

Governed By Statutes Although trust institutions are re quired to guide their investment policies by state statutes, the situation is complicated because many who draw wills make provisions for invest ment policies which differ widely from those that would be appropriate or even lawful under the statutes," he said. "So when we know or heat of a trust institution having an invest policy with respect to a given i account that does not appeal to us I as being sound, before we criticize the institution we should inquire to find out whether it is carrying out its own investment policy or one laid down in a will or trust agreement," he continued. i i Service Cosls Increase Stephenson also covered the costs of and charges for trust services. The cost to bank and trust companies, he said, has increased in, recent years because of increased servicing costs, the cost of meeting new government requirements, and investment and review service. In Berks, he said, where 12 out of 25 banks maintain trust depart ments, the aggregate of personal trust assets is $71,400,000 and the aggregate of corporate trust assets $10,700,000.

I The meeting was held by the Reading Chapter of the American Institute of Banking in conjunction I with a series of round table confer i ences now being conducted by Ste I phenson at Franklin and Marshall I College. John D. Heckman, presi i citnt of the Reading chapter, was chairman. Industrial Union Council To Elect Officers Officers will be elected tonight nt the annual reorganization meetin3 of the Brrks Corn'v Industrfa! Union Council, central body of the county's unions affiliated with the Congress for Industrial Organization. Luther Ammarell, of Branch No.

10, Hosiery Workers, will officiate. He has served as president during the last year, fllrey Oxenr'der, of the State and Municipal Workers, is secretary. The meeting will be held in the council's headquarters, 632 Washington st. Harry Boyer, of Branch No. 10.

will report on the nation convention cf the CIO in which he attended as a delegate. LEAVES $1,000 ESTATE Harriet Fox, Hamburg, left an estate valued at $1,000 in realty. A daughter, Anna, was named heir. Letters to administer the estate werp pmntpri tn Anna Rpinhart TA WE REPEAT THE SAME SUPER SPECIAL Today Tomorrow Only LADIES' OAK LEATHER or Men's Children's Composition SOLES 39c SEWED ON While VoD Wait SerTlco Wilt1 1 11 20 You this All Diphtheria Stamped Out But Mumps Increase TODAY or tomorrow the last diphtheria case in quarantine in Reading will be released, Dr. Ira J.

Hain said yesterday. Two weeks have passed since the last case was reported in the Aufust Novem ber outbreak which brought the year's total from two cases to 93, with four deaths. Dr. Hain expressed the belief, that all danger of further trouble has been eliminated for a time, as the city and school health bureaus, with the Reading Visiting Nurse Association, has conducted, with good results, an immunisation campaign among children In every ward. Mumps is enjoying a fresh, rush, 50 new rases having been reported yesterday to Registrar Stewart Groh.

This was the largest number of new rases reported in a single day since the present outbreak of the disease more than three weeks ago. River Recedes, Floods Averted Rise Stops As Crest Reaches Danger Mark Old Man River's threat of flood fizzled last night as the Schuylkill was crawling back into its shell at the rat of .25 of a foot every hour. Observers at the West Reading plant of the Metropolitan Edison Company, where the dark waters had risen to an ominous level at 1 p. said the crest had dropped two feet by midnight. It had been 10 feet above normal at the peak, the point at which floods begin.

Cloudy Skies Forecast Meanwhile, Weatherman Charles S. Ling brought hope for a continuance of the river's recession as he forecast cloudy skies but little or no rain today and tomorrow. Temperatures, he said, will remain about the same as yesterday. The highest mark on yesterday's official thermometer was 48 degrees, at 1:30 p. m.

The low mark, showing a variation of only five degrees, was 43 degrees at 7:20 a. m. County Pays Vets For Armistice Day County commissioners went in for brevity yesterday, paying Berks county's veterans organizations $1, 000 for Armistice Day expenses with one stroke of the pen. The check was turned over to Robert Kline, designated representative of the veterans who will make distribution. Commissioners requested such a procedure after various bills for different sums had been submitted to their office.

An appropriation of $1,000 was voted down some time ago by the board. John E. Aughen baugh. secretary of the Combined Veterans' Council, by letter thanked commissioners for their assistance. Settlement of a land damage claim of Earl Shebele, Richmond township, for $575 was announced.

Wellington M. Bertolet, attorney, represented the property owner. Dr. W. E.

Chamberlin To Address Doctors Dr. William E. Chamberlin, professor of roentgenolosy at the Temple University medical school, will address members of the Berks County Medical Society during a meeting in Medical Hall at 3.15 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon His topic will be "The Diagnosis and Management of Hodgkins Disease." LETS GET TOGETHER ON YOUR XMAS LIST UNUSUAL VALUES IN FINE WATCHES BULOVA, ELGIN. GRUEN, HAMILTON, WALTHAM Sin Buy IS'otc You Don't Seed Cash! PAY AFTER XMAS 50c TO $1.00 A WEEK "Jewelers Since 1913" orrN EVENINGS An Ideal Christmas Gift! A PIANO ACCORDION TOGETHER WITH LESSONS for take the accordion home when you enroll Other Instruments included in offer. Lessons Private in our studios by expert teachers Enroll now, teaching facilities limited.

633 PENN P. P. L. Rate Ordered Cut January 1 8,000 Consumers to Save From 3 To 42 Cents Month More than 8.000 Berks customers of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company will save from three to 42 cents a month during 1939 under new rates ordered yesterday by the Public Utility Commission. To become effective after January 1, the new rates are expected to bring savings of approximately $2,300,000 a year for 367,000 Pennsylvania consumers of the company.

The minimum rate for residential service under the new schedule will be reduced from $1 to 75 cents a month, with corresponding reductions based on the number of kilowatt hours used a month. The reductions will benefit residents of Wyomissing, Sinking Spring, West Lawn, Lincoln Park, Shillington, Wernersville. Womelsdorf, Fritztown and other nearby Berks communities. Comparative Savings Comparative savings of householders in those communities are shown in the following schedule of old and new rates: Kilowatt Old Hours Rate Minimum 1.00 New Sav'g Rate .75 .97 3 12 5.04 6.34 7.34 9.09 12.09 .25 .03 .42 .24 .21 .21 .25 .25 11 50 100 150 200 300 500 1.00 3.54 5.28 6.55 7.55 9.34 12.34 Campus Notes Oscar Edwin Fox. son of Dr.

and Mrs. Oscar E. Fox, 232 N. Fifth has been appointed a member of the Chemistry Club of Mercers burg Academy. Appointment is based on high scholastic standing.

On and Off the Main Stem Informal Little Snnpaholt of Coin g.i. Coming nnd Doing Yesterday FORMER POLICE CHIEF HARRY STROBLE returning home with a large deer STEWART "SPIKE" MOVER talking basketball CARL HOMAN dialing a wrong number JAY FIELD taking to eye glasses in advance of the next campaign MRS. MAYME KIEFER and MRS. AGNES BENDER doing the jitterbug WARD GIDDINGS home after a big expedition HOWARD JONES set to take the "durie" on the next hunting trip ROBERT "RED" UTTER talking about buying a "dawn" CHARLES ZIMMERMAN still talking about the deer he bagged. HOFFMAN IIS S.

6th St. Dial 2 6937 WITH OB WITHOUT APPOINTMENT saassasjK i CLOSED SATURDAY) ansm PAY $1 A WEEK.