The Evening Sun from Hanover, Pennsylvania • Page 1

TTI THE NEWS FIT TO THE EVENING SUN IT SHINES FOR ALL 117. I A I HKK: fair tonight and Saturday. colder tonight. HANOVER, FRIDAY, JANUARY M. W6 LAST EDITION CIRCULATION OVER 150(H) ONE CENT V.

li benefit dances TAKE PLACE HERE And Underprivileged Be Aided By peds Of Events Spon- -d By Kiwanians rices ior the purpose of funds to continue the pro- im assistance for underprivi- rrippled children in Han- o.er vicinity, held simultane- nieht at the Hotel Rich- ster and the American 1 were attended by ap- 500 persons. of the Kiwanis club, i the affairs, were! place a definite figure on dance or ticket sales, complete report which is j. the near future. Early! placed the total sale of: nt about 800, but Kiwanians I number of persons who. the tickets simply to aid the not used them last night.

Kjw ins estimated the dancers id players at the Richard McAllister totaled about 250, with a Mke r. at the Legion hall. xhe Weldon Hall orchestra of Y(V- plaved at the Richard McAl- nd 'he White Diamond or- Reading furnished dance nutfic at the Legion hall. Profes- na rtainers performed at I loti' places during the evening, of- fiances, songs and novelty jturobers. I ral committee of the Kiwanis lub.

headed by Dr. F. S. I-ksetter was assisted in its pre- raratioi for the dances by a num- kr of which in- cV'fted Kiwanians and representa- of numerous organizations which co-operated. WIFE OF YORK SLAYER IS GRANTED DIVORCE Helds Is Legally Separated From Man Convicted Of Murder Is In Prison MARY YUUNti HAFENER BRIDE OF NEW YORKER Hanoverian Weds A.

Rutledge- Srnith At Reno, Following Divorce There A Rutledge-Smith, ulterior decorator. of the Waldorf-Astoria and Sherry Netherland hotels. New York, and Mrs. Mary Young Haffner. divorved last Friday Trom Ward C.

Haffner. Hanover businessman, were married at Reno, Nev last Sundaj night, according to an Associated Press dispatch. The marriage took place at the home of Dr and Mrs. A J. Hood, Reno, and the ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace James Sullivan.

no. A dinner was served at the Hood home following the ceremony. The couple, it was announced at Reno, planned a motor trip to Southern California alter a week's stay in Reno and later will sail for a trip around the world from the West Coast to New York. GETTYSBVRG NATIONAL NAMES NEW CASHIER BONOS APPLICATION BLANKS RECEIVED Veterans Organizations Here Will Assist Ex-Service Men In Filling Out And Filing Forms HANOVER BROADSILK WORKS STILL CLOSED Workers Acceptable Wage Not Attempt Was Made To Take Relk'f From Them Clara V. Fields, York 1, West Manchester township, has been granted a divorce from John R.

Fields who was convicted on Auu. 29, 1935, of murder in the second degret Fields was convicted for slaying of Maurice Rauhauser on Jnne 2. 1935, at a roadside inn along the Lincoln highway conduced bv the latter. He was sent to the Eastern penitentiary for no- less than 10 years nor more than 20 years and is now confined at Graterford. divorce was granted on the ground that he was con- v.

irder and was sentenced to confinement of more than two i he Pennsylvania law provides conviction ol arson, embezzlement, forgery, kid- napihii, aroeny and murder, with sentence of more than years, is legal grounds upon a spouse may obtain a divorce. Lee S. Fake was master in the proceedings. The conviction and sentence were the only issue in the libel. Oti divorces granted were in va.

of Catharine C. Forrv i ieorge O. Forry and Mary Baugher Salas against Marcial Salas. Candidacy Funk, Waynesboro, today announced himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for State senator from the Adams- Frai.Klin district. He Is first candidate to announce for this office Petitions are being circulated in his behalf.

Funk is a building contracor in Washington. D. C. the Republican nomination for representative in congress from the York-Adams- Frankh.a district two years ago. The mdidate, who has never been electe' to public office, is a member Republican clubs in Adams and Franklin counties.

Trooper Fessler Transferred Tr, John E. Fessler, a mem- 0,1 the Gettysburg detail of the Slate police since August 1, 1935, has iy. transferred to Lewistown. Gettysburg this afternoon. F.

G. McCartney arrived in 'burg from Harrisburg to Till the vacancy. The board of directors of the Gettysburg National bank, at a special meeting yesterday, elected Isaac. C. Bucher, Lancaster, to the office of cashier, succeeding Charles W.

Stock, who recently resigned. Bucher has resigned as conservator of two banks in Lancaster county, under the supervision of the comptroller of currency and will take up his duties in Gettysburg in the near future. He becomes the eighth cashier in the history of Adams county's oldest bank, which was founded in 1814. The new bank cashier is a native of Adams county, having been born on a farm near Arendtsville. For four years he was a teacher in the Adams county schools and for 19 years was cashier of the Bendersville National bank, having been elected in 1910.

He is well known in Adams county. Included in Mr Buchers family are his wife, the former Lulu M. Miller, Arendtsville, and three sons, Robert a graduate of Gettysburg college in 1932 and at present a chemist in Harrisburg; Fred, who is in business in Lancaster, and Wayne Bucher, at home. GEOFFREY WILL SPEAK AT JIM HIGH Geoffrey O'Hara, well-known for his music compositions, will be in Hanover next Tuesday evening, February 4. when he will lecture at the Junior High School auditorium on the subject, Music Is Made." The lecture is being spon- sored by the Pa rent-Teacher Asso- ciation Council.

Earlier in the day the composer and lecturer will appear before the high school assemblies. Among Mr O'Hara's compositions are the well-known songs: K-K- K-Katy," "There Is No A Man A Horse He Can To Heaven and the operettas and Down the Hall." and and Officials of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Hanover have set up organizations for the purpose of assisting veterans in filing applications for the bonus payments authorized by congressional action early this week, Representatives of both Harold H. Bair post, No. 14. American Le- gion.

and Hanover post. No. 2506. V. F.

will be at their respective post homes at various times in the next few weeks to assist veterans. Application forrrtfi have been receiv- ed by both organizations here. The V. W. officers announced that members will be on hand at i all times to aid in preparing the applications.

The Legion officers will have men at the home from 8 to 9 this evening and will designate future periods also. Officials of the organizations have i pointed out that it will be neces- i sary for a veteran to bring his discharge papers and also the pink copy in case he made a loan on his adjusted service certificate at the time of making application. It is I necessary that the pink copy be i available so that it can be mailed I with the application blank. In the case of a veteran who has not borrowed on his adjusted sen- ice certificate, the certificate must be sent along with the application, The application requires the; number of the adjusted service cer- i tiflcate. application number of the certificate, its face value and the 1 date it was issued.

The applica- tion also requires the date and place of birth of the veteran, date of the enlistment, date of discharge, rank and organization at the time of discharge. Prints will be taken of the four fingers of the right hand. The veteran must be identified at the time of his making application by an officer of a recognized veterans' organization or by a notary public or peace justice. Adjutant Blanton G. Scheivert will have charge of the group of assistants at the Legion home, and Commander Wilson C.

Jordan will be in charge of the similar group at the V. W. headquarters. Veterans have been warned that they must not write to the bureau at Washington regarding the applications except to notify of a change of address. Applications will be handled at Washington in order of their receipt.

Writing to headquarters at Washington would only serve to delay action on the applications, it was announced. The approximately 175 employes of the Hanover Broadsilk Works, avenue, which was clased in I he middle of December, are still icle. it was reported at a meeting of Hanover local, No, 2133, United Ttxtile Workers of America, yesterday. Ii was announced that an acceptable wage schedule had not yet been cfiered by the management of the plant. Members of the union declared that the proposal presented by Jules Descheemaeker, manager of the plant, called for a reduction of wages from $1.30 to ninety cents per 100.000 picks for weavers.

The proposal also provided for an increase of working hours fiom 40 to 55 per week and for an increase in the number of looms to be operated by each worker, the employes declared at their meet inc. This, the union members claimed, would result in forcing a large number of the employes out of work. The silk workers attending yesterday's meeting were told that Mr Descheemaeker, the mill manager, had attempted to have the relief officials for the county stop giving aid to the silk workers in an effort to force them back to work and this was discussed at length The employes resented the reported action and charged that the mill manager had misrepresented conditions his statements to the relief officials at York. The workers have presented their side of the matter to the officials They continue to receive relief. SOUTH MOUNTAIN FAIR TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 15 ADAMS COUNTIAN TO HEAD STATE SCHOOL ORGANIZATION AND ABOUT TOWN Au members of the Posts and -ries of the Central Pennsyl- Association of the Veterans -ign WTars will meet Sunday at 2 at the West home, Wormleysburg.

A i-umber persons from Hanover nning to attend. E. Arentz, 819 York street, ived a head injury when he ile ice skating on the Cone' near Dam last is able to be about Mary Huff, Hanover, is ill home of her parents at Hampton. Altruist class of the First Brethren church will hold' a and waffle and chicken up supper at the church tomorrow, beginning ai 4 p. a The South Mountain Fair at Arendtsville will be held on September 15.

16. 17, 18 and 19 this year, it was announced at the annual organization meeting of the executive committee of the fair association. The following officers were elected: Pius E. Orner. president for his sixth consecutive term; G.

Koser. vice president; Ernest D. Bushman, vice president: Amos Sheelv. secretary; Arnold Raffensperger, assistant secretary, and S. A Skinner, treasurer.

Vice president Koser is a resident of Biglerville. The other officers are from Arendtsville. M. Knouse, Arendtsville. was elected chairman of the finance committee.

Raymond Zepp In Recital Raymond Zepp, brilliant young clarinetist formerly with the Hanover Civic Orchestra, who Is at present a student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, took a prominent part in a recital given in the Conservatory Concert Hall at Cincinnati last Thursday night. He played two Concerto in A Major. Adagio, by Mozart, and Concertino for Clarinet. Op. 26, by Weber, and with David Oblinger performed Sonatine for Two clarinets in three movements, presto, andante and vif, by Poulenc.

Amy Lee was at the piano. Mr. Zepp has also been heard in broadcasts by his Hanover admirers. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Franklin H. Zepp, Centennial avenue. Willis H. Lady. Biglerville.

will be inaugurated as president of the State School Board Secretaries' association at the annual convention of the organization to be held in the Education building. Harrisburg, on Tuesday. Representatives of a number of Adams county school boards are expected to attend. Mr. Lady Is now vice president of the association.

On Wednesday, the State School association convention will be held in the capital. Adams county's delegates will be the Rev. D. B. Harlacher.

York Springs, and John Lucabaugh, Berwick township. Other Adams countians who will attend are J. Floyd Slaybaugh, county superintendent; Ira Y. Baker. his assistant, and Lloyd C.

Keefauver. superintendent ol the Gettysburg public schools. YOUTHS KNOWN HFRE KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Edwin Wentz, 19, And Cecil Francis May, 16, Meet Tragic Deaths Near Jersey Shore Two youths who were killed when truck by an automobile near Jersey Shore last Wednesday night were great-grandsons of Edward Wentz, late of Hanover. The boys were Edwin Wentz, 19. son of Herman Wentz and a grandson of Albert and Elizabeth Wentz, formerly oT Hanover, and Cecil Francis May, 16.

son of Mrs. Marguerite Cable May who Is a granddaughter of Edward Wentz and a daughter of Mrs, Emma Wentz Cable. The boys were fatally injured when a car reported to have been driven by Jesse Yohe, Jersey Shore, ran into a group of youths walking on a highway near that place. Ida Shaffer, 17, and her twin sister, Inez Shaffer, who were walking with Wentz and May, were struck also by the car. Ida was injured, but Inez escaped unhurt.

All four were residents ol Jersey Shore or vicinity. A double funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Piney Creek Methodist church, near Jersey Shore. A number of cousins of the parents of the two accident victims live in Hanover and vicinity. CHARLES W. HAMM TAKEN BY DEATH Retired Hanover Grocer Passes Away At Age Of 84 After Three Illness Funeral Services Sunday Charles W.

Hamm, retired grocer, died last evening at 10.15 o'clock at the home of his son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs, Louis W. PTaff. 305 East Middle street, after an illness of three weeks from complications.

He was 84 years of age. Mr, Hamm was a son of the late Jesse and Elizabeth Bookman Hamm and was married to Miss Anna Stall who preceded him death eight years ago many years he conducted a grocen business on York street on the site of the present Hotel Richard McAllister He was affiliated with Washington Camp No, 328. Patriotic Older Sons of America, of Hanover, and wras a member of Emmanuel Re formed church, Broadway, Surviving are three daughters and one son: Mrs. C. N.

Myers, Baltimore street; Mrs. Elizabeth Slagle, West Hanover street; Mrs, L. Pfaff. with whom he resided; and C. Stahr Hamm, Chillicothe, also seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild; and a sister.

Mrs. William Allewelt, Carlisle street. The funeral services will take place Sunday with services at 1.30 clock at the late residence at 305 Fast. Middle street. The Rev.

Dr Marsby J. pastor ol Trinity Re- fcrmed church, will officiate in the absence of the Rev Dr. E. F. HofT- meier, his pastor.

Interment will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery Friends may call at the residence Saturday after 6 p. m. THREE DIE, MANY HURT IN TRAIN WRECK AT SUNBURY mm Engagement Announced The engagement of Miss Eleanor Cort, Miami. to Glenn Shriver, son of Mr.

and Mrs. S. Shriver, Littlestown. was recently announced by Miss sister. Miss Lydia Cort, at a supper party held at the Wardman Park hotel.

Washington. D. C. Guests present from Pennsylvania included Miss Ruth Motter, Hanover, and Robert Shriver, Harry Shriver and Kermit Shriver, Littlestown, who are employed In Washington. Both Miss Cort and Mr.

Shriver hold positions in government service. No definite date has been set for the wedding. Verdict Of Groundhog Is Awaited Here On Sunday Adams Republican Club Meets The Adams County Republican club met last night in the club rooms, Murphy building, Baltimore street, Gettysburg, writh about 25 persons in attendance. William I. Shields, president of the club and county treasurer, presided.

It was decided to invite Otto V. Messner, Lancaster, deputy auditor general and former State commander of the American Legion, to address a public meeting to be held in the court house. Gettysburg, on February 12 in observance of Lincoln Birthday. A membership committee appointed by the president. Little Denizen Of Country To Decide If Winter Weather Is To Continue Or If Spring Is Near At Hand The first long snooze of Groundhog Is about to end.

according to tradition, and it will depend on the state of the weather Sunday whether lie will return to his hideout for another six weeks' nap or whether he will decide that whiter has had its fling and it is safe to remain abroad. For Sunday, February 2. is the groundhog's particular day, although the almanac still persists in calling it Candlemas because candles used during the year in the rites of the Roman Catholic church are blessed on that day. The old timers say that if the groundhog sees his shadow Sunday he will be so scared run away from it. and if he see his shadow on account of clouds hiding the sun.

it will be a LI O. K. and spring is sure to be just around the comer. One thing is certain. He may not see his shadow, but he is bound to see of ice and snow It is improbable tnat a sudden thaw tomorrow will remove the results of the many January snows which remain on the ground.

The temperature was up to 27 degrees yesterday but snow was again flying last night about 9 o'clock. Only a few flakes fell but it grew colder toward morning and the mercury dropped to 6 degrees above at the Hanover weather station. At 2 this afternoon 16 degrees above was reached Yesterday there were actual traces of melting snow but nothing like that happened today. The northwest wind still has teeth in it. Politics will have to take a backseat for one day at least as the woodchuck occupies the center of the stage.

There was a time when he was more important. This old myth must have grown out of the keen interest which the ancient world felt in the doings of animals. no newspapers, no radios, no automobiles to excite interest in those days, the people were thrown back on the simple incidents of the home and barnyard. Close study of these animals showed that they possessed keen instincts, some ways more pene- tContinued On Four) OBITUARY MRS MATILDA HOOVER Mrs. Matilda Ellen Anderson Hoover died Thursday evening at 9:50 at the home of her grandson and granddaughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Hanover R. D. 4 She aged 80 years.

Surviving her are one daughter, Mrs. Annie M. Rvnard, East Berlin one son, Samuel Hoover, Carlisle R. twfo brothers, Daniel and William Anderson Perry County; one sister, Mrs. John Fltckinger, Perry county; ten grandchildren and twelve grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. MRS. AMELIA MUMMERT The funeral of Mrs Amelia Gobrecht Mummert, widow of Mathias Mummert, 516 East Middle street, who died yesterday afternoon at 12.30 o'clock at the Hanover General hospital, will be held Monday afternoon at 1.30 from the W. A. Feiser funeral home, Carlisle street.

The Rev. Jacob Stauffer and the Rev. Paul Miller, Brethren ministers, will officiate. Burial will be made in Mt. Olivet cemetery The body may be viewed at the Feiser funeral home Sunday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock.

Mrs. Mummert was a daughter of the late Henry and Elizabeth Zumbrum Longletz, and was bom January 14, 1851. She is survived by four children, Henry Gobrecht, with whom she resided; Mrs Jacob Barnhart, Fulton street; Daniel FI. Gobrecht. Allegheny avenue, and Raymond R.

Gobrecht, Allentown; eighteen grandchildren; twenty- three great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. AMOS BAUGHMAN Amos C. Baughman, a twin brother of John C. Baughman, 132 McAllister street, died this morning at 4.35 o'clock at his home, 14J South Queen street, York Death was due to a stroke of paralysis with which he was stricken early yesterday morning. He was aged 52 years.

Mr. Baughman was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs Edgar Baughman, New Freedom Surviving are his wife, who before marriage was Miss Floy Marks; two daughters, Muss Fidelia Baughman, a nurse at the York hospital, and Mrs. Floyd Mummert, at home: three brothers, Horace C. Baughman, Kichelberger street, and John C.

Baughman. McAllister street, Hanover, and Clarence Baughman. New Freedom, two sisters, Wilson Housman, Hungerford, and Mrs. Charles Stand ford, Schuylkill Haven. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon with services conducted at his late residence at 2 Burial will be made in York Reading Fast Night Express Train Plunges 30 Feet From Susquehanna River Bridge Into Bed Of Abandoned Canal Railroad Company Announces Investigation Has Revealed That Broken Rail Was Cause Of Rescue Workers Have Cold Task (Copyright 1936 By The Associated Press) SUNBURY.

JAN. 31. Laboring in five below zero cold rescue workers removed the last of the casualties today from the Heading Company's fast night express train which plunged 30 feet from a Susquehanna river bridge, killing at least three persons and injuring 31 others. Seeding through the night on its run from Williamsport to New York the express Williamsporter" nurUed from the north end of the span last midnight down to the bed of an abandoned canal not many feel from the Susquehanna itself. FIREMAN AN 1) ENGINEER VI) The known dead were Dr Guy Rolhfuss, 32, Williamsport, Washington Danshaw, Tamaqua, the fireman.

William Ramp, Tamaqua, the engineer. Dr. Rolhfuss and Danshaw were found dead in the wreckage A broken neck killed the engineer in a hospital a short time later. The injured were rushed to the Mary H. Packer hospital in Sunbury crowding that institution to such an extent that many oi those hurt were laid in rows on the floor.

The hospital said 33 victims were being treated there but gave no indication of how many were seriously hurt. The passenger killed was said to be the first to meet death Hv accident on railroads in the United States since 1934 According to a recent announcement by the Western Association ol Railways Executives, no passenger was killed on a railroad the United States during 1935 The locomotive plunged from the tracks a.s it reached the end ol the bridge at station directly across the river from Sunbury, ItROKEN li Ml IS GIVEN AS (M Ol WltE( The Reading Company announced today that investigators definitely have determined that a broken rail caused the wreck. The bridge is at the foot of Blue Hill, a 44K) foot peak towering above the Susquehanna. It curves at this point over the highway and canal bed and then straightens out for the stretch across the river. It was at this curve that the crash occurred The locomotive in its drop ripped off two spans of the bridge, slid along the canal bed for several feet and finally stopped battered and crushed at the brink of the frozen river.

THREE PASSENGER COACHES STAND EPRIGIIT IN CANAE BEI) Behind it the baggage-mail car lay across the highway, its contents strewn around the vicinity. The three passenger cars stood upright in the canal bod A light snow was falling as the train pulled into the curve in the bridge. Ties of the span caught fire, hampering rescue work and necessitating calling out fire figh ing forces throughout the area. Every physician in the vicinity was pressed into service and ambulances rushed to the scene made repeated triixs to the hospital with the injured. WILENTZ DISCUSSES HOFFMAN'S ORDER Attorney General Says New Jersey Statement No New Fragment Of Evidence" And That Case Stands As TRENTON, N.

JAN 31. Attorney General David T. Wil- entz commenting on Governor Harold G. order that state police re-open the investigation of the Lindbergh kidnap murder case said today the statement no fragment of new evidence. The case stands is." Wilentz issued the statement following a conference with Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf head ol the state polio They were the heads of the prosecuting and investigating staffs that, convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann of the murder ol Charles A.

Lindbergh, Jr. Wilentz said that all the evidence in the case "pointed to the guilt of Hauptmann and Hauptmann alone (The Associated Press account of the order that the state police re-open the investigation of the Lindbergh kidnaping case is published on page 12). ROOSEVELT PROJECTS NEW TAXES Will Bring In At Least $500,000,000, It Is Estimated Scheduled Foi Enactment By This Congress Statement Is Made At Press Conference MRS JOSIAH HEAGY Mrs. Catherine Heagy, wife of Jo, siah Heagy, Reading township, East Berlin D. 4.

died this morning WASHINGTON, JAN. 31 New taxes to bring in at lea.st $500,000,000 were projected by President Roosevelt today for enactment by thus congress. How much more revenue may be asked will depend ujxai a study under way on needs arising from the $2,249,000,000 bonus payment cost. Mr. Roosevelt made his statement on taxes and the necessity of voting them in an election year at a press conference.

Dispute over currency inflation to meet the farm and bonus costs was troubling Capital Hill. A.s for presidential views on currency expansion, official Washington considered them fully presented in a veto of the Putman inflationary bonus bill last session. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned no specific forms the tax proposals may take, saying they still were very much in the study stage. He did not know whether a special message would go to congress.

Emphasis was placed by the Chief Executive on his statement that the half billion needed for the farm program would be in the nature of a substitute for the invalidated processing levies. GETS 90 DAYS IOR THREATENING PRESIDENT NEW YORK JAN. 31. Austin Phelps Palmer, retired electrical engineer of Park avenue, today was sentenced to 90 days in the federal detention house for sending threatening letters to President Roosevelt. maximum penalties which Federal Judge Robert P.

Patterson could were five years imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. (Continued On Page Four; Chimney Fire Exting-uished A chimney fire at the home of Eckenrotie. 431 High street, was extinguished by members of Hanover Fire Company. No. 1, who responded to a telephone alarm at 12:50 o'clock this afternoon.

Damage was trifling BIRTHS Born January 22 to Mr and Mrs. Edward K. Dubbs 131 East Chestnut. street, daughter, Patricia Louise. NECK BROKEN AS SLED HITS TREE BEL AIR MD JAN.

31. fatal injury of Charles Crabb, 29. a Harford county farm hand in a sledding accident last night was reported here today Crabb was injured near Bclcamp. His sled struck a tree. He died of a broken neck.

LEADING STOCKS GIVEN SUPPORT IN MARKET YOp.K. JAN. 31. Support arrived for leading stocks in market and recoveries of fractions to around two points were recorded in rather active dealings. Wrhile the Washington scene was still confusing, buying sentiment was revived when the various analysts cor.cludcd that yesterday's reaction was in the nature of a healthy condition" due to the too rapid price advance.

Commodities generally ignored the improvement in equities. Cotton was oackward and grains relatively narrow. were a trifle mixed. The pound Sterling opened ai Verdict Read In Gettysburg i Court This Morning Big- ierville Barber Asked $25,000 For Death Of Wife Raymond L. Carbaugh.

Biglerville barber, wa awarded $7,650 damages for the death of his wife by a sealed verdict read in Adams county court at 9 30 this morning Carbaugh had asked 000 Leroy A. Reinsmith, Washington, driver of the auto which crushed out the life of Mrs. Carbaugh on November 10. 1934, on the Getty sburg-Ha rrisburg road, the original defendant in the case, was given a verdict in the same amount at Riley Jenkins, of Nashville. Tenn.

Jenkins wfas the owner of a truck that Reinsmith says caused him to skid into the Carbaugh auto inflicting the fatal injuries. Jenkins has not been in court during the trial of the case which opened on Wednesday and was not represented an attor- 1 ney. After the verdict was read, Attorney Eugene V. Bulleit, one of the three attorneys representing Reinsmith, filed a written motion for a new trial and for judgment in favor of his client notwithstand- ing the verdict of the jury. Judge Watson Davison, Franklin countv jurist, who has presided during the trial of the Carbaugh case, ordered the motion- filed and gave Bulleit four days in which to file his reasons.

Trial of the damage suit had been completed yesterday at noon when the court directed the jury to find a verdict in favor of Mr. and Mrs. Eveard Stelfox, Randallstown, Md additional defendants. Attorneys summarized their cases and the court delivered the charge to the jury yesterday afternoon. The eight men and four women, who comprised the jury, retired for deliberations about 3:15 o'clock and did not reach a verdict until 8 clock last evening After the Carbaugh verdict was taken this morning, the trial of the damage suit of Cletus Mummert, East Berlin, vs.

Major B. Gantt, Carlisle, continued. Gantt is being sued for damages to truck resulting from an accident at Cross Keys on February 22 1935, Mummert is represented by Keith and Bigham. Donald McPherson, Jr, and Attorney Donald Royal of the Dauphin county courts, are counsel for the defendant The case Is expected to go to the jury late this afternoon. The jury hearing the case fol- lows: Winfield Lippy, Union township; Robert Wilson, Littlestown; Mervin A Miller, Joy towm- ship; Slaybaugh, Butler township; Glenn Griest, Latimore township; Lower, Butler township; John Knox Cumberland township; 15 Wortz, Fairfield; A L.

Wolfe, Germany township: C. H. Wierman, Bendersville; Harry C. Brinton, Berwick township; and Carl Kane. Franklin township.

When the Mummert-Gantt trial has been concluded, the last criminal case of the session will come to trial. DeSales, a member ol a CCC camp at Gettysburg, Is charged with aggravated assault and battery. The following jury has been drawn to hear the case: Elizabeth Bollinger, Gettysburg; R. Thompson, Gettysburg; Walter Settle, Franklin township; Mrs D. B.

Lady, Arendtsville; (Continued On Page BUS VIC TIM'S I I VI, IS POSTPONED ONE DAY 'Die funeral ol Mary Wilkinson, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilkinson, Orrtanna R. 1, who was fatally injured when she fell beneath the rear wheel of a school bus in front of her home, Tuesday, has been postponed until tomorrow afternoon at I 1.30 The services wrere to been held in the Mt. Carmel United Brethren church near Orrtanna.

this aftern Drifting snow has closed roa in the vicinity of the church and cemetery, however, forcing postponement. The Rev. P. Busey. Gettysburg.

pastor of the church, went to Orrtanna today but learned there that he would be unable to reach the church. Coroner E. Miller announced an inquest into the accident will be held next week. LITTLESTOWN STATE BANK FEDERAL RESERVE MEMBER Announcement was made today that the board of governors of the Federal Reserve Bank at Philadelphia has approved the application of the Littlestown State Bank for membership in the Federal Reserve system. Officers of the Littlestown institution report that since October 1 last the bank has increased its resources by about $100,000.

Luther D. Snyder is president of the Littlestown State Bank; William V. Sneeringer, vice president; Wilbur A. Bankert, treasurer; and Evelyn C. Aliofl, assistant treasurer..