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THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG, PENNA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1936 Steelton High Alumni of 1926 Hold Tenth Reunion See Special Showing of Jewish Appeal Film PAGE EIGHT 0 far Sx 1 is if II lili I i r.M,: Fly 111 11 Members of the class of 1926 of Steelton High School held their Demmy, president of the general alumni association of the school, was tenth annual reunion Saturday night the speaker. Here is a general scene at Shelley's Cafe, Steelton. Charles at the banquet. temperature, which was at 69 at 11 a. will probably reach a high of 75 in the late afternoon.

OBITUARY Several hundred persons attended the special showing of the motion picture, "The Land of Promise," presented last night at the Regent Theater as part of the opening of the United Jewish Appeal here this week. Among those who participated in the program were, left to right: Gus Kaplan, Dr. Jacob S. Golub, dirctor of the Jewish Community Center; Rabbi Irving Miller, of Far Rockaway, L. who explained the purpose of the appeal; Edward W.

Schleisner, chairman of the local campaign; Samuel Brenner, Mrs. Joseph Silberman and Mrs. Gus Kaplan. 26 Men at Work Repairing River Park DICKINSON GIVES 67 IN CLASS TO BE GRADUATED AT CATHOLIC HIGH Sixty-seven seniors, comprising the largest class in the history of the school, will receive diplomas at annual commencement exercises of the Harrisburg Catholic High School tonight at 8 o'clock in the Education Building Forum. The commencement address will be delivered by David L.

Lawrence, Secretary of the Commonwealth, while the conferring of diplomas will be by the Most Rev. George L. I-eech, bishop of the Harrisburg Catholic Diocese. Awards will be announced and presented by the Rev. Owen F.

Reilly, principal of the high school. Following an opening selection by the high school orchestra and a prayer, the salutatory address will be delivered by Miss -Josephine Buchignani. The valedictory address of Miss Agnes Berk will be presented by Joseph Mannix, a member of the class. Benediction by Bishop Leech and the singing of the National Anthem will close the exercises. SHOWERS HELP CROPS SLIGHTLY Parched crops and dried out.

fields and lawns got only slight relief today from the sprinkling of rain and the cloudy skies, C. R. Peck, the assistant meteorologist at the local weather bureau, said, It didn do any permanent good, and it's going to clear off tomorrow," Peck said. "There's no indication yet of any general rainfall." "Conditions are serious in this section now, Peck added. Every ining is ai a sianasiiu.

ine wneai: Tomorrow is to be fair with little chancre in temperature. The low' est temperature tonight will be about 58, slightly under last night 8 low of 61. Yesterday's high read- line was 79 during the afternoon The two showers which occurred yesterday amounted to only .15 of an inch. As a result of the adverse weather conditions, dealers said, prices on fresh vegetables and produce rose over the week-end. Dickinson Sophomores to Earn $100 to Pay Fines For False Fire Alarms CARLISLE, June 8.

George T. Macklin, and John F. Bacon, two Dickinson College sophomores, were fined $100 each today by Judge Fred S. Reese for sending in a false fire alarm on Friday morning. In sentencing the students, Judge Reese stipulated that the money be earned by Macklin and Bacon by September.

He also warned the defendants of the seriousness of their offense, which, he said, might have led to serious consequences. The charges against V. Edgar Cathers, who was arrested with the two defendants, were dismissed at a hearing before Justice of the Peace William Dosh. Purposes of Rotary Club Explained at Meeting mi 11 were reviewed today at the Penn- Harris Hotel at the weekly meeting, The Rev. Chester S.

Simonton spoke on the "Philosophy of Ro tary Ritchie Lawne, on the "History of Arthur D. Ba son, on "The Story of the Local "Aims and Objects of Rotary." The speaxers were mtroaucea cy vr. Lee Driver. Plans have been completed for an inter-city meeting Tuesday evening, June 16. at 6.30.

at the Penn-Harrisi A $Xi I1 -4Mb' Services on Wednesday For James J. Smith, 52 JAMES J. SMITH Suffering from heart disease, James J. Smith, 52, physical director in charge of City Hall gymnasium and a former instructor at the Twelfth Street Playgrounds, died 'jcctciuay illuming ab lua Manada street. Smith, who came to this city from New York, had been confined to a local hospital for sev- eral weeks because of a heart condition and returned to duty at City Hall recently.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Fackler parlors, 1314 Derry street, with the Rev. William A.l Webb, pastor of Olivet Pres byterian Church, officiating. Burial, tween 7 and 9 ociocK tomorrow night. He was born in Canada and for merly held professional boxing titles in the Canadian bantamweight class. He once claimed the world's ban- Ills-- rn'MMWMsi (twenty fifth anniversary program ofFriends may call at the parlors be- fias come up hut the heads are'Leland Stanford University and a short and it has suffered consid- erably.

Oats are slow and very Ehort. Corn has come up but is now at QtanHstill. lW nH nl- laua. are lair, viuver aiiu um- othy are very short. i i-ii A'tamweight championship, losing the DEGREES TO 153 From Page On even In high places "is oblique; It goes on on a tangent.

Horse sense had much to do in recent years with the national thought in respect to economic events" have gotten away from ordinary "horse sense." But, he said, the Country is "slowly rediscovering the merits of the ancient virtues having to do with hard work directed by intelligence." iejree for Hepburn Others whn rfrpivpd hnnnran, Aa- grees were: Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, Washington. LL.D.; Judge W. A. Valpntinp Willcpc.Rarrp T.TI.

Fred H. Holloway, Westminster, presiuem oi western Maryland L.01-, it-ge, uu.u.; cnaries n. Reynolds. Washington curasnn eral of the United States Army, Sc.D.: me mv. xtoy i.

reiser, niiadeipma, D.D., and the Rev. George Henry Ketterer, Altoona, D.D. Bishop Ernest G. Richardson, Philadelphia, a Dickinson alumnus, conferred the Phi Beta Kappa recognition upon fourteen in the college class. In the Phi Beta Kappa group were J.

M. Swomley, Mary Jane Bos-well and Philip F. Detweiler, Harrisburg; W. H. Dodd, Elkview; Elizabeth Goodyear and June Bietsch.

Carlisle; n. iynn wanty-Glo; Paul V. Kiehl, Irwin; Charles M. Koontz, Bedford; Sherwin T. McDowell, Ard-more; H.

O. Dreskin, Denellen, N. o. a. iNovaK, snamoKin; Emma L.

Pfleuger, Fort Washington; Dorothy V. Reeve. Toms River and six others, Helen R. Boiling "igb, iiaomi a. uioson.

Upper Darbv: J. A. MDf.hnik,,.. wctt.inney, Carlisle Barracks, and R. ft, kalian V.

x-uicn, rum an, jn. constituted the honor section. Department Honors Four students were cited for departmental honors: Naomi Gibson, Upper Darby, and Helen Carl, Boil- springs, in Latin; Edward E. FlUtlP. Atlantic Pifir Emma L.

Pfleuger, Fort Washington, in I Inrm vivi mail. Prize awards included: William K. Dare seholarshm Harrisburg, a junior. McDamel prizes, $100 each, for scholarship, Robert H. Griswold, Canton, sophomore; Robert Hatboro, freshman, and one u.viueu oeiween uiibert M.

Keller, Carlisle, and Leon M. Robinson, Trenton, N. freshman. Cnnnnn fn. 1 mathematics, Harold E.

Adams, Car- XiulC, Chi OmPtra fraornffv ie ifor sophomore economics, Jean I Clemens prize of $25 for essay on missions Hor tr Del vuiuici, maryaei, Pattern memorial prizes of $25 each for scholarship, Mary Jane Boswell. Harrisburg, senior; Mildred Straka! HarriShnrcf lnninp, Hffol- trl.ii.J (New Tripoli sophomore, and Edward iiarnsDurg, rreshman. Pierson medals for excellence in oratorv. John lMr.W;,- gold medal, and Robert M. Glass, suver meaai.

for excellence In English Blblp. rliviriafl M. Keller, Carlisle, and Dorothy Wil- James Ruslmg scholarship prize, Sherwin T. McDnwpii nrf. more.

Morris Prince prize of $25 In 1SV, J' M- Swomley, Harrisburg. mation first, $25, Ross G. Kelschner, iwiinuuij, ana secona, divided between John S. McCool, New York Cltv. and Karl Piuj ti iiaiiift- BIake Womer prize of for freshman rhetoric, divided between xj.i and John S.

McCool, New York. RECEIVE DEGREES Ths names of two Harrisburg seniors at Dickinson College, who received bachelor of arts degrees to- daV flt thP KPhnnl'o exercises, were inadvertently omitted in news items published re cently TillS EVlimNG NEWS. The students are: Robert John Trace and Miss Ruth A. Trout, of this city. "Pastures held up well untiljtend the Rotarv International con- the club.

Allan Roth, comptroller of! former president of Rotary Interna tional, will be the speaker. The sixty-five clubs in the State nave Been invuea rogetner witn a delegation of thirty, including club Imembers and their wives, will at- vention in Atlantic City beginning June 22. There will be no meeting of the club next Monday. Former Monessen Mayor Found Dead in Garage International Newt Service MONESSEN, June 8. The body Carl Woodward, 53, three times mayor of Monessen and locally prominent realtor, was found today in the garage back of his home here.

County Coroner Dr. H. A. Mc Murray said Woodward died the ntuill ui oiuun luuuuAiuo yui- Former Principal of Middletown High Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Ola Myers Garver, former principal of Middletown High School and later assistant Dauphin County superintendent of schools, who died yesterday, will be held Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock at the home in East Water street, Middletown.

The Rev. Robert S. Marsden, pastor of Middletown Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Guyer's Church Cemetery, near Middletown. Mrs.

Garver was born at Round Hill, Adams County, the daughter of Adam Smyser Myers and Margaret Berkheimer Myers. After graduation from Cumberland Valley State Normal School at Shippens-burg, she taught in the country schools of Adams County until 1891, when she came to Middletown. During the following twenty-two years she was teacher of English In the Middletown High School. Mrs. Garver was until her death an active member of the Middle-town Presbyterian Church, Swatara-Pine Ford Chapter, D.

A. and the Women's Club of Middletown. Surviving her are her husband, Professor Garver: two brothers. Robert L. Myers, of Camp' Hill, and Walter S.

Myers, of Reading; eleven nephews and nieces. LAWRENCE G. MATHIAS The body of Lawrence Gary Ma-thias. 47, of 1932 Susquehanna street, who died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday shortly after he and his wife arrived in Chicago to visit their daughter, Florence, a stu dent at the Northwestern University, was enroute to this city today. He died at Chapm Hall on the uni versity campus shortly after he was stricken.

His wife said that her husband had been under a doctors care for a heart ailment. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias planned to drive their daughter home this week after the close of college classes. JOHN WILLIAM LANGLOTZ John William Langlotz, produce dealer of 49 North Sixteenth street, died Saturday at a Harrisburg hospital.

He was 59 years old. Langlotz was a member of Im-manuel Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah E. Langlotz; three daughters, Mrs, Erma Crum, of this city; Miss Evelyn M.

Langlotz, and Miss Bernice Longlotz, both at home; four sons, John William Langlotz, Pen-brook; Marlin Langlotz, Progress; Kenneth Eugene and Donald Wayne Langlotz, both at home; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Deicker and Mrs. Annie Rohm, both at home. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the home, the Rev. James D.

C. Witke, pastor of St Michael's Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be held in Evergreen Cemetery, Dim- cannon. The body may be viewed the home after 7 o'clock tonight. WILLIAM H.

BROWNEWELL William H. Brownewell, Sr 82, of 437 Verbeke street, died at his home last night. He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mary A. Van Horn, Mrs.

David Swiler, Miss Ruth B. Brownewell and Mrs. John Moses, all of Harrisburg; three sons, John, Ralph and William, sixteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. iie was a veteran oi the bpanisn American War and served in the Na tional Guard for twenty-two years. He served on the city police force during the two administrations of John Fritchey, and for a number of years was employed at the Broad Street Market.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the home, with the Rev. Charles R. Beittel, pastor of the Otterbein United Brethren Church, officiating.

Burial will be in the Last Harrisburg cemetery. The body may be viewed Tuesday from 7 to 3 p. m. JOHN KOCH Funeral services for John Koch, who died Saturday afternoon at the home of a sister, Sally Thomas, 317 Francis street, Steelton, will be held at the J. Thomas Richardson funeral parlors in Steelton tomorrow afternoon, with the Rev.

W. D. Sheets of the Main Street Church of God, Steelton, officiating. Mr. Koch, who was 79 years 'old, is survived by two sisters, Sally Thomas and Miss Maggie Koch, of Philadelphia, and a brother, coln Koch, of Harrisburg.

The body may be viewed at the funeral parlors tonight between 6 and 8 o'clock. Burial will be made in the Baldwin Cemetery, Steelton. L. W. RYAN L.

W. Ryan, former resident of Halifax and Lancaster where he had been a retired lumber dealer, died Saturday afternoon at his home, Brookside Lodge, near Laurelton. He was 64 years old. Mr. Ryan was a member of bus- quehanna Lodge, No.

364, Free and Accepted Masons. Millersburg; Har risburg Consistory, Scottish Kite Masons; Zembo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Patriotic Order Sons of America, Halifax; Harrisburg Lodge of Elks, No. 12, and the Mil-flinburc Methodist Episcopal Church Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary K. Ryan; one son, Claude G.

Ryan, Harrisburg; one daughter, Mrs. Alfred W. Clemson, Lancaster, and three erandsons. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Charles C. Baker funeral parlors, Third and Maclay streets.

The Rev. B. Bidlack, pastor of the Mifflin-bure Methodist Episcopal Church will officiate, and burial will be in the Halifax Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the funeral parlors. son, and had apparently committedjFuneral arrangements have not been Twenty-six men began work on repairing the Susquehanna River Bank near Tuscarora street today.

The work, which is being carried on as a WPA project, is under the supervision of W. H. Miller, superintendent. A general view of the project is shown in the upper photograph. Below are Mr.

Miller (left), and C. E. Fry, general foreman. 26 MEN START WORK IN PARK Twenty-six relief workers under the direction of Walter Miller, landscape gardener, began working today in South Harrisburg on the restoration of the flood torn water front. Until a steam shovel and trucks are provided a week or so later, it will be a hand operation with picks and shovels.

In line with the suggestion of Warren H. Manning, Cambridge landscape expert, who studied local conditions for two weeks following the flood, lines were laid the first thing this morning for a parallel warn bdoui rweive leei irom me western curu ox rmm street. This will replace the damaged walk that had been near the edge of the bank. Laree boulders along the washed- out bank are to be moved to the foot of the bank, along the con crete walk and there fashioned into improvised seats, another Manning idea. Preparation of the bank for new shrub planting also is in the picture.

Serum Saves Life of Rattlesnake Victim BRADFORD, June 8. Serum treatment applied to a rattlesnake bite suffered by Mrs. Dominic Cos- tello, of Bardford, was expected to save her life today. Mrs, Costello was struck by the snake at a filling station near Varienville. She said the rattler made a noise like a cricket.

First treatment was received in a Kane hospital, then Mrs. Costello was taken to Bardford and given the serum, supplied by a Smethport druggist. suicide, tlx tongue He was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital. William Moore, 60, of Kunkel alley, was treated at the Harris burg Hospital last night for con fusions and a possible fracture of the right ankle, suffered when a taxicab backed over his foot near the Pennsylvania Railroad station, according to the hospital report. After his automobile is alleged to have crashed into the car of Paul Murray, Scranton, in a vacant lot near Seventeenth and Wayne streets, Saturday, Henry W.

Mc-Konly, 40, of South Nineteenth street, was arrested by city police on a charge of violating the State motor code. Police say his car forced the automobile of J. E. Miller, 1607 Sycamore street, off the road in Seventeenth street before hitting the McKonly car. Edward F.

Shadow, 42, of Harrisburg R. D. 1, was arrested by city police on a similar charge Saturday night after his car is alleged to have crashed into a pole at State and Linn streets. Each of the accused was required to furnish $500 bail for hearings this afernoon, in police court. NURSES HOLD OUTINQ CARLISLE, June 8.

The Cumberland County Graduate Nurses' Club met this afternon at Rudy's woods, along the Holly pike, for their annual outing. A ham and egg supper was planned. New Fire Apparatus 10 PERSONS ARE HURT IN CRASHES From Page One Macon reported her car swerved into the Robertson machine when a tire on her car blew out as she was rounding a corner. Car Leaves Road When their automobile left the highway and turned on its side, east of Shellsville early yesterday, Richard Henry Forney, 19, and Fred W. Behrendt, 22, both of Grantviue, R.

D. 1, were injured, the latter seriously. He was admitted with a deep head laceration and a possible skull fracture to the Harrisburg Hospital, where his condition today was satisfactory. Forney, who escaped with lacerations of the face, reported to the Highway Patrol he lost control of the machine when blinded by the lights of an approaching car. Mrs.

Samuel M. Free, 1743 Susquehanna street, escaped with bruises of the left side and a cut of the left arm when her husband's automobile and another car collided yesterday afternoon at High-spire. Struck by an automobile last evening near his home, 6-year-old Charles Magaro, 121 Cherry street, suffered lacerations of the chin and title to Harry Forbes at Chicago, in the eighteenth round of a fight in which he suffered a broken hand in the second round. He was said to have had 165 fights, 151 of which he won. He lived in this country for the last forty years.

He was a member of Harrisburg Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is survived by two children, Bruce I. Smith, of Harrisburg, and Mrs. Cecil Cummings, Buffalo, and four grandchildren. WILLIAM SHLMAN William Shuman, 68, of 1325 South Twelfth street, driver of the city police patrol during the administration of the late Mayor Meals, cuea yesterday afternoon at a local hospital.

or Mrc Sncnn I rf Montana. completed. i in the top photograph participated in SI il si about ten days ago but are now deteriorating rapidly. Early potatoes came up fairly good, but the late potatoes are slow in sprout-; ing- "Truck garden crops are hit hardest, and so far they are very poor. Strawberries are but most of them are small or have hard cores." Peck said most of his information on crops in this area had been obtained from A.

Shirk From-meyer, county agent of the Dauphin County Agricultural Extension Association, who has been out! in the field a great deal in recent weeks contacting farmers. I The cloudy skies. Peck said, are to continue into the night, and the Dedicate More than 300 persons attended paratus purchased recently by the si f7; of Brownies Attend Annual Revel in Reservoir Park '3x7KMmn the dedication exercLes held Saturday afternoon for the new Are ap Wormleysburg Fire Company. Men the dedicatory program, xney are, len to rigni: nusseu v. Hummei, president or the borough school board; G.

I. Chadwick, secretary of the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce, who was the speaker; Burgess Howard F. Morris and Fire Chief Forrest D. Bennett. In the center picture are members of the Wormleysburg A total of 179 Brownies from Harrisburg, Millersburg, Lemoyne, day afternoon at Reservoir Park.

Games and a picnic supper featured New Cumberland and Penbrook attended the Brownie Revel held Satur the program. Here is a scene during the story telling hour, Company and the auxiliary as they Below are members of the Ladies appeared in the procession which preceded the dedication program, Auxiliary of the Midway Fire Company, No. 2, of Enola..