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THE GAZETTE AND DAILY, VORK, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1939. DECORATE GRAVES OF SIGNERS OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Deaths and Funerals number of veterans In th borne waa "below 220, there is a waiting list of 1017' Dearth Sailors home, declaring he disagreed with the economy measures of Governor Arthur H. James. Burns held the non-paying post! since 1934 and his term did not expire until August, 1940. In his letter to Governor James, the attorney said that while the present TRAVEL TALK ON KIWANIS PROGRAM Imogene Warder, Hollywood, CaL, will address members of the York Kiwanis club Thursday evening on "An American Girl Discusses Her Recent Travels Through Germany, Spain And Other Countries." She has traveled throughout Europe recently and witnessed several battles of the Spanish civil war, interviewed former Emperor Haille Selassie and visited the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

2,006 WAGNER ACT ELECTIONS IN 4 YEARS Washington, May 29. (AP) The National Labor Relations board reported today that it had conducted 2,006 Wagner act elections in the past "four years involving workers. The board conducts secret ballot elections as a means of settling disputes over what union organization is desired by the majority of workers in a bargaining unit During the same four year period, the board said, it handled 2,142 cases involving strikes and that as a result of its action 235,684 workers were reinstated after strikes and lockouts. South America held its first congress of botanists last autumn. WOOL WOOL WOOL Wanted 5000 good medium wool.

Highest prices paid, 1 cent per lb. extra when delivered to Andes Furs and Wool, Rear 237 East Market St, York, Rear Andes Fur Shop LADIES' WEAR ATTRACTIVELY LOW PRICED THOMPSON'S 17 E. Market St 0T' OSCAR K.RANICH REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST OFFICES with International Jewelry Co. 52 SOUTH GEORGE ST. I a vtV I I ft 4 -k ji mil J-4 4 (Iff sit i Mi issi -r i sr-arTHI Mr.

Mary E. (Trimble) Bair Mrs. Mary E. (Trimble) Bair, wife of John Bair, died yesterday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock at her home, 1276 West Poplar street, from a complication of diseases. She was 73 years old.

She is survived by her husband, John S. Bair; a daughter, Mrs. Henry Meals, i'eaneck, M. these sons, B. Ellsworth Bair, Bain-bridge; G.

Sherman Bair, Hellam R. D. J. Ralph Bair, Wrightsville, R. D.

Dwight Bair, York, and T. Bertram York; also these sisters, Mrs. Alice Atcheson, Mrs. John Burkins and Mrs. Charles Groff, all of Lancaster county, and the following brothers, Martin V.

Trimble and John D. Trimble, of Lancaster county. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great grandchildren also survive. The body was removed to the funeral home of Edward W. Baumeister, 614 South Pershing avenue, and prepared for burial.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Bair residence, 1276 West Poplar street. Interment will be in Mt. Rose cemetery. Mary Anita Einsig Funeral services for Mary Anita Einsig, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Einsig, 752 East Mason alley, who died at 11:50 p. m. Sunday in the Y'ork hospital, was held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Henry Sleeger and Sons Memorial funeral home, 822-30 East Market Street. Burial was in the York New t-ak'iii cemetery. Mrs.

Scivilla C. Shetter The funeral of Scivilla C. Shetter, idow of Lewis C. Shetter, who died cn Thursday, was held at 2 P. m.

jesterday from her late residence, 675 Wallace street. Rev. Charles Caamberlain, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church, officiated. Inter-inunt was in Prospect Hill cemetery.

The pallbearers were: Harry, Arthur, Samuel, Morgan and Arthur Khetter, and Edward Thomas, all relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Anna E. Pohlman The funeral of Mrs. Anna E.

Pohlman, widow of John H. Pohlman, who died Friday afternoon, was held jesterday morning. The body was removed from her home, 737 South Queen street, by the W. J. Boll company, funeral directors, to St.

Patrick's church, where a high mass of requiem was sung at 9 o'clock by Rev. Jostph Browne. The graveside services in the cemetery at Cone-wago chapel were conducted by Rev. Joseph McDonald, of Pottstown and Rev. William Burke, of the Paradise protectory.

Nephews of the deceased acted as pallbearers. Photos By The Gazette And Daily The photograph on the left shows the grave of Col. James Smith, the- only Yorker who signed the Declaration of Independence. was a soldier in the American army during the Revolutionary war. His grave is located in the graveyard of the First Presbyterian church, Market and Queen streets.

The two flags at the stone are in honor of him and another Revolutionary soldier, buried on the same plot. On the right is a picture of the grave of Philip Livingston, of New York state, also a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who died while visiting in York. He is buried in Prospect Hill cemetery. In the background can be seen the Soldiers monument, where the annual Memorial Day exercises will be conducted this morning. mander Emanuel Forner and the American flag by Senior Vice-Com- were S.

H. Ludwig, 41 South Beaver street, and Frank Drashner, 655 Lin- I LEIt'lllAKDT BROS. I ALL METAL TUBULAR STEEL CHAIR jilf v.iu. ftCMQ JP a i.i I JUST EAST 281-83 W. Market St.

of newberry st. LEINHARDT BROS. Milton H. Hengst Milton H. Hengst, retired laborer, died Sunday in the county home, Stony Brook, after being confined to the institution for a period of ten days.

Death was caused by a complication of disease. He was aged 6i years. Until the time of his removal to the icounty institution, he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Clarence Keeny, R. D.

2. He was married twice, both wives being dead for a number years. About two years ago he Buffered a stroke, but had not been seriously ill until the past January. Besides the daughter, he is survived i by three sons. Perry Hengst, Washington, D.

Frederick Hengst, Dallastown R. D. 1, and Eli Hengst, Red Lion R. D. one sister, Mrs.

Frederick Schmuck, Bedford, WARDROBE mander Abe Feldman. The religious service was conducted by the post chaplain, Rabbi M. X. Friedman. Taps were sounded by Joseph Hock- berger.

Fifteen post members were in attendance in addition to the family and friends of the deceased veteran. Members of Post 205 attended memorial services in the First Metho dist church Sunday evening and will participate in the parade tomorrow, MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR U. S. WAR DEAD ARE HELD I.N FRANCE Paris, May 29. (AP).

United States Ambassador William C. Bul-lit promised today in two memorial addresses over the graves of American World war dead that "the truths for which they fought" would be safeguarded. With representatives of the French government, the ambassador led Memorial day exercises conducted at American cemeteries throughout France a day early to coincide with France's Whitmonday holiday. Bullitt spoke first at the American cemetery of Suresnes, outside Paris, where he declared: "The men who lie here fought the good fight and died the brave death. They rest in honor.

But their spirit of young courage still survives in the hearts of their countrymen and of the French." Auguste Champotier de Ribes, minister of pensions, who spoke with Bullitt at the same ceremony, hailed French-American friendship as a factor for maintenance of ieace. WTO OVERTVRSS, THREE I.JURED (Continued from First Page) sylvania Motor police, conducted an investigation. Meisinger was admitted to the hos pital suffering from a fractured! I DOUBLE DOOR WRIGHT. On May 27. 1939, at a.

(E.S.T.), at her home. Mm. Emma Jeanette Snyder Wright, Delta R. D. No.

2, aged C8 years, 5 months and 21 days. Relatives and friends are invited to at tend the funeral Wednesday. Brief service at her home, 10:30 a. m. (E.S.T.).

Concluding services at Salem H. E. church, near Delta. Interment in adjoining cemetery. FrinH mmy ti the iztz hcn Tutoua evening from 7 to 1 o'clock (E.S.T.).

m29-2t WAUGHTEL. On May 28, 1939, at 12:15 p. m. (D.S.T.), Jacob husband of Alice Waughtel, 634 Walnut street, at the York hospital, aged 67 years, 4 months and 8 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Thursday, June 1, at 2 p.

m. (D.S.T.), at the Guy B. Creep Funeral home, 849 East Market street. Interment in Union cemetery, Dallastown. Friends may call from 7 until 9 o'clock Wednesday evening at the Guy B.

Creep Funeral home. m29-3t TENNIS. On May 28, 1939. at 9:45 a. m.

(D.S.T.), at her residence, 618 Chestnut street, Mary widow of the late Clinton E. Tennis, aged 60 years, 2 months and 18 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday, May 81, at 2 p. m. (D.S.T.), at the Guy B.

Creep Funeral home, 849 East Market street. Interment in Greenmount cemetery. Friends may call from 7 until 9 o'clock I Tuesday evening at the Guy B. Creep Fu- ....1 MM. STEVENSON.

On May 28, 1939, at 2 :05 a. Charles G. Stevenson, husband ot Jennie Diller Stevenson, at his residence, 753 East King street, aged 59 years and 8 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday, May 31. 1939, at 2 p.

m. (D.S.T.), from the Henry Sleeger and Sons Memorial Funeral home, 822-30 East Market street. Interment in Mt. Rose cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the Sleeger Funeral home Tuesday from 7 until 9 p.

m. m29-2t HUB LEY. On May 28, 1939, at 1:10 a. at his late residence. 339 West Philadelphia street, John T.

Hubley, husband of the late 'Jennie Elizabeth Hubley, aged 83 years, 4 months and 8 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Wendesday at 4 p. m. (D.S.T.), from his late residence, 339 West Philadelphia St. Interment private in Prospect Hill cemetery.

Friends may call at his late residence from Monday evening until time of funeral. Philadelphia papers please copy. m29-2t BO ECKEL. On May 27, 1939, at 5 p. at his late residence, 1501 East Market Robert C.

Boeckel, husband of Mrs. Mary F. Boeckel, aged 72 years, 4 months and 26 days. I Relatives and friends are invited to at- tend the funeral Wednesday at 2 p. m.

(D.S.T.), from the Boeckel residence, 1501 East Market street. Interment in Green-mount cemetery. Friends may call at the Boeckel residence Tuesday evening. m29-2t ABEL. On Monday, May 29, 1939, at 12:50 p.

at St. Joseph's hospital, Lancaster, Miss Elizabeth C. Abel, 312 South Front street, Wrightsville, aged 70 years and 11 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Thursday at 1 :30 p. tn.

(D.S.T.), with brief rites from her late residence and concluding obsequies at Trinity Lutheran church, Wrightsville. Interment in Fairview cemetery, Wrightsville. Friends may call at the late home Wednesday from 7 to 9 p. m. (D.S.T.).

m30-2t SHANK. On May 29, 1939. at 10:20 a. at the West Side sanitarium, West York, Calvin M. Shank, husband of Annie (Mohr) Shank, aged 55 years, 4 months and 18 days.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his residence in Shiloh, Thursday, June 1, at 2 p. m. (D.S.T.). Concluding services will be in the Shiloh Union church. Interment in adjoining cemetery.

Friends may call on Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock (D.S.T.). m30-2t KROUT. On May 29, 1939, at the York hospital, Naomi beloved wife of the late Henry Krout, aged 85 years, 11 months and 5 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the Maryland Line M. P.

church, Maryland Line, Md-. on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock (E.S.T.). Interment in New Freedom cemetery. Friends may call at the Hartenstein Funeral chapel, New Freedom, on Tues day evening, 7 to 9 o'clock (E.S.T.). Body will lie In state, at Maryland Line M.

P. church Wednesday morning, 9 to 10 a. m. (E.S.T.). GRAYBILL.

On May 29. 1939. at 9:13 a. m. (E.S.T.).

Benjamin F. Graybill. 55 N. Prospect Hellam, aged 76 years, 5 months and 8 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services May 31, 10 a.

m. (D.S.T.), from the Henry Sleeger and Sons Memorial Funeral home, 822-30 E. Market St. Interment in Kreutz Creek cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the Sleeger Funeral home on Tuesday evening from 7 until 9.

KELLER. On May 29, 1939. at 2 a. at her residence in York township, near Dallastown, Jennie wife of Charles H. Keller, aged 52 years, 8 months and 4 days.

Relative and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services from the Purd A. Riedcl Funeral home, Dallastown, May 31, at 2 P. m. (D.S.T.). Further services in Blymire's church, near Dallas-town.

Interment in adjoining cemetery. Friends may call the Riedel Funeral home evening from 7 to 9. m30-2t KOHLER. On May 28, 1939, at 3:15 n. m.

(Il.S.T.). Martha Spangler Kohler, wife of Rev. W. J. Kohler, formerly of Thomasville, at her residence in Rich-landtown.

Pa Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the residence in Richlandtown at 1:30 p. m. (D.S.T.). Interment in Richlandtown cemetery. BLEVINS.

On Monday, May 29. 1939, at the residence of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cook.

New Freedom, Jane Oliver, beloved wife of the late Lloyd Blevins, aged 85 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Wednesday, May 81. at 2 p. m. (E.S.T.), with all rites from the late home.

Interment in New Market cemetery, Maryland Line, Md. m30-2t BAIR. On May 29 .1939. at 12:30 p. Mrs.

Mary E. tTrimble) Pair, wife of John S. Bair, 1276 W. Poplar aged 78 years, 10 months and 20 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Thursady at 2 P.

m. tD.S.T.), from the Bair residence. 1276 W. Poplar St. Interment in Mount Rose cem-etery.

i Friends may call at the residence Wednesday from 7 to 9 p. m. Lancaster papers please copy. n30-t HENGST. On May 28.

1939, at a. at the County home, Milton H. Hengst, aged 64 years, 8 months and 16 days. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral Thursday morning, with all services at Leader's Funeral hom. Jacobus, at 10 a.

m. (D.S.T.). Interment In Jacobus Evangelical cemetery. Friends may view the body Wednesday at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m.

(Cj.S.T.). mso-2t N. J. LEADER Funeral Director Ambulance Service Jacobus, Pa. Adv nu-tf ETZWEILER FUNERAL HOME Wrightsville.

Pa. Dial 43 York 732 E. Mkt St Dial(6I3 Adv. s-14-tf EDW. W.

BAUMEISTER Funeral Director, 614 S. PersfcinsAve. i J. M. SHINQLER AND SfcN CO.

Funeral Directors, 909-91y N. Duke street Dial 43275. GUY B. CREEP DIAL 5791 Funeral Director. 849 EJ Market St Adv.

I ma-tf C. STRACK Funeral Directors, 158- SON. SO S. Geo. St ALL METAL An Unusual Purchase Enables Leinhardt Bros, to Give You This Bargain STORE OPEN UNTIL 9 LEINHARDT BROS.

I 281-83 W. MARKET ST. RESPITE GIVEN ILEY FAMILY (Continued from First Page) Charles, 11; Anna, seven; Donald, five, and Xorma, three. Must Undergo Operation Wiley's physical condition is such that he expects to undergo an operation next month to correct a bone condition at the hip. He's kind of scared about the pending operation because he doesn't know what will become of his family "if something should happen to me." Worry over trying to obtain a house aggravates the 41-year-old man's physical and mental condition.

Hi? wife says he has lost his appetite and that he cried the other day "for the first time." Wiiey spent yesterday trying to find a house, but up until early last evening he was unsuccessful in his search. "As soon as landlords know I'm on relief, they do not want me," he said. The Wileys hate a car which they purchased when the head of the house was employed in a local factory ago. "I only keep the car because I wouldn't get much for it it I did sell it," explained Wiley. DISAGREES WITH JAMES AND RESIGNS F.ne, May 29.

(AP) Attorney Owen M. Burns resigned today as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Known for our low prices ind furniture of character" THE RUNKLE CO. 108-110 E. Market St illl! Feast clothe and be amazed to learn how inexpensively you can maku the vry tame dresses for I fililli WOT flllS 'llu I iffi 9dh 1, BHr VSi r.on. VUI CTCI VTI van, YORK VETS HOSOR WAR DEAD TODAY (Continued from First Page) Baldwin, of Sons of Veterans Reserve; benediction.

At the conclusion of this program the parade will reform and march to the court house. There a short ceremony will be conducted by World War veterans under leadership of the American Legion. The parade will disband at the court house. Stores Closed The York Retail stores will be closed today. City hall offices with the exception of those of the police department will be closed during the day.

Court house offices and banks will also be closed. Congressman Chester A. Gross is scheduled to participate in two Memorial Day programs. This morning he will be the orator for the exercises conducted at Waynesboro by the American Legion. He will recite the Lincoln's Gettysburg address this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Gettysburg.

Senator Byrd, of Virginia, is on the Gettysburg program. The Pennsylvania railroad and Greyhound bus company both reported heavy passenger travel on Saturday and Sunday, for the New York's World fair. Yesterday 209 Catholic school children from the Hanover district left Hanover in a special train for a one day trip to points of interest in Philadelphia. The freight offices and freight warehouses of the W. M.

R. R. and the M. and P. R.

R. in York will be closed all day tomorrow. All yard crews of both railroads will be annulled for the day as well as local freight trains. The Railway Express terminal office at Y'ork will be open all day Tuesday, for the receiving and dispatching of all merchandise received. Service At Hebrew Cemetery The recently-formed Haym Solomon post No.

205, Jewish War Veterans of the United States on Sunday conducted memorial services at the South Hill Hebrew cemetery. This service was conducted at the graveside of Philip London, a World! war veteran, who served overseas with the 2Sth division. The ritual of the Jewish War veterans was performed by five members of post 205, headed by the commander, Iewis Leibowitz. A marker of the organization was placed upon the grave by Junior Vice-Com- A. H.

OIEHL SON Funeral Directors, Mt. Wolf. BURG FUNERAL HOME Phone 6M Red Lion, Pa. m23-tf Adv. A.

F. KOLLER, Funeral Director Modern Funeral home. 1415 W. Market street HENRY SLEEGER SON Funeral Directors. 830 E.

Market St See and Drive The New Champion STUDEBAKER Delivered in York $71500 The tar for New World Anderson Motor Company Kins; a Uun York, Pa. ADD A SHOWER TO YOUR PRESENT BATH You Will Enjoy It During the Warm Days Just Ahead Ettimatet Cheerfully Furnished C.C.Kottcamp&Son Phone 2826 clavicle, possible iractures or inej ArcJlbol(j. American Museum expedl-skull and ribs and lacerations. Msition. condition is fair.

The Redmans wercj coin street. Bicyolist Hurt Jacob Coxen, 46, of 1142, Mt. Rose avenue, suffered brush burns to the right shoulder and abrasions of the scalp when his bicycle collided with an automobile at Green street and Chester place at 12:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was treated at the Y'ork hospital. The motorist, William G.

Damuth, 1421 West Market street, reported the accident to police. Rear-End Collision A sedan operated by C. X. Foose, York R. D.

4, was considerably damaged when struck in the rear by another car at Princess and Xewberry streets at 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Foose told police he stopped for the stop sign when his car was struck by a machine driven by Earl J. Schwartz, York R. D. 5.

G. O. P. WOMEN IN FINAL MEETING FOR THE SEASON The George Washington room of Hotel Brooks was filled to capacity last night by members of the Y'ork County Council of Republican Women for the final meeting for the season of that organization. The president, Mrs.

Emile Wogan, was in charge. Republican County Chairman Robert M. Laird delivered an address of patriotic type, in keeping with the observance of Memorial day. The committee in charge of the program was composed of Kathryn Blverhart, chairman, Mrs. Mildred Blouse, Mrs.

Jennie Strickhotiser and Mrs. Ida Givens. Mrs. Mary Bradley gave a humorous reading. Allen Hoff and Carroll Rudisill played an accordion and violin duet.

This was followed by a preview of the scrap book. A social period, in the course of which refreshments were served, was under the leadership of Mrs. Edythe Strebig. Eleven tree-climbing kangaroos are among the animal specimens obtain in Dutcn -cw Guinea by the KIRK STERLING SILVER Made By America's Oldest Silversmiths Sele ExruiTtl? he Tort Charles H. Shaffner IS W.

Msrket St. Jeweler The Beauty For Value Only MILLER -BUICK, Inc. 229 S. George St. York, Pa.

Phont 2666 York, Pa. rWednesdayTday Time: 2:30 P. M. Beflr's Second ff-liP Presentee by flW MISS RUTH BOURNE J'ti stylist. Don't forget she will 3ive 1 If 1' resuUr-sized package of Lux to every 1 discharged after receiving treatment for lacerations and bruises.

Autos Collide Two automobiles were damaged in; a collision at Madison avenue and Elm terrace shortly after 7 o'clock last evening. Police said the drivers Planet Junior Garden Tools Garden Tractors York Farm Builders Supply Co. 356 W. College Ave. and three brothers, Alphus Hengst, Joe; Urban Hengst, Dallastown R.

P. 1, and William Hengst, York R. T. 2.. The funeral will be held Thursday, with all services at the N.

J. Leader funeral home, Jacobus, at 10 a. m. (DST). Rev.

M. R. Vogel, pastor of the Loganville Evangelical charge, will be the officiating minister. Burial will be in the Jacobus Evangelical Cemetery. DR.

WEYGANDTTO ADDRESS ROTARY Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, head of the department of English language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, will be the speaker for the weekly luncheon meeting of the York Rotary club to be held tomorrow at noon in the Hotel York-towne. 'ANDENBERG WILL ACCEPT NOMINATION BUT WON'T SEEK IT Washington, May 29. (AP.) As-eerting that the next Republican presidential nominee should be pledged in advance to serve dui a single term. Senator Vandenberg made it clear today that be would accept the nomination if it comes to him, but would not actively seek it.

The national convention, he said in reply to Republican members of the House from Michigan who had urged that the nomination go to him, should met forth a series of principles which would "dependably promise to save the American system of free enterprise." Then, he added, it should ''fit nominations to its priciples." HOSPITAL NOTES Patients admitted to the Y'ork hospital yesterday included Mrs. Genevieve Weirick, 234 East Gas avenue; George Meisinger, 1720 West Toplar street, and Mrs. Dora Milli-gan, Brooks hotel, all surgical, and George Good, 31 South Hartley street, medical. Patients discharged included Margaret Timperlake, 728 South George street; Mrs. Marie Ryer, 377 Main street, Dallastown; Mrs.

Mary E. Ludwig, Dover R. D. Emma A. Gilberthorpe, 423 South Duke street; Ronald Helfrick, 342 East Cottage place; Richard Shifflett.

456 East King street, and Shirley A. Boyd, 50 South Newberry street. An Institution Dedicated to Serving You Better york City Launclry Co. jjtif ueaners Different Costumes will shown on Living Models xm un ATTENTION FARMERS Before Buying Any Milk Cooler Be Sure To See the Outstanding Cooler of Them All The Wcstinghousc Milk Cooler 5 Year Unit Guarantee Verti Coil Cooling No Fuses Greater Cooling Capacity No Belts A Postcard Brings Further Details Henry Sleeger Sons Wednesday and Afternoons, at 2:30. We recommend LUX for all fine washable BEAR'S New Dress Fabrics at Sensational Sale Prices 830 E.

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