Thomas A. Zender Victim of Accident on William Penn Highway

COMPANION IS INJURED

Party of Young People on Way Home from Dance as Tragedy Occurred

Thomas Anthony Zender, age 23 years, whose home was 529 Linden avenue, was instantly killed about 2 o'clock this morning in an automobile accident on the William Penn Highway near Munday's Corner, Jackson Township, while he and Miss Ilo (?) Burns and the latter's sister, Miss Ruth Burns, and Robert Bingham, jr. of 127 Venango street, Westmont, were on their return to the city in the Bingham car from Ebensburg, where the quartet attended a dance last night.

Zender and Miss Ilo Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burns, of 401 Highland avenue, Moxham, occupied the rear seat of the automobile, which skidded while rounding a curve, where the rear part of the car struck a pole, fracturing Zenders's skull and cutting some deep gashes in Miss Burns' left arm and face. Miss Ruth Burns and Mr. Bingham were not injured. They brought the body of Zender to this city in the Bingham car and Miss Ilo Burns was taken to Mercy Hospital, where she has since been a patient. She is in her 19th year.

The body of Zender was turned over to Stephen Conway, undertaker, who prepared it for burial and removed it to the Zender home. this morning. Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Tuesday morning when a mass of requiem will be said by one of the parish priests. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery in Lower Yoder Township.

Mrs. Annie Swab, Coroner of Cambria County, was notified of the accident soon after it happened. and she will make an investigation later. Mr. Bingham, the driver of the car, and the Misses Burns said the accident was due to the fog. They said the fog was so dense that they had a hard time to see the highway and that when the car skided the machine was not running very fast.

Thomas A. Zender was born in this city July 22, 1904, and was a son of Thomas J. and Catherine (Fees) Zender, who survive him with a sister, Claire, wife of Harold V. George, who makes his home with the Zender family. The deceased was educated in the Johnstown schools. He was an honor student of the class of 1921 of the Johnstown High School and in 1922 _________at Duquenne University in Pittsburg. In 1923 and 1924 he was in the Dominion of Canada. Since 1925 he was a student at the Wharton School of Commerce and __________of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and would have graduated in June of 1928. During the last year or so he was Treasurer of the Open Hearth Club this city. Zender had been employed for the last month and a half or so at the City Pharmacy, Market Street, of which N. V. George, of Moxham, another in-law, or the dead youth is manager. Zender attained some preeminence as a _______ __________playing in amateur ranks in this city several years, also having played in the (the rest is too faded to read.