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Vol. LXIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 23, 1941 No. 19
LOOKING AHEAD
What A Hitler Victory
Means To Us
Can We Live Alone?
Most important questions now ia
he answered are these: Will Tinted
Slates she real aid to Britain.'
Will that aid. if (fiten. lie in time!
\Iosi probable answer^ are these:
''ongre; is very likely to decide
iround March 1. to p»riiiit "xlcit-
-ive aid to Britain. It's a 511-50
iiet whether or not aid, if voted,
will be in time to avert a Hitler
victory, accordinsr to the Unit .1
States Mews.
Clash of opinion over al-out aid
or casual aid to Britain i» irrotviiis
hitter; is going to force ¡his coun-try
to do some hard and last
thinking. Roosevelt's decision is
made; is for al-out aid now. for
a no-ccmpromise fight later if the
¡Sritish go down. One harrier to
making that decision effective is
'Jongress; is a feeling among man.V
congressmen that U. S. should
mind its own business, that it
inakes no difference to this coun-try
who runs Europe or Asia.
People need to know which view
is right, which course—attempted
isolation or accepted involvement
—is best Roosevelt view of Hitler
victory is this: On one side of U.S.
would be Hitler, controlling 400.-
oOO.OOO people, controlling resourc-es
greater than the U. S. controls,
controling shipbuilding facilities
five times those of this country,
but' hungry for resources of Latin
America and Canada. One the oth-er
side of U. S. would be Japan.
' ontrolling 400,000,000 people, con-troling
raw material resources vi-tal
to the U.S. but hungry for re-sources
of Latin America.
* * *
U. S.. with 1,30,000,000 people,
would face conquering powers that
dominated trade and resources of
^00,000,000 people. Also: Germany
and Japan would control much ot
the $3,500,000,000 export market
for American cotton, wheat, tobac-co
and industrial product*; would
jeopardize livelihood of 3,000.000
cotton growers. 1,000,000 wheat
(Continued on Page 4)
Lititz Stops
Catholic Hi
In Fast Game
Lititz High School again prov-ed
it has another championship
basketball five ¡in the making
Tuesday evening when the local
squad thoroughly trounced a fast
but rather ba ed Lancaster Cath-olic
High School team. Defeat-ing
Catholic High 53 to 37, Lititz
succeeded in spoiling a six-game
winning streak of the red rose
-ggregation.
The locals will again play a
:eague game in which the league
'.eadership is still at stake Friday
-vening, when they meet Neffsville
.it Neffsville. The next home game
wil be played here Friday. Janu-ary
31. when Lititz meets its tra-ditional
rival, Ephrata.
Getting off to a very slow start
but gaining momentum as they
vent along the Coach Deckert's
t'ountians surpassed the Crusaders
in every angle of the game in the
".ast three quarters to win with
-asy going. Although they made
•1 great deal more shots than they
missed, the Lititz High team dom-inated
mostly with their passing
attack.
Leading the Lititz attack was
:orward Captain Richard Stark,
who tossed them in from evevv
angle to carry off the scoring hon-ors
of the game. Captain Stark
had seven field goals and four
iouls for a total of 18 points. Fol-lowing
closely in Stark's footsteps
was forward Carl Reist. who drop-
(Continued on Page 8)
Boro Officer
Lester Hanies
Is Suspended
Relieved of Badge
Alleged Neglect
Of Duty
Borough Police Officer Lester
Haines has been suspended from
neglected his duty, it became
known here this week.
The suspension of the night of-ficer
was ordered personally by
Burgess Victor Wagner last Fri-day
night. Burgess Wagner order-ed
Special Officer Hoffman to take
Haines' place patroling the streets
of the borough during the night
shift.
Members of Borough Council re-vealed
this morning that Haines
will be given a hearing befjore
Council sitting as a committee of
the whole next Tuesday evening,
if he requests such a hearing.
Haines also declared that he would
appear before Council and ask to
be re-instated,
"I appeared before the Police
Committee and admitted that I had
made a mistake by going oft duty
for a couple of hours but I have
followed the duties of my office
carefully in every other detail,
Haines explained this week.
While borough officials were re-luctant
to discuss the case until
hearing before Council, it was re-vealed
that information against
Haines was obtained personally by
Burges Wagner and Chief of Polics
Kreider who found him away from
duty when he supposedly was pa-troling
local streets.
I t was also declared today that
Haines had been warned on pre-vious
occasions that he' must not
leave his beat without first notify-ing
Chief of Police Kreider.
Haines was appointed night pa-trolman
here last summer follow-ing
the resignation of Patrolman
Jacob Singley.
C. of C. Plans
Basketball
Fete Feb 24
rat
discussing epochal bill designed to give all-out aid to Britain. Left
to right: Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Morris Sheppard of Texas,
Alben Barklev of Kentucky, Walter George of Georgia.
FLYAWAY . . . Striking night-time view of ramp at Inglewood,1
Cal., with completed planes for U. S. Army Air corps and British
Royal Air Force lined up for flyaway delivery. t
ELI GARBEK PURCHASES
FORMER WHISKEY RESIDENCE
Ii Garber has purchased the
three-story brick dwelling at 130
South Broad Street from the es-tate
of Florence Meiskey on pri-vate
terms, acording to Elam Ha-becker.
Mr. Haibecker also an-nounced
the sale of the property
at 304 East New Street to Samuel
Good, oif this borough.
HERSHEY GLEE CLUB
WILL SING HERE
The Hershey Industrial School
Glee Club will present an interest-ing
concert at St. Paul's Luther-an
Church Wednesday, February 5.
The glee club consists of 45
voices. The program will start at
7:30 P. M., and will be open to the
public A silver offering will be
taken.
Local I.O.O.F.
Host to Grand
Patriarch
Visitors From 4 Counties
Attend Important
Meeting Here
Visitors representing a total of
IS I. 0. 0. F. Lodges from four
counties attended a mammoth I.
0. O. F. meeting here Tuesday
evening attended by the Grand Pa-triarch
of the Grand Encampment,
1. O. O. F.
During the affair, the General
Sutter Encampment was host to
the Garden 'Spot I. O. O. F. Asso-ciation.
The Grand Patriarch, J. B.
Mentzer, addressed the meeting and
discussed the life and work of
Thomas Wildey, the founder of
Odd Fellowship in America.
The Grand Patriarch was accom-panied
to Lititz by his Chief Mar-shal,
Edwin Spangler, of Waynes-boro;
Deputy Grand Patriarch,
John Pierce, of Philadelphia, and
Grand Senior Warden Levi C. Her-shey,
of Elizabethtown.
Following the speaking, cards
were played and dancing was en-joyed
to the music of Elvin My-ers
and his orchestra of Lancas-ter.
TURKEY SUPPER SATURDAY
Members of the Sunshine Class
of the Triity Evangelical Church
will hold a turkey supper from 4
to 8 P. M Tickets are being sold
for 50 cents.
Recalls Entertainment Here
Of Many Lon" Years Ago
-Home-made Sausage, 25c lb.;
boiling beef, 16c lb.; Hamburg, 22c
ib.; Dried Beef, 13c a quarter;
Whole Chucks, 19c and 20c ib.;
LITTZ—Phone 293-R. We Deliver.
e-7.
By Ralph Bnch
In past years, yet within the
memory of many residents of the
town, long winter evenings were
a reality, and an entertainment in
the old Moravian 8. S. Chapel or
the school house was a wel:: lie
feature!!
Two entertainers of forty or
more years ago were Byron King
and Ford, exponents of elocution-ary
art. Without orchestra or ex-tra
feature of any kind, they had
to be good in those days to hold
the attention of the crowd for an
entire evening.
King was best in his rendition
of Ben Hurr. He was the whole
Roman mob shouting to the driv-ers
and made his audience feel the
excitiment. As an encore h
would rcite something humorous,
like, when "Columbo discovered
America."
King was the first one to give
to a local audience tihe rhymical
and non-sensical selection, "Punch
brother punch, 'punch with care,
punch In the 'presence of the pass-enger."
with more following :n
the same strain. The swing of
the words got in your .blod, and
the whole town was reciting it a
long time before it was forgotten.
Now with the many attractions
going on weekly an elocutionary
recital wouldn't attract a parlorful
of people at the present time.
Years back Tom Thurm and his
wife gave a show here, under the
auspices of IP. T. 'Barn-urn, after
having made a world tour. How
many people are there in Lititz
who remember seeing th dwarf
and his little wife?
When the Lafayette Glee Club
apppared here it created quite a
fervor, especially since a local
boy was one of the big features
of the program.
So down thru the years there
was entertainment for the home
folks. Those days without radio
and the movies were probably
monotonus, and so ia chance to
dress up and attend an entertain-ment
was a happy evet
Local Bull
The Champ"
At Farm Show
L'AIva Majesty Owned By
H. J. Pierson Acclaimed
The Best
Local interest in the State Farm
Show at Harrisburg this week «en-tered
in the entree, L'AIva Majesty,
owned by Senator H. J. Pierson
which won both the Senior and
the Grand Championships for bulls
in the Jersey dairy class.
L'AIva Majesty is the bull with
which the Log Cabin Farms last
fall won the blue ribbon at the
national dairy show also held at
Harrisiburg, when this toull was en-tered
in competition wijfi bulls
from all parts of the country.
Much interest was shown in >Ue
farm show and a large number of
persons from Lititz and vicinity
spent several days at the show.
Risser Named
President Of
Lititz Chest
Elam Risser was elected presi-dent
of the Lititz Community
Chest Board at the meeting held
on Tuesday .evening in the -Lititz
Borough Council Chamber.
The other officers elected were
as follows: The Rev. James M.
Moore, first vice-president; J. M.
Leed, second vice-president; Mrs.
Carl Workman, and John Eberly
were re-elected secretary and
treasurer, respectivly.
Mis Emma Erb, the Community
Nurse, reported having made 145
visits during the past month. Sev-en
families received assistance
from the Chet and thirty-six
Christmas baskets were distributed
by Churches and various organiza-tions.
The next meeting will be held
Feb. 11 in the Council Chamber.
Mrs. Gibbel
Entertains Delphians
Mrs. Henry B. Gibbel entertained
the Delphian Society at her home
on Friday evening. Mrs. Valen-tine
Brobat, the president, presid
ed and fourteen members attended.
"The Westerner" was the picture
chosen for the cinema apprecia-tion
program and Mrs. Avis Sten-gel
discussed the "Historical Au-thenticity
of Story, Settings, and
Costumes"; Mrs. Mary Dengate the
''Artistry of Production, Acting,
and Settings."
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Sara K. Jenkins,
when Mrs. Carl Workman will pre-sant
a book review.
Fun and Frolic to Feature
Games Among Local
Old-Timers
The annual old-timehs basket-ball
festival will be held in the
High School gymnasium Monday
evening, February 24, according to
plans made during a meeting of
the Lititz Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday evening.
With Christmas decorations cost-ing
approximately $50 more than
the total collected, the affair will
be a benefit to make up this deficit
and to start next year's Christmas
decorations fund of the Chamber
of Commerce it wa sexplained.
Two games in which fun and
frolic will be the by-word rather
than expert basketball, will make
up the major portion of the pro-gram.
The games in all probabil-itywill
be played between teams
composed of members of the Lititz
Fire Company and members of the
Lititz Sportsmen's Association, the
Lititz Rotary Club and the newly-organized
Lititz Lion's Club.
A committee consisting of Paul
Diehm, John Keehn and Raymond
Reedy will complete arrangements
for the games.
Plans also were completed for
holding a showing of home-town
moving pictures in the High
School auditorium March 27 and
28. The pictures will be taken
by the Amateur Service Production
Company.
Arrangements for a member-ship
campaign to be presented in
the near future by the Chamber
of Commerce also were discussed.
KENNETH SHELLY WITNESSES
BOLD RESTAURANT HOLDUP
Kenneth Shelly, of this borough,
who is doing graduate work at
Ohio State University, wrote of a
restaurant holdutp last week where
he happened to be a patron.
A lone bandit with a ban lker-cliief
over his face entered the
room and lined up the customers
and employees while he emptied
the cash register. He then left
the restaurant, for which Shelly
was tliangful, because lie had all
his money wit hhim at the time.
John Peif f er
Returns With
Seeing Eye
New Dog "Elissa" Resem-bles
Local Man's
First Shepherd
Mr. John Peiffer returned hom.;
Tuesday evening from "The See-ing
Eye, Inc.", Morristown, N. J.,
with his new guide dog, "Elsa"
Elsa is a German Shepherd dog
and resembles Mr. Peiffer's first
dog, Elissa, in appearance. The
following information on "Seeing
Eye, Inc.", has been issued to the
public by the school.
''The helpful and kindly inten-tioned
public is a greater hazard to
Seeing Eye dogs than the traffic
of Times Square, in New York,
according to reactions received
from its graduates. Seeing Eye
clogs are perfectly competent to
guide blind people who have been
educated to use them, in all kinds
of traffic wherever they would
care to go. However, they cannot
be expected to watch for speeding
automobiles and at the same time
to cope with the interference of
some persons who may have tak-en
their master's arm and be push-ing
or pulling in an opposite di-rection
or who may be shouting
words of warning. While Seeing
Eye dogs normally ignore pedestri-ans,
they cannot help but be dis-tracted
when caressed or petted
(Continued on Page 5)
Many Are
Aiding Drive
In Lititz
Lions Club
Charter Night
On March 6
Local Group Has 39 Mem-bers
; Raymond Reedy Is
Elected President
Plans for an elaborate Charter
Night program were formulated
last evening at the first dinner-meeting
of the newly-organized
Lititz Lions Club.
The Charter Night will be held
on Thursday, March 6, with the
Lions Club, taking an active role
sponsoring club, the Warwick
in the program. A report of the
membership committee revealed
that with nine new members ad-mitted
this week, the local Lions
club now boasts a membership of
39 members. The charter will be
closed at 45 members, it was stat-ed.
Visitors were present from both
the Warwick Lions Club and the
West Earl Township Lions Cluib.
Much of the program was d?v ited
to a study of the club's constitu-tion
and by-laws.
The next meeting will be held
Wednesday, February 5, when ac-tion
will be taken on the time a .d
place of meetings, Raymond Reedy,
president of the Club, announced.
Officers elected, besides Reedy,
were Harry R. Way, Barton Sharp,
John Keehn, vice-presidents; How-ard
Redcay, secretary; Charles E.
Reidenbacli, treasurer; Floyd
Stark, lion tamer; Ed Stroble, tail
twister.
Besides the officers, the board of
directors also includes Frank
Longenecker, Ivan Behmer, T. T.
Dussinger, and Samuel JMuss. Com-mittee
chairmen named were:
Christ Nissley, membership; Way,
charter; Keehn, finance, and Nuss,
by-laws.
Infantile Paralysis Cam-paign
Meeting With
Success
The infantile paralysis drive was
being carried on successfully here
during the past week with several
hundred persons already having !
contributed to this worthy cause, i
Dr. C. E. Lane, chairman in charge
of the campaign, announced to-;
day. i
Tickets being purchased by per- j
sons who are aiding the, campaign ,
are not ball tickets but are mere
tickets given as evidence that the
holder has contributed to the in-fantile
paralysis drive, it was ex- j
plained. ;
In Lititz persons are contribut-'
ing without receiving anything in l
i
return other than the realization J
that they have assisted in a won- j
derful work being carried on at
Warm Springs, Georgia, and
throughout the entire nation, in-cluding
Lancaster County.
The money raised is divided be-tween
the Warm Springs Founda-tion
and the local agencies which
include the Lancaster County So-ciety
for Crippled Children through
which agency approximately 42
children in the city and county
are being treated. These are di-vided
into six classes, the mem-bers
of which receive treatment
under water in the Y. W. C. A. by
competent instructors.
(Continued on Page 4)
ROBERT TRIMBLE DELIVERS ..
TALK BEFORE ROTARY CLUB .
A talk upon the Rotarian maga-zine
was delivered before the Lititz
Rotary Club Tuesday evening by
Robert Trimble, local business-man.
Members of the Cluib also
discussed the ice skating rink pro-ject
and decided to make another
try at freezing tihe Yoder meadow
as soon as weather conditions
justify. After pumiping water into
the field last week, the possibility
of providing week-end skating
vanished when a leak occurred in
the retaining wall constructed at
one end.
JOHN CARPENTER BREAKS
VERTABRAE IN FALL
Falling while operating an ele-vator
at the Wilbur-Suchard Choc-olate
Company, John Carpenter,
?5, of town, sustained the fracture
ol a vertabrae of his back Tues-day
night.
Suffering intense pain, Carpen-ter
was given first aid treatment
by Dr. D. C. Martin and then or-dered
removed to St. Joseph's hos-pital,
Lancaster. X-ray pictures
revealed the fracture.
His condition was declared not
serious today.
HELEN KREIDER UNDERGOES
OPERATION
Mrs. Helen Kreider, of South
Broad Street, was reported resting
comfortably today after undergoing
an operation at the Lancaster Gen-eral
Hospital, Lancaster, Wednes-day.
FIRE CO. SMOKER WILL BE
HELD WEDNESDAY EVENING
"En Deitscher Lingner"
De oaner wuch hov ich en shtick
ga'laesa in Solly Hulsbruck seim
buch dos mich mocha hut denka
i'um'a sertna karl doh fum shted-del.
Waesht leicht set ich net
sawga leega, fer'leicht set ich saw-ga
de wore-heidt awennich
shtrecka, sel loud net gonse so
weescht. Der karl dos im sin hob
is en expert on der wore-heidt
shtrecka. und ehr wunt dort druv-va
u£ da Front Shtrose und sex
aersht nawma iss Bill und der
ledscht iss S . Now won
deer des shtick ga'laesa het don.
kent der saena fer-wos dos es mich
on der Bill denka 'gmocht hut.
Der Hons Shnelfoos fun Shnoka
Gap wore in'da nochbershoft der
onner dawg und hut ehr wunner-bori
socha fer'tsaeild. Der Hons
hut en saeg-meel bei seinra bow-erei
ovver es wosser iss fer-kom-mon
tsu nidder in'da grick, ehr
kon net feel ousrichta. Des yore
iss ovver olles gude ob ga'luffa.
Ehr hut uns fer'tsaeild ehr'9
on'ra grossa sheier bowa. Es
sheindt ledscht free-yore hut ehr
suma soch fum'a govarmend grickt
und, doh wore en neia ord welsh-karn
und awe karapsa suma da'-
bei. Don hut ehr en holb oker
nous ga'mocht. Und olla karn iss
ug kuma. Darrich all de hitz und
drucka wedder fu'm summer iss es
welshkarn in the hae g'shussa
feel haecher os de fens. Und de
karapsa sin so dick-seckich worra
os en oldt budder-foss.
Yader ebber hut g'schwetzd der'-
fun, sawgt der Hons. Don iss ov-ver
en grosser windt shtorrem der
wae? csoma und hut de karapsa
naeva oui hivvel g'shtaart rulla
und de ewershta hen de nekshta
ga'bumpt und so sin se oil der
hivvel nunner und oil sel shao
welshkarn tsumma. nunner g'-
shlogga.
Des wore ga'wiss en huddleri,
der Hons sawgt ehr wore yusht
about om endt fu'n bendel ovver
(Continued on Page 5)
All was in readiness this week
for the big annual Fire Company
Smoker to be held in the fire house
on Wednesday evening, January 29.
Because of last year's rush in
which those serving worked until
the early hours of the morning,
dinner will be served this year at
5:30 P. M., instead of later.
The business meeting and smok-er
will follow. An interesting
program has been arranged, ac-cording
to Harry Way, president
of the company. The smoker will
marke the close of a drive for 100
new members.
DRIVER IS PROSECUTED
FOR BLOWING AUTO HORN
PLAN SPELLING BEE
The Ladies' Sewing Society of
the Moravian Church will hold an
old-fashioned Spelling Bee on Feb-ruary
6, in Fellowship Hall.
H. M." Stauffer, Jr., ¡Lititz R. D.
3. charged with unnecessary blow-ing
of an auto horn, was prose-1
cuted Friday by city police before I
Alderman Broome. j
He was apprehended at Queen j
and 'Chestnut streets early Friday. !
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr .and Mrs. John Hodgson,
Lititz R. D. 2. a daughter at 12:47
p m. Friday at the Lancaster
General hospital.
Change In Ownership
Of Lititz Food Market
Hockey Team
Victory Dance
On kSaturday
The girls of Lititz High Hockey
Team are celebrating their victor-ious
season at a semi-formal dance
Saturday evening at the General
Sutter Hotel. Members from oth-er
teams of the league, including
Manheim Township, East Hemp-field.
East Donegal, West Lampeter,
Mount Joy and Manor have been
invited.
Special guests will be Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. Demmv, and the coach-es.
Miss H. P. Cleaver, of Manheim
Twp., Miss A. Krutcher, of West
Lampeter; Miss D. Strickler, of
East Donegal, Miss D. Butzer, of
Mt. Joy, and Miss M. J. Smulling,
of Lititz.
Couples will dance to the strains
of Johnny Cooper and his eleven
piece band. A trio, Pauline Moy-er.
Helen Nagle and Helen Oehme,
will supply the vocal refrains.
Proceeds from the dance will be
used to send a girl or gi.'ls to a
Hockey camp in the Pocoios 'jr
ten days during August. The
names of the girls to receive this
honor will be disclosed at the
dance.
Tickets may be gotten at tlie
door or at the girls' gym office.
A change in the ownership of the
Lititz Food Market was announced
this week when the new owner,
Arthur L. Dupler, of Elimbeth-town,
took possession of the busi-ness.
The sale of the market to Dupler
was completed Tuesday morning,
C. L. Moyer, who established the
self-service food market here near-ly
a year ago, announcer. Mr.
Moyer will return to Myerstown,
where he contemplates -re-entering
business.
Mr. Dupler, the new owner, is
living on South Spruce Street at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Brubaker. He is not married. For
the past six and one-half years he
was associated with the grocery
firm of Wenger Brothers, Eliza-bethtown.
Mr. Dupler is a graduate of the
Maytown High Sohol and is well-known
throughout this section.
Louis Pegan, meat cutter who has
been employed in the store since
it opened, will continue in Mr.
Dupler's employ.
(Continued on Page 5)
ROY STARK IS REPORTED
SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
Roy Stark, local businessman,
was reported slightly improved al-though
still in a serious condition
today at the Lancaster General
Hospital where he bias been con-fined
for the past several weeks.
Mr. Stark underwent his second
emergency operation on Tuesday
mtrning, followed closely with a
blood transfusion later in the day.
The blood was donated by Ray
Herr.