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i -j lwutog New GOOD EVENING: Fall is just around the WEATHER: Cloudy, showers tonight and possibly tomorrow morning. corner. NUMBER 3883 Published Every Evenlnir Except Sunday by The Patriot Company HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929 Entered as Second-Clam Matter at the Post Office at Harrliburs PRICE TWO CENTS Mr 1 DDF Mm mm MYSTERY SOLVED npHE mystery of Camp Hill's haunted house has been cleared. The bells that broke the stillness of the night have been silenced. Those who quaked as the clock tolled the midnight hour now sleep the sleep of the just.

Martin Brinton, 3461 Market street, Camp Hill, was mystified. Dangerous Explosives Removed From City Junk Yard and Buried in Swampy Ground Meet by Arrangement On City Street and Blaze Away as Crowd Watches Without warning one night last spring his door bell rang violently and upon making a hurried investigation he found no caller. SUSPICIOUS CEVERAL nights passed and again, shortly after midnight, the bell broke the usual peace and calm that reigns in Camp Hill during the hours just before dawn. Again, upon arising, Brinton found his door step uninhabited and again he returned to bed in a mur derous frame of mind, resolved to lay a net for the practical joker whose delight it was to rouse peaceful residents out of their slumber. But as days went by this bell ringing continued and the best laid plot failed to reveal the culprit.

'Twas then that the feeling was born that something more than mortal hand was pressing the bell button in the dead of the night, Now Brinton is not one who is easily convinced, that even spirits are apt to play their little pranks now and then and it was some time before he began to feel just an inkling that the house might be haunted. NOT MISPLACED rpo quiet his disturbed mind and in quest of a restful sleep Brinton went at last to the office of J. Lester Holler, Camp Hill electrician, and asked that a man be sent to the Brinton home to check up on the wiring of the house. The man was sent and a thorough check of the wires that led from the button at the door to the batteries in the cellar and thence to the bell failed to reveal even so much as a misplaced wire. ANOTHER CHECK "MIGHT after night with clock-A like precision the ringing continued and again Brinton was back at the business place of his favorite electrician.

Holler, himself, resolved to delve into the mystery and another day found him checking the wiring in the Brinton home. But all the wires were "as they should be. Nothing was disturbed. Finishing his inspection of the cellar wiring Holler started up the steps when he spotted a jam closet and therein discovered the mystery. On close inspection Holler found a mouse hole at the top of the cupboard, directly in back of which the wires to the door bell were strung.

These wires were coated with para-fine, the same parafine that covered the top3 of the jelly glasses. SOLVED A MOUSE, in quest of the Iux-uries offered by the jelly closet, had gone a little farther in search for goodies and had nibbled the paraffine from the wire, thus inventing his own burglar alarm. Two wires were exposed and each time the mouse entered the jelly closet and stepped upon the wires a contact was made and the door bell rang. Brinton was none too quiet in his jumping from bed and hurrying down the steps and upon hearing the noise the mouse scampered back to his nest and let the bell stop its ringing. 'Tis thus the sleuthing electrician uncovered the mystery of Camp Hill's haunted house.

WEATHER HOLDS OP CASTE'S TRIP International News Service PARIS, Aug. 23. Unfavorable weather conditions today continued to delay the start of Capt Dieu-donne Coste, famous French aviator, on his second attempt to fly the Atlantic from east to west. Coste and his navigator, Maurice Bellonte, have taken their plane, the Question Mark, to Villacou-blay field, which is too small for a take-off, to await improvement in weather conditions. Jacob Applebaum Dies In Philadelphia at Age Of 108, -Philanthropist PHILADELPHIA.

Aug. 23. Jacob Applebaum, 108, well known Philadelphia philanthropist and piominent in Jewish circles here, is dead today. The centenarian succumbed at his home yesterday. Applebaum was born in Russia, but came to America and acquired a fortune in the grain business.

He moved here thirty years ago with his four children. Besides his children, Applebaum is survived by sixteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. M'KEESPORTIS SELECTED FOR 0. SESSION Having elected McKeesport as the city for their next session, the Pennsylvania State convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adjourned at noon today after it adopted a number of complimentary resolutions in which all who assisted in the handling of the convention came in for their share of plaudits. The legal reserve insurance plan was adopted by the order for the benefit of its members.

While, the men were disposing rapidly of the business of the order, members of the Ladies' Auxiliary battled over the nomination and election of officers, and the session extended into the late afternoon. The nominees are; Mrs. Anna McTiernan, Scranton, and Mrs. Turn to Page Two DERRYTWP.ASKS REFERENDUM ON VOTE MACHINES In filing petitions at the Courthouse today, 104 Derry Township voters obtained for their township the privilege of holding an independent referendum on. the voting machine question in November.

Derry Township, which includes Hershey, is the second township and sixth district in the county to claim the right to vote separately on the question whether they shall adopt voting machines. These community referendums will be held independently of the county-wide referendum. Three petitions were received by the county commissioners today from Derry Township. They contain 104 signatures, twice the number required by law and were circulated by Ivan L. Mease, 111 Cocoa avenue, Hershey, who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Legislature several years ago; Jay L.

Stahl, 212 Cocoa avenue, Hershey, and George R. Wornpr, Hershey. Harrisburg, Royalton, Middle-town Penbrook and Susquehanna Township will hold independent referendums. Lewistown Tomorrow In Rotogravure An entire page of the weekly rotogravure pictorial supplement of THE EVENING NEWS tomorrow will be devoted to Lewistown and vicinity. WkPP' IV Ml UYI Police Asked to Look For Two Children Asked yesterday to search for Joseph Egresitz, 10, and his 8-year-old brother, Frank, who are reported to have disappeared from their home at 11 North Tenth street on Wednesday afternoon, city police had learned nothing by this afternoon of the missing clu dren's whereabouts.

Automobile Victim Dies of Injuries United Press KITTANNING. Aug. 23. Percy Knappenberger, died yesterday in the Kittanning Hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident on the Freeport road Tuesday. The disagreement came about because his wife wanted to keep, the fund intact for the inheritance of their daughter, Fanny, while De Cordova maintained that the rainy day had come for which they had been saving conscientiously since he first began in business in 1883.

His wife realizing that De Cordova intended to use the money to keep their comfortable standard of living, took action and transferred the securities from a deposit box they held together for many years to a private one of her own, he said in his petition, leaving him with a scant $11,000. 1 iiliipiiiiiii V-4'" xb 1 I 17 MYERSTOWN BOYS ARRESTED; CONFESS, AVER "IT WAS JOKE" International News Service LEBANON, Aug. 23. Myers-town borough, seven miles east of here, was thrown into a furore today when seventeen of the town's "bad boys" were served with warrants alleging malicious mischief. Tssnino" of thp.

warrants ramp the outgrowth of what was purported to be a boyish "prank," in which the happy homecoming of a honeymooning couple, Luke Royer and his pretty bride, the former Joyce Groh, was turned into despair when they found their newly furnished home had been visited by vandals, the furniture and interior decorations damaged and the home practically turned upside down. The boys tearfully asserted they "only did it for a joke." ATTACKS PLANOF "WISE MEN" TO DICTATE SLATE Ninth Ward voters who gathered last night in Fackler's Hall, Thirteenth and Derry streets, applauded vigorously at times as Dr. L. S. Howard, Republican candidate for coroner, attacked the right of the Republican Organization's "Three Wise Men" to dictate to the city and county voters whom they shall support for the party nominations at the primary election on September 17.

The candidate declared for an open primary, with rights reserved to the voters to chose tne nominees, and he challenged the ririit of a self-appointed group to set themselves up as political bosses and dictate who shall be selected for public office. Doctor Howard said the campaign he and his running mates are making is not a Turn to Page Seven Tener's Condition Is Serious but Hospital Says II ad Good Night PITTSBURGH. Aug. 23. Authorities of the West Penn HospU" tal denied today that John K.

Tener, former Governor of Pennsylvania, had suffered a relapse last night. He contracted pneumonia a week ago after playing eighteen holes of golf at the Nemacolin Country Club was visiting friends. -Although Tener's condition Is regarded as serious, hospital attendants said that he had spent a rest-f'yl nirhr. LOCKJAW DEATH BY TOE INJURY By United Press SHARON, Aug. 23.

Harry Miller, 9, died yesterday in the Buhl Hospital from lockjaw, contracted through a cut on the toe which he suffered about a week ago. and 7 o'clock this evening. They are driving by automobile' from New York where they landed at 10 o'clock this morning on the Holland-American liner S. S. New Amsterdam.

Accompanying them on the trip from New York is Deputy Scout Commissioner Andrew Drumheiser, who also attended the jamboree, and Scout Commissioner Thomas Sparrow and Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Turn to Page Seventeen International News Service CLOVER, Aug. 23. Behind the smoke of shotguns a debt of honor had been settled here today with all the characteristics of an old frontier Pate Huddleston, 53, and Marcus Brown, 42, are dead.

They shot it out in the center of town by pre-ararngement, fighting a duel to the death at arms' length with buckshot. -A good-sized crowd was attracted by the impending tragedy they were powerless to prevent. The duel marked the culmination of a long enmity between the two men which started when Brown. who is married and the father of eight children, began paying attention to a divorced daughter of Huddleston. AGED WOMAN IS BADLY INJURED BY 15-FOOT FALL Falling from tha second story balcony at the rear of her home shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon, Mrs.

Almeda Doyle, 72 years old, 609 Verbeke 'street, suffered a probable fraeture of the skull, both arms were broken and her nose fractured. When admitted to the Polyclinic Hospital her condi tion was described as very critical with little chance for recovery. Mrs. Doyle, who is the wife of Edward Doyle, retired railroad nan, had gone out onto the balcony to shake a rug. As she leaned against the guard rail it broke out and she fell into the back yard, a distance of approximately fifteen feet, city police estimated.

The husband heard the noise of her fall and carried her into the house after summoning neighbors, who in turn called the Polyclinic ambulance. KEEN BIDDING ON STATE SHOWBUILDING All bids opened this afternoon by Benson E. Taylor, State Secretary of Property and Supplies, for the contract to build the State Ftrm Show building at Cameron and Maclay streets, were far in excess of the $1,340,000 fund made available by the Legislature. Charles W. Strayer, of Harrisburg, bid for the general contract.

Other bids for the general building contract were: Mc Closkey and Company, Philadelphia, Golder Construction Company, Philadelphia, bid rejected because it was not signed; M. A. Long Construction Company, Baltimore, $1,840,000. Keen competition was expected this afternoon when bids are. received by the Department of Property and Supplies for the State Farm Products Show Building, Cameron and Maclay streets." There is about $1,340,000 available for the building, although the appropriation was lumped with that for the new Education Building.

If the bids do not run about $1,200,000 the State will have sufficient funds for the completion of the building, as the architects' fees must come out of the appropriation. The bids were to be opened in the Senate caucus room. Allentoicn Woman Struck by Hit-Run Driver Dies of Hurts International Newt Service ALLENTOWN, Aug. 23. Mrs.

Ray Van Wagenen, 48, Allentown social leader, found injured at midnight Sunday along the Harrisburg short line, apparently the victim of a hit-and-run driver, died today in the Allentown Hospital without regaining consciousness. ARM ADOPTS PLAN TO GIVE DEEDS TO P. R. R. Another step in the South Har-risburg grade crossing elimination plan as taken by City Council today when that body passed on first reading an ordinance introduced by Highway Commissioner Sherk, which empowers Mayor Hoverter and City Clerk Seaman to give deeds to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the land which will be taken from private owners for new tracks into the Pennsy freight station.

The ordinance also gives authority to exchange deeds in any other transfers of land that will figure in the general improvement plan. It probably will be passed finally next Tuesday, for it is the city solicitor's plan, he announced, to pass all the deeds on or before Terms of settlement have been reached with the Boas estate and Turn to Page Seventeen SERIOUS RIOTING IN JERUSALEM; 3 SLAIN, 50 HURT Su United Press TELAVIV, Palestine, Aug. 23. Three were killed and fifty wounded, mostly Jews, today when 100 Arabic villagers armed with swords flocked into Jerusalem and attacked the Jewish quarters. British police patrolled the streets with rifles and armored cars.

The authorities summoned airplanes to cope with the situation. All entrances to Jerusalem were closed. A serious outbreak has been feared for days because of the mounting dissension between Jews and Arabs over possession of the Wailing Wall, a sacred shrine to Jews in Jerusalem. British mandate authorities here were understood to be prepared to bring troops from Egypt if the situation warranted it. Disturbances have been intermittent in Jerusalem for a week, starts ing last Friday with the latest attack by Arabs on Jewish worshipers at the Wailing Wall.

A Jewish boy was killed, and feeling readied its height at his funeral, when the crowd of wailing Jews following the body to the cemetery was rushed by Arabs. Police put down the disturbance temporarily. TYPHOON SINKS TWO GUNBOATS HONG KONG, Aug. 23. Two Chinese gunboats were sunk with a loss of about thirty men yesterday when a typhoon struck Shiu-hing, advices here said today.

countered over the Atlantic last October during the first flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, and was far more dangerous. This storm furnished the passengers aboard the Graf, and Doctor Eckener and his officers, their first experience with an electric storm while in flight Vivid Flashes For several minutes, which seemed like hours to those in the control cabin, the vivid flashes of the deadly lightning played about the great Bilver hulk of the airship. Turn to Page Seventeen COuNC The upper picture shows Millard M. Tawney, fire chief, directine the removal this morning of a cache of dangerous explosives from a local junk yard where they were discovered last week and declared a menace by Federal Government authorities. The giant magnet of an electric crane is lowering into the truck a 900-pound airplane bomb loaded with TNT.

Fire Chief Tawney is shown in the lower picture among the loaded shells and bombs selecting the dangerous ones that were removed later by truck to a swamp on the outskirts of the city. During the two-mile trips from the junkyard to the swamp the fire chief in his automobile led the way for each truckload of explosives. They were placed carefully in a hole, ten feet deep, nearly seven feet wide and twelve feet long, and covered with dirt. The owner of the junk yard said he obtained the explosives as junk, from a Lancaster junk yard when it went out of business eight years ago. lhey had been stored at the local junk yard until' their discovery by a safety man for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who notified State and city authorities.

Pottsville Soldier Is Given Citation WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Thomas A. Rehr, of Pottsville, has been awarded the silver star citation for gallantry in action with the A. hi.

by tne War Department yesterday. Rehr, formerly a corporal with the Twenty-eighth Division, rendered first aid to wounded comrades during the attack on Bois de Rougis, July 18, 1918. OFFENDER GETS LASH DETROIT, Aug. 23. Thomas Florin, 17 years old, of Yonkers, N.

yesterday was lashed five times on his naked back when he entered the Essex County jail at Sandwich, Ontario, to begm a two-months' term for a statutory offense. CITY WILL SOON GET DEED FOR PARKWAY DRIVE As soon as the Harrisburg State Hospital is given the additional farm land that it requires to replace ground taken for the State Farm Products Show Building and the Harrisburg Parkway, action will probably be taken to turn over to the city a 120-foot boulevard through the hospital grounds to the city. Immediate action was urged upon the board of trustees of the hospital today by Benson E. Taylor, Secretary of Property and Supplies, who also notified the Board that the department is ready now to close the deals for the acquisition of 290 acres of farm land, adjoining the State Hospital: holdings to the east. Edward Bailey, a trustee of the hospital board, and Supt.

E. M. of the hospital, have both Turn to Page Two Gold Produced Last Year Worth $42 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Gold in the amount of 2,233,251 ounces and valued at $46,165,400 has been produced in the United States during the calendar year 1928, the U.

S. mint announced today. Silver production for 1928 was 58,462,507 ounces valued at Four City Scouts to Be Graf Weathers Fierce Storm in North Japan As It Starts for U. S. A.

A Her 48 Years of Married Lit Husb and Goes Court to estrain Wife Welcomed Home From Jamboree This Evening Copyright. 1020. Via Radio to I. N. S.

ON BOARD GRAF ZEPPELIN, Aug. 23. The Graf Zeppelin, en route from Kasumigaura flying f.eld to Los Angeles, on the third leg of its round-the-world flight, today successfully passed through the worst storm in the history of its air travels. The airship struck the storm within 300 miles after the start from Kasumigaura, at 3.12 p. m.

(1.12 a. m. Eastern Standard Time). The storm was of greater intensity than that which the Graf en NEW YORK, Aur. 23 After forty-eight years of married life, during which he and his wife saved $75,000 for their declining years, Charles De Cordova, a tea merchant, resorted to Supreme Court yesterday to prevent his wife, Ellen, from disposing of the funds.

Justice Lydon granted him a temporary injunction. They still live together at the Belnord Hotel, West Eighty-sixth street, where they have made their home since 1925, and Mr. De Cordova still attends his work, now not lucrative enough for their support, at his office. Three Boy Scouts, and a deputy Scout commissioner, who represented the Harrisburg Area at the International Jamboree in England this summer, will be welcomed like heroes of a great adventure when they arrive in Harrisburg this evening. The trio, Donald Passmore, of Troop 4, Harris Street Evangelical Church; Gerald Stein, Troop 10, Ohev Sholom Temple, and Allen Harper, Troop 19, Grace Methodist Church, are due here between 6.