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Considerate Hosts Rain Brings Gallants It Rain WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy, colder, probably rain today; fair, slowly rising temperature tomorrow. (Details. Page Column One) Pottstown i Book Bindery seventh and Washington Mercury and THE POTTSTOWN NEWS om mar pROBABLY no other home in Pottstown could have dated a large crowd so comfortably as did the home of C. C. Burdan in Rosedale yesterday when the Century club sponsored a fashion show there.

Parking facilities were taxed to the utmost by the large number of cars which drove up to the large Colonial home. Rainy weather complicated matters considerably, but Mr. and Mrs. Burdan had provided chauffeurs who opened the cars as they drove up, escorted guests under unbrellas to the home then drove the cars away to the parking places. The chauffeurs drove the cars up to the house for the owners after the Show was ended, fe- and last heavy rainfall made gallants" out of many motorists.

The drivers of closed cars found ready passengrfs who appreciated a lift homeward through the downpour. At one down-town restaurant, a youth braved the rain to open the doors of his car for several persons who were waiting beneath the awning. And Did It Rain? TF POTTSTONIANS thought it rained hard yesterday, they should have been with Sam Hanley, Howard Fretz and Bob Seltmann in the automobile as the trio made its way homeward from Peoria, 111., where Hanley and Fretz bowled with the Pottstown team in the American Bowling congress, ran into rain Tuesday at In- VOL. 3. NO.

168. A Blue Eagle Newspaper POTTSTOWN, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1934 A Blue Eagle Newspaper TWO CENTS A COFY TEN A WEIE MRS. COVELY SUCCUMBS TO AUTO INJURIES William Weiss, Driver of Car, Held in $1500 for Action Local Candidates Are Well (CONFERENCE Down On Primary Ballots PASTORS HERE J. Longaker Gets Third Place on Republican Ticket With Lamb, Fifth; C. L.

Rutter, Eighth WOMAN RUN DOWN ON WAY FROM CHURCH Body to Be Buried at Bally, Place of Her Birth, Saturday The toll of deaths, exacted by motor car accidents, climbed a notch higher yesterday after Mrs. Matilda Covely, 66, of 268 North York street, struck by an automobile Sunday night, died in Pottstown hospital at 7:25 yesterday morning. candidates for State Legislature from the Third Montgomery district were able to draw no better than third position on the primary ballots yesterday when drawings were held in Harrisburg. The name of John H. Longaker, Pottstown attorney, will be highest on the Republican ballot, his name having been drawn third among the nine Republicans seeking the The-name of William-K.

Lamb, an other Pottstown candidate, will be fifth on the Republican Dislike For Horses Leads IF. H. FRITZ, To His Sales Managership RESIGNS POST Rev. Ira W. Bechtel Renamed To Council; Rev.

P. Taylor Gets Directorate POTTSVILLE CHURCH ADMITTED lianapolis, and again at W. Va. It was raining in the morning at 6 in Greensburg, where we stayed Tuesday night. The sun came out and it was clear when we left at 8:30 but as soon as we hit the mountains, it started to pour.

And believe me, it sure did rain all the way Hanley said. The trio landed home at 3:15 yesterday afternoon. Youth seems to be going key- minded. David Wilson, young son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Wilson, 805 Queen street, plays with many toys, but his special playthings are numerous keys. The youth carries with him a bunch of keys most of the time, and has numerous bunches scattered about his home. She Century club members and their guests waited breathlessly for the bride and groom to appear at the old-fashioned wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Burdan. Rosedale. yesterday afternoon, one of the club members created a round of laughter. Mrs.

George Longaker was among Ifhose waiting for the wedding party Pto come down the steps after the last strains of the bridal music died away. After a few minutes of waiting, she turned to her neighbor and whispered loudly, "Gee, maybe the bride go through with If you want to get a resume of the even the just drop into restaurant at King and Hanover streets at any time. Through the medium of taxi- ticket. Lamb, also a Democratic candidate, will have his name in seventh position on that ballot while Carroll L. Rutter, borough Democratic chairman, will be in eighth position.

Result of Drawings The Republican drawing resulted as follows: Clarence L. Ederer (incumbent), Melrose Park; Kehl Markley Pennsburg; Longaker. Edwin Winner, Lamb, Harry H. Burd, Jenkintown; Ralph Rapp, Willow Grove; Carl G. Hartzell and William E.

Zimmerman (incumbent), Lansdale. The order of names on the Democratic ballot will be: Daric E. Acton, Bryn Athyn; Ed- Mrs. Covely, who suffered a frac- win winner, David White, Ardsley; tured leg, broken arm and internal Wellington H. Rosenberry Lans- injuries, was hit at Hanover and dale; John P.

Nolan. Lansdale; Beech streets, opposite the St. Aloy- DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON BORO TICKET Earl Reidenouer, William Dochney Newcomers Among The Committeemen Three Evangelists and Six Ministers Are Granted Licenses G. W. Russell Nearly Abandoned Delivery Team for Ice House Job Thirty-two years ago.

George Superintendent Accepts Sim- Russell, 336 Oak street, had an in- sius Catholic church, by a machine driven by i 1 th killed in mishaps 15 mile of Pottstown 1934. motor within radius in cab drivers, policemen, county detectives and men-about-town jovial Vert Betz, proprietor of the has the happenings of the town first hand. Page Sherlock! rear license tag on County Detective James automobile still bears the mark of a slight the other night. When Gleason saw his tag bent almost double, he deduced that an- (Continued on Page Three) After dousing Pottstown quite thoroughly yesterday and last night with a rain which he had forecast unsuccessfully for several days, the weatherman came along and issued another dark prediction. He said today would be cloudy and colder, probably followed by light rain or snow flurries.

Yep. what he said, snow flurries in April. Tomorrow will be fair and the temperature will rise slowly, the forecast promised. Local temperatures yesterday and early this morning were: 7 a.m. 8 a.m.

9 a.m. 0 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 m. 1 p.m.

2 p.m. 3 pm. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 48 49 52 54 56 59 54 53 52 52 52 6 p.m.

7 p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m.

12 m. 1 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 n.m 1 i a Weiss, 519 North Evans street. Weiss, in his statement to local police, said he was unable to avoid striking the woman.

He stopped his car and took her to the hospital. The motorist was arrested yesterday and formally charged with involuntary manslaughter. He was taken before Justice of Peace Grant M. Koons, where posted $1500 bond to await action of the coroner. Inquest Date Not Set R.

Ronald Dettre, coroner for Montgomery county, did not announce a date for an inquest into Mrs. death. Mrs, Covely was the widow of Henry G. Covely. He died 14 years ago.

The woman resided with a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Rhoads, 268 North York street. In addition to Mrs, Rhoads, the accident victim is survived by the following children: Sadie, wife of Russell Boughter, Pottstown; Helen, wife of Joseph Freidman, New York; Mable, wife of William McDowell, Pottstown; Violet, wife of Luther Yeager, Reading; Paul, Arthur, William, at home. She also is survived by four sisters, Mrs.

Charles Kase, Mrs. Charles Reinert, Mrs. William Bauer, Reading and Mrs, John Koch, Zionsville; two brothers, Frank Schell, Reading and William Schell, Allentown. Six grandchildren and a great grandchild also survive. Mrs.

Covely was the daughter of Peter and Sara (Bouser) Schell. She was a native of Bally. Mrs. Covely was an active member of St. Aloysius Catholic church, from which she was returning when the accident occurred.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning, with solemn high mass In St. Aloysius at 10 Interment will be made in Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament cemetery. Bally, under supervision of Funeral Directors Kepner and Romich. John P. Nolan.

Ralph Rapp, Willow Grove; Lamb, Rutter and David Fitzgerald, Ambler. With nothing at stake for Socialist candidates in the primary election, the drawing of their names was of little importance. The selection was Edwin S. Orr, Pottstown; Howard Fredericks, North Wales and Howard Snyder, Lansdale. The order of names of candidates for Assembly from the First and Second Montgomery districts will as follows.

First Frederick C. Peters, Charles Eugene Claghorn. James H. Meredith, William A. Otley.

Charles Eugene Claghorn. E. Arnold Forrest, Olive V. Walton. James J.

Kilcoyne, Frank J. Bradley, Leo Redmont Jr. A single ticket of candidates for the Democratic nominations for ward committeemen of Pottstown has been presented by the Pottstown organization, Borough Chairman Carroll L. Rutter announced yesterday. Only two names, which did not appear on the last ballot at which committeemen were named, have been filed this year and both of these individuals have been serving FLOWER CLOD IS INSTROCTED in the place of ward leaders.

The additions are Earl Reidenouer, who has been advanced as committeeman of the Second ward and who succeeds Paul Seasholtz, and William Dochney, who succeeds Ernest Dahms in the Tenth ward. The remainder of the ticket for ward posts is: Clarence W. Davenport, West ward; Joseph Sucho 2 Third; James A. Kelly, Fourth; William Delcamp, Fifth; Herbert B. Miller.

Sixth; Rutter, Seventh; Maurice E. Sassaman, Eighth; A. Edward McEvoy, Ninth. The Rev. Ira W.

Bechtel, Pottstown minister, yesterday was renamed to the governing body of three which rules the Eastern district of the Holiness Christian church of United States. The i BAPTIST SCHOOL 41st annual ence in Holiness church In addition to the Rev, Bechtel, others named to the governing body known as the were the Rev. Alex Houseal. Goldsboro. who has been treasurer of the conference for the past 11 years and the Rev.

Walter Schaeffer. Mt, Carmel, secretary of the conference. The Rev. Bechtel was named secretary and treasurer of the foreign mission board and the Rev. Paul Taylor, also of Pottstown, appointed to the directorate of the -home missionary board.

Nine Get Licenses During the day nine ministers born dislike for horses. But Russell, then a young man of 25, fought down the fear of the animals. Today he attributes his sales managership of Schulz Baking company. largest bakery in this section, to his victory over fear. Perhaps your natural question will be, connection does hordes have with The story runs something like this: Thirty-two years ago, the Schulz Baking company was comprised only of John Schulz, its president, and Russell, While Schulz prepared the dough and baked the bread, Russell peddled the finished product house to house.

Solves Problem The Oak street man quit a posi tion with the Pottstown Cold 3tor- i age company to go into the bread ilar Position in City of Chester NEW RESPONSIBILITIES INCREASE THREE-FOLD Delaware County Community Takes Second Local Supervisor Superintendent of Schools F. Herman Fritz yesterday from! announced his resignation from the post to which he was re-elected Tuesday. He accept the position of horn I superintendent of schools in TO MARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY Benjamin H. Ludlow to Deliver Address; History to Be Read and evangelists were granted licenses, and another minister was approved for the permanent certifi- (Continued on Page Three) BENEFIT ORATOR TO RETORN HERE Specialist Demonstrates Butter, Ice Cream Making; Grange Meets H. D.

Bailey, dairy specialist of college, demonstrated ice cream and butter making before more than 40 members of the Flower club yesterday afternoon in Community Grange hall, New Hanover. The ice cream and butter were made from milk and its products from the farm of Casper Erb. was the topic of an address made by R. G. Waltz, county farm agent.

Miss Ethel Beadles, home economics instructor of Montgomery county, was in charge of the meeting. Cheese, made by the club two months ago, i was sampled yesterday. Grange Meets A reading, "How We Caught a by Mrs. Estella Erb, Rufus ye Arthur Land s. Wagner and Mrs.

Alice Wagner, was the feature of an entertainment program at last meeting of New Hanover Grange in Community hall. Master Rufus Boyer was in charge of the session. The attendance prize was forfeited by Frances Erb because she was absent. Refreshments were served at the conclusion of the meeting. Japanese Cherry Blossoms To Be In Bloom Sunday The cherry blossom festival in Washington, which attracts hundreds of motorists from this section annually, will be observed April 19, 20 and 21, O.

C. Beacraft, manager of the Pottstown Automobile club, was notified yesterday. The blossoms are expected to be in full bloom by Sunday and the observance will be held the following Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For the first time since the Japanese nation donated the trees to United States, the trees will be lighted by artificial moonlight. The three-day program will get underway Thursda- morning with a Japanese sunrise festival at the Tidal Basin, which is lined with the traps.

The characters in the pageant will be in Japanese costume. Sun sets tonight 6:36 p.m. Auto lights on at 7:06 p.m. Sun rises tomorrow 5:26 a.m. FUR COATS Remodelled, Repaired, Relined and Stored.

All for $20 This price renders it to your advantage to have your Furs Renovated and placed in Storage. Pelts Extra. 67 N. Franklin St. Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of the assistant secretary of the navy, will be crowned of the Cherry during the afternoon program.

Thursday night the trees will be lighted for the first time. Friday, formation flying by squadrons of Army and Navy planes will be conducted over the Tidal Basin. The flying maneuvers will begin at 11 a. m. The day parade will be held Friday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock.

A fireworks display will be given at the Washington monument Friday night at 9 o'clock. The operetta, will be presented at 2 Saturday afternoon in the Sylvan theater. A regatta will be staged in the Tidal Basin at the same time. Motorists were advised to make notel reservations before driving to the capital city, as hotels were crowded. Special cherry blossom excursion trains will be run hy the railroads.

ELVERS0N FARMER NEAR DEATH WITH BURNS A 72-year-old Elverson farmer was confined to Coatesville hospital yesterday suffering from burns of his body which may cost him his life. The farmer was Elmer Barclay, who operates a farm near Elverson. He was burned severely about the entire lower half of his body late Tuesday afternoon. Barclay was found running about a field with his clothing ablaze. He was rescued by a neighbor who extinguished the flames and then carried the aged man to his home.

Efforts to obtain a physician immediately were futile so son hurried his parent to the hospital. According to neighbors, Barclay had lighted brush on a field and the flames spread to his clothing. When he attempted to flee from the fire the wind fanned the blaze and his body was burned badly. Dr. Walter Egge to Speak as St.

Men Dine Womenfolk ASSEMBLY SPEAKER LAUDS THE PRESIDENT President Roosevelt was lauded for his recovery program plans but In almost the same breath an assembly speaker at the senior high school, yesterday morning, told the student body the measures were the signal of a new era. The speaker was W. J. Yoder, school visitor for Juniata college, Huntingdon, Pa. He emphasized in his talk that young people of today should prepare themselves for the new type of individual that will be needed a decade hence.

This morning therfiigh school student body will hear the Rev. Howard J. Kosman, pastor of Reformed church, in another of the Y. M. C.

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Just Picture Suppose you do. Suppose you picture the dandies of day and the belles that had heart aflutter. Suppose you wander back to the old for a refreshing and change. Suppose you travel 'WAY 35v BACK WHEN Your ticket is Monday's issue of THE MERCURY Returning to Pottstown after eight years to address another Reformed church group, Dr. Walter Egge, Lutheran minister now serving a charge in Frackville, will head the program presented by St.

John's Reformed club tomorrow night on the occasion of night. It was in September, 1926, that Dr. Egge last spoke in Pottstown. On that occasion he addressed a meeting in the opera house, sponsored by the Bible classes of Reformed churches of Pottstown as a benefit to Trinity Reformed church, whose edifice had been damaged by fire. The fete tomorrow night will begin at 6:30 with a banquet.

William Shaeffer, chairman of the entertainment committee, who will be toastmaster, will present Dr. Egge. The Pottstown Male chorus, directed by William H. Shenton, will sing. There also will be community singing with Frank Kurtz at the piano.

The meal, which will be prepared by the wives of committee members, is expected to be served to at least 125 persons. Members of the committees in charge are: Social, Harry chairman; Lewis Rhoads and Edward Rhoads; entertainment. William Shaeffer, chairman; A. D. Boyer.

Ralph Colgan and Henry Ri wn; and the officers, Daniel Reifsnyder, president; Clinton Felton, vice president; Albert Mauger, treasurer and Samuel Wanner, secretary. SEN 10RSy WASHINGTON TRIP SET FOR MAY 30 Benjamin H. Ludlow, Philadelphia, will make the principal address at a program marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the First Baptist Sunday school, Sunday morning at 10 in the church auditorium. I Before the program, prelimi- nary exercises of the school vvi 11 take place at 9:30 i I John H. Longaker, superinten- dent, will preside at the anniversary exercises which will open with the selection, by the Sunday school orchestra.

The invocation will be made by George G. Kelley, former assistant superintendent and will be followed by address of welcome. Historical sketches of the school and two of its classes will be next on the program. George F. P.

Wanger will give a sketch of the school, William E. Wolfendale will talk on the Baraca class and Miss Kathryn Nagle will give a sketch of the Philathea class. After the report of Secretary J. Ruppert Miller, the selection, Ye (Gounod) will be presented by the choir and orchestra. will be the offertory number.

Four former superintendents, including Clyde A. Moore, David S. Gendell J. Luther Thomas and R. C.

Shinehouse will be introduced to the gathering after which Ludlow will make his address. Robert Guy, former assistant superintendent, will lead in prayer and the benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. C. Pierie Warner, pastor. The program will come to a close with the playing Fair (Stevenson) by the orchestra.

Hymns will intersperse the features of the program. and wagon, however, to use on the one route the bakery boasted at that time, Russell began to think he would go back to his old job in the ice house. He disliked horses. His first had a habit of walking ahead several blocks while Russell was in a house delivering bread. That habit, so as i to speak, fuel upon the The dislike for horses grew.

But he became determined to overcome his fear and dislike. He did, and within a few months, his route began to grow until it was necessary to hire more salesmen. Today the bakery, instead of an output of 144 loaves daily, has a sales total of more than 200,000 loaves, to His Fellows And, instead of one street salesman, 54 uniformed men line up before Russell for their instruction. The men call the manager of his is because he always is (Continued on Paie Three) YOUTHS TO MEET IN CONFERENCE Lutheran Boys and Girls Assemble in Emmanuel Saturday to With young people from 14 to 21 years invited to attend, the first and conference of the Norristown conference of the Lutheran church will be held Saturday afternoon at Emmanuel church. During the session, those attending will be divided into two groups to study men and women of the church as well as problems con-1 fronting boys and girls.

The conference will open with a devotional service in charge of the Rev. Homer Weaver, president of the conference; an address of welcome by Pastor Luther A. Krouse, of Emmanuel and anthems by junior choir of 60 voices. Chester. Fritz, who said he would hand his formal notice of resignation to the School Board a day or was elected by the Chester board to a four-year term Tuesday night.

He was not notified of the action, however, until yesterday morning when a spokesman for the Chester body called him by telephone. Re-elected to a four-year term by the Pottstown board Tuesday, Fritz will leave Pottstown after having served nearly five years as head of the local school system. He will assume his new duties early in July as supervisor of a school system three times as large as that here. $780 Increase In going to Chester, Fnfcz will ceive a salary of $5280 a year and will succeed David A. Ward.

salary was $7500 a year. In Pottstown, Fritz was to receive $4500 a year, the same as in 1933-34 and $500 less than before the board cut salaries 10 percent in an economy move. The Chester school district employs 350 teachers as compared with 123 on the payroll here. It has a senior high school with 2200 pupils times as many as are enrolled here a Negro high school. The district itself is rated as second class while rat- ng is third class, ratings being made on the size of the districts.

Second to Chester Fritz is the second Pottstown schools superintendent to be called to Chester. Less than a decade ago, Dr. Norman W. Cameron became the Delaware superintendent, later going to West Chester as president of the State college there. Fritz came to Pottstown in November.

1929, from Ashley, where he had been superintendent. Prior to that time he was principal of the senior high school in Springfield, Mass. He qualified for work as superintendent at Harvard university. THREE AUTOS DAMAGED IN CRASH; NO ONE HURT Three automobiles were damaged considerably last night at Chestnut and Evans streets but the occupants The program fox the group of the cars escaped injury. WARDEN WANTS PRISONERS MOVED Pottstown high school seniors will trek to Washington in the annual graduation trip May 30, members of the class were advised yesterday.

The trip originally had been scheduled for May 23 but was moved a week later to enable some students to attend Temple music festival and because it had been impossible to obtain satisfactory hotel accommodations for the earlier week. The class will spend three days at the capital. PHILADELPHIA, April 11 William B. Mills, warden of the Philadelphia county prison at Holmesburg, today asked the State welfare department to transfier 20 prisoners who went on a five days ago, after a plan to riot failed. The hunger strikers, members of a group of 25 brought to Holmesburg because they were to handle at the Eastern penitentiary, must be removed if they are to be prevented from influencing 1400 other short-term prisoners, Mills said.

conference will be: Vocal solo, Mrs. Gustave Weber, wife of the pastor of St. James Lutheran church; address, Who Have Served the Mrs. Sarah Kepner, of Emmanuel; reading, June Thompson. Grace church, Hoyersford; address, Modern Girl in the Modern Amy E.

Baureithel. Reading; piano solo, Henrietta Landis, Richlandtown. The group conference program follows: musical selection, Homer and William Schuler, Telford; address, Who Have Served the the Rev. H. Oscar Schlessman Spring City; trumpet duo, Charles E.

Walp and Ralph Nicholas, Quakertown; address, Modern Boy in the Modern E. Arlington Kepner, Royersford; violin solo, Oliver Landis, Richlandtown. A banquet will be served at 4:30 p. after which the Rev. Paul M.

Kimports, executive secretary of the Luther League of America, will speak on With Christ in My The accident, which occurred shortly before 8:30 involved two cars, proceeding in opposite directions. and a parked machine. Drivers of the two moving automobiles were Gerald Wentzel, 22C South Hanover street. South Pottstown and Luther R. Neiman, 515 King street.

Neiman was driving east on Chestnut street when Wentzel, proceeding south on Evans, drove in front of the Neiman car. Neiman struck the right front side of Wentzel's machine and pushed it against the car of J. William Hebbert; Paoli, which was parked on Evan? street. Patrolman Paul Gum pen conducted an investigation. No was arrested.

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ANDREW GRI SKO a song. MARY BAILEY or. 3 comer. RUTH KLIM to the store. CHARLES WILEY book, CAROLINE AMOLE questions.

CONRAD STICOI to school, ANTHONY FONTANQ baseball. JOHN MARCHER puzzled. ABEL BORN EM a high mark i I.