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The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 12

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THE EVENING NEWS, MRS. JOHN L. DEMMY Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Demmy, 70, wife of John L. Demmy, 141 South Thirty-second street, Camp Hill, died after a long She yesterday in the Harrisburg firepital Camp Hill for the last 21 years.

A native of Perry, County, she was a member Paul's Lutheran Church. in Perry County. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Miriam Brunner, at home, and Mrs. Evelyn Mangham, Carthage, Texas; two grandchildren, and six brothers, Miles Moose, Mechanicsburg; John Moose, California; Calvin Moose, Cumberland County; Walter Moose, Perry County; Arthur Moose, California, and Russell Moose, Cumberland County.

Funeral services will be held on Friday at 2 p. m. at the S. Harper Myers funeral home at 37 East Main street, Mechanicsburg, with the Rev. Eli Howard, pastor of the Church of God, Camp Hill, officiating.

Burial will in the Stone Church Cemetery. Friends call on Thursday in evening from 7 until 9 o'clock at the funeral home. EVERETT P. WRIGHT Funeral services for Everett P. Wright, 59, 52 South Forty-seventh street, Lawnton, who died Saturday at the home his son, John S.

Wright, in Merion, will be held tomorrow: at 2.30 p. m. at Paxton Presbyterian Church, Paxtang, with the Rev. Morton Glise, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Paxton Church Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home at 1600 Market street tonight after 7 o'clock. He was assistant supervisor the accounting bureau for the vania Railroad. A railroad employe for 38 years, he was a member of Paxton Presbyterian Church, where he taught the James Boyd Bible Class, was adult adviser to the Christian Endeavor Society and an elder: for 12 years. He was a past master of Milo Lodge, F. and A.

in Penn Yan, N. Y. In addition his son he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie M. Wright; a brother, Perry Wright, Bath, N.

two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Koehler, Dundee, N. and Mrs. Addie Smith, McKees Rocks, and a grandson. JOHN P.

PAGET Funeral services will be held late this week for John P. Paget, 74, native of Harrisburg and veteran construction engineer, in the American Cemetery, Guyaquil, Equador. He died following an operation in a Guyaquil hospital yesterday. He was a son of the late John and Mary Paget, Harrisburg, and is survived by three sisters and two brothers. They are: Mrs.

Margaret Kuebler, Mrs. Edward Hikes and Allen M. Paget, all of Harrisburg, and Mrs. George B. Cramer, St.

Petersburg, and Wilmer J. Paget, Washington, Paget was graduated from Central High School in 1894 and joined a group not engineers headed by Col. William F. Shunk, Lucknow, to go to Equador to build the Quyaquil and Quito Railway. He spent nearly a half century in Equador, serving with the railway in various executive capacities.

The last of his occasional Harrisburg was last Summer. Jap Reds Spur Attacks on U. S. TOKYO -(AP)- Japan's Communist party intensified its on the United States and the Allied occupation today as turmoil over General MacArthur's ban on strikes by government workers continued. posters through the city proclaimed "we hereby declare war against Fascism and third party interference which are running berserk," and the Communist newspaper called for "a revolution against the governing class." (By "third party interference," the posters evidently meant the Allied occupation, whose directives guide the Japanese government.) Boldest Act to Date The slogans marked the boldest development yet in a campaign of nationalism toward which the Communists recently turned in an effort to win popular support.

The double propaganda campaign obviously was intended as a fanfare for the scheduled demonstration tomorrow on the return of Communist Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda from Kyushu, He was slightly wounded in a recent assassination attempt. "The ruling said the Communist posters, "finally revealed their imperialistic character in full by striking down Tokuda." His would-be assassin has been identified as a disillusioned former Communist, but the European Cominform recently asserted "ruling classes" engineered the attack on Tokuda. Giant French Seaplanes Grounded as Hunt for Lost Airliner Continues PARIS (INS) -Air France announced today that it is grounding all seaplanes of the type that disappeared over the Atlantic Sat-, urday with 52 persons on board. Airline officials also said that traffic on the Martinique-Bordeaux a run, on which the plane was flying when it vanished, has been discontinued. Meanwhile, an air, sea, and submarine search failed to disclose any sign of the fate of the huge 73-ton, six engine, Latecoere 631 flying boat.

The Trumpeter Swan, weighing about 35 pounds, is the largest flying bird. Harrisburg, Tuesday, August 3, 1948 Obituary Obituary RADA NICHICI 70, Rada Nichici, 59, 1122 North Cam- eron street, died yesterday at home after a lingering illness. He is survived by his widow, Florence Nichici; a son, Samuel, a daughter, Miss Elizabeth at home; and a sister, Mrs. Buritici, in Europe. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 p.

m. at the dence with the Rev. John pastor of St. John's American manian Orthodox Church, will be in Harrisburg Cemetery. Friends may call at the residence tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m.

PARTENIE ANTA PARTENIE ANTA Partenie Anta, 79, a guest at the Bethesda Mission, died Sunday morning at a hospital here. He is survived by a son, John, Harrisburg. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at p. m. at the Fisher neral home el at 1334 North Second street, with the Rev.

John Ciucla, pastor of St. John's American Romanian Orthodox Church, officiating. Burial will be in Shoop Church Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. JOHN GROOSEMAN John Grooseman, 65, a retired stone mason, of 423 Mohn street, Enhaut, died this morning at the Harrisburg Hospital, He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Anna Stoner, this city; a sister, Mrs. Joseph Nemeth, Aubersville, and three grandchildren. Low mass will be celebrated at St. John's Catholic Church, Steelton, Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, with the Rev. Rudolph Fuhr as celebrant.

Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends may call at the Richardson funeral home, 118 North Front street, tomorrow evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. 'Dream House' Records Found PITTSBURGH -(AP)- County Detective William Haushalter said records and personal effects of two builders sought under housing fraud were found today in an abandoned Richland Township cottage. The men sought by police are Raymond E. Reynolds, 50, and his son, 1.

Raymond L. Reynolds, 24. Indictments charge them with fraudulent conversion in accepting down payments on "dream houses" which were never built. Purchasers have filed claims asking return of 000 in down payments. Haushalter said that under a bed in the cottage were two suitcases bulging with papers of the Reynolds Construction Company.

Bank books showed withdrawals of over $1000 recently. Neighbors told police that a man, woman and small boy who had been living in the cottage about three weeks left hurriedly Saturday. Sunbury Pastor Accepts Challenge to Debate 'No Devil, No Hell' Issue ANNAPOLIS-(AP) A Sunday School teacher who says he can prove in 10 minutes "there is no devil and no hell," will debate the subject with four other persons who say there is. "These hell-and-devil ministers that try to scare everybody get my goat," Alexander W. Andrew, of Shadyside, said recently.

So the Methodist Bible School teacher ran an advertisement "any three Protestant ministo a debate on the existence of hell and the devil. Accepting his challenge for a debate Friday are Evangelist Ben H. Atkinson, Church of Christ, Sunbury; the Rev. James L. Smiley, vicar of St.

Anne's Episcopal Church at Annapolis; the Rev. Robert C. Smoot, pastor of North Avenue Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, and Jerry H. Simpson, theological student from Bethlehem. 25 Hospitalized Veterans To Be Auxiliary Guests Twenty-five war veterans hospitalized at the Lebanon Hospital will be guests of the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary of Harrisburg Wednesday, August 11.

They will be taken to the ball game on the Island for the game between the Harrisburg Senators and the Trenton Giants of the Interstate League, At the game they will be served refreshments the Auxiliary. Mrs. Daniel Singer is president of the auxiliary, and Miss Harriet Levy is chairman of the Hospital Activity committee. Other committee members are Mrs. Louis Cohen, Mrs.

Ike Rochman and Mrs. Harry Ludwig. Gunmen Crowd Car Off Road, Rob Occupants GREENSBURG-(AP) A couple of Westmoreland County gunmen have developed this technique--they crowd a car off the highway, then rob the occupants. That was how Louis Smola, 32, of near Irwin, lost $10 last night and a woman riding with him lost her wrist watch. "They drove off without bothering us further," Smola told State Police.

"Oh, yes," he added, "They took my car keys with them." Two Notaries Named Governor Duff today appointed two notaries public for Cumberland County. They are Donald E. Enders, Camp Hill, and John D. Kilmore, Mechanicsburg, R. D.

3. IT'S PROFITABLE BLE TO READ THESE his Mrs. and Nichici, Milita held resiCiucla, Roofficiat- Battery Sale At U.S. Dealers U. S.

heavy duty batteries are currently featured in a sale at Schneider Young's U. S. tire store, 215 Verbeke street. The dealers said they expect batteries to go up in price in the near future but have such a large inventory that they want to "unload" to provide display and storage space for new tires. This heavy duty battery, they said, has the new multiplate, heavy service construction with patented rubber separators that gives greater sustained life, power and capacity than regular construction.

In addition to the U. S. all-rubber separators, the dealers said the batteries have spun glass plate a retainers, a combination that "represents the best known mechanical and electrical methods to plate shedding and to prolong battery life." The stock, they said, includes batteries to fit all cars and trucks, all guaranteed, some of them up to 27 months. A tradein allowance for old batteries is part of the sale offer. LEARNS NEW CUSTOMS BOWLING GREEN, Ohio-(INS) -Youngest student at Bowling Green State University is 15-year-old 2 Zonia Cajar, freshman from Panama.

Miss Cajar is surprised most by two things: that campus dances don't last as long as the eight-hour one in her home town of Panama City and by the North American custom of women, not men, speaking first. EXHAUST FANS FOR EVERY PURPOSE SALES Wolfe SUPPLY CO. 1831 N. Cameron, Ph. 4-4913 Years in Harrisburg" FUEL SAVERS STOKERS OIL BURNERS The Finest in Automatic Heating Since 1930 FUEL SAVERS Incorporated 15TH AND HERR STREETS PHONE 2-0008 A GO It's healthfully COOL! There's COOL COMFORT for all the family coming up this summer sound sleep on the hottest nights new appetite at mealtime zestful living instead of that fagged.

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It is a unit suitable for any household and may be installed in the bedroom as readily as in the living room." They recommend it specially for homes of railroaders and others who work at night or through irregular hours and must sleep by Remington Portable ADDING MACHINES For Immediate Delivery COLE AND COMPANY 321-23 N. Second St. Phone 6-6413 Special! FULL SIZE AUTOMATIC HARDWICK GAS RANGE $124.95 Pernco APPLIANCE 1249 Market St. Phone 6-2340 MOVING A. 506 then MOVE the HARTMAN way! SAFE and SATISFACTORY CAREFUL and CONSIDERATE PROMPT and EFFICIENT NO JOB TOO LARGE NO DISTANCE TOO GREAT H.

A. HARTMAN SON 537 N. FRONT ST. STEELTON, PA. Phone 9828 day, provide saying, the "the conditioning unit proper atmosphere to assure relaxation and rest." 2 Die in Flaming Car After Double Crash ERIE- -(AP)-Two Erie men were killed today in a flaming automobile which raced out of control along Route 5 for 175 feet and rammed a trailer-truck.

The dead were Fred Hendrix, 27, and George Hill, 26. Deputy Coroner W. Allen Firman said the car burst into flames after sideswiping a truck driven by Kenyon Higgenbotham of Pittsburgh, The second truck it hit was driven by John R. Billheimer, 37, of Scottdale, Firman said. Billheimer broke the glass in his truck door to escape after the truck caught fire.

The Hendrix car was destroyed by the collision and fire. Firman said Hendrix was driving "apparently at a terrific rate of speed." Capital City Heating Co. LENNOX Heating and Air-Conditioning For Further Information Call6-1971 NOW Insulate Your Home Against Summer Heat WITH Rock Wool Insulation 8 to 15 Degrees Cooler ENGINEERED DEPENDABLE GUARANTEED INSTALLATIONS TERMS THERMO ENGINEERING CORP. 2223 Susquehanna St. Phone 6-6182 or 6-3389 finer Spur Spur CANADA DRY STEP UP TO CANADA DRY QUALITY DAVIS BOTTLING CO.

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For free inspection, write or phone: TERMINIX Phone 3-1404 2107 N. Sixth Street lies. Also, with the Winter's coal supply in the home cellar, "the householder has peace of mind, unruffled about Winter's cold affecting production or rail shipments." OLD COINS FOUND MOSCOW (AP) Almost 50 pounds of coins from the Fifteenth Century have been found in a field near Gomel by a farm woman. A dispatch from Gomel said the coins still bear Slavic words and are in fair condition. They have been turned over to the Gomel Oblast Historical Museum.

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