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EM R.OLLO ROU.INCSTONC HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH HOME EDITION MAKING THE MOST OF FUN AFE ROB OFFie 1 wo Jim, Vol. CI No. 278 16 Slayer Is Freed After 18 Years in Penitentiary PAROLED AFTER SERVING EIGHTEEN YEARS jNMURDER Martin Fleming Had First Been Sentenced to Death Governor Pinchot has approves! commutation of the sentence of Martin Fleming, Dauphin county, to permit his parole from the Eastern Penitentiary. Fleming killed his mother in law in Harrisburg in the spring of 1913, and the following year he was sentenced to be hanged. Two months later his sen tence was commuted to life imprisonment and the second commutation today makes him eligible for parole.

Fleming said he killed his mother in law when she ordered him out of her house after he had gone there to bid good by to his children who were living there witn his wife from whom he was separated. The case of LawTence Gibson, Philadelphia, who killed John Thomas on April 10, 1904, in the Houston Club, Philadelphia, during a fight, was held under by the State Board of Pardons. The Governor approved commutation of the sentence of Jack Valentino, Clinton county, who was convicted of the murder of Howard Wagner at Avis on September 7, 1925. The commutation of his sentence from life imprisonment to second degree murder automatically (Continued on Page 13) FORMER BOY KING LONGS FOR MOTHER SENT INTO EXILE Bv Associated Press Bucharest, Nov. 21.

Michael, boy crown prince and former King of Rumania, was lonesome for his mother today. Former Queen Helen, who is divorced from King Carol and exiled from the court, saw her son for a brief fifteen minutes yesterday as she rushed to Germany to the bed side of former Queen Sophie of Greece, her mother who is ill. The train made a brief stop at Sinaia, where Michael is staying and the boy dashed aboard. He threw himself into his mother's arms and was scarcely able to tear himself away when the time to leave came. Michael is 10 years old.

1 GRANDI LEAVES FOR BALTIMORE By Associated Press Philadelphia, Nov. 21. Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister and Signora Grandi, after viewing the art collection of Joseph E. Wide ner, one of the finest in the United States, left at 12.32 p. m.

today for Baltimore. AL CAPONE TO SPEND CHRISTMAS IN CHICAGO JAIL Chicago, Nov. 21. It looks now like Alphonse Capone is going to spend Christmas in the Cook county jail. The United States circuit court of appeals yesterday "extended to December 15 the time for filing of the record of his income tax.

trial, on motion of defense counsel. With fifteen periods allowed to permit the filing of defense and government briefs and replies, it was expected that oral arguments on Capone's appeal would not be heard until the latter part of January, with a decision some weeks later. Capone was sentenced to eleven years following his conviction In Federal court. Bank Robbers Sentenced Mt. Clemens, Nov.

21, (JP) James Overstreet and James McCoy pleaded guilty in circuit court today to holding up the First National Bank here. Overstreet was sentenced to thirty five to sixty years the branch prison at Marquette ind McCoy to twenty five to fifty (rears in the state prison at Jack ion. 4 Railway Leaders in Parley New York, Nov. 21, (JP) Railroad presidents and representatives of one unions were expected to their joint conference here day with an "understanding" ffhich, it was said in railroad cir may result in a voluntary re iuction of wages on most lines. PAGES M1iSSTJSSm HARRISBURG, SATURDAY, EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1931.

LIU Aided Son Charged with conspiring to aid the escape of his son, Herman, (lower), to California, following the murder of John W. Anderson, a milk company collector, Herman S. Duker (upper), prominent business man of Baltimore, has posted a $5000 bond guaranteeing his appearance to answer to the charge. Captured in California, the son was brought back to Baltimore and sentenced to death. ARSON SUSPECTS FREE; CIRCULAR SCORES POLICE Justice Discharges N.

0. Eckels and Clarence Behrens, Carlisle Carlisle, Nov. 21. As two Carlisle arson suspects were discharged today, a circular protesting police and newspaper methods in the case was distributed at the office of the Chamber of Commerce. Following a fire early in the morning of November 5 at the N.

O. Eckels building, 21 South Hanover street, Eckels, who had a store on the second floor of the building, and his employe, Clarence W. Behrens, were charged with arson. Fire Chief James Dysert submitted evidence to the bureau of fire prevention of the State Police and demanded an investigation. Skeleton Identified Media, Nov.

21, (P) The skeleton of a young woman found by gunners near Newton Square on November 13, was identified today as that of Miss Kathryn Putney Birds all, a registered nurse of New York. EXILED FAMILY PLANS RETURN By Associated Press Inssbrueck, Austria, Nov. 21. Fifty Tryolese communities today declared their readiness to bestow rights of ordinary citizenship on young Prince Otto of Hapsburg to facilitate a legitimist plan to bring the former royal family back to Austria. Prince Otto, claimant to the Austrian throne, is a student at the University of Louvain in Belgium.

He is living there with his mother, former Empress Zita. There have been frequent reports that he and his mother were preparing for his restoration. PLANE DESIGNED FOR 1000 MILES AN HOUR AT 10 MILE ALTITUDE Cleveland, Nov. 21. A long, all metal monoplane designed to fly 1000 miles an hour through the stratosphere and keep pact with the clock is being tested in Germany.

Construction of the plane, conceived by Dr. Hugo Junkers, famous aircraft builder of Dessau, was revealed here by C. S. Von Heyde J'ampf, research engineer of the Baidwin Southwark Corporation of The plane, built of duraluminum, was finished last August and since then has been given tests prelimi fa)Rl mm BROTHERS WHO POSED 30 YEARS AS SISTERS DETERMINE TO BE MEN By Associated Press Anderson, Nov. 21.

Two fully grown brothers who said they had been reared from birth as girls, have applied for a judicial decree officially designating them as men. The trothers Nola Lee and Geneva Armstrong, aged 31 and 33, respectively filed a petition in the circuit court asking permission to assume. the Christian names on Noel and Gene. In effect, attorneys said, the action asked the court to designate their sex as masculine. CITY SOLICITOR GIVES OPINION ON ZOO OPERATION Maintenance by City Legal, He Answers Query of Finance Director Any shadow of a doubt city coun cilmen may have had about the legality of appropriating money for the maintenance of the Wildwood zoo was swept away today by an opinion of City Solicitor Paul G.

Eaiith. The opinion was written at the request of Finance Director C. W. Burtnett, prompted by a desire to have the 1932 budget drawn up "strictly in accordance with Third Class city law." "I am of the opinion," writes City Solicitor Smith, "that City Council can legally appropriate money for the operation of the Wildwood Park zoo as an incident to the power ex pressly granted it to acquire and maintain public parks." No Legal Objection Hitherto the $6500 item for the maintenance of the zoo was included under the item: "For the payment of the cost of maintaining parks, playgrounds, bathhouse and bathing beach." The city solicitor sees no legal objection to this procedure, phrasing his thought as follows: "Assuming that City Council has the right to appropriate moneys for the maintenance of a zoo as incidental to its power to operate public parks, there is no provision in the law requiring that such appropriation for the zoo should be segregated or made specifically. Rather, this becomes merely a matter of policy or detail for council to decide.

"However, the legislative tendency, for purposes of convenience and expediency you can well understand, now appears to be veering away (Continued on Page 13) GANDHI IS SHOCKED BY FASHION'S DECREE FOR LONDON WOMEN By Associated Press London, Nov. 21. Mahatma Gandhi went to a reception last night at the home of Lady Astor, but today he disclosed that the gowns of the women guests caused him to lower his eyes in shame. "Even in tropical India where the temperature often reaches 120 degrees, women never would dream of appearing on the streets half dressed as they do in London," he said. "Western women are mad with their own vanity.

They worship the god of fashion. It is sacrilege for them to allow beauty doctors to mar the faces God has given them, to pluck their eyebrows and distort their features." Send Checks For $65,000 The Camp Curtin Trust Company today mailed out its Christmas Club checks, a week ahead of time. President Robert A. Enders said they, went to 1600 members to the amount of $65,000. nary to flights in the stratosphere, Von Heydekampf said.

At 15,000 meters, or about ten miles, it is expected to reach its maximum efficiency. Two passengers will be sealed In an air tight cabin, which is insulated' against the cold and designed to resist internal pressure when the plane climbs into the stratosphere. A compressor will supply oxygen, and carbon dioxide exhaled by the occupants will be disposed of by a si)ecial apparatus. Ti cabin will be electrically heated. rvi ii ii i The story was that 4heir mother, who had six sons, longed for a daughter and masqueraded the two boys as girls until her death.

The brothers said in their petition that she dressed them in feminine clothing to satisfy her maternal craving. Until their mother's death seven years ago the two boys had never worn masculine clothes. Some of the more intimate friends of the family were aware of their dual life, but there were others who actually believed them to be girls. "SHORTY" MILLER TO OFFICIATE AT ARMY NAVY GAME Coach at Edison Junior High Is Selected as Field Judge E. E.

(SHORTY) MILLER Just as the Army Navy football game represents one of the highest points of interest in inter collegiate football, so does the job of officiating in one of these contests represent the honor felt by an official in being chosen for this epic contest. Such an honor comes to a local official, E. E. "Shorty" Miller, who has been chosen as field judge when the Army and Navy get together December 12. "Shorty" was a star grid player at Central High School and at Penn State during his scholastic days and now is head coach at Edison Junior High School.

AGED VALLEY MAN FOUND DEAD BY SON Mezhanicsburg, Nov. 21. Frank F. Roudymaker, 75, was found dead this morning in bed at his home, 18 West Simpson street, by his son Braynard. Death was caused by a heart attack, a doctor said.

Services will be conducted Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the home and later in St. Mark's Lutheran Church by the Rev. George H. Shiery, pastor of the church. Burial will be In Mechanicsburg cemetery.

The body may.be viewed from 7 to 9 o'clock Monday night. Mr. Roudymaker was born in Perry county but lived here forty five years, thirty five of which were spent as shoe repairer. He was following this occupation just previous to death. All of the thirty five years his establishment had been in the same square in West Simpson street.

He was an elder of St. Mark's Lutheran Church forty five years. Other survivors are a son John, and one granddaughter, Miss Martha Roudymaker, both of Mechanicsburg. COOLER WEATHER FOR THANKSGIVING By Associated Press THE weather outlook for week Monday: Rain beginning Monday or Tuesday, will likely end about Wednesday and be followed by generally fair weather. Colder Monday but temperature will likely considerably above normal until Wednesday.

Much colder Wednesday night and Thursday. SAFE ROBBERS ENTER OFFICES OF TWO PLANTS Attempts to Force Two Strong Boxes in City Fail Attempts to open safes were made by thieves in two city establishments last night or early today city police said. At the International Harvester Company, 712 South Cameron street, the thieves entered the offices of the company by breaking a rear window. The safe was tampered with, hut was not opened, City DetectiveHarvey E. Huff said after an investigation.

At the Whistle Bottlling Works, Tenth and Hanna streets, the thieves entered the office by forcing a rear door. They were unsuccessful in opening the safe. Nothing was stolen from the two places, Huff said. Police said it is the third time that robbers entered' the Whistle plant this year, PINCHOT, LEGISLATORS TO CONFER ON HIS PLANS FOR RELIEF Governor Pinchot has invited ail members of the House Ways and Means Committee to meet him in his office Monday at 4.30 p. for a discussion of his unemployment relief program now before the Legislature.

This will be followed by a conference with all House committee chairmen at 7.30 p. m. The conferences were called, the Governor said, for "conversations about the whole relief question." They will be similar, he said, to a conference last Monday between members of the Senate and Attorney General William A. Schnader. At that conference the Attorney General explained the program to the Senators, particularly in regard to the constitutionality of the various bills Administration leaders have placed before the Legislature for the Governor.

Similar conferences were held with legislative committees during the previous session of the Legislature, the Governor said. The first conference will, follow a meeting of the Ways and Means Committee scheduled for Monday at 3 p. m. Chairman Sterling, Philadelphia, has asked State fisc.il officers to present financial reports at that meeting. The committee, after public hearings on the proposed gasoline, cigaret and billboard tax bills last Monday, decided not to act on the bills until the requested data showed necessity for added taxation.

HICCOUGHS STOPPED AFTER NINE DAYS By Associated Press San Francisco, Nov. 21. A case of hiccoughs which physicians said had lasted for nine days was halted, temporarily at least, here last night when the victim, Harry Hall, 68. was given injections of sodium amytol. The hiccoughing began November 11 after Hall, a night watchman, fell and fractured a vertebra.

Physicians said they administered opiates, carbon dioxide inhalations and ether injections unsuccessfully before using sodium amytol. ministeTIoses gun t0.r0bbers aCamden, N. Nov. 21. The Rev.

Donald B. Lee, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, was disarmed by two burglars who fled when he surprised them ransacking his home last night. Finding the glass broken in the front door on his return, Mr. Lee quietly entered his home and procured a pistol. During a struggle with tht robbers, the weapon was snatched from his hand.

An investigation disclosed nothir.g had been taken. Five Unknown Scores Are Attributed to Haydn Vienna, Nov. 21. Five hitherto unknown compositions of Josef Haydn, famous composer, have been discovered by Dr. Karl Gelringer, custodian of archives of the Vienna Society of the friends of music and are now being published.

according to Jr. Gelringer the compositions rank with the master's flrtt works. The manuscripts include two nocturnes ia and major with orchestral accompaniment, The principal melody was intended to be carried by the "Lira an obsolete Neapoli Squirrel Hunter Shoots Arctic Wolf By Telegraph Stali Photographer. TONY GARISTO "It's not the heat, it's this Jn sufferable humidity," this Artie wolf considerably off "home base" confided to Tony Garistc, 916 James street, just before Tony shot him.1 Tony was hunting squirrels near Camp Hill. He the wolf running toward him, fangs bared, snarling and a vicious, dangerous look in Its eves.

He fired. The wolf snarled its anger and leaped at Tony throat. Tony nrea again and the wolf dropped at his feet, dead. The first shot had wounded the animal. The Arctic wolf's presence here is explained by the escape of an animal from an exhibit at Coates ville.

It has been blamed for nocturnal raids on barnyards in Adams county, near Gardners. GIRL MISSING SINCE 1916 TO BE DECLARED DEAD AFTER HEARING A petition to have Roena I. Shoop declared legally dead and her estate divided among her heirs will be heard January 7, 1932, by Paul H. Rhoads, appointed master to conduct the hearing. Miss Shoop disappeared in 1916.

She went to Pittsburgh to visit a sister, Mrs. H. W. Magruder, stayed there for sometime and then purchased a return ticket to Harrisburg. At that time she was 19 years of age.

With the purchase of the ticket she completely vanished, has not been heard from or seen since that time, Mr. Rhoads said today. While in Harrisburg she lived at the home of a brother, D. J. Shoop, 3497 N6rth Sixth street.

Her estate consists of a $500 bank account, Mr. Rhoads said. AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO WORLD COURT AGAIN IS DELAYED Washington, Nov. 21. American entry into the world court has again been pushed off to some undeter mined future time.

The Root formula for American adherence has been lying on the Senate doorstep since last year awaiting ratification, but the Senators have decided to shelve it. until all emergency legislation is out of the way. Advocates of adherence have acquiesced. Consideration of the treaty in the Foreign Relations Committee is set for December 16. Opponents of the world court claim almost enough votes in the Senate now to defeat it.

The Root formula is designed to meet European objections to reservations which the United States attached to its entry of the court. tan Instrument resembling a guitar. The nocturnes were composed for King Ferdinand IV who was an expert on the J'lira." In the ar rangement now being published the flute and oboe are substituted, as Haydn himself did In the case of some of his other works. The other compositions are an orchestral "divertimento," an aria from an unpublished opera called "Cupid's Darts" and an octet for wind instruments. The discovery created a sensation In musical world, 0 ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HAHRISBDRO JAPAN DRAFTS NEW PLAN FOR CESSATION OF MANCHURIAN WAR By Associated Press London, Nov.

21. An exchange telegraph dispatch from Tokio today said it was reported there that 50,000 Chinese troops are concentrated at Chingchow and was threatening an attack on the Japanese forces. There Avas every indication, it said, that a new Japanese offensive would be necessary in self defense. The Chinese soldiers were encouraged, according to the report, by the announcement of President Chiang Kai Shek that he would personally take over command of operations in Manchuria. Japan Outlines Terms For Possible Armistice Tokio; Nov.

21. JP It appeared possible today that the Japanese government might be willing to accept an armistice in Manchuria if it were made conditional on the cessation of anti Japanese activities in China as Well as armed action in Manchuria. This commission the Japanese representative declared, should carry on its investigation throughout China. He criticised China for her "unilateral renunciation of treaties" and accused the Nanking government of other aggravating acts. What the Japanese want in Manchuria, the little bespectacled delegate said, is their rights.

The work of the investigating commission, the Japanese spokesman explained, "would in no way modify Japan's wish to withdraw her troops as soon as security conditions warrant. GRANDSON OF FAMOUS GOVERNOR HELD AS SLAYER Man Pardoned Once Before Charged With Killing Two Men Memphis, Nov. 21. Isham G. Harris, 38, a great grandson of Tennessee's Civil War Governor of the same name, confessed today, authorities said, that he participated in the kidnaping and slaying of a farmer and a Negro whose bullet riddled bodies were found near here yesterday.

Sheriff W. J. Bacon quoted Harris as saying he was one of a group of men who kidnaped J. D. Smith, the.

farmer, Thursday night, took him a mile from his home and fired seven shots into his body. Sheriff Bacon said Harris also told him he participated in the slaying of Earl Sheridan, the Negro. He said he killed them because they insulted his wife, the sheriff added. Knew Too Much Although Harris was quoted as saying Sheridan was killed Sheriff Bacon said he was investigating on the theory that the Negro helped in killing Smith and was then deliberately slain because he "knew too much." The sheriff disclosed Harris' wife had told him Smith offered her an Insult but the Negro did not. Harris was sent to the state penitentiary for life in 1919 for the murder of E.

Biondi In 1919. Prosecutors contended he lured Biondi away from home on the pretext of selling him a load of whisky, then robbed and killed him. Harris was pardoned by former Governor Alf Taylor, now ill at Johnson City, who said at the time, "no son of Tennessee's famous war (Civil War) governor will be permitted to stay in the penitentiary while I am governor." Harris has been arrested a number pi times, was once accused of shooting his own brother, James Harris, 3rd. LINDBERGH LIFTS GIANT PLANE OUT OF CUBAN WATERS Cienfuegos, Cuba, Nov. 21.

(By Pan American Airways Radio to Miami) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh lifted the American Clipper, giant seaplane, out of Cienfuegos Bay at 11.30 a. today, enroute to Kingston, Jamaica, on the second Lg 1 of the Clipper's maiden commercial voyage to South America. The plane carried twenty one passengers as it resumed its flight into the South. Would Join D.

A. R. Philadelphia, Nov. 21, (JP) Officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution today announced Mrs. Gifford Pinchot has applied ion: membership in the organization.

SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS Japan to Withdraw From Tsitsihar Region Washington, Nov. 21. (JP) Japanese troops will be withdrawn "shortly" from the region of Tsitsihar. Ambassador Debuchi of Japon, so informed Secretary Stimsom today at the direction of Tokio. Debuchi said some troops have already been withdrawn to Chen chatang and the others will be removed southward "in due course." The ambassador had a 45 min ute conversation with the Secretary on the general situation.

Suggest Commission to Probe Manchurian Situation Paris, Nov. 21. (JP) Kenkichi Yos hizawa, Japanese delegate to the Council of the League of Nations, formally proposed at a public meeting of the Council this' afternoon that the League send a commission to determine the facts regarding" the military situation In Manchuria. ZEROBLASthV BLIZZARD'S WAKE STARTLES WEST Death and Suffering Mark Advent of First Real Touch of Winter By Associated Press Spokane, Nov. 21.

Freezing temperatures, riding on a cold wave from Northern Canada, settled over Montana, Northern Idaho, Washington and Oregon today to add to the damage left by a combination of blizzards, gale like winds, rain and snow. Four deaths, scores of motor car accidents, injuries to hundreds of persons who fell on ice encrusted streets and sidewalks, at least 30 men unaccounted for in the Cascade mountains of Oregon and at least five automobiles stalled In drifts with an unknown number or occupants, were details in the picture. Residents of Central and North Idaho were digging from under a blizzard that apparently swung into Montana, accompanied by temperatures as low as four degrees above zero. TWO GREEN EDITIONS TONIGHT Full details of the Island battle between' Camp Curtin and Edison Junior Highs and progress of the Steelton Mt. Carmel and many other games will be carried in the first Green Edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph immediately after the end of the clash.

Between 5.30 and 6 o'clock the complete record of the day's football developments will be published in the Sports Extra Green Edition. It will contain detailed reports of local and college football games as well as scores from all parts of the country. THE WEATHER Saturday, No. SI, 1031. Uavlaliti nil I i Ma.IIv wiin conunuea miia ieraperauro lonignt and Sunday.

Lowest temperature tonight about 5 degreei. Eastern Pennsylvania: Mostly cloudy with continued mild temperature tonight and Sunday, except probably ahowers and slightly cooler In extreme north and ex treme west portions Sunday. Rirer: Hirer stages will continue low. A stage of about 8.S feet may be expected for Harrisburg Sunday morning, r.nmnlatj, Rnnrl Vim 1JU.