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Crrviio Sta. ANOTHER QUAKE IN VALONA REGION TIRANA. Albania. Nov. 25 fw ine Albanian press bureau reported tonight that new earth shocks in the Valona region have caused the col lapse or 100 additional houses and are continuing.

Quakes In the Valona zone last week caused about 50 deaths and the collapse of more than 900 houses. Forget it! You can forget holiday ACUTE INDIGESTION if there's Bell ans in the cabinet now. Bell ans FOR INDIGESTION BERKS AND VICINITY FLORENCE MAY GIBSON. 45, wife of Irvin E. Gibson, superintendent of the Hendul Hat factory, died of heart trouble at 8:15 o'clock yes terdav morning her home, 1326 Garfield ave WYOMISSIXG.

She was a native of Sunbury. She was a member of the Evangelical denomin ation. The survivors are her husband and one Henry, and one daugh ter, Ethel Gibson, both at home. JOHN KING, 80, of 206 Bernhart HYYDE PARK, died shortly btfore noon yesterday at St. Joseph's hospital, from injuries received in an automobile accident three weeks ago.

lie Is survived by his wife, Sarai Kratz), one daughter, Ida Hilbert, Reading, four grandchildren and tiuee great grandchildren. JOHN W. GRIM, 29, died at 9.40 clock Monday night in LAKE WOOD. N. J.

He was stationed near there, in Lakehurst, with Company a oi tne iuatn infantry. DR. DAVID SAMUEL MARSHALL, 74, died at his home in ASHLAND, as tne result or a heart attack suf Individual Christmas Cards jj your order with your namo 1m ft Jf printrd also bnrlnr a plrture of your home or family if you select 5 then now. 2 4t Idhrijtmx IGreetiivf Olhinne tad Bub Cirtlr. A few it carat can lie Imprinted with your name to match I he type of the card.

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I thought you might likt to know this." ATLANTIC PACIFIC fered Sunday morning. Born In Womelsdorf son of the late Peter and Mary (Fisher) Marshall, he was graduated from Jefferson Medical college. He practiced in Wometedorf before going to Ashland in 1878. For many years a member of the school board, he was later president of the Ashland board of health. He also served two terms as coroner, having been elected on the Democratic ticket.

A thirty second degree Mason, Dr. Marshall was a member of the P. O. the P. O.

S. of the I. O. O. the Junior Order of Mechanics, and of the Schuylkill county and American Medical association.

He is survived by his wife, Mary (Sell), and two sons, Harry, Detroit, and S. Louis, Drexel Hill. The funeral will (Turn to Page Twelve) Two TIMES PHONE 1M THE READING TIMES, READING, AY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, "'1 9 36 tikis pbone STATE NEWS Two Prisoners Escape From Delaware County Jail at Media POLICE SEARCH AUTOS ALL NIGHT Convicts Crawl to Roof, Cross Wall, and Drop To Street MEDIA, Nov. 25 Two prisoners escaped from the Delaware county jail today, and, it is believed, made tneir way to noerty tnroiiRn me dhkc house, then to the roof, and to the street below. A search is being conducted for the men bv state police and county om cials, and motor cars throughout the night were stopped and examined along the roads near here.

The exact time of the escape is not given, but it is beiieved to have taken place betwee.i the regular round of the guard. The escaped prisoners are Edward Gellesky and waiter Rock. Employed An Bakers Acting Warden MeCullough is un communicative upon the subject of the escape, but it is said the men were employed in the jail kitchen as bakers, and had gone to their task between a and 6 clock this morning A painter's plank was used, it is said, to get from the bake house roof to the prison wall, along which the fugitives crawled until they could drop to the roof of the warden's garage, and from there to the street. It is believed a motor car was stolen to facilitate the escape. Was Waiting Transfer Gellesky was sentenced to five to 10 years bv Judee Broomall on SeDtem ber 19 last, on a motor stealing charge.

He was awaiting transfer to the eastern Penitentiary. He Is five feet six inches tall, welglis iau pounds, and is 23. Rock is 20, and lives on Mantua avenue near Forty second street, Philadelphia. He pleaded guilty before Judge Fronefleld here on November 7 to the theft of $2,100 worth of steel road building forms, which he is said to have sold for $78. He was serving a sentence of one and a half to three years.

LUZERNE GRAFT EXPOSE EXPECTED WILKES BARRE, Nov. 25 Today's session of the trial of the Luzerne county commissioners and former County Controller Harry T. Butts on a charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud the county were taken up largely with the introduction of documentary evidence through the present county controller, Attorney Leonard D. Morgan, and the secretary to the commissioners, Harry McGee. Attorney Edmund E.

Jones for the commonwealth told the jury at the opening that the prosecution expects to show through testimony by the contractor, George C. Hess of Drums, and the former county engineer, Merle B. Breese, that there was a system of payments to the commissioners and the controller and that $7,000 of the first payment of. about $12,000 made to the contractor went the commissioners. DOCTOR CALLED TO HELP OWN SON PITTSBURGH, NovT25 (J?) Called by nurses to give medical attention to a youth who had been kidnaped, beaten, bound and abandoned in a highway by his abductors, Dr.

J. Van Ballantyne, a surgeon, discovered early today the prostrate form on a hospital bed was his own son. The youth, John Ballantyne, 18. as abducted by hoodlums who forced him into their automobile while he was waiting for a street car rear his home in Wilkinsburg. They bound his ankles with shoelaces, handcuffed him and hurled him from the machine.

A motorist found him and took him to the hospital. Detectives said they learned young Ballantyne was kidnaped once before. In his pocket police found a note Which read: "We have warned you before not to be out after dark." BOY, 13, SHOOTS PAL; FIGHT OVER TRAPS MONTROSE, Nov. 25 WPV John Pongonas, 13, was held without bail today, charged with shooting to death Paul Warren, 1U, hi a quarrel over I animal traps' on the Ponaonaa farm near Auburn Center, 15 miles from here, on Saturday. The charge was preferred by Corporal Baumgartner of the Towanda state police barracks after an investigation begun Sunday.

It was at first reported to police that the Warren boy was shot accidentally when Pongonas raised his shotgun to show It to another boy named Pefrass. The oharge struck Warren In the face and he died In a hospital here FATHER SLAIN; MOTHER ARRESTED flit piiiilSSft" i. mmmmm 1 I "iiwiiiiiiiri! Here are the children of Mrs. Clara G. Prophet, Philadelphia, who is held with her brother, Harold Williams, in the slaying of her husband.

The children are being cared for at the Branchtown police station, and with the matron are; Warren, Billy, 5, and their foster sister, Ruth Ford, 10. MRS. PROPHET ANI) BROTHER IN PRISON Held Without Bail, and Sent to Moyamensing PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25 Mrs. Clara Grace Prophet and Harold Williams, her brother, charged with killing the woman's husband, William F.

Prophet, were taken to Mo'yamen slng prison today to await trial. According to alleged confessions of the pair, Prophet was shot to death In bed early last Saturday. Williams was to have received $500, his sister said. In numerous interviews with police Mrs. Prophet said her married life had been unhappy, that she hated her husband and with her brother's help plotted his death.

Opening Prophet's safe deposit box today, attorneys found that he carried more than life insur ance instead of $2,000 as first reported to them. Thev found no trace of a will which Mrs. Prophet said her husband had made six months ago, naming her executrix of his estate. FAVOR KAUFMAN FOR MAXEY VACANCY HARRISBURG. Nov.

25 VV Gov. ei nor Fisher late today received delegation of 12 citizens, of Lackawanna county who came to the Capitol to sponsor the appointment of Morgan S. Kaufman, of Scranton. referee in bankruptcy, to the vacancv hi the Lackawanna county court caused by the elevation of Judge George Maxey to the supreme court. READING DEATHS MILTON IL.

FLICK INGER, 59, of 810 N. Eieventn nea at 4.au o'clock yesterday morning at the Reading hospital. He was engaged in the real estate business. The sur vivors are his wife, Minnie (Baer); two daughters. Edna, widow of Arthur W.

Edinger, and Dorothy A. Fllckinger, both of Reading; one brother, Samuel Philadelphia; two sisters, Lizzie, widow of Hiram Weist, and Alice, wife of Ezra Hagy, Denver, and one grandchild. MERCANTILE TAX REPEAL IS URGED State Chamber of Commerce Bureau Head Backs Movement PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25 (P). Repeal of the state mercantile license tax, which yields an annual revenue of approximately $3,625,000, was urged today by Robert Haight, manager of the legislative bureau of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce.

Addressing more than 300 representatives of Philadelphia's Industrial, commercial and public utilities interests, at a luncheon of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Haight declared that in view of the prospective surplus of $11,000,000 in the state treasury next June, "it is apparent that the state could well forego the collection of this revenue, and relieve the business man from this odious tax." To Urge Repeal Haight said the state Chamber of Commerce would urge repeal of the law in the next session of the legislature. He said his organization also favored repeal of the state inheritance tax law. Haight said bills providing for establishment of the city manager form of government and proportional representation in Philadelphia and other cities would be introduced at the coming legislative session. From sentiment expressed in all sections of the which he has visited, he said the city manager plan was not looked upon with favor. BALDWIN IS GIVEN PARTY CONFIDENCE (LONDON, Nov.

25 (Delegates to the central council of Conservative and Unionist associations, forming in effect a full "party meeting today buried the hatchet of party civil war and gave former Premier Stanley Baldwin ah vote of confidence as the conservative leader. As If inspired by their tribute, the former prime minister launched inti a speech in which he denounced al mcst every act of the MacDonald government since it took office witn an especially vitriolic reference to the government's alleged failure In dealing with the economic side of the recent Imperial conference. TOO TRUE SHE: If only men behaved after marriage as they do during their engagement there wouldn't be half the divorces. THE BRUTE: No, but there'd be twice the bankruptcies! The Humorist. i Kidney Acids Break Sleep If Getting Up Nights, Backache, frequent day calls.

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