Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-12
City News in Brief

ClCy NEWS Ill DIlel
J. MILTON COLEMAN. twenty years
old, Of Philadelphia. member of the class
of 1920 IN civil engineering at Cornell Uni
versity. has been arrested. accused OF pass
ing bogus checks. He waived an examina-
tion and has been held to await the action
of the Grand Jury.
BODY OF JAPANESE was found
floating in the Delaware River near Wash
ineson Park by four boys. In his pocket
was an English passport made out TO Hin
suki Oishi, seaman Three japanese
jumped into the Delaware while their ves-
sci was coming up the river and 1t is
believed the drowned seaman was one of
those who tried to enter the port without
passing immigration officials
JOHN II. McFADDEN, JR.. of the Amer
lean Ambulance Corps in. France, told of
the work done by the American drivers and
surgeons on the French front, in a lecture
at the Adelphi Theatre. At the close of
the lecture $4,000 was collected for the
benefit of the American Ambulance.
HIGHwAYMEN ROBBED Raleigh W.
Barbour. of Helena, Mont freshman in
the Wharton School of the University Of
Pennsylvania. Six men held him up at
the point of revolver at Thrty.seventh
and Locust streets and then escaped in an
automobile.
MR.. AND MRS. JACOB LOEB celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary OF their marriage
at their home. 2002 North Marvine street.
Mr.. Loeb is eighty-eight years old and his
wife is eighty-one They were born in
Germany Among the guests at the celebra-
ton were a son from Chicago and a daugh-
ter from Indiana.
BODY OF NEGRO workman was found
in tho basement of the old Grand Frater-
nifty Building. which is being razed to make
room for the Parkway. The man was will
liam Bowen. thirty-eight years old. of PA
North Twenty-first street. It is supposed
a portion of the building collapsed Friday
afternoon, Bowen was not seen after
luncheon time of that day.
ATTEMPTING TO CROSS the subway
tracks at Second street may prove fatal
to Howard Moore, negro, Of Eddystone.
lie is i'm a serious condition at the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital. The man was found on
the tracks with his left leg and right arm
cut off
JOSEPH A. STEINMETZ, president of
the Aero Club of Pennsylvania. believes
that Philadelphia volunteers for the United
States aero corps should be encouraged by
the institution of a free instruction bureau
at the Government station at Essington.
Mr.. Steinmetz believes the growth of Phila-
delphia as an aviation center will be rapid.
G. W. ELKINS has purchased from John
Dlckey Jr. the block of ground between
Fisher and Somerville avenues, Broad and
Fifteenth streets. for a price reported to
have been about S15O,0O0 The assessed
valuation is $4,000.
KEY OF THE sHAARI ZEDEK. the new
synagogue Fifty-second and Columbia ave-
nue. was purchased for $3.50 for ]. II. Brod-
sky, who received with ii the right to be
the first to enter the new building. The
opening prayer was offered by Rabbi Leon
Album Rabbi b. F. Levinthal delivered
the opening address.
WILD AUTOMOBILE crashed into a
talking machine shop at Franklin and Pop
lar street, and struck Abraham Pefant,
eighteen years old. of 416 Sigel street.
breaking his arm. Miss Rose Balinson,
seventeen years old, of Randolph street and
Girard avenue, who was In the car, was
hurled through the windshield. Morris
Goidsteiu, twenty years old. Of 1925 Sus-
auehanna avenue the driver, was arrested,
but was released on his own recognzance.
THREE VERSIONS are given Of the
shooting of Frank Donohue, nineteen years
old, who is in the Pofycllnic Hospital with
a bullet wound In his chest. Donohue says
he was shot by a negro while leaving the
saloon of Richard King. Twenty-eighth and
Wharton streets The barkeeper says DON
ohus drew q revolver and shot himself
while the wounded mans brother asserts the
shooting was accidental. The boy will re-
cover. Z" ~ .