The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

ffite LOOK THE GOOD EVENING: Political elimination con-tests hold the stage. WEATHER: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; snow flurries tonight. NUMBER 4066 Pnbltjhed Ett Een1nir Except 8unday br The Patriot Company HARRISBURG, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930 PRICE TWO CENTS YL 7 RANK TJERE is one case where the to uuun nrr-a WW ft MM it As Blizzard Woman Victim of 3rd Street Double Tragedy Was Mrs. Paul Bitner Dr. Reishel SI.

Goho, member of a prominent Harrisburg family, and a woman believed by police to have been Mrs. Margaret Bitner, were dead today following a shooting about 12.40 o'clock this afternoon in the orthopedic shoe store conducted by Doctor Goho at 416 North Third street. Doctor Goho, who was reported to have run from the store to a physician's office following the shooting, died in the Harrisburg Hospital a short time later. The woman, who was described as about 32 years old, pretty and fashionably dressed, was found dead in a chair in the store, a bullet wound near the heart. Here is a scene on Chicago streets as one of the fiercest March blizzards in history struck the city, Police struggled for nearly an hour to help the fallen horse to its feet.

1 bacco, no matter how bad, was slandered, lour young men were nlavine cards at the home of one of them. One of the players stuck his head under the sofa for a iaiien card, found the place dark, lighted a match and recovered a coin. When" the game was resumed someone lighted a cigaret. In a few minutes the other players began turning up their noses and saying unkind things about the particular brand of cigaret that had been lighted. FIREMEN NOT only did the fag seem to produce enormous quantities of smoke, but it had an odor that no human nostril could be expected to endure.

Then someone happened to look towards the sofa and gave a yell. A frinee of red crept up the up holstery on one side, sending up like a locomotive. "The match," someone recalled. There was a dash to the kitchen and a pot-and-pan brigade soon had the fire extinguished. ANNOUNCER THE Camp Hill commuter who took a New Cumberland car bv mistake when the- West Shore trolleys failed to come Into Market Square in their customary order contemplates, since a second experience, asking for a car announcer, Arriving five minutes early for the 3.30 Camp Hill car recently, fie saw the Enola and New Cumberland cars 'arrive and depart but no Camp Hill car.

At 3.45 Enola and New Cumberland cars arrived and departed and still no Camp Hill car. Four o'clock came and no Camp Hill car being in sight, he inquired of the conductor of one of the cars whether Camp Hill cars were running. LIKE FLAT TIRE UE was told that a car had broken down on the Walnut Street Bridge and that passengers for all points were transferring on the bridge for their respective He boarded the car and changed" on the bridge to a car marked "CjpNHill." Looking uff fyn his "newspaper some minutes he discovered that his car fell' bound for New Cumberland flfT designation having been changed after he had boarded the car. Getting off the car in Lemoyne in a huff, he remonstrated with the motorman. "'Sto replied the motor-man.

"'Like having a flat APPROVE G. OF G. PLAN FOR TRADE EXPANSION HERE Representing nearly every line of business in the community, a group of nearly 100 businessmen and women last night expressed enthusiastic approval the business expansion program of the Harris-burg Chamber of Commerce after discussing the various phases of the plan to bring additional business to Harrisburg. The meeting was held at the Penn-Harris Hotel by the planning committee of the Chamber, which has assumed responsibility for providing the necessary finances to augment the Chamber's staff and expand its program of work on a business-like basis. Henderson Gilbert explained the detail of the plan and outlined the reasons why the Chamber proposes to place additional emphasis on specific lines of work.

Consensus of opinion, as expressed by those who discussed the Turn to Page Eleven FINDS, CHARTS NEW LAND CAPETOWN, S. March 27. Commander Eiiser Larsen, leader of the Norwegian Antarctic whale research expedition, arrived here unexpectedly yesterday with news that he had discovered and charted about 600 miles of new land in the Antarctic. RUBLEE MAY BE ENVOY By United Press WASHINGTON, March 27. George Rublee, a Washington lawyer, was reported in usually reliable quarters yesterday to be slated to succeed Dwight W.

Morris as ambassador to Mexico. Withdrawal of Grundy Is Expected JOSEPH R. GRUNDY WHO WILL HEAD SCHOOLS IS STILL OPEN QUESTION Who will be elected superintendent of the Harrisburg schools for a four-year term on April 8, Dr. C. H.

Garwood the present incumbent or some other educator, was not revealed today by interviews with eight of the nine members of School Board who could be reached. The canvass was prompted by reports that several directors are endeavoring to muster enough votes for a change. Doctor Garwood would not discuss the matter. President Ralph E. Boswell said: "I have nothing to say; I don't care Turn to Page Twenty-nine Bingaman Is Believed To Have Passed Crisis Physicians and nurses attending Howard.

M. Bingaman, attorney, who has been dangerously ill with influenza-pneumonia, think he has passed the crises, and they now look for his recovery. Today's report said he is much improved. Until the change for the better came yesterday, the attorney's condition had been alarming. His sister and day and night nurses have been at his bedside since the latter part of last week.

As late a3 Tuesday he was barely able to take liquid nourishment, but he was so much improved today that brotlis were prescribed. Jt i r1 Associated Aid Work of Year to Be Reviewed at Annual Meeting Tonight llJ Hit Chicago 4353 AIDED IN LAST YEAR BY FAMILY BUREAU The Family Bureau of the Associated Aid Societies during 1923 served 1113 families, in which 4353 individuals were aided, according to the report of the organization which will be read at the annual meeting in the Y. M. C. A.

at 7.45 o'clock tonight. The Children's Bu reau cared for 650 children during the year, 320 being under its care at the end of the year. The financial- report shows that expenses for the Associated Aid for the year were $29,499.62, and for the Harrisburg Benevolent Association, which handles the funds for relief work, $52,391.32. The itemized reports, in full, are as follows: Financial Report Income. Interest on accounts, reimbursements for services, Welfare Federation, Turn to Page Thirteen Cold Weather Will Continue Here Tomorrow The stray bit of winter that got lost out of the middle of February and turned up the other day on the front porch of spring showed no signs of moving on today, much' to the consternation of the birds that were about to start their spring building programs and the too eager flower, buds.

Slore snow flurries are expected tonight, and the mercury is expected again to descend to 28 degrees, the same as last night's low. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and continued cold. The temperature rose but slowly today as a biting wind whipped occasional snowflakes through the streets. At noon it touched 37 degrees and rose another degree by 1 o'clock. As the result of fains early this week the Susquehanna River is rising slowly.

A stage of 5.9 feet is expected tomorrow, as compared with 5.7 feet this morning. KILLED HUSBAND, FREED NEW YORK, March 27. Mrs. Elizabeth Velez, who bore her husband ten children in eleven year3 and then stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife, in their home at Freeport, L. February 12, was acquitted yesterday.

i mm? CRANE IS AGAIN FOUND GUILTY IN SECOND DEGREE Convicted last night of second-degree murder for the second time in six months, Samuel (Red) Crane, 38, former big league baseball player, faces imprisonment of from twenty to forty years in the penitentiary. For each of the two crimes he can be sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, but under the parole law he would serve only half of each sentence. President Judge Hargest will call Crane for sentence after the ten days' appeal period expires. Chief Defense Counsel Thomas D. Caldwell, however, will 'not ask for a new trial.

A jury yesterday deliberated three hours and fifty minutes before finding the erstwhile baseball player guilty of second-degree Turn to Page Eleven Crane Happy in Prison After Escaping Chair Twice in Six Months Four stone walls and iron bars do not a prison make for Samuel (Red) Crane, former star of the diamond, today. Saved from the electric chair for the second time in six months, he is as happy as a schoolboy as he makes full use of his "runway" privilege in Tier in the Dauphin County prison. But those two convictions of Turn to Page Seventeen REMEDY SOUGHT FOR TAX EVILS AT MEETING HERE The reorganization of local government by the establishment of larger municipal units and the creation of a State tax on income, which should revert to the local government for the abolition of existing obnoxious taxation, were suggested as a panacea for the present ills of local taxation at the first Pennsylvania Conference on Local Taxation, held today at the Penn-Harris HoteL The conference is being conducted under the auspices of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce, and many members of the Chamber are represented. The purpose of the conference is to analyze present trends in local taxation and indebtedness and to assist in the development of constructive programs for the relief of the financial tension in the affairs of local government. Urge Reconstruction The reconstruction of the local government to reduce cost of operation was urged by Franklin Spencer Turn to Page Twenty-nine consolidation, which is being vigor ously by a group of stockholders led by Cyrus S.

Eaton, Turn to Page Seventeen Eaton Declares Steel Merger Plan Defeated YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 27. The proposed merger of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company with Bethlehem Steel Corporation is defeated. Speaking before the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce here today, Cyrus W. Eaton, Cleveland financier and leader of the anti-merger forces, made this declaration with figures. The figures submitted by Eaton show 510,756 shares for the consolidation; 412,571 shares against it (or definitely agreed not to vote for the plan), and 262,273 shares still undecided.

WITHDRAWAL TO FOLLOW THAT OF LEWIS; DAUPHIN ON BAND WAGON Grundy Reported to Be In Philadelphia By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March 27. Senator Joseph R. Grundy was reported to be somewhere in Philadelphia today although inquiries at his offices in the Finance Building and at the Manufacturers Club were fruitless. He had not registered at the Manufacturers Club, where he usually stays, and attaches of his office in the Finance Building said they had not seen him but were expecting him there. When Samuel S.

Lewis, former State Treasurer, withdrew as a Republican primary candidate for Governor yesterday, he pulled out a peg that toppled down the entire State organization. There was no deliberate effort on his part to wreck a once powerful, but never popular, machine. He was forced out of a fight that a few months ago looked good for him. With Lewis will probably go Joseph R. -Grundy, the Senator named by Governor Fisher last December to fill the Vare" vacancy following- the' Senate's ousting of the Philadelphia boss.

The junior senator is expected to make an official statement sometime today that he has quit. While the formal statement of Lewis said there was no rancor, no bitterness in his giving up a contest he has awaited many Turn to Page Serenteen Davis Writes Friend That He Will Stick With the retirement of Samuel S. Lewis from the Republican race for Governor, the air was filled with reports of other withdrawals shortly. One of these had James J. Davis retiring as a candidate for the Senate.

A former county official this morning offset that rumor by showing a letter from Davis, received an hour or two before, announcing that under no conditions would he withdraw. Local G. O. P. Workers Foresee Grundy Quitting Information from Philadelphia this afternoon, received by long distance telephone, coincided with previous reports, local and otherwise, that United States Senator Joseph R.

Grundy was expected to issue a statement during: the afternoon announcing his intention not to become a candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. The Philadelphia information came from sources quite close to what is going on in State-wide Republican politics and the informant discounted gossip which suggested that Grundy might get back of former Governor Pinchot'a candidacy. for a second term if not remain in the1 race as Pirtchot's running mate. Local Republican organization Workers were making forecasts today that Grundy will not stand as a candidate but will lend his support to the Davis-Brown ticket for United States Senator and Governor, respectively. Machine Stolen From City Youth in Which Thomas Was Killed The automobile in which Howard Thomas, alleged Camden, N.

racketeer was killed near Camden Saturday, was owned by Luther C. Dapp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dapp, 1938 North Sixth street, this city, it was learned today. The body of Thomas was claimed by a daughter, Miss Marie Olive Thomas, of this city.

Dapp, who is employed In Camden, had the car parked in front of his boarding house Friday, preparatory to coming home for the week-end, when it was stolen. COMEDY ACTOR DIES LONDON, March 27. James E. Page, actor who played in the farce "Charley's Aunt" more than 4000 times and later took part in "spttti-SSi" American film version of the piay in 1925, died yesterday. Mrs.

Bitner, who is said to bej the mother of five children, lived at Shiremanstown Citv Detectives Sergeant Blough and Abrams, who investigated the shooting, said they found a revolver with three empty chambers lying under, a chair near the woman's body. Goho was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital at 1.05 o'clock in an unconscious condition, accoramg to hosDital officials, who said he died five minutes later without recovering consciousness. Mrs. Bitner, the Bradls said, naa been to work yesterday as usual but they had not seen her there today. When they returned to their shop a colored woman, Mrs.

Georgia Jones, of 1119 North Seventh street, who was soliciting subscritions, entered the shop, they said, and, in a state of great excitement said she had seen a woman dead or ill in a chair in the Goho store. Enterine the store throught the open front door, the detectives said they found the body of the woman in a chair in the back room with only the legs visible through the door. Her head was thrown over the back of the chair. In her clothing they found a Christmas savings book bearing the name of Mrs. Paul Bitner and a store credit book with the name, Mrs.

Margaret Bitner. Persons living in the vicinity of the store said Mrs. Bitner worked in the store. Within an hour after the shooting the woman's body had been identified positively as that of Mr3. Bitner, by I.

J. Bradl, who operates a beauty shop next door, at 414 North Third street. He said the woman had worked at the store for about ten years. Mr. and Mrs.

Bradl said they were eating lunch in the basement under their shop when they heard two shots which sounded to them like toy pistol shots. A few. minutes later they saw the legs of a man running down Third street, al though they could not recognize him. Doctor Goho, who, in addition to conducting a shoe store, was widely known in town as an ortho- poedic physician, Uvea at 66io Brisban street. Paxtanjr.

He was married and had two small children. He was about 38 years old. Doctor Goho married Miss Anna Smaliwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.

Smaliwood, 126 Paxtang street, a prominent Pax- tang family. Dr. R. M. Goho's father was Stephen O.

Goho, who was principal of a school at Milton and later represented the American Book Company. For more than fifteen years the father was sales representative of the Hummelstown Brownstone Company and died at Russ Ellis, a friend, threw her the life belt and a surf board. As he was about to slip the belt around her she noticed the predicament of two men, Clifford Trunvo and R. L. Price, who at that moment were also caught in the undertow.

She hurled her life preservers to them. All three were brought from the water by Schuler and Ellis, who reached them with a life boat just as the girl lost consciousness, a Lewisburg about six years ago. Doctor Goho's mother is now residing at Lewisburg. He had two brothers, Dr. Albert Goho, prominent dentist, and Stephen Goho, a life insurance man, both of this city.

Dr. R. M. Goho is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Ed Roth, of this city, the former Miss Marion Goho.

His mother is living in Lewisburg. Mrs. Margaret Bitner, who was about 35 years old, was the wife of Paul Bitner and the mother of five children, the oldest of whom is 12 years. All the children are of school age. The husband, Paul Bitner, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. H. Bitner, had been out of work for the last six months. The elder Mrs.

Bitner bore up splendidly when approached with questions that aroused her suspicions. She asked that she be told everything. She said that her daughter-in-law had been employed for many years in Doctor Goho's store and that the family also felt that the orthopedic surgeon had placed a high value on his secretary's services. The five Bitner children all were in school when their grandmother received the shocking news. The dead woman's family resided in a cottage on the homestead farm.

Until last fall he had been employed in this city with the Gannett, Seelye Fleming engineering corporation. The husband was out this afternoon searching for work when inquiries by THE EVENING NEWS brought the news of the tragedy to the home of the elder Bitners on the Bitner farm along the Shiremanstown road. The Bitner farm for many years has been considered more or less of a summer resort and many prominent Harrisburgers spent their summers there. BANK BANDITS OBTAIN $7500 International iTeir Serviee DAYTON, Ohio, March 27. The second attempt within two days by quartet of bandits to hold up and rob a bank proved successful today when the four desperadoes swooped down upon the First National Bank at Germantown, twelve miles southwest of here, and, after forcing two officials and three customers to lie on the floor, made good an escape with $7500 in cash.

Police believe that the men may be the same ones who raided tho First National Bank at West' Alexandria, near here, yesterday, only to find that the bank was in the hands of receivers and had no money in it. QUAKE HALTS RECEPTION QUITO, Ecuador, March 27. A slight earthquake interrupted a reception being held at the Peruvian legation here in honor of officers from the British cruiser Despatch. EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA By United Press LONDON, March 27. A considerable earthquake, supposedly centered in southwestern China, was recorded by the Kew observatory at 7.32 a.

yesterday. NICHOLAS F. BRODY DIES NEW YORK, March 27. Nicholas F. Bradyj chairman of the Board of the New York Edison Company, died today' of arthritis.

Ha was 51 yeais old. Glimpses of the work being donef" by the Associated Aid Societies in adjusting family troubles and caring for children will be furnished at the annual meeting of the organization tonight at which seven directors will be elected and financial and service reports for 1929 will be read. The meeting will be held at 7.45 o'clock in the Y. W. C.

A. building. All persons who contributed to the Harrisburg Welfare Federation campaign last year are eligible to vote for the directors, who will serve three-year terms, seven directors being elected each year. Vance C. McCormick, president of the Associated Aid Societies, will preside.

The view into the work of the group will be had through talks by Turn to Page Seventeen George F. Baker, Third Richest Man in World Marks 90th Birthday BRUNSWICK, 0 March 27. Far away from Wall Street he has known ctnd which has known him for more than three score years, George F. Baker today celebrated his 90th birthday on Jekyl Island. Baker, regarded as the third wealthiest man in the world, was surrounded by a few friends and relatives.

The chairman of the board of the First National Bank of New York has been here vacationing for several weeks. Beside his son, George F. Baker, and daughter, Mrs. J. St John, there were present his grandson, John St.

John, W. E. Loomis, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and several others. FARMER SLAYS TWO DAUGHTERS International Sews Service MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa, March 27. Jasper County authorities today moved to lodge charges against George McKinney, 52, farmer, who yesterday beat his eldest daughter, Artie Dora, 25, to death, then shot and killed another daughter, Gladys, 12, because "something had been telling me to kill them for two years." News of the double slaying burst like a bombshell on the community when McKinney walked into the office of Sheriff George Kelly, at Newton, and announced he had' killed his daughters.

Schwab Warns Blocking of Big Steel Merger Will Throttle Youngstown Girl Throws Her Life Belt To Drowning Men, Defying Death; All Three Are Saved YOUNGSl OWN, March 27. "If you want to throttle Youngstown block the steel merger," Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, said on his arrival here yesterday to join the fight over tie proposed Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company-Bethlehem consolidation. "Merged with Bethlehem, Sheet and Tube will remain a local institution, and it will have advantages it never before possessed," he said. "The situation is that Sheet and Tube must consolidate with some one." Schwab, who wa3 accompanied by Eugene G.

Grace, president of Bethlehem, came here to assist James Campbell, chairman of Youngstown, win proxies in favor of the merger. This was Mr. Schwab's first public statement on the proposed merger. Youngstown' stockholders are meeting April 8 to ballot on the LOS ANGELES, March 27. Abandoning herself to a watery death in the jaws of a vicious rip-tide, a young woman yesterday threw her life belt to two men that they might be saved.

But just as she lost consciousness the girl too "was rescued and today was said to be recovering. The heroine is Grace Schuler. She was swimming off Manhattan Beach whencaught by the rip-tide. Her brother, Carl Schuler, and.