Lititz Record Express

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ourselves against in­flation.
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these days. Every time an
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the Japs lose face. Buy your
10% every pay day.
Voi. LXIV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., October 21, 1943 No. 49
Mother Moore Home 0n FuHou?h’ . j j Found Suffering Addresses 6rom Concussion
Woman’s Club
Group Contributes To
Needlework Guild; Rum'
mage Sale A Success
“Mother” iMoore, who was the
guest speaker for the Woman’s
Club on .Monday evening at the
General Sutter hotel urged the
members to “be hospitable to the
men and boys in the service who
are in our midst.”
Mrs. More, who is Mrs. Charles
Moore, acquired her title of
“Mother” from the enlisted men
and past Chaplins of the Philadel­phia
Navy Yard. She has been ac­tive
in Red Cross and hospital
work for the past thirty-eight
years and told of many of her ex­periences.
She was introduced by
Mrs. Frank Longenecker program
chairman.
(Mrs John Hershey, the presi­dent,.
presided and reports were
given by the following -committee
chairman, M-s. vVilly dePerrot said
the Girl Scouts will -collect fats
and rags; Mrs. Frank Hunter
spoke for the Needlework Guild
and a contribution -was made for
that (cause; Mrs. D. M. Graylbill,
for the ways and means reported
a successful rummage sale held
and also said a sale of food will
be held on Saturday at the Pine
Hill auction sale.
The Club duet including Mrs.
Howard Toulson, Mrs. Edwin W.
Kortz, Mrs. Hiram Bberly and
Mrs. Darner Brenner sang two
selections.
A. C. Darmstetter of Lancaster
was present and sipoke urging the
ladies to support the United .Drive.
Mrs. Longenecker announced the
next meeting to be held Novemtoei
15 will be an open meeting and
the speaker will be an FBI man.
Complaining of a severe head­ache
while on a three-day leave of
absence, Private Lester iBinga-man,
son of Mr. an-d .Mrs. William
Bingaman, of Front Street, was
found to be suffering from a con­cussion
of the brain when examin­ed
by Dr. D. C. alMrtin.
According to Bingaman, he suf­fered
the injury in a fall while
taking a shower at Camp Seibert,
Ala. A peculiar phase of the in­cident
.as reported here wais that
following the -accident, he was
given a three-day pass and told to
immediately visit his physician.
Dr. Martin ordered Bingaman
removed to the Valley Forge Hos­pital
where he mow is undergoing
treatment.
Local Youth
Badly Injured
In Africa
Pvt. Samuel Reichstien Is
Listed As War Casualty
In Telegram
War Story
Is Stranger
Than Fiction
STAR SPANGLED SOPRANO
Dick Musser Meets Veter­an
Who Was With His
Father In France
Lititz Loses
Heartbreaker
To Lykens
Parents’ Day To Be Obser­ved
At Game Here
Saturday
A Lititz youth is ¡seriously in­jured
in North Africa, according
to a telegram received by his par­ents
Saturday night.
He is Private ¡Samuel Reich­stien,
son of Mr. and Mrs. U. S.
Reichstein, -of 128 North Cedar -St.
Other (than' ¡stating ¡that Private
Reichstein “has been seriously in­jured
in action in the North Afri­can
Combat Area” the telegram
gave no further details.
His -parents are anxiously
awaiting further word -from the
War Department as to his condi­tion
and the present location of
his whereabouts.
Private Reichstein is twenty-five
years old and has been in the ser­vice
since March 24, 1941. He
sailed for overseas on September
6 last.
He was formerly employe d at
the A. J. Beford Company here an *
was well-known throughout the
borough.
Tom Leaman
Receives Promotion
Last Saturday the Red and Black
football team of Lititz High school
lost a heartbreaker to the coal­miners
from Lykens, by a score of
7 to 6 in favor of the visitors.
Lititz proved to be more power­ful
in every part of play except­ing
for the punch needed to cross
the goal line. Ray Kreider, the
brilliant back for Lititz, was the
outstanding star of the game with
hii line plunges and exceptionally
fine passing.
Play after play, Kreider hit the
.center of the Lykens line with the
force of a ten-ton truck. At the
-end of the first half Lititz was in
the lead 6 to 0.
In the second half, Lykens came
back with a few tricks up their
sleeves. On 'the opening kick-off,
Lykens used a long lateral pass to
the left side of the field. In the
third quarter the local team start­ed
on a march of about three first
downs. Switching suddenly to the
air they lost the ball on downs.
-Early in the fourth quarter Ly­kens
took to the air and succeeded
in tossing one into the end zone for
a touchdown.
Parents’ Day Saturday
Lititz will meet the Lancaster
High School Reserves here Satur­day
at 2:30 P. M. when Parents’
Day will be observed. Parents of
boys playing on the team will be
given special complimentary tick­ets
and will be identified by rib­bons.
They also will siit in a spec­ial
section to be reserved especially
in their honor.
Waco, Texas, Oct. 11—Among
the trainees in the Army Special­ized
Training Program at Baylor
University Thomas L. Leaman, -son
of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Lea-man
of 361 N. Broad St., Lititz,
Pa., has been named a temporary
officer by the Comlmandmant, Col.
Ralph H. Durkee, Infantry.
Officers, in the unit of 400 pre­engineers
are rotated each week
so that every man will be given
an opportunity for leadership, ac­cording
to Colonel Durkee. The
trainees in the program fill all the
offices in the Battalion, and as a
man shows ability he is advanced
by the Commandant to a higher
office.
Trainee Leaman will serve in
the capacity of Squad leader this
week, according to the Command­ant’s
announcement.
Some of the stories coming out
of the present war are stranger
than fiction and Lititz youths are
figuring in many of them.
And the experience of Richard
Musser, of Reading, son of Mrs.
Beulah Musser, of this borough, j
is one of them.
The son of a man who sacrificed
his life on the battlefield of France
in World War No. 1, Dick has been
anxious to get into the service for
some time. Monday h-e thought
that he had succeeded when he re­ported
at Harrisburg and sailed
through three-fourths of his phy­sical
examination.
Then something came up which
caused the examining officers to
shake their heads negativley.
At about this moment an officer
stalked into the room. By his uni­form
he was identified as a Major
and by his very appearance he
could well have been one of those
veteran army officers who saw ser­vice
in the first world war.
Picking up Musser’s papers he
called to him.
“There’s something about you
Which reminds me of an old friend,
Private Marcus Musser,” the offi­cer
who was Major John Keybach,
declared.
“He was my dad,” Dick replied.
“Why I was the commanding
officer with him when he fell dur­ing
a battle between Catigny and
Mondidior, France,” the officer then
informed the local youth.
Calling it a day as far as work
was concerned, Mlajor Keybach
took Musser aside and spent half
an hour chatting with hiim, telling
him all that he could recall of Pri­vate
Marcus Musser.
“Your dad was a real soldier,”
the Major concluded, “and I know
that you would have been the
same.”
Another local man who failed
to be inducted at Harrisburg Mon­day
was Vernon Gibson. After
being in business here for a num­ber
of years, Gibson sold his gro­cery
store several weeks ago when
he passed all preliminary exami­nations
and felt certain that he
would be Inducted.
Miss Lucy Monroe, stage, screen and radio star and RCA’S director
of patriotic music, who officially opened the United Drive Monday in
Lancaster. Miss Monroe has been aptly named “The Star Spangled
Soprano,” and has done much to stimulate interest in America’s fav­orite
patriotic songs. She has appeared before 10,000,0 -J t) at patriotic
rallies in the past three years. | ,
Public Supporting
United Drive Here
Local Workerk Indicate
Carl Reist
At Maxwell Field
Maxwell Field, Ala.—Cari Reist,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Reist,
136 S. Broad St., Lititz, Pa., is now
Preliminary Reports Will Be Submitted At Meeting
In High School On Monday Evening; Urge Public
To Donate Equivaleit1 Of One Hour Per Month
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In-ddcations -that the public here
is enthusiastically supporting the
United Drive to raise $9,200 here
tor war prisoners’ relief, -local wel­fare,
hospitals and visiting nurse,
were received soon after canvass­ers
started visiting local homes,
factories and stores Monday morn­ing.
C
aptains of the various divisdons-revealed
that almost all of the
workers have begun their calls
and expressed the opinion thait -the
drive will reach the halfway point
when preliminary reports are
made..
Workers and captains will -sub­mit
their first reports at a meet­ing
to -be held in the High -School
-Monday evening at eight o’clock.
2,000 workers in the city and
county started soliciting funds
Ask Wagner
To Accept
Burgess Post
Pressure Being Brought To
Bear On Former Bur­gess
By His Friends
Without a burgess for almost a
month, local councilmanic mem­bers
are finding it a tough proposi­tion
to locate a suitable successor
to former Burgess Menno Rohre-r
who was inducted into the armed
forces, it was revealed this- week.
And with a dreath of suitable
material, considerable presure was
being brought to bear this week to
convince former Burgess Wag­ner
that he should get back into
the harness for the duration of the
war, at least.
To-date, however, former Bur­gess
Wagn-er has refus-ed to so
much as Consider the matter,
pointing out that he is very busy
as Deputy Pronothotary at the
court house and that he does not
feel that the two positions -should
he held by one -man.
Friends here, though, differ on
that point and feel that he should
accept the position until the next
primary election, at least
With present water improve­ments
and other matters keeping
members of council on the go, it
also was felt that heaping the dut­ies
of the office of burgess on the
shoulders of president of Council
Elmer Bamberger was a bit too
much.
Although expressng himself an­xious
to have a burgess named
Councilman Bomberger has been
performing the duties of both
offices without a murmur
-Should former Burgess Wagner
agree to accept the position, his
name will be presented at the next
meeting of council Tuesday even­ing.
enrolled as an aviaton cadet in the from industries, homes, -offices and
Army Air Forces- Pre-Flight -school | organizations for supporting the
for Pilots at this field, located on | combined campaign for 32 Nation-the
al Wax Fund and Welfare Federa­tion
agencies on Monday, October
18. The campaign, the Lancaster
County Drive with a goal of $468,-
000, began with -a no-on meeting at
the Hotel Brunswick where Dr. C.
Howard Witmer, General Chair­man
of the Drive, and H. W. iPren-
VISIT WASHINGTON
IMrs. Christ Imhoff and daughter
-Mrs. Charles Ringer spent the
week-end at Washington, D. ¡0.,
visiting Robert Imhoff.
the outskirts of Montgomery-capital
of Alabama.
Here the new class of cadets is
receiving nine weeks of intensive
military, physical and academic
training preparatory to beginning
their actual flight instruction at
one of the many primary flying
schools in the Army Air Forces
Eastern Flying Training Command.
Cadet Reist is a graduate of
Lititz High School class of 1942.
He was a member of the football,
baseball, tennis and basketball
teams in school. He has been in
the service seven months.
tis, President otf Armstrong Cork
Company, were, guest speakers.
Organized labor, recommending
the ‘one hours pay a month’ plan
for members of their groups em­ployed'
on an hourly basis, is sup­porting
the Drive 100.%.
Ministers in Lancaster City and
County gave informative talks to
their respective congregations on
Sunday, October .17, concerning ap­peals
included in the campaign.
Local merchants in the down­town
area of Lancaster are con­tributing,
windows ¡for the display
of educational material concern^
ing agencies which will benefit by
the campaign..
Campaign workers are organ­ized
in the following divisions,:
Sponsoring Committee, Special
-Gifts Unit, Industrial Unit, Mer­cantile
Unit, Residential Unit,
Public Service Division, -County
Districts Unit, Clubs and O-rgani-
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Els» Gerhart
Again Heads
S.S. Assoc.
SUFFERS FIFTH FRACTURE
SINCE LAST NOVEMBER
Life is just one broken bone after
another for -four-year-old Benny
Kreider, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben­jamin
Kreider, of -Clay. Benny
-suffered the fracture of both bones
of his right leg just above the
ankle last week in a fall. This
was the fifth ¡fracture he sustained
since ¡last ¡November. He was
treated by Dr. D. -C. Martin.
Moravians
To Rededicate
Auditorium
Youth Group
Begins Second
Year Here
Church Has Been Renovat­ed;
Interesting $rogram
Planned
Juniors Plan Ghost Party
For Next Thursday
Evening
The Junior group of the Lititz
Youth Association begajn its se­cond
year -of activities last Thurs­day
evening in the bas-ement of the
Moravian Sunday School building.
The meeting was opened with a
song ¡period led by Lois Dussinger.
The rest of the program consisted
of group games led by Miss Irene
Whitcraft and Charles Regennas.
Other leaders present were Miss
Hower, Mis® Anderson, Miss Cres-sie
Steely, Bruce Keath and Harry
Rege-nnasi.
A “Ghost to Ghost Hook-up
Party is planned for next Thurs­day
evening at 7 o’clock. All mem­bers
are requested to masquerade
and will be allowed to bring one
guest to the party.
A song committee was appointed-to
select songs for the next meet­ing.
The committee includes Lois
Dusis-inger, Nancy Lutz, John Wit-myer
and Jack Keath.
To Register For
Ration Book No. 4
Mon., Tues., Wednesday
The Moravian Church will re­dedicate
its church auditorium on
Sunday. The church has -been re­novated
and made more attractive
for worship. No vital changes
•were made in ¡architecture and
several necessary improvements
had to be postponed because of the
shortage -of material. The rede-coration
¡has preserved the beauty
of this old -building which has be­come
a landmark.
At 4 p. m. in the afternoon a re­cital
will ¡be given in the -Church
by the Choir directors, Mrs. Geo.
Keehn, contralto, ¡Mrs. Edwin
Kortz, violinist, Mr. Victor Wag­ner,
baritone, with Mrs. Kenneth
Witmyer at the organ. The -pro­gram
to be presented is:
First Movement of Fantasia, West;
Mrs. Witmyer; Miran’s Song of
Triumph, Reinecke, Mrs. Keehn;
Andante, Mendelssohn, Mrs. -Kortz;
Come Unto Me, Bischoff, Mr. Wag­ner;
Evening Bells, ¡Saint-Saëns,
Will ’0 The Wisp, Nevin, Mrs.
Witmyer; Air, Goldmark, ¡Mrs.
Kortz; Honor and Arms, Handel,
Mr. Wagner; Meditation, Butoeck,
Mrs. Witmyer; I Heard The Vo­ice
Of Jesus -Say, Rathbun; Mrs.
Keehn and Mr. Wagner (with viol­in
-obligate).
PAPER COLLECTION TUESDAY
A paper collection will be made
throughout the borough Tuesday
evening at 6 P. M., according to an
announcement made this week by
Christ Nissly, local salvage chair­man.
Boy Scouts will collect the
paper and trucks are being donat­ed
by local businessmen.
R?v. Henry Ginder Speak­er
At Sessions Held
HHere Sunday
Sportsmen
Buy Rabbits
& Pheasants
16 Local Selectees
Are Inducted
Fire Company auxiliary
Plans Hallowfe’en Party
VISITING IN TENESSEE
Miss Betty Leeking is spending
two weeks in Memphis, Tenn., as
the guest of Captain and Mrs.
David Weinberg.
—For Home Dressed Meat fol­low
the crowd and land in LUTZ’S
Meat Market. Prices and quality
do the trick. Phone 93-R. We
■ deliver.
Mrs. Clayton Keith acted as auc-tioneer
for the Pound Social, which
was part of the program of the
October meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Fire Company.
| Mrs. M. C. Demmy, president, ap­pointed
the November committee,
i with Mrs. S. Krane as chairman to
take charge of the annual Hallow­e’en
Party, for the meeting on
November 4th.
The November committee includ­es
Mrs. T. T. Dussinger, Mrs. Mary
Hill, Mrs. Harry Lowe, Mrs. Chas.
Krick, Mrs. F. D. Patterson, Mi-ss
Ann Weitzel, Mrs. F. Heim, Grace
Keller, Mrs. Lester Stark, Mrs.
Ruth Koser, Mrs. Frances Ludwig,
Mrs. Whitcraft, Mrs. B-ert|ha
Gru-be, Mrs. Mildred Shreiner.
Mrs. Howard Steinma-n was ap­pointed
to take harge of a Fancy
Goods Sale, to be held at the Fire
House on November 20th.
United States War Stamps will
be sold at each meeting of the
Auxiliary. Present at the meet­ing
were the following:
Mrs. Henry Hackman, Mrs. Ar-ville
Burkholder, Mrs-. M. C. Dem­my,
Mrs. E. Pelger, Mrs. May-belle
Steinman, Mrs. Gertrude Helter,
Mrs. Levi Yerger, Mbs. Harry
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A total of sixteen additional sel­ectees
from Lititz and nearby were
inducted into the service follow­ing
final examinations at Phila­delphia
this week. All returned
home for short furloughs before
departing for basic training.
The list included two lcfcal bank­ers,
Jacob W. Wolf, teller in the
Lititz Springs National Bank, and
William B. Homberger, teller in
the Farmers National Bank, fur­ther
accentuating lack of man­power
in the two institutions.
The group inducted is as follows:
Army—Robert W. Pfautz, Cleon
F. Dagen, Paul Goekley, Harry B.
Peters, Calvin S. Miller, William
L. Getz, Lloyd B. Koehler and
Charles Meek, all of the borough;
Carl W. Brubaker, Lititz,' R. D. 2;
and Elvin H. Fetter, Lititz R. D.
2.
Navy—Gerald K. Zook, Roths-ville;
William B. Oehme, William
B. Hornberger, Jacob W. Wolf,
Paul H. Bortz and Lester C. Miller,
all of thisi borough.
Decide To Repair Bound­ary
Of Game Refuge On
Sunday
The Sportsmen held their bi­monthly
-meeting on Monday'even-ing
in the Fire House. George
Royer, the president, presided.
The men decided to clean the
boundary lines on the Speedwell
Game Refuge on Sunday, October
24. Members will please be at the
Fire House at 12:45 and transpor­tation
will be provided and re­freshments
will -be served.
The group will buy seventy
pheasants to be released at the
end of the season, they also agreed
to -sipend one hundred dollars for
stocking rabbits. One thousand
safety zone signs will be placed at
store-si, barber shops and feed mills
for distribution to farmers in this
district.
Elser Gerhart was reelected
president of the Lancaster County
Sunday School Association, Dis-rict
No. 5 at the meeting held on
Sunday afternoon in the Trinity
Evangelical ¡Con|gregation|aI iChuircfi.
Other officers elected were as fol­lows:
Claude Bender, Lititz R. D.
4, vice-president; Miss Ruth H.
Weidman, Manheim, secretary and
treasurer; Mrs. Charles Weaver,
supt. of the Children's department;
Francis L. C-assel, Manheim, supt.
of the Young People’s dept.; Ed­ward
Gru-be, adult supt.; the Rev.
O. O. Leidieh evangelism; Melvin
Huber, temperance.
W. W. Gibbel, Dr. Charles Wea­ver
and B. M. Leaman served on
the nominating committee.
The Rev. Henry E. Ginder was
the guest speaker. Other num­bers
on .the program included, de­votions,
the Rev. Charles Trunk;
solo, Melvin Huber; conferences in
charge of. Mrs. R. B. Barnhart,
the Rev. Edwin W. Kortz and Ja­cob
Bowers.
Local residents will report at the
High ¡School Monday, Tuesday ani
Wednesday when they will regis-
Teachers will toe on duty ¡between
ter for War Ration Book, No. 4.
the hours, of from 9 A. M. to 11:30
A. M.; >1 P. M. to 4:30 P. M. and
from 6 P. |M. to 8:30 P. M.
•Residents must bring with them
Ration Roo-ks. No. 3 ¡properly filled
out with name and address. They
also- will toe asked to sign the
Home Front pledge not to pur­chase
goods for more than the top
legal ¡price.
Schools will close this afternoon
so that teachers can attend county
institute tomorrow and will re­main
closed until after the ration
hook registration.
RUMMAGE SALE TO BE HELD
FOR SERVICE ASSOCIATION
Ten local mothers of men serv-a
rummage sale Friday and Satur­day,
October 29 and 30, in ¡the old
ing in -the armed forced will hold
Enck Building on East Main St.
On Saturday a bake sale also will
be hold. Proceeds will toe turned
over to the Lititz Service Associa­tion
to help ¡purchase ¡Christmas
boxes for the men and women in
the service.
POP KELCHNER TO SPEAK
¡Charles “Pop” Kelchner, scout
for the St. Louis Cardinals, will
speak in the High School assemb­ly
today. Kelchner is well-known
here having spoken here on sever­al
previous occasions.
’Mid The Turmoil
BEN GROSH ADMITTED
TO LANCASTER HOSPITAL
Ben Grosh, who live retired at
the General Sutter Hotel, was re­moved
Wednesday to the Lancaster
General Hospital for observation
and treatment. Mr. Grosh spent
several weeks in the -same insti­tution
several months ago. Since
then his condition has grown more
serious.
Commander Fred S. Habecker
Lead Daring Rescue Attempt
—3-plece Living Room Suites.
Large Size, with the old metal
Springs and Spring-Filled cush­ions.
Beck Bros. Lititz.
Commander Frederick -S. Ha­becker,
a native of Lititz, was one
of two Pennsylvanians, who made
vain attempts to save a burning
British hospital ship in the Gulf
of Salerno, according to a navy de­partment
report. Habecker, who
has been serving in the U.S. Navy
for 19 years, is commander of the
American destroyer Mayo. His
ship, last Sept, 13, went to the aid
of the British ship, which had been
hit by German boimbs, and made
a heroic attempt to save the ves­sel.
It was at that period when the
American forces were attempting
A photo of soldiers, taken in
England and published this week
in the Philadelphia Inquirer, in­cluded
the smiling countenance of
Lieut. Bill Templeton, well-known
local youth. Bill looked to be in
mighty good physical trim, too.
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‘The decision to revive the coun­ty
high school basketball league
was greeted with cheers here this
week and means, of course, that
Lititz will hang another champion­ship
banner in the trophy room
within the next few months. Prac­tise
already has started even
though stepping, hard on the heels
of the gridiorn season.
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Local Rotarians really got rid
of a lot of excess steam this week
when they devoted a whole session
to dicussdng what should happen
to Germany after the war. Some
mighty good suggestions came
I forth alright. Willy dePerrot
! thought it would be a good plan to
| keep a big army in Germany for a
— - | number of years, send their fam-to
extend the beachhead at Saler-J ilies over too, and then to gather
no, that the rescue attempt was j together the German warlords and
made. There was much fire by ! send them over here so ¡that they
German artillery and German ! could learn just how a democracy
planes were active. ! works.
The victim of the attack was the | * * *
H. M. S. , Newfoundland, which j These expressions of ideas are
was well-lighted and displayed the
customary -markings of the Red
Cross. The vessel was attacked
and set ablaze by a bomb. The
•bomb was loosed at night, while
an -enemy raid was being staged
on Allied shipping in the Gulf of
-Salerno.
Commander Habecker’s ship, the
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good even though a lot of us are
convinced that when peace comes
we will witness a terrific match­ing
of wits by Winston Churchill
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt—
and then to top it all Uncle Joe
¡Stalin will step in and take the
matter, more or less, in his own
hands. Public sentiment may not
stand for much at that time.