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The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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tONGTHE LCC GOOD EVENING: Many vacationists find they are no longer young. WEATHER: Fair to-night and tomorrow; continued cool. Published Erenr Evenlnit Kxcovt Sunday by The Patriot Company NUMBER 3853 HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929 Entered as Second-Clam Matter it the Post Office at Harrlabur PRICE TWO CENTS FISHERMAN H8 mill in ir a a i 1 1 i i ii i i i i ci hi i mm uiif liiiexiiiiii ii a i i GOVERNOR FISHER has re- iwiinriiill li iij cently been resuming a sport he used to enjoy in his earlier days. That is fishing. Ever since he has been in the executive department here he has been making frequent trips with fishing parties, but it is only recently that he took up fishing.

"I never fish, but I like to sit around and talk on these trips," the Governor usually said when asked upon his return how many fish he caught. Recently he has been going to TO Parking Abuses in Front Street R.R. TUNNELS Tilghmanis Island in the Chesapeake and he has found much enjoyment in pulling out sea trout and rock fish. Last Monday while with a party he took out more trout than any other member. CAPITOL TREES AFTERyears of discussion the dead and old half-dead trees of Capitol Park are being cut down.

Although periodically plans have been made for systematic planting at the Capitol little work has been done in the old part of the park until Secretary Taylor, of the Department of Property and 6 Machine Gun Bandits Force Guards to Leave And Drive Of With Car Boy Held For Fatal Shooting DESTROYED FIEL CHINESE; fekWl REAL TRAFFIC HAZARD' -'jR rw Jiff i a GUNS I AGTI By United Press ROME, N. July 19. As a result of the shooting to death of Peter Giaquinto, 10, while he and State Welfare Dept. Head Injured i By United Press NEW ORLEANS, July 19. Firing a machine gun into the air, six bandits today held v.p two employes of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Company and stole their ar International News Service LONDON, July 19.

The captu mored truck' which contained in cash and securities. After forcing Thomas J. Dooer, guard, and Herbert Clark, driver, from the truck, two of the bandits climbed into the driver's seat and of two border towns on the Ma: churian side of the boundary 1 Soviet troops of the Siberian Army Corps was reported today unconfirmed news dispatches to tl evening newspapers here. One of the towns reported ca tured was the strategically impo tant town of Pogranitchnay, on tl eastern frontier of Manchuri about 100 miles northwest Vladivostok. The Chinese were ported to have destroyed the tu: nels of the Chinese Eastern Raj road at that point.

Supplies, took the matter up with the State Forestry Department. The department's advice has been available for years, of course, but it has been either forgotten or ignored in the past. Trees that have long since been dead have been left stand to house a squirrel house. The same care will be given to the elder portions of the park that are being given to the newer parts. The comprehensive planning that has been followed along the North street terrace will be carried out in other parts of the park.

LIGHTS UOR a few minutes every after- noon when the sun reaches a certain angle the cornice of the North office building has the appearance of being lined with electric bulbs. At exactly 3.35 the sun's rays companions were hunting blackbirds near here yesterday, Motjsto Campanaro, 16, was arraigned on a technical charge of first-degree murder before City Judge T. J. McNamara today. Conflicting stories of the shooting were told by two groups of boys who were engaged in the though it was generally agreed that Companaro's group had told the younger boys not to follow them as they might scare the birds.

Companaro declared he shot at a bird and Giaquinto stepped from behind a bush in front of his twelve-gauge shotgun. One boy said that Giaquinto was standing in the open and had called to Companaro, who turned and fired at him pointblank. drove away. No one was struck by the machine gun slugs. PROFESSOR SANE 6 WHEN HE KILLED GIRL, IS RULE Bv United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 19 Dr.

James H. Snook, former Ohio State University professor, was MP By United Press lightning flashed from the wi clouds overhanging Russia ai China today and the troops of opposing forces massed on ea side of the Manchurian border two widely separated points gaged in brisk clashes, accordil to word from the East today, Press reports received in Tok indicated that the Soviet forces hj taken the offensive at Manchuli the northwest border between churia and Siberia and near eastern terminal of the Chine From Page One CONTINUE HUNT FOR GARAGE MAN -wwioffl r.lvuM'-' sane on the night of June 13 when he killed Theora K. Ilix, 25-year-old medical co-ed. Three "disinterested" court alienists who examined Snook yesterday will make this report. The doctors made the examination after IN BRIDGE CASE Additional telegrams to points in Canada were to be sent by the Mo MRS.

E. GRACE McCAULEY Thrown against the roof of her automobile when it struck a rut at the entrance to the National Guard review grounds at Colebrook yesterday, Mrs. E. Grace McCauley, Secretary of Welfare, suffered injuries with which she was confined to her home at Riverview Manor today. Mrs.

McCauley, who was alone on the rear seat of the machine, was rendered uncpnscious by the impact. A physician who was summoned on her return to Harrisburg said she had suffered injuries to the back. attorneys had filed a request for a sanity hearing. tor Club today In an attempt to get in touch with A. C.

Kepford, West Fairview garage owner, whose con come over the roof in such a way that the brows of the line of lion heads along the cornice pick up a small spot of sunshine while all the rest of the facade is in fehadow. The effect is that of a row of incandescent lamps. A minute or two later and the sun has moved over the roof ledge, and the heads are in the shadow also. teacher" A PICNIC may be an occasion for fun and frolic, but small children can go beyond the bounds of play and use the occasion as an excuse to avoid punishment. A young mother, her patience exhausted, was using the broad side of her hand to impress on her small child that she had violated certain rules when an elderly Har-risburg woman passed by and took the mother to task.

"Don't punish that child," she pleaded; "the little one doesn't know right from wrong." "Shut your mouth; that's what I'm trying to teach her," said the mother. Just what parking does in reducing the driving nrface of a street is illustrated in these exhibits of conditions in Front street. In the parking areas and often in the non-parking zones, cars stand bumper to bumper for blocks. The result is that prqbably a fourth or more of the width of the street is taken out of driving use and since more cars are moving than are parked, this means that a small minority of cars are usurping the driving rights of a large majority of One of the inserts shows the hazards and inconveniences when, as often happens, cars are parked on both sides of Front street. This means that a half or more of the street is rendered useless for driving purposes.

It not only slows up but endangers traffic, especially at night, when between two lines of parked cars, cars traveling in opposite directions try to pass each other. sent to plans of the State Highway SEVEN DIE AS BLAST WRECKS Department for completion of the bridge at West Fairview is needed before the department can complete the project. POWDER PLA LAST MEMBER OF Firemen Escape When Speeding Truck Upsets International 2fewt Service PHILADELPHIA, July 19. Four persons were injured early today when fire broke out in a dwelling near Fifty-second and Columbia streets. Benjamin Schwartz, the owner, his wife and two daughters were burned, but not seriously.

Three firemen hurrying to the scene escaped injury when their fire truck collided with a city water wagon and overturned. After wires to motor clubs in Montreal and Quebec, sent Wednesday, had failed to bring any reply, E. S. Nailor, secretary of the local club, said messages would be sent today to Ottawa, Kingston and Toronto. Kepford is on a fishing trip.

J. C. McCarrell, division engineer of the State Highway Department, has announced that the south ap Crippled Aviatrix Thought Near Des Moines on Flight From N. Y. for $1000 Prize International News Service NEW KENSINGTON, July 1 Five employes of the Unit States Aluminum Company die in the hospital here today, brinj ing the death toll to seven in FLATHEAD GANG RETURNED TO PA.

BODYGUARD OF $2,000,000 HEIR BEATS OFF MAN By United Preti DARIEN, July 19. -Harry Sparks, bodyguard to 2-year-old James S. McCarthy, heir to proach to the bridge had been completed. The workmen will be re tained for a few days at the span to give the West Fairview borough time to authorize construction of BUFFALO, July 19. The last from Albany for the Iowa air exposition in her five-cylinder radial engined craft.

She refueled her machine, which carried forty gallons of gas" and five quarts of oil, at Buffalo. W. C. Williamson, of Anderson, another competitor for the Baseball Scores TILDEN, HUNTER WIN DAVIS CUP By United Prei BUFFALO, July 19. Mrs.

Phoebe L. Omelie, crippled New York aviatrix, and her tiny mono-coupe plane were believed this morning to be nearing her destination, Des Moines, in an effort to win a $1000 prize for flight against time. Mrs. Omelie took off yesterday the northern approach. Motorists are again able to use the Oyster's detour, the shortest of several, which was member of the notorious Flathead gang, paycar and bank robbers and murderers, will be returned to the state of Pennsylvania today, the state where the gang's leader was first caught and later executed.

Authorities were on their way to terrific explosion which shatter the powder plant of the Log Ferry Works. The company is subsidiary of the Aluminum Con pany of America. Two of the men in the plai were killed instantly. Six still were in hospitals, one of the) in a critical condition. t.

I. Paustenbach, of Tarentus night foreman, and Andrew Kaufc man, East Kensington, were killer Those who died today were I Lopez G. Gallardo, G. Giansant J. Larios and M.

Mazimanolis. Bodies Dug From Wreckage The force of the blast whic wrecked two one-story brick an From Page One prize, was to have taken oif this morning from the Buffalo airport, NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Philadelphia, wet grounds. Pittsburgh at New York, wet grounds. Chicago at Brooklyn, wet grounds. St.

Louis -at Boston, wet grounds. closed Wednesday to permit repairs to be made to the bridge over the ATGHES FOR U.S where he arrived last night. Conodoguinet Creek, which had 12,000,000, reported to police that he was attacked by an armed man early today at the McCarthy estate in the Tokeneke section. Sparks said the man pounced upon him but fled after a struggle, firing four shots from a revolver as he ran. On searching the grounds, police found a section of lead pipe covered with rubber and wrapped in a Somerset, with John Mosczenski, alias Polish John, where he will face charges of holding up the bank at Central City and attempted Bp, United Press ROT WEISS TENNIS CLUB, BERLIN, July 19.

The United States started off with two singles Tried Blackmail to Get Money to Build Rocket For Flight to Moon murder last June 9. Sheriff L. G. Wagner, of Somerset County, and L. W.

McMullen, of Windber, accompanied the prisoner. Three other accomplices of Mos victories in the Davis Cup inter zone finals today, "William T. Til den, 2nd, defeating Hans Holder foreign-Janguage newspaper. Last March 20, Sparks drove off Benson E. Taylor Is Elected to Club Board At a meeting of the board of governors of the Harrisburg Country Club last evening Benson E.

Taylor, Secretary of Property and Supplies, was elected to the board to take the place of Edward F. Ent-wisle, who moved to Bethlehem some time ago. been damaged by heavy trucks. Ramp to Memorial Bridge Is Now Open The Qameron to Thirteenth street ramp of the Memorial Bridge at State street is now open to traffic. The concrete was laid in May and the job completed in June, but because of construction work on the bridge the drive was not opened until yesterday.

This drive provides an additional way to reach the Hill residential section from Cameron street. czenski are serving terms of eight-J auer, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, and Francis T. Hunter beating Dr. Daniel Prenn, two armed men from McCarthy's Greenwich home after a gun battle. The baby is the son of Dr.

James S. 1 McCarthy, of Greenwich, who married Mrs. Margaret Huntington Smith, of Cleveland, heiress to the John Huntington Standard Oil millions. Mrs. McCarthy died last year.

3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. With Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn ready to take the court for the doubles tomorrow, the ad-Turn to Pane Seventeen FORMER CASHIEI GOES TO PRISOl By United Press i PITTSBURGH, July 19. Cesa, een and one-halt to thirty-seven years in the Western penitentiary Pennsylvania. Paul Jaworski, the leader of the gang, was convicted and executed at Rockview penitentiary for his part in dynamiting a $100,000 pay car and killing two guards. Masczenski also admitted taking part in this robbery.

for it at the trolley station at the park. Detectives waited near the trolley station this morning. As the messenger, a 15-year-old boy, walked up to receive the envelope, the officers took him into custody. The boy, whose name was not divulged, explained he had been hired by Mitchell to call for the money, PHOTOS START DIVORCE NEW YORK. July 19-While Claude Vernon Carter, wealthy in By United Press LANCASTER, July 19.

Said to have been prompted by a need for money to continue his experiments on a rocket to send to the moon, Thomas Mitchell, 19, young Franklin and Marshall college student, was arrested today on a charge of attempted blackmail. Mitchell, it is claimed by police, threatened to destroy the swimming pool at the Rocky Springs amusement park here, unless Mrs. H. Benjamin Griffiths, the owner, paid him $1500. In an alleged extortionate letter to Mrs.

Griffiths, Mitchell is said surance man, waif away on a trip his wife rummaged through his A. Paolini, former assistant casl ier in the M. Berardini banl started a sentence of or trunk. She started suit for separation yesterday and testified she not knowing anything about the blackmail plot, police said." He was released and Mitchell was arrested found pictures of her husband in an affectionate embrace with his on the boy's testimony. secretary.

Only 54 More Atlases Only fifty-four more copies of THE PATRIOT and THE EVENING NEWS Motor Atlas, containing valuable information -on roads throughout the country, remain. These are available at Room 5, The Patriot Building, for 40 cents, or 50 cents by mail. At first stoutly maintaining his innocence, Mitchell, police say, laer C. C. Unable to Force.

Registration of Night Passengers on Trains International News Service WASHINGTON, July 19. The Interstate Commerce Commission is without power to compel the railroads or the Pullman Company to maintain registry lists of all overnight passsengers, Chairman E. I. Lewis announced today. The commission had the matter under consideration and, after a careful scrutiny of the interstate commerce act, decided informally that it was without' Golfer Quits After Shooting Hole In One By United Press CHICAGO, July 19.

And then he gave up golf. Two months ago Capt. Charles Paasch, of the Evan-ston police department, played his first game of golf. Yesterday he shot a hole in one. "I'm through," he said today.

"No use trying to better confessed. District Attorney S. V. Hoster ST. LOUIS ROBIN and a half years in the Alleghen County workhouse today.

Paolini was convicted last Oct ber 25 on charges of making fabi entries and with converting to own use, several thousand dollaj of the bank's funds. He was sei tenced to pay a fine of $2000 an serve eighteen months in the wor house. An appeal was taken to the Sif peribr Court, but the appellat court, in its opinion filed here yej terday, affirmed the sentence. 3 Controls Fail and Aviator Is Killed DES MOINES, July 19. Ross Arnold, co-pilot with Charles Gat-schet of the plane Greater Des Moines which was to have started a refueling endurance flight this week, was killed instantly last night when the plane crashed while on a test flight.

Gatschet, at the controls while Arnold handled the refueling hose, parachuted to safety when the controls failed. to have directed her to place ten $100 bills and ten $50 bills-in an envelope, and turn the envelope man said Mitchell explained that he over to a messenger who would call needed the money to continue his experiments with his moon-rocket. The youth was released in $1000 bail for a hearing before Alderman UP 140 HOURS ST. LOUIS. July 19 The St Jtsurkhart.

A' model rocket on which Mitch Louis Robin, which went aloft at ell was working exploded in his 7.17 a. Saturday, completed its 140th consecutive hour of flying at Ten Bodies Recovered From Wrecked Express; Debris Being Searched Helpless Cripples Leap and home workshop last year. Woman Is Found Dead; 3.17 today and reported everything '0. The pilots, Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine. hope to break the Man on Porch Nabbed Fined $25 and Warned Not To Annoy Woman, He Solves Problem by Marrying Her Run When Boa Constrictpl Glides Into Hospital Ward By United Press PHILADELPHIA.

July 19. Henry Cumming, 54, was being held Ecuador, the town was aroused By United Press NEW YORK. July 19. Snakes by police today in connection with the slaying last night of Mrs. Minnie Badaracci.

46. who was found have long been known to frighten 246-hour refueling endurance record, although they started out merely to make a 150-hour test of their Challenger six-cylinder motor. The Missouri Rdbin, a sister ship piloted by Joseph Hammer and W. Gentry Shelton, reached forty-one consecutive hours on a similar test at 3.34 a. m.

Weather conditions continued good. senger train passed over it, bound for Colorado Springs from St. Louis, Mo. Identified dead included F. G.

Carlie and his wife and daughter, Julia, of New York; Mrs. Benjamin Lewis and Harry Lewis of Memphis, Miss Mary McDonald, West Palm Beach, and Brooks Cline, pullman porter. Other victims included three men dead with her skull crushed in her home by police. lersons to the point or paralysis, ut they may also effect a cure for street, was ordered by the magistrate to stay away from the Warren woman and the hotel. "If you are brought before me again for annoying her," Alderman Hallman promised, "I shall COLORADO SPRINGS, July 19.

With ten bodies recovered, belief was expressed today by Coroner E. P. Kenney that at least a dozen persons perished when a Rock Island railroad coach hurtled into a swollen stream as a bridge it was rolling over near Stratton collapsed. Searchers continued to dig In the wreckage of a steel pullman sleeper which plunged into a creek when the span crumpled as a pas Alderman John P. Hallman is going to find it extremely difficult to keep a promise he made in police court yesterday afternoon.

Fined $25 when arraigned before Alderman Hallman in police court for annoying Mattie Warren, 25, colored, of North Sixth street, an employe of a local hotel, John 23, nero, Wallace that affliction, if the story told today by. A. S. Lonnberg is to be I he accused man was found on the front steps of the screams from the Civil Hospital, i ten-foot boa constrictor was glidiri up and down the cripples' ward. Bedridden patients, Lonnbei avers, were getting out with gre agility.

One man believed pari lyzed more than two years jumpe six feet from his bed, the travel continued, and another leaped eigt feet to the hospitals patio believed. send you to jail for ninety days, woman's home with his clothing ripped, arms scratched and blood Lonnberg, who arrived here on the city Mrs. Edith cercstresser, Grace liner, Santa Rita, said that Mnntrftftl. 12-T)kV frill. t1K(L spots on his shirt.

He denied knowledge of tha murder, Ttua to Page Seventeen while the ship lay at Moaotaf Travel Bureau. Ad. Tarn to Pagt TwW ri 1.

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