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UDGE Vol. No. 301 20 PAGES Carl W. Burd, 35, brother of the dead man, suffered contusions oi the head and abrasions of the body He was taken to the hospital in the ambulance with his brother. Mrs.

Florence Watson, and her husband. Frank Watson, neighbors, who were walking with the Burd brothers were taken to the hospr tal by their son, Frank. Mrs. Wat son suffered contusions of me ngni knee and hip. Mr.

Watson was treated for abrasions of the head Returning From City William Burd and his brother were returning home from work at the railway mail terminal at Har risburg. The quartet had lert a trolley car at the Wertzville road and were walking to tneir nomes, The Burd brothers were within 200 feet of their dwelling when the accident occurred. According to Frank Watson whose parents were injured, the party of four was walking along the left side of the road when the automobile going toward Wertz ville rounded the curb and struck the quartet from the rear. The automobile and backed up a few feet where William Burd, who had been thrown on the run nine board of the car. was removed from the auto.

The driver then started his car again and sped to wards Wertzville. A motermeter found near the scene of the' accident was turned over to State Police this morning by John D. Hardy. It is believed the meter fell from the automobile as it struck the pedestians last night. Dr.

Joseph A. Kissinger, State road, Enola, summoned the ambulance which took the Burd broth ers to the hospital. G. William Burd, is survived by his widow and a 5 year old daugh ter, Alice. His brother, Carl, who was employed at the mail terminal during the Christmas rush, was liv ing at his home.

Mr. Watson is employed in the Enola yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 3 ENTER STORE, STEAL CANDY AND CIGARETS Thieves last night broke into an American store at 1541 North Sixth street and stole merchandise valued at $100. W. A.

Clemmer, 1830 Green street, superintendent of American Stores company, in this district re ported the robbery to police. The theft was discovered this morning by John Houser, 431 Ham ilton street manager of the store and William Burkhart, 1541 Swa tara street a clerk when they ar rived to open the business place. City detectives said thieves jim mied a rear door. The loot consisted largely of candy and cigar ets police said. 1 Pennsylvania IPenn'i experiment is now a great aay nerem tew oe tout some fact of its history.

E.J. 8.J MASONIC AND OTHER FRATERNITIES The central counties of Perm's domain have witnessed over century the exoan ion of the Masonic fraternity in all its branches. It is one of the interesting chapters of Perseverance lodge that George Washington, General Lafayette and other outstanding figures in American history have at one time or another been guests of this venerable lodge. The warrant for the lodge was originally Issued to Lodge no. 21, in lx)wer Faxton township, Lan caster county, but this was later sur rendered on the organization of the Grand Lodge oi Pennsylvania which, March 1787, Issued a new warrant with William Boyd, worshipful master; James Rutherford, senior warden, and Major Gilchrist, junior warden, "and other regular members of the said Lodge No.

21 of the Ancient York Masons." Under this warrant the lodge was held In a schoolhouse and afterwards in the dwelling of one of the officers some three miles from Harrisburg. George H. Mor gan, in his "Annals of Harrisburg," states that the "lodge convened in the house of the master a log building two stories in height on one side of which was a lean to or After Harrisburg was laid out the lodge met in town, and from that time to this, save during a period of agitation against secret societies (1828 1841), meetings have regularly been held In what Is now the city of Harrisburg. Later various Masonic bodies were organized. In 1888 Perseverance lodge had 312 members, ranking third In the State.

With old Perseverance as a nucleus the fraternity has grown in numbers and Influence and fraternallsm generally has flourished In the Harrisburg sector. Several governors have been members of the Masonic order and also Chief Justice Gibson and other eijually prominent and patriotic Pennsylvanlans. A list of the fraternal organizations in Central Pennsyl vania, would asks a good sUeA solum BMED COlPNBL LpEATHEA HOME EDITION MUCH SMOK1E. UTTU? RRE A LOT 4ETO HAERISBURG iHfti HIT RUN VICTIM G. WILLIAM BURD Struck by a hit run motorist 200 yards from his home early to day, G.

William Burd, 27, Mechanics burg, R. D. 4, was fatally YORK PASTOR IS KILLED IN CRASH NEAR GETTYSBURG Chaplain of State Firemen's Association Dies as Car Runs Wild York, Dec. 19. The Rev.

Samuel Henry Stein, pastor of the First Re formed Church of this city and chaplain of the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Association, was killed instantly early to day near Gettys burg when his car suddenly swerv ed from the road and hurtled into an adjacent field. The auto turned over and was demolished. The cause of the accident is a mystery. An auto following that of Dr. Stein, bearing a Canada license and occupied by Mr.

and Mrs. O. C. Perceval, Kingston, stopped and found the pastor apparently dead, his head crushed. He was rushed to the Warner Memorial Hospital, Gettysburg, where Dr.

E. A. Miller, Adams county coroner, held ail inquest. Witnesses said that the auto was traveling between forty and fifty miles an hour. Without warning, it swerved and left the road.

The cause will never be known. Two theories were advanced, one that the steering apparatus may have failed, and the second that the min ister may have suffered a stroke. Badly Injured The auto was so badly smashed that hop of discovering mechanical defects was abandoned Dr. Stein was so badly injured that an ex amination is expected to no definite assurance of a stroke of physical collapse. Dr.

Stein was also chaplain for the York fire department, a trustee of the Franklin and Marshall College, a past president of the York Rotary Club and prominent in Masonic circles. He was enroute to Frederick, where he planned to bring home his daughter, Marian, student at Hood College, for the Christmas holidays. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marian Stein, the daughter Marian, son, Samuel H. Stein, a dent at Franklin and Marshall Col lege and several brothers and sis ters.

ASSISTANT TO CITY Diiiiniwr. TMCPcrmi? ffitt omtMHggburgOUM HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1930. CHILD IS LEFT IN HOTEL ROOM POLICE CHARGE Extradition Papers For Pair Signed by Governor Fisher In the custody of Policewoman Normine Mahoney and Detective Joseph Fitzgerald, Buffalo, Miss Beatrice Andrews, 27, Boas street, near Capital and Howard Garman, Montgomery street, near Herr, boarded a train at 11.37 o'clock this morning for Buffalo where they will be tried on a charge of aban doning a baby in that city in 1928. Miss Andrews and Garman were given a hearing before Alderman John P. Hallman yesterday on a fugitive charge.

Following the hearing, Alderman Hallman placed the couple the custody of De tective Fitzgerald. Extradition pa pers were signed by Governor John S. Fisher as Miss Andrews and Garman did not contest the action. Miss Andrews and, Garman are alleged to have abandoned: a baby in a Buffalo Hotel in May, 1928, one month after its birth in the Polyclinic Hospital here. The baby was found the following day by a hotel maid and has been in a Buffalo institution since.

Policewoman Mahoney, who was sent here by the Buffalo depart ment is an all around athlete and is director of girls' athletics in the Buffalo police department. 4 DORAN ALARMED BY NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM POISON ALCOHOL Washington: Dec. 19. Orders to investigate every death believed to have been caused by poison liquor or alcohol were issued to day to industrial alcohol supervisors by Commissioner Doran. He again expressed alarm at the number of deaths reported," saying: Some undoubtedly are due to the drinking of anti freeze solutions and some to wood alcohol." "We are anxious," he said, "that no one be nailed to the cross simply because he can hold a liquid that is poisonous.

4 SETS GUN TRAP FOR CHICKEN THIEF AND GOES TO HOSPITAL By Associated Press Louisville, Dec. 19. Ray Whelan, 27, still believes he set a first class chicken thief trap. Lying in bed at a hospital here where he is recovering from gunshot wounds in the chest, Whelan told of how he rigged up a shotgun trap after he had missed several choice fowls from his hen house. This morning Whelan went to the hen house but he forgot to discon nect the trap rigging.

He received a large part of the shotgun's charge in his chest but physicians say he probably will recover. SON OF ASSISTANT STATE POLICE HEAD IS HOLDUP VICTIM R. N. Wilhelm, son of Major Cecil M. Wilhelm, assistant superintendent of State Police was held up and robbed in this city last night.

State Police are investigating. Major Wilhelm said he preferred not to discuss the hold up until the bandits had been apprehended. R. N. Wilhelm is employed by the Atlantic Refining Company at Seventeenth and Derry streets.

iq r.RANTrn nivnpriri" iu xu vi.tmi auas as i vnvu mitts rv di fnn tf Mtr James H. Grove, 2420 North Sixth street, assistant city building inspector granted a divorce in the Dauphin County Court to day from Mrs. Edna Grove, North Sixth street, on grounds of desertion. They were married on November 4,, 1924, and it is alleged that Mrs. Grove deserted July V1928.

Two other divorces were granted by the court. They were: Mrs. Daisy I. Sinniger, 328 North street from Clarence Edward Sinninger, Brady street, cruelty; and Ralph E. Forney, Pcnbrook, from Mrs.

Ida A. Forney, Penbrook, cruelty and DU1LU HUME. E. M. Singer to day got an $18,500 building permit for a stone home at 2902 North Second street.

Harvey D. Warner is the contractor. Mr. Singer is general manager of the Atlantic Refining Company, Magistrate Here The legislative committee of the State Magistrates' Association was in session here to day. Mayor George A.

Hoverter is president, Alderman John P. Hallman one of the more active members. J. L. Young, State organizer, was present.

Noise Absorber Soaks Up All Unwanted Disturbance Toronto, Dec. 19. Professor C. R. Anderson of the faculty of applied science and engineering, University of Toronto, has devel oped a noise absorber.

He made tests in the office of a downtown building. The room in plaster. A group of men stood at one end of the room and understood every word when the professor shouted or dropped his voice to a stage whisper. On the other hand, sharp metallic noises and other nerve wracking sounds were which the, tests were made was 1301 softened by thelmaterial covering ieat.iomj and Duut wun a special the wall and celling. Mary Barthelmess With Mother By ruling of the Rev.

S. Parkes Cadman of New York City, sevea year old Mary Hay Barthejmess will spend Christmas with her mother, Mary Hay, in New York, instead of with her screen star daddy, Richard Barthelmess, in Hollywood. Dr. Cadman acted as arbiter at the request of tne parents. He also decided that the child will remain with her mother until July and again be returned to her at the end of August lor six months, to make up for extra time which Barthelmess has had her.

Miss Hay now is the wife of David Bath, New York newspaper man, and Barthelmess married Mrs. Jessica Sergeant, of New York, in 1928. Fnotos snow little Mary with her parents and Dr. Cadman. FOUR ROB YOUTH AND COMPANION, ESCAPE IN AUTO Tamper With Victim's Car to Prevent Pursuit Four youths who last night held up Harold Arnold, Third street, West Fairview, and his girl companion while they were seated in an automobile in Wildwood Park took $1.60 from the couple and fled in an automobile.

As Arnold attempted to pursue them he discovered that one the bandits had tampered with the ignition of his car to prevent pursuit. hastily made repairs, chased the youths, but was soon outdistanced by the fleeing robbers he told police. Arnold reported that the four youths approached his automobile with hands in their pockets as if holding revolvers. One of the bandits commanded "reach high" while a second ordered them to "get out." The bandits took sixty cents from the young woman's pocketbook and took a dollar from Arnold's wallet. The wallet was returned when Ar nold asked for his driver's license.

One of the youths said "we're not having much luck this time." Turn ing to leave the ring leader said, "this is for our Christmas fund." Police said the youths were ap parently amateurs as they did not take Arnold's watch or two diamond rings worn by the young wo man. MAY PLEAD GUILTY TO FIRING HOUSE Included among those expected to enter a plea of guilty in Dauphin county court Monday will be Mark M. Lenker, Millersburg, accused of setting fire to the house of Newbold, Upper Paxton township, December 6. District At torney Robert T. Fox said to day.

The Newbold home vwas gutted by lire, ana considerable damage was done. William Riland, also an up cpunty resident, is expected to plead guilty to a charge of felonious entry and larceny. He is alleged, to have entered the home of Henry Hoover, Elizabethville, November 30, and have taken $7.21 from a pocket Overcoat Stolen James Schwartz. 719 North Sixth street reported to city police to day that his home was entered last evening and an overcoat valued at $35 was stolen. Entrance to the house 'gained through a whlch.had been leat open.

4 START ON MAY DEPEND ON BUILDING SALE Plans on New Structures Are Submitted by Board of Directors In view of the fact that two Y. M. A. buildings the main structure at Front and North streets and the Forster street branch are being considered at the same time it is understood in authoritative Y. M.

C. A. quarters that the start of work on the main building will depend somewhat upon sale of the present building at Second and streets, in addition to advance payments on pledges to the building lunci, The special unemployment com mittee is urging construction work wherever possible to provide work for the unemployed, but the build ing committee is somewhat hamper ed in its plans by slowness in payment of pledges for the building fund. Were it possible to dispose of the old building on a cash basis it would make possible starting work. Preliminary plans and elevations for the main Y.

M. C. A. building and the Forster street branch as prepared by the architects, Lawrie and Green and Jamison and Minick were submitted the board of di rectors to day with the recommen dation of the general building committee that they should be adopted. Jamison and Minick may be ordered to proceed with the detailed drawing and specifications at once so that bids may be asked and work started on the branch by February 1.

i Robert A. Enders, chairman of the board, presided. 4 Baby Boy Swallows Rule Columbus, Dec. 19. (P) Robert Lee Golden, two, while playing at his home last night swallowed a foot rule.

He was. taken to St. Frances hospital where the meas uring stick was removed and the police took him back home none the worse for the experience. TWO AGED SISTERS KILLED BY GAS; BROTHER IS ILL Three Who Lived Alone in House Victims of Coal Fumes By Associated Press Chambersburg, Dec. 19.

Two aged widowed sisters are dead and their brother is not expected to recover to day as a result of inhaling coal gas which permeated their home at Clay Hill, near here, while they were asleep last night." The dead were Mrs. George Gor don, 74, and Mrs. Katherine Brindle, 83. The brother, George Hocken mith, 75, is in a local hospital. The three persons lived together in the home of Mrs.

Gordon. The bodies were found this morning by Alvin Cosey, a neighbor, when he investigated upon seeing no signs of life about the house. Coroner Samuel E. Shull, of Franklin county, said the deaths were due to asphyxiation by coal gas escaping from a stove in the bedroom occupied by the sisters. 4 PAULINE FREDERICK WIDOWED BY COURT FOR FOURTH TIME By Associated Press Los Angeles, Dec.

19. For the fourth time the marriage baraue of Pauline Frederick, stage and screen actress, lay in wreckage to day on tne snoais or legal separation. Her latest venture in matrimony, launched with Hugh C. Leighton, wealthy hotel owner in New York. last ended yesterday in an nulment.

Leighton, being too ill to go to court to prosecute his suit, was granted his freedom after a brief court hearing at his bedside in the Beverly Hills Hotel "She treated me like a 'butler, Leighton testified, as he lay propped up on pillows. "I was her husband in name only." PROGRESS DELAYED ON RELIEF PROGRAM By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 19. The House bill to authorize an additional appropriation of $150,000,000 for the Farm Board was reported to the Senate to day, but Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, objected to immediate consideration. The $116,000,000 emergency relief bill was sent back to conference today, when the House insisted upon its stand against three Senate amendments.

4 CONDUCT INQUESTS INTO TWO DEATHS Coroner's inquests in the deaths Locust of James Knoll, 17, 309 Hummel street, who was killed in an auto mobile accident near Paxtang several months ago, and James Farro, 43, Penbrookr who was killed while moving his furniture a few weeks ago after he had been evicted from his home, were held at City Hall today. Dr. William K. McBride, deputy county coroner, conducted the LACK OF WORK LEADING PLEA FOR CHRISTMAS HELP "Will you please help me a little for my husband is out of work and the store man shut me off and I am in need of food," reads a note re ceived yesterday at the office of the Christmas Cheer Committee, 204 Walnut street. "I have a large family of nine children.

The school board hak helped me some for those that go to school, but there are some smaller tots that are looking for some playthings from Santa and I would be glad if you would help me for my Christmas will be very poor I don't get a basket." The picture conjured up by such a note is not pleasant for more (Continued on Page 17) Boy, 9, Dies When Heart Fails Before Toy Counter Philadelphia, Dec. 19. Nine year old Alexander de Campi died last nightin a small boys' paradise. with the thrill of Christmas in his heart and before his eyes a glittering array, he fell dead in the of a West Philadelphia 4 uepartment ston. As hit eyes glowed.

with delight he dropped to the floor amid a clatter of electric trains, airplanes and boats the things he wanted most for Christmas. Physicians said death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage, probably brought on by excttemaatt ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG 8INQLB COPIES TWO CENTS Gity Couple Accused of Abandoning Baby Face Trial FIAflfnin A IYI AAfl fl fUlOTf' fo) fill Ml Mil FOUR STRUCK AS THEY WALK ALONG i ROADTO HOMES G. William Burd, 27, Fatally Hurt; Driver Flees From Scene Four persons were Injured, one fatally, when they were struck by a hit and run motorist while walk' ing along the Wertzville road near Enola early this morning. The injured were rushed to the Harrisburg Hospital, where George William Burd, 27, Mechanicsburg, R. D.

4, died an hour later from crushed chest, lacerations of the scalp and internal injuries. ra.nrn mm OCCUPANTS OF AUTO HURLED TO DEATH ON SUSQUEHANNA TRAIL Bv Associated Press Lewisburg, Dec. 19. Five young men were killed and a sixth in jured to day when their automobile crashed into a ten foot abutment of a Reading Railroad undergrade on the Susquehanna trail, near here, The dead werei Wheeler Watson, son of Federal Judge Albert L. Watson, of Scran ton; Wilbur Gair and his brother, Harman, of Watsontown; William Rohn, a salesman, of Canton, Ohio, and Robert Wilson, of Watsontown, The sixth man, Paul Aunkst, Watsontown, suffered possible in ternal injuries.

His condition was reported not serious. The accident occurred when Watson's large touring car was crowd ed off the road by another automobile traveling in the same direction. After striking the abutment the car careened across the road, struck the other side of the tunnel and turned over several times. Harman Gair, Wilson and Rohn were killed instantly. Their bodies were removed to the Strunk undertaking establishment in Lewisburg.

Watson, who was driving, suffered a fractured skull and died enroute to the Sunbury hospital as did Wilbur Gair. Watson, who was employed by the receivers for the Watsontown Door and Sash Company, was driving to Sunbury. The impact was so great that the automobile's motor was driven back into the body of the automobile. Witnesses of the accident report ed to police that the car was travelling at a high rate of speed and was racing with the other machine, the license number of which was not learned. The accident occured about midnight.

URGES CITY WORK OVER WINTER TO AID UNEMPLOYED Committee Proposes Bridge Repairs, Paving and Wild wood Park Cleanup City Commissioners to day ceived from Farley Gannett, chair man of the unemployment commit' tee of the Harrisburg Welfare Fed eration, a letter directing their at' tention to certain municipal projects, wheh, if started now, "will give work over the worst time of the year to 150 or 200 men who need employment." Similar letters were adddressed to Benson E. Taylor, secretary of the State Department of Property and Sup plies, and to George R. Bailey, urg ing an early start on the new Y. M. C.

A. building. The city officials studied the let ter and again called attention to (Continued on Page 17) 4 Steal Robes From Auto Mrs. Bernard Schmidt, 908 North Seventeenth street reported to city police to day that two robes valued at $30 had been stolen from hr automobile while it. was parked in Bellevue road last night.

STEALS JEWELRY, FLEESFROMSTORE IN SIXTH STREET Entering the Jewelry store of F. T. Plack, 1326 North Sixth street, while the owners were at dinner last evening, a Negro seized a diamond ring and a diamond scarf pin and fled. As the man entered the store a bell attached to the door began to ring and attracted the attention of the Plack family at the dinner table. As Ruth Plack, 13, entered the 'storeroom she saw the man grab the pin and ring and run from the place.

Mrs. Violet Shepler, who occupies the third floor apartment in the building, saw two men running in Sixth street toward Sayford. Police said the second man was probably on guard outside of the store a. the robbery took place. Mrs.

Plack and her son, Harvey O. Plack, saw the Negro as he entered the store through a window in the rear wall of the storeroom. City police are Investigating. Slain in Auto New York, Dec. 19, (JP).

A man shot thrice was found dead in the back seat of a parked sedan In a thinly populated sector of Queens to day, and police wondered if the When the car turned over three of the occupants were pinned under it and three were hurled to the roadway. Aunkst, who said he was the owner of the car, was sitting in the middle of the back seat, and escaped with' bruises and scratches. He was sent to his home at Watson town. Watson's body was identified by Frank Koehler, of Scranton, a stndent at Bucknell University. Harmon Gair.

26, and Wilbur Gair, 22, were employed a Watspntown es clerks in the Watson Inn and Robert Wilson, 30, was a machinist at Watsontown. Paul Aunkst, 26, who was injured, employed at Watsontown as a mechanic. Funeral services for the Gair brothers will be held Sunday after noon at 2 o'clock at their home and services for Robert Wilson will be held from his home at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Judge Watson on Ship Learns of Son's Death Scranton, Dec. 19, (JP) Judge Albert W.

Watson, whose son, W. 'Wheeler Watson, 22, was one of five young men killed early to day in an automobile accident near Lewis burg, sailed last midnight with his wife for the West Indies, it was stated at the Judge's office here to News of the death of young Watson was received here by Supreme Court Justice George W. Maxey, a close friend of Judge Wat son. Justice Maxey immediately sent a radiogram to Judge Watson, who is aboard the steamship Kungsholm. ASHES OF CZAR'S FAMILY REPORTED IN PARIS TOMB Remains of Murdered Monarch Said Shipped in Secret on U.

S. Train By Associated Press New York, Dec. 12. An account of the shipment of the remains of Czar Nicholas II and family out of Siberia under the protection of the American Flag was published by the New York Times to day. Franklin Clarkin, former American vice consul, at Harbin, Manchuria, was quoted by the Times as saying that the ashes of the executed Romanoffs were unknowingly spirited through the Bolshevist lines and carried to Harbin from Omsk on an American consular train late in 1919.

Thence they were transshipped to Shanghai, sent to an Italian port on the Gulf of Trieste and now rest near Paris in the family vault of General Janin, French commander of the Czech Legionnaires in Siberia after the war. Came Through Safely A new book by Janin tells of the ashes being in the vault. Admiral Kolchak, commander of the White Army, placed the remains in the care of Consul General Harris after his downfall at Omsk, says the Times, and Harris turned them over to Governor Horvath in Harbin without knowing the significance of his cargo. With the White Army in retreat, the American train Wok aboard American nurses and refugees and their gruesome freight and headed east toward Vladivostok. In spite of Guerilla warfare along the way, the party came through safely after many days of travel and arrived in Harbin on a dark night with the weather at 20 below zero.

1 Haul Water to Hospital Use of National Guard trucks to haul water to the Ashland State 1 Hospital was authorized to day by Governor Because of the drought the municipal water plant was forced to cease serving the hospital, effective to day. Attorney General William A. Schnader, is preparing to file a bill in equity to present total discontin uance of service from Ashland. Hughes' Daughter Is Bride Washington, Dee. 19, UP).

Chief Justice Hughes to day gave his youngest daughter, Miss Elizabeth Evans Hughes, in marriage to Wil liam Thomas Gossett, of New York. THE WEATHER Friday, Dee. 19, 1M0. Harrlsnarg and rlenltyi Cloudy, probably occasional light rain or mow to night; aot quite so cold to night. Lowest temperature to night about 86 degrees.

Shippers forecast hoar shipments will hare temperature above freeslng. Klver: River stages will rise slightly bat akostly remain frosen. ejort Pigs 1, Sa4 flection).