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NEWS FIT TO THE EVENING SUN VOL. 86. WEATHER: Mostly cloud? and warmer tonight. Cloudy Sunday. HANOVER.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1936 CIRCULATION OVER lfi.rtOO ONE CENT OLDEST RESIDENT CLAIMED BY DEATH Ann Slagle Hoke Passes Away In 97th Year At Home On York dant Of Col. Henry Slagle Mrs. Ann Slagle Hoke, widow of David Hoke and Hanover's old- eit resident, passed away at her home at 35 York street Thursdav afternoon at 4 in her ninety- seventh year. Death was due to coronary thrombosis. She was stricken Sunday afternoon and had been in a coma since Tuesday night.

Mr- Hoke was born March 22,1840, New Oxford, a daughter of Henry Weaver and Harriet Heagy Slagle, ghe was a great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Henry Slagle of Revolutionary War fame. She spent her girlhood in the home of her uncle, Colonel David M. Myers, Oxford township, Adams countv, where she was married to Mr. Hoke on October 1, 1873. Mr and Mrs.

Hoke took up their residence on the Carl farm, along the Carlisle at the New Oxford road where they remained until 1895 when they moved to Hanover. Her husband preceded her in death January 9, 1925. Col. Slagle Her Ancestor Her distinguished ancestor, Col. Henry Slagle, was one of the leading men in this section from 1764 to the time of his death in 1811.

Hi was born in Lancaster county, a son of Christopher Schlegle who came to Pennsylvania in 1735 from Saxony. He subsequently removed to Berwick township, then a part of York county, where he acquired property along run, a branch of the Conewago. His son Henry was commissioned one of the provincial magistrates in 1764 and commanded a battalion of Associators in 1779. He was a representative at various important conferences of the colonies and represented York county in the General Assembly from 1777 to 1779 and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789 to 1790. He was commissioned by Governor Mifflin one of the associate judges of York county in 1791 and continued as on the organization of Adams county.

He represented the latter county in the legislature in 1801 and Heard Address Mrs. Hoke was 3 of the few surviving persons who heard Abraham Lincoln's address at the dedication of the National at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. She enjoyed the further distinction of having shaken hands with the great statesman at that time. David Hoke, who later became her husband, was also present on that occasion. Her brother, Charles, served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil war, while another brother, Robert, fought with the Union troops.

Her kindly Christian character and lovely disposition endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Until about two years ago Mrs. Hoke had been a regular attendant at services in Mark's Lutheran church of which she was the last surviving charter member. St. was fo nded in 1864 and among the charter members were the following well-known former residents of Hanover all of whom have preceded Mrs.

Hoke in death. Mr. and Mrs. David P. Forney, Mr.

and Mrs. George H. Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Adam W.

Hinkle, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Michael, Mr.

and Mrs. John 6 Young, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Young, Mr.

and Mrs. Reuben Young, Dr. Horace Alleman. Mr. and Mrs, David Wortz, Mr.

and Mrs. Isaac Loucks, Michael Etzler. John R. Stine, Jacob W. Bender, S.

Sprenkle. Samuel Michael, William Grumbine, George C. Zouck, Charles Newman, Henry Bittinger, Charles OBITUARY FREDERICK A. KRETZ Frederick A. Kretz, 203 Second avenue, died at his home yesterdav morning at 3.30 o'clock, following an illness of seven months He was aged 78 years.

Mr. Kretz was a so.i of the late Philip and Sarah He had formerly been employed is a watchman at the plant of the E. R. Haffelfir.ger Company, Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Kretz; one daughter, Mary Kretz, at home; four step-sons.

Joseph and Francis Aumen, Hanover. John Aumen, Lancaster, and Leo Aumen. Newport; one brother, Charles Kretz, Carlisle 'pike; two sisters. Mrs. Laughman and Mrs.

Burt both of York, The body was removed to the funeral parlors of Mrs. Elizabeth Long to be prepared for burial. It will be returned to his late home Sunday afternoon where friends may call. The funeral will be held Monday morning with services conducted at 8 o'clock in St. Josephs Catholi' church, Baltimore street.

The Very Rev. James A. Huber, rector, will officiate. Burial will be made in St. Joseph's cemetery, Hanover.

ELKS PLAY SANTA TO 1,450 KIDDIES CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS CI OUSHER GFIMAN Miss Helena Elizabeth Geiman daughter of Joel S. Geiman, 591 1 South Franklin street. Hanover YOUTH IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Annual Christmas Party Held and Raymond Samuel Cloushet son of Mr and Mrs. id S. Clousher, Little Guests Entertained 140 Lombard street.

own were At Park Theater Then marned Wednesday evening, at 3.30 o'clock at the home of the brides Given Gifts father. The single ring ceremony of the Lutheran church, was per- ward Francis Krebs, 17. Victim Of Coronary Thrombosis. Coroner Appeared Well Yesterday Santa Claus and his helpers put in several strenuous hours in Hanover yesterday morning after the traditional night-time bv enter- formed by the bride's pastor, the Rev. O.

C. Dean, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church. They were attended bv Mr, and Mrs Eldon S. me ano distributing gifts to ap- Geiman.

Spring Grove, brother and proximately 1 450 children at the annual Christmas morning party of Hanover lodee, No 763. O. E. The children the (rirls and bovs whose homes had been overlooked bv the eood St. Nick or whose gifts were considered just a little less than they deserved were guests of the Elks at a motion picture at the Park theater at 9 o'clock, and then wer.t to the home on Baltimore street to receive their gifts.

(Continued On Page Four) Funeral Services For Clyde Rinker The funeral of Clyde E. Rinker, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rinker, New Oxford R. D.

3, who was killed at noon Thursday when struck by an automobile, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of the grandmother, near Gettysburg. Further sendees will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church. New Oxford. The Rev. J.

A. Turner, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be made in the New Oxford cemetery. Fairfield Man Injured Earl Mickley, Fairfield, received lacerations of the fingers of his left hand while sawing wood at the borne of his father, Oliver Mickley, Mt. Hope, this morning.

He was treated by Dr. Ira M. Henderson, Fairfield. MISS MALINDA HAMM Miss Malinda Hamm, daughter of the late Jacob and Margaret Hildebrand Hamm, died yesterday at 12.30 a. at her home in Springfield township.

Death followed a 10 years' illness. She was bedfast three weeks. The deceased was 81 years old. She is survived by the following sisters: Mrs. Sophia Bortner.

Glen Rock; Mrs. J. N. Palkenstein. Spring Grove; Mrs.

Peter H. Grove, R. and Mrs. Maggie A. Hamm.

Glen Rock. Miss Hamm was a member of St. Peter's Reformed church. Funeral Directors G. W.

Geiple and Son. who prepared the body for burial, removed it to the deceased's late home yesterday afternoon from where the funeral will be held on Sunday at 9 a. after which concluding obsequies will be held in St. Reformed (Yellow) church, which is the time for regular worship. Interment will be made in the adjoining cemetery.

The Rev. T. A. Crist, pastor of the Glen Rock Reformed charge will officiate. sister-in-law of the bride.

The bride wore a dress of Royal blue ith corresponding accessories, and carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds and baby breath. The bridesmaid also wore a dress of Royal blue with corresponding accessories, and wore a corsage of pink rosebuds and snapdragons. The bride is a graduate of the Hanover High school with the class of 1934 The bridegroom is employed at the Hoke's Bakery. They will reside at the home of 1 bride for the present. The Park theater management the ceremony a reception was held, had arranged an interesting pro- Those present were Mr.

and Mrs. gram for the youngsters, presenting David Clousher and Mr. and Mrs. and many Robert Clousher, Littlestown; Mr. others of filmland's favorites of and Mrs.

Eldon S. Geiman, Spring children. The audience behaved ex-j Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond cellently.

but forgot all bounds with Clousher, Mr and Mrs. Verlv Clou- its enthusiasm. Cheered up by the movie show. sher. daughter Mary Alice, the Rev.

O. C. Dean and Joel Geiman. Hanover. The newlyweds were the the children marcl ed he few oc rpcjpjents many gifts.

A wed- to the Elks home to tie greeted dinner was served Christmas Day at the home of the bride's father, with members of the imme JOHN MOUL John Moul, eighty years old died at 3 yesterday morning at the residence of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Shetrone. 560 Salem avenue, York. Death was caused by a complication of diseases and followed a lingering illness.

He had been bedfast for the past fourteen months. Since no doctor had been in attendance for a twenty-four hour period the death certificate was issued by Dr. L. Zech, coroner. He is survived by the one daughter, Mrs.

Shetrone, with whom he resided; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Annie Ketterman, West York, and three brothers. Robert Moul, Abbottstowm Henry Moul. East Berlin, and Charles Moul, Dover. The funeral will be held at the home of his daughter on Monday afternoon at 2 The Rev.

Russell Zweizig, pastor of Bethany Reformed church, will officiate. Interment will be made in Greenmount cemetery. MRS. GEORGIA E. PENSYL Mrs.

Georgia E. Pensyl, 67. wife of U. D. Pensyl, died suddenly yesterday morning at her home, 1925 North Fourth street, Harrisburg.

Among the survivors are two sons, a daughter, a granddaughter and two sisters, one of whom is Mrs. Harvey Hoffman. Bendersville. Mrs. Pensyl was a member of the Covenant Presbyterian church, Harrisburg.

The funeral will be held on Monday with services at the home at 10 o'clock. The Rev. David E. Young, pastor of the Sixth Street United Brethren church, will officiate. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery, Arendtsville.

Friends may call at the home on Sunday evening after 7 o'clock. MRS. J. LUTHER SCOTT Mrs. Sarah Emma Scott, wife of J.

Luther Scott, Freedom township, died Christmas morning at 6:45 (Continued On Page Seven) UNIDENTIFIED BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED Lad Rushed To Hanover General After FifcTirinjf In fnwh Between Coal Truck And Wagon A boy whose identity was not immediately determined was critically injured this afternoon at about 2 when a coal truck crashed into the horse and wagon which the lad was driving along the Hanover- Carlisle highway about one mile north of Hampton. The boy, aged about eleven or twelve years, was rushed to the Hanover General hospital, where his condition was described as serious. The truck was operated by Paul E. Lloyd. Bridgeton, York county, according to a report obtained by Hanover police.

Lloyd, police said, was driving south on the highway and apparently was attempting to pass the horse and wagon when the crash occurred. The boy was crushed in the wreckage of the Police and hospital authorities were endeavoring to check writh farmers in the vicinity of the crash in an effort to learn the boy's identity. The state highway patrol sub-station at Gettysburg was notified of the case and a patrolman was ordered to the scene to investigate. Hosts At Christmas Dinner A turkey dinner was served Christmas Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Pius Kaltreider. 616 York street, to the following relatives and friends: Mr. and Mrs. David Bollinger, son Allen, Mrs. John Shue, children Arlene, Kenneth, Lorraine and Shirley and Hannah Fuhrman, Brodbecks; Mr.

and Mrs. Pius Kaltreider, son Pius Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rohrbaugh, Mrs. Amelia Harner, Alexander Miller, Charles H.

Rohrbaugh and Clair Kaltreider, Hanover; Mr. and Mrs. Amos Corn bower, children Loretta. Francis and Laverne, Spring Grove; Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Rohrbaugh, dau- gnters Betty and Delores. Sinsheim; Mrs. Hilda Haye. daughter Dorothy, Harrisburg. (Continued On Page Four) Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon The body of Roy J.

Parr, aged 52 years, who died Thursday afternoon, will be removed from the undertaking establishment of W. F. Dodson to the late residence where it may be viewed this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. Because of the death the Shell Service station, West Walnut street, will be closed Sunday. The funeral will be held from the late home Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

The Rev. Dr. John S. i Tome, pastor of St. Mark's Luth! eran church, will officiate.

Int.er- I ment will ts in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Adams Countiana Injured Ralph Rinehart, 23, Gardners R. D. 2, was treated at the Annie M.

Warner hospital, Gettysburg, yesterday for a laceration of the thumb on the left hand received while he was cutting wood. Luther Lobaugh, Gettysburg, suffered a fracture of the right wrist diate families present. PETTY LEESE Paul Petty, son of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs.

Henry Curtis Petty. Amsterdam, N. and Miss Catharine M. Leese daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Henry Leese. 234 Baer avenue, were united in marriage in St. Matthew Lutheran church. West Chestnut street, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clo The double ring ceremony of the Lutheran church, performed by the pastor, the Rev. Dr.

Harry Hursh Beidleman, was witnessed by relatives and friends. The bride was given in marriage by her father. The attendants were Miss Dorothy Louise Leese. sister of the bride, and Leroy D. Lamb, Baltimore, Md.

J. Herbert Springer, church organist. presided at the console. The bride was attired in white ivory velvet and wore a bridal veil. She carried an old-fashioned bouquet.

Her sister wore a gown of Royal blue velvet and carried an old-fashioned bouquet. The bridegroom is connected with the Philadelphia offices of Remington Rand. The bride, a graduate of the hospital, Philadelphia, is supervisor of the ward of the Burlington County hospital, Mt. Holly, N. J.

Alter a short wedding trip through New York state the couple will re- Rt 3 30 side in Mt. Holly. Edward Francis Krebs seventeen- year-old son of Mr and Mrs W. Krebs 144H North street, was found dead in bed this morning at 6 clock when his father went in to his room when the boy failed to answer when called County Coroner L. Zech.

who was notified, came to Hanover and Issued the death certificate attributing death to coronary thrombosis. The youth had been in his usual health yesterday and had not complained of feeling ill He had been in good spirits throughout the dav and had spent last evening with a friend. He returned home about 11 o'clock and retired. This morning Following nis father arase shortly before six o'clock He called the boy for work and received 110 answer. A few minutes later he thought he heard a groan and again called to his son.

When he received no answer be went into the bedroom and found his son dead George P. Ard was summoned but could only confirm the fact that death had occurred a short time before, and he notified the coroner Surviving are the parents, John William Goldie Luckenhaugh Krebs two brothers and one sister, William, Robert and Dolores Krebs, all at home; his maternal grandmother. Mrs J. Luckenbaugh, who resides at the Krebs home, and his paterial grandmother. Mrs.

David York The youth was a member of Grace Evangelical church and Sunday school, and fraternally was affiliated with Waftiington Clamp, No. 328 Patriotic Order Sons of American. He had been employed in the plant of the Hanover Cordage Company. The funeral will held Monday afternoon w-ith services conducted Bt the home at 2 The Rev. Dr Adam C.

Ruth, pastor of Grace Evangelical church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Mt. Olivet cemetery. DECISION BY HITLER AWAITED IN EUROPE Stands Uncertainly At Familiar Cross Road German Chancellor Ponders On Whether To Aid Spanish Insurgents Lead To New Alignment Of Powers And Peace Or General War (By The Associated Press) A troubled Europe waited uncertainly at a familiar cross road today, waiting tensely for Chancellor Hitler of Germany to make a decision on aid to Spanish insurgents which mav lead to a new alignment of powers and peace or general war. London Great Britain obviously troubled, hoped Hitier would a decisive gesture for peace and dispell war clouds overhanging Europs Parte French cabinet curtailed Christmas holidays and kept close contact with the capital in fear of a new week-end by Adolf Hitler Berlin Chancellor Hitler faced decision on Spanish demand for greatly increased military aid in his mountain holiday 1 GREAT BRII i TO AID CiERMAW PARIS DEC tAP' Two European democracies Great Britain and France offered Germany aid in her economical struggle today in return for political guarantees of peace The Democratic nations began the outline of a program which would give the third Reich access to European raw material markets a projected reward for refusing to send military assistance to Spanish in- Indications the plan to Influence Hitlers answer to a Spanish fascist request for 60,000 Nazi soldiers was taking shape came in conversations between the French minister of commerce and the German ambassador to Paris.

In its broad outlines, the scheme included the ixxssibility the Reich would regain non-European territory, for colonization, with a new Locarno and neutrality agreement interwoven In an attempt at a general Settlement, Should Hitler decide to send the insurgent General Francisco Franco the 60,000 troops he is to demanding, however, French circles used the word explosion" to describe the probable result. it was reported in Paris that fully equipped German were awaiting only official orders to entrain for service with the Spanish insurgents. COLONIAL CONCESSIONS TO GERMANY MAY SOLVE CRISIS BERLIN. DEC 26 Colonial concessions to Germany may solve the international crLsis centering on Nazi to fascist Spain, well informed sources said today. These perrons disclosed that the weeks grave conferences in Pails between the French foreign minister and tJie Germajp ambassador had involved not only the sending of German soldiers to Spain but urgent need for raw materials as well.

The French foreign minister, it was stated, dropped the hint France DRUGGIST HERE DIES SUDDENLY Edward T. Smith Is Fatally Stricken In His Store On Broadway Christmas Followed Vocation 52 Years AGED ADAMS RESIDENT DIES IN 00 ITI YEAR Mrs. Margaret Moore, Fairfield. Heard Dedication At Gettysburg Edward Thomas Smith, -year- old Hanover druggist, died suddenly at his store on Broadway at 4,30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Death was due to heart attack.

News of hLs untimely passing came as shock to Mr. many friends In the community with whose business life he had been for than half century. The veteran druggist was fatally stricken while his duties In his store on Christmas eve. He had suffered an attack about two months ago and had since been under the care of physician. Mr Smith was apparently in his usual health on Thursday.

In the late afternoon he had gone to the bnM'ment of the store on an errand. A short time later. Mitchell Jenkins, a clerk found him slumped on the floor Dr, George H. Jordy, Frederick street, was summoned and pronounced Mr Smith dead. The deceased was the youngest son of the late Aloysius and Agnes (Hemleri Smith, He was born on December 3.

1870 in Hanover. He married Fannie Forney Deilone on April 28. 1H96 Fifty-two years ago on July 1 1884 Mi Smith entered upon his duties as a clerk in a drug store. He remained affiliated with that profession up until the time of his death. The deceased was flrrt employed by Di A Snively in his store in a two-story frame building which stood on the present site of the Hank building, Center square Following the untimely death of Dr.

Snively in 1890, Dr. R. N. Melsenhelder, father of the late Dr. John Melsenhelder, took over Dr.

Snively practl and the drug store. Mr, Smith remained with Dr. Meisenhelder as prescription clerk and manager of the store, beginning that service on February 18iH), and ATH Miss Dora Louise Motter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jdhn F.

Motter, 200 Westminster avenue, and Lawrence Nathan, Washington, were married Christmas Eve in Washington in the presence of a few friends. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Norman Gersten. The bride was attired in a gown of blue and silver lame, with hat and shoes of blue velvet, and wore a shoulder corsage of gardenias and lilies of the valley. Her only attendant was her sister.

Miss Ruth Estelle Motter, who wore a dress of black and coral with a shoulder corsage of roses. The bridegroom's twin brother. Robert Nathan, Washington, acted as best man The bride is a graduate of Hanover High school, class of 1926, and attended school in New York City. She is employed as a buyer in the Hecht Company, Washington department store Mr. Nathan is a graduate cf the University of Pennsylvania and holds an executive position with the Mrs Margaret Moore, one of Fairfield oldest residents, died at her home on Water street this morning Death was due to infirmities.

She was aged 8 years. Mrs. Moore, widow of J. Howard Moore, had been in failing health for six months and bedfast for five weeks. The deceased was a daughter of the late Abram Hill and Martha (White) McCreary.

She was born in Fairfield and spent her entire life in Adams county. Her husband died in 1916. Mrs. Moore heard Abraham Lincoln deliver his address at the dedication of the National cemetery in Gettysburg on November 19. 1863.

Surviving are seven children, Albert M. Moore and Mrs. John Wagner, Ashton, Robert M. Moore, Dixon, Mtss Martha and Arthur Moore, at home; Frank M. Moore, Fairfield, and Ruth M.

Moore, Helena. Mont one sister, Miss Hattie McCreary, Fairfield, and a number of nephews and nieces. The funeral will be held on Monday with services at the home at 1:30 o'clock The Rev. C. Coffelt, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, Fairfield, of which the deceased was a member, will officiate.

Hecht Company. The couple will Interment will be made in he un- be at home after January 5 at 220 Allison street, N. Washington, D. C. ion cemetery, Fairfield.

Kenneth C. Bollinger, son of Mr. yesterday while he was attempting and Mrs Oliver Bollinger, Center to crank a truck. He was taken to street, and Helena M. Fisher, daugh- the office of Dr.

Raymond Oyler and later removed to the Gettysburg hospital where the fracture was reduced. Frank Kimple, Orrtanna, R. was treated at the hospital on Thursday for a badly lacerated left hand. Kimple caught ter of Mrs. M.

O. Collins, 18 Sprenkle avenue, were married in St. Matthews Lutheran parsonage Christmas morning at 8.30 The ring ceremony of the Lutheran church was performed by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Harry Hursh Beidl? his hand in a circular saw while man.

The bride was attired in biege he was sawing wood. Removed To Hospital Mrs. Grover Hoffman, 246 Locust street, was removed from her home to the Hanover General hospital in the ambulance this afternoon at 2 o'clock. IN AND ABOUT TOWN The members of the Little Flower Circle, No. 473, Daughters of Isabella.

will meet after church tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Charles Gallagher, High street, from where they will go in a group the home of Mrs. Edwrard W. Eieta, North Franklin street, for One Of Warmest Christmas Days One of the warmest Christmas days on record was experienced here yesterday when the mercury registered a maximum of 62 degrees. This one degree hotter than Gettysburg's Christmas day temperature of 61 degrees and four degrees higher than the mark at York where 58 degrees was the high recorded.

More typical of spring than winter was yesterday's weather. In some gardens forsythia buds were burst- 1 ing, pussy willow buds are as iar advanced as in March, and dande- lions are in bloom. Today was another warm day with the mercury up to the 64-degree mark. Charged With Assault Maurice Fissel, West Middle street, Gettysburg, was arrested at 3.30 clock yesterday morning on a charge of assault and battery. Fissel, who I was released on his own recognizance for appearance at hearing at this afternoon before Just- ice of the Peace John C.

Shealer, Gettysburg, had been arrested by Officer Lloyd Wisler. of the Gettysburg police. The information against Fissel was filed by Norman Washington, colored. Truck And Auto Collide None was injured in an auto crash Thursday afternoon at 4 10 o'clock one-half mile east of McKnightstown on the Lincoln highway when vehicles driven by Ira Nauple, 17, Orrtanna, D. 1, and Leroy Schler, 37, 1511 Rutherford avenue, Baltimore, Md collided.

The Adams countian who was driving a truck, was traveling east. Schler, at the time, was proceeding in a westerly direction, following another machine. The truck wan damaged to the extent of $150 and the car SI 25. Both vehicles were towed from the scene of the accident. Patrolman HUMBERT Thomas Mahalik, of the state Miss Laverne P.

Humbert, Union highway patrol at Gettysburg, in- Mills, and Braden Sterner, Han- -estigated. crepe with brown accessories. Th will reside at the home of the mother. (Continued On Page CHIANG KAI-SHEK RETURNS TO HANKING Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo Is Given Tumultuous Welcome Following Two Weeks As Prisoner Of Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang Assumes Control Of Government NANKING, DEC 26 (AP), Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek smiling and triumphant, returned to Nanking today after two weeks' cap- tlvity and assumed Arm control of the nationalist government he had charted through a perilous crisis A virtual prisoner in the capital wa.s the rebel Marshal Chang Hsueh- Llang, whose capture of the premier December 12 created the gravest crisis in the hLstory of the Chinese nationalist movement. Credit for the dramatic solution to the grim threat of civil war was universally accorded the Generalissimo's American-educated wife, who stood proudly at his side as he took the tumultuous salute of the thousands who rushed to hnil their freedom With her brother, Dr.

Soong, the intrepid Madame Chiang. unaided by the Nanking government, negotiated directly with the rebel marshal for his release In Shanghai a government spokesman said Chang was remaining in Nanking and that a settlement concerning hLs future was expected later It had been thought at first Marshal Chang was being brought here aboard a giant American-made military plane the personal prisoner. But. when the transport settled heavily to the ground at the military airport the young marshal and Dr Soong were not aboard. The marshal, it was learned later, was being kept under guard at Dr.

Soong's home. Officials said fear the irale crowds might harm the rebel head caused them to bring him Into tht city secietly. PREDICT WIDE USE OF POWER ALCOHOL ON FARMS ATCHISON. KAN 8 DFiC 26 (APi Two men of letters in the science of chemistry, both familiar with farm woes, predicted today that, power alcohol within ten years will become an economic force in American agriculture. Back of this statement of Dr, leo Christensen and Dr.

Harry Miller was three months of commercial production on a research Im.sis of (water free) alcohol, made from a wide variety of farm- grown raw materials Laboratory experiments over a period of years convinced them that anhydrous alcohol could be blended up to 20 with gasoline and used successfully as a fuel for high compression combustion engines. It 1 being sold from service stations in four Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Iowa The price is the same as for regular gasoline. Less than a year ago Dr. Christensen and Miller rebuilt an alcohol plant here. They had hoped for a good grain liarvest but the drouth interfered.

With corn prices going higher and higher it could not be used profitably as a raw material as Dr. had hoped. Some com was purchased, however, and converted to determine the price that could be paid for it. This was set at somewhere between 60 and 75 cents bushel, depending upon the market for by-products mill feed and solid carbon-dioxide (dry "We can operate Dr, Christensen the er from a cent to a cent and a quarter a for raw materials. The ten-year average price for many farm products suitable for conversion is less than a cent a (Continued On Page Four) Treats Given Children Sixteen hundred Adams county children received oranges and boxes of candy at the fourteenth annual kiddies Christmas party of the Gettysburg Fire Company, Thursday evening.

The treat, which was hand ed out at the engine house, was made possible by donations from the citizens of Gettysburg. Eight hundred oranges and a number of boxes of candy were distributed among the wards at the Adams county home and jail. Paradise tectory, Mont Alto sanitarium, and patients at the Annie M. Warner hospital. The distribution to last mentioned places was made on Christmas eve.

Seek Marriage l.icenm Waldo James Henry, Sparrows Point, Md son of Mrs. Mauds Henry, Homestead, Pa, and Eliza beth Coooer Minnick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Charles Minnick, Simrrows Point, made application for a marriage license Thursday afternoon In the office of Roy D. Renner, Adams county clerk of the courts. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL over, were married Christmas Day at Silver Run.

The ring ceremony was performed in St. Re- (Continued On Page Mark Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. William J. Warner BIRTHS Bom.

Wednesday, to Mr and Mrs. Gerald Livelsberger, McSher- rystown, at the Hanoaer General hospital, a daughter, Gloria Anri. I Mrs. Livelsberger, before marriage, I was Miss Eileen McMaster, da ugh- 1 ter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles McMas- Will Appear At Inquest Lieut. C. H. Bruce, Institute, W. Va operator of the automobile that struck and fatally injured Clyde E.

McSher-vstown Rinker. 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rinker, New Oxford R. A daughter was bom Thursday celebrated their forty-ninth wed- 3.

on the Lincoln highway, Tnursdav to Mr and Mrs. John Barnhart, ding anniversary Christmas Day at at noon, has posted $500 to guaran- Franklin township, the home of Mr. and Mrs. George tee his appearance at an inquest in- Born, last evening, to Mr. and Britcher.

Ruth avenue. Mr. and Mrs. to the death. Dr.

E. A. Miller, Mrs. Calvin Carey, Highland town- Wamer, who ere former residents tysburg, Adams county coroner, will) ship, a daughter 1,600 KIDDIES GUESTS OF GOVERNOR NICE ANNAPOLIS, DEC (AP) Sixteen hundred hapijy youngsters packed the two local motion picture theaters today as Governor Harry W. Nice gave his annual Christmas for the children of Annapolis.

Nine hundred white children filled one theater, while 700 negro boys and glrLs packed the other one. Governor Nice, who was busy at the government house preparing his message to the legislature sent to the theaters, who, on behalf of the governor, wished the children a merry Christmas season and a happy new year. of Hanover, are now residing with their granddaughter at Gettysburg D. 4. likely hold the probe next week.

No Bom Christmas morning to Mr. charge has been lodged against th? and Mrs. Charles Shorb, near Man- driver ot the car. ehester, a daughter. 26 PERSONS KILLED IN BLAST ON SHIP ROME, DEC.

26. persons were killed and 100 injured December 23, and official cr mm unique said todav, in an explosion board a steam hp in the harbor Massowa, Italian eritrea, on the East coast of Africa. A fire renting from explosion spread rapidly over the waterfront and port, destroying several buildings including the offices of ths port authority. Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Yohe and son Richard, Ixw-k Haven, are visiting Mr. Yohe's mother, Mrs. Mabel Stambaugh, Pleasant street. Mrs. Karl Meckley and daughter, Betty Jane, Allentown, are visiting relatives in Hanover.

Miss Janice L. Meredith, Philadelphia. Is the guest of relatives in Hanover. Carlton Day, Binghamton. N.

Is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Slagle, 340 East Walnut street. Miss iilanche Markle.

an Instructor of nurses at St. Joseph's hospital. Lancaster, arrived In Hanover Friday evening to spend a vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.

M. Markle, McAl- llsted street. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Crowley, daughter Dorothy, Mr.

and Mrs. James Ferry, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Castino, and Mrs. Hanna Durkin, Chester, Pa were guests Christmas Day at the home of Oscar Bemlller and family, Locust street.

Miss Fannie Baer, a teacher in the high school at Paulsboro, N. Is spending the holidays at the homi of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. 3.

Baer, York street. Miss Edna M. Topper, Harrisburg, spent Christmas in Hanover. Sha was accompanied home by her sister, Miss M. Gertrude Topper, Third street, who will spend the week-end in Harrisburg.

Peter Flick, Lancaster, is visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Long, 21 East Middla street. Precipitation Predicted Weather outlook for week beginning Monday in the North and Middle Atlantic States: Precipation Monday and again about Wednesday; mild at beginning of week, somewhat colder Tuesday, much colder toward end of week..