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Hans Barth pianist. WEAK, WGR, WFI Wft'J and KSO. TODAY IN HISTORY Alexander Graham Bell, inventor the telephone, born, 1317. Congress voted funds to 'build telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, 1S43. Radio Program on Page 19 TIMES PHONE 6101 READING, THURSDAY.

MORNING, MARCH 3, 1927 TIMES PHONE 6101 Thirteen HALTS REALTORS' PAY CONTROLLER HOUCK COUNCIL CONDEMNS TELLING Commissioners Will Open Bids Today for Building New Bridge at Birdsboro Council Holds Up Contract For Cement for Viaduct to Note Prices Quoted County HOLDS UP VIEWERS Atfard Delayed Until After County Opens Birdsboro Bids Today Materia Woman, Victim Of Brutal Assault Ten Days Ago, Doomed to Die Further weakening was noted in the condition of Mrs. Rose Materia, victim of an assault 10 days ago. by St. Joseph's hospital surgeons yesterday. While it was believed the woman, whose brain is infected by the wound hammered into her skull with the butt of a revolver, might live through the day, her condition early this morning was reported 'Very i Thomas R.

Houch, "county 'controller, who balks at giving realtors $50 daily as viewers. LENT OPENED BY ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE Palm Ashes Used in Catholic Ceremonies; Episcopalians Explain Season's Meaning Lent was yesterday nshcred in by churches throughout the city with appropriate Ash Wednesday services. In tho Catholic churches, special masses and ceremonies marked the advent of the season while communion and special sermons featured the day in the Episcopalian churches. A solemnity characterized the midweek prayer services in other Pro testant churches, especially the Lutheran and Reformed, where special features were arranged. The season, 40 days in length, with Sundays excepted, will continue until Easter Sunday, April 17, and will be observed with special services in Catholic and Protestant churches.

Voluntary self denial of pastimes and luxuries is a custom of the period during which social activities are decidedly curtailed. Priests to Visit Here "Stations of the Cross," a series of services depicting Christ's journey to Calvary, will be held weekly in Catholic churches where stations, illustrative of scenes in the journey, have been established. Visiting priests will deliver Passion sermons weekly in several of the churches. The climax of the lenten season conies with Holy Week, which will be devoted to special services on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Observing the ceremony of imprinting' aslies upon tho foreheads of communicants, priests yesterday told Catholic congregations "thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." Tho ashes were obtained from palms used in Palm Sunday services last year, which were burnt and blessed at masses yesterday morning.

Instructing members in lenten observance, the Episcopalian rectors of the city issued a statement describing tlte meaning and origin of the season. The origin was explained as follows: "There is no special spiritual significance in the word which. derived from tho Anglo Saxon word or spring season, excepting as lent designates the time of fasting and humbling of tho flesh before Easter and that the passion and death of Jesus of Nazareth in sacred history occurred at this time. "Interesting reasons have been advanced why the period of 40 days for fasting Was fixed. Forty is a scriptural number, thus: Tho children of Israel underwent 40 years of discipline in the wilderness; Moses fasted 40 days on the mount; Elijah was 40 days in the wilderness; the Ninevites fasted 40 days to avert the iudgments t'ortold by the Prophet Jonah, and Jests fasted 40 days be fore entering upon the period or tits ministry.

"Lent is a disciplinary period of fasting and meditation, of great spiritual solace to the devout. But even for the worldly it can be made a period of mental and physical dis cipline, which, if ooserveu raitn fully, might be turned to incalculable advantage in these hectic and disquieting days." CHARGED WITH THFFT OF CAR 2 YEARS AGO Almost two years after the disappearance of a Drive It coupe, Stanley L. Slater was yesterday ar rested by Constable Gallagher, on Alderman Castncr's warrant, for the theft of the car. He had just re turned to town. C.

W. Wilson, manger of the company, told Castner that Slater took the car on March 23, 1925. The ac cused put np bail for a hearing to morrow ngiht. A mm PAY OF $50 A DAY 'Watchdog of County Treasury' Declares Realtors Ask Too Much for Services COMMISSIONERS GIVE 0KEH 'Couldn't Send Farmers to Estimate Damages," Says Solicitor Marten Controller. Thomas R.

Houck, who has been the "watch dog ot the county treasury," dropping for awhile, the dispute over the payment for a team of mules, has balked at another kind of Yesterday Houck refused to honor two bills presented by a group of realtors for "personal services" in estimating property damage. And in this case, no less distinguished a group than the' county commissioners is involved. "Fifty dollars a day they want for their service as Houck said yesterday in explaining why he had not approved the bills. "It's too much. The viewers appointed by the county get $7.50 a day, and five cents a mile fo.

traveling expenses. "It's Too Much," Says Houck "I've said before this that it's too much. I know this real estate board, or whatever it Is, has decided on $50 a day as the regular rate, but I think that is very high when they do work right here in the county." Tho approved by the, county commissioners, lie In the basket on the controller's desk. "Let them lie there," ho said. One bill is for $300 for the personal services of J.

Benton Whitman, Lein bach Rieser and William McGowan in viewing for two days on the new Fifth street extension, from the city line northward. In addition, there is an item of $7.50 for the hire of an automobile. The other bill, for $221.52, is for the services and expenses of V. Seibert, another realtor, for viewing in connection with the construction of the new Wyomissing bridge. The items in this bill are: Services, $200; car fare, meals, total, $221.52.

This was for work on four separate days, and included an appearance before the Public Service commission at Harrlsburg. Houck does not say he won't pay the bills. He simply says that "to ordinary people they seem very High," and that lie has taken them under advisement. "High they may be," paid County Commissioner Francis W. Savage last night, "but not when you consider that in the case of the Wyomissing bridge, the county found itself facing damages of nearly $100,000, which, by the testimony of these experts, was finally cut down to $6,000." Explains Work of Viewers County Solicitor Charles W.

Mat ten explained the work of the expert viewers in connection with the extension of Fifth street. "The new road cut right through some buildings out there," he said, "and whereas they might have been nothing but chicken coops, we didn't want the owners to present damages later of two or three thousand dollars apiece for buildings that wcro worth not as many hundred dollars. "And we had to have the work done in a hurry. What were we to do? The real estate board has set that figure and nearly every realtor belongs to the board. We couldn't send farmers out there to estimate the damages." The county controller has persistently refused to authorize payment of nearly $700 for a team of mules purchased last spring by the poor board.

On the ground that the board failed to advertise for bids, Houck declared the deal Since then the mules have been at work on the poor farm at Shilllngton, and the former owner remains unpaid. There Is talk of the poor board attempting to force payment by mandamus proceedings. WILL SHOW MOVIES OF TELEPHONE SYSTEMS Motion pictures of telephone systems will be shown next Thursday evening by E. L. Daron, of the Bell Telephone company, at the supper meetimr of the Brotherhood Of Zion's Reformed church.

Isaac Mengej and Harold Auchenbach will entertain with feats of music and musical selections. A sauerkraut supper will be served. RUN FROM BEHIND TROLLEY, TWO GIRLS HIT BY AUTO Two girls running from behind a r.n narked on Ninth street, near Buttonwood, were struck by the auto mobile of Luther Benson, Birdsboro. Tuesday. They refused to tell the the motorist their names, according to his report to Desk Sergeant Mask.

LAND TO PRESERVE PLAYGROUND AREA Plan to Erect Laundry at Church and Amity Stirs Municipal Action ACTION ON SEWERS ORDERED West Side and Parkside Roads Paving Authorized; Buy More Watershed Land Because one owner of the land was about to build a building on it, according to Mayor William E. Shar man, council, yesterday began the condemnation of Church and Amity, property now loaned to the city as a playground. The plot 220 by 2t0 feet, has been exempt from taxes and has been used as a playground for several years. Ordinances condemning it were introduced at council meeting yesterday. Residents of the district have been pleading with council for sometime to buy or condemn the land and improve it as a municipal playground.

"With the improvement of Fifth street to meet the new William Penn highway in sight, this land was bound to be built upon," said the mayor yesterday. "Cne owner was about to erect a laundry 'building and this made me hasten the starting of condemnation proceedings. This section of 1he city badly needs the playground." May Cost City $10,000 The mayor wouldn't estimate the probable cost of the land but it is said it will be in excess of The owners of land in the piot are Samuel N. Potteiger, William E. Fisher and Dominic Maurer, jr.

The ordinances will be past next Wednesday. City Engineer E. Clinton Weber was authorized by council yesterday to ask the approval of the State Sanitary Water Board for the construction of a small portion of what will be the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ward trunk line sewer in the vicinity of the Schuylkill avenue bridge. Property owners on West Side road and Parkside road were given permission to open and pave the two highways for about two blocks at their own expense by an ordinance passed yesterday. Heck only bidders, were employed for for spring planting on water bureau property.

Ordinances to purchase the following land in OnteUumee dam area wero introduced: Herman and Eugenia Hahnel, five lots for Cora Ettinger, one lot, $150, and Helen Bauman, four lots, Two ordinances to condemn lands owned, by tho Exier Monthly Meeting, also known as "The Friends," "The Society of Friends," and the "Maiden creek Preparative Meeting," which owns a church and cemetery in the dam area were introduced. Harry L. Beggj was appointed assistant city engineer at a month and Harry Gilbert and Morris B. Re ber wero appointed inspectors in the bureau of streets and sewers. AT In Readme.

ANTHONY KORB, 65, of S92 Sunset road, West Reading, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Reading hospital. He was a' son of the late Anthony and Sabina (Mauder) Korb and was an iron worker and, more recently, a cement He was a member of Hope Lutheran 'church and the Owls and was secretary of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers. There remain, besides the widow. Ellen N. (Boyer); a daughter, Rose and a son, Harry A.

Undertaker Auinan removed the body and will direct funeral arrangements. MRS. SILENE L. McCOY, 7C, widow of Harry C. McCoy, died at the Reading hospital.

She lived with her sister in law, Mrs. Michael K. Boyer, 1332 Perkiomen ave. She was a member of Christ Episcopal church. The only survivor Is a brother, Floyd Lauman, New Castle, Pa.

MRS. CHRISTIANA OTTO, 53, wife of Charles Otto, of 604 Tulpe hocken st, died at the Reading hospital. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran church. Besides her husband, she is survived by a brother, Fred Haag, and these sisters: Mrs.

Katie Kausen, Mrs. Matilda Reedy and Mrs. Annie Roland, of this city. JENNIE BIRMELIN, 44, of 20G North Tenth died while on a visit to her brother, John Birmelin, 333 North Fourth st, Allentown. She was a daughter of George and the late Mary Birmelin.

She was a member of St. Paul's Catholic the Sodality and tho seAviug circle connected with the church. There survive, besides the father and brother, another brother, Edward, Miami, Fla a sister, Mrs. Annie Reinert, Allentown, and a half sister, Margaret Birmelin, Philadelphia. GEORGE J.

BROWN, 5S, constabjc of the Tenth ward for more than a quarter of a century, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 1157 Cotton st. Ho was born in this city, a son of the late 1 Jacob and Elizabeth Brown, and was prominent in Democratic politics. He was a member of. St. Paul's Lutheran church.

Besides his widow, Bertha (Reitz), he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clyde fleydt and Mrs. Vernon Reed, both of this city, and three grandsons. Undertaker Cramp Is in charge of funeral arrangements. GEORGE A.

KELLER, 39, an employe of tho Dorks Building Block company, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home, 1523 North Tenth st. Ho was born In Dauphin county, of the late David and Oatiiermo Keller, and was a member: of Alsace Reformed church. There remain: widow, Lizzie! (Laudiii); "Mo son, John, and otvj I daughter, Catiicriiw, at homo. and two sisters also Undertaker Soidel will Jlvcct funeral i THE WORLD By NEAL O'HARA AUTOMATIC STENOGS Every day, in every paragraph etenogs think Josh Billings was Noah Webster. Anv sIpiio" would rather have smallpox tlit spell erysipelas.

But with all her late comings and assorted flaws, we love her still. There isn't a single business man or a married one, either who would not rise to defend his little amanuensis. Every hair on her head is sacred to those boys. Even a every hair on their coat sleeves. When the boss requests more speed, they respond with rolled down stockings.

When accuracy is In demand, they use more skill in tossing gum Into the waste basket But efficiency experts now demand automatic stenogs. And that is the straw, that wrecks tho vetrebrae in the camel's spine. This age is getting too mechanical. Automatic phone girls at all very well. But you can't snatch kisses from the voice with a smile.

Automatic meals indicate progress, too. But for after dinner chinning and dictation, no boss wants a four legged stenographer with a cylinder for a lovely throat and a speaking tube for vennillion lips. The dustproof cover that fits over a phonographic stenog is not a skin you love to touch. And wax cylinders can never replace rice powder in the sanctum of the tired business man. The world's best literature has been written by Homer.

Dante, Aristotle and stenographers. All of 'em had to be translated into English. But science continues to tear loose on our institutions and we'll have Princeton football teams made by the Bethlehem Steel corporation and Ziegfeld's chorus constructed by the Portland Cement company. Wrought iron is swell for cantilever bridges. But when the handsome district sales manager pushes his he wants a stenographer fashioned after Eve instead of after Edison's model.

It is truer than a sultan's wife that no stenographer is perfect, while modern machinery Is. But blond coiffures and Venus ankles more than make up for a in Schenectady and Boston spelled with a double S. 8tenogs are indispensable. No tired business man can be a hero to his Vietrola. And no tired business man is going to work overtime chatting to a rubber tube.

CODICILS OF WILL CAUSE COMPLICATION Conflicting Additions to Testament Involve $18,750 Left By Temple Woman A knotty problem turned up yesterday in the office of the register of will.j when the last testament of Mrs. Ella Strom, lato of Temple, was probated. Two codicils were found to be conflicting, according to clerks In tho registry. In the main body of the will the property is assigned as follows: One fourth of her estate to her brother in law, Erik Strom, of Tegelvreten, three eighths to be divided among two sisters, Mrs. Lettiq Guinther, of Etnaus, and Mrs.

Ida. Lehman, of Womelsdorf, and two nieces, Mrs. Florence R. B.iorkbom, of Reading, and Mrs. Ella Guinther, of Eniaus, and three eighths to be divided among four cousins of her husband.

Erik, Ella and Ellen Forss Jund and Signo Von Sydow, of Skofde, Sweden. The codicil which Immediately follows the will assigns her "personal property, furniture and oilier goods" to her two nieces, Florence R. Bjorkbom and Miss Ella Guinther. According to Ihe accompanying valuation sheet, Mrs. Strom's estate consisted of $18,750 In "personal property." Another codicil, which has priority, according to its own phrasing, over others parts of tho assigns outright $1,000 to Alma Strom.

The will also assigns $100 to Erik Styrlander, of Baltimore. Mrs. Strom died in St. Josephs hospital on Feb. S.

READINGSCHOOLS TO MARK BERKS 175TH ANNIVERSARY Public schools of the city will observe the 175th anniversary the founding of Berks county all next week, when exhibits of antiques gathered in Berks will be arranged the High School for Girls, and special programs dealing with the growth of the county will be given in the history classes at the schools. The intermediate classes in the grade schools also will mark the anniversary with special exercises. The Rev. P. C.

Croll, of Womelsdorf, will speak at the Girls' High on Friday, March 11, on "Facts Pertaining to the Organization of Berks County." A special musical program has been arranged by Miss Mary H. Mayer, principal. Throughout the week reports on various historic Berks county subjects will be made by the students in the history KRATZ TO DISCUSS WELFARE PROBLEM The family division of the Council of Social Agencies' will meet tomorrow at 4 p. m. to hear A.

Roger Kratz, dean of Schuylkill college, speak on employment and its relation to a program of family social service in' Reading. The discussion on this subject arises from the fact that an unusually largo number of families have been seeking aid from Reading welfare organizations this winter. HOLD W. B. A.

CARD PARTY IN K. G. E. HALL TONIGHT A card parly will bo given tonight at 8:30 o'clock by Progressive Review, No. 171, Women's Beneficial association in the Knights of the Golden Eagle hall at 215 North Sixth st.

Re rchhmeuts will be Will Speed Award of Con tract for Largest Structure of Kind in County This morning at ten o'clock County Controller Thomas R. Houck will deliver into the hands of the county commissioners two sheaves of sealed bids one for the construction of the new Birdsboro bridge, the other for the furnishing of from thirteen to sixteen thousand barrels of cement to be used in its construction. Fifteen minutes later, In the pres ence of County Engineer Charles F. Sanders, other county officials, con tractors competing for the job and other interested persons, the envelopes will be opened and the bids officially "received" and made public. Will Speed Award of Contracts Possibly later today certainly within the few days tho selection of tho successful bidders will have been made and orders given to "get busy at once.

There are ten bidders competin for the bridge work while but three tor four iirms seek to supply the ce lnent. Unofficial estimates have placed the probable cost of the bridge proper including a ramp on the northern side at $350,000. In addition to this, a strip of road a mile long will be put through from the northern terminal of the bridge to the Philadelphia pike. Largest of Kind in County The new bridge will be one of the largest of the kind in tho county, being 1,122 feet in length and including nine 106 foot spans. Tho roadway, 24 feet wide, will be flanked by two six foot sidewalks.

From the north end of the bridge, in Exeter township a ramp will cut off westward ly from the bridge, carrying an 18 foot wide roadway down for a distance of 396 feet. Encase Steel in Concrete The structural steel skleton of the bridge will be encased in concrete, and a concrete balustrade will run along either side. Sixteen cast iron lamp standards are called for in the specification. These will support electric lights to illuminate the bridge. Starting from Main and Furnace streets, Birdsboro, the approach to the bridge will sweep northward on a two per cent upward grade, rising steadily through a distance of 500 feet, until it arrives at the river bank, where the roadway will be 37 feet above the water.

This height will be maintained clear across the river, rising still righer on the northern side and carrying the 27 feet above the railroad tracks. There it will quickly find a level in the 'high bluff which runs along the river at this point. May Complete It in Year Present Indications are that under favorable working conditions the bridge will be completed within a year. During the Interim, traffic between Birdsboro and points north will continue to use the temporary structure erected last fall by the countyiwhcn the old bridge was burned. HOSIERY WORKERS BROADCAST PROGRAM OVER WRAW TONIGHT Radio will be used by Reading hosiery mill workers tonight to explain the situation in the industry here and in other parts of the country, it was announced by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers.

A program over WRAW will bo broadcast in which an analysis of the industry's position and its labor problems will be mad together with entertainment features. Miss Ida Weissman, of Passaic, N. will be one of tho speakers over the radio. She will describe conditions at Passaic. Clinton Golden, field secretory of the Brookwood Labor college, Ka tonah, N.

will speak on the achievements of the Institution. The Adlon Male quartet will give selections of popular and classical vocal music. TWO NEW END MEN JOIN MINSTRELS OF READING SHOPMEN Two now end men have joined the Reading company's minstrel and band concert for their show April IS in the Otpheum theater, it was announced last night. The latest performers found among the shopmen who are putting on the entertainment are Artie Kramer and Adam Hiller. Kramer will sing southern melodies and Hiller will hold up his end as one of the "gag men." The two new recruits bring the end men to a total of six, with a chorus of 64.

Next Tuesday night will be the last for enrollment, the announcement said. All of the performers are men from tho Reading shops. WILL TAKE AUDIENCE ON CELESTIAL TOUR "Frontiers of the Universe," will bo Dr. B. R.

Baumgardt's subject for tomorrow night'i lecture, the ninth of tho course of free programs given under the auspices of the Public at the High School for Boys. The program commences at 8 o'clock. The purpose of this lecture Is to reveal upon the screen the remarkable achievements in recent celestial photography and to interpret In a popular and understandable way their bearing on some of tho greatest problems that have yet engaged the attention of t1' lecture is a celestial journe it i3 than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet; it is a journey billions ot miles away In the bosom of immeasurable space. On the wings of science the audience will traverse the circuit of the Universe, and then be brought safely back again to our earth. Dr.

Mengel assures the audience of a highly Instructive and entertaining evening. INFANT SLIGHTLY HURT IN CRASH BY AUTOS Only eight months old, Elizabeth Miller was slightly hurt Trer when the car of Francis Miller, Temple R. I). 1, in which she was riding, collided with that of Stanley Trout. 623 Gregg at Fourth and Pine streets.

Fewer Fires in City In First Two Months Of 1927 Than in 1926 Firemen though they aren't complaining had less to do this January and February than in the same months last year. There were 29 fewer alarms and the property loss was 5290,563 less, according to the report of Fire Chief Js'eithammer yesterday. The loss for the two months was Mrs. Lynn Perry, of Easton, Named of New State Organization The newly organized Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women closed its first convention yesterday afternoon In the Berkshire, after electing Mrs. Lynn Perry, of Easton, as president, and naming the other officers.

Mrs. Perry is first vice chairman of the Northampton County Democratic committee. Voting in unison, the eighty five delegates from all parts of the state elected Mrs. Perry as their leader; rars. juiu Konerts, or Harnsnurg, as secretary, and Mrs.

Harvey Dorn blaser, of Pennfiuld, Upoer Darby, as', treasurer Ihe latter, in her speech Of nviiwnw, i 6cn pi eoeni to enter more vigorously into their local politics. Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, of Bloss burg, Tioga county, was named first of the four vice presidents. She. is a daughter of William 15. Wilson, candidate last fall for the United States Senate.

Miss Wilson received the highest number of votes polled by candidates for vice presidencies, with 72. The three who were named with her as vice presidents were: Second, Mrs. Ann Murphy, of Scran ton; third, Miss Sarah K. Knerr, of Allentown; fourth, Mrs. Ida Allen, of Pittsburgh.

The names of Mrs. Sarah Dever eaux, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Carrie Rasoridge, of Columbia, were proposed for tho secretaryship, but both withdrew. All the women named to office are active in politics of their respective sections of the state. Mrs.

Murphy attended the Democratic national convention in New York city in 1924, and is a vice chairman of tho Democratic executive board of Lackawanna county. Miss Knerr is on the Democratic executive board of Allentown. airs. Allen officiated at the last election in Pittsburgh as a member of the board of registration. i At the close of the session tea was served.

The afternoon program included a course of instruction in political organization by Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, of Washington, executive secretary of the Women's National Democratic club, who acted as chairman of both the morning and afternoon sessions, with Mrs. Lena Becker as general chairman or tho conference PROPERTY VALUES Stevens, Hearing Assessment Appeals, Reduces City's Figures in Three Cases Judge John B. Stevens tried his hand at real estate estimating yesterday. Whilo sitting in judgment on appeals from the assessments on the three adjacent properties at S14, SIC and SIS Douglass st, on which the city assessors had placed valuations of $8,000 and respectively, the court took an active part in the discussion.

"I happen to know something about these properties in question," ho said, "and I believe that the valuations placed on them by tho city are too high." Valuations Reduced. On his recommendation, the valuations on tho property at SH Doug 'ass, owned by J. Henry Stump, and on that at 816 Douglass, owned by Daniel B. Stout, were reduced from SS.OOO to $6,500, and the valuation on Trvin A. Bauer's property, at SIS Douglass, was reduced from to $6,700.

In accordance with tho rule, the assessed valuation in each case was then fixed by taking CO per cent of the "fair figures. Aqree to Lower Figures. Paul D. Edelman was attorney for the three property owners and City Solicitor Joseph ft. Dickinson ap peared for the city.

Both attorneys were agreed to the recommendation, which came after similar estimates had been given by' William B. Kieffer. and Charles W. Morrison, realtors. The following, appeals were discontinued: Edward W.

Miller, 323 N. Eighth Richard A. Boehm, 525 Birch st; George A. Koch, S18 N. Eleventh Benjamin Mendelsohn, 101 N.

Tenth Frances E. Beard, 726 N. Eleventh Richard A. Boehm, east side of North Thirteenth street. The next hearings will be held on Friday, March 11.

NORTHFAST BOYS' CHORUS SINGS AT ASSEMBLY TODAY For the first time this semester the boys' chorus of Northeast Junior High school 9 A 5 and 3 A 6 classes this morning will get to see each, other fac to face all at one time. They will meet in general assembly for a program of singing, music and a school rally. The program will start with a sc lection by tho school orchestra. Professor J. If.

Shook, principal, will read scvtrrl verses of the Bible and! the students follow with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. There will be' singing of hymns, a harmonica fuZo by Karl Wiswesser, a soprano role Mrs. White, member of the school school songs cud vvllj. WOMEN DEMOCRATS ELECT END QCQQIAM liUUlUll JUDGE STIMATES So 'that they can compare cement prices offered tiie county with thown offered the city and decide whether the latter is getting "the short end of the deal," city councilmen yesterday morning postponed buying 20,000 barrels of cement for the Mineral Spring viaduct until lato this morning after the county commissioners havi? opened cement bids for the Birdsboro bridge. The council opened a second balcH of cement bids at its regular meeting yesterday and just as it did on Feb.

2 found that all three bids wera identical. Furthermore the same bidders presented the samo prices they offered Feb. 2, namely $2.53 a barrel. The February bids were rejected when Councilman J. II.

Me Connell told council it "looked aa though the bidders had gotten together to fix the prices." "It still looks like it," said McCon nell yesterday, "but by asking bids a second time the city will save at last $2,000 because of some changes wo made in the specifications." Ready to Pour Concrete McConnell was in favor of awarding a cement contract yesterday, because the Diehl Construction company, contractors on the viaduct, aro now ready to pour the first concrete. McConnell demanded that council go into conference to deviso ways and means of deciding which of three apparently identical bidders should be favored with the contract. But in closed session Councilman Smith sug gested delay until 11.30 o'clock this morning, because at 'l0 o'clock th commissioners will open the Birds ijoro rts anil he cost of cement to the county will be known. Of course, that won't change matters a bit." chuckled one bidder yesterday. "The county buys in carload lots and the city buys at a truclc nrice.

T''e whole basis of cost ing is different." Bids Compared J. M. Gring was the apparent lo bidder yesterday at $2.43 a barrel. But this b'd. according to the cily engineer's office, is actually the samo as that of Fehr O'Rorke and the .1.

F. Bressler estate at $2.53 a barrel because the Gring figure takes off 10 cents in the bid price while the othe two bidders offered the same discount for cash, but did not deduct it from the figure tendered. In addition the Gring eomnany, according to McConnell, made certain stinulations which changed the specifications laid r'own by the citv and this mav invalidate the bid. On tho other Fehr O'Rorke voluntarily offered the citv the benefit of any price dron durin? the delivery of the cement and in all likeb'bood this will promnt council to consider this id acceptable over the others this morninr. Drop Price Ten Cents Altho'i the bis are annarently "'dentical.

McConnell exnlained yesterday that owing to certain technical chamres in the city's soecifications involving the time of pavment ant he more of test'ner the cement, actually all these bidders came down 0 cents a barrel in the prices offered Feb. 2. Conch" nlso ouened bids for a variety of miscellaneous materials for tho street denartment and nrobablv will let eontnrots th's movninsr. Samuel Simon, G. W.

Foht Stone ennmanv and Fehr O'Rorke offered identical bids fnr crushed stone, the wipe be a ton by $2.20 de livered bv truck, Malonev Oil eomwnv's bjd of a ton for svnthpic nnhalt was low. although tnlht dcMe to accept a bid of a ton for natural asohalt: rffe ed by the Barber Asphalt company. SEEK FUND TO BUILD CHURCH Hampden Heights Lutheran Project Urged at Close of Reading Conference To create public interest In tha project of erecting a new edifice for the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in Hampden Heights, a public meeting will be hold in the Northeast Junior High school on Sunday, March 27, at 2:30 p. m. Clarence Weller, of Allentown, financial director of tho building campaign, will be in charge, and prominent leaders in the denomination will take part.

The proposed church will cost $100,000. Announcement of the meeting was made at the concluding spiritual session of the Reading Lutheran conference, held in St. James Lutheran church. At the same time the Rev. C.

E. Kistler asked tho conference to raise the balance of the promised to the new church by the time of the spring session of confcrcncu next month. The Rev. Dr. F.

II. Knubel, of New York city, president of the United Lutheran church, will speak in First Presbyterian church on March 17 as part of the Great Preacher series, and the members were urged to attend. A paper on "Lent, a Season for the Deepening of Spiritual Life," was read by the Rev. D. F.

Longacre, of Boyertown, and discussed bv he Rev. R. E. Kern, Hamburg: H. P.

Miller, of Womelsdorf, "and the Rev. Dr. C. P. Croll, retired, also of Womelsdorf.

TWO ARRESTED CHARGES OF ASSAULT Two ault and battery warrants, sworn i Alderman C. C. Dumn, wore yesterday served by Constable Dickinson. John Mountz, Centreport, was accused by Earl Loose, licrnu station, and Anthony Miller by Leland B. Smith.

Both defendants furnished bail for hearings. NABBED HERE ON CHARGES MADE IN WEST CHESTER Charge with forcible entry nr.if arecny, in Chester county, Frank Celine; 21, of 301 Nnble ot, was yesterday arrested by Detectives Zawidskl and Deem, and taken to Wist Chester Detectives Tulicy and Kemp. READS POEM OF EAST TO INAOGlfRATE LENT Rev. Criswold Williams Follows Ash Wednesday Custom, Delivering "Kasidah" Keeping an Ash Wednesday custom he several vears ago, the Rev. Griswold Williams, 'at the Church of Our Father, Univer salist, read Richard Burton's "Kasidah," or "Bay of the Higher Law," last night.

"I suggest to you." said tho Rev. Wlillams, in a sermon which im ceeded the reading, "that what we might call a Tasting of. the is as efficacious and beneficial to us as a fasting by the body. As old symbols of religion cease to stir and move us, we turn to and adopt new symbols. "Because in symbols new to us Oriental symbols 'The Kasiduh' pre sents tnc picture ot lire as a desert picture, I have chosen it for lenten reading.

"Life is a desert. It is a barren desert. For centuries man and his religions' have concerned themselves with illusions and mirages in this desert. I am persuaded that if man had devoted as much time as he has spent dreaming dreams of illusionary ardens ana heavens in htc desert, to irrigating the desert of life by now it would be a garden in reality. It is good sometimes the barreness of life and there is no better time than lent to give life this considera tion." Dons Robes of Desert Then, wearing tho robes of the desert, in order, he said, that those who heard him might lose for the time being the sense of the person ality of the reader and the tjetter gain the atmosphere of the reading, the Rev.

Williams read an arrangement of Burton's famous poem of philosophy. The altar of tne cnureh was hung in long soft neutral green draperies. Lights, constantly shitting and blend ine colors from several sources, in cluding a cfiandelier suspended from the ceiling, played upon the face and robes of the reader. Ranging from the rosy hues of dawn to pallid green, symbolic of death, the changing colors and organ music were woven fnt othe pattern of the poem, accentuating, shading and illuminating its changes mood and of thought. The poem itself, the Rev.

Williams told his is a discussion of the hopes, the fears, the faiths and tho tragedies of life. It offers in place of blind faith and blind acceptance of facts "the idlest of the comfort of a mild skepticism plus the vigor of a life lived true to itself. GIRL BREAKS RIB WHEN SHE DARTS INTO CAR'S FENDER Running into the street on Eleventh, between Buttonwood and Elm, early night, Madeline Johnson, 12, of 1025 Elm bumped into the fender of a car driven by Charles M. Kalbach, or 1427 Palm sustaining injuries to her side which may include a broken rib. She was taken to St.

Joseph's hospital by Kalbach, and Charles SeU'ert, of 1352 Buttonwood where an ray examination is to be made this morning. ALLENTOWN RABBI PREACHES TOMORROW AT KESHER ISRAEL Rabbi Louis Hammer, pastor of Sons of Israel AHentown, will speak at Sabbath evening services tomorrow. night in Kesher Israel synagogue on "The Jewish IdeaV' Saturday morning he will preach a sermonette to the boys and girls of the religious training school. Rabbi Louis J. Haas, pastor of Kesher Israel, will conduct services Friday evening and Saturday morning in Allenlown, speaking on "Great Hunger" at the evening service and "The Spirit of Democracy in Judaism" at tho morning worship.

Samuel Rosenberg has been appointed chairman of the committee on tho lltu anniversary of Kosher Israel congregation which will bo observed Sunday, March "0. with a banquet in the synagogue. KIWANIANS HEAR DILLMORE, RADIOCASTER Richard Casper Dillmore, radio caster, entertainer and author of Philadelphia, speaking on "Bradford, You're Fired," yesterday delivered a semi humorous and highly inspirational address to Kiwanis at the noon luncheon meeting at Whitner's. Dillmore introduced his tale of the super self with Kipling's "If." The theme of his address was one of regeneration and he reviewed the essentials of success, while telling of the come back of a beaten man. Ralph Quinn was chairman of the meeting and announced the Inauguration of a 10 weeks" attendance drive at the end of which period the losing team will banquqet the winning team.

POLICE BUSIER FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1927 THAN 1926 Arresting 352 persons for crimes, and 130 for traflic violations, Reading police passed a somewhat more active January and February than they did a year ago, according to a report compiled yesterday. Since Jan. 1, $1,405 have been collected in flues. Meet Yvonnel "The girl Was more than lovely she Was spectacular. Red hair, tight black gown, ornamented solely by a bar pin and the fault ncss figure of the Wearer she compelled the eye, seeming to dare you not to stare at her." Such is the description of YVONNE, mysterious, prevocative and world wise in "GLITTER" By Katharine lirttsh Meet Yvonne and fall in love with her as Jock Hamill did at the famous eastern university where he also met Molly and Eunice and Cicely and the other girls who so profoundly affect his life as the amazing plot of GLITTER unfolds before you day by day.

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