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TELEGRAPH 1 MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 6, 1933 HARRISBURG RANSOM DEMAND OF $20,000 MADE IN MYSTERIOUS NOTE Wife of University Dean Missing After Fake Telephone Call By Associated Press Los Angeles, Feb. 6. Presumably the victim of kidnapers, Mrs. Mary B. Skeele, 65, wife of Walter Skeele, dean of music of the University ol Southern California, was the ob ject of an intensive police search to day.

A note, left by the kidnapers, indicated the woman would be killed if the affair was reported to police and if $20,000 ransom was not paia. "I have no enemies that I know of, and certainly am unable to raise $20,000." said Skeele. Mrs. Skeele was informed last night over the telephone her husband hac been seriously ill in a traffic accident and was in the emergency hospital, and an automobile was being sent for her. Mrs.

Skeele telephoned her son, Franklin, to hurry to the hospital. The son was unable to find his mother or father at the hospital. He later located the later as he was leaving church. Going to their home, the father and son found the ransom note. COMMISSI0NERROYAL SEES DECREASE IN TAX RETURNS An expression of pessimism regarding further decreases in tax returns in Dauphin county in 1933 is contained in a statement issued today by County Commissioner J.

Douslas M. Royal. Democrat, following the fixing Friday of the 1933 county budget. Estimated revenue for the year is $970,000. "The county controller and the majority of the County Commissioners believe receipts will not drop below those of 1932 as they did last year below the 1931 items.

This optimism I cannot share," Roval said. The 1932 budget estimated receipts from real estate and personal taxes at $840,000. Actual receipts were almost $100,000 less, Roval said. 4 HARRISBURG CLERGY REGRETS DEPARTURE OF DR. BAGNELL Resolutions of regret today were passed on the departure of the Rev.

Dr. Robert Bagnell, now pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, at a meeting of the Methodist Ministerium of Harrisburg and vicinity at Grace Church. Dr. Bagnell will leave later in the month take up his new charge; at the First Methodist Church, i Charleston. W.

Dr. Bagnell will give an illustrated lecture in Grace Church next Monday nierht for the benefit of the Asbury Methodist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. C. W.

Burt nett pastor. i The Jlev. E. C. Myers.

New Cumberland, discussed the laymen's missionary report. The president, the Rev. Dr. Dorsey N. Miller, was in charge of the meeting.

WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF ORCHESTRA ADDS MEMBERS Women who have obtained ten or more season subscriptions were admitted into full memberships in the women's committee of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, directors of the Harrisburg Svmphony Society at the Civic Club announced in session this morning. The society, comprised of associate active and sustaining members, is organized for the purpose of assisting the orchestra. Mrs. Vance C. McCormick was in charge of the meeting, at which ten members were present.

INQUEST IN CAFE SLAYING PLANNED An inquest in the death of Ross Bowman. 21, 234 Market street, Middletown, fatally shot in a fight at a Middletown cafe, early Friday morning was scheduled to be held late this afternoon by Dr. Howard E. Milliken. in Courtroom No.

4 at the Courthouse. Paul Williams. 30. said to be the proprietor of the cafe, where the fight occurred, is accused of murder and is awaiting a hearing before Alderman B. A.

Weills, February 15, at 3 o'clock. Man Is Paroled Sentence was suspended today in Dauphin County Court on Meryl Turner. 765 South Fourth street. Steelton, who pleaded guilty a month ago to a serious charge. The prosecutrix, Minnie Roberts, steelton, failed to appear at the time and a bench warrant was issued for her and she was jailed.

She will be discharged from jail on payment of costs. The non support court order of Harry J. Cressler, Shippensburg, was reduced from $50 to a month. 4 Creditors Elected Creditors of Dr. Donald I.

Rutherford, Paxtang. dentist, with offices at 30 North Second street, today elected W. B. Bennett, trustee of the bankrupt estate. Bennett's bond was fixed at $3000.

4 Visit in Johnstown New Cumberland, Feb. 6. Mrs W. A. Cookerley and son.

Jimmy, left for Johnstown where they will spend a few days with Mrs. Cookerley's sister, Mrs. W. P. Gohn.

3 Church Officials to Meet New Cumberland, Feb. 6. At the close of prayer services in the Community United Brethren Church, Wednesday night, the official board and trustees will meet. 3 Thieves Steal Clothes Entering 1637 Wallace street, over the weekend, thieves stole clothing and household furniture valued at $75. Nellie Maxwell, of the Booker T.

Washington Hotel, today reported to police. 3 Guest Addresses Class New Cumberland, Feb. 6. J. A.

Sprenkle was the guest speaker for the Men's Bible Class of Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, Sunday afternoon. Queer Quips and Quirks of Fate By Associated Press Wilmington. Del. Police have lot of clothing and a lot of sympathy for a group of boys but the boys proDaoiy worn cam ior eitner, Steamship company officials complained the boys were swimming nude in the cnristiana river. When the boys saw police coming they fled in various stages of undress.

The temperature was only 20 degrees above zero which explains the sympathy. SYNTHETIC APES Chicago A synthetic process of mounting woolly orang utans, in which more celluloid than orangutan is used, has been perfected by Leon L. Waters of the Field Museum. The original hair is embedded in the celluloid, eliminating the neces sirv nf t.nrmintr t.hp Thp snpri mens loos so me nxe tney almost nuapuai uwu wjuucs oiu invite the feeding of peanuts. fered more than a week ago.

Bow TAXPAYERS' PARADISE Rousemont, Que. Rougemont parish will levy no tax of any kind this year. Last year proprietors were taxed 10 cents per $100 of property but this year there is sufficient money in the bank to carry on. ANYBODY HERE SEEN DOBBIN? Cincinnati Charles Turner drove his gray mare to the general store at Sharonville and left her hitched out side. When he returned horse and buggy were gone.

He drove all around in a taxi look ing for her. He didnt lind her, The taxi bill was $4. BRING ON THE MIDNIGHT OIL Annapolis. Md. St.

John's College has canceled its freshmen basket ball schedule not because of lack of funds but for lack of players. Several of the first year squad were put on probation after the mid year examinations, leaving only a lew courtsters engioie. OPEN SPACES NOT SO WIDE Hartford, Conn. A bullet sped by James O'Meara and hit the car he was inspecting on the edge of town. Another crashed through a window and into the wall above Daniel Searl's head.

A third smashed the skylight in a garage. A fourth went through a window, missed Mrs. Peter Daranouski, and ripped a cut in her closet. Two boys, one carrying a rifle, were seized and admitted the shooting "Why," said one, we came out into the country to be sure we wouldn't hit anyone." MI ST DIG IN JEANS? Montreal Four men were digging on the municipal golf course. They had dug a hole five feet deep when police arrived.

"What's up?" demanded the law. "We are looking for the treasure chest with the gold in it." said the quartet's spokesman. "What gold?" "A fortune teller told us there was a treasure chest buried on the municipal golf course The men were arrested for dam aging property. WREATH ON WATERS Chicago Fifteen years ago the American troop ship Tuscania was torpedoed off Ireland and 213 doughboys died. Yesterday 200 survivors honored their dead companions.

A firing squad volleyed a salute as Arnold Joerns. president of the National Tuscania Survivors' Association, placed a wreath on the waters of Lake Michigan. MAGICIaWpLAN FOR ANNUAL DINNER The fifth anniversary banquet of Keystone Ring. I. B.

No. 20, will be held Thursday evening at the new Y. M. C. A.

Building, Front and North streets. Magicians of many Pennsylvania towns will attend. Harold Brown, Lancaster, State president, will preside. 4 Four Hurt in Falls Falls on ice coated pavements and steps sent four persons to the Harrisburg and Polyclinic hospitals for treatment over the weekend. They are: Miss Ruth Gastrock.

23. 2610 Lexington street, bruised right leg; Mrs. Bertha Bonbach, Edgemont, possible fractured left leg; Mrs. Lucy Lee. 25, 903 Sarah street, laceration of the lip, and Anarew sterner, 69.

309 Bessemer street, Steelton, fractured left leg Boy Coaster Hurt Donald Downin, 12, 719 North Sixteenth street, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Downin, suffered a cut over the left eye and bruises of the face in a coasting accident near his home Saturday.

The youth's parents said the sled struck a manhole. He was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital. 4 Held on Theft Charge Jack Mttz. Currant street, near iVerbeke, arrested Saturdav bv Pennsylvania Railroad police, was held in $300 bail for court by Alderman Joseph K. Armstrong at a hearing today.

Metz is accused of stealing coal from the railroad yards. 4 Three Get Divorces Three wives were granted divorces today in Dauphin County Court. All charged desertion. Thev are: Mrs. Essie N.

Tyrell. Ill Evergreen street, from Ned Tyrrll, Orangeburg, S. Mrs. Marie J. Sanderson, 1315 North Sixth street, from Edward G.

Sanderson, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ruth B. Van Ruth, 1946 North Sixth street, from Edward G. Van Ruth, address unknown. 4 To Delay Appointments A quiet Council meeting is forecast for tomorrow.

Mayor George A. Hoverter will not appoint the two policemen until March 1, pending the return of Dr. Thomas E. Bowman, physician to the Civil Service Board. Councilman Samuel F.

Hassler's milk ordinance will not come up as scheduled. Officials are reported as making investigations. 40 Use Gyms Forty of Harrisburgs unemployed attended the gymnasium classes at Camp Curtin and Edison Saturday. Games of indoor baseball, basket ball, quoits, were followed by hot showers. Hours are 9.30 to 11.30 a.

m. each Saturday morning. 4 Auxiliary Meeting Tonight Enola, Feb. 8. The montl'ily meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Enola Fire Company No.

1, will take place tonight at 7.30 o'clock at the firehouse. Mrs. A. J. Schick, president of the auxiliary will be in charge.

COLD WAVE COATS ROADS WITH ICE (Continued From Pate 1) and several toys to his children. He had obtained a new Job In Washington. Two Die in Crash Miss Elsie Degler, 42, Reading, and Richard Scharar, 26," West Plttson. newspaperman, killed in a collision on the Sullivan trail near( Ranson. Calvin Degler, 38, brother of Miss Degler, who drove one of the machines, suffered concussion of the brain.

Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, 49. a sister of the dead woman, also was seriously hurt. Scharar was driving alone. Charles Sabin, 77, Susquehanni banker, killed, and his wife and grandson injured as his car skidded over a forty five foot embankment near Great Bend.

Harry E. Bowman, 31. of Halifax, died Saturday night in the Poly man, a oiaie mguway tytuiuiciii workman, was cranking Ms car which started and pinned nun against a tree. Woman Hurt Near Gettysburg Miss Annabelle Lawrence, 20, Thurmont, was seriously hurt near Gettysburg Saturday night an automobile driven by Wil liam Boyer, of Gettysburg, skidded into a truck driven by Frank Yeager, of Waynesboro, Ice on the Lackawanna Trail at Harrow resulted in the collision of two automobiles and injury to three persons. William F.

O'Brien, of Easton. driver of one car, was cut. Milton Newman, of Philadelphia, the other driver, 'suffered a fractured skull and had both legs broken. Samuel Hutkin, of Philadelphia, suffered fractures of both legs and head injuries. Near Perryopolis, Mrs.

Jane Kunkle. 47. suffered a possibly fractured skull in a crash, and th.ee others were treated for cuts and bruises. Miss Mildred Guy's car ran off a road near Olyphant, rolled over and crashed through a grove. Helen Lucy, Elizabeth Baugh and Sallie Kushman.

cut and bruises, were rescued by motorists. 15 Are Hurt in 11 Accidents in City, Nearby Communities Eleven automobile accidents in Harrisburg and vicinity over the weekend resulted in injury to fifteen. Icy roads were blamed for most of the accidents. Possible internal injuries were suffered by Malcolm W. Graeff, 3532 Derry street, when an automobile in which he, Ralph E.

Wallis, 32, Liverpool, and James Kline dist, Lebanon, were riding, skidded into a pole at Twenty fifth and Derry streets. Klinedinst sustained a cut finger and a bruised side, and Wallis a possible fractured pelvis. The trio were enroute to Graeff's home when the accident occurred. Coaster Hurt George Russell, 1J. 434 Kelker street, coasting at Fourth and Kelker streets.

Saturday night, suffered bruises of the right cheek when his sled and an automobile driven by S. F. Berlin. 56, 202 Kelker street, collided. Earl F.

Eisenberger. 22, 806 South Cameron street, suffered a possible fraotured skull, when his auto and a truck collided in South Cameron street. Injured in a collision at Eighteenth and Derry streets, Saturday night, Mrs. Hannah Paules, 64, 2914 Revere street, suffered cuts and bruises of the face. Mrs.

Paules was riding in a car driven by her daughter, Miss Thelma Paules, "1 Market street. Camp Hill. The driver of the other auto was William H. Gosch. 17, Reading.

Auto Goes Over Bank Mrs. Lou Cunningham, 48, and her daughter. Miss Virginia Cunningham. 19, both of Lansdale. were injured when their car skidded and plunged down an embankment at Amity Hall.

Mrs. Cunningham suffered cuts of the forehead, and her daughter, a fractured right collarbone. Injured in an automobile accident at Coatesville yesterday, Paul Williams, 39, Philadelphia, received treatment at the Harrisburg Hos pit. for a contusion of the chest. In a collision of automobiles near Hershey, Miss Alice Burdwise, 24, Baltimore, suffered a possible fractured elbow, cuts of the head and face, and Robert Kaufman, 25, also of Baltimore, sustained a cut of the head.

Children Are Hit Coasting into an automobile at Sixth and Maclay streets, Irene Red, 8. and her sister, Lucille, 9, 1609 North Third street, suffered cuts and bruises. Harvey Records, 1628 North Third street, police sail reported he was the driver of the car. When an automobile In which she was a passenger, driven by her husband, skidded into a pole at Camp Hill, Mrs. Joseph Ward, of near Carlisle, suffered a fractured nose.

She was treated at the office of a Camp Hill physician. Miss Marian E. Buehler, 26, 335 Clinton street. State Department of Property and Supplies employe, suffered severe cuts of the face when an automobile in which she was riding collided with a parked truck at Front and Calder streets. Two Women Uninjured as Auto Skids Into Porch at Camp Hill Mrs.

Beardon Kunkle and Miss Katherine Landis, daughter of Merkle Landis, president of the Carlisle Trust Comoany, both of Carlisle, escaped injury noon as their auto skidded on the ice covered highway in Camp Hill, crashed into a porch at the home of Mrs. Irene Wolf, 2128 Market street, knocked down two of the supports and the balustrade. W. H. Goodyear.

Carlisle, owner or tne auto, said Mrs. Kunkle and Miss Landis were returning from tti i i. i rls dStlr wSnS wiid. "I have the replacement figures his daughter. Eleanor, to visit her horo onH tho 1fin pardon me Mr.

Lewis, witKin sister, Mrs H. B. Howard. Mrs. Kunkle said an auto stopped suddenly in front of her In Camp Hill.

As she applied the brakes the car skidded from the highway, went up an eignt root bank and hit the Wolf porch the front wheels stopping at the doorway of the house. The machine was damaged slightly, Mr. Goodyear said 3 Sees Sparks, Calls Firemen District hre companies were sum moned today to the home of Mrs. G. A.

Hoopert, a widow. 165 SouthJ summit street, wnen spams were seen coming from a chimney. Miss Elizabeth Hoopert, a daughter, discovered the sparks, called to her brother John, who was In bed. He turned in an alarm from box 34. Crescent and Mulberry streets.

Firemen said they believed the sparks came from a fire in the stove at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Varner, next door neighbor. FLEES FROM FIRE 1 Xt SPvT i .9 ft MRS. FRANK N.

PAYNE, River view Manor apartments, who with her husband and twelve others, was aiiveii iroin me jvremer muusiun at Annville, destroyed by fire early yesterday. LEWIS CHARGES QUIZ ATTEMPT (Continued From Page 1) started last Wednesday, directed the examination toward the use of Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans in State highway work. Lewis said the Highway Secretary has no authority to use his discre i tion nn simh nrnierts or divert1 money which he explained is alio 1 cated to counties bv the state Emergency Relief Board. Lewis said he is consulted by the board, but makes no recommendations regarding the amounts to be distributed to the various counties. Discusses Wide Differences Witkin asserted "there is something wrong somewhere when a county with 177,000 unemployed receives $122,000 of R.

F. C. funds, and a county with 2100 unemployed receives $152,400." He referred to Allegheny and Susquehanna, respectively, from an exhibit prepared by the Highway Department. Asked who was responsible, Lewis said: "I don't know what the relief board had in mind other than that they wanted the money spent in work relief. I suggest you get the information from that board." "We intend to get the information from that board," Witkin declared.

As Lewis took the stana, Governor Pinchot and Chief Engineer Samuel Eckels submitted to the committee a statement drafted to clarify the secretary's testimony of last week. Governor Gets Advice Under rapid fire questioning by Republican Organization leaders last Wednesday, Lewis testified the Governor designates "absolutely" the roads to toe improved. He said also the Chief Executive "did not ask my advice" on the probable effect ot the Administration plan to take over 53,000 more miles of rural roads. The Pinchot Lewis Eckels statement today said the Governor "does not arbitrarily designate roads to be improved without the technical advice of the Department of ways." It added that "local resi dents familiar with the needs of the county are consulted to check the (Hignway) department recommendations" from both highway and unemployment relief standpoints. Favors 53,000 Mile Plan Of the 53.000 mile plan, the state ment said the Highway Department was consulted and is "completely in accord with tne Governor in sup porting this plan, which is sound, feasible and in tne interest ot tne people." The proposal, it continued, "is the best and quickest way to get the farmers out oi tne mud and "will relieve local, taxpayers of at least $18,000,000 in taxes during tne next two years and permanently thereaiter." Representative Morton Witkin, Philadelphia, began at once his ef fort to have Lewis estimate the cost per mile to construct and maintain low type roads.

$4000 to $10,000 The secretary said he couldn't attempt an estimate but believed the cost would be "between $4000 and $10,000" a mile. Cost $90,000,000 He agreed with Witkin that the minimum cost of reclamation of the 53,000 miles of dirt roads would be 590,000,000. "Isn't it a fact that as a result of the rural program, the main highway program has been neglected?" Witkin asked. "Absolutely no." Witkin said a 1926 survey had recommended construction of 150 miles of two lane traffic road on the main system and a 1929 survey urged expenditure of $26,000,000 for replacement of bridges. He asked if both had not been ignored.

Senator Frederick T. Gelder, Susquehanna, chairman of the committee, toook up the questioning of Lewis. He asked why it costs $313 a mile to maintain rural roads con structed only nine months ago. Lewis gave tnis figure last weeK. Today, in a letter to the committee, he placed the cost at $579.

Fear Gas Tax Boost Gelder told the Secretary some members of the committee would like to have the State take over the 53 000 mile orouram but want to determine whether the department I can "bear the load" without increas 1 inz the gasoline tax. Witkin renewed his questioning, asking whether the reduction of durable road type from 659 miles in 1930 to 72 miles in 1931 was due to the rural road program. After another conference with his department aides, Lewis replied: "What do you refer to as durable type?" "Those on the main highway system," Witkin replied. "Your highway department should know what type of road that is." Lewis went into another huddle with his assistants and said the 659 miles in 1930 included an extensive replacement program. Lewis, on lurtner questioning said the State emergency relief allocates the Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds used in highway construction in counties but that he.

himself, spends the money. Witkin then proceeded to delve into the amounts spent in each county and the number ot unemployed. $2000 Savin; Monthly savings of two thousand dollars in handling of time and payroll records for all hourly employes of the Department of including the huge army of laborers engaged in work relief, has been accomplished, Secretary Sam Lewis today announced. Revision of the record system to eliminate heavy n.aillng expense and cut down the volume of paper work account for the economy, High UTILITY SHARES FAIL TO INCREASE IN DULL CURB TRADE Bv Associated Press New York, Feb. 6.

Price changes In the Curb market were narrow today. Occasional heaviness among utility shares was attended by no increase in volume, but the group failed to develop much rallying power. Electric Bond and Share dipped below 15 before noon, showing a moderate decline from Saturday's close. United Light tended to firm and a small early dip by American Gas and Electric was followed by recovery of the ground lost. American Superpower and Cities Service eased.

Aside from the metal Issues, there tive liffla lifo in enoplalflAe artri In. 1 rlustrials. Parker Rust Proof was listless oh its dividend news of the past weekend, directors having de jiclared a payment of 62 cents. The last dividend, in November, was 50 cents. Singer Manufacturing held above par on one of its infrequent appearances.

Great Atlantic and racinc, quoted extra dividend, DOin regular and extra, ruled above 140. insurance company or PJortn America sagged a point. Cord Corp. dipped slightly. Oils were inactive.

INDUSTRIAL BONDS ARE QUIET WITH FEW CHANGES IN PRICES Bv Associated Pits New York, Feb. 6. The Bond mar ket again pursued an irregular course today, with practically all categories showing considerable variability in nrice movements, Rail loans presented a decidedly uneven appearance. Santa Fe Gen eral 4s improved their position frac tionally. Great Northern Issues, which yielded ground on Saturday, continued somewhat soggy.

Less pressure was directed against the utility group and several of the high grade issues too evidenced an inclination to moderate recovery, al though gains were small in most instances American xeiepnone ana Telegraph 5s of 1960, pushed forward a major fraction. Industrials with few exceptions. were quiet, with small advances and declines about even. U. S.

Rubber 5s were firmer following last week's selling on the announcement oi a slash in tire prices. $90,000,000 LOAN TO BUY FARM SEEDS By Associated Press Washington, Feb. 6. The Department of Agriculture went right ahead today in its preparation for distributing $90,000,000 to finance farmers in producing this year's crops, and in Congress action was planned to report the "farm parity" bill to the Senate before the week is out. Following President Hoover's signing of the crop loan bill Saturday, Secretary Hyde and his assistants undertook today to draft regulations to cover issuance of loans through six regional offices.

Large stocks of applications are on hand. The Senate Agriculture Committee intended today's hearings on the "parity" or dom'estic allotment bill to be the last. 4 ipfiDMCD 1 IHM DI A VCD rUKlMfilv LI UN rLAIfilV KILLED IN ACCIDENT State College, Feb. 6. Death removed one of Penn State's former football players from the list of former captains last week when Harry A.

Clark was killed in an auto accident in New Jersey. Clark played fullback on the Lion eleven for four seasons. being captain in his senior year, 1916. Clark broke into the game as a freshman, filling the position vacated the year before by Pete Mauthe, one of State's greatest fullbacks. He held the position against all for the four years.

Mifflintown Notes Mifflintown, Feb. 6. Mrs. Harry Bilmyer, of Washingville, visited her sister, Mrs. Thaddeus Vincent, Orange street, last week.

Miss Mary Guss had a slight stroke at her home in North street, Thursday morning, and she is un der the care of Miss Mildred Kauffman. a trained nurse, from the Lewistown Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Johnson have moved to Shermanstown.

Mrs. Johnson was formerly Miss Elsie Sowers, of North street Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pamell, of Minim, announce the birth of a son. Darren Edward, January 28 The bcouts, in charge of Scoutmaster Arthur Zeiders, of Mifflin, and Assistant Scoutmas ter Cyril Kepler, hiked to Spergal myer Gap on Friday.

Mrs. Emma Wilson, of Altoona, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mah lon Guss. North street. Dr.

B. F. Long returned Thurs day to his home in Mifflin from the Lewistown Hospital, where he was under treatment for an In fected arm, Taxpayers of Mifflin and Mifflintown met in the courthouse Friday evening ana discussed tax proo 1 Mrs. J. S.

Warner, of West Orange street, attended the commencement exercises in Camp Cur tin High school, Harrisburg, re cently. on the occasion of the graduation of her daughter, Erma. MLs Katherine Mathers, Main street, is visiting in Sidney, Ohio. xne Rev. w.

r. Jones repre se.ted the Methodist Church at the sessions of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches In Harrisburg last wees. Costly Short Cuts In Pennsylvania the crossing between street intersections caused 213 accidents involving motor vehicles and pedestrians in December, according to the division of safety, Department of Revenue. Twenty seven of these accidents were fatal, and 186 resulted In non fatal Injuries. Addison Mizner Dies Palm Beach, Feb.

9, (JPi Addison Mizner, 69, world traveler and architect, who developed a distinctive Spanish type of architecture In Florida, died of heart disease at his villa here yesterday. 1 Have Kitchen Rest Corner A comfortable corner should be arranged in every kitchen where the homemaker can drop down for a rest while keeping an eye on the cooking food. It should include a comfortable chair, a small table or shelf and the mending basket. Sharks' fins are considered a delicacy In China and form an Important part of every elaborate dinner. Guatemala Is believed to be the onlv country in Central America producing tea commercially.

HOPE TO MERGE WELFARE EFFORTS During January a nation wide move to 'co ordinate activities of all agencies in each state inter ested in the problems of tne pnysi cally handicapped Is being launched in Pennsylvania, launched in Pennsylvania. A series of meetings will be held beginning Monday February 6, In Erie, continuing in various parts of the State until February 22. The chief speaker at these meetings will be Dr. John A. Lapp, former president of the National Conference on Social Work, now director of the National Rehabilita un Association.

The arrangements committee comprises Chairman S. Mervyn Sinclair, director Pennsylvania State Council for the Blind; Sherman Kingsley, chairman, Committee on Handicapped National Council Social Work; Mark Walter, director, bureau of rehabilitation, Department of Labor and Industry; Ritchie T. Lawrie, Secretary Pennsylvania Society for Crippled Children. The program calls for the creation of permanent local and state councils of organizations, groups, and Individuals actively interested in the welfare of physically handicapped persons. Legislation to safeguard the interests of the handicapned which will lead to the discovery, by diagnosis, treatment, training and ultimate employment of the disabled will be promoted by the In addition the councils will seek to overcome the injustice of denial of equal employment opportunities to adequately train physically handicapped persons.

Meetings will be held in Oil City, Warren, Pittsburgh, Uniontown, Johnstiwn, Altoona, Clearfield, Wil liamsport, Wilkes Barre, Scranton Reading, Pottsville, Lancaster, York Harrisburg and Philadelphia. The campaign to organize the local councils will close with the ses sion in Wilkes Barre of the Penn sylvania Conference on social wel fare February 22, 23, and 24. COMMENDS WORK FOR SCHOOL HEALTH In Pennsylvania school nurses, State nurses and teachers are givenl great credit by the State Health Department for unusual efforts to control communicable disease and improve the health conditions in the rural schools, it was announced today. However, conditions found in some sections of the Commonwealth, ac cording to the statement, indicate some parents are failing to apply soap and water to their children before sending them to school. This failure has resulted In a decided increase in the so called filth diseases namely lice, itch and other skin afflictions.

"It certainly is no disgrace for a child to be poorly clothed in these commented Dr. J. Bruce Mccreary, Deputy Secretary of Health. "On the other hand, only inexcus able neglect Is responsible for sending youngsters to school in a filthy condition. It should be understood that the so called filth diseases are contagious and thus develop a real menace to a school room in gen PENN STATE TEAMS HAVE FULL PROGRAM State College, Feb.

6. Penn State sports fans will have a full program of events this week, with boxing, wrestling, and varsity and iresnman pasKet oaii teams in action during the next six days. The boxers open their schedule on Saturday with North Carolina' as the opponent. The basket ball team nlavs Lafavette Wednesday night in a mid week contest; the freshman cagers meet Dickinson Seminary, Saturday afternoon. The wrestling team engages in its second match of the season on Friday night when the University of Michigan grap plers appear on the Penn State program for the first time in history.

1 STATE BRIEFS Butler Fire destroyed an auto accessory shop, a restaurant and a general store with $17,000 damage. West Salisbury Her dress afire from a stove, Mrs. ttioeoe Kaaciine, 92, was burned to deatn. York Riding to church on a street car, John Harry Eck, 66, was fatally stricken with a heart attacK. Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Employment Commission reported a growing tendency among manu facturers to add new lines as a step toward reviving business.

Chester A three story office building and a three store ware house were destroyed by fire with $23,000 loss. A fireman's leg was broken. Philadelphia Surrounded with a crib and toys for his children, Harry Bressler, 38, who recently got' a job driving a taxi at wasnington, u. was killed as he drove to Atlantic City to visit his family. Philadelphia George Schrode, theater and circus acrobat in the eighties, died at his home.

NorrUtewn Seventy six men watching a cock fight near King of Prussia were arrested by State Police. Twenty two who were unable tc pay $35 fines were Jailed. Fifty six fighting cocks were ordered given to needy persons. York Mrs. Lucinda P.

Flinch baugh. 97. who vividly recalled the burning of the Columbia Wrights ville bridge over the Susquehanna at the time oi tne civil war. died. A sister died December 14 at the age Of 94.

Philadelphia Sneaker Grover C. Talbot recommended that the Legislature declare "a moratorium" on the new road building, and that motor funds be used for unemployment relief. Bethlehem Anton E. Weingart ner, 62, who claimed to have in vented the first water motor for washing machines, died. Joe Vosmik.

sensational outfielder. has joined Bill Cissell and Earl Avr11 lit caflcflM mimh of the Cleveland Indians. Vosmik is under 1 stood to have been granted an crease en the basis of hU fine work last, kiwoi I CITY HALL SLANTS Baseball game heralds spring as winter tightens grip; Harry Sheesley reports nine big Jobs In North Sixth street. Spring is here! Ice and snow or no ice and snow. Billy Strange, city highway chauffeur saw the boys In a hot baseball game at Cameron and Hemlock sts.

Sat. El Mell, health dept. inspector, has a numerologlcal device for character reading. How'd they ever miss nicknaming him Pell. Mell! H.

C. Pannebaker's out of the picture business for good. It's potato chips now. Snyder recalling coasting last winter at Paxtang. Geo.

Mumma, City Hall visitor. Finance Director C. W. Burtnett eagle eyeing bills before attaching signature. from 'way back in October.

ever happened the towels for men's wasnrooms' Paul Kurzenknabe scanning map with reading glass, looking ior tnat town of Prosperity in Harrisburg Republican Club plan ning George Washington dinner for Feb. 22. February Sale," sign in sky, lures workers irom tneir tastes. Sam Klein, the contractor, always optimistic. Tuckey, wnen'u tne playgrounds De open No skating yet.

soon And just last week Grant Forrer said, "looks like skating is over for this the ground hog Patrolman Wesley M. Barrick likes only one thing better'n spaghetti more spaghetti. And he doesn't cut it. One of the best rollers In the business. "Nine big jobs this morning In North Sixth said Harry Sheesley, a.

and g. Inspector. What's "A dead cat" certain fire company recently pieced together a 2000 piece jig saw between fires! John D. Weaver, who knows all about paper Clark Cowden and Sam Durburow, looking over big city map. Spring six weeks away.

ELECTION EXPENSE ACCOUNT ILLEGAL COURT DECIDES Pottsville, Feb. 6, (JPh Judge Henry Huck today" handed down a decision that Congressman G. F. Brumm. of Minersville, had incurred illegal election expenses in 1930 in violation of the Act of March, 1906.

He ordered the findings sent to Governor Pinchot for transmittal to the Speaker of the House in Washington. The opinion Involves' Brumm's term which expires with the present "lame duck" session of Congress. tsrumm nas Deen re eiected iorirrmnrn Tf luviftirc another term, beginning next De 1 UtMULKA 1 5 AlNAlUUO cember. The decision held that Brumm's expense account showed he had spent $1344 not accompanied by proper vouchers, and that amounts in excess of $10 were not accompanied by vouchers. Brumm.

who renresent. the Thir teenth, or Schuylkill Northumber land. District, won the Republican nomination in the autumn of 1930 from O. L. Underwood, of Pottsville.

William Wilhelm, Pottsville attorney, filed an exception on technical grounds to the audit of Brumm's expense account as presented to the court. Judge Houck in his decision upholds the. exceptions. 3 PATROL MAY CRUISE NEW STATE CARS (Continued From Page 1) similar number of small automobiles but that the latter are more efficient In year 'round operation and therefore in a final analysis would reduce tne cost or patrol work. Captain Wilson C.

Price, super intendent of the highway patrol, has oeen quoted as being opposed to the change but he is engaged in a study of similar systems and has not made public his opinion. High Accident Evil On the safety side, it is recalled that sixteen Datrolmen have been killed since the inception of the or ganization less than a decade ago, the majority of these deaths being attributable to the hazard of riding a solo motorcycle. There is scarcely a week goes by when there is not a patrolman in hospital or on sick leave as a result of accidents on the highways. These accidents, it is contended, would be lessened by the use of automobiles. Automobiles can operate in any kind of weather, patrol officials have pointed out, when both solo and sidecar motorcycles cannot function.

Comfort of operating personnel has much to do with its efficiency, also, and this is considered a strong argument by the proponents of the automobile scheme. Could Use Radio Finally, modern automobiles with their speed and maneuverability can do almost everything that can be done by a motorcycle, it is argued, and are less difficult to operate. Short wave radio equipment could also be utilized, it is expected, to good effect. While the moral effect ot the gray clad, familiar figure on his red motorcycle has been incalculable on the highways of Pennsylvania, the public would soon recognize the familiar colors of the police cars, it is contended, and in addition, a small number of motorcycles would always be kept available lor un usual work. LION CAGE MANAGER OFTEN DONS UNIFORM TO PLAY WITH SQUAD State College.

Feb. 8. If the Penn State basket ball team should suddenly find itself without a re serve player in a pinch when on an away from home trip, the Lion cagers might draft their, student manager to fill the gap in the line Sp. The present manager, Harry icholson. frequently discards his scoreoook ana cnarts to oon a uni form and nractice with the cagers.

Dictators at nractices declare that Nicholson missed his calling In go ing after the managership and should have tried out for the team. Although scarcely of varsity calibre as a piayer, mcnoison is sunicientiy adept at the game to elude varsity men occasionally and score a basket in the nractices. His home is In Wllmerding and he is a graduate of Turtle Creek High School. Sues For Divorce Mrs. Edith M.

Perrin today filed suit in divorce in Dauphin County uourt against Stanley w. Perrin, Harrisburg, R. D. 3. She charges cruelty.

ilia MciiOD toaij. GERMAN PRESS IS MUZZLED BY HITLERS DECREE Suspension For Papers Printing News Not Favorable to Him Br Associated Press Berlin, Feb. 6. Despite the protest of the German Press Associa tlon the government today promulgated a decree "for public safety" containing drastic curtailments of the freedom of press and assembly. Signed by President Von Hinden burg, the decree permits newspaper suspensions up to four weeks and, In case of repetition of an offense within three months, suspension up to six months.

While hitherto, newspapers could be suppressed onlv for treason. Chancellor Adolf Hitler's cabinet was empowered now to forbid publication for "insulting" or for making officials appear contemptuous, for I denouncing institutions of the gov ernment ct cnurcii, ior inciting to a general strike or a strike in key industries and for endangering the interests of the state through palpably "false news." Meanwhile Vice Chancellor Franz Von Papen, as Prussian commissioner, was busy today devising means of dissolving the Prussian Diet. CONGRESTUNABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS IN FLOW OF TALK By Associated Press Washington. Feb. 6.

Congress is resigned to accomplishing virtually nothing of consequence in its short remaining time, but it continued to day its normal activity, broken only by memorial services for Calvin Coolidge at a joint session of Senate and House. This formal ceremony in the House chamber was not intended by Senate leaders to interfere with resumption of the long drawn out debate on the billion dollar appropriation bill for the Treasury and post office, and committees of both branches preceded it with regular hearings. The House, however, planned adjournment right aftjjr the memorial exercise. Speaker Garner already has proclaimed the uselessness of the House putting through any further legislation, having seen a number of highly important bills run into a perfectly hopeless jam in the Senate. For the rest of this week House business will be minor legislation.

1 TO GET JOBS FROM NEXTPRESIDENT Bv Associated Press Miami, Feb. 6. Democratic party workers were converging on this temporary headquarters today as James A. Farley, national chair man, and other leaders studied a patronage distribution plan for the attention of President elect Roosevelt. Apparently sensing the approach of office holders, the Democratic chieftains gave out the word last night that high pressure campaigns for jobs would be futile that merit and party service were to be the tests.

It also became known that protests have been received from senatorial sources against the inclusion of too many Senators in the Roosevelt cabinet. But just what Mr. Roosevelt's ideas are about this is problematical. He was anchored last night under Stirrup Cay in the Bahama Islands group after an apnarently unsuccessful first attempt at fishing on his yachting cruise. He planned another fishing trip today after visiting Nassau, in the Bahamas, to get a fish pilot and bait.

mollisonbegTns flight from england to south america By Associated Press Lympne, England, Feb. 6. Captain J. A. Mollison, noted long distance flyer, took off from Lympne at 8.11 a.

m. today on a 4800 mile flight by stages to Brazil. "I shall probably come down and refuel either at Barcelona or Cartagena, Spain, and carry on through the night, heading for Thies, in French Senegal, Captain Mollison said. "I hope to reach there in two and a half days and then start the 3000 mile ocean hop across the South Atlantic to Port Natal." GIRL JUMPSTrOM WIND0WJ0 DEATH Chicago, Feb. 6.

A fit of jealousy was believed by investigators, they said today, to have prompted Miss Vera'Haybum, 25 year old unemployed stenographer to leap to her death from the thirty third floor of the Medinah Athletic Club building after a visit to a night club with Albert Russell Erskine, 24, adopted son of the president of the Studebaker Corporation, motor car manufacturer. The young woman's body, broken aid frozen, was found by a chambermaid early lying on a ledge eight stories below Erskir.e's room. Police expressed the opinion that the girl had gone to Erskine's apartment to demand an explanation of what she considered an affront, and, not finding him there, she became morose and leaped to her death. CHILDREN DROWN IN POND AT PLAY By Associated Press Highland Falls, Feb. 6.

The Sy that new, white snow brings children meant tragedy to the family of Lieutenant Godwin Ord way, of West Point. His son Albert, 7, and daughter Margaret, 4, looked out the window yesterday and saw shining whiteness everywhere. "Please, can we go out and play in it," they begged, dancing up and down In their eagerness. They were permitted to go, and they didn't come back: Following tiny footprints, the father found them drowned In a small pond that holds only six feet of water. They apparently had slipped on the snow covered bank and fallen in the pond.

Children Heirs Three children are named heira to the $4000 estate of Mrs. Laura C. Reigle, late of Lykens. A son, John Reigle, is executor,.