Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - July 8, 1932, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 3 GOOD EVENING good Put your in a pocket with a hole In it WEATHER Fair Saturday THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Press Truth Our Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly Everybody In Adams County ESTABLISHED 1902 GETTYSBURG PA FRIDAY EVENING JULY 8 1932 PRICE THREE CENTS DR H E JACOBS THEOLOGIAN IS DEAD AT 88 Graduate Of burg College And Seminary ON FACULTY AT COLLEGE HERE Find Woman Dead In Bed At 82 Years Former President Of Mt Airy Seminary Leader In America The Rev Dr Henry Eyster Jacobs former president of the Lutheran theological seminary Mount Airy and one of the fore- most theologians of the Lutheran church in America died Thursday afternoon at his home 7301 avenue Philadelphia He in his year A native of Gettysburg Doctor Jacobs began his studies for the ministry after from Pennsylvania college now burg college where his father was professor of natural sciences and Mrs Knaub widow of Jeremiah Knaub was found dead Thursday morning m her bed by her daughter-in-law Mrs William E Knaub near Mt Royal near York at whose home she resided She was 82 years old The aged woman was stricken suddenly dunng the night and home remedies were applied Cor- L U Zech who was called after the woman was found dead said that a heart condition caused her death A son William E Knaub two sisters Mrs Mathilda Kline of j Gardners and Mrs Elmer Crum oY Dauphin county and two grand- children are the only survivors The deceased was a member of the at Mt Royal Community congregation HIGH SCHOOL ENTRANTS MAY DROP IN 1932 66 Go Down To Sea When Submarine Sinks Without Warning The French submarine Promethee sank off harbor at point shown on map while she was making a trial trip on the surface Seven men were but 66 went down with the ship Among that number w ere 17 engineers and men of similar rating temporarily assigned to the submersible mathematics He attended the semi- nary here the next year finishing his course m 1365 with the degree of bachelor of divinity After serving several years m the home mission field at burgh he was made principal of Thiel hall then at at the same time taking the office of pastor of the church there In 1870 he was elected to the college remaining at the j institution in this capacity until j year Some Fail To Pass From Eighth Grade Others Careless ADDS A NEW ROOM The number of students attending high school in Adams county next fall is to exceed and not equal the 1883 when he was called to fill the chair of systematic theology in the Evangelical Lutheran theological seminary in Philadelphia He ried Laura H Downing of more in 1872 He was elected president of the Mount Airy semi- nary having been dean of the ulty for twenty-eight years this time he was dent of the board of foreign sions of the Lutheran church of the general council of the church The American Society of Church History the Pennsylvania society and the Philadelphia Historial club He retired as ident of the seminary in 1927 and was succeeded by his son the Rev Dr Charles M Jacobs Doctor Jacobs literary jams Records in the office of the county superintendent included many years as Church Re- view and the contribution of merous articles to theological He held degrees from Gettysburg theological seminary Thiel college and Muhlenberg col- lege and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Funeral Monday at 2 p m from the Memorial i church The body j will be brought to Gettysburg by H B Bender and Son Carlisle street funeral directors and interment made in cemetery j day morning at o'clock Besides i his son Doctor Jacobs is survived j by three children Mrs William M Horn of Ithaca New Mrs L R Shearer of Gwynedd Valley and H Downing Jacobs field eighth grade students failed to pass the stiff examinations at the close of the school year this term Tough Examinations The examinations this year were stiffer than ever before and this coupled with the failure af some students to apply is given as the reason for the ed decrease in high school students There were students en- rolled in September although school officials do not anticipate much of an increase if any Only extensive improvement is noted in the schools of the county this summer Berwick township is constructing an additional room to I the building between A Glimpse Into Gettysburg's Commercial Past and Future By HIT THE NAIL ON THE On the eve of the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce The Times on day published a review of the situation written anonymously by The Community Observer Few articles appearing in this newspaper in recent won such wide and favorable approval as has been expressed to the editor of this newspaper by local business people Here is the second article alone the same lines by the same author Interested citizens are invited to express their individual views for publication m tion must be signed bot names will be held in strictest dence the editor when so ed What's your idea of the tion Second of a Series of Articles The Community battlefield so long forgotten that they seem inconceivable and unreal Abbottstown Hanover The cost of the addition is expected to be in the neighborhood of Building at Littlestown Littlestown is building a new high school but the building will ready for occupancy until 1933 and the present high school building will be in use for another term The customary repairs and to other schools in the county are being made at no very great expense to the taxpayers Associated Press Brooding because Juries shortstop of the Chicago Cubs re- her attentions Violet vich forced entrance into his hotel room in Chicago made one final plea for his love and then at- tempted to commit suicide In the struggle for the revolver both were wounded VIOLENT RAIN HITS VALLEY observation has developed the first two points Gettysburg is charged with Failure to analyze its commercial problem and inability to get-together and operate There remains therefore the third of commercial be discussed Having set forth the belief that the present system is all wrong the obligation presents itself to provide corrective measures and make reply Are the Gettysburg battlefields a modern Absolutely they Have not the tactics at Gettysburg been studied at all military schools in this country and Were not the tactics used here the basis of the modern strategies used in the World Is not this recognized f by the military units that come here yearly to see the grounds over which they have fought on tary people will concede that is not a dead issue but some one will have to constantly size that to the layman who very rarely wants to waste time witti anything that is out of date Gettysburg has captured public imagination and need but maintain it even though it requires a new order of to do so NO HOPE FOR CREW OF SUB to the question that naturally arises is the 11 is about this the problem of leadership is in- so the two subjects must be banded together Gettysburg's commercial past and present have been reviewed so there remains but the future to discuss it battlefields COUNTY NATIVE NAMED RECTOR York Y Opens Pool On Sundays Policy Recalls Privileges Given To Campers Darin War Rev Dr Francis X Feeser Succeeds To Pastorate Of St Mary's Church In Harrisburg j The Rev Dr Francis X Feeser principal of the Catholic high school Harrisburg for fourteen I years and assistant rector of St In an effort to be of service to its Harrisburg was members who are on the appointed rector of St Mary's ed list the York Y M C A will Catholic church The Dr Feeser succeeds the late Fr William V Dailey formerly who died suddenly a Seventh Severe Storm In Week Thursday Leaves Trail Of Damage Another rain wind and electrical storm the third in seven days broke in the valley above Cashtown ly after six o'clock Thursday night and left a narrow path of slight damage in its wake The storm broke with unexpected suddenness preceded fay several heavy Rusts of wind that snapped large branches and limbs from huge trees and scattered smaller limbs to the winds The heavy rain and storm followed shortly after and water poured from dark black clouds with severe intensity County roads in the mountains were washed by deep and macadam roads were whipped and slashed by the heavy downpour drew to the side of the highway in mountains to await the storm's abatement and many drove into the shelter of farm barns Several trees were uprooted in the valloy but no serious damage to sonal property was reported The storm lasted less than an Gettysburg's biff sales feature re- mains the battlefield This has been true ever since the titanic struggle took place here in 1863 and it will always remain so The name is just naturally associated with the battle of Gettysburg and that is without a question burg's chief claim to fame It is not here implied that thing else is excluded for such is not the case Manufactured educational institutions orchard and agricultural products all have their particular niche but they are in an almost separate classification as the historic connection far ex- all these Historic importance predominates so much that its in connection with the name Gettysburg lends prestige to all other local interests That being true it seems sive that the future depends on maintaining and increasing the toric importance of Gettysburg in the minds of the Therefore whatever future progress is gested must be based on the field as the factor of greatest inter- est and which by its own appeal has the happy feature of holding forth the greatest and the quickest possibilities of large returns Further battlefield details are hardly necessary to sustain the point under discussion Summing reminder should be inserted open its showers and swimming pool j on Sundays beginning this week j This is the first time since the in world war that the pool will be open Sundays During the war when the soldiers were stationed here the York association extended the leges of the association to the diers visiting in that city over the The new policy of the York Y is applicable only to the showers and The appointment was made by the Rt Rev Philip R McDevitt bishop of the Harrisburg diocese The Rev Dr Feeser as well known in Gettysburg He was bom in Adams county and was educated at St Charles seminary Overbrook and holds the degree of being closed as usual HOSPITAL BOARD MEETS The board of directors of the Annie M Warner will hold the regular July meeting at the hospital this evening to as assistant to the Rev FT Danael J Carey in the of the cathedral he was assistant rector of St Joseph's church Lancaster St Mary's church the Carlisle In- dian school chaplain and St Mary's AUXILIARY TO MEET church Lancaster The Gettysburg Boys Band J Father Feeser became principal of ary will meet next Tuesday evening i Catholic high school in at o'clock at the home of Mrs I OUTS an Russell Stoops road jin construction of the new building members of the Christian Endeavor society of the valle Lutheran church held a picnic at Pane Grove Thursday The Rev George B Ely accompanied thf group The Rev FT William R replace Father Feeser as principal of the high school and will also retain his place as assistant rector at St Mary's the bishop an- here that Gettysburg's chief hour and this was followed by a commodity has now attained the colorful and sunset A large rainbow the largest and most beau- we have ever seen according to one spread across the heavens immediately after the storm and summer colonists were thralled by the sicht Ram continued at periodic inter- vals throUch the night Chinese Aviator Sinks Destroyer China July 3 The destroyer was by a Cantonese airplane which efi Wednesday it was ed today and 20 men were killed in the bomb attack The report said the aviator who in bombing the ship re- a regard of about fro a major vessel ripe age of almost three score and ten years It is no longer the robust hard-riding youth it was and must therefore be accorded more ful treatment to sustain its life and maintain its health It was one thing to interest the generation that witnessed the Civil war struggle and are Gettysburg's biggest assets and once forget that fact and do not act in accordance with that fact the end is m sight To briefly venture into other local fields of activity is not only sible but important There are in- here that have powerful possibilities The furniture factories have sponsored furniture shows within the past two years that have met with success There is excellent possibility of development in these exhibits which would react in the output of these factories with a fine reaction toward continued operation At least the exhibits were new ideas that proved and show that something that was never done before could be done GETTYSBURG college's nial celebration was one of the biggest events the community has ever experienced In the alumni and former student ranks there are eral thousand Gettysburg ties that had almost been forgotten The community can to its tage co-operate with the college in bringing more of them back for the various events The athletic con- tests here also hold most excellent possibilities In the case of the factories and the college along with the academy and seminary there is little that can be directly done but these institutions merit the good will of the community and certainly more of an enthusiastic approval than they have received Cherbourg France July 8 AP vessels hovering the spot where the submarine Promethee went down yesterday reported air bubbles on the face this afternoon also found the telephone buoy but there was no sound from the other end of with more than 60 men aboard lay in 245 feet of water seven miles north of Cape LevL It is a bad spot with currents and an uneven tom The prevailing impression ashore was that her would be an almost impossible task Nevertheless the first thing the authorities did this morning when the hull was located was to call for help from the Italian salvage sel Artiglio II which left Brest for Cherbourg immediately One of the seven men who was saved told a story today which if it was accurate indicated some of the men might have drowned very quickly This man was on the deck when the submarine sank There was a hissing noise brought the up from below ly the captain saw at a glance that the ship was in danger for he dered all hands below and all doors shut Four doors were calked shut said the sailor but there was an- other open to the officers ment I saw one of the men try to close it but it jammed Then the ship out from under our feet and we were thrown into the wa- ter It looked to me as though the sea would go through that door with nothing Jo stop it The cause of the disaster has not been learned Goes To Shore For The Summer Miss Mabel Grenoble for many years assistant manager of the rose Myers store left this afternoon for Rehoboth Beach Delaware where she will remain throughout the summer months Miss Grenoble wil take charge of the Gift Shop m the Hotel lopen at Rehoboth Beach during the summer season returning to Gettysburg in the fall The Hotel Henlopen part of the Grenoble Hotels Inc a chain of hotels throughout the east is ated by W S Grenoble brother of Miss Grenoble Mr Grenoble is also president of the chain of hotels LIENS ON PROPERTY ARE BEING CHECKED Duties Of County Clerk Wagaman Increased By New Order ALL MUST BE RECORDED COUNCIL MOVES TO PUT CURB ON TOWN HAWKING Orders Ordinance Drawn To Prohibit Solicitation SEWAGE WORK PROGRESSING Striking out boldly lowing published reports of Louis Wagaman clerk to the Adams county commissioners is having his hands full these days with extra office work brought about through the new regulations calling upon all assessors to make individual check-ups on all gages and judgments in the county Heretofore the word of individuals filing returns of their personal property and the record of the return was assumed to be correct in every detail First Check in Years This year and for the first time in twelve years each of the 42 in the county will be com- to check each return against the records of mortgages and ments m Adams county Returns of the mortgages and judgments are sent from the offices of Prothonotary Allison and ter and Recorder of Deeds Fisher to a dispute between two ing house proprietors here recently council took the first step at its July ing Thursday evening ward the elimination of for tourists on streets Council instructed its committee to draft a aimed primarily at lodging house proprietors and solicitors but including solicitation for restaurants hotels and garages for sub- mission at the next ing Various councilmen ex- pressed the opinion that licitation tourists is re- on Gettysburg's reputation and is giving the town a bad name in many sections of the country The present ordinance prohibits for tourists within 100 feet of a hotel garage restaurant or another lodging but councilmen said this ordinance is not being enforced and that the only way to break up the practice is to prohibit soliciting altogether To Clean Bock Creek Next to taking the preliminary step toward the elimination of council's chief item of ness during the evening was the of the sewer committee to spend not more than for cleaning out toe channel in Bock creek from the Harrisburg road to the Baltimore pike and spreading Clerk Wagaman Mr Wagaman is Ume the banks then compelled to classify the Councilman C W Epley who pre- returns according to the 42 seated this matter to council said books When the assessors ne would supervise the work hiring WORLD FLIERS WRECKED SAFE participated in it It was somewhat different but almost equally easy to interest the generation Agriculture and orcharding powerful factors in Gettysburg's mercantile life A group have been talking of the advertising value of a trade name for county Adams Apples It docs not seem that such a thing is altogether a pipe dream Shenandoah valley has sold the idea to the world that any apple bearing that label is the best in the world It's reasonable to be- lieve that the trade mark that has been so often is catchy ately succeeding but it is an enough to have tremendous sales lv different matter and quite a facult one to command the interest of a generation that has witnessed I a modem war of portions to whom the Civil war is relegated far anto the past TO ATTEND K Crist son of Dr and Mrs It not possible to what happened here for that as un- changeable and not subject to The method of must be brought up to present 1 day specifications and with that be- i ang done the Gettysburg battlefield galore arc available in every hne of endeavor in burg and in All can be tied together and all can ize on and benefit from the fame suggestive of the word burg if that historic fame is con- C C Crist Chambersburg street i will stand out in front as one How is all this to bf it is not a ter nor as at a necessarily Moscow July 8 The ambition of James Mattern and Bennett to set a Jiew speed ord for around the world was wrecked in a peat hoc half way between lin and Moscow it was learned today Their plane was wrecked also and this morning they started for Moscow by train Neither was badly hurt It was about 4 a m yesterday that they passed over the town of 50 miles from Minsk Russia They were trouble wath the controls and they the lichts of for Moscow The peat bog was the best available landing field but at was no nouch i word of the accident came from this That town is south of the most direct airline between these two cities however and the opinion was that the v v out of their course bv the improperly controls It was evident they would not con- the for with th plan wrecked and the flicht than 24 behind th record of and Gatty the of the tune v out call for their book they will be given the card index of the gae and judgment returns of their districts against they will be compelled to make individual against personal property returns of each individual State Requires Survey Clerk Wagaman this morning was husy nth the first batch of returns He was classifying each card return according to the respective district Other counties in the state to which mortgages and judgments are re- turned against Adams county also send their reports to Mr Wagaman who must check each return against local records In former years at least since 1920 no such individual tion was conducted The personal property return of each individual was accepted as true to form and the incident was closed This io a judgment or a mortgage will be subject to a fine The state collects a tax of four mills and has adopted this method to secure an accurate check on all accounts Richey Selli Catoctin Tract The famous and fishing camp in the Catoctin mountains about 25 miles south of here on the Frederick road where President ver fished for trout during the first part of his term an the white house was sold Thursday to Washington law Lawrence Richer secretary to the president and owner of the iand sold to the attorney 891 acres of a tract of acres through which Fishing creek a mountain stream flows He kept title to the Tt owner said he establish a Indue in the mountains by the stream and use it as a retreat dunng the summer In recent years the president has not the camp going to has own on the Rapidan ir Virginia only local married men Mr Epley also had a plan for straightening Rock creek from dents channel to a point below the sewage treatment plant This plan was prepared by engineers for the du Pont company but would entail greater expense than council felt able to bear at this time Scour Tiber Also Mr Epley said the Tiber also would be cleaned out in the near ture and council ordered the chase of fuel oil to spray on that stream and Bock creek to alleviate the mosquito ace in the borough Several said that the spraying of oil on the Tiber Bock creek and marshy places in town has shown results in reducing the ber of mosquitoes L O Buckner a representative of the Metropolitan Edison company informed council that his figure on the cost of lighting the four posed light standards around the grass plot in center square would be a month instead of the figure he gave council at a cial meeting recently Council agreed to pay the difference and the installed mediately To Buy Damp Track Council received six bids from local garagemen for a dump truck the borough plans to chase Bids were received from the Central auto company Gettysburg sales and service William L Shields and Bell W and er and but council took the bids under advisement Council instructed LeRoy borough surveyor to pre- pare eight blue prints of the posed new sewer line from West Lincoln avenue to the in line near the Reading freight slat sen lor to the ing company as the latter request ed to the railroad com- is contingent upon s approval of the blue prints ed that hereafter all laid in the borough shall be and instructed that an that effect be pre- pared A the same time council to the Mack of McKeesport owner of Icr the jear a the block on Conner oi the club I Baltimore to repair its TO president of an- Mrs Crist is in the days ol yore Denver Colorado will attend the First ail the various to Olympic games an Los Angeles this i Unless Gettysburg is kept alive it co-ordination and be month to leave will fast depreciate in the smashed Any selfish interest that ver within the ten days to the dim distant past stands as an obstacle must be over- Los seem like a Revolutionary Continued on Page Three ATTENDING RETREAT George S Everhart Peter C Stock ard Frank writ to Mt Saint Mary's college Edmund W Thomas chairman of the also outline plans ot j hiv croup today for j Catholic the annual retreat of West street 30 days or the work will be by the borough New Flags voted to install three one at the corner of South ca Page
