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1 CAL1 OFF TAX SALE OF REAL ESTAP r. 4 0 MODEST MAIDENS HARRIS HOME EDITION A DAILY FEATURE BURG. TELEGRAPH Vol. CI No. 181 Switchman Is Blamed For V7 IUJ ITQ RESPONSIBILITY IS PLACED FOR CRASH IN WHICH TWO DIE Employe Has Excellent Record Railroad Com pany Is Censured The Bureau of Accidents of the Public Service Commission today made its final report on the de railment of the Pennsylvania Rail road express train at Conewago last Saturday in which it stated ahat Charles L.

File, 35 Columbia road, Enola, in charge of the switch, "violated an extremely important rule of safety and consequently is responsible for the accident." P. M. McCormick, New York, and Everett W. Walker, New Cumberland, engineer and fireman of the train, were killed when the locomotive and nine express cars were piled up. McCormick was killed when he was caught under the wreckage; Walker died several hours later after suffering extensive steam burns.

Two other members of the train crew escaped with minor injuries. In addition to holding File, regularly employed as an extra brake man, but acting as assistant to W. D. T. Smith, acting assistant yard master, primarily responsible for the wreck, the bureau report continued: Cite Importance "We cannot overlook the fact, however, that the work of directing the troop train movements at Conewago was of sufficient importance to engage the attention of operat jng officials of experience in lieu (Continued on Page 6) WALKS TWOMILES WHEN WOUNDED BY MYSTERIOUS SHOT Bv Associated Press Gettysburg, July 31.

Hershel Deardoff, 23, was brought to a hospital here last night in a critical condition after he had been shot through the chest near his camp in the mountains twelve miles west of here. Deardoff, weak from loss of blood, told physicians he was walking from his camp to a spring when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his chest and, looking down, saw blood soaking his shirt. He said he had not heard a shot. He then made his way two miles to the Lincoln highway, fainting several times along the way. Attendants at a refreshment stand along the highway found him un corscious, and summoned an ambulance.

countyofficTal is held on charge of TRANSPORTING RUM Associated Press Emporium, July 31. Joseph Fisher, Cameron county sioner for many years, was arrested yesterday at Sizersville, eight miles north of here, charged witn posses sion and transportation of liquor. The commissioner said he had purchased the liquor for his wife, who has been ill for several years He formerly obtained it by pre scription but recently because of the cheaper cost, had been buying it in the Cameron county backwoods. The arrest was made by Patrolmen Craven of Mansfield and Crow of Coudersport. Fisher will be given a hearing here Monday.

DR. STAUFFER WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL BOARD Dr. C. C. Stauffer, completing his sixth year on the School Board, announced today that he will not a candidate for re election.

In making public his decision, he endorsed Dr. L. S. Howard, who came out for the Republican school board nomination a few days ago, and his fellow directors, F. J.

Roth and R. E. Boswell, whose terms expire this year. Mr. Roth is a candidate.

Mr. Boswell will decide Monday, he said today. 3 School Teacher Killed Lebanon, July 31. Miss Gladys Perry, 23, died in a local hospital from injuries received in an automobile crash in North Lebanon township. Miss Perry was a physical training instructor in the Lebanon public schools.

2 James W. Herron Dies Huntingdon, July 3UP) James W. Herron, superintendent of the Penn sylvania Industrial Reformatory here, suffered a stroke and died uddenly at his home here today i 18 PAGES Dally except Sunday. Entered as Second Claxa Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg Blames Heat Associated Press Photo. Ethel Barrymore blamed the al titude, an injury and the heat for what critics called the "worst per formance of her career" at her opening in Denver, Colo.

GOVERNOR TERMS MINER EVICTIONS BARBAROUS MOVE Pinchot Appeals to Coal Company; Says Act Will Add to Strife A telegram in which Governor Pinchot advised Clark, general manager of the Melvetia Coal Company, Indiana, that proposed evictions of miners are "barbarous and will be condemned by decent people everywhere," was made public today at the Executive offices here. The telegram, sent from Milford, where the Governor is spending the week at his home, follows: "I am informed Tu propose to evict sixty seven miners because they have become members of ths United Mine Workers of America and have demanded a check weigh man. These men have planted gar dens about their houses and the gardens are beginning to yield some return for the labor expended. The proposed evictions will not only deprive them of their homes, but will deprive them also of the food they have raised for then families. Un der the circumstances your pro posed evictions are barbarous and will be condemned by decent people everywhere.

I beg you to use ordinary humanity in dealing with these families. If you evict them your action will inevitably add bit terness and strife to a situation already tense. I a'sk you in the name of common decency to let these families remain." TRADESMEN ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR BENCH SCHNADER DECIDES Carpenters should stick to their trade and not aspire to judgeships, Attorney General William A Schna der said today in a decision regarding the eligibility of Socialist candidates for positions on the benches ol State and county courts. By the same ruling, the attorney general said that welders, salesmen, housewives, machinists, plumbers and journalists cannot be regarded as "learned in law" under the provisions of the State Constitution and are consequently not qualified for election to the courts. "To be learned in law" Schnader wrote in the decision asked by Secretary of the Commonwealth Richard J.

Beamish, "a person must be an attorney or counselor at law." ft Assist iU Seven Start on Desert Journey Where Four Die and Three Go Raving Mad Bv Associated Press Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, July 31. Four unmarked graves in the shifting sands of the Mexican Desert and the incoherent jabber ings of three men today wrote another tragic chapter in desert his tory begun by the Argonauts of 1849. Seven persons, including a woman and her 7 week old daughter, left here five days ago by automobile stage for Mexican. Three are alive, two of them in sane from thirst and heat. Sands shift over the graves of the others.

The stage broke down under ter rific heat 250 miles from the nearest habitation. Day by day the travelers waited for help. Their water and food supply diminished. The desert became torrid. COUNTY CALLS OFF TAX SALE ON 1930 BILLS New Law Bans Auction Until Next Year Aids Many in Distress No Dauphin county properties will be sold this year for 1930 taxes it was anncunced today by County Treasurer James" F.

Detweiler following receipt of a letter by him from the Dauphin county commissioners. The, action by the commissioners is based on the act of Legislature approved by Govei nor Pinchot May 29, which provides that property cannot be sold for 1930 taxes until 1932. The letter, addressed to Mr. Detweiler, follows: "We are calling your attention to Act No. 132, approved by the Governor on May 29, 1931, relating to the sale of seated lands for delinquent taxes.

By the provision of section eight of said act of Assem bly no sale of seated lands for 1930 taxes can be held until 1932. All lands upon which taxes prior to 1930 are due must be sold in 1931. "We notice that you are advertising a sale for Monday, August 3, 1931, and owing to the present fi nancial distress and the predicament in which many taxpayers now find themselves this provision in the law will no doubt afford relief to a great many persons. "We suggest that you notify the public at once that no sale for 1930 taxes will take place this year, but that such sale will take place in 1932." 4 PENBROOK BOY IS SERIOUSLY INJURED; STRUCK BY AUTO Lawrence D. Brookhart, 8, 2636 Curtin street, Penbrook, is in a serious condition in the Keystone Hospital today while his father is recuperating from a recent operation at the Harrisburg Hospital.

The boy was struck and seriously injured today at Main and Chestnut streets in Penbrook by the auto of E. N. Yedinsky, Pottsville, employed in the Treasury Departcnt at the Capitol. Witnesses said the accident was unavoidable. The boy was' picked up by Miss Isabel Davis, 262 Forster street, and driven to the Keystone Hospital in her auto by Russell G.

Gross. MAY USE SCHOOL FOND FOR LIBRARY School funds may be used for the establishment and maintenance of public school libraries which are, in effect, public and non sectarian. Deputy Attorney General Harris C. Arnold said today in a decision prepared at the request of M. Denison, deputy superintendent of public instruction.

In another decision, asked by Superintendent James N. Rule. Deputy Attorney General Arnold wrote that school treasurers and depositories cannot qualify without furnishing to the school districts satisfactory surety bonds. 4 HOLD TWO BOYS AS SAFE CRACKERS Lock Haven, July 31. John Ross man, aged 11 years, and his cousin, Benjamin Rossman, 9 years, were arrested yesterday charged with breaking into' the offices of the Claster Company and stealing $75 from the safe.

Part of the monev was used to purchase a bicycle. They will be given a hearing tomorrow. In desperation they set off afoot down an ill marked trail. The infant, Consuella ojeda, died first in her mother's arms. Overcome by thirst, Mrs.

Rufina M. Ojeda, the mother, crumpled on the trail, still clutching her baby daughter's body. The men struggled on. First, Jesus Orantes, then Ramon Orantes dropped by the wayside. Juan Ojeda, father of the baby; Cicente Guiterrez and his son, Vicente, trudged a mile, but became exhausted and sought shelter under meager grease voods.

Augustine Pino, Mexican business man, found the abandoned stage Sunday. Miles further he discovered the bodies of the woman and child. Next he found the Orantes, over whose bodies huddled Ojeda and Guiterrez. HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1931. SAFE! By Staff Photographer.

Scoring a run on a squeeze play, big league style, in the city senior playground ball championship battle on th Sycamore field yesterday afternoon. Howard Shickley, of the Melrose, team beat the ball to home plate by a hair and the crowd cheered. Leroy Ross is the catcher. Twelfth street won the game 12 to 9. GHOST HUNTERS HA VE EXCITING TIME WITH BUT SMALL REWARDS Media, July 31.

There may be ghosts or phantoms at Gkn Mills cross road near Media, where 2000 persons gathered at midnight to catch a white shrouded figure; but a calloused State Police detail is richer by three bed sheets today the result of a night work. Every midnight since Tuesday, folk about this staid old Quaker town say, a fiendish laugh had come across the fields of the John Storey farm and a white figure haa ap peared atop an embankment. Farmers, merchants, milkmen and spooners have told of seeing the ghost. Two women motorists be came so excited, they say, at seeing the apparition, they crashed their vehicles into a ditch. 500 at Spot Armed with revolvers, stones, clubs and strong determination, 500 men were at the lonely spot night before last to catch the ghost of the slayer of John Storey.

Legend has it the killer, after hacking Storey's body, hanged himself the orchard. SLAIN TROOPER'S LIFE TO BE THEME FOR NOTED WRITER Miss Katherine Mayo Visi tor in City; Lauds Heroism of Sergt. McCarthy Among the distinguished visitors in Harrisburg to'iiy is Miss Kath erine Mayo, the famous writer wno has already devoted one book to the State Police of Pennsylvania. She is here to further investigate the force headed by Major Lynn G. Adams and it may be expected that her forthcoming volume will enrich the record concerning the remarK able organization which has been accepted as a model for other States.

Miss Mayo as author of "Mother India" and other books is an in Continued on page 6) HURLEY TO STUDY PHILIPPINE PROBLEM Washington, July 31. The trip of Secretary Hurley, of the War Department to the Philippine Islands, which starts tomorrow, has revived interest in the question of 'Philippine independence. Though he has been extremely reticent regarding the purpose of his trip, it is known Secretary Hurley is making the trip to study the status of the islands for President Hoover. Woman Hurt in Fall Falling on the concrete walk at the Municipal Bathing Beach today Mrs. Elizabeth Scholl, 109 Reliy street suffered, abrasions of the legs and hands.

She was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital. Train They didn't catch the ghost because Farmer McGeehan, with a revolver, dissuaded anyone from vaulting the fence and trampling his vegetables. Last night more than 2000 persons assembled at the spot. At midnight a State trooper saw a white form and grabbed it. He got a sheet which he still has; the wearer got away.

A few hundred feet away' a frozen cautious men snatched another sheet. Underneath was a stack of hay. Having Some Fun A mile away troopers caught a girl flitting about with a sheet wrapped about her. She didn't break any law, they discovered, but thev took the sheet anyway. She" said she was just having some fun.

"What to do, what to do," sam the troopers as the 2000 citizens an nounced they would return again tonight to catch the ghost. But ghost or no ghost, the three sljeets went out in the weekly police barracks laundry bundle today. HIGHWAY BUILDING MACHINES COSTING $677,322 ORDERED Harrisburg Firm Given Contracts by State Totaling $219,457 Contracts for three quarters of a million dollars' worth of road building equipment were awarded today by the Department of Property and Supplies in connection with the Administration highway construction program. The equipment contracted for will be utilized in the maintenance and improvement of 11,000 miles of old roads and the 20,000 miles of town ship roads, which it is proposed to build during the next several years. The awards made today called for purchases totaling $677,322 and included: Cleveland Tractor Company, Cleveland, Ohio, fifty five ten ton crawler type tractors, $229,245.

Galion Iron Works and Manu (Contlnued on page 6) TREASURER DIES AS ACCOUNTS ARE BEING QUESTIONED By Associated Press Scranton, July 31. David G. Price, Lackawanna county treasurer, on whose accounts State and local officials were making a checkup for the past week, was found dead today at noon In his home Wreck CAPONE TO STAND TRIAL FOR FRAUD IN INCOME TAX Federal Court Sets September 8 For Trial of Gang Leader By Associated Press Chicago, July 31. "Scarface Al" Capone was granted leave to withdraw his plea of guilty to indict ments for violation of the income tax laws in an unexpected morning court session today. Federal Judge James H.

Wilkcr son set the case for trial September 8 and announced he would reserve decision until that date on the gangster's motion to withdraw his guilty plea on the Indictment for conspiring against the prohibition law. Case Is Reopened In a brief statement in open court the judge said he believed the specific accusations made by the grand jury required a more serious charge than that contained in the liquor conspiracy indictment and he summoned the grand jury before him and directed that the evidence be presented anew before it. Relative to the agreement between Government attorneys and defense counsel that the prosecution would make certain recommendations, asserted by the defense to mean a lenient penalty, Judge Wilkerson observed. "As the cases are to be tried, the interests of justice require that there be no further comment on the proposed recommendatinos or arrangement that was attempted with reference to it." It was the Court's insistence yesterday that Capone take the stand personally if. he solicited leniency, and that all evidence in the cases be presented before him, that brought the request of the gangster's counsel to withdraw his guily pleas and stand trial.

A threat of a congressional investigation of one phrase of his case was heard. The threat came from United States Senator Thomas D. Schall, (Continued on page 6) SON FINDS FATHER DEAD IN HOME Spring Grove, July 31. Nathan Jamison, 60, proprietor of a barber shop, was found dead on the floor of his shop at his home by his son, Harry D. Jamison.

Mr. Jamison was lying in a pool of blood at the side of one of his barber chairs. He had closed his shop and apparently was ready to go to bed when death came, 2 Dedicate Perry Memorial Put In Bay, Ohio, July 31. The famous victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's American fleet over the British on Lake Erie in the War of 1812, which paved the way for the more than a century of peace between the two countries," was commemorated here, today with the dedication of the Perry Victory memorial, a granite monument 352 feet high. Wrist Fractured Charles Beam.

6, Palmyra, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital today for a fracture of the left wrist suffered when he fell from a sliding board at Hershey Park. SQUEEZE IN CORN PRICES IS SOURCE OF HUGE PROFITS By Associated Press Chicago, July 31. Is the squeeze in July over? Fellow traders of Thomas Mont gomery Howell asked that question today as they went back into the board of trade pits for the last frenzied trading in closing up the July trades. Rumor had it that Howell, a gray haired veteran who began life forty nine years ago in Cedar Rapids, (Continued on page 6) ZEPPELIN CRUISE INTO ARCTIC MAY REVISE MAPS Friedrichshafen, July 31. The dirigible Graf Zeppelin completed its latest bit of globe trotting today when it settled down in its hangar after a seven day cruise to the Arctic, The ship, reached her home port (Continued on page, 6) ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURQ at Conewago VI GLOBE GIRDLERS TO PUSH ON EASTWARD; OTHER PILOTS REST By Associated Press July 31.

Hugh "Hern don, and Clyde Pangborn, flying around the world in an effort to lower the mark set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, hopped off late today toward Irkutsk. Moscow, July 31. Clyde Pang born and Hugh Herndon, American airmen making a round the' world speed flight, landed at Moscow from Berlin today at 11.52 a. m. (4.52 a.

Eastern Standard Time). Istanbul, July 31, W). President Mustapha Kemal today invited Russell Boardman and John Po lando, American transatlantic flyers, to visit him at Yalova in Asia Minor. Pilots Hope to Close Time Gap in World Flight York, July 31, (IP) Leaving Moscow at 9.20 E. S.

T. this morning ing Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon were only nine hours and fifty eight minutes behind the time of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty at the same point of their world flight. At one time yesterday, their arrival in Berlin, they were twenty FIVE THUGS ROB 42 IN POOLROOM AND DRIVE AWAY Spend Fifteen Minutes in Searching Pockets of Victims For Valuables Bristol, July 31, Five men, armed with pistols and three sawed off shot guns, lined forty two men against the walls of a cigar store and poolroom here early today and robbed them of money and jewelry, estimated to be worth between four and five thousam dollars. The robbers spent more than fifteen minutes searching their vie? tims thoroughly to see that no articles of value were overlooked. The gunmen, police sa were so sure of themselves that they shut off the motor of their powerful sedan and left no lookout while they were committing the holdup.

After tossing the loot into two canvas bags, the robbers jumped" into their, car and drove toward Philadelphia. Makes Fast Time Roosevelt Field, N. July 31, (IP). James Hall, flying broker, arrived' here today at 6.54 a. Eastern Standard Time, completing an approximate 350 mile hop from Ottawa, to New York in one hour; 44 minutes.

He left Ottawa at 5.10 m. 4 Goes Over Falls to Death Niagara Falls, July 31, (IP) Arthur Stearnes, described as a wealthy New York broker, went over the horseshoe falls to his death today. He is believed to have committed suicide. SCORES MADE ILL BY PTOMAINE AT PARK RESTAURANT By Associated Press Reading, July 31. Stricken while attending a picnic at Carsonia Park here late yesterday, nearly two score persons, were suffering from ptomaine poisoning today, eleven of them in hospitals.

"everal hundred persons ate at the park restaurant. A short time later many became violently ilL Victims were taken from the merry go round and other amusements, others collapsed along the midway and others swooned, while seeking seclusion in remote' parts of the park. Prsi Ambulance Busy Screams of the suffering and cries of those who frantically tried to minister to them threw the huge crowd into wild confusion. While ambulances rushed the seriously ill to hospitals, received treatment at a hastily Installed first aid station. Attendants there were (Continued on page 6) Cochet to Leave Amateurs Paris, July 31.

Henri Cochet, the world's ranking amateur tennis player, today told his friends he planned to turn professional about the middle of September. SINGLS COPIES TWO CENTS one hours and thirty eight minutes behind the record holders' schedule, but they decreased this by spending less time than Post and Gatty at the capitals of both Germany and Russia. Moscow is almost exactly one third of the way round the world from New York. If Pangborn and Herndon should maintain the same speed over the last two thirds as they have over the first third they would fail to beat the record of eight days fifteen hours and fifty one minutes by ten hours and fifteen minutes. But from Hoscow on they expect to overhaul their rivals' time and before reaching New York to leave it well behind.

Their plane is slower than the Winnie Mae of Post and Gatty but it has a greater flying range and far fewer stops are planned. It was considered a possibility here that they would make only two more intermediate stops, one in Siberia either at Chita or Irkutsk and the other in Alaska. Irkutsk is 26534 miles from Mosr cow and Post and Gatty covered the distance in twenty five hours and 55 minutes with an intermediate stop at Novosibirsk. Pangborn and Herndon should make it non (Continued on Page 6) SHOOT TO KILL MAYOR ORDERS IN GANGSTER SEARCH Police Find Intended Vic tim Who Escaped Fusil jade of Shots By Associated Press New York, July 31. The search for the automobile gunmen who sprayed Harlem's "Little Italy" with bullets Tuesday night, killing one child and wounding four others, was intensified today as a new clue and offers of rewards totalling $25,000 spurred every policeman on.

The new clue, which Commissioner Mulrooney called his most important, was the finding of a man who said he was the intended victim of the gunmen. He is Anthony Buzzone, a bookmaker, known in police circles as "Big Teed." Gaming Feud With Buzzone admitting to police that he was the gunman's target detectives today almost definitely placed the cause of the shooting on a policy gaming feud and not a beer racket fight. Under constant questioning for four hours, Buzzone told police about' his friends and enemies and furnished detectives with a long list of names, of men who he thought might like to see him out of the way. The two previous newspaper rewards of $15,000 had been augmented today by $10,000 offered by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a police social group. Reward Grows Mayor Walker and Police Commissioner Mulrooney, who addressed 1200 policemen yesterday at a downtown Uieater regarding the shooting, warned the policemen to get the gunmen, and "shoot above the waist." The $10,000 reward offer by the patrolmen's association was voted at that meeting.

Mayor Walker's ringing remark to the policemen was: "Drive the dogs who were guilty of the killing of one of these little ones drive them out for the protection of your own children. Find the perpetrators and bring them back dead or alive. This shooting was a diabolical thing." HAZLETON AGAIN HAZLETON and Harrisburg meet on the Island Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The lineups: Hazleton. Harrisburg.

Fitzgerald, cf. Gulian, 2b. Hughes, 2b. Lewan, lb. Kennedy, rf.

Fischer, rf. Carnegie, If. McBrlde, If. Smith, ss. Black, 3b.

Thomas, 3b. Cihocki, gs. Hooks, lb. Morgan, cf. Cobb, c.

McCarthy, i. Ferrell, p. Rush, p. Semler, p. Rase, p.

Umpires: Solodare and Michaels. THE WEATHER Friday, July SI, im. Rarrisburt; and Vicinity, Alio Eastern Pennsylvania: Pair tonight and Saturday; somewhat coaler tonifht. Lowest temperature tonlfht for Harrliburf about 59 defreei. i River: Rlror iU ei will not ebanfe much.

A stare of about S.J feet may he expected for' Harrlsburf Saturday morhinr. (Complete Report on Pafo'l, td Section.