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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 5

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FIVE ALLENTOWN MORNING CALU SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1931 John Hays Plan Plan to Develop Jordan Park Italy! Mussolini! Never Again! Allentonian Jailed for Saying Things About Head of Fascists Snow and Rain Leave Roads in Bad Condition Minnie Mickley, Active in D. A. R. Dies at Age of 70 Well Known Resident of Mickleys Is a Descendant of Colonial R.VanWagenen Weds Secretary, Emilie Wirth Rev. F.

A. Posselt Performs the Ceremony in St. Peter's Lutheran Church Emaus Theatre Cashier Robbed By Holdup Man Miss Marva Biehl Has Thrilling Experience in Penlo Motion Picture House Miss Minnie Fogel Mickley, of Mickleys, retired editor and general manager of the "American" official D. A. R.

publication, and a direct descendant of John Jacob Mickley, who during the Revolutionary War was instrumental in bringing the Liberty Bell to this city, died Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the home of her brother-in-law and sister. Dr. and Mrs. H. M.

(Continued on Page Sixteen) Roy J. Van Wagenen, prominent insurance broker and central figure In a murder trial revolving about the mysterious death of his wife in August, 1929, for which a jury acquitted him. was quietly united in marriage to Miss Emilie Wlrfch, of 735 i North Fourth street, yesterday afternoon. Rev. F.

A. Posselt officiated at the nuptial ceremony In St. Peter's Lutheran church, Ridge avenue and (Continued on Page Twenty-five) 'Der Hexa Kopf'r Title Of Radio Play Planned By Civic Little Theatre "Hard Times "of '93 Found Allentonians Busy With Relief Work for the Needy i 4 I f' I i 1 v3 1 i t. -v. Lincoln Fete Pleasing Program Promised by Republican Club or.

Thursday Evening Lincoln's Birthday will be celebrated ai me John Hay Republican head quarters next Thursday with an piah orate program of entertainment and music. All mtmher nnri frlenrfa ore invited to be present. The speaker ui wui evening will be Orrln E. Boyle, ex-district attorney of Lehigh county, who will give a number of interesting episodes in the life of Lincoln. The John Hay quartet will be present to render a number of new songs and Jokes, and an added feature of the evening will be the broadcasting of the Lincoln's Day program of the National Broadcasting company, including President Hoover's address from Washington.

The club has made special arrangements for the uiunacasung and tnis part of the program alone will be an event worth hearing. During the radio program a buffet luncheon will be served, through the courtesy of Charlie Gerlach, president of the Allentown Baseball club, with a social hour closing the evening. The card and pool rooms will be open from 6 o'clock to allow any who desire to play before the opening of tho meeting an opportunity to engage in their favorite game. Board of governors meeting will precede the meeting. Governors' meeting at 7.30 and the Lincoln celebration commencing about 8 o'clock.

Air Lochnivar Arrives Safely One of Pair of Young Aviators Succeeds in Third Try to Fly Here Gustave A. Schwarz. one of the duo of aerial Lochlnvars who twice left Valley Stream, N. to call on their girl friends here and were forced down as many times, finally succeeded. In rparhmcr tile riaetinoftnn terday morning.

Schwarz and Edward Battestln first started out to visit this city via air, December 13. One ship developed a bad mntnr fanweVOl anH Vin nal I miu mic iJt' landed in a football field in Brooklyn. unuaunteo mey again took ofT from Roosevelt field for this city January 3. but were fnrcprt rlnsn In nnirar out of gas, and Battestln, also out oi gas, landed in Fredericksburg. But yesterday the fates were with Gus and at 9 o'clock in the morning he landed his Curtis flortfrHrnr of tho local airport.

He soon left to call on aveiya jjma, xin wigniand street. THIS CHRISTMAS TREE CONTINUES TO GROW A Christmas tree that is said to have continued to grow, although its only source of nourishment-is a bucket of water, is attracting attention in the home of Robert C. Keiper, 603 Cleveland street. The tree was erected the day before Christmas. It kept green and was left standing after the holidays.

Since that time It is said to have extended its branches several Inches. Anyone interested is invited to call at the Keiper home and inspect the unusual occurrence. T0PT0N MAN LEAVES WEST POINT IN JUNE Leonard D. Henry, Topton, appointed to West Point by Representative Charles J. Esterly, ot the Fourteenth district, will graduate from the Military academy, Thursday, June 11, the date for the exercises having just been announced by Major General William R.

Smith, superintendent. Henry is a graduate of Allentown Preparatory school. He also attended Muhlenberg college. While at the academy, Henry has been a member of the lacrosse and football teams, winning a monogram in the former sport. Last year he coached the plebe football squad.

ran afoul of Duce's Iron rale. The wonderful response of- the people of Allentown to those In need during the present depression, especi- lly the activities of the Kiwanis Club, recalls a similar condition that existed 38 years ago, during the winter of 1893-1894. That season was known as the "hard times' of '93 and the local unemployment situation was a problem of even greater proportion than It Is today although of shorter duration. The Incorporation of the red heart in Allentown's coat-of-arms, symbolical of the city's "heartfelt feeling for all mankind" was grounded on the principles and examples of the past and Judged by the sympathetic generosity of the citizens In this emergency, Its luster has not deminished. The following newspaper clipping of those days tells the story of the work performed by a group of ladies, to alleviate the suffering, and which became the city's outstanding relief organization of that winter.

"One hundred and seventy destitute families applied to the Y. M. C. A. building this afternoon and were supplied with the necessaries of life by the relief committee.

The crowd came in at the back. There was a teriffic Pitt's Alumni Organize Here Nearly One Hundred Char ter Members Enroll New Group in With an enrollment of close to 100 rliartr mpmlwrs th TTnivprsif.V of Pittsburgh Alumni association of the Lehigh Valley was organized at an enthusiastic dinner meeting in the Hotel Travlor last night. The organization will extend its activities from Scranton to Reading, Pottsville and Easton, and has for its purpose advancement of the university's interest and the promotion of a closer fellowship among Its sons, business and professional men, In the territory embraced. Two Allentonians were elected as the first officers. They are: L.

Warren Detweiler, president, and Dr. O. M. Flannary, secretary. The other officers are Dr.

Ralph B. Hess, Bethlehem, vice president, and Royal B. Anthony, Pottstown, treasurer. The meeting was graced by the presence of George I. Carson, general secretary of the Alumni association of State Highway Department Sprinkles Cinders on Icy Danger Spots in Country Districts Twenty-seven motor plows operated by sixty men working out of the Al-lentown "offices of the state highway department, and under the direction of C.

E. Waldow, maintenance super intendent, coped with the winter's heaviest snow storm Saturday night. Following the first complete round trip of approximately 300 miles in Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, when a five-inch snow lau was (Continued on Page Sixteen) jam. The people were kept In good order by Officer Ritter. The Y.

M. C. A. building looks a good deal like a store, with its supplies of food and clothing. Each family got something In the line of potatoes, turnips, bacon, coffee, bread, flour, tea, beans, rice, dried apples and molasses.

The more destitute ones also got shoes and clothing. V. D. Barner has presented the committee with 1000 loaves of bread, which Is delivered In lots of 50 loaves each week. The relief work.

Is being carried on by Mrs. O. C. Dorney, Mrs. Horace Hudders, Miss Wright, Mrs.

Annie Berlin, Miss Jennie Newhard, Mrs. Wlckert, Mrs. Rev. J. A.

Singmater, Mrs. Lewis Solellac, Mrs. Alice Leh, Mrs. Charles Ziegenfuss, Mrs. Bon-nell, Miss Carrie -Shelling, Miss Ab-ble Leisenring and Mrs.

-Mary Romig. The work of distribution has become admirably systematized. Today all applicants at the relief rooms received a ticket for sauer kraut donated at John R. Gossler's. The scene at Mr.

Gossler's store was as lively as at the Y. M. C. A. rooms and each ticket holder received sauer kraut, sausages, pork and potatoes." Kiwanis Books Two Orchestras Art Mickley to Join With London Criterions i Dance Music Two orchestras will feature this year's Kiwanis Assembly, which will be given for the club's charity fund next Wednesday evening In Mealey's auditorium.

Art Mlckley's orchestra, a popular local dance band, has arranged to donate its services for half of the evening, providing a program in addition to that of Ted McClister's London Criterions, whose appearance had been previously announced. The assembly will be a real charity event. Practically every item or ex pense for so large and brilliant func tion as the Kiwanis Assembly always (Continued on Page Sixteen) SNOW, RAIN CAUSE ACCIDENT NEAR SHELLY An accident caused by yesterday's snow and rain occurred on the state highway about a mile and a half north of Shelly, at about 8 o'clock last night, when the parked sedan of Helen Hopko, of Llmeport, was hit by another sedan driven by Lester Althouse, of 132 Front street, Quaker-town. Miss Hopko had stopped her car and alighted to clean the windshield, when the Althouse car, the driver blinded by the rain, ran Into the rear. Use Moyer, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. Christopher Moyer, of Quak-ertown, R. D. 1, a passenger In the Althouse car, was the most severely injured, receiving severe lacerations of the face and other injuries.

She was taken to the Community hospital, Quakertown, by Garvin Moyer, of 619 Eleventh avenue, Bethlehem, who was passing at the time. Lester Althouse received slight bruises and the other passengers in his car, Ruth Ortt, Quakertown, Phillip Weiss, Sellersville, and Ruth Rothrock, Quakertown, were shaken up. Anna Bennis, 528 Furnace street, Emaus, an occupant in the Hopko car, received a sprained back. Verna Long, also of the Emaus address; Helen Hopko, the driver, arid Catherine Hopko, a sister of the driver, were uninjured. The Hopko car was practically undamaged, while the Althouse machine was badly wrecked.

State Highway Patrolman A. A. Stewart, of the Bethlehem barracks, was called to the scene and restored order. Card Party Wednesday The third of a series of weekly cird parties held by the Cetronia Are company, in the fire company hall, will be held Wednesday evening of this week instead of Tuesday, as is usually the case. This change is necessitated as the regular meeting night falls on Tuesday this week.

power-hungry organization of black-shirted Mussollni-ites. Didn't I appeal to the American consul in the county of Veneto to aid me when I was being persecuted in Northern Italy only to have that individual reply that he must do what the Fascists ask or they would cause him to lose his job? "Me, an American citizen who went through the World War a United States soldier, to be given an answer like that when a trumped-up jail charge stared me in the face. It's bad when a country is ruled by a gang of men like that. A foreigner has no more chance there than a- rival racketeer has in Chicago and I certainly do pity the people who live in (Continued on Page Sixteen) SLATINGT0N BOYS BAND PLAYS TODAY The Slatington Boys Band, directed by Frank Troxell, of this city, will give a concert in the Arcadia theatre this afternoon at Slatington. The concerts starts at 3.15.

There is no admission charge, but a silver offering will be asked. Soloists for the concert will be Le-Roy Blose. The other feature of the concert will be Prof. Joseph Trettor, of Newside, an expert accordian player, who will be assisted by his son, Joseph, with the drums. The program: March, 213th Coast Artillery Regiment, Walter Larrimer; overture.

Bridal Rose, C. L. Lavallee; cornet solo, A Dream of Love, H. Miller, LeRoy Blose; A Hunt in the Black Forest, Arr. by M.

L. Lake; piano accordion solo with drum accompaniment, Prof. Jos. Trettor and son Joseph; overture, Poet and Peasant, Supple; Cupid's Garden, Max Eugenie; Star Spangled Banner. Fifty Acres Along the Jordan Surveyed by State's Expert Plans for the gradual development of Jordan Park, consisting now of more than 'fifty acres from Sumner avenue northwardly along the Seventh street pike and eastwardly to the banks of the Jordan creek, have been completed by Edward Flickinger, of the Department of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg, and will be brought to this city on Tuesday for inspection by Mayor Gross and the Recreation Commission.

Late last summer after the land was acquired. Councilman Guth, who is in charge of the parks of the city, expressed a desire to make improvements to the grounds so that larger and wider use may be made of it by the large number of people in that section of the city. He appealed to the Recreation Commission to secure a comprehensive plan which could be developed over a period of years as money may become available for the purpose. Mr. Flickinger, who did much work in connection with other park projects in this city, was asked to look into the matter and he has been here on two occasions to look over the ground and study the possibilities of the place as a playground, park and swimming center.

Rev. C. C. Miller, Of Coplay, Dies Pastor of St. John's Lutheran, Prominent in Conference Rev.

Christian: C. Miller, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, Coplay, and one of the best-known members of the Allentown Conference of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states, died early Saturday morning in the parsonage which he occupied since accepting a call to the Coplay pastorate in 1917. Rev. Mr.

Miller had been in failing health for the past two years. He submitted to two operations in the Hahnemann hospital, Philadelphia, but received only temporary relief. A few months ago he was compelled to relinquish active work on account of illness. During the past year, accompanied by Mrs. Miller, he made a trip to Palestine.

Rev. John W. Mattern, of this (Continued cn Page Seven) FIRST COMMUNITY SERVICE AT 2.30 TODAY The first of a series of inter-denominational community gospel services, will be held in the Allentown High school auditorium this afternoon at 2.30 ojclock. Rev. B.

Bryan Mus-selman, pastor of the "Radio Church," will be the speaker at all the services. These services are in answer to the appeal of the many people who desire to hear Rev. Musselman in person, becoming acquainted with his forceful speaking through his broadcasts over Station WCBA. Special programs will be held every Sunday, with special singing and other music. As time goes on various Sundays will be dedicated to the various towns surrounding this city, when talent from the town selected will be presented.

The singing this afternoon will be led by Prof. Sanvllle, business manager of the Rodeheaver Publishing company, which is the publisher of the new hymnals now being used by the church of which Rev. Musselman is pastor. The programs will be broadcast over Station WCBA. Case Appealed An appeal from the docket of Alderman Weiss was taken in court on Saturday in the case of Gerson Klein, trading as Kleift Bros.

Paper and Twine against S. Waltz, trading as the Star Baking where judgment was given the plaintiff for $13.75. J4 sheltered valley she found a pretty farm with an old-fashioned stone dwelling of early American architecture and of just the type that fitted in with her plans' for the development of a home along early colonial lines. Descended from the New EnglanS Lowells, she has a pride in everything (Continued on Pagi Twenty -Jive) A radio play that finds its locale In this vicinity, radio dramatized by a local young woman and acted by members of the Civic Little Theatre of -Allentown will be broadcast on Thursday evening from 10 to 10.30 o'clock over WCBA-WSAN as the major event of national drama week as observed locally by the Civic Little Theatre. The play is based upon a local superstition as regards a lull top some miles below Easton, along the Delaware, and known as "Der Hexa Kopf," and this is the title of the play.

The Civic little Theatre, already so active since it has been incorporated into the activities of the municipal recreation department, Irene Welty, supervisor, recently determined that National Drama Week should not go, unobserved In Allentown. Accordingly, the regular monthly meeting of the group was postponed in order that it might be included among the week's Wilson S. oyer, Merchant, Dies Prominent Resident Coopersburg Passes Away, Aged 67 Wilson S. Moyer, for many years prominent as a banker and merchant in Coopersburg, passed away in the Community hospital, Quakertown, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He lacked but three days of reaching his sixty-seventh birthday.

His death followed an operation performed at the hospital, Friday, following his admittance, Thursday. He was ill at his home with rheumatism for 15 weeks. Born in Pennsburg, the son of the late Josiah and Katherlne (nee Hauk), Moyer, Mr. Moyer moved to Coopersburg and conducted a general store on Main street of that borough for the past 35 years. From 1908 to 1912 he conducted a plumbing and heating business in addition to the (Continued on Page Seven) HAS BRIDGE-LUNCHEON IN HONOR OF GUEST Miss Hazel Butzer, of Lancaster, a graduate of Beaver College, Jenkin-town, was the guest of honor at a bridge-luncheon given Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Americus, with Miss Peesv.

daughter of Mr. nnri Mrs A W. Hicks, 127 South Madison su-eet, as me nostess. Miss Hicks, a senior at Beaver was a college mate of Miss Butzer. Twenty-six guests partook of the luncheon and later indulged in a season of bridge.

Included in these miests were: Rpt.tv win and Kay Kermentz, Beaver Col- icge eiuuents. jravors at caras were given to Dorothy Grim, Betty Kuhns and Bessie Laudenslager. The guests were: Beatrice Caplan, Helen Mealey, Alice and Peg Mer-Dermott, Louise Ott, Agnes Lieber-man. Florence flrnss nnmthn rsrim Betty Kuhns, Sallie Guth, Bessie Lau- aensiager, ojoroiny ssmitn, Llbby Farr, Catherine Heil, Doris Traylor, Betty Gross, Louise Erwin and Kay Kermentz. The chaperons were Mrs.

A. Hicks, Mrs. Malcolm W. Gross, Mrs. A.

J. Haines and Miss Rose Zboyousky. JACOB DE HAAS HERE AT CENTER TONIGHT Tonight at 8.15 o'clock, Jacob de Haas, journalist, globe trotter and writer will be the third speaker at a series of lectures being held in the Jewish Community Center, Sixth and Chew streets. The next lecture will be held Sunday, March 22, when William Durant will be the speaker. World famous for his "Story of Philosophy" and kindred works, Mr.

Durant is one of the foremost figures in the world, his knowledge of philosophy approached by few. EN'TERTAINEf) FRIEVDS AT BIRTHDAY PARTY Betty Mutzl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mutzl, 1146 Allen street, entertained a number of friends in the Y. W.

C. A. club rooms on Friday evening in honor of her sixteenth birthday. Present were: Rosemary Bhaer, Ruth Kline. Thelma Kline, Mary Packer, Eleanor Faulker, Eleanor Walp.

Addle Ann Bohlinger, Ethel Berkey, Rachael Sittler, Betty Mutzl, John Miller, Emil Dieter, John Yeager, Bill Dutton. Fred Fercauw, Cleon Wilson, John Reichard, Kennedy Carpenter, Charles Dengler and Thomas Eck. "Hand over the money and be mighty quick about it" was the curt demand of a bold robber, who, at 9.43 o'clock last night poked a revolver through the wicket of the cashier's cage at the Penlo theatre in Emaus and forced the young woman attendant to hastily hand him a bag containing $85, representing the receipts (Continued on Page Sixteen) activities and will be held tomorrow evening in the Y. W. C.

A. cafeteria. The second event of the week will be the radio play which has been dramatized and is being directed by Miss Edna Witt of the Studio of the Drama, of 227 North Sixth street. The cast includes no less than a dozen members of the Civic Little Theatre, together with a concert of others who are required to properly work out the strange sound effects that will record the thrilling adventure of tha hero on the top of "Der Hexa Kopf on Walpurls night, a night when all the powers of evil and of riarimpM are supposed to foregather there. There is no question but that tha presentation of this radio drama will be one of the outstanding radio presentations ever offered locally.

It will mark the entry of the Civic Little Theatre into a new field and one in which it hopes to become increasingly active. Pedestrians Hurt by Autos Four Accidents Result in Injuries to Walkers Along Highways Four accidents In which pedestrians were struck by automobiles during last night's storm, were reported to the police. Three "of thosa injured were walking in the highway, moving In the direction of traffic, while the other was crossing a thoroughfare, not at an intersection, police records say. Of the three persons injured in traffic lanes, one re ceived ids hurts outside the city limits. All were taken to hospitals in this city, where three of them were compelled to remain, two of them being seriously injured.

Rev. A. S. Joppie, 1117 Liberty street, pastor of Pilgrim Holiness church, suffered a possible fracture to his skull, and Rev. Edgar Watts, 1009 Liberty street, an evangelist, escaped with minor injuries, when the two men were struck by an automobile while walking in Liberty street near Twelfth street, at 8.50 last night.

They were taken to the Allentown hospital in the city ambulance. Rev. Watts was later discharged. John Trexler, 419 Hanover avenue, driver of the sedan that struck the pedestrians, entered $1000 bail. He told the police that he was going east on Liberty street, in the same direction the two ministers were walking, to avoid the slippery sidewalks.

Due to the Trexler reported, hia windshield was frosted, but he declared that he had taken precautions to avoid any accident. Suffering from shock and a possible fracture to her left leg and hip, Mrs. Lillian Laub, 314 North Fifth street, is a patient in the Sacred Heart hospital, the result of being struck by a taxi cab. on Seventh street, near Crew at 9.20 last night. According to a report made to police by Harold J.

Kuhns, 21 South Filbert street, driver pf the cab, the pedestrian was cross- ing between street intersections. The south on Seventh street. Mrs. Laub was taken to the offe of. Dr- Etoier H.

Bausch, Seventh and chew streets, and after re-l115' aW, was removed to the hospital. Kuhns placed a $1000 bond pending the outcome of the woman's if5, last nieht she was re! ported resting as comfortably as could be expected. TStrc bL a tourIn? car, driven by Joseph S. Muth. Mertztown R.

1. Jo Bainbritee, received injuries that resulted in his beine taken to the Allentown hospital for treatment. The accident happened on the pike, near the county home, dur- isht of tne st last night, shortly before 10 o'clock. Muth told J10" taking the man to the hospital, that the pedestrian had been walking in the highway. In tha same direction the automobile was travelins'.

Rpm voviuu VIOXUll Muth said he was driving slowly and iuuauig aueaa mrougn tne side-door of his car. He said that Kuff- man Was on his tppt nhon ho i XVlUt.il, returned to the scene of the accident. ivuiiman is said to nave told both Muth and attaches in the hospital that he hari hppn ctmmv a earlier in the evening. The man wiuMiumcu pains in nis nghtj wrist. To Serve Supper A sauer kraut and roast beef supper will be served by the ladies' aid soeietv nf tho fT.iitVioT.an UtlUlLll UL the Redeemer, Nineteenth and Wash ington sweets, in tne church on Tuesday evening from 5.30 to 8 o'clock.

The public is invited. Grace B. C. Church. Cetronia Fozel Calvin E.

Arner Mai. Harry A. Hall J0.00 10 00 25 00 5.0C I 'llUUUlgU. X1C WOO JWV from Princeton university, where since irtn Via lira. ofrfnnrflncr A meeting of JOAN LOWELL FAMED "IT" GIRL OF LITERATURE TELLS MORNING CALL MEN WHY SHE LIVES IN PA.

Inglese, shoemaker, who "I'm almost convinced that all these stories one hears about Mussolini and his Fascists are true and that there are many more things of a like nature taking place in Italy that one never hears about here," declared Angelo Inglese, a Catasauqua shoemaker who resides at 843 North Sixth street, this city, and who bears in mind dealings he had with the Fascist government of Italy while on a visit to his native country just three years ago. "Those Fascists dictate to the entire country over there and woe to the man who fails to heed their edicts. Why from my own experiences I've found that even the United States Consulate in Italy is controlled by this $8,000 FIRE DAMAGE TO GOODMAN STORE Damage estimated at about $8000 resulted from a fire of undetermined origin in the Goodman Furniture company's store, 522 East Third street, Bethlehem, South Side, shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. Quick response by firemen to an alarm at 1.05 a. prevented a more serious loss.

The fire started in the rear of the building and was confined there, later reports indicated. The building has a frontage of forty feet and is two stories high, of brick construction. It adjoins the storage tanks of the Allentown-Bethlehem Gas company and is about one block from the offices of the Bethlehem Steel company. A night letter carrier, making early morning collections, discovered the blaze. heresy," she told Morning Call men at her home in New Hope on Friday, "but since you have asked the question 'Why did I come to I'll tell you.

Because it has teemed God's country to me. I like it here; liked It ever since I first saw it, so I guess I'm here from now on." Miss Lowell, who will come to Al- I 1 1UOJT All nuu m.vv".mB kaictr-ft Un AmpHrnn Alumni coun He gave the men a resume of what had transpired ana Despoite successor the local organization. Those modern airs and those made dear to them during their campus days. ur. ft.

B. Hess, Bethlehem, was the song lon-io vriisi fnr t.he evening was furnished by Fritz Kline and his gang, also from the fateei ny. Among other prominenet alumni at ihe meeting were Dr. W. H.

Schuler, Dr. Holder and Messrs. Weaver, Wolf nd Berrv. Easton; Dr. Ralph B.

Hess and Dr. C. T. Mellin, Bethlehem; Warren Detweiler, Dr. G.

M. Flan-nery Dr. I E. Nussbaum and fr. Fred B.

Henry, all of this city, and Royal B. Anthony, Pottsville. BEQUEATHS ONLY $1 TO SON AND DAUGHTER Cutting a son and a daughter off aith $1 each. Mrs. Ellavena A.

late of Moore township, Northampton county, whose will was probated in the Lehigh county courts on Saturday, bequeaths her entire estate Df $1500 to grandchildren. Before the division. $50 Is to go to Emmanuel church, Moore township, Tor care of a cemetery lot. After the oequests to the children are satisfied one half the remainder of the estate to a granddaughter, Annie K. E.

Ritter. The other half Is to be divided tfctween three grandchildren, Jacob U. Young, Mabel A. Young and Lottie Young. The firandchildren are also to receive the household furniture, clothing, etc.

George F. Kunkel is named executor of the will, which was dated September 10, 1924, with Oliver Silfies and Reuben Kramer as witnesses. I '1 A 1 (I 4L hi I 1 I I it U1J -4 i. ,41 I i i 1 If vlp i I 4 is i. i I i''': $1500 In Cash Prizes In Movietest Being Conducted By Morning Call Are you following the Morning Call's great MOVIETEST In which the Morning Call offers $1500 in cash prizes for the naming of correct titles to thirty cartoons or drawings representing or suggesting titles to well-known motion pictures.

It will not be necessary for you to have personally seen these pictures in order to select the correct titles, as a- list of titles, including the correct title, accompanies each cartoon. The first prize is $500 In cash, with an additional twenty-four cash prizes. Beginning Thursday, February 12th, the first cartoon in the series will be published in the Morning Call, continuing daily and Sunday, until Saturday, March 14th. You do not, however, have to wait until the cartoons appear in the Morning Call. You can, right now without any cost to you, secure the complete set of thirty cartoons by clipping a coupon which appears in the Morning Call each day Just now, fill in your name and address, and mail the coupon to the MOVIETEST Editor, care of the Morning Call, and you will receive by return mall the complete set of thirty cartoons as well as a list of the simple rules and conditions of the MOVIETEST.

The award of prizes will absolutely and solely be based on the naming of the titles bv the participants. Neatness will not count. There is no letter to write. There are no words to be built up. All you have to do after you have qualified as a participant is to name the titles correctly.

Take today's issue of the Morning Call, clip the coupon, mall It to the MOVIETEST Editor, care of the Morning Call, and then get busy naming the titles. You may win $500 in cash or any one of the other twenty-four cash prizes, totaling $1500. EARLY AMERICAN II09fE RESTORED Early American furniture Is the passion of Joan Lowell, who has converted her substantial stone dwelling Into a' veritable museum of early American interior furnishings. A few of the articles that she has assembled as a collector are seen in the photograph, but she Just cannot get away from her early environment. Note, over her right shoulder, on the the bronze figure of a sea captain at the wheel.

Red Cross Drought Relief Fund Has Passed the $5,000 Mark The prediction Saturday morning that the $5000 mark in the loaal Red Cross drought relief fund would be passed was borne out yesterday afternoon when the grand total to date had reached the sum of $5049.10. The day's contributions totaled $75. Those who wish to contribute to the fund can send their checks either to Frank M. Cressman, in care of the Allentown National bank, or Col. E.

M. Young, the finance chairman of the local chapter. Continued progress throughout the country toward the $10,000,000 goal set by the national Red Cross organization for relief of those in need through the drought is reported from Washington. Subscriptions received Saturday were: "TIIAT JOAN'S A TERROR" Quoting her father, who says that the authoress constantly keeps him happy and alert with her spirit of fun and her bag of tricks. "Life 13 always interesting and worthwhile with her around," says the weather-beaten old sailor who no keeps chickens and rabbits down on the Bucks county farm, but talks mostly about the sea.

With a flair for doing the unusual, Joan Lowell, author of tlie sensational book success of 1929. "The Cradle of the Deep," has deserted her native California to become a citizen of Pennsylvania. The "It" girl of literature now resides less than 50 miles from Allentown. "Yes, I know it will be regarded as lentown on Friday to lecture under the auspices of the graduate nursing staff of the Allentown hospital, welcomed her Allentown visitors most cordially in her fine home near New Hope and close to the large colony of famous artists which lias sprung up there recently. Here near New Hope In a pleasant ErtemL M-V 110.00 Francl Jacoby 500 Mr.

Elizabeth DeGroot 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. C. DeGroot 6.00 a.

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