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THr^MBLER Gazette
VOL. LXIV—NO. 25
AMBLER, PA., AUGUST 20, 1942
$L75 Per Year in Advance, 5c Per Copy
SIX WEEK-END ARRESIS
Five Given Hearings on Charge
of  Drunkenness   and   Dis- JL^ orderly Conduct
jJ^A family fight in an Ambler taproom early Saturday morning somehow got to be more than a family affair, and caused the ar¬ rest of Fred Fulcher and his wife, Anna, both colored, of 347 Wood¬ land   avenue,   Ambler.
For some unexplained reason Sarah Wright, colored, of German- town, became the object of Mr. Fulcher's anger, after his wife had thrown a dish at him. It may have been mistaken identity, according to police, but Miss Wright, never¬ theless had one of her teeth knocked out and preferred charges.
Fulcher was arrested, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, assault and battery, and aggravated assault. His wile was charged with disorderly conduct. Both were given hearings before Squire William Urban and each was fined ten dollars and costs. Fulcher was held under $800 bail for   court.
Another disorderly conduct case in an Ambler taproom brought the arrest Saturday evening of Isih Weldon, colored, of 23 S. Chest¬ nut street, Ambler. He was charged with disorderly conduct, creating a disturbance and re¬ fusal to pay for his drink. A hear¬ ing was held before Squire Urban and Weldon was sentenced to thirty days in jail.
Arrested Saturday morning at the corner ot Spring Garden street and Butler avenue, Ambler, was Charles Dillinger, of Chicago, IU., who was charged with drunken¬ ness and disorderly conduct. He was flned five dollars and costs.
Ambler police arrested Robert J. Lewis, of Railroad avenue. West Ambler, on Saturday evening at the corner of Ridge and Butler avenues, on charges of operating a motor vehicle after his license was revoked. He was committed to the Montgomery County Prison to await the Grand Jury session.
On Sunday evening Michael Meehan, of North Wales, was ar¬ rested on Butler avenue. Ambler, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He was given a hearing and ordered to pay a ten dollar fine and costs.
RENIED UNITS HERE
"Well, of All People . . .'
There are two Fort Washington men who would willingly testify that "you bump into people in some of the funniest places."
William J. Kirk, of Summit ave¬ nue, one of a group of draftees who left here on July 22, was sent
350   File   Under   OPA   Regula-1 to St. Petersburg, Fla., for train- tions; 150 Fill in Forms in Springfield  Township
ing in the U. S. Air Corps. He was billetted at the Sorena Hotel.
Two weeks ago one of his friends, George D. Pursell, of Morris road, left for army train¬ ing, having enlisted for the Volun¬ teer Offlcers Training School. He, too, was sent to St. Pelersburg.
And then, quite unexpectedly last week, Pursell walked out of
During the three-day period of landlord registration in Ambler last week 350 pensons were regis¬ tered at the Ambler High School, according to Earl T. Baker, high school ^principal.
Serving as volunteer registrars j his hotel room and collided with were    Mrs.    Daniel    Springsteel, I another   soldier.   It   was   Kirk. Mrs.  Edward Davies,  Mrs. Clay-       yes, they were both living  on ton Irvin, Mrs. Richard  Slayton,   the same floor in the same hotel.
Mrs. Albert Reuben, Mrs. Perciles  __
DellaLoggia,   and   Miss   Adelaide | Arnsten, all of Ambler, and Mrs. Benjamin  Franklin, Oreland.
In Springfield Townsnip 190 landlords registered at the high school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Serving as registrars
Violations Mar Blackout Test; Neglect of Residents Scored
SCRAP COILECIIONS
Civilian    Defense    Council Conduct    Housc-to-House Canvass in Township
were Irving Hosking,of Flourtown; Mrs. Russell Ferrier, of North Hills; Mrs. Robert Gordon, of Flourtown; Mrs. Edward Burrell, Mrs. Isaac Starr, Mrs. Cavanaugh, and Mrs. Edward Keast, all of Wyndmoor, and Mrs. Paul Maust, of Flourtown.
Under Office of Price Adminis¬ tration regulations landlords arc are not allowed to charge more rent than was received on March 1, except in unusual circumstan¬ ces and with permission of the Area Rent Oflfice. Violations may be punished with fines up to $5000 or  one  year's  imprisonment.
During registration landlords were asked to register each prop¬ erty on a separate form in tripli¬ cate. Following a check at the Area Rent Offlce, one carbon copy will bo returned to the landlord and the other sent to the tenant, showing him the maximum legal rent he may pay.
Landlords   also   were   required to  note  the  services  and   equip¬ ment they provided for their ten-   ^^.^.^^   ^^ ^gu gg to deliver flrst I ants on March 1. Under the law,  gj^ booklets, and to secure more i
Plans for a scrap collection cam¬ paign in Upper Dublin Township are nearing completion, according to an announcement made by the townsliip's Civilian Defense Coun¬ cil. The collections probably will be made within the next few weeks.
Council members, meeting last Friday, were told that township supervisors had consented to the use of township trucks for the col¬ lection, and that Frank Pierce had offered the use of his property, on Highland avenue, for use as a storage space for the scrap.
All homes in the township will be visited by air raid wardens and members of the women's commit¬ tee,    to inform residents    of    the
Although the unannounced blackout test on Tuesday night came as a surprise to Amoler resi¬ dents, some of the residents in this area will be more surprised in the next few days when they receive summons for violating blackout regulations.
Calling the test "only fair" be¬ cause ,of the violations. Defense Council Chairman Bernard Lin¬ denfeld declared that had there been a real raid thousands of lives might have been lost because of the neglect of some Ambler resi¬ dents.
"People don't realize the serious¬ ness of it," he said, and added that the time for merely warning people to put out lights was past. "In most cases it was just neglect, not wilful violation," he explain¬ ed, but it is time such neglect was punished.
Mr. Lindenfeld said that some persons are in the habit of letting lights burn when they leave their i homes in the evening, and he re- to i emphasized the point that all lights must be extinguished when a I house is left empty in the evening. He also condemned the lack of blackout provisions in some places of business here, and reported that several violations were noted on Butler avenue. However, he com¬ mended the way in which the Keasbey and Mattison Company, in particular, observed blackout rules.
As far as civilian defense per¬ sonnel was concerned, Mr. Linden¬ feld called the blackout test good. For the flrst time Ambler received its   flashes   from   the   Springfleld
DR. HENDERSON TO ENTER ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Dr. T. A. Henderson, Ambler physician, of Loch Alsh avenue and Cedar road, leaves on Tuesday for induction into the U. S. Army Medical Corps.
He  has  been   commissioned
Township control center without delay. The raid sfren sounded here at 9.35 p. m., the all clear to  10
'''o"i- t    *• -.u .u       u 1    .    . i captain  and  will  be   inducted   at
Satisfaction with the whole test  Camp Gruber, near Braggs, Okla- was expressed by David C. Bird-1 CT^^n
.sell,   chairman of the   Springfleld! " r* ' „    _, ^    .       r
Township Civilian Defense Coun-1 ^^- Henderson, a graduate of cil. He called the relay system I the University of Pennsylvania, much improved, but added that, has lived in Ambler for about flve methods for improving the signal * ^ca's He was born in Burma, the set-up still were under discussion
TWO LEGION CANNON GO TO SCRAP DRIVE
son nf Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Hender¬ son,  Baptist  missionaries.
He is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Royer, who, before her marriage, was assistant super¬ intendent at Abington Hospital. They have three children.
fdr Boya  Between  Ages of  14 and  16
AnACKEOBYTHUG
BROAD AXE Gt WEDS NAVAL PETTY OFFICER
Miss Marie Johnson Married to Ervin Powell in Evening Cere¬ mony at Whitemarsh
In the flrst Navy wedding held in Zion Lutheran Church White¬ marsh, Miss Marie Anna Johnson, daughter of Mrs. Raymond Wentz, of Butler pike and Norristown road, Broad Axe, became the bride of Petty Officer Ervin Erb Powell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin E. Powell, of 5639 North Masher street, Olney. The ceremony was performed at 7 o'clock last evening by the Reverend M. Luther Hock¬ er, pastor of the church.
The bride, who was given in mar¬ riage by her stepfather, was lovely in a gown of white tafleta and lace, princess style, with a long train. Her tulle veil was held in place
these services and facilities may not be reduced unless there is a corresponding reduction in the rent. Special provisions have been made for dwellings not rented on March 1, as well as for newly constructed properties.
62 'DOUGHBOYS' LEAVE
Sixty-two new recruits fpr the United States Army left the Am¬ bler railroad station at 7.50 a. m. this morning.
Negro soldiers will^ report at the induction center at Fort Meade, Maryland, the others at New Cum¬ berland, Pa.
The next group of selectees called for service by Local Draft Board No. 5 is scheduled to re¬ port in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 5, for medical examin¬ ation.
volunteers   for  air    raid  warden  PoUce Continue Search for Un-
posts and flre watching.    During
known Assailant of Mrs. Theresa Wellener
the house-to-house canvass a list of all men in the armed service will be compiled for township records
It was reported that arrange- . Philadelphia police are continu ments have been made to notify "l^Jh^l^, se^r^h for the myster^ious outlying   districts     of   air      raid
alarms through the use of motor¬ cycles equipped with sirens. The keasbey and Mattison Company is cooperating in this plan, by per¬ mitting members of the messenger corps who are employed at the plant to leave their work when necessary to spread an alarm. Future meetings of the defense
assailant who attacked Mrs. Theresa Wellentir, of 807 East Ab¬ ington avenue, Wyndmoor, early Sunday morning as she walked along E. Willow Grove avenue, near the Wyndmoor Reading Rail¬ road Station.
Mrs. Wellener, who is twenty* one and the mother of two child¬ ren, was punched in the jaw and
council will be held on the second ?truck over the head with a blacky Friday  of  each  month,  with  the  it";\^^ I Z^^.J^'^^J'fuiT'^t'l
BLOOD DONOR UNIT
TO VISIT WYNDMOOR
A mobile blood donor unit of the' American Red Cross will visit Wyndmoor on Wednesday, Sep¬ tember 23, to accept donations of blood from residents in that sec¬ tion.
Appointments now are being made for those who wish to give a pint of blood. Donors are asked to telephone the office of the Wis¬ sahickon Branch of the American Red Cross, at Whitemarsh, 0373, so that a speciflc time can be as¬ signed them. Volunteers must be between 21 and 60 years of age. Those between 18 and 21 may do- r»ate blood provided they have the consent of their parents. The mobile unit will operate al with a tiara fashioned of the same j the Agricultural Experiment Sta- material and white gardenias. She tion, at Mermaid lane and Eastern carried a bouquet of white gladioli, avenue, in Wyndmoor, from 1 to 7 Miss Annette Meyers, of Olney, p. m. Red Cross officials explain maid of honor and only attendant, | that the unit can handle six don- wore a dress of blue lace, similar i ors every flfteen minutes, taking in style to the bridal gown. A! about 120 donations in one day. matching veil, held in place with j If there are more than this num- a wreath ot flowers, formed the ' ber of applicants, the mobile blood headdress. A bouquet of pink glad-   donor unit   will be   brought back
next meeting on September 11. Committee meetings, however, will be called when nece ssary Presiding at Friday's meeting was Luther Klosterman.
BETZ BACK FROM HAWAII
her for a block and a half. She collapsed in the driveway between the homes ol William Wolverton, of 224 E. Willow Grove avenue, and John Green, of 230 E. Willow Grove  avenue.
Both the Wolverton and Green families   were   aroused   by   Mrs.
Mr. Birdsell .said there were a few violations in private homes, but that on the whole the test was "very good." ^
"Very good" also was the report from Whitemarsh and Lower Gwynedd    townships. Neither
township received any complaints of violations, and both reported a good turnout of civilian defense volunteers.
Luther Klosterman, Upper Dub¬ lin Civilian Defense official, called that township's test very success¬ ful. He said there were a few violations, which possibly    might j 	
be prosecuted but that otherwise i ci,ief Yost to Direct Program cooperation was splendid. |
Dr. Almon C. Stabler, a member I of the Upper Dublin defense coun- j cil, reported that about sixteen in- i
cidents   were     held   during      the' 	
blackout, all previously arranged.' A Junior Fire Brigade, through He said that fire, police, and flrst! which boys between the ages of aid units turned out in full force, I fourteen and sixteen can receive and he praised especially the work bas'c instruction in the principles of the medical corps. o^ Tire fighting, is to be organized
Dr. Stabler said that another list i by the Wissahickon Fire Company of incidents probably will be j o*' Ambler. Announcement of plans drawn up and held in readiness <¦<"¦ the brigade was made at the tor the next blackout test, so that! company s monthly meeting last volunteer units again may receive. Wednesday.
experience in meeting new situa- Directing the brigade will be tions. Fire Chief Clarence Yost, and in¬
cluded in the program will be in¬ struction in the handling of flre apparatus.
Chief Yost giving his monthly report, announced that there were j no fires during the past month, ' but that firemen had responded to j two daylight air raid tests. Dur- ' ing the first test thirty-nine men I turned out, and during the second I one, twenty-six responded.    Chief
Norton Downs  Post Also Con¬ tributes Shell  Casings to Aid War Effort
REV. PLAn PRESIDES AT LAST SERVICE HERE
Resigned   Pastor   Officiates   at I Yost added that he had lectured
' on how to extinguish flre bombs '
Special Communion at Pres¬ byterian Church
Corporal Robert W. Betz, son of ¦. Wellener's screams as she fell, but
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Betz, of Park avenue, Ambler, arrived here recently from Hawaii, where he has been stationed with the Coast Artillery.
He leaves tomorrow for Fort Monroe, Va., where he will attend Officers Candidate School.
RATION STAMP VALUE
ioli   completed   the   costume
Raymond Powell, U. S. N., acted as best man for his brother, and fellow seaman acted as ushers. All wore their dress uniforms of Navy blue.
The wedding music was played by Henry Kimbel, church organist, and Mrs. Carroll Wentz, of Erden¬ heim, sang "I Love You Truly" and "Because".
A reception for forty guests was held at the bride's home immedi¬ ately following the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Powell then left for a honeymoon trip, destination undis¬ closed.
The bride is a graduate of the Springfield Township High School. The bridegroom was graduated from the Olney High School and is now stationed with the United States Navy at Camp Bradford, Norfolk, Virginia.
WEBER—LINDH
J, , Miss Margaret Lindh, daughter
#'¦ t      Mrs.     Margaret     Lindh,
"Mff   79th  avenue,   Oak   Lane,   and
'  Rudolph   H.   Weber,   Jr.,   son   of
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph H. Weber,
of   7818   New   street,   Wyndmoor^
were  united  in  marriage  in    St.
Athanacius Catholic Church, Oak
Lane,    last  Wednesday,
to Wyndmoor for a second day.
FATHER, SON IN NAVY
The Leary family is conducting I its  own  "all  out"  war  effort,  it would seem.
the   assailant   was   not   in   sight when  they   reached  the  street.
Mrs, Wellener is employed as a waitress by a Philadelphia night club, and was returning from work at 5.30 a. m. She got off a Route 23 trolley car at German- town and Willow Grove avenues and started a 12-block walk east on Willow Grove avenue, because I there were no buses in sight. Re- I alizing that she was being fol¬ lowed she quickened her pace, but the man did likewise. As he reached a maple tree near the end of a row Qf' houses he dodged around it and struck her a heavy blow on the jaw. As Mrs. Welle¬ ner staggered he brought the blackjack crashing down on tier head.
Police said the assailant made no attempt to take her purse or to molest her further after knock¬ ing her down. They said he ap¬ parently ran toward Germantown
of   sugar,   according   to   an   an¬ nouncement made  on  Sunday  in
Washington. .u     nr i      .       ¦- ¦.     .« i  ¦
Actually there is no increase in the   Wolverton   home  by   Malvin
the allotment of a half pound of )y°''C«'"ton    and   removed   to  the
sugar per person per week, since Chestnut Hill Hospital by police
before  auxiliary  police,   air   raid wardens and flrst aid workers. The    formal    housing    of    the
Six persons were admitted into S?,"^Pt"jH'wit^h*lp1,,!r/!?f%.!rPw«^^ »u„ *„ii u- c tu A_ui r< 1 ciispensed with because ot the war, the fellowship of the Ambler Pres-. ^^^' members decided. However byterian Church on Sunday morn-Lcquisition of the engine will be ing at a special communion  ser-  ^a^ked with a dinner to be held
K K^«K'^»'"''^r.v^T i^'o/^.f' P'-io'- to the flrst meeting this year at which the Rev Charles A. Platt, I ^j. ^^e Fourth District of the recently resigned pastor of the hy^^ntgomery County Firemen's church, officiated. Association,  on  Wednesday,  Sep-
Those admitted were: George I tember 16. The dinner and meet- Cramer and Richard King, of j ing will be held at the Fire House, Lindenwold avenue;   Mrs. Harvey j in Ambler.
Haff, of Douglass street and! ^ letter trom the management Eugene Davis, Russel Davis and \ „( willow Grfrre T»ark was~read, Jerry Davis, all of Mattison ave-1 jn which it was announced that nue. About 250 persons were pre- | due to the urgent need for conser- sent at the service. j vation of rubber and ga.soline the
The Rev. Mr. Platt announced annual Firemen's Jubilee and that on  September  20,  Dr.  John; Fire-Fighting    Show    had    been
If, next time you look at the front lawn of the Legion Home, at Park and Lindenwold avenues, in Ambler, it looks a little bare, there's  a  good   reason.
Members of Norton Downs, Jr., Post No. 125 have contributed the two cannon which formerly stood on the lawn, to the scrap cam¬ paign, with the hope that some day very soon newer guns made trom them will be spitting ammu¬ nition at the Nazis and Japanese. The cannon have 'guarded' the Home since its construction in 1934.
The Legionnaires also have do¬ nated to the scrap drive the heavy shell casings which had become something of museum pieces at the building. They too, will be melted down.
Meeting last Thursday evening, post members decided to inform department headquarters of the American Legion of their action, with the hope that other posts would take similar steps.
Instructions were given Alex Willox, delegate to the State Le¬ gion Convention which is being held today, tomorrow, and Satui¬ day at Pittsburgh, to vote against any motion to transfer department headquarters from Philadelphia to Harrisburg.
Appointed chairman of the House and Entertainment Com¬ mittee was Edgar Roberts. He re¬ places Samuel Smith, who is now on active duty with the U. S. Coast Guard.
A request was made that addi¬ tional lights be placed in the offlce of Local Draft Board No. 5, lo¬ cated in the Legion Building. Ber¬ nard Lindenfeld agreed to lend the post several indirect lighting fixtures and Alex Willox agreed to install them.
The financial report showed a net balance of $174.70. It was an¬ nounced that Cub Pack meetings have been postponed until Sep¬ tember.
MEDAL FOR HE
Frank Tino, Jr., Decorated iri   . Australia for Courageous Ac¬ tion  After  Plane Crash
A  twenty-two-year-oia   Ambler soldier,   somewhere   in   Australia, has  been  honored  with  the ¦ Sol¬ dier's Medal, received by him and flve other soldiers for courageous action   in   an   airplane   crash   in June. Announcement of the award came yesterday from General Mac- Arthur's headquarters in Australia. I     Private Frank Tino, Jr., son o£ j Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank Tino,  of  10 I Argyle  avenue,  Ambler,   together ! with three other service men, was decorated for recovering the body of the pilot from a burning naval plane,  which  had   crashed  at  an' airdrome  in  Australia. ¦ The  four men fought flames for ten minutes, according   to   the   announcement, despite exploding ammunition.
Private Tino, who landed in Australia in April, enlisted in the army in June of 1941, and .served i in Bangor, Maine, as a mechanic in tho Army Air Corps. At pres¬ ent he is with the 11th Material I Squadron.
Born in Italy, he and his parents have lived in Ambler since 1929. He attended Ambler High School and formerly worked at the Keas¬ bey and Matti.son Company, where his father still is employed. He has a brother, Nicholas, 12, and a sister, Barbara,  16.
His parents last heard from Pri¬ vate Tiro two months ago, and al¬ though news of his heroism made them happy, both wish Australia weren't quite so far away. AS for his younger brother—he's waiting j till he's old enough to join the air I force.
Harvey Lee will preach and de¬ clare the pulpit vacant in behalf of the Presbytery of Philadelphia
canceled for this year.
It was reported that sewer con¬ nections  between  the  flre  comp
North. The pastor added that he ^ any   and   the   sewer   system   had would   he   available   for   pastoral ¦ been corftpleted. services until September 15, when \     Members   of   the   company   on \ he will assume his duties at Ridge-1 Monday gaye a farewell party for i wood. New Jersey. Wilbert" Landes,   former  member |
The Rev. Ward Glenn Gypson,; who has been inducted into the pastor of the First Presbyterian i a™ed service. Mr. Landes was Church of Glen Cove, Long is-; Presented with a wrist watch, land, will be guest preacher next Sunday morning. On August 30, the Rev. John K. Lynn, pastor of the Bridesburg Presbyterian i Church, in Philadelphia, and! Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Philadelphia-North, will be the j speaker.
A man who has for many years j been a  favorite  of young  people
iTO PLACE TOOL BOXES
LEGION SHORT OF QUOTA IN OLD RECORD DRIVE
This week is the last chance for Ambler residents to help get "Records for Our Fighting Men".
American Legion posts through¬ out the country have been collect¬ ing old phonograph records, to be sold Tor scrap. With the proceeds they hope to furnish new musical equipment for armed forces serv¬ ing around the world.
In Ambler, the Norton Downs, Jr., Post No. 125, has collected about 1400 records. The post's quota is 2550 records. That means either that residents here will have to be extremely generous in the few days remaining in the drive, or that Ambler will fall far short of its quota.
A telephone call to Ambler 0635 or a postal card to the Legion Home, Park and Lindenwold ave¬ nues. Ambler, will bring a col¬ lector to any home where there are old records available. Even if they are broken, the Legion wants them.
Pets Go On Parade
All "yipes", howls and general barking in the vicinity of the Mattison «Avenue Playground to¬ morrow afternoon will be under¬ standable.
At two o'clock the playground will hold a Pet Show, and all youngsters in Ambler are invited to bring their pets—provided they are on leashes.
The show is being directed by Mrs. ¦ Dewey Behringer, a play¬ ground supervisor, and there will be prizes awarded.
Flying  X   Rodeo   to   Play   Six
Days; Plan Big Farmers'
Day
Householders  to   Receive  Five
Pounds for Coupon Eight;
Must Last Longer
Stamp No. 8 in the war ration                           ,         _. ^           . „.^   ... „    „,     „.,..„...   .      ..^,.-,  .
books will be good for flve pounds   parently ran toward Germantown .    '.:  „  secretarv  tor the Pres-' 8°'"^'''' County  Highway  Depart-
avenue, but turned off into Ard- I P!f""; „, Dhifo2LLi;?o J.!!f TnTn.!  ' ment has arranged to place twelve
loitih cfroot byteries of Philadelphia and Phila-1 :„ii..    i._j   4__V i      _.
at the Presbyterian summer con ferences at Blairstown, New Jer¬ sey, will be guest preacher on September 6. He is the Rev. G. Hale Bucher, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth, Pennsylvania. On September 13, the   Rev.   Dr.   William  F.   Wefer,
Special     Disaster     Equipment Will Be for Use in Repair¬ ing Road Damage
As a precautionary measure in case of an emergency, the Mont-
leigh street.
Mrsj   wellener  was  taken  into
! the ration will have to last more than twice as long.
The eighth stamp will be good
After several stitches were taken to close the head wound, and her jaw had been treated she was al-
William Leary   son of Mr_ and j ^     •-^-—"ti^™--the"{en''-wleks'   lowed   to   go   home.  Mrs.   Welle  t;'  t   _* A„ui„„i .7 __     .        ners husband   is  on  active  duty
with the United States Army.
Mrs  William F. Leary  of Ambler   —d   beginning   next   Monday Highlands, leaves next month for 1 i^^.^.^^^j„g ^^^ p^j^^ administration
officials,   the   reason   for   the   in-
the Naval Aviation Cadet Train¬ ing School at Chapel Hill, N. C.
Cadet Leary, former Springfield High School football guard, play¬ ed in Penn State's freshman back- fteld last season.
His father a Chief Pharmacist,
crease in the stamp's value is to enable dealers to sell stocks pre¬ viously packed in five, ten and twenty-flve   pound   packages.
Dealers   had   appealed  to   gov¬ ernment authorities on the ground
Marine   regiment  at   New   River S. C.
l^eft early this rnonth Jo joijri the   that they would be caused consid
" " erable hardship and 'added ex¬ pense if these larger packages had to be broken and repacked.
Current stamps are No. 6 and No. 7, each good for two pounds of sugar up to this Saturday. No.
specially   marked   tool  boxes     at strategic   locations  on   the   major
delphia-North, will be at the Am-
i County   Commissioners   Fred     C.
I Peters, Foster    C. Hillegass    and Raymond K. Mensch.
Each box, painted white and marked with the insignia of the Civilian Defense public works ser-
preach until a regular pastor selected to replace Rev. Platt.
WITTMAN IN AUSTRALIA
Private   Charles   G.   Wittman, formerly   of   Greenwood   avenue,
  Ambler,   has   arrived   safely   in I vices,   will   contain   all   necessary
GARDEN CLUB TO HOLD SHOW i Australia,   according   to   a   cable- ! tools and equipment to make tem-
The  Norristown   Garden     Club I gram received by his sister, Mrs. ( porary repairs to a highway, will hold a Fall Flower Show at I Herbert  Abey,  of  Waverly  road, |     For   the   purpose     of   properly
KIWANIANS HEAR TALK BY PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR
Rev. Charles A. Platt, pastor of  6 is the regular two-pound  allo- the Ambler Presbyterian Church,! cation.    No.     7    the    two-pound ! best collection  of not  more than
the     Rittenhouse     Junior      High- School on September 12.
The show will include a special vegetable exhibit, in which any¬ one can compete. Prizes in this exhibit are being given by the Pennsylvania Horticultural So¬ ciety, in order to encourage vic¬ tory gardens. Awards will be made for the best collection of at least nine vegetables and for the
Glenside. .j locating each box, the county has
Private Wittman, who, until his i been divided into five districts, induction into the Army, was an ! based on regular county highway employee of the Ambler Gazette, j maintenance areas.      All   County
was the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Ambler Kiwanis Club held at School Inn, Tuesday evening. President Henry C. Deens presided.
The Rev. Mr. Platt spoke on "The American Way of Life". He stressed the fact that the thing be-
'bonus" decreed to relieve the pressure on overloaded ware¬ houses.
six vegetables. All vegetables must have been grown by the exhibit ors.
has two sisters and a brother re¬ siding in Ambler. They are Mrs. John K. Snyder, of Butler avenue; i Mrs. Minnie Ross, of Argyle ave¬ nue, and Harry, of Greenwood avenue. Another brother, Harvey, formerly of Mattison avenue, now is serving in the Army, and is stationed at Camp Pickett, Va.
ASSESSORS IN COUNTY
BETROTHAL  ANNOUNCED Tf\   AVTrMn  <cr>unni CM     "^he engagement of Miss Bettie 10 Al I twu    StnUULa  j Liggett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ,     In preparation for the triennial > William H.  Liggett,    of    Wynne- August ! hind the American way of life was | assessment to be made this year ¦ wood, to Burkhart Kleinhofer, son
12th. The ceremony was perform-! faith. The speaker said no one of all real estate in the county, as- ed at 6 o'clock by the Reverend can have all the freedom of life j sessors "schools" will be conduc John   McGinnis,  a  cousin  of  the ] without faith.
hride I     The speaker said "Today we are
The bride,    who  was given  in I t^f'"«. the greatest problem in our marriage  by  her  brother,  Frank,' American
nl   Mrs.   Hannah   Kleinhofer,    of Ambler,  has been  announced by
Highway    Department    employees living in those areas will be sub¬ ject   to   call   in   the   event   of   an air   raid   and   damage   to   county, township or state highway routes. C. O. Cooke, Superintendent ot County  Roads and  Bridges,     and head of the public works services of   the   County   Defense   Council, arranged for the County Highway Disaster  setup    in     collaboration with Guier    S.  Wright,    director general   of  the  County     Defense The housewife can do her share | Council, of conserving tor wartime Indus-      The     tools  and  equipment  in- tries by using edible fats for cook-' eluded    in    the   special    Disaster ing, urges Miss Lydia Tarrant, nu-' Equipment  boxes  of   the  County
SAVE EDIBLE FATS, SAYS NUTRITION EXPERT
BOY SCOUTS ATTEND
CAMP AT SUMNEYTOWN
Boy Scouts from Ambler Troop j No. 2 and Whitemarsh Troop No. 1 spent last week at Camp Delmont, I Sumneytown,' under the direction | of   the   Whitemarsh   Scoutmaster, Walter Pearce.
Ambler Scouts meet each Tues¬ day afternoon at the Trinity Mem¬ orial Church, and the troop is making plans for a public Eagle Court, to be held on September 11. At this, the flrst public court ever to be held in Ambler, Eagle badges will be awarded Jack Holz, of Troop No. 2, and Charles Jost, of Troop No. 3. The latter now is a student at Valley Forge Military Academy.
R. Stevens, neighborhood scout commissioner, reports that there still are some vacancies on the sea scout ship. Half Moon, which meets Thursday nights at 'Trinity Mem¬ orial Church. This scouting ac¬ tivity is open to all boys over fif¬ teen years of age. Conducting the program is Charles W. Johnson.
ARMY SCHOOL GRADUATE
Harold V. Stevens, of 605 Ban¬ nockburn avenue, Ambler, will be graduated today from the Army Air Forces Teghnical Training Command School, at Keesler Field, Miss., as a skilled airplane me¬ chanic.
He is one of a class which in-, eludes 115 Pennsylvania men, all} of whom now are ready for vital i line duty servicing warplans.
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wore  a  gown of white grosgrain i ^^rive   to   hold   America   together,
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bodice and full skirt. Her flnger- tip veil of tulle was held in place with a tiara of the same material and she carried a bouquet of white stephanotis.
Miss Rose Mary Brogan, of Oak Lane, who attended the bride as maid of honor, wore a dress of turquoise blue grosgrain and tulle and a matching tiara of the same
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to get back to faith.
Dr. John W. Croskey was a guest of Frank A. Peirce.
The Kiwanians will attend the night baseball game at Shibe Park on Friday evening.
ted next week tor assessors in i Miss Liggett's parents. Ambler and Upper Dublin, Lower 1 Miss Liggett is a graduate of Gwynedd, Whitpain, Whitemarsh ^ the Drexel Institute of Technology, and  Springfield  towiuships. \     Mr.  Kleinhofer   was  graduated
Instruction   will   be given next \ from Chestnut Hill Academy and Wednesday, at the Upper Dublin ' the    Massachusetts    Institute    of
—Engines for bomber planes are | county now coming from a new plant by the trainload—at a rate originally scheduled for next December.
Township Building, Butler pike, Fort Washington, for all subord inate assessors in this area.
The schools  are being conduc- ! ted   by   the   Montgomery   County Board for the Assessment and Re¬ vision   of   Taxes,   and   are   being held   this  month   throughout   the
Technology.
NICHOLS MADE SERGEANT
Corporal Arthur Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nichols, of Forrest avenue. Ambler, has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant in  the   U.  S.  Army.
At present he is with the American School Squadron, Army
trition  specialist  at  the  Pennsyl vania State  College.
Because fats are needed for soaps and munitions, the home- maker can use "kitchen fats" for baking,  frying   foods, or  making
Highway Department are as fol lows: three long-handled spade point shovels; three picks; one axe; one pinch bar; two barri¬ cades; four lanterns; four buckets; 100 feet of one-half inch rope; two
—Buy United States War Bonds j Air Force, at Miami Beach, Flori- and stamps. da.
sauces. Spices and molasses williroad clo.sed signs; 24 detour signs; hide flavors of fats, it was pointed I ' i'irsl Aid kit; one hatchet, and QUt. ' tacks lor postmg detour signs.
Miss Tarrant suggests four steps; ppoMnTFT^ to ««FnrFAMT for taking care of fats not usable ; PROMOTED TO SERGEANT for cooking: (1) save all waste, Corporal Morris R. Byron, of 322 cooking foods; (2) pour fats into a | Lindenwold Avenue, Ambler, has clean, wide-mouthed can, andj been promoted to the rank of Ser- strain to remove meat particles; '• geant, according to an announce- (3) keep fats in cool or refrigcrat- j ment received from the U. S. ed  place  until a  pound  has been j Army.
collected; (4) take fats to meatj At present he is stationed at dealer who will pay an established Harding Field, Baton Rouge, Loui- price. 1 siana.
FILE DIVORCE ACTION
A divorce action has been filed in the Montgomery County Court by Carolyn M. Dinnell, of Ambler, wife of Howard J. Dinnell, charg¬ ing desertion.
The   couple   was   married   Oc¬ tober 25. 1934, and the alleged de¬ sertion  took  place    on  March  4,! 1939. !
New attendance and exhibit records will probably be set at the Montgomery County Fair, this year, which opens at Hatfleld on Labor  Day,  September  7.
Word to this effect xame from the fair offlce today, offlcials bas¬ ing the statement on the un¬ usually large number of inquiries and early exhibits lor the 1942 show.
"We find widespread interest in the county fair," said E. J. Brooks, president of the organiza¬ tion, "and we see in this indica¬ tions for the biggest exhibit in the hist(>ry of the county. Ex-' hibitors and those planning to spend a d.iy on the grounds to view the displays started sending inquiries early in the summer, and we went tn work at once to broaden the scope of the fair. The result is that our entertainment bill will be the high point in ouf history."
The program, the president points out, Will feature the Fly« ing X Rodeo from Montana, on Its flrst trip east of Chicago. 'This is one of the biggest shows of its kind, with three carloads of stock and about thirty cowboys and cowgirls. They are all champions in their classes, in bulldogging, broncho busting, rope spinning and trick riding.
The Flying X outfit played for twelve consecutive years at the Coliseum in Chicago, and is com¬ ing east in response to the boom in county fair interest this year.
All the usual departments of the fair will be open, with all the old favorite attractions and sev¬ eral new ones.
Children's Day will be Tues¬ day, when there will be special events for the children, special races, and a number of Mexican donkeys will be given away to them, free of charge.
The big day of the week will be Farmers' Day—Saturday—which has been made the highlight of the lair. More than $600 in cash awards will be given away in special events of various kinds, particularly races. All the races and events are open to amateurs in the horse field, and many of them are limited to farmers.
Regular harness racing events will be held on Monday, Wednes¬ day, Thursday and Friday during Fair   Week.
Ships are being built at an un¬ heard-of rate  by    auto-assembly- line methods.      Throughout     the country  new  and  converted   fac-! tories are manufacturing the "bits ] and   pieces"   which  one   shipyard i alone, for Instance, will soon  as- j semble at the rate of 24 ships a month.
ENLISTS AS ARMY NURSE
Miss Evelyn Magargal, daugh¬ ter ol Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Magar¬ gal, formerly of Far Hills Farm, Maple Glen, has enlisted with the Yale Nursing Unit, and now is stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass,
Miss Magargal, who has been commissioned a second lieutenant, is a graduate of tho Waterbury, Conn., Hospital's School of Nurs¬ ing.
Her brother, Rodney Magargal, Jr., enters Cornell University this Fall, to continue his veterinary studies. .