Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-14
City News in Brief

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Automobile and JewcIry thieves reRped
an unusually large harvest last night ana
many cases were reported today at the De-
tective Bureau. Two houses in Tioga were
| robbed. They are the residences Of w.
| Richman. Of 3S13 North Sixteenth street,
and A. A. Newman, OF 3S3i North Six
| teenth street, Automobiles stolen are those
belong nR 10 William Kershaw, 768 North
Markoe street Berthe Bucher, 625s San
som street George X. Altemus, l13 Rochelle
! avenue NJ. Palmer. Sll North Broad street,
and Harvey l.. Mayors, S62S North Bouvier
street.
Suits neEregatinE $4,000 were brought
today in the Camden Circuit Court against
Ernest Hoggen, of Ancora. n. j., whose
motortruck on July ~ collided with
motorcycle on which Alfred Petzold. of
Blue Anchor, ~ H., and his cousin, William
Petzold. ls years old, OF sIi Lawrence
street, Philadelphia, were riding. William
died the next day at the Cooper Hospital,
and the administrator Of his estate, Ralph
w. Haines, sues to recover $4,000 for the
boys death. while Alfred asks 100000 to
recompensc him for injuries received,
a denial was made today by the Right
Rev. Or. John j. McCort, auxiliary bishop
Of the diocese of Philadelphia, that he had
yet received any official notification as to
Los Angeles. we go where we are told"
said the bishop at the parish house OF the
Church OF our Mother Of sorrows, Forty
eighth street and Lancaster avenue, today,
but whether my transfer will stand or
will be Cancelled I can't say until / have
myself received the authoritative mandate"
The bishop said his words at mass yes
terday were misinterpreted and construed
Into definite statement that his transfer
had been reafiirmed in spite OF the efforts
that have been made to keep him in the
parish where his ministry of Is years has
endeared him to his people.
A large express truck invaded the WIN
dow of the United Cigar Store at Eighth
and Market streets this morning. The
driver T. ]. Sullivan, 1853 DE Kalb street.
was thrown to the street when the smash
up occurred, but refused to go to n hos
pltal. Several pedestrians narrowly escaped
the flying glass.
Orvlllo Uorwitz, O years old, son of Mr..
and Mrs George Quintard Horwitz, of 1921
Walnut street is in the Bryn Mawr Hospital
recovering from an operation for appendi-
clts. He became i'll last night at his par
ents' country home at STAFFORD. The
operation was performed by DR. John NJ.
Gibbon, OF Philadelphia, and DIR. A. NJ.
O'Neill, OF Wayne.
A committee representing the police dis
trlcts of Philadelphia has been formed for
the purpose of bringing before Councils the
deslrabiity of increasing the salaries Of
policemen meeting of the committee was
held Friday. and II is believed that the police
will present their proposition to Councils
upon the reconvenlng on September 81.
a dope" raid was made by the police |
near Sixteenth and Vine streets early to-
day. Policeman Faires and Sergeant Nc |
Poyle, of the Fifteenth and Vine streets sta |
tion, by climbing fire escape, say they |
discovered two Chinese and n white woman |
smoking hop and placed them under ar
rest. According to the police. several lay |
outs were seized. The prisoners gave their |
names Jung Shaw, 21l North Sixteenth |
street; Mark de Hing and Mrs Freeda |
Mock. of the same address. They were |
held in $500 bail for a further hearing by |
Magistrate Tracy.
Miss Helen Bamber. 65 years old, Of 81 |
South Twenty-eighth street Camden, a re- |
tired school teacher, fell dead of apopleXy |
this morning in the grocery store Of II. G. |
Holt ~ South Twenty-eghth street. For |
80 years Miss Bamber was q teacher in the |
George Genges School, Camden. She was |
retired on n pension several years ago. She |
was living with her sister. Miss Clara A. |
Bamber, also a retired school teacher,
Death may terminate the seashore outing |
OF Milton Levy of Philadelphia, an inspector |
at the Government immigration station, |
Gloucester, who is in the City Hospital at |
Atlantic City with fractured skull and |
other injuries Levy was riding in a jitney |
on Atlantic avenue yesterday, when the |
machine crashed into n trolley pole while |
attempting to pass another car.
The Chester ShipbuiIdng Company,
Limited, having completed It's first year. is |
making preparations to launch its first ship |
on August 26. The vessel was built for a |
Norwegian company and will be named |
Malmanga, signifying in Norwegian strong |
ship" II is an oil tanker and will be |
capable of carrying $500 tons. 40 feet long |
54 feet beam and a speed OF 1OI5 knots |
an hour. 1t will be the 33Sth ship to be
launched at Chester. but the first In nine
years, since the late John B. Roach went
out OF business,
Arrangements being made for the
funeral OF Andrew Anderson, 20 years old, |
OF 1903 North Twenty-eighth street. who |
was drowned when a canoe capsized op-
poslte the intake of the Electro Hydro |
Company plant on the MaEA,'unk canal
Charles Robinburg. 23 years I'D, of 522 |
North Eighteenth street Marion Stewart |
90 years old. and Ethel Stewart. IS years
old, of Collingswood the other occupants of
the canoe, succeede7 in catching hold OF a |
low bridge over tM intake.
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