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jected Rebel advance in province today. Rome, Sept. 3. The press ministry announceed today an Italian worker had been killed in Barcelona and that Italian naval forces in Spanish waters probably would be increased. Armored cars, spitting machine fire, moved on hapless irun to Out Par 445 Snead 345 In Par 545 Snead 445 or better.

435 525 534 524 443 36 44335 4433773 5333570 Early starters in the opening round of the fourth annual Hershey golf tournament found the hazardous course more than a match for their scores to par 73 Among the first to finish his eighteen hole round was Ralph Gravatt, Huntingdon, with a 75, two over par, and it was the best card on the score "hoard by early afternoon. Joe Ludes, Blue Ridge Country Club, of Harrisburg, had a 76, and Joe Furigy, of the York club, carded 77 for his first round. ricard nays Far Nine I SCORES ARE EXECUTED AS FIGHTING GOES ON ALONG SEVERAL FRONTS Spanish Rebels Push Forward in Face of Desperate Resistance From Forces Loyal to Government By Associated Press Paris, Sept. 3. Danger of.

a "desperate gesture" to spur foreign intervention may make the final phase of the Spanish civil war the most menacing to the peace of Europe, informed observers agreed Barcelona, Sept. 3, (JP) Gregorio Azana, nephew of President Manuel Azana, died before a Rebel firing squad at Cordoba, the government press bureau reported today. Madrid, Spt. 3, JP) The Socialist government concentrated its Southern military forces against a pro day in a "supreme" assault by Spanish Rebels. Infantrymen pushed toward the government town, its last defenses shattered, behind the screen of steel.

Government batteries at Fuenter rabia boomed desperate defiance. In the besieged city itself, anarchists seized command and built barricades in the streets. They ousted Socialist leaders of the defending militia because the Socialists wanted to surrender. It was almost the end of the seventh week of Spain's civil war, and the action at Irun, just across the international boundary from Prance, appeared the most violent of the Toledo i day. SNEAD SCORES 70 AS EARLY LEADER IN HERSHEY PLAY Large Entry List of Golf Stars in Fourth Open Tournament Sam Snead, Hot Springs, with a 70 card, three under par, took the lead this afternoon in the first round of the Hershey open golf tourney.

He scored birdies on the first, fifth, tenth and seventeenth holes. His card: The Fascist Rebels want the Irun sector as a Bay of Biscay port of entry for supplies and men; they need its oil stores: they want to hold it so General Emilio Mola's northern armies can advance on Socialist Madrid without the menace of a rear attack. Also, they want control of the In (Continued on Page 2) ROOSEVELT AND Officials of Seven Mid West States Prepare For Important Conference By Associated Press Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 3. Thousands of lowans crowded this gaily decorated capital today to seek a glimpse of President Rose velt and Governor Alfred M.

Lan don at a history making meeting of tha rival presidential candidates. As the Democratic and Republican nominees sped to the city for the President's drought conference with officials of seven midwestern states, National Guardsmen, high way policemen and police trooped out to handle the throngs. Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa, host to the conferees, arranged for Mr. Roosevelt and Governor Lan don to meet, for the first time since they' became their party's 1936 standard bearers, at a luncheon behind the closed doors of his offices in the state capitol building. The President's subsequent dis cussions with the governors, senators and other representatives of five of the states were also sched uled in the same sanctuary.

The unique meeting of the Chief Henry Picard, Hershey, rounded Executive and the governor of the turn in 36, even par, but Joe Revolta, playing with him, round the going a bit more diffi cult and had 38. me players are out to capture $5000 in prizes and by late this afternoon it was expected that more than 150 would be in the tournament. First round scores: Ralph Gravatt, Huntingdon 37 3875 Hugh McLellan. Gibson Island 40 3676 Joe Ludes, Harrisburg ...37 3976 Joe Fungy. York 38 3977 Joe Brtnnan, Fort Washington 40 3777 Andy LaPoia.

Florham, N. J. ...41 3677 Douglas Laneham. Staten Island 42 3880 Elwood Brey. Allentown 37 4380 David O.

O'Connell 38 4280 Peter Cassela, Valley Sp L. I. 42 3981 Ivan R. Gantz, Baltimore, Md. 42 39 81 Red Francis.

Belief onte 42 4183 Andrew Gasper. Pittsburgh 41 43 3 E. J. Swireck, Dalton 44 4183 George Milne, Opper Montclair, N. J.

42 4385 Cal Black. Harrisburg 45.4388 Eddie Prokop, Scranton 46 4892 Peter Serafin, Wilkes Barre ...47 5198 coughlIirebuked for political slip, has nothing to say Bv Associated Press New York, Sept. 3. The Rev. Charles E.

Coughlin sought today from his bishop, the Most Rev. Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit first hand word of the Vatician's attitude toward his political activities. Criticised by the Osservatore Romano, authoritative Vatician organ, for calling President Roosevelt liar ana betrayer." the Michigan priest withheld comment until he could consult with the bishop, returning today from Rome, and read the editorial at his leisure. Authoritative comment which accompanied the publication of the article made it plain Father Coughlin was free to continue his political activities so long as r.e refrained from denouncing the Nation's constituted authorities.

aausas was iraugnc wun aramatic possibilities. But their audience was limited. Herring said that when Mr. Roosevelt entered the statehouse after a circuitous drive through flag decked streets from his train he would be seen only by approximately sixty luncheon guests, the conferees and "possibly a few photographers" until he leaves late In the afternoon for his train and a dinner there with the governors. FATAL POLSOnTnG REMAINS MYSTERY Bv Associated Press I Bedford, Sept.

3. Lawrence county authorities and State Police investigating the recent deaths of two women and the illness of two men, all of the same household, admitted today inability to solve the poisoning of the four. IN MINE SHAFT; 6 BODIES FOUND Rescue Crews Push Through Fallen Timbers and Dangerous Gas Bv Associated Press W. Sept. 3.

Weary of two more miners to the surface of the Macbeth mine today, raising the known death list from an ex plosion to six, and spurring the hunt for four more men trapped in the pit. More than 100 feet of rock and dirt separated the rescue teams from the four. Officials said they were certain all were dead Ram drenched a haggard crowd at the mouth of the mine while the workers underground moved for ward inch by inch, hampered by falling timbers and gas fumes. About 1000 persons stood about the property, among them the wives and relatives of the trapped men. Rescue operations centered about 600 down and two miles from the mine's main entrance.

FINDS SIX BODIES IN WRECKED PLANE Seward, Alaska, Sept. 3. Dis covery of the bodies of six persons in pilot Steve Mills wrecked plane on tne Kenai Penmsula was re ported here today by airplane Pilot Al Horning. He took off at once with men, saying he would return later to get additional help in carrying tne bodies out of the wilderness. TORTURED TEACHER SLAIN Mexico City, Sept.

3, (JP) The principal of the village school of Tetoxcuautla was tortured and killed by a band which raided the town, a dispatch from Puebla said today. KING VISITS CEMETERY Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 3, (JP) King Edward interrupted his vagabond cruise today for a pilgrimage to the graves of British war dead at Gallipoli. Mrs. Roosevelt Apologizes to School Teacher After He Told Her to Get Off Road Ridgefield, Sept.

3. Francis J. Bassett, Democratic town chairman, who recently shouted to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to "get off the road" when her car blocked his, showed friends today a letter from the President's wife In which she told of feeling "very humble," Because or her action.

Bassett, a high school economics teacher, said it was a reply to a letter of apology he had written after the incident. The letter, signed "Eleanor Roosevelt," said: "I did not know you had been rude. Perhaps being a little deaf Is a good thing. "I was simply conscious that you had to swerve far out to pass me and felt very humble." Bassett said a car which he later learned was Mrs. Roosevelt's blocked his path on a road here recently.

He shouted as he passed, and then stopped his car and returned on foot to give the driver a lecture. When he recognized the Presi dents wiie, ne stammered an apology and hastily returned to his car. That's all right young man," he quoted Mrs. Roosevelt as saying as he backed away. Golf Stars in Hershey Tourney the way to testing a "Jules Verne dream of astronomy that "dark" stars may be floating about not far from the sun.

Another brilliant astronomical discovery told today was measurement of the size of dust particles which cause the dark patches in the luminous milky way particles farther away than most of the visible stars, but brought to earth WOMAN CONVICTED OF MURDER MUST SERVEJJFE TERM Recommendation For Mercy by Jury Saves Her From Death Chair By Associated Press Greensburg, Sept. 3. A jury of two women and ten men convicted 25 year old Jessie Hankey today of murdering her employer's 14 dav 01a DaDy and iixea the penalty at uie imprisonment. The jury foreman read the de cision at 9.08 a. a few minutes after court convened: "uuiity of murder In the first degree with a recommendation of mercy." This was the verdict asked by the Commonwealth for the dark haired housemaid and carried the mandatory life sentence.

The jury received the case last night and deliberated about three hours before retiring at 11 d. m. This morning after breakfast, delib erations were resumed. A defense attorney said outside the courtroom there probably would be no request for an appeal. Mrs.

Hankey hearl the verdict calmly. She gazed at the floor while the foreman read it. The Commonwealth also chareed her employer, Kenneth Wagner, 30, laoorer, with murder, and planned to bring him to trial immediately: Mrs. Hanicey testified Waener inreatenea to mil her unless she fed the child lye. Doctors testified there was no evidence of poison in the child's stomach, but that lye had been found In the mouth and throat.

2 U. S. TREASURY FEARS CRISISjN EUROPE Bv Associated Press Washington, Sept. 3. Disclosing he would seek $400,000,000 in new cash in the Treasury's September financing, Secretary Morgenthau said today he planned to keep a working balance of around $1,000, 000,000 because of threatening conditions abroad.

i1 1 TO MM HARRISBURG, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936 LANDON TO TALK jFEAR ALL DEAD DROUGHT RELIEF Telegraph newspapers photo Participating in the Hershey Open Golf Tournament at the Hershey Country Club, which began this morning with more than 150 well known golfers teeing off for the qualifying rounds are Joe Turnesa, West Hartford, C. T. McMasters, Pikesville, and Walter Greiner, Baltimore, Md. HIDDEN DARK STARS MAY BE REVEALED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES By Associated Press Cambridge, Sept. 3.

Discovery of seemingly dying stars, their surface not much warmer than red hot iron, was announced today at the Harvard Tercentenary. Invisible to the eye and photo graphed only by their heat on iri rescue workers brought the bodies I frared plates, their discovery opens could just barely be seen under a microscope. C. W. Hetzler of Yerkes Observa tory reported discovery of the "cold" stars to the American Astronomical Society.

His photos revealed the surface temperature of these stars was only 1 1000 degrees centigrade, exactly half that of the coolest stars previously known. The new figure is equivalent to about 1800 fahrenheit. The sun is 10,000 degrees, and many' stars 50,000 degrees fahrenheit. Whether these "cold" stars may be solidifying like worlds just forming is not known. They could be masses of glowing gas.

Their temperature is just a little above the point at which iron crystallizes. THREE INJURED IN AUTO TRUCK CRASH AT CROSSROADS Two Machines Collide and Plunge Into Field Three persons were injured today in a collision of an automobile and a milk truck in the Gettysburg pike at the foot of Shepherdstown Hill They are Mrs. Viola T. Sheeley, 55, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 55, both of Hanover; and Benjamin S.

Shilly, Dillsburg R. D. 4. All were treated at the offices of nearby physicians for bruises of the legs. state Highway Patrolmen re ported the women were passengers in an automobile operated bv Thomas F.

Devine, 26, Hanover R. D. 4. The automobile collided with Shilly's milk truck as it turned In the highway. Both machines then careened from the highway and side by side into a field, stopping under a tree, patrolmen said.

GIGANTIC WAR GAME PLANNED FOR 1937 OFF PACIFIC COAST By Associated Press Los Angeles. Sept. 3. The greatest military and naval force ever assembled Jn Pacific Coast maneuvers will stage a spectacular war game off Southern California early next year. The entire United States fleet of some 150 ships, two brigades of Marines together with Army troops aggregating a force of 4000, the Navy's 400 aircraft and scores of Army fighting aircraft from the first wing, General Headquarters air force, will Join In the training operations.

Center of this theater of war will be San Clemente Island, 58 miles off the coast southwest of. Los Angeles and regarded as a key point in defense of the Nation against a West ern invader. A simulated "inva sion" will be a part of the games. Queer Quips and Quirks By Associated Press FALSE ALARM Si Louis "Attention every bedy! intoned the police radio announcer. "An airplane has crashed at Walsh Memorial Stadium." A police car, emergency truck' and ambulance hurried to the scene.

The report was correct, but the wrecker and ambulance weren': needed. What crashed was a real istic model with a six foot wing spread and a gasoline motor. CASE DISMISSED Santa Barbara, Calif. When the United States flag was missed from its place atop a high staff in front of the city hall, police quickly got busy to find the one who stole it. A Spanish American War vet eran soon walked in with it, ex plaining he had seen it flying after sunset and had taken the step indi cated by recognized flag etiquet.

MOONSTRUCK mclook, Neo. A harvest moon beamed down on Bob Puelz as he sat on the Veranda of his hotel Along came a stranger, Puelz reported to the police, and called his attention to the sight with "isn't that a dandy moon, friend? jrueiz saia ne took a long, ap proving look. When he looked down the stranger had disappeared, So had his wallet, containing $29. DROUGHT VICTIMS Des Moines, Iowa. Because Gov ernor Clyde L.

Herring had made plans to entertain some sixty guests at President Roosevelt's drought conference today, prisoners at the county Jail were unable to enter tain any. Sheriff Charles Keeling post poned visitors day at the jail "be cause we'll need every available deputy to aid in handling traffic and escorting distinguished guests. HITCH HIKING ON THE PLUSH La Crosse, Wis. A persistent hobo cat which picked a fast Bur lington Railroad passenger train as its medium of travel was stranded today somewhere in Wisconsin and trainmen hoped they'd seen the last of him. The cat boarded the observation platform at Chicago.

The conduc tor kept putting him off, but he just climbed on again as soon as the train started, and so it went all the way to Minneapolis. Near Hager, on the return trip, he was banished again and the train outeped him down the tracks. LEMKE PHITIONS ARE STUDIED CLOSELY The elections bureau said it was undetermined whether it could put the names of William Lemke, North Dakota member of Congress and Thomas C. O'Brien, Boston lawyer, on Pennsylvania's ballots as Royal Oak party candidates for President and Vice President, respectively. In other states they are running on the Union Party ticket.

James H. Wallace, director of the bureau, said petitions filed yesterday were being checked to determine whether they meet legal requirements before being turned over to Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence for formal filing. Tomorrow Is the final day on which petitions may be filed. 700 AUTOS TO BE IN CARAVAN FOR ALLENTOWN TRIP More than 700 automobiles are ex pected to be in the Republican motorcade, which will leave here Saturday morning at 9 o'clock for Allentown where Colonel Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential candidate, will speak at the fair grounds. Dr.

J. K. Loewen, chairman in chief, said that there is a strong possibility that Cumberland and Perry county Republicans will Join with Dauphin county in the "Greet Knox" program. A meeting is being held this afternoon. Sylvester (Jim) Keener Is assist ing Dr.

Loewen in completing de tails. These two co operated closely in arranging the West Middlesex trip to welcome Landon. All who have cars or who desire a ride should get in touch with Dr. Loewen at his office, 325 Market street, or phone him at 3 6884. This will facilitate transportation arrangements.

He said: "When you telephone or call, tell us how many you can haul. If you are after a ride with someone else, tell us how many. Arrangements will be made." Leave at 9 The local group will leave City (Continued on Page .1) HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WEATHER Showers Founded 1831 Vol. CVI No. 211 20 PAGES Dally except Sunday.

Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG FINAL HOME SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS France Fears Attempt Brewing to Start World War YANKEE PILOTS FIGHT CLOUDS AND RAIN FOR FAST OCEAN CROSSING Richman and Merrill Forced Down in Wales When Radio Fails and Gas Supply Is Nearly Exhausted (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press) Liwynceiyn, uarmartnensnire, South Wales, Sept. 3. Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, American airmen out for a round trip, Atlantic Spaning speed test, landed in a South Wales field today, out of gasoline but safe. Flying "about 11,000 feet high all the way," the night club owner and actor from New York and his veteran pilot, sped across the Atlantic from new York in less than eighteen hours to outshine the speed feats of an imposing list of ocean pilots. "It was a comfy trip," said the sleek haired Richman, not a whit perturbed by landing 175 miles short of his Croydon Airdrome goal.

"We are not going to fly back to America right away." Plane Not Damaged Unhurt and with their powerful, low wing monoplane the Lady Peace, undamaged, the Americans came down in a field near here at around 4:15 p. m. (10:15 a. m. Eastern Standard Time), after flying about 3300 miles in approximately eighteen hours and thirty eight minutes.

They had, however, been reported off the western Irish coast fifteen hours and forty minutes after their takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field. Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon. LONG DELAY MAY HOLD UP BALLOT ON CONSTITUTION Technicality Threatens Pro posals For Two Important Tax Measures Bv Associated Press State officials uncovered today a technicality which they said might delay submission of two proposed Constitutional amendments to the voters for final apprcval, from 1938 until 1943. The amendments would permit a graduated income tax and provide a maximum tax of 10 mills on real estate by 1943 after gradual annual reductions. Both will come up for passage a second time at the 1937 Legislature.

However, officials expressed be lief a requirement thai proposed re visions in the State's basic law be advertised three months prior to the general election after the first Leg islature approved them, would prevent the amendments from coming up for a vote by the people in 1938, (Continued on 1 Page 2) STUDY MARINE NEEDS Washington, Sept. 3, (JP) Con tending that 350 new ships are needed to put the American Mer chant Marine on even terms with foreign vessels shipping board bureau officials reported today they are laying tentative groundwork for a large construction program. REGISTRY LISTS WILL SHOW G. 0. P.

GAIN IN COUNTY Registry assessors of Dauphin County made returns of the fall registrations at the office of the County Commissioners today. Warren E. Lyme, clerk to the board, said he expects registrations to be about the same as those in the spring. From early returns compiled he predicted an increase in Republican registrations, together with a corresponding decrease in Democratic listings. Coincidences were noted in the returns of Ralph Miller, assessor of the First Ward, Millersburg.

In that precinct, registrations of Republican men and women are exact ly the same 284. The total registration for the ward this fall, 976, is exactly what it was in the May registration. Other registrations in Millersburg, First Ward, are: Democratic men, 120: Democratic women, 68; Prohibition women, undeclared men, 85, and undeclared women, 133. GANDHI IS ILL Wardha, Central Provinces, India, Sept. 3, (JP) The Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationals leader.

lay ill to day with malarial fever at a small village where he has taken up WOMAN KIDNAPED BY 3 IN TRUCK From New York to the place where they landed the distance is roughly 3300 miles, by the great circle route which they followed on the eastward of their pro jected round trip flight between New York and London. Merrill and Richman were forced to land because of fuel shor age. the airport officials announced, and may proceed to Croydon if addi tional gasoline can be made avail able quickly. Hard rains on the eastern end of their Journey, it was assumed, caused a heavier fuel drain than had been expected. Fast Time The time of their landing was nob given, but it was believed to have been about 4.15 p.

m. (10.15 a. Eastern Standard Time). This would make their elapsed time from Brooklyn to the point of landing 18 hours and 38 minutes, for an average speed of between 185 and 190 miles an hour. One of the best previous average speeds for an eastward transatlantic trip was about 170 miles an hour, made by Mattern and Griffin in '932 on their 3000 mile hop from Harbor Grace to Berlin, In an (Continued on Page 2) IS BADLY BEATEN Former Firm Actress Forced to Ride in Covered Van By Associated Press Los Angeles, Sept.

3. A former screen bathing beauty's story of a night of terror led today to the detention of three men on suspicion of kidnaping and criminal assault. Marvel Rea, 33, a blue eyed blonda who once played in silent films. staggered Into the Compton Police Station at dawn yesterday and said she had been seized and attacked at midnight by a hoodlum trio riding in a large red truck. Forced Into Van "They offered to drive me home and I refused.

Then they forced me to go with them," she sobbed. The truck was driven into a grove in a lonely section of South Los Angeles, which officers said for merly was a rendezvous for liquor hi jackers. Choked While she screamed, Miss Rea de clared, the men choked her and threw her to the ground where her body was cut on broken bottles. They left her in a semi conscioua condition. Flashed a partial description of the truck, radio patrolmen overtook a red painted vehicle several miles away and placed in custody Harvey Zike, 29; Oxnard rancher; Dan Bailey, 23, and Elwood Gidney, 22.

All three denied knowledge of the alleged attack. SCORE ENDANGERED WHEN TROLLEY CAR SLIDES ON SOAP, By Associated Press Allentown, Sept. 3. Someone smeared the trolley tracks on a steep hill with soap and sent a car sliding down the grade, endangering more than a score of The car was derailed. No one was hurt.

Police said this was the third time in two days the rails were soaped. TOWNSEND TO DRAFT NEW PENSION BILL By Associated Press Los Angeles, Sept. 3. A new draft of an old age pension bill with $200 a month the minimum pensionwas promised today by Dr. Francis E.

Townsend at the next session of Congress. THE WEATHER Thursday, September 8, 1036. Harrisburr and Vlcinitv. Ali flj.nti.rn Pennsylvania: Mostly cloudy tonight; Frl day fair. Not much change In Lowest trmnrratura tonlrht fan Brri.

burg about 47 degrees. RIVER River stages will fall slowly. A star of about 8.S feet, may be expected for Harrisburg Friday morning. (Complete Peport on Page One, Second Section.).