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BO 1 0:0 0 Sua BAG WITH $52,000 IS FOUND IN GUTTER Proprietor of Shop Picks Up Sack After Hundreds of Passersby Had Failed to Notice It OWNERSHIP IS ESTABLISHED New York, Feb. 28. Arthur Waid man, Brooklyn automobile accessory dealer, reported to police today that a canvas bag containing $52,000 in small bills had been found in the gutter in front of his store in Coney Island. The currency was identified as a shipment bein made from the Fort Hamilton branch of the Bowery and East River National Bank to the Bowery and East River National Bank to the Federal Reserve Bank, $60,000 FIRE AT LYKENS CHURCH; WIRING BLAMED Costly Paintings and Vestments at St Mary's Church Are Ruined VISITING FIREMEN HELP Lykens, Feb. 28 () Fire discovered in St.

Mary Roman Catholic church here at 11.05 M. to day xaused damage estimated at $60,000, which the Rev. Augustine Kappes," pastor, raid was covered by insurance. The fire is thought to have been caused by crossed electric wires and believed to have burned for some time before it was discovered in the east vestry room. The last service of the day was held in the! church at 8 JO A.

M. The church is valtled at about $175,000. Fire companies from Wisconisco and Williamstown were called to aid the Lykens firemen in subduing the blaze which for a time threatened the entire church. The firemen were said to have been hampered by low water pressure. 36 CHILDREN HURT WHEN TRAIN STRIKES BIG SCHOOL BUS By Associated Press.

Rochester, Feb, 28. Eleven children were seriously injured today and twenty five others hurt when an Erie freight train, eastbound, struck a school bus loaded to capacity, at a crossing nine miles west of here. By Stff Photographer To day. The little Ford had much the better of an auto smashup to day with a Cadillac sedan, near Second and Broad. The rear end of the larger machine was damaged about $300 worth.

Edward Harrison, 709 South Twenty first street, chauffeur for Mrs. L. W. Kay, 2342 North Second, was driving the Cadillac. F.

F. Snook drove the Ford, a light delivery truck used in his roofing and spouting business, 1644 Elm. The Ford got a bent fender and steering apparatus damage. The Cadillac, going north on Second street, dodged the Ford coming out of Sayford street, and the rear end swung against a tree overhanging the street. Cadillac and tree are shown in the photos.

and was returned to its owners by detectives. Waldman said that the bag with its treasure had apparently been dropped from a wagon and hundreds of automobilists and pedestrians passed close by it as it lay in the gutter. Officials of the bank reported that the shipment had been temporarily lost. The: trucking company saiu that none of their; drivers had reported loss of any shipment." INJURED, DRIVES AUTO 100 MUES TO HIS HOME HERE Lee E. Hawthorne, South 17th Street, Hurt Near.

Harper's Ferry HIS wife" escapes Although 'suffering from injuries of several'' ribs and bruised from head to foot in to automobile accident, Lee E. Hawthorne, 222 South' Seventeenth an automobile mechanic, drove nearly a hundred miles from near Harper's Ferry, to Harrisburg, yesterday, and is now recovering front his injuries at home. Hawthorne was hurled nearly fifteen feet by an automobile driven by another motorist as he was repairing a tire on his automobile near Harper's Ferry on Sunday. The other, car then crashed into Hawthorne's, machine and badly damaged both machines. Mrs.

Hawthorne was sitting in the car but escaped, injury. The driver of the other car escaped, with cut fingers, but had to be extricated from his wrecked. machine. ''v': '4V There' was no one else to drive Hawthorne's car home, so Hawthorne drove it back as soon as he recovered from 'the daze of his injuries. He drove the heavy car more than eighty seven miles without medical treatment and then stopped at the office of a physician here before returning home.

He said to day that he expects to return to work in several days. AWARD CONTRACT FOR CITY SHARE OF WIDER SUBWAY S. W. Shoemaker and Son Will Start Work About i March 15 COST IS Employment will be provided for approximately 300 men when work on the major part of the city's share of the major part of the city's share ing gets under way, Ray S. Shoemaker, of the contractor firm of S.

W. Shoemaker and Son, this city, predicted to day upon the award ot the contract for the operation by Council. The Shoemaker firm, bidding $110,363.35, submitted the lowest offer last wejikf to Commissioner Sherk for the municipality's part ot the improvement and to day Council approved the official contract award and the bond of $88,290.68 furnished by the bidder. Work on the project will be started about March, 15, Mr. Shoemaker said.

The first part to be undertaken will be the pump house in the north side of Market street opposite the Reading station. In it will be placed three electric pumps, two for dry weather use and one for wet weather, as well as an emergency gasoline pump. Drainage from the subway properties abutting on its approaches and the Fifth street outlet to the north will be lifted by the pumps to the new sewer now being completed in Market street to the Paxton Creek lntercepter. McGraw Has Railroad Contract Work on the grading and changes in the south side of Market street will be undertaken as soon as the Pennsylvania System starts its changes in tracks and the new overhead bridge. The James.

McGraw Company has the railroad contract and an early start on that branch of the project is anticipated. "It certainly will be a happy day for 'me when the first dirt is removed for the widening of the subway," said Mayor Hoverter as the roll call was taken in Council today to make the official contract award. "Maybe you'd like to turn the first shovelful," remarked Commissioner Sherk, but the and his colleagues took no action on a formal start of the actual widening of the street Full Street Width When the improvement is finished Market street will be opened under the railroad to full width. There will be roadway space for three lines of vehicular traffic in each direction, including the two car tracks; the sidewalks will follow the street grade and an entrance will be opened at Fifth street on the north. Extensive track changes will be made by the railroad, a new bridge structure will be built to carry its tracks, supported by piers between the trolley lines.

300 to Be Employed "We will push the work as fast at we can," said Mr. Shoemaker today. "The operation will provide work for a large force of men when all parts of it get under way and at that time we may have 300 on the job." Under Public Service Commission older directing the improvement it must be completed by December 31, 1929. Negotiator Stabbed Rome, Feb. 28 (ff) The Rev.

Father Tacchi Venturi. the Jesuit priest who acted as chief negotiator between the Vatican ind the Italian government to bring about a settlement of the Roman question, is reported to have been stabbed in the neck by an unidentified man. His wound is not considered serious. 12 Killed in Cloudburst Rio Feb. 28.

(VP) Twelve persons were killed in a heavy rain which approximated a cloudburst, eccording to police. Smoker's Match Fire Grass at 20th, Lenox A smoker's careless toss of a match used to light a pipe of tobacco shortly before noon started a grassynre in a field at Twentieth and Lenox streets which was extinguished by firemen. Fire Chief M. M. Tawney said the blaze had threatened a row of garages nearby when the alarm was sent in.

BOY, 4, SHOT IN CHEST; PLAYING WITH REVOLVER Takes Weapon Kept Under Pillow Because of Burglar Scare THRICE IN HOSPITAL in the chest while playing with a revolver which had been kept loaded in fear of burglars, Paul Rahn, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rahn, 1423 street, was removed to the Harrisburg Hospital shortly before noon to day and was reported to be in a serious condition. The bullet entered, the boy's right chest and passed diagonally through the boy's body and passed out of the back at the left shoulder, physicians said. It is believed the bullet did not strike any of the vital organs.

This is the third time within the last year that the boy had been admitted to the hospital. He had previously been injured in an auto mobile accident and confined to the hospital several weeks. Last fall he was operated on at the hospital for double hernia. Mrs; Catharine Rahn, thejmother, and a sister, Dorothy Rahn," 3, were in the house at the time the shot was heard. They went to the room and saw the boy lying on the floor, the blood flowing from his injury.

Mr. Rahn was summoned from work at a Cameron street automobile, accessory shop and assisted in taking the boy to the hospital in the ambulance. The father told hospital officials that the revolver had been kept under the pillow of the bed as a protection from burglars. KING ALBERT IS ILL OF INFLUENZA By Associated Brussels, Beligium Feb. 28.

King Albert of Belgium was suffering to day Lorn an attack of influenza. He was at Chateau Laeken, the summer residence of the royal Tamily near Brussels. It was stated to day that the king's condition was improving and his temperature had fallen. $400 Loss Cause of His Illness, 'Is Belief Worried because of the loss of $400, Peter Reidell, Hainton, 50 year old elevator operator at the Courthouse, was compelled to leave his work yesterday afternoon and was unable to report to day. Reidell told friends that he lost a pocketbook containing the money between the Courthouse and Wool worth's store, Saturday, February 18.

The' loss was discovered when his grandson asked him for some money and upon reaching in his pocket he found that; the pocket book was Reidell apparently did not mention the matter, for several days, as fellow employes at the Courthouse did not learn of it at once. He is said to have lost a pocket book containing a considerable sum of money a year ago. says, he was working: in ore mines in a slope, several hundred feet underground: While mining out a cut of ore about a foot thick, he found a toad in the vein. The toad, he says, stayed in his hand for about a minute, ani hopped away as lively as any toad he ever had seen. The toad was a the center of the vein and in Mr.

Callen's opinion had been there since pre historic ages when the vein was formed. Danville Miner Tells Story of Toad, Which Aped Rip Van Winkle Newspaper stories of tepid toads that have pulled Rip Van Wkucle stunts lasting centures are defended by Arthur Callen, 110 Spruce street, Danville, a miner, who refuses to believe scientists who, say that toads cannot live in rock formations for long periods and still live when discovered. Mr. Callen, a has a toad story of his own. Several years ago, Mr.

Callen 1 i FIRE SWE TCEMS 7 HARMSBURe TELEGRAFi THE WEATHER CLOUDY HOME EDITION CVI1 1 No. 50 20 PAGES ONLY EVEMIXO ASSOCIATED FRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARKISBUIIG HARRISBURG, TUESDAY EVENINGFEBRUARY 28, 192S. Dally JSxoept Sunday. Entered as Second Olasa SINGLK COPIES matter at tna rosi wmea at narrialiurg TWO JENTS EPS S. Brady Caveny, Alderman 38 Years, Is Dead WORK FIFTY HOURS TO DIG DOG OUT OF FOX'S HIDING PLACE Little Terrier Is Rescued After Two Days and Two Nights of Steady Work by Owner and Four Men TRAPPED BY FALL OF ROCK Dy Associated Press.

Reading, Feb. 28. A. canine's Floyd Collins was rescued last night from a rocky tomb in the hills of Northern Berks after five men had worked two days to save him. The dog is a little fox terrier belonging to J.

C. Cleaver, of Boyertown, and has a record of capturing thirty four foxes this season. Several larger dogs chased a fox into a rocky crevice in the hills near Wapamak er's. while Cleaver and several friends were engaged in the sport. The little dog followed the fox into the crevice, but a stone fell into the passage and trapped him.

WOLF CHILD' NOW HOSPITAL 'DARLING' GOES TO SEASHORE i Charles Schreiber, Who Became Nurses' Favorite, Again Able to Walk vj! AIDED BY OPERATIONS CHARLES SCHREIBER Grinning widely and yet reluctant, Charles Schreiber, 6 year old "wolf child" (so termed when found) yesterday threw away his crutches for all time before leaving for the Atlantic City Seashore Hospital where he will stay the next several months. He had come to be the "darling" of the hospital. The boy whose snarls first evoked sympathy of Red Cross officials yesterday burst into tears at leav ing behind his friends at Harrisburg Hospital but proudly demonstrated h6w he could stand on his own feet, walk, run 'n'everything just like any boy. Snarls at Officials Two years previously the child had been admitted to the hospital suffering from rickets. He was found in a farmhouse near Millers burg.

Crouched in a darkened corner of a room, the boy snarled and scratched at anyone who approached him and he clasped in his arms a huge yellow cat whose screeches matched those of the child as the fur was plucked from its body by the boy. Operations Aid Him An operation performed by surgeons at the hospital shortly after his admittarcr enabled the boj to use crutches. Other operations followed with the result that the boy's one leg wis straightened and put into normal use for the first time since birth. Another operation was made and still others until the child recovered so much that he has regained normal use of his arms and legs. His disposition changed as greatly during his stay.

Hospital officials said to day that the boy will stay in the Children's hospital, in Atlantic City until fall when he will be brought here. A private home or in another institution will be his next home. Gets 5 to 10 Tears New York, Feb. 28. (Francesco Caruso, who escaped the electric chair last June for the killing of Dr.

Casper Pendola, Brooklyn physician, when he was granted a new trial, to day was sentenced to from five to ten years imprisonment on a plea of guilty to first degree The other dogs, remaining outside, attracted the attention of the hunters, and the entombed cries be plainly heard from a point eight feet below the surface. Two Kempton men, Carl Folweiler and William Heffner, were enlisted by Cleaver and his friends in the rescue work and the five worked with picks, shovels, crowbars and sledges for fifty hours before the animal was rescued. A narrow Das sage had to be drilled through almost solid rock. Cleaver was himself caught in ai crevice and had to be pulled out by main force by his companions. PHANTOM ROBBERS RANSACK 2 HOMES IN CAMERON ST.

Barking Dog Frightens Marauders, Belief; Take Jewelry ALSO FLASHLIGHT Returning to old haunts, the phantom burglars early to day ransacked two homes in North Cameron street and escaped with jewelry and trinkets valued, at $15. Barking of a hound pup "Nellie," which was secured two weeks, ago by Rosari Racito, 1904 North Cameron street, a bricklayer, was believed to have frightened the marauders from the home. A flash light, given by the Harrisburg Telegraph two years ago, gloves and a stick pin valued at $5, composed the loot. Take Jewelry The robbers had also entered the heme of Charles Easton, 1902 Norm Cameron street, a hostler for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Entrance in cases was made through a kitchen window and departure was made through a kitchen door.

Jewelry valued at $10 was taken from the Easton home. Attending Children Easton said she had been awakened several times during the night to attend to her children who became uncovered while asleep. She did not hear any noise and did not discover the robbery until she walk (Continued on Page 9) SECOND VICTIM DIES IN TRAIN WRECK By Associated Press. 'Chester, Feb. 28.

C. L. Bohl, of Washington, fireman on the express train which was derailed in the Pennsylvania railroad at Marcus Hook, near here yesterday, died today in the Chester Hospital. The engineer, E. F.

Kilroy, also of Washington, died yesterday afternoon. HYMN SINGING REPORTEDSTOPPED; BY COURT ORDER! Senators Investigating Bituminous Strike Given Side of Striking Miners Fv Aaanciated Pross i Rosslter, Feb. 28. Singing of church hymns on the ground that they were hostile and inflammatory was prohibited by an Indiana county court preliminary injunction recently granted the Celarfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, union miners and sympathizers told the Interstate Commerce, subcommittee, investigating conditions in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania. The committee men, beaded by Senator Gooding, Idaho, spent the entire day yesterday in this district inquiring into phases of the injunction, which also prohibited union (Continued on Page 9) S.

BRADY CAVENY, ALDERMAN FOR 38 YEARS, DIES AT 85 Civil War Veteran; Long Active in Affairs of Second Ward ILL TWO MONTHS S. Brady Caveny, alderman in the Second ward since 1890, died at his home, 338 South Seventeenth street, at 9.45 this morning in his 85th year. Heart trouble was the cause of death. Alderman Caveny, who on January 2 was sworn into the office to which he was elected last November without opposition, had been in failing health for two months, and had sunk rapidly since yesterday morning. 1 He was a Civil war veteran, having served with Company 151st Infantry, in the battles of Chancel lorsville and Gettysburg.

He was born in MsAlisterville, Juniata county, September 29, 1843. Mr. Caveny was a member or many lodges in the city and was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church, attending services at Christ Lutheran Church here. Widow Survives Mr. Caveny is survived by his widow, two sons', R.

Frank Caveny and S. Brady Caveny, Harrisburg; six daughters, Miss Nell Caveny, a nurse on the city school medical inspection staff, Mrs. Annie Boyer, and Mrs. Mary Richards, all of Harrisburg; Mrs. Elizabeth Hetrick, Penbrook; Mrs.

Myrtle West, Huntingdon, and Mrs. Laura Hetrick, Mexico, Juniata county; fourteen grandchildren and two great grarldchildren. Two sisters, Mrs. Mary Halford, Germantown, and Mrs. Louis Tustirt, (Continued on Page 9) SUNSHINE TODAY, CLOUDY TOMORROW; MERCURY UP FAST Bright sunshine and an exhilarating atmosphere characterized vthe day's weather, but Charles S.

Ling, head of the local Weather Bureau, forecasts cloudy skies to night and possibly light rain to morrorw. The temperature rose nearly three degrees from 25 and a frac Hri tn Ott in a half hour hptween 8 and 8.30 o'clock this morning. By 11 o'clock, the mercury had reached 32. Ling said that temperatures had generally risen everywhere, except in the Great Lakes Region, and he predicts rising temperatures to morrow, with fresh east shifting to south winds;" A low of 31 is expected to night. i The river is falling and has now reached a stage of six feet.

MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN BURNED By Associated rress. Quebec, Feb. 28. A mother and her four children were burned to death to day when fire destroyed their home at Gros Pin, near Quebec, according to word reaching here. New Bomb Threats Chicago, Feb.

28. (JP) New bomb threats were revealed to day simultaneously 'With the offering for sale by several Chicago companies of insurance against loss from bomb outrages. BILLS CONTAINING CITY TAX RAISE BEING PREPARED Property Owner Will Pay Fourteen Per Cent. More Despite Hauler's Protest Harrisburg property owners within the next few.days will receive a spring greeting from the city in the form of 1928 real estate tax bills. The city tax rate this year it 16 mills, two mills more than in 1927, an increase of approximately 14 per cent in the Slevy on each property.

For example upon each $1,000 in assessed valuation the tax last year was $14, this year it will be $16. When the 16 mill rate was adopt" ed by Council last December Commissioner Hassler said it was a "bitter pill" for him to vote in favor of it as he felt the advance would not have, been necessary if realty val (Contiaaed on Page 9 When Little Car Met Big Car Near Second and Broad fO oft ymfcrntiw fmMMMaattoaa DIRIGIBLE IS HEADED FOR CUBA Los Angeles Drives Off From Canal Zone on Its Way Back to Lakehurst With One Stop on the Schedule BIG CRAFT GIVEN ROUSING SENDOFF By Associated France Field, Canal Zone, Feb. 28. The United States dirigible Los Angeles, slipped gently away from her temporary "stub" mooring mast here at J0.15 o'clock this morning after spending twelve hours in the Canal Zone. The great dirigible, which yesterday completed her second longest nonstop from the United States to France Field pointed her nose to the South for a flying visit to Panama to show her silvery sides to the capitals of the Canal Zone and the Panama Republic.

To Stop at Cuba Excited thousands gazed up at the giant dirigible from streets hung with bedraggled trappings of the carnfval season just passed. The ship then swung northward and started for Cuban waters where she will break her return flight to i the United States by a stop at the Tender Patoka now in Guacanayabo Bay. Just before, taking off, Lieutenant Commander E. C. RosendaW, in charge of the flight, said that he ex pected to arrive off the Cuban Coast about dark to night, would moor to the Patoka and then take off early to morrow for his home station, i Lakehurst, N.

J. Crowd Views Craft The dirigible to day carried sev eral personal letters, copies of local papers and one passenger, Lieuten I and Don Hutchings, a France Field pilot who formerly was stationed at Lakehurst. After circling Panama City arid Balboa, the dirigible returned across the Isthmus and wept directly up the coast headed for Guacanayabo Bay. There was a crowd of several thousand on hand and as the Los Angeles glided into the perfect tropical sunlight, the crowd cheered while Commander Rosendahl and members of his crew waved a farewell. PLEASANT VIEW BUILDING TO BE ERECTED THIS YEAR Commissioner Earley to day received from the Pleasant View Steam Fire Engine "Company a deed to its property in State street near Twenty first on which the city will erect a new building this year for the organization.

The structure will cost approximately $18,000 and plans and specifications for it' will be prepared in the near future the commissioner indicated. The ground has a frontage of 80 feet in the1 highway, extending through to North street. Dies Protesting Innocence Boston, Feb. 28. VQ A few minutes after he had signed a statement protesting his innocence of the murder in 1925 of Edward C.

Ross. Cambridge bank messenger, Jerry Gedzium, 21, was put to death in the electric chair at the Charlestown state prison early this morning. February 29 Babies ft ATTENTION! The Harrisburg Tel graph has a $5 goldpiece for the first arrival after; midnight. Telephone or write BABY EDITOR. Better yet, 'come in and report direct.

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