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M. Four Times Each Week in EDITION MARK Affairs Comments and on SULLIVAN Politics National The Philadelphia Inquirer LATE CITY The Philadelphia Inquirer PUBLIC LEDGER VOL. 213, 183 at the Published Postoffice daily and in Sunday. Philadelphia Entered under as Act of second-class March 3. matter 1879 PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1935 1933, WEATHER--Cloudy ab cd eig TWO CENTS The Philadelphia Inanier 100,000 START ETHIOPIAN PUSH TO WIN MAKALE "Ring of Steel" Surrounds City and Italian Troops; Headquarters Are Moved Up From Dessye Giant Counter-offensive Seeks to Drive Fascists Back Into Eritrea; 30,000 Irregulars Also on March By CHRISTIAN OZANNE ADDIS ABADA, Dec.

29 (Havas). -Ethiopia's biggest counter-offensive was launched tonight as War Minister Ras. Mulugheta swung into action with 100,000 troops for a piledriving head-on attack on Marshal Pietro Badoglio's main Italian white forces, centered around Makale. Satisfied that his generals had bound that city in a ring of steel in the last ten days, Emperor Haile Selassie ordered Ethiopia's northern general staff headquarters moved from Dessye to Quoram, which up lies just below Lake Achangi and only 70 miles south of Makale. The decision was regarded as a direct command by the King of Kings to smash at the enemy armies now occupying part of Tigre province and to hurl them back into Eritrea, Italy's northern East African colony.

Flushed with their victories over the native troops of the Italian war machine, Ethiopia's massing tribesmen worked themselves into a patriotic frenzy in anticipation of a frontal battle with Marshal: Badoglio's young and inexperienced white soldiers, who came to Africa in quest of adventure. Drive on Two Cities War Minister Mulugheta counted 011 the of Ras Seyoum and Ras carry the brunt of the armies. attack on Makale. At the same time smaller Ethiopian forces drove forward toward Aduwa and Aksum, the two other most important Italianoccupied centres in Northern Ethiopia. In addition to the 100,000 soldiers poised for a head-on smash at the chief Italian strongholds, Ethiopian military authorities also have at their command more than 30,000 guerrilla fighters who have filtered through gaps in the enemy lines since mid-December.

These forces, ranging behind the enemy lines in comparatively small bands, are credited with having paved the way for the massed coun- Continued on Page 6, Column 1 COUPLE ASPHYXIATED IN ATLANTIC CITY HOME Burners Turned on Accidentally in New Gas Stove Special to The Inquirer. ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. apparently, of an accident with a new gas stove, William E. Roland, 62, a salesman, and his wife, Anna, 64, were found dead today in their home at 610 Drexel here. Two city firemen, Larry Walsh and William R.

Evans, the latter a neighbor of the Rolands, broke into the house when they smelled the odor of gas while passing. They found Mrs. Roland dead on the dining room floor, as though she had been overcome before she realized what had happened, and her band dead in the bathroom. In the kitchen gas was flowing from the burners of the new stove, believed by Atlantic County Medical Examiner Isaac E. Leonard to have been turned on accidentally.

LOST -and Found Every day, many lost articles are returned to pleased owners by means of an inexpensive Wantad in the "Lost and Found" columns of The Inquirer. If you lose don't worry anything just phone your Want-ad to The Inquirer--the newspaper that brings results. Rittenhouse 5000 Broad 5000 Attorney Dies JOHN C. BELL Former State Attorney General, who died yesterday at his home, 22d and Locust sts. JOHN BELL DIES.

ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER GOV. TENER Former District Attorney, U. of P. Trustee Was 73; Famed Lawyer John Cromwell Bell, former District Attorney of Philadelphia and former Attorney General of Pennsylvania, died at 8.05 A. M.

yesterday at his home, 22d and Locust of heart disease. He was 73 years old. Throughout his life he had been active as a lawyer, in the affairs of the University of Pennsylvania, and in public office. For the last 25 years he was of the University of Pennsylvania Football Committee, and for an equal number of years he was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. Sons at Bedside At his bedside when he died were his two sons, John C.

Bell, an associate in the practice of law, with offices in the Land Title Building, and de Benneville Bell, popularly known as "Bert" Bell when he starred on the gridiron of the U. of P. some years ago. His wife, the former Fleurette de Benneville Keim Myers, died in 1916. In recent months Mr.

Bell had suffered with the heart affliction. It became acute on Christmas Day. Two days later pneumonia brought on the complications which caused death. Relatives said yesterday that funeral services will be held in Holy Trinity Church, 19th and Walnut at 12.30 P. M.

tomorrow, with interment beside the grave of his wife at Radnor. Came to Philadelphia as Boy A native Pennsylvanian of ScotchIrish descent, Mr. Bell was born October 3, 1862, in 1 Elders Ridge, Indiana county. There he received Continued on Page 14, Column 1 DROPS SON 4 STORIES TO SAFETY IN FIRE Neighbor Catches Child, but Balks at Wife, Later Rescued by Firemen NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (A.

Michael Vega, 30, tossed his twoyear-old son, Daniel, out of a fourth-story window safely into the arms of Harry Kamp, a neighbor, when fire spread today through the building. But he was persuaded not to attempt a similar feat with his wife, Anna, 24, an expectant mother. She was carried down a fireman's ladder a few minutes later. Vega had thrust her out onto the window sill, but Kamp, who had not known what the excited father was doing until he saw the child hurtling down toward him, cried to Vega to await the arrival of a fire truck which was nearing the place. DOCTOR DRUGS AND CAPTURES DAZED KILLER David Shaffer, Coal Region Outlaw, Trapped by Physician Who Treated Him Captor Finds Gun, Gives Sleeping Potion, Binds Patient and Calls Police Special to The Inquirer.

BLOOMSBURG, Dec. David Shaffer, notorious outlaw of Pennsylvania's coal regions, was captured near here early today by a country doctor. The desperado fell into the hands of gentle, soft-spoken Dr. William Confair, of the Borough of Benton, 20 miles north of here, while police were hunting Shaffer far and wide for the murder of his sister, Bertha Shaffer, 20, and the crippling of State Police Corporal William Bloom last October 12 in Shamokin. Shaffer was knocked unconscious in an automobile accident early today in Benton, a village of 600 and came to his senses in Dr.

Confair's office. He found that the physician had removed a .45 calibre pistol from his belt, had bound his' hands and wrists with adhesive tape, had tied his legs with a leather belt and was in the act of administering a hypodermin injection which reduced him to a state of drowsiness from which he could not arouse himself. Calls Police Dr. Confair, unaware of the identity of his prisoner, then telephoned State police at the sub-station here and guarded Shaffer until Corporal Robert Frick and two troopers arrived at his office 40 minutes later. Police said Dr.

Confair undoubtedly will collect the $500 reward SHIP SUBSIDY BILL TO BE PRESSED AS AID TO NEUTRALITY Copeland Stresses National Defense; May Add to Congress Tangle Special to The Inquirer. WASHINGTON, Dec. subsidy legislation, with its trail of long controversy, was projected into the forefront of the discussion of the impending Congressional session today by Senator Copeland N. chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Postmaster General James A. Farley.

Senator Copeland announced his intention to revive this legislation, which was allowed to lapse although on one of the Administration's early "must" lists for the last session, soon after Congress reassembles on January 3, with a view to carrying out President Roosevelt's recommendation to end the "subterfuge" of loans and mail contracts and to call "a subsidy by its right name." At the same time it was disclosed that the Postmaster General, in his annual report, reiterated his recommendation that a direct method be substituted for the ocean-mail contract method of aiding the merchant marine. Linked to Neutrality This issue was injected into the preliminary program for the impending session coincidentally with further indications that the enactment of permanent neutrality legislation which, like aid to shipping, and even more directly, is linked with the rise of war fears abroad, Continued on Page 7, Column 4 'Eye' Which Finds Origin of Clues Shown by G-men By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Copyright, 1935, by Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Dec.

99 (A. meccanical eye which can see past events and which is made by use of the spectrograph, was announced by Federal men here today as new equipment in their fight on crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, explained this new robot detective at the science REFUGEE HEAD QUITS OVER NAZI WAR ON JEWS American Commissioner of League Says Job Has Been Made Useless by Hitler Edicts Urges Geneva Intercession to Halt Persecution of 500,000 Being Crushed on Charge of Not Being "Nordic" NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (A. Bluntly urging League intercession to halt persecution of Jews, James G.

McDonald tonight resigned as League of Nations High Commissioner for refugees from Germany. His withdrawal letter to the League's Secretary General said the aiding of oppressed minorities required "friendly but firm intercession with the German Government" by the League itself, rather than philanthropy. Asserting Jews in Germany are being starved and deprived of ell economic security, McDonald termed the situation a "challenge to the science of mankind," a threat to international peace, and a source of injury to other States. He scored the part he said Germany had taken in making his relet office ineffective and to his resignation a resume appended man edicts which he cited as the root of the Nazi drive. In a personal statement issued here, the resigning commissioner said he intended to do "everything I can in a personal capacity" to aid refugees.

"My experiences during the past 26 months convince me that nothing less is involved in this tragedy that principles basic to civilization itself," he said. The "one portentous fact" facing the League is that more than 000 persons, "against whom no charge can be made except that they are not what the National Socialists choose to regard as are being crushed," he said in his letter. The former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association returned to his home here recently from abroad and has asked to be relleved of his post December 31. Urges Intercession "The growing sufferings of the persecuted minority in Germany and the menace of the growing exodus call for friendly but firm intercession with the German Government, by Continued on Page 4, Column 5 ON ASYLUM HOLIDAY, WOMAN KILLS MOTHER Patient Was Visiting Parent, 83; Slays Her LAUREL, Dec. 29 (A.

A holiday visit arranged to unite an aged mother and her mentally infirm daughter ended in tragedy today when the daughter, Caroline Masner, 36, shot and killed her 83- year-old mother, Mrs. Mae Masner. The shooting occurred at the home of the victim's son-in-law, Frank Haller, proprietor of a cafe four miles south of here on the Washington -Baltimore boulevard. Miss Masner was visiting her mother for a month, having been released at the latter's request from Spring Grove Hospital, Pikesville, which treats the mentally deranged. Miss Masner secured a small calibre rifle and shot her mother near the heart, according to Sheriff J.

Frank Curtis, and the aged woman died almost immediately. Pleads for Jews JAMES G. McDONALD League of Nations High Commissioner for refugees from Germany, who resigned yesterday and urged the League to put pressure upon Germany to halt persecution of Jews. MILNE KIN TO POST 57500 BAIL TODAY: YOUTH IN U. S.

CELL Family Expected to Visit Him in Jail; G-men Call Case Closed From The Inquirer Bureau. NEW YORK, Dec. with the prospect of remaining in jail instead of landing behind the footlights as he had expected, Caleb J. Milne, 4th, confessed perpetrator of A hoax kidnapping, lay in the Federal House of Detention today, awaiting bail. Although no specific announcement was made, it was learned that members of his family are planning to provide a bond in the sum of $7500 for his release pending trial.

The bond will be posted tomorrow with the U. S. Commissioner here who yesterday held him for the Federal Grand Jury on a specific charge of "depositing a letter in the United States mails demanding $20,000." Meanwhile the 24-year-old amateur actor and apprentice mystery story writer, who has admitted he "faked" his own kidnapping in order to obtain publicity for a stage career, spent a lonely day in a cell, thinking over the greatest mystery plot he ever conceived. Weak in Details It was a plot that failed when little details in the story he told G-men failed to hold together. The whole pattern of the plot, according to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was too much like a mystery story to be true.

The very "ransom note" for which he was held for court had a 'story book" aura about it. Almost from the day the youth disappeared from his apartment here, December 14, police and Federal men were openly skeptical that an actual kidnapping had been perpetrated. Today G-men in this city and in Philadelphia shrugged their shoulders when asked about the case. "There 15 nothing more to talk about." they said. "The case is closed." The case, however, directed though it was personally by J.

Edgar Hoover, chief of the FBI, is not Continued on Page 7, Column 3 BLAST PERILS AUTOS ON PULASKI SKYWAY Kearny, N. Fireworks Explosion Shakes Elevated Road, Blocks Traffic; Continued Flares Hamper Efforts at Control KEARNY, N. Dec. 29 (A. A violent explosion which destroyed a storage plant filled with fireworks and chemicals today shook the elevated Pulaski Skyway, endangering motorists and delaying traffic.

Flames enveloped the skyway for a distance of 400 feet near the plant. heating the structure's steel girders a bright red despite the 11 above zero cold. Skyrockets zoomed over the road. The first blast, at 11.40 A. ripped out the north wall of the storlage plant of the Lincoln Tidewater CITY HARD HIT BY SNOW AND BITTER COLD Suffers With Rest of State and Vast Part of Nation in Winter's Worst Storm; Dozen Deaths Recorded; Eight-inch Fall Forecast Here by This Morning P.

R. T. and Phila. Workers Battle to Keep Traffic Moving; State Crews Attack Driftmenaced Highways; Chesapeake Islands "Frozen In," Ferries Halted DAVID SHAFFER Fugitive desperado of Pennsylvania's coal region, who was captured by Dr. William Confair, of Benton, after he had been injured in an automobile accident.

offered by Northumberland county for the capture of Shaffer. The accident which sent the outlaw to the doctor's office occurred a few minutes after midnight. Shaffer, posing as a hitch-hiker, had held up Henry Rineheimer, of Sweet Valley, 20 miles northeast of Benton, and had driven off in Rineheimer's car. Apparently heading toward his familiar haunts near Wilkes-Barre, the former convict sped into Benton. A witness, Bruce Sutliff, 16, said the machine was traveling at least 60 miles an hour when it skidded on a curve on the approach to a bridge spanning Fishing Creek and crashed into a concrete abutment of the bridge.

Sutliff ran to Dr. Confair's office, three doors from the bridge, and assisted the physician in lift- Continued on Page 4, Column 3 SCHOOLGIRL DYING AFTER AX ATTACK BLAMED ON SISTER Found Lying in Snow; Says Widow Hit Her in Church Quarrel MOUNT VERNON, Dec. 29 (A. Cummins, 17- year -old high school senior, lay near death in a hospital today of ax wounds received, State's Attorney George W. Howard, said, during an argument with her sister, Mrs.

Ruth Laird, 34, widow, over whether the two should attend church services. The girl, suffering from exposure and a fractured skull, was found last night lying by the edge of a snow -blanketed highway a half mile southwest of the city limits by W. M. Mendenhall, a farmer. Recovering consciousness for a brief period this morning, Miss Cummins told police, Howard said, her sister had hit her twice with the ax after she declined to accompany her to church.

The girl said she did not remember how she reached the highway, three-quarters of A mile from her home. Denies Attacking Girl Mrs. Laird, arrested at her home, denied she had struck the girl and expressed belief her sister had been hit by a car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Marshall E. Moore and Police Captain G.

O. Isaac, however, said a blood -stained ax Continued on Page 7, Column 6 In the Inquirer Today Amusements 11 Culbertson on Contract 12 Comics 13 Death Notices 25 Editorials 8 Feature Page 12 Financial 19 to 23 Industrial Review 18 Mark Sullivan 5 Motion Picture News 11 Radio 6 Real Estate 23 Shipping News 23 Society 10 Sports 15 to 17, 23 "There's Murder in the Air" (a serial) 12 Webster Cartoon 12 Woman's Interests 10, 11 Philadelphia and its environs were frigid yesterday in the clamp of a cold wave and a heavy snowfall that played hob with temperature, traffic and the household coal pile, grounded aircraft, lamed transportation services, and isolated one community. Piled on top of the remains of last week's snowfall, yesterday's precipitation kept local traffic at a snail's pace and brought out the snow removal forces of the city and the P. R. T.

here, and of municipalities, counties, and the State in the outlying sections. Sweeping up from the "Sunny South," the cold wave gripped the entire Atlantic seaboard, as far north as New York. More than a dozen deaths resulted from blizzards which hit most of the United States with the exception of Florida, the Gulf States and the Pacific Coast States. Dixie counted five deaths and millions of dollars in property damage, three boys were killed sledding in Western Pennsylvania, and six deaths were recorded in Oklahoma, buried under snow. AIR BOMBING FAILS.

MAUNA LOA LAVA ROLLS TOWARD CITY Molten Stream Nears Hilo Water Reservoir; New Plans Made HILO, Hawaii, Dec. 29 (A. A fiery river of molten lava rolled slowly but relentlessly on tonight toward Hilo's municipal reservoir, despite the bombs of Army airmen, dropped Friday in an effort to divert its course. The lava ceased flowing last night within three miles of the reservoir, source of this city's water supply. and citizens had hoped the menace was past.

But a fiery red gash on the slope of Mauna Loa showed the volcano still was pouring out lava, Hilo business men rushed plans for an emergency meeting tomorrow or Tuesday to devise measures for protecting the water source. "Much pleased with the general Many natives expressed regret over the bombing, insisting it would not stop the volcano goddess from sending lava wherever she designed. "Image" Reported Others were confident Pele would legendary promise to the keep a Hawaiian pig god, Kama Puaa, and not send the lava stream through Hilo. The legend is that the pig god defeated Pele in a fight and extracted the promise. One Hilo resident, reared in a background of Hawaiian tradition, excitedly reported he saw an immense image of Pele hovering over the saddle back area between Mauna Loa, and its dormant sister, Mauna Kea, yesterday morning a few hours after the bombing.

Her eyes bulged like fire balls and her hair swept skyward as if blown by a strong wind, he said. Hawaiians say Pele used to appear in many forms, sometimes as a beautiful girl and on other occasions as an old hag. The casting of berries into the volcano pits as a gesture to Pele is widely practiced. Souvenir hunters and amateur photographers took advantage of the week- end holiday, undaunted by thunderous explosions in the new flows and the razor -edge sharpness of old lava deposits, tween UIDES the are hours on of duty 2.30 beand 9 P. M.

every day except Sunday to show visitors through The Inquirer Building. The mercury moved within a limited area here, ranging from its low point of 11 degrees above zero at 6 A. M. to 16 degrees at noon, hovering most of the time between 13 and 14. Snow began falling at 1.05 P.

M. and had covered the city with a blanket by early evening. The Weather Bureau forecast the snow probably would continue until some time this morning, reaching a depth of 8 inches. Cold to Continue No let-up in the cold is in sight, however, and temperatures even slightly lower are expected tonight. Yesterday's average temperature of 14 degrees, the Weather Bureau Continued on Page 7, Column 1 TOWERMAN HALTS TRAIN WITH OWN DEATH SIGN Crew Investigates "Red Board" and Finds Stricken Signalman GREENVILLE, Dec.

29 (A. engineer slammed on "the air" and brought his Bessemer and Lake Erie train to a stop. There was a "red board" against him. "How long are they going to keep us here?" members of the crew grumbled. Impatient, they waded through the snow to the railroad tower.

Edward T. Lynch, 42, was dead at his post. THE WEATHER Official forecast: Eastern Penn-Partly cloudy today, preceded by snow in early morning; tomorrow generally fair, not quite so cold. New Jersey and Partly cloudy today, preceded by snow in morning; tomorrow fair, little temperature change. Sun rises.

7.22 A.M. Sets. 4.43 P.M. Moon rises.10.24 A. M.

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A few workers in other parts of the plant fled to safety. Cedric Harris, watchman, turned in an alarm. Kearny firemen responded and two more alarms were sounded. Patrolmen Arthur Hildy and George Corcoran, riding motorcycles near the scene, said the skyway shook so violently that their machines were thrown upward. Smoke billowed over the road and Continued on Page 4, Column 1 TUNE IN Listen to The Philadelphia Inquirer's broadeast of lost and found articles over WAIL weekdays at 8.30 A.M.Sundays at 8.55 A.

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