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Vol. XLII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 13, 1940 No. 39
Looking Ahead
* Drift Toward War
* No War Declaration
* Hitler In S. America
Drift toward war for the United
States is accelerating; since the
President's vigorous speech Mon-day;
is to gain momentum in di-rect
ratio to prospect for early
German victory. Not that war
will be declared. There is no sign
of a war declaration. Not that
men will be sent to Europe. Allies
—even with U. S. help—cannot
supply adequately their present
troops. Bnt: United States will
supply army and navy planes;
will supply war material; may la-ter
supply destroyer convoy.
War then would depend upon
Hitler attitude toward U. S. in
event of German victory; would
depend upon Allied need in event
they can hold. This can be said:
Roosevelt will not watch the
British go down under violent
German attack without a struggle
to lend help. If Britain and
Prance can hold, they soon will
be getting material American sup-port.
If they fail to hold, Ameri-can
troubles will begin.
The reason: Highest, best-in-formed
officials are convinced that
war will shift to this hemisphere;
that there isn't room in the world
for Hitler's Germany and a United
States that will refuse to bow
down; that Churchill spoke the
truth when he said that the New
World would carry on the fight if
the Old World goes under. Obvi-ous
intent here is not to recognize
Hitler conquests; not to listen to
overtures from a victorious Ger-many;
not to develop friendship
for a totalitarian Europe.
LETTERS GRANTED
Warren Diehm and Edna Lo rah,
both of Lititz, executors of Alice
A Diehm, late of Lititz.
Plan Program
For Àuto Club
Picnic
Many new features are being
arranged for the annual picnic of
the Lancaster Automobile Clulb at
Hershey Park on Thursday, July
25. As in previous years, the pic-nic
is open to the public, with a
cordial invitation extended to all.
Among the speakers will be
United States Senator James J.
Davie, of Pennsylvania; Judge
Howard M. Hughes, recently elect-ed
president of the Pennsylvania
Motor Federation, and Russell E.
Singer, Washington, D. C., general
manager of the American Automo-bile
Association.
Committees in charge of ar-rangements
are as follows:—
General Committee—S. Edward
Gable, chairman; H. C. Kreisle;
El wood S. Grimm, B. W. Fisher,
J. Wade Gayley and Tom S. Shirk.
Baseball—J. Wade Gayley; mu-sic,
H. E. Trout; speakers, S. Ed-ward
Gaible; entertainment, Dr. W.
Giles Hess; children's tickets and
souvenirs, B. W. Fisher; parking
and safety, F. L. Spence; pub-licity,
Dean Gable; prize«, H. C.
Kreisle.
Monthly Meeting
The monthly meeting of the
* Lancaster Automobile Club, one of
a series in communities through-out
the county, will ¡be held in the
gymnasium of El iz albe th town Col-lege
at Elizabethtown on Friday
evening, June 21, beginning at 8.15,
daylight time. A fine program
of entertainment is being ar-ranged.
Reports of officers and commit-tees,
discussion of road projects
and other iteims of interest will be
included in the business session.
The public is invited.
—Home-made Sausafe, 20c lb.;
Beefsteak* 30c lb.; Hamburg, 19c
ib.; Dried Beef, 13c a quarter;
Whole Chucks, 19c and 20c lb.;
LUTZ—Phone 293-R. We Deliver.
adv.
Sportsmen's
Annual Picnic
On June 22
Leading Lady
Program Starts With L. H.
S. Band Concert at
1.30; Continues
All Evening
The Lititz Sportsmen's Associa-tion
will hold their second annual
picnic in the Lititz Springs Park
on Saturday, June 22, according
to an announcement made by
Christ Koehler, chairman, follow-ing
a meeting of the committee re-cently.
The program will start with a
concert by the Lititz High School
Band at 1.30 P. M. Games from
2.30 to 4.30 under the direction of
Eugene Dechert followed by an-other
band concert.
Supper, 5.00 to 6.30. Sportsmen
will sell hot beef candwiches and
serve free coffee at the coffee
house. Persons desiring gravy
with their sandwiches are asked to
bring their own plates, knives and
forks. People are urged to bring
a basket lunch with them and eat
from the park taJbles which will
Ibe in service by that time.
The tub races which attracted
so much attention last year will
Ibegin at 6.30. Cash prizes will be
given.
Five chicken races are planned
tto follow the tulb races, as fol-lows;
boys 12 years old and under,
girls 12 and under, men, ladies
and a free for all with a guinea
as the quarry.
The evening concert will be fol-lowed
by a free cake walk.
In case of rain the hot sand-wiches
will be sold and the free
coffee distributed at the Fire
House.
Ralph Walters, Charles C. Hol-linger,
Wm. G. Bshleman and
JTames Derr are the sportsmen as-sisting
Koehler.
200 Enroll,
In Vacation^
Bible School
FLAG DAY TOMORROW
ERECTING SERVICE STATION
AT LINCOLN AND APPIÈ ST.
Work was progressing Tapidly
this week on the construction of
ai modern service station at Lin-coln
Avenue and Apple Street by
tlhe Shock Independent Oil Com-pany
of Mount Joy. Six large
tanks already have ¡been placed in
tlhe ground. The station will be
opened to the public next month.
BRENEMAN REUNION
The annual reunion of the Bre-neman
family will be held in
Lnong's Park, Lancaster, Sunday,
June 30. An interesting program
will be presented at 2.30 P. M., D.
S . T.
Sheila Bromley, Warner Bros,
starlet, who has arrived from
Hollywood to take the leading role
with Margaret Mansfield's Gretna
Players who will open their 14th
consecutive season at Mount Gret-na
this evening with the comedy,
"Love is Like That."
Miss Miller
Resigns As
Nurse Here
Miss Emma Erb Named
To Position By
Local Board
Miss Emma Erb of 305 East
Front St., Lititz, was elected to
the position of Lititz Community
Nurse at the Executive Board
meeting on Tuesday evening. She
has been named to succeed Miss
Edna Miller who resigned recent-ly
after ten years of valuable and
laudable service to the Commun-ity.
It is with a common regret
that the pople of Lititz see her
relinquish this position.
However, the new Nurse is one
well-known and active in Lititz
for a number of years. Miss Erb
is a graduate of the Lancaster
General Hospital and a Registered
Nurse. She will begin her duties
as CommunityNurse July 1st.
SPORTSMEN MEET MONDAY
Final plans for the Sportsmen's
Picnic in the parik June, 22 will toe
made at a meeting to be held
Monday evening in the fire house,
according to an announcement
made today by Elmer ¡Bomberger,
president of the Lititz Sports-men's
association.
C. OF CO MEETS TUESDAY
The June meeting of the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce will toe
held in the fire house Tuesday
evening.
Program In Effect By
Churches of the
Borough
Three Vacation Bible schols
started in Lititz on Monday morn-ing
with an enrollment of over
two hundred pupils. They includ-ed
the United Brethren, the Trin-ity
Evangelical Congregational
and the Moravian.
St. Paul's Lutheran
The St. Paul's Lutheran church
started their sessions on Monday,
June 3rd and will continue until
Friday, June 14th when they will
close with a demonstration pro-gram
in the morning.
The Rev. Elmer P. Truchses is
superintendent of the school as
eisted by the following teachers,
Mrs. Frank Longenecker, inter-mediate
department; Mrs. Clar-ence
Dengler and Mrs. James
Mummert, Junior department;
Miss Grace Sesseman and Miss
Nancy Leaman, primary depart-ment;
and Mrs. James Shaeffer
and Miss Miriam Hutotfr, Begin-ners.
One hundred and eight children
are enrolled with ages ranging
from four to fourteen years.
Evangelical Congregational
E. S. Deckert is superintendent
of the Evangelical Congregational
school assisted by the following
teachers, Mrs. Charles Pendleton
and Miss Doris Pendleton, primary
department; Mrs. Edward Grutoe,
kindergarten; Mrs. Roy Neldeigh
and Mrs. E. C. Slosser, Junior;
Mrs. Daniel Heilnnan and Mns.
John Ross, intermediate.
Mrs. John Mathers has charg«
of the music and Gloria atuiKbs is
the secretary. The course of study
is based on the Standard course.
The school will hold two hour
sessions daily until June 23 when
a public meeting will be held and
also a picnic.
The following children are en-rolled,
Iris Hall, Patricia Ann
Garner, Gale Adams, Bernice Getz,
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The Frontier Forts
Of The Blue Mountains
Editor's Note: This is the fifth
aind last of a series of articles on
local history written especially
for the Lititz Record-Express by
Lititz High School students.
Despite the friendlly way the
settlers of Pennsylvania treated
the Indian and even 'bought the
land instead of coining and taking
It, they still saw that their good
hunting grounds and streams full
off fish were rapidly being taken
u<ip by the whites never to be re-turned
to them. They also begai
to) realize that they must stop
them now if at all. The defeat of
Braddock in 1T55 started things
o f f .
The Blue Mountains formed a
natural boundary for the settlers
thus limiting the settlement at
this point. This is where the In-dians
started their attacks in 1735.
They never attacked in large
bands, but rather in small parties
of three to ten men. These men
would creep past the ever-watch-ing
sentries, make their kill, and
thLen before an alarm could be
sotunded they would disappear as
qwietly as they had come.
The Government of Pennsyl-vania
decided to build a string of
forts from the Susquehanna River
to the Delaware River aTong the
Blue Mountains. These forts were
built about ten or fifteen miles
apart. Each fort was built of
strong logs and had a stockade
built around it. Several buildings
for refugee settlers and soldiers
were built inside the stockade.
Holes were cut in the stockade ts
allow rifle fire. Soldiers were
stationed a tthese forts. The set-tlers
who lived too far from a fort
got together and used a strong
farmhouse or barn and fortified
that. This fighting lasted until
1783 when it died away to nothing.
Only slight remains of a few of
these forts are yet able to be seen.
Many of the fort's locations can-not
be found even by letters writ-ten
by the captains of these forts.
However much has been learned
from these letters and a f€w books
written about them.
North of Lititz from Harrisiburg
to Bethlehem there stretched a
row of forts during the middle of
the 18th century that guarded the
fertile valleys of Southeastern
Pennsylvania from the marauding
Indians.
Paul Beck
Concert Here
Next Thnrs.
Pians were complete this week
for the third annual Paul Beck
Memorial Concert to be held in
the Lititz Springs Park next
Thursday evening, June 20, M. C.
Demmy, chairman in- charge, an-nounced
today.
The memorial program will be
presented by the Lititz High
School Senior and Junior Bands
and will include a nuinfber of vo-cal
and instrumental solos and
duets. The program will begin
at 8 P. M. Daylight-saving time.
The admission price has been
reduced to ten cents for adults
and children over 12 years of age
in an effort to attract as large an
audience as possible to this con-cert,
the park committee announce
ed at the same time.
Paul Beck was Lititz' pioneer
in musical enterprises of a gener-ation
ago. He started the first
bandshell in the park, which --o-mained
for years as the center of
musical enterprise in Lititz.
The first Paul Beck Memorial
program was presented in 1938
when the bandshell was formally
dedicated.
The Senior Band has a member-ship
of 64 while the Junior Band
will include 35 memibers. Albert
S. Ebert will serve as leader and
M. C. Demmy as master of cere-monies.
Soloists will include Robert
Hackman, who for two years wa3
state champion on the baritone
horn and who now is a senior at
Lebanon Valley College; Jeanne
Eberly, a former state soprano
champion; Norma Steely, vocalist;
Dorothy Little, marimba, and Rob-ert
Harding, accordianist.
Our Flag has been waving in the breeze since June 14, 1777, when
it was adopted by the Continental Congress. U. S. Marines display
the Stars and Stripes along with their regimental standard. At rights
Granfl Union, rattlesnake and pine tree flags, prominent among early
colonial banners. ,
Church of The Brethren
Discuss War Measures
Group of 3_3 Local Persons Make Motor Trip To Im-portant
Church Conferen ce Held This Week In
Ocean Grove
600 Prints
Feature Salon
For Fourth ^ i
Three Foreign Sets; Judg-ing
Will Be Done
Here Sunday
More than 600 interesting pho-tographs
from many parts of the
world will feature this year's pho-tographic
salon to be exhibited in
the roundhouse as- a part of the
Fourth of July Celebration in the
Lititz Springs Park, memibers of
the committee announced today.
The prints already shipped to
Lititz indicate that this year's
exhibit will far exceed those of
former years and . will definitely
establish the park exhibit as one
of the foremost photograpHic dis-plays
in the east.
Judging of the prints will be
done Sunday by one of the most
distinguished groups of judges
ever brought here. They are Fred
Peal, of Chester, probably the
outstanding judge of photographic
work in the eastern part of the
United States; John Fritz, of Lan-caster,
businessman and a former
U. S. Army photographer recog-nized
as a technical expert; and
Harrison Mucher, of Reading,
whose work is equally well known.
Among the many prints submit-ted
include two sets shipped from
Hong Kong, China, which have
attracted much interest among
those who have seen them. A
third shipment of foreign prints
has been received from Hungary.
All three shipments arrived in ex-cellent
shape despite war condi-tions.
VISITS IN KISSEL HILL
Miss Frieda Jones, of New York,
was a recent visitor at the home
of Miss Barbara Bechtel7 of Kis-sel
Hill.
A total of 33 persons from this
vicinity motored to Ocean' Grove,
N. J., this week where they spent
two days attending sessions of the
1941 Annual Conference of the
Church of the Brethren. x
Making the trip via motor bus,
the group left here last Sunday
morning in time to enalble them to
attend the Sunday sessions of the
conference as well as the Monday
meetings, returning here late
Monday night.
Rev. James M. Moore, of this
borough, pastor of the ChurcE of
the Brethren, attended the sessions
as delegate from this district and
remained in Ocean Grove for the
entire convention.
A feature of the conference was
the approval of a benevolence bud-get
of $2:35,000 and a war-relief
budget of ?3,000 per month to be
expended for relief work in war-stricken
areas.
Those who made the trip by mo-tor
bus »were as follows: Nora
Longenecker, Annie Longenecker,
Martha Longenecker, Mary Longe-necker,
Mary Mylin, Beulah Min-nich,
Helen Keller and (Henry E.
Nies, all of Lititz; Mr. and Mrs.
Giblbel, Mastersonville; James
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EPHRATA WOMAN BUYS
NEW HOSTE HERE
Miss Mary J. Jacoby, of Ephra-ta,
this week purchased a new
home on East Second Avenue from
Abram Hershey through Elam E.
Habecker, local realtor. The
home built by Mr. Hershey will
not be completed for several
weeks.
ay:
To Be Larger
Despite War
Park Committee Increases
Appropriation For
Fireworks
Despite war conditions and the
unusual demand for munitions,
Lititz's fireworks display which
will culminate the Fourth of July
Celebration in the Lititz Springs
Park will be bigger than that of
former years, memibers of the
springs committee decided at an
important meeting last Thursday
night.
Following a discussion of the
park program, members of the
committee decided to greatly in
crease the appropriation for fire
works in order that the policy of
increasing the size of the fire-works
display can be continued.
With the fireworks display ex-pected
to please the several thous
and persons to attend the celebra-tion,
members of the park commit-tee
also announced that the fire-works
representative has offered
prizes of $H0, $7.50 and $5.00 for
the best photographs taken of the
display.
In addition, the park committee
has planned an interesting pro-gram
which will continue through-out
the afternoon and evening,
climaxed of course with the an-nual
display of thousands of
brightly lighted oandles from the
head of the spring to the entrance
at the opposite end of the park.
The Lancaster City Band ha3
been engaged to present concerts
during both the afternoon and
evening. A special attraction this
year will be a Punch amd Judy
Show especially for the children
but of interest also-to adults. This
show also will be presented after-noon
and evening.
On motion of Dr. Harry E.
Bender, president of the commit-tee,
a vote of thanks was extend-ed
to the sportsmen, firemen and
others who "did such a remark-able
job of cleaning the stream
and the park." The parte was de
clared to be in excellent condi
tion.
Plans also were completed for
the Baby Parade and the commit-tee
in charge was alloted $40 to
defray the most of prizes, ribbons
and other materials needed
-iv "KONADAW"
Ich waes net eib deer es wist,
ovver de ledscht wuch hen de
karls on de tseidung offis en
rechter meener Breef grickt fum'a
karl druvva in Konadaw. Dehr
karl grickt sheins de Lititz tsei-dung
olli wuch shunt fer a'poro
yore, und der waeg dos ich fer-shtae
doot ehr udder hut olls'fert
de tseidung ga'glicha. Ower der
waeg dos ehr shreibt in seim ibreet
will ehr nix mae tsu du howa
mit'ra tseidung dos en Pennsyl-fawnish
Deitsch shtick druekt We
de tseidung doot. Ehr hut glawfo
g'sawt dos ehr wet net howa dos
se ehm de tseidung mae shieka
daeda bis se shtuppa daeda dea
Deitsch shtick drucka.
Es sin a'pore socha doa ich
gleicha daed wissa, und sell is3
ware iss dehr karl dos daart druv-va
in KONADAW wunt und iss so
g'interest in unser.m shteddel dos
ehr en Lititzer tseidung grickt
olli wuch? Und fer wos iss ehr
daart druvva? Wore des londt
nimmi gude ga'nuch fer ehn dos
ehr ous ga'tsooga iss? Und ich
wunner eb ehr net ae tseidt udder
de onner en Pennsylfawnisher
deitscher wore und iss now awen-nich
ivver g'sheidt worra de
tseidt? Und won ehr ken Deitsch-er
iss fer wos will ehr sich so
glae mocha und bra'veera es gooka
mocha dos won ehr g'sheidt
waart? Es sin now kens fun den-na
socha dos ich ond'worta ton,
ovver ich kon eich sawga wos ich
denk fun so'ma karl we dos.
En Karl dos so socha shreibt
we dehr karl hut iss endweddera
ower g'sheidt udder iss tsu dum
fer der unner-shidt tau wlss
gshwishich de hoch Deitscha dos
se olla well de Nazie haesa, unB
unser Pennsylfawnishi DeitschL
Well der unner-shidt unnioh de
tswae iss grawd so gross we Dawg
und Nocht, de Nazis de maena dos
se sedda olles howa, unni g'shoft
und won se es net graaga kenna
sella waeg, don gaena se yusht
nous und Marda und shtaela woa
se wella. Ower de Pennsylfa'w-nisha
deitscha glawva on hardt
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MOTORIST PROSECUTED
FOLLOWING COLLISION
Charges of failing to yield the
right of way were preferred
against Harry S. Kemper, of
Rothsville, following a collision
on Lincoln Avenue Sunday. The
complaint was made by Night Of-ficer
Lester Haines. Kemper will
be arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Joseph M. Herr.
PLANT ATTRACTS ATTENTION
A large magnolia plant attract-ed
much attention when placed in
a window of the Moyer drug store
this week and Was mistaken for
almost anything from a large dog-wood
plant to a tobacco plant.
The magnolia blossom was Prom a
tree at the home of Henry Heiser-man,
East Main Street.
Record-Express Prints
Mercantile Appraisers List
GERMAN BAPTIST SERVICE
The annual communion service
of the Old German Baptist church
of the Lancaster district will be
held at Lincoln this coming Sat-urday
and Sunday, June 15 and 16.
The Saturday service will begin ait
2 P. M. Standard Time while the
Sunday service will commence at
9.30 Standard Time. The public is
invited to attend.
The Lititz Record-Express was
honored this week when selected
by the Attorney General of the
Commonwealth to publish the
mercantile appraisor's list of all
businesses granted mercantile li-censes
in Lancaster, County for
the year 1940.
The long list of Lancaster city
and county businesses appears for
the first time on the inside pages
of this issue otf the Record-Ex-press.
The list is published for
the perusal of the public and en-ables
the public to check those
businesses which have obtained
mercantile licenses through the
mercantile appraisor's office at the
list
the
court house In Lancaster.
The mercantile appraisor's
also is being published by
Lancaster New Era and the Eph-rata
Review.
As a part of the Record-Ex-presss's
service to the state- rela-tive
to the publishing of the mer-cantile
appraisor's list, a consid-erable
number of extra copies will
be distributed throughout north-ern
Lancaster county during the
weeks that the list is published
by this paper.
Turn to Page Two for the start
of the list which is continued on
pages three, six and seven of this
issue.
Spoken Drama
at U.B.Church
Wednesday •
A two-charaoter spoken drama;
'Drunk Drivers," will be present-ed
next Wednesday evening, June
19 in the United Brethren Church
at 8 P. M. The public is invited
to attend. ,.., . - - -
This dram'a since the repeal of
the 18th Amendment and many
state dry laws, is an unretuoched
photograph of the inside main
working of the liquor traffic.
The setting is the office of a lo-cal
liquor License Commissioner.
The characters are Tom OiNeil,
operator of a local "Drink Empor-ium."
Since hundreds of thousands Of
women banded together to assist
in the Repeal of State and Na-tional
prohibition, the other char-acter
in the drama is a woman
secretary of the Liquor License
Commissioner.
When asked how they happened
to write "Drunk Drivers," Judge
and Mrs. Summers released the
following: "Can't a law be enacted
that will remove drunk and drink-ing
drivers from the streets and
highways, and stop this whole-sale
slaughter?" This question ia
being asked by almost everyfbody.
On June 13, 1938, the National
Safety Council, from Chicago, re-leased
the following date to the
Associated Press:
'The Council reported there
were 108 motor vehicle deaths in
the nation every day in the year,
and that if accidents continued
during 1338 at the same rate as in
1987, one in every thirteen persons
will be injured or killed." Traffic
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