Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - June 2, 1933, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING hand itches you'll get your itches you've got tilings WEATHER Fair THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Member of The Associated Press Truth Our Public Good Our Aim Read By Nearly la Adams County ESTABLISHED 1902 GETTYSBURG PA FRIDAY EVENING 2 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS 89 DIPLOMAS ARE AWARDED AT HIGH SGH Educational Pageant Is Presented At Closing Exercises Of Year 8th Graders To Be Promoted This Evening Gettysburg's public schools today and the more than 1.000 aad girls home faces wreathed in smiles or de- pending whether or not they For three months Well er How Do You HONORS AWARDS ARE ANNOUNCED A pageant depicting the origin and development of Pennsylvania its industries fine arts and varied activities and its challenge to the future was ably presented by the 89 members of the graduating class j ac Gettysburg high school in con- with cises Thursday evening The high school auditorium was filled for the exercises This is the third year the senior class has given an original pageant instead of the customary commencement and those saw all three pageants said the Thursday evening show was by far the best in theme preparation and execution Pageant Jit 3 Parts The pageant given in three parts In the first part the ing and naming of Pennsylvania depicted in four scenes the council room of Charles IL tableaux the Great Treaty and Perm and His Guests During the second part of the pageant the general theme sylvania promotes was exemplified by word music and drills which were particularly done and elicited much favorable comment This part of the Pennsylvania's try transportation forestry culture initiatives education and fine arts were depicted pursuits or employment This evening at 8 o'clock the an- promotion exercises for the members of the eighth grade be held at the high school auditorium St Francis parochial school closes on Friday Jane 9 with graduating exercises for members of the eighth grade class on Sunday evening June 11 at St Francis Xavier Catholic church Episcopal Troubadours Con- clude Evangelistic Series In Local Church Increased evangelistic attendance services marked the conducted During the third part of the pageant Pennsylvania's challenge to the through its youth was Four members of the class depicted the Spirits of arship and JDr CIme Speaks La the last part of The pageant J L Cline head of the English afc Gettysburg gave an address in pointed out that the same age and determination that motivated the founders this is needed in me j state today After the address Professor Guile W ever high school cipal called the class roll after Professor C superintendent of the public schools presented the diplomas The exercises closed the song Pennsylvania by the class and the epilogue by 3.1155 Huth Waltemyer Prizes And Awards the commencement evening in the Prince of Peace Episcopal church by the three troubadours of the Church army in charge of Captain C L Conder Captain Conder used as the sub- ject of his address Present Daj Living Christ He said in oart Jesus is not merely an toric figure but a present living in She today changing the lives of men If let the personality of Jesus into our lives we muss keep oar inlets clear Bible reading is one This spiritual education is often ed by modem men Prayer is the inlet convincing men of Christ's presence In the ments Christ the poorer to His trilL If men are weak in the it is not Christ's fault Ee offers them power If FOREST GAMP IS NOT AFFECTING Grad Purchases Paper Agency Of P W 1200 Recruits To Work 1 On New Projects I On Local i field Stewart H Mover of I a graduate of Gettysburg college class of 1932 has purchased the newspaper agency of P W smith proprietor of the Newsstand store Mover who will have TO SELECT SITE FEW D 1 1 charge of the sale and distribution j of all newspapers now handled will have his office I in the building Mr has handled the sale and distribution of newspapers I here for 22 years a was given on Thursday Federal Agents Seize Still in Township Two Marylanders Arrested In Act Of ing Largest Liquor Plant Seized In This Section One Had Revolver In Holster But Failed To Put Up A Fight FRUTCHEY TO LODGE COMPLAINTS ON TWO COUNTS AGAINST PAIR 1 To correct a misapprehension that I has been here relative to t j the establishment of a reforestation i camp on the Gettysburg battlefield i Superintendent James R j ghie this morning explained the j -t son for the laying off of several j employees The local nark commission j i tains a regular force of battlefield j i It also maintains a T CEMETERY TO iu t i 3 f force for during the x v J P received a surprise be was confronted with a midget in the hearing chamber where the senate is nis bank Tiny Lya Graf escorted to the crowded room and introduced to the fce with the es banker by an unidentified man All of this was startling enough but of the reforestation cas when Miss Grafs escort suddenly lifted her to Morgan's lap it created j spring and summer months The employment of the temporary force is gauged by the amount of work to be and the funds available for such purposes Old Crew Remains During the past several months the temporary force nns been at work on miscellaneous projects on the field However with the close of the fiscal year July 1 and the exhaustion of the federal ation for the past year part of the temporary force been but the regular force con- with its regular duties employee on the field is or camp Mr Church Cemetery Under Supervision Of New Group LOCAL ATTORNEY TO GIVE HISTORY a furore spectators and later committee members learned of the incident Associated Press McConaghie explained Some of the temporary force re- Dedication of the enlarged and improved cemetery at church near McXnightstown will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock the board of directors of the cemetery association announced today The local court recently ed transfer of the title to the etery from the Lutheran and Re- formed congregations of laid off included men in civil church to the cemetery nr sedation comprising Class Plans Festival Saturday ject or neglect they suffer loss j gave a talk on J Believe in The Girls Joan's Reformed met class of St church Thursday This evening the service of home ox Ruth held An open air meeting be held on the square at o'clock Captain Council's Pushes cises the following prizes and County Woman's Father Expires a retired school teacher and deputy of York county died at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening at his home in West York after illness from a stroke of apoplexy he suffered 12 He was 74 years old The deceased is survives by the following York Mrs George -E Thomas East D Sarah C York Martin P Toomey West York Mrs Warrer Plans were made for a festival to fee held at Cashtown Saturday Refreshments were served by the hostess Those present the Misses Alma Weikert Cluck and Margaret Cluck upstream Work On Cleansing Of Sock Creek Work of cleaning the from the 55 this Mrs Boy Keller f by a crew of men under Arthur CiUCk Mrs Donald Mrs Glenn j the direction of Keller Mr and Mrs Calvin Cluck Mrs David Cluck Arthur Mrs Minnie Cluck Cluck and Harold Keller n C W service who were on the waiting list from elsewhere in the state They were working on projects for which funds had been appropriated in the lass appropriation Now that these projects have been completed and the funds exhausted there is no further work for ail of this Select Site Soon The 200 recruits who will be here will be assigned to new projects such as clearing and ing out underbrush removing dead wood reclamation work fire tion and in other projects outlined j by Superintendent McConaghie to the Third Corps Area for approval was instrumental in the stream and its banks in the vicinity of the sewage ment plant last summer The channel of the stream wiU fce cleaned for a distance of proximately a quarter mSe from the Harrisburg road John W owner of the iano has given council permission to clean the channel A portion of ths stream which lands of the Adams Army officers are expected here at any time to select the site for the camp Several ident the 01 t locations have been temporarily including three south of West Confederate avenue and crio on the north side of the Lincoln highway west However these are only gested locations and the permanent camp site will be selected by the army officers when they come Jiers within the nest few days Number Of Buyers home remains uncleaned Miller Dover and George C D 1 West York four grand- j D A R prise 3-L Ruth first Archie R Maust j second and Helen May lain Alumni four-year leen Black first and Smith second American Mechanics council Kb 50 Pounders and Patriots of of and camp No 433 i next week Virginia Bennett Jones national Honor Jessie Mildred Bream M Kathleen May Chamberlain Benjamin Coining To Gettysburg Nest Week To See Latest Creations Last year there some ence as to the cleaning process be- the council's committee and the alms house officials and cleaning was not done Hansons Observe Anniversary sedation comprising representa rives of Lutheran Trinity Reformed and St John's Reformed church Since the burial ground has been taken over by the cemetery the tombstones have been straightened the ground has been leveled the wall has been rebuilt a hard road constructed The work was done by unemployed men of Franklin township under the di- rection of the Rev George B Ely of Cemetery History At the dedicatorial exercises W Clarence Sheely Esq of burg will give a history of the cemetery and C A Cluck wili outline the aims and objects of the Devotional will be in charge of the Rev George B Ely the Rev H Koons of and the Rev R B Dysart of Oxford Music will be in charge of Edwin A Rice of The board of directors of the cemetery association comprises C A Cluck president George baugh vice president John treasurer Ross King and Clyde Andrew I Five federal prohibition agents out of the 1 district office raided a moonshine liquor plant m I township near Charmian Thursday evening seized a still in operation and considerable other i Th V Paraphernalia and and arrested two men both residents of II N 11 fi I Maryland V ri i Working the direction of W R Harvey gator in charge of the Hagerstown prohibition enforcement office who visited the still earlier in the day accompanied by an informant the federal agents swooped down upon the wildcat distillery at o'clock Thursday evening ing William H Gearhart 30 and Lewis N McClain 23 while operating the still The still was located in a woods on what is known as the Snyder place in township The farm has been unoccupied for several years and the buildings are in a state of Largest Still Seized still the largest ever seized in Adams county was operated by a five steam boiler with coke as the fuel The apparatus was said by Mr Harvey to be one of the most complete he has ever seized Besides the still in operation the agents seized a gallon dismantled still a cooling tank 40 gallons of alleged liquor gallons whiskey in nine mash vats a and a type automobile belonging to Gearhart Although the federal agents said Gearhart was wearing a loaded revolver in a holster around his waist he was caught off guard by the suddenness of attack and made no attempt to put up a fight BUTT JUSTICE CASE Admits Ownership McClain Sed when the agents moved in caught after a chase of about 200 yards The alleged operators of the stiE had a tent cooking utensils on the place and lived there while the still was being Gearhart admitted ownership of the plant and said McClain was only After a hearing for Roy E j working for him According to Harvey Gearhart had s in operation in the cellar of his home at Shealer Withholds Decision Pending Review By Dis- Attorney the and Mrs Henry A son observed their flie newest Councilman I local draymen to donate a trucK Davies Mary Elizabeth Dougherty Murray B Frazee Carroll W Tin Amy Irene Nary John J Sientz and Ruth Waltemyer junior Harmon P Fumey Scholastic Honor group upper Jessie Mildred Appier Beatrice Mae Benner Black Jacob M Bream May Chamberlain Mary Elizabeth Cook Elizabeth Dougherty Murray Bennet Frazee Carroll W irvin Archie Reymer Maast Doris Celia Amy Irene George E Christine Elizabeth Reaver Jean Rose R The funeral services Saturday with manufacturing concern brief services at- the home of his the week son and daughter-in-law Mr and An unusually large Mrs George C D Toorney York at m and concluding services in the church Inter- ment in the cemetery adjoining the Many messages 01 congratulations poured in during connection the cay from friends in Gettysburg k creek j and elsewhere throughout the east Girl smith 19 Gardners on a charge of involuntary manslaughter Thursday afternoon Justice of the Peace John C Sheaer de- a review of the mony by District Attorney John P Goldsmith was arrested after an inquest into the death of Mrs M Amelia Group 78 of Idaville who was struck and fatally injured by an automobile while crossing the lisle road after leaving services at the Idaville Evangelical church Saturday evening May 20 Melvin Martoff Ella William and Glenn Cram all of and vicinity were called as witnesses at the hearing which developed no new testimony Oi cities of ths east are j expected to attend the snow Cooperating in the snow wili be the Hanover Cabinet company also j Girl Injured In Ident Leaves cc Local Patrolman Weds T J on Is Buried Today Funeral for Mary Anna Slonaker daughter of and Mrs Frank J Slonaker who died at her home on Breckenndge j Goldsmith who was not street Tuesday evening were held sented by counsel did not testily this morning at 9 o'clock in St Francis Xavier Catholic church the Rev Father Mark E Stock ing at a requiem mass was in St Mary's cemetery Pallbearers were Evelyn Adams Doris Zinkand Catherine Sarah Wisotzkey Sarah Agnes and Helen Jacoby all i schoolmates of the deceased girl at St Francis Xavier parochial school i of tables In a beautiful setting and before the largest crowd that ever jammed -i Tns snow win os ooen TO ms i tne largest ic evening June 5 when I the State theatre Hanover Miss Miss Dolores Small Gettysburg and Adams county S Fleming daughter of are to tne display aver of the graduating class i Kenneth P Hull Jean Marguerite Rebert dent Archie R secretary j and Carroll W Irvin treasurer The class roll M Adlesberger Jessie Mildred Appier Grace Elizabeth Beard Harold Richard Beattie Beatrice Mae Benner M Kathleen Biack Dorothy Miriam Bowser Calvin more Bream Jacob M Bream Mary Slen Bushman Nellie Catherine Byer Maybelle Carver Delora garet Case Helen May Chamberlain J Elizabeth Helen Leona Cline Mary Elizabeth Cook min Gordon Davies J Marie Day Viola Derr Mary Elizabeth Dougherty Mark A Eckert Richard Everhart Continued on Page 2 Tuesday evening was dischargee strong toward modernistic Mr and Mrs Jonas Fleming Chester ts state otor son of Emil Roberts a patient from the Warner j A part of the field staff of Of Skins Park were married on the 1 Louis Dorson sales of that theatre ar o'clock two cau More than of were the bride's at- tendants Esther Fleming j ter of the bride was and the Little Misses Shirley WiBet and Caroline Hartman Hanover were Sower girls Joseph Hoffman was best man Lee manager of the Richard McAllister hotel Business Girls SCHOOL B GUTS TAX BATE Butler Township Directors Elect One New Teacher For Coming Term of Butler Tour Battlefield the crash today was slowly 1 Dorson arid William 1 side RIGHT Stanley McCiain aged 15 a fracture of the right arm tnis while cranking the car of G M Neely in The fracture was reduced ax the of Dr Ira M Henderson Berdine members of the fins and j The ceremony was performed bv the Chicago and New York the Rev J Harold Little pastor of men for the company j the Pines Lutheran church of which I the bride is a member The ring j service was used LOCAL MAN RETIRES j The bride and her attendants C William York street j to the stage from the rear was retired Thursday as a battlefield j of the theatre to the strains of employe after fifteen years service i march played on the theatre organ by David M Brown BIRTH Mr and Mrs Charles Carson R D announce tile birth of a son John Calvin Wednesday This is the ninth child of the sons all are living Mr who readied the ment age after fifteen years held the rating of stonecutter He is a few months past his eighty-first birthday anniversary Strawberry festival and sirls club Saturday June 10 organist at church Hanover Attendants Reformed was master of ceremonies and pre- ceding the ceremony the Harmony trio Raymond Spangler Richard Shultz and Harold Little sang I Love You Truly When the was con- cluded the bride and bridegroom were handcuffed and placed in an old automobile attached to a truck of the Superior garage Kew Oxford and were brought to burg by of McSherrystown and Mr and Mrs Roberts left this morning by automobile on a ten-day trip to the Century of Progress in Chicago The couple received many able presents from Hanover Miss Beatrice Heck daughter of chants Mr and Mrs John Heck Many residents of Gettysburg and town road and Miss Freda Spenee Continued on Page re- ship meeting Thursday evening the school tar three mills and elected one new teacher A toar of the battlefield i elected four others by six guides featured the j school tax was reduced from Thursday evening meeting of federal agents made it so hot him that he was f to move the equipment to a less public place In Maryland Harvey said federal agents are without authority to enter a private dwelling to make a raid Gearhart told Harvey that the had been in operation in Adams county for only ten To Face said the product of the still was being sold in both vania and Maryland and that hart was operating the plant for a big shot in the illicit liquor racket in Maryland Gearhart and McClain were brought to the Adams county jalL along with the stalls and the 40 gallons of alleged whiskey Sergeant R W Frutchey of the local sub- station of the state police was no- and will lay informations against the pair them with illegal manufacture and possession of liquor An additional information charging Gearhart with a violation of the state uniform firearms act also will be laid Ths informations were to be laid by Sergeant Frutchey today before tice of the Peace John C Shealer To Dynamite Vats Harvey and his men planned to return to the Snyder place today and dynamite the vats the boiler and was not Gettysburg business and al girls club Good brought to the local jaiL Harvey said the place where the still was being operated is in an almost inaccessible wooded section Last fall Sergeant Frutchey was informed of a wholesale moonshine Teachers i liquor establishment in the Maude T j saine vicinity and conducted a but the had the 15 to 12 nulls Herbert Miller of Butler j ship was elected to teach Guides who accompanied the Hope school next year group Rufus Bushman j re-elected include Mrs ter J A J H 1 Walters G Jona and Miss Maud M Pensyl either recampec or haa se Bender's Hiss S up a for operation Several evening the Alma Wert Bridge vats were found but no trace hold a ham and supper at school and George A At that tune Sergeant cottage j Guernsey Centre Mills school Continued on Page 2 Garretson is president of Other members are j WILL IS FILED noon Transportation i Luther Lady Conrad Guise Charles j The will of Mrs Kate Eaugh from theY W C j K Thomas and Roy Raffensperger Bream late of Tyrone township entered to probate in the office of Robert E Fisher register and re- corder by W KL Klugh of executor The estate is valued at Mrs John Pape's bers wishing to go are requested to j hand in their names not later than j the board evening at o'clock secretary A WEATHER REPORT Fair and wanner tonight and Saturday Prof and Mrs Paul Cessna timore street have returned from a visit with friends and relatives at Pa Cumberland HOSPITAL REPORT Mrs C W Epley and Kathleen LEAVE FOR FAIR B E Benner and J W Martin Iron Springs R J E and Miss Evelyn Bream f road left today by i bile for Chicago where they will and Winifred Jones both of tend the Century of Progress They i were discharged as expect to return home next Friday from the Warner hospital
