Lititz Record Express

              72nd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 7, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 p e r yr. by mail No. 51
Hitler Is Still Alive
Capt. Sperber Tells
Meeting Of Rotarians Here
Sees U. S. Efforts In Ger­many
Failing; Claims Ger­mans
Would Join Russia
Reports from Germany that
American efforts to instill dem­ocratic
ideas in the minds of
the former Nazis are successful
a re both a fraud and a sham,
Captain H. R. Sperber, a native
German and chief interpreter
a t the famed Neuremberg war
criminal trials, informed more
than 100 Rotarians here Tues
day evening.
“The United States is throw­ing
away millions of dollars
trying to teach democracy j
Germans who are merely bid­ing
their time until they can
resurrect their war machine,”
Captain Sperber asserted. “Mil­lions
of German children w e r ;
taught ten years ago that Hit­le
r was a God and today they
still believe it and are looking
forward to the day when they
can get revenge.”
The startling address feat­ured
a Triplets Meeting of the
Palm Sunday
To Be Marked
At St. Paul’s
S. S. To Hold Collection of
Eggs To Be Sent To
Topton And Loysville
The program of services for; I o v > p I V l l l l p i *
Palm Sunday, Holy Week a n d j,v* ^ * * ^ i T l l l l C l
Easter in St. P au l’s Lutheran
Church was announced yester­day
by the Rev. Charles F.
Trunk, the pastor.
The observance of the great
| festival of Easter will begin
I this Sunday, Palm Sunday, in
I the Sunday School with the col­lection
of eggs to be sent to the
Lutheran Homes at Topton and
Loysville during the coming
; week.
j At the 10:30 service there
I will be confirmation and recep­tion
of members and it is ex-
Will Speak
Here Sunday
Holy Week Services ¡Plan­ned
At Church Of
The Brethren
On April 10 at 10:30 A.M.
the Senior Choir of the Lititz
Church of the Brethren, under
| the direction of Miss Arlene
Rotary C lu b s“o f ”Litite? Mount | pected more than 75 Pe r‘ j Schlosser, will sing “Open The
« o n e ’1X7111 h o r o p o i i f o n i n + n w->om _ s-i ~ p — c v j : m u « r n ~ „ 1 Joy and Elizabethtown held in
the General Sutter Hotel, mar­king
the anniversary of the
sta rt of the three clubs.
Captain Sperber’s address
kept his large audience spell­bound
for more than two
hours and included some rather
unusual revelations and p re­dictions.
Captain Sperber also expres­sed
his belief th a t Hitler still
is alive. “I couldn’t prove this
but it is my firm belief, based
upon facts in my possession,
th a t Hitler today is living in a
colony of rich former Germans
in the Province of Pategonia
in Argentina.
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Girl Scouts
Plan Dinner
sons will be received into mem- j Gates Of The Temple,
bership.
There will be a special ser­vice
for the baptism of infants
at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.
The three choirs of the
church, directed by Albert S.
Ebbert, will present a joint
muscial at 7 Sunday evening,
preceded by an organ recital
by Mrs. E. D. Fulweiler, the
organist, starting at twenty
minutes to seven. The num­bers
to be heard on the organ
will be “Hosannah” , Dubois;
“In Springtime,” Kinder; “P ro ­cessional
to Calvary,” from
Stainer’s “Crucifixion” ; and
“Inflammatus,” by Rossini.
During the musical, the Sen­ior
Choir will sing “Open the
Gates of the Temple,” Knapp;
“All in the April Evening,”
Roberton, and “Agnus Dei,”
Bizet. The Young People’s
Choir will present “The Prayer
Pastor
Dick will preach on, “Jesus
Said, I Am The Way, The Truth
and The Life.” New members
will be received into the church
fellowship at the morning se r­vice
also.
Miss Jane Miller To Speak
A t 7:00 P.M.
At the 7:00 P.M. service, Miss
Jane Miller, member of the
local Church of the Brethren,
and professor at Juniata Col­lege,
will speak of h er exper­ience
last summer in an in te r­national
work camp. The work
camp was located in south west­ern
Germany at Freiburg, and
th eir work was to clean up ru b ­ble
from a bombed hospital so
th a t it could be rebuilt and put
into service. In the camp were
people from 9 different count­ries.
The Chapel Choir will
sing, “The Palms” at this ser-
The Senior Girl Scout Troop
No. 118 will entertain Mrs. W.
Scott Heisey and Troop 99
from Rheems at dinner on
Thursday evening in the Social
rooms of St. P a u l’s Lutheran
Church.
The guest will tell about
their recent trip to New York
City when they attended a ses­sion
of the United Nations and
were entertained in Chinatown
by Chinese friends who had
visited Rheems with the Fresh
Air project.
Miss Lenore Philbin of Lin­den
Hall entertained the local
Troop recently a t th eir fourth
birthday celebration. Miss P h il­bin
who is head of dramatics
a t Linden Hall, gave the girls
some interesting information
and high lights on the ability
to read and then presented two
readings.
Troop Committee members
including, Mrs. Clyde Benner,
Mrs Wilbur Fry, Mrs. E. Clair
Slosser, Mrs. John Steffy ser­ved
ice cream and cake to the
group.
The immediate project of the
Troop is a rag collection to be
held some time in May.
Perfect,” Stenson, and “Behold j vice'
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Famous Choir
To Sing Here
The famous Heinz Chapel
Choir of the University of P itts­burgh
will present a concent
here on April 23 under auspices
of the local Lions Club as a
benefit for the Community Bet­terment
Fund.
The group includes a total of
50 members some of whom are
outstanding soloists. The Choir
is considered one of the top-ranking
choral groups of the
nation.
Lester Balmer is chairman of
the arrangements committee
while John Steffy is chairman
of the ticket committee. Mem­bers
of the club are seeking to
obtain overnight accommodat­ions
for the choir members in
private homes here.
Holy Week Service in the
Church of The Brethren
Elder P. J. Forney, of East
Petersburg, will preach in the
Lititz Church of the Brethren
Wednesday, Thursday and F ri­day
of Holy week each evening
at 7:3.0. April 13 Elder Forney
will preach on “How Jesus Met
His Task” ; April 14, “How Je s­us
Met His Foes” ; April 15,
“The Dying Christ.”
Union Service
To Be Held On
Good Friday
Lititz Churches Planning
Series Of Holy Week
Programs
The annual union meeting of
all local protestant churches
will be held in the Moravian
Church on Good Friday from
12 noon to 2:30 P.M. and will
be immediately followed by the
Traditional Moravian Service I
from 2:30 P.M. to 3:10 P.M.
The announcement of the un­ion
service was made by the
local ministerial which is con­ducting
the service. Pastors of
the various local churches will
take charge of each of seven
half hour programs based upon
the seven last words uttered
by Christ while on the Cross.
An innovation of this y ear’s
program will be the singing of
a hymn relating to the word-theme
of the particular period
by a q uartet of the Moravian
Church. Mrs. Kenneth Whit-myer
will preside at the organ.
The public is invited to attend
the union service for any one
or more of the half hour pro­grams.
Noon-day services which pro­ved
especially popular the last
several years with school stud­ents,
will be held each day d u r­ing
Holy Week at the Trinity
Evangelical Congregational
Church. These meetings also are
sponsored by the ministerial
and will be conducted by dif­ferent
pastors each day.
The meetings will last from
12:30 P.M. to 12:55 P.M. Last
year a daily average of 400
High School students attended,
Supervising Principal M. C.
Demmy revealed.
Special Palm Sunday services
will be held by local churches
this Sunday and will be the be­ginning
of a series of Holy
Week activities of local con­gregations
ending with the tra ­ditional
Easter Dawn and East­er
evening programs of local
churches.
The vanguard of local college
and university students arrived
home this week for their Spring
vacations and marked the be­ginning
of a series of pre-East­er
social functions planned.
Paul M. Seaber Appointed
New Managing Director
Of Community Center
Takes Over Center
St. Louis Sinfonietta Concert
Proves A Fitting Climax
To Local Concert Series
By Chester H. Norton
Legion Auxiliary
9o Sponsor Party
At Vet. Hospital
GREENLY HOME SOLD
FIX DATE FOR
COMMUNITY PICNIC
Local Jaycees announced to­day
th a t the annual Commun­ity
Picnic will be held in the
Springs P a rk on Saturday,
August 27. Jaycees, who are
sponsoring the picnic this year,
are planning an unusual pro­gram
of interest to persons of
all ages.
MIDGET-MIDGET MEETING
TO BE HELD MONDAY
An important meeting of the
Lititz Midget and Midget-Mid­get
Baseball Association will be
held on Monday evening a t
8:30 P.M. in the Warwick
House. All sponsors are request­ed
to have a representative p re ­sent.
Warren Greenly sold his
property on Marion Street to
Robert Shaub of Lancaster and
moved to Manheim R.D. 3,
near Penryn.
The local American Legion
Auxiliary a t a meeting Tues­day
night completed plans for
a lounge party to be held at
the Coatesville Veterans Hosp­ital
on Tuesday, April 19.
Miss Ada Yerger is chairman
of the prizes committee and
Miss Carolyn George is chair­man
in charge of refreshments.
The group will leave Lititz at
6 P.M.
Plans also were completed
for the annual Poppy Sale to
be held next month. Mrs. H a r­ry
Wagaman and Mrs. Harold
Girvin were in charge of re -
freshments. A total of 35 mem­bers
attended.
Annual Easter Egg Hunt
To Be Held Sat. April 16
Don Kreider
Wins Lebanon
Valley Award
Topping a field of 150 p a rt­icipants,
Donald L. Kreider,
local high school Senior, has
been awarded a $1,600 scholar­ship
to Lebanon Valley College,
it was announced this week.
Kreider was notified of his
good fortune by Dr. Clyde Ly­nch,
head of Lebanon Valley.
The scholarship was based up­on
the results of a test given re ­cently
at Anneville as well as
upon personality and character
traits.
The scholarship will give the
local youth th e equivalent of
$400 for each of his four years
of college. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob L. Kreider, 503
East Front Street He plans to
major in Physics.
Kreider is a member of the
qu a rte tte which recently won
first place in the Musican Fore-nsice
Contests held at Millers-ville
and which will compete
for district laurels today at
Harrisburg.
The Saint Louis Sinfonietta
was the attraction for the final
concert of the Lititz Commun­ity
Concert Association held
Tuesday Night at Fellowship
Hall. As usual th ere was a
capacity house. The Concert
was a fitting climax to this
most enjoyable series. If any­one
should doubt th a t “canned”
music could supplant “live”
music they should have been
in attendance Tuesday. The en
rapport engendered between
the artists and audience cer­tainly
conclusively proved th a t
audience participation is a
prime requisite for ultimate
realization of tru e artistic en­deavor.
The Sinfonietta under Paul
Schreiber more than lived up
to expections. Under his b rill­iant
leadership the ensemble
reached the heights of artistry
in a demanding program th a t
encompassed Corelli, Mozart,
Shubert, Ravel, Benjamin, and
Jerome Kern. Dog tired as they
were from arduous trav el one
would never have suspected it
from th eir inspired perform­ance.
The Mozart “Figaro” Over­ture
set the mood for the even­ing.
Charm, vigor, and indis-tructable
vitality were amply
in evidence.
The Mozartean Mood was car­ried
into Shubert’s Symphony
No. 5 which followed. This un­hackneyed,
ingrating classic is
a thing of beauty and certainly
should be heard more often. It
was given the treatment it de­served.
After the intermission the
Sinfonietta played a Ravel In ­troduction
and Allegro with
Victor Salvi, Harpist. After
Shubert and Mozart, Ravel pro­vided
the finishing touch to an
epicurean musical feast. Fel-
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Warwick Twp.
PTA. To Hear
Biemesderfer
Well-Known Local Man
Will Be Assisted By
His Wife
Clarence Binkley Will Be
Installed As President !
This Monday
Dr. Luke Biemesderfer, of
Millersville State Teachers’ Col­lege,
will be the speaker at a
meeting of the Warwick Town­ship
Paren t Teachers’ Associat­ion
to be held Monday evening
a t eight o’clock a t the Roths-ville
School. His topic will be:
“The, Qualification of
Teacher.”
Clarence Binkley was elected
president of the association at j
the annual election held re ­cently
and will be installed
Monday evening. Others to take
office are: Mrs. Irene Stoner,
Vice president; Mrs. Dorothy
Fry, secretary; Mrs. Ruth Bink­ley,
treasurer.
The association also has an­nounced
the donationof $75 to
the school library; $15 to the
Melody Grade Band; a $5
Founders’ Day gift and $9 to
the Golden Jubilee Scholarship
Fund for State Teachers’ Col­leges;
as well as $25 for band
instruments.
The public is invited to a t­tend
the meeting.
Groups Will
Meet Tonight
On Memorial
Expect To Reach Decision
On Project At Meet­ing
April 18
Local Woman
Will Join Husband
Located In Japan
Lititz’ annual Easter Egg
Hunt will be held at the Athlet­ic
Field Saturday afternoon,
April 16, at 4 P.M.
Plans for the egg hunt are
being completed by members
of the local Lions Club which
has sponsored the affair for the
past three years. Carl Reedy
has been named ehairmap of a
committee in charge.
It was indicated that h u n ­dreds
of gaily decorated eggs
and an equal number of v a l­uable
prizes including cash will
be hidden throughout the large
field. As in former years there
will be egg hunts for two age
groups of children with a space
being reserved for the smaller
children.
The egg hunt also has been
scheduled for four o’clock in
order not to interfere with any
of the regular Holy Week ser­vices.
SMALL GIRL HURT
WHEN HIT BY BALL
Struck in the face with a
baseball, Barbara Pennell, p re t­ty
five-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Pennell, 210
North Cedar Street, was tre a t­ed
by Dr. Paul Hess Monday
evening. Dr. Hess found that
the ball had fractured th e nose.
It could not be determined im­mediately,
however, if the little
g irl’s face would be marred by
the mishap.
Headquarters of the 314th
Air Division now located near
Tokyo, Japan, this week an­nounced
the promotion of Major
Ray S. Brill to the ran k of
Lieutenant Colonel.
Colonel Brill is married to
Mrs. Mary Evelyn Keener
Brill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Amos M. Keener, of 77 East
Main Street, this borough. Mrs.
Brill plans to join h er h u sb an l
in Japan this June. She will be
accompanied by their three
children: Patricia, seven; Ray,
five; and Shirley Jean, two.
ZARTMANS RETURN
FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zart-man,
Spruce Street this bor­ough
have retu rn ed to their
home on Friday after spending
four months with Mrs. Zart-man’s
sister, Mrs. Jennie Pow­ell,
Banning, California, who
had been ill.
They also visited Mrs. Zart-mans
brother Paul Miller Los
Angeles, and another brother
George Miller in Durham,
North Carolina.
A decision on the local war
a G ood, memorial to be proposed is ex­pected
to be made h ere next
week, it was indicated today.
A meeting of the local war
memorial committee and of
directors of the Ju n io r Cham­ber
of Commerce will be held
this evening in theof f ice of
Paul F. Diehm, chairman of the
memorial committee.
Another meeting of the la r­ger
group is expected to be held
in the firehouse, Monday, April
18th, providing th a t tonight’s
meeting makes any progress.
The larger group included
members of the borough school
board, borough council and of­ficials
and members of the
Lititz Sports Club.
The meetings are considering
primarily whether the proposal
of the Jaycees to make the
Athletic Field a war memorial
and to embody in tigs the dev­elopment
of lights for night
baseball and football as the
first step in the development of
the field.
Members of the memorial
committee have been favoring
a shaft or similar fountain in
the Square while the Jaycees
and Sports Club members have
been urging adoption of the
Athletic Field idea.
Any person interested in the
matter of the memorial project
to be adopted is invited to a t­tend
the April 18th meeting,
CROSSED-WIRES
CAUSE SCARE
DANIEL REIGEL
HEADS I.O.O.F.
Firemen were called to the
home of Mrs. Marguerite Arntz,
.34 East Orange Street, late
Wednesday afternoon when sev­eral
wires became crossed and
sent a shower of sparks over
the front porch.
Harry F. Ruley, president of
the Board of Directors of the
Lititz Community Center, an­nounced
today the appointment
of Paul M. Seaber, Willow St..
Lititz as Managing Director of
the Center.
Mr. Seaber graduated from
Lititz High School in the class
of 1927 and is remembered for
his activities in boxing, basket­ball,
football and track. He
spent nearly 20 years with the
Animal Trap Co., and has al­ways
been active in his spare
time with young people. At
present he is Secretary-Treas­u
rer of a local Boy Scout Troop
In his work at the Center,
Mr. Seaber will be ably assist­ed
by his wife, the former Mae
Wahl, who also graduated from
Lititz High School and was
quite a basketball player in her
own right.
Mr. and Mrs. Seaber are
members of the Moravian Con­gregation
of Lititz and have a
family of four children, two
of whom will also be active in
the operation of the Center.
Paul R., the eldest, already is
in charge of cleaning the build­ing;
and Wilma, the second eld-
,est is being groomed for as­sistance
at the Snack Bar.
Since March 21 when the
contract expired with the fo r­mer
Director, the Center has
operated with voluntary help.
In addition to members of the
Board, those who assisted d u r­ing
this time were: Mrs. Mary
Hoff, Mrs. Emory Wagner, Mrs.
Clyde Benner and Mrs. G. H.
Pennypacker.
The Board selected Mr. Sea­ber
from a group of five applic
ants for the position and is
confident that the Center will
really begin to serve the Com­munity
as it never has before.
One of Mr. Seaber’s first ac­tivities
will be boxing classes
for young boys under the dir­ection
of Allen P u tt of Lititz,
who did a considerable amount
of boxing in his youth.
The Student Council of LHS
is sponsoring a dance this mon­th.
The “Blue Notes” will fu rn ­ish
music from 8 to 11 P.M.
Vernon Kline Elected
Rotary Chib President
Vernon Kline was elected
president of th e Lititz Rotary
Club at a recent meeting of the
board of directors. He will take
office in July. Other officers el­ected
are: Rodney Welch, Vice
president; Robert Hanna, sec­retary;
and Abe Hershey, treas­urer.
Harry Sheffy was admitt­ed
to the club on Tuesday.
POSTPONE MEETING
The Social Club of the Lad­ies
Auxiliary to the V. F. W.
will not meet Wednesday of
Holy Week but they will meet
one wek la te r Wednesday,
April 20.
Children’s Photos Will
Be Taken Here Tomorrow
Daniel Reigel was elected
Noble Grand of the I.O.O.F. at
the meeting held on Monday
evening in the Recreation Cen­ter.
Other officers elected were,
H. Lebo, Vice Noble Grand;
Nevin Bowman, th ird member
of relief; Harry E. Workman,
trustee for eighteen months; W.
Martin Hess, representative to
Grand Lodge session.
Two new members received
the first degree, they were, Mar­lin
Wolfe and Richard Tshudy.
This Friday, April 8th
is the big day when the
children will have the opport­unity
to “watch the birdie”.
The Record-Express will take
pictures free of charge, of all
children, boys and girls no mat­te
r what their ages, who live
in Lititz and surrounding com­munities
who are brought by a
parent or guardian to the Gen­eral
Su tter Hotel. And give you
one 5x7 Silvertone p o rtra it ab­solutely
FREE.
The Landry Studios of Up­per
Darby, Pa. widely known
photographers and specialists
in child p o rtra itu re will be in
charge and we know th a t you
will be more than pleased with
the results. The special studio
will be open only from 1 P.M.
to 8 P.M.
As you have previously been
advised in these columns, we
want a picture of your child,
or children if your th a t lucky,
to p rin t in a forth-coming ser­ies
titles “OUR FUTURE CIT­IZENS”
, featuring photographic
studies of local children. The
more pictures we take, th e bet-
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Jaycees Sponsoring
Benefit Movie Show
The Babe Ruth Story will
be the motion picture to be
shown at the benefit show to be
sponsored in he Lititz Ju nior
Chamber of Commerce. Tickets
are being sold by the local J a y ­cees
at the regular admission
cost. Proceeds from this sale
will go toward the group’s com­munity
benefit fund.
ST. LUKE’S WILL
OBSERVE COMMUNION
The Holy Communion will
be observed at St. Luke’s Evan­gelical
and Reformed Church
this Sunday morning a t 10:30
A.M. The play, “Mine Eyes
Hath Seen Him,” will be pre­sented
on Easter evening,
April 17, a t 7 P.M.
The Women’s Guild of Sr.
Luke’s Evangelical and Re­formed
Church will hold a bake
sale in the window of Spacht’s
Furniture store on Saturday,
May 7.