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SECOND SECTION GIRL'S TEARS LEAD TO MAN'S ARREST ON CHECK CHARGE i Charles Hohra Returned to Thit City; Took Child to Philadelphia Arrested on suspicion in Philadelphia when a 11 year old girl started to cry, Charles Hohm, 47, was brought back to Harrisburg to day end placed jail pending a hearing before Alderman John P. Hall man charged with Hohm charged with passing a check for $84.25 on the firm of Levy tnd Gross, furniture dealers, which was forged. Hohm is reported' to have admitted writing the name on tne check and explained that he found it on a "dump." He got furniture valued at more than $27 and itceived the rest of the amount in cash. Tears of Evelyn Schlusser, 11, 2016 Wallace street, a pupil at the Hamilton school, aroused the curi osity of Philadelphia authorities Thursday night. Hohm was trying to pacify her and was arrested, Parents of the girl said Hohm had taken the girl with him to Philadelphia iast Saturday and had promised to bring her home again Sunday night.

They stayed at the Windsor Hotel in separate rooms, the girl said, but she brune frightened when Hohm refused to bring her home. Joseph Schlusser, her father, brought her home yesterday. "SCHOOL DOLLAR" GARWOOD'S TOPIC AT KIWANIS CLUB Twenty members of the Camp Curtin junior high school orchestra entertained the members of the Kiwanis Club, at their luncheon In the Penn Harris to day. The school board of Harrisburg attended the meeting and the three judges of the Dauphin county courts. Superintendent Clyde H.

Garwood, of the city schools, made the address of the day in which he gave statistics to show how the "school dollar' is distributed in Harrisburg. The attendance prize offered by Herbert L. Smith, of. the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, was won by Harry Neale. Charles C.

Baker distributed to each member a billfold and card case. To day's program was arranged by William C. Hickman. v. INQUEST IN FATAL CRASH AT HERSHEY An inquest in the death of George Clyman, Philadelphia, a salesman, who was killed in an automobile collision near Hershey on Tuesday, will be held by Dr.

J. H. Kreidsr, county coroner. Dr. Kreider said the hearing will be held up pending the outcome of the injuries received by Jacob Ber man.

Palmyra. Herman was reported to be improved at the Her shey Hospital to He had suffered a fracture of the skull and lost an eye in the crash. Heist Culp Recovering Heist Culp, who was operated on for appendicitis, has 'been discharged from the Harrisburg Hospital and is recuperating at his home, 2508 Derry street. THE WEATHER Gmermt Conditions High preswires are cnterlnf over the Northwest, lttended by fair, cool Low pressures, centered over Western Kansas, are causin moderate temperatures and rains over the Northern and Central Plains, the Upper Mississippi ana iSSL ofHw, XS5 ov. t'hT New Enaland States, were attended durina; tne past twenty four hours by cool weatner.

rains, and thundershowers over the Great Lake region, the Ohio VaUey. and eastward to the Atlantic. This morning, yesterday's unsettled and rainy weather over the Northwest was replaced by the fair cool weather attending high pressures. BUtlaM Is feet Tenths Huntingdon Clearfield Penovo Cedar Run Williamsport Corning Wllkes Barre Bunbur Esrrlsburg ..14 3.0 1.1 ....16 ,...20 ....30 .02 .42 .62 .20 .31 .24 .37 .32 .12 t.l FANNING I wammmmmmK a By SUff Photographer Thousands of people were in Gettysburg yesterday to see President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and hear the President make his Memorial Day address in the rostrum in the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Long before his special train arrived, a big crowd was waiting at the station as seen in top picture. State Police kept order. In lower picture the President and Mrs. Coolidge are leaving the rostrum immediately following his. address.

One of, the secret service men is standing next to the rostrum. WMBS IN CAMPAIGN TO KEEP LICENSE, ASSERTS OWNER W. a McCachren, owner of radio, station WMBS, Harrisburg, whose n.1jid 4n lief nf 1R9 other radio stations to cease broadcasting after August will appear before the Federal Commission, July 9, to argue his, case of retaining the station. McCachren, known as Mack, received a general order from the commission to appci.r and show cause why his station' should continue on the air after August 1. Mack' stated to day that he feels sure the license of WMBS will be continued following the hearing at; "I am dumbfounded that WMBS should be on the list whUe other stations of lesser im port are left off.

said Mack. "I have operated my station 100 per cent, in tne interest oi everytning in tnisj territory and have recently installed i new equipment costing thousands of dollars." New York Clearing House New York. Mav" 31. Clearinir House statement: Exchanges, $1, i balances, Federal Bank, $136,000,000. 'Marriage Licenses Carlisle, May 31.

Elwood Weaver, ,21, Montorsyille, and Florence E. R. Smith, 21, Williams THE AIR tram, ana aancs o.cnesiras. are. scheduled later WJZ stations will broadcast the united States Navy band in ex I from "I Pagliacci" as well as i I AS xtAUlu lam were uutawuusi ujjccuj uuj, uj Ane oiris rrienoiy oociety oi me down to the task of tuning injonother offering.

Songs of the sea Harrisburg Diocese will hold its an the of President Cool vill compiiie the 8.30 o'clock pro nual conference and council to idge from Gettysburg, they found a i lightning storm heralding its ap proach by loud bursts noise. Pnrfnnfltiv the flashes were at rf a. widely separated Intervals, permit ring radio of a variety, but far from ideal. Last night's reception did not size up to the excellence of the offerings on the air in ooservance cf Memorial Day. signals being rather weak and inclined to fade.

With the hone that ever marks trnpH k. tA ntohiC nnrrini WEAF will rMu mn half. ,.4 o'clock. NovelMes abound in the 6.30 o'clock event, and excerpts from the latest musical successes, as well as novel instrumental are Dromised for 7 o'clock. Gersh win's 'Looking for a Boy" and ParvlV.

"W.it Till thrf Cnw Hnmi Heme will enable listeners to eon to traat nM mini, with th Utm bert Murphy and Lucy Marsh are tne soiotsts. The quartet wiu sing a late success, and! I a O. con hv Ue Crowds Greet Coolidges at I Goodwin march during the 6 aent oi tne uiris' nenaiy uouncn o'clock event to night. "The Exact 'of America, will be the A Science of Matrimony" will be the supper will be served at 6 o'clock, Henry story dramatized at ,7 1 and services. will begin at 7 o'clock, o'clock and 8 will find Gene Austin, with the Rev.

Hollis Colwell presid tenor as guest wfth the orchestra, i tag. His: solos include Gilbert's "Ro mano" and his own "Voice oi tne Popular and light; classical seiecuons wiu kq on ai i clock and the slumber music will i be open with' the overture to Offen bacfe'a opera; "Orpheus in the Un i aerwono. With the arrival of June, fans? save themselves disappointment llmlMnu their March for atfttlon i KDKA. WJZ. WEAF.

WSAI. WLS. WLW. WJR and WBAL; which prove reliable tnis ncinitv unaer au, excepting most extreme, conditions. I fho ton.

bile HARRISBURG, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1928. PAGE 13 SECOND SECTION vTT hp I Honored by His Class While III Here i moriTn Tranv tdtoth jr vtr iriry i buildmgs started this month other of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Irwin, 1812:. onprfltlons moUld a the new larze ooerations included the new Green street, a graduate of the Har risburg Academy in '22, has been electedvice president of the Junior class at Pittsburgh University. His election to the office was made known to his parents yesterday when he came home for the The election of officers at Pittsburgh took place while "Jerry" was home sick. He took cold while on a trip with the Pitt track team and was forced to return to his home for two weeks. GIRLS' SOCIETY TO HOLD CONFERENCE morrow and Saturday at the St, Andrew's; Protestant Episcopal The councilvwill commence to morrow afternoon at 2 'clock.

Tt Ha vr aivv4 HV Miss Julius Cunningham, vice presi' Communion wUl be held to mor row. morning ana Dreanasi win oe served in parish house. To morrow night the speakers will the following: Archdeacon i 1aiil Atblne Vnvlr thn I Rey. Archibald M. Judd, Dr.

M. Pe ters, and Bishop James H. Darling Pleads Gniltv 7 Roy H. Swails, 412 Harris pleaded guUty to driving an auto while under the of I nquor win oe sentencea Monaay, June .4. Gettysburg: IP 1 BUILDING IN CITY OVER $1,100,000 SO FAR IN 1928 Construction started in the city this year passed the $1,100,000 mark this month! with the issuing of eighty 6ne permits for operations to cost $294,525, according to figures compiled at the office of Building Inspector Since January 1 permits issued totaled 313 for construction esti mated to cost $1,128,235, the totals including ninety one residences to cost $510,000, of which eighteen were siarted this month, to cost $109,000.

In April, this year, sixty eight permits were issued for work costing $272,825, and in May, 1927, eighty five were issued to construction amounting to $380,135. In addition to the residential I Air Products factory in South Seventeenth; street, the new Sacred Heart Parochial School, the addi tion to the Welfare Building, Sec olid and South streets and to the Telegraph Press in North Cameron street. I To Pick Publicity Man The publicity committee of A the Harrisburg Welfare Federation, will meet at the Harrisburg Club, Monday at 12.15 to consider applications for the position of publicity director of the Federation made vacant several weeks ago by the resig nation of Morris Swartz, 1800 Green street, who took a position withrthe Associated tress in tnis city. 3 AUTO VICiliS DURDiG 24 HOURS Crashes in City Over Holiday; Triple Accident at 14th and Derry Three persons were injured in au tomobile crashes here during 1 the last twenty four hours. While roller skating at Seventeenth and Randolph streets last night.

Richard Stlne, 9, 1143 Rolles ton street, collided with an automobile driven by Mrs. Marguerite P. 903 South Seventeenth The boy escaped with a cut scaip ana was uicen nome oy wn. Arnoia. Two members of the family of M.

I. Brandt, 1001 North Nineteenth street, were injured in a collision with another machine at Cameron and Herr streets 1 Brandt, 21, suffered bruises of the body, and Raymond Brandt, 12, was' bruised about the head and arms. A triple collision at' Fourteenth and Derry streets to day caused damage to two automobiles but the drivers escaped injury. Charles A. Kerr, 45 North Thirteenth street, reported he was driving south on Fourteenth street when another machine driven by' R.

Kline, Twenty ninth and Watson streets, I approached from east on Derry street In the collision the machine of D. F. Reisch, 347H Crescent street, was struck and slightly damaged. Reisch had stopped at the intersection. GnU at House Party A houseparty was held over Memorial Day 'at Spring Elm cottage, Good Hope Mills.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reuwer, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beckley, Mr.

and Mrs. Harry nmt. Mv wn shey: Mr. 'and Mrs. Charles Woods, Miss Caroline Wert.

Miss Mabel Marian Kelley, M. E. Baird and I. George Green, of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Richt, Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Aikens, Mt. Holly, N. C.

R. Williams, Pittsburgh, and Taylor, New Loses Pocketbook Loss a pocketbook containing a small diamond ring, a wedding ring and $5 while going to the circus Tuesday was reported yesterday to police by Mrs. Anna Snell, UQ Berryhill street. She valued 4 the articles at $50. I I i Under the Done Capitol Forty two industrial organizations throughout Pennsylvania planted 1,145,000 forest trees this spring which were supplied from the State Forest Tree Nurseries of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters.

The 264 plans, for new. and reconstructed schools, submitted to the Department of Public Instruction during the past year, show a desire on the part of school ties for comfortable, safe, sanitary. well appointed, school buildings, of flcials of the Department of Public Instruction said to day. There has been, noted a marked improvement it was asserted in plan and design as well as provisions for beautiful landscape features In school grounds! Efforts of the Board of Game Commissioners to purchase land in LZi blocked by. the hiKh prices de dollars an acre is the maximum price which the board is permitted to pay, and even at that price few suitable tracts have been The section is one of the most populous in tlw State and hunters there have urged the establishing of public hunting; which will be easy of access and not involve long trips.

W. Gard Conklin, chief of the bureau of refuges and lands has Just returned from a scouting trip through Lancaster, Chester and Berks counties, and reported that in his opinion landowners ask exces isive prices, IS Aid Memorial Day Observance Here is) 7TZ THE J. C. FORNCROOK Chaplain of Post 58, G. A.

who delivered the prayer on 'Memorial Day at the Harrisburg Cemetery exercises yesterday, VETERANS OF 3 WARS IN PARADE Honor Comrades vWho Have "Gone Revive Day of 1917 The rhythmic beat of marching men in. the Memorial Day parade here vesterdav recalled thu nmH y.n t.iL hosts 8ame unfaltering step arrled em from homes and fire side to miliUry camp and on to war. To most of the marchers1 and the days of .1917, to' some the blue and khaki marchers of 1898 and to a few' the days of '60 when'the blue uniformed saviours of. the Union marched bravely' forward in the, face of grape and cannister. Say "Holy Day" The Rev.

Harry Daniels, pastor of the Methodist Church, of Mechan icsburg, protested against the popular observance of Memorial Day; by making it a holiday devoted to sports, and "It is a holy day," said the Rev, Mr. Daniels in his address at the Harrisburg Ceme 1 speaking: of thpnTeapot J3mo oil scandaV the speaker said ithis country needs a 'new birth of i patriotism to produce such men as General Read, of the Revolutionary War, who, although a poor man, 1 would not accept a bribe from: the British Government to betray his country. i' i Chaplain Offers Prayer The ReV. J. C.

Forncrook, chaplain of Post' 58, G. 'A. prayed that the time wfll adon come when America will follow the law of the Bible and so "bring peace and happiness to all mankind." Threatening weather did not delay the parade yesterday, but curtailed the service at the soldiers' When 'the parade reached Thirr teenth and State streets, more than 100 school children, carrying flowers, fell in. behind Chief Marshal A. J.

Pugh and continued to the cemetery. The first and second divisions also halted at this point while the third division, composed of the Grand Army veterans, passed in review. At the speaker's stand, in the cemetery, Mrs. Roy Mikle sounded assembly and after a short service at the soldiers'. plot, followed by a rifle salute and of flowers over the graves, she sounded ''taps." Comrade M.

A. Post 58, I oresided the services. At theLincoln, cemetery, special services were held by members, of Buffalo, Post, No. 148, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Post 520, A. R.

The speaker Comrade I A. 1 Dennee Bibbs; commander' of Buffalo Post. Colonel James Auter, Post G. A. also made an address at the Lincoln Cemetery, and the prayer was delivered by Comrade J.

Harden. Lincoln's Gettysburg. Address was read by Comrade Howard Keys. The bugler of Buffalo Post, Comrade Branon, sounded assembly and taps, at the opening and closing of the service. Several selections were played by the Perseverance band and the: rifle squad of Buffalo Post fired' a salute in honor of the dead.

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PUGH Chief marshal of the Memorial Day parade and, a former commander of Post 58, G. A. Mr. Pugh has for many years identified with Post 58's Memorial Day. activities as well as a leader in affairs of the Post.

'GONE BROKE' TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT Community Theater Group Announces List of Plays For Next Year MRS. GEORGE H. MILL HOLLAND, who will play the part of an adventuress to night in the play, "Gone Broke," to be' presented bythe Harrisburg Community Theater. The Harrisburg Community Theater, has announced the tentative program of. plays for production next year, as chosen by the play reading i committee of the group.

The list includes the following: "The Butter and Egg Man," by George Kaufman; ''Tea for Three," Rol Cooper Megrue; and, the George Bernard Shaw; "Tjlliei of Bloomsburg," Ian Hay; Giaconda," by D'Annun zio; "Saturday's 'Children," "Anderson; "Paolo and Francesca," Steven Philips; "The Bartlett Cormack; "In the Next Room," Rob son "and Forbes; "For Rent Furnished," Bangs. Frank, Mansur, author, of "Gone Broke," will be the guest of the Harrisburg Community Theater, tonight, at 8 o'clock; When his play is presented as the last production of SrnVIhe3 He will spend the night here and will return to New York to morrow. Mr. Mansur, who is the author cf "The ugly Duckling" ana vueorge and the Dragon," has been associated with. the Little iTheater movement in Boston for many years and has' played leading roles in the: famous Little or Gloucester.

Other members of the cast for "Gone Broke," with Mrs. Millhol land. are: Herbert Mvers. Randolph Moored i Adaline Victor LeCoq, Mrs. Linn, Mabel Dobbs, Ed win Stouffer and Mrs.

Pauune Mc Farland. Herbert Myers is the stage manager ana unanes uidds is tne scenic artist. Acquitted in Court Hill Johnson, Negro, Steel ton, was acquitted to day' by Jury trial stealing a revolver on May. 13. of; MA LKrA' tm iK i tivi I I Mi lllplilllM THE REV.

HARRY DANIELS The Rev. Harry Daniels, of, Mechanicsburg, who was the principal speaker at the Memorial Day services yesterday, at the Harrisburg Cemetery. fPontinnAjt BVami E1m4 Mother of 3 on Radio Mrs. Hazel Nauman, a widow and motner or tnree children, and a member of the senior class of the East Stroudsburg State Teachers College, will, broadcast to night over State Police radio station WBAK. Mrs, Nauman is studying at the college for a degree and her subject will deal with the history, scenic spots, industries, educational institutions and recreation centers of Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. Indifferent Albert Albert, eighteen inches and all, to day expressed his polite indifference to happenings at police headquarters. Taken there shorlty after midnight, Albert lokoed the patrolmen over.7 yawned," at; the clock, and posed to sleep. nls Roy A. Zimmerman, 1317 Marion street, was notified and promised to take the wandering Albert home.

Albert is a year and a half old alligator who escaped from a tank inthe yard of Zimmerman's home last Father, Son and Presidents John Eckert of Hanover was conductor on the train which carried President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, to Gettysburg when he delivered his address on the greatest battlefield in the western hemisphere. For his courteous care of President Lincoln the war president gave him a gold i Yesterday Jacob. Grant Eckert, of Baltimore, son of John was conductor on President Coolidge's special train to Gettysburg. He wore the Vwatch which President Lincoln had given his father. Brings Divorce Suit Gladys M.

Viola has brought suit for divorce from Benjamin J. Viola, ff ot de seH0 Retailogram The Harrisburg Retail Market The Harrisburg retail market is not a certain number of city blocks, a collection of square miles, or, any other designations of raw geography. The Harrisburg retail market is comprised of living, buying families, who have formed definite habits with relation to the merchants of Harrisburg. How are you building your structure in the Telegraph market? TS STUt MSSWF SCIA kAfc VtH't CfTrniH, rm. Tin Ctikto trhtm.

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