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THE BACHELOR PRINCE WHO BECAME KING;" STARTS ON PAGE 7 TODAY rn rv7n nr-vn WEATHER: Cloudy, cold tonight; probably light snow tomorrow. NUMBER 587p 20 PAGES Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Patriot Company HARRISBURG, MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1936 Entered as Second-Class Matter At tie Post Office at Harrisburir Under the Act of March 3. 1879 PRICE TWO CENTS nru rc rmnn NYE ASKS ADDITIONAL FUNDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.

A resolution asking FDR (FfKOllFl an additional $7369 from the contingent fund of the Senate for completion of the Senate Munitions Com IN mittee investigation was introduced in the Senate to day by the committee chairman, Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota. ORDERS DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS SCRANTON, Jan. 27. Judge Albert L. Watson today ordered the distribution of funds held by truf ACTION TO GIVE Marjorie in Happy Reunion With Parents and Sister EAR OF FAILING IN LATIN CAUSED RICHARDS CHILD i till- vv WAR VETERANS VOTE OF 76-19 Bill fl tees of the Northumberland Mining Company, of Shamokin to cover compensation claims.

A total of $1996 was ordered paid to employes who have received no wages since May, 1935. GARRETT CASE IN STATE SUPREME COURT PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27. Heirs of the late Walter Garrett, millionaire snuff, manufacturer, today sought in the State Supreme Court substantiation of TO LEAVE HOME IP ipp 5f -v By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan.

27. Con press today enacted the World War veterans' 1 bonus over President Roosevelt's their claims to part of the $17,549,642 estate left by veto. Mrs. Henrietta E. Garrett.

Senate passage of the bill over the veto, following similar over whelming action by the House last Friday, made it law. Still left to Administration was the problem of finding the huge sum to finance the payments. The vote was 76 to 19. There was not a single switch from the voting on January 20, when the bonus bill passed 74 to; ROME REPORTS DEMOCRATS OF HUGE ETHIOPIAN STATE SELECT LOSSES IN FIGHT SLATE FOR 1 93B 16. The difference the outcome was due to the absence of pairs What Marjorie Spent During 4-Day Absence Here is a record of Marjorie Richards' spending during the four days she was absent from home since running away late Tuesday night: Wednesday Cocoa in .05 Bus ticket, White House to New York 1.30 Hotel room 1.00 Thursday Cocoa and toast .15 Movies .25 Hotel room 1.00 Friday.

Lunch, tomato sandwich and coffee .20 "Dinner," macaroni and cheese 15 Movies .15 Hotel room 1.00 Saturday Movies .25 Lunch, 2 p. chicken pie, rolls, coffee and dessert (paid by Charles O'Connor, Jr who brought about-her return.) Cash balance .52 International News Service i mm ROME, Jan. 27. Ten thousand Ethiopians were killed in' a bitter battle in the Ganale Doria River sector of the southern front last today. The galleries began to empty as soon as the roll call was completed.

The veterans will be paid off in $50 "baby" bonds, distributed through post offices in June. But the bonds can be cashed diately, causing a large cash drain on the Treasury. Veterans who I week, Italy claimed in an official communique issued today. Italian losses in the engagement were "very small," the statement This happy family group was photographed this morning at the of District Attorney and Mrs. Karl E.

Richards, whose -vbuneer saw. In one thrust Italians it desire may hold the bonds until; was claimed, repulsed an Ethiopian 1945, when the bonus is due under The 1936 Democratic campaign was opened here today when the Democratic State Committee, constituting itself a nominating convention, picked a primary ticket. The committee planned to name F. Clair Ross, of Butler, for State Treasurer, and State Senator Warren R. Roberts, Bethlehem, for Auditor General, and sixteen dele-dates-at-large and as many alter-nates-at-large to the Philadelphia Convention.

The keynote of the campaign and of jtoday' til -was sounded by David- L. Lawrence, State chairman, who at the meeting. Following the rollcall, which showed nearly all of the 113 mem aaugnier, years oia, was Drougnt dbck yesierctay nora new lorK uty, alter Demg missing lor lour 'aays-on a hitcn-hiking trip, Marjorie went away because she was worried about passing her Latin exams at Edison Junior High School. In the group, left to right: Marjorie' sister. Mr? John Jose Andujar, of, Buffalo; Mrs.

Richards, Marjorie and Mr. Eichards. i. i. i.

i the original law, and receive inter force commanded by a G-reek of ncer and occupied JViaica Mun, a town 130 miles from Dolo, after fighting in which the Ethiopians MYSTERY DEATII'Eastern Snow Presages ONE-TIME NEWS left 1467 dead on -the battle field. Several European officers aided mi aiiiii tm A est. Leaders of veterans" organizations watched from the galleries as senators cast the that smashed the last barrier i irj teen-year fight to' advance'11 the bonus payment date. Expect Inflation Fight Immediate payment bills peatedly were vetoed by the White ine Hitniopians in wie iignung, ana HERE GETS IN Blizzard WASHINUIUNN ReportMAN ew Turn to Page Nine Marjorie Eleanor Richards, 13, back home and unharmed, ran FINALLY SOLVED More Than 175 Killed $52,500 A YEAR Passenger on Steamer away late last Tuesday night be bers of the committee present and House, but not untin today were the bonus forces strong enough to1 very few proxies present, Lawrence Is Reported Overboard cause she feared she had failed in her Latin at Edison Junior High force the payment anyway. The By United Press NEW YORK, Jan.

27. The NEW, YORK, -Jan. last veto message was a six-para' School. She sobbed that story in International News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 The shroud of mystery that fOT eight years surrounded the murder winds howled down from Western the arms of her mother in their at once launched into his address, Fight Every Day "We must fight every day, and every minute of the day, to carry Pennsylvania for.

President Roosevelt," Lawrence declared. "We home at. 2206 Walnut street, yes of pretty 17-year-old Thehna N. Young, brutally attacked and slain coastal steamer Fairfax wirelessed coast guard headquarters early today that a passenger went overboard fifty miles south of Savannah, Ga. Canada today reviving a record-breaking cold wave in all the country east of the Rocky Mountains terday, and she had previously re Turn to Page Thirteen Senate Roll Call on Bonus Measure 8 BELOW ZERO PREDICTED FOR CITY TONIGHT have a new and fighting Democracy oa a roadway here, was brushed aside- today by a confession police Snow in the East presaged a new The Fairfax asked other ships peated it over and over again to her father, Karl E.

Richards, district attorney, who went to New York for her late Saturday night claimed they obtained from a railroad in the vicinity to aid in the search. No details were given. Sub-zero temperatures prevailed for the sixth successive day in the Middle West. It was the most ex United Press Robert Dreamer, 38, an acquaint in Pennsylvania. Uur people are alive and aggresive.

They are carrying the message of enlightened liberal government into every home of the Commonwealth. We must keep, hammering that message home. "We cannot hope to dip into the The steamer is operated out of where her identity was 1 revealed ance and neighbor of the Youngs, Jan. 27. The Senate rollcall on overriding Presi tensive cold wave since 1912.

Even after she had applied for help. To be conditioned in Latin would! Baltimore by the Merchant and Transportation Company. It was cold today, but it'll be dent itooseveits bonus veto: For overriding the veto: (76). Democrats, (57) Adams, Ashurst, Bachman, Bailey, Bankhead, Bark- police announced, confessed he pounced on the girl on a pathway a few squares from her home December 29, 1927, and beat her with a brick when she struggled for colder tonight. That was the forecast of Weath mean losing her standing a3 a dis- tintruished honor "student.

I the deep South had freezing temperatures. The severe cold will continue at treasury vaults of Big Business, as the Republican party does, for PERSUN DROPPED The girl apparently had gone! erman C. S. Ling this afternoon least through Wednesday, forecast ley, Bilbo, Black, Bone, Bulow. Byrnes, Caraway, Chavez, Clark, liberty.

Mann wirol oVi rr a irill ers after watching the mercury slowly through three and one-half days without seeking aid, and her first question, seeking work, Saturday A recent senes of attempted t- ninaA ,1 climb from its low mark of 2 above tacks on several women in the temperatures return. ROM HILL POST at 8 a. m. to 9 above at 2 p. afternoon paved the way for her return to her parents.

Numbed by jjeatns attributed to the cold Turn to Pape Thirteen Ling expects the mercury to go throughout the Nation mounted to more than 175. Hundreds of case3 Among the forty-two Capitol Hill workers dismissed, according to to Coolidge, Copeland, Costigan, Diet-erich, Donahey, Duffy, George, Gore, Guffey, Harrison, Hatch, Holt, Lewis, Logan, Lonergan, Maloney, McAdoo, McCarran, McGill, McKel-lar, Minton, Moore, Murphy, Murray, Neely, O'Mahoney, OveVton, Pittman, Pope, Radcliffe, Reynolds. Robinson," Russell, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas, Utah; Trammell, Truman, Van Nuys, Walsh, Wheeler. Republicans (16) Austin. Barbour, Family of Dead Man her experience, the cold and lack of food, the child is being held at home under the care of the family physician and.

probably will not day personnel change were the sinews of war. We have no DuPonts to help build up a propaganda machine. We have no utilities, to rally to our support, no Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. We must fight our own battles." Declaring the Republicans are basing their campaign on "blind, self-destroying fear," Lawrence pointed to advances made during the Roosevelt administration and urged his listeners to "destroy, ut-terly and for all time, the bitter reactionary old guard majority in the State and take over Asks $25,000 Damages tnree employes who have long been considered residents- of this city. return to school for several days.

LEWISBURG, Jan. 27. Attor of frostbite were treated at hospitals. The piercing northwest wind added to discomfort in nearly all sections of the Country east to the Atlantic seaboard. Eastern and New.

England States, after temperatures rose With his daughter home and They are Lloyd Persun, who came here from Montgomery, Lycoming ney Miller A. Johnson today filed to 8 below tonight, so it II be wise to check up on the. anti-freeze in the car motor, see that an extra blanket or two is right handy, and plenty of fuel around for the fires. While colder weather was forecast for tonight, Ling said tomorrow afternoon would see the mercury start to rise again. His statement that there was not "any snow in sight' may also be' comforting.

Yesterday's flurries totaled an .08 If the mercury drops to zero suit for $25,000 damages for the uounty. methods consultant, motor vehicles bureau, Revenue Depart Borah, Capper, Carey, Davis, Dick tucked into bed, District Attorney Richards, who is a Sunday School teacher of the Market Square Presbyterian Church, observed that family of Paul Emery, of Laurek inson, Frazier, Gibson. McNary. Met ment, $5400 a year: Ralph E. Gris-wold, Athens, Bradford County, as calfe, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Steiwer, DALE VAN EVERY Dale Van Every, former Harris Turn to Page Two White.

Progressives (1) La Follette. sistant director of the- corporation bureau, State Department, $3000, and ton, and named Union County as the defendant. r. Johnson alleged that the county was negligent in removing a building from the center of a highway the offices on Capitol Hill now held Farmer-Labor (2) Benson. Ship- burg newspaperman, received, in 1934 for writing stories for Alfred W.

Weil, this city, commission clerk, State Department. $3000. Turn to Paye Thirteen 6 NOWED TO stead. dy Kepublicans. "We need not defend Roosevelt and we need not defend Earle.

paramount Pictures. seventy Democrats have been ap- and that Emery and another man VESSEL RAMMED or lower before midnight, it will lost their lives because of the ob be adding to the new record cre Turn to Page Thirteen This is, revealed in the report submitted to Congress by the United States Treasury on corpo struction last February. ated in the city yesterday when For sustaining the veto (19). Democrats (12) Brown, Bulkley. Burke, Byrd, Connally, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Hayden, King, Tyd-ings, Wagner.

Republicans (7) Couzens, Hale, Hastings, Johnson, Keyes, Townsend, Vandenberg. Their achievements are the answer to their detractors. They can afford to stand on their records. Our fight must be against false, poison thermometers stood at zero or lower RESERVE BOARD IN MISS IS I mm re Sweeps for the fourth consecutive day for 2000 ASSURED WORK International News Service MEADVILLE. Jan.

27. Unem mm wawwaa the -first time the forty-eight- ration officers and employes paid $15,000 or more a year. Van Every, a graduate of Stanford University, came to Harris- ous propaganda the same type of muwn mores, nome International News Service year history of the local weather By United Press ployed workers in this district were vicious untruth that was used to WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Four NEW ORLEANS, Jan.

27. The MILTON, Jan. 27. Fire de-sestroyed two stores and a dwell defeat constitutional revision." cheered today following the announcement by officials of the Vis new names appeared in the six Standard Fruit Company steamer The delegates-at-large will have ing today at an estimated loss of FIRE SWEEPS DORMITORY BURLINGTON, 27. Damage was estimated at $10,000 today after fire swept a dormitory at St.

Mary's Hall, exclusive girls' burg at a modest salary as bureau manager for the United Press, shortly before the death of Senator Turn to Page Nine Previously three days of zero or colder weather, had been the The lowest the mercury had Turn to Page Thirteen but a quarter vote in the Philadel nominations President Roosevelt today sent to the Senate for the new Federal Reserve Board, As Amatala was rammed by the oil tanker Camden sixty miles below cose plant here that they will start work within the next sixty days on a new production unit which will phia convention next June. The more than $50,000. About 100 firemen, summoned from surrounding communities. New Orleans in the Mississippi boarding school, here. employ more than 2000 men.

expected Governor Marriner district delegates will each have a full vote. River today. Eccles, of Utah, was re-appointed battled the fire in sub-zero weather Standard officials announced This ticket will be headed by lor a term or four years. Engert Nominated as was INDICTED FOR that passengers and crew of the for five hours before it brought under control. M.

S. Szymozak, of Illinois, re Amatala were safe. Minister to Ethiopia ceived a reappointment for twelve The sister ship of the Amatala years. President Roosevelt, who will be entered, in the April 28 primary as Pennsylvania Democracy choice for renomination at the next National convention. The entrance of Roosevelt in the preferential pri the Atlantido, was sent to the res Two Long-Term Prisoners Nearly Tunnel to Freedom At Eastern en itentiar International News Service WASHINGTON.

Jan. 27. Cor The four new members were: AGENT COMMITS SUICIDE By United Press ORELAND. Jan. 27 Leonard D.

SISTER'S DEATH cue. Passengers will be trans' nelius Van Engert, of Califor ferred to the Atlantida and brought Weidner, 66, veteran Reading Company agent, committed suicide by nia, today was nominated bv Presi to New Orleans. The collision tore mary is expected by the State International News Service Joseph A. Broderick, of New York, for fourteen years. Ronald Dansom, of for six years.

John McKee, of Ohio, for ten years. slashing his throat Despondency wag believed the reason for his act. a hole in the Amatala's port side. The ship was en route here from Turn to Page Seventeen By United Press dent Roosevelt to be minister to Ethiopia. He has been first secretary of the American legation and consul-general at Addis Ababa.

night at the concrete floor in block SUNBURY, Jan. 27. David Shaffer, gun-toting, bandit of the hard coal regions, was indicted on a charge of murder today for Central America with a load of PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27. The coffee and bananas.

Ralph W. Morrison, of Texas, the slaying of his sister and the lor two years. prison board of Eastern Penitentiary will determine at next week's meeting, it was learned today, what Bus Hits Parked Truck; No. 9. They effected a successful sound muffler by the use of a lead plate and bedclothes which they stuffed in the ever-deepening hole.

At daybreak, the two weary convicts would place a wooden frame over crippling of State Trooper William Bloom in a gun battle at Shamokin Three Persons Injured It was stated at the White House that the seventh appointment, representing the agricultural sections, and completing the personnel of last October 12. Bit United Press Disciplinary measures will be taken against two long-term prisoners who nearly tunneled their way to The true bill was returned by surantun. Jan. Z7. Three per the excavation and', begin their the new board, would go to the sons were injured and others ireeaom.

day work in the prison Senate later. were shaken today when a Grey tne Northumberland bounty Criminal Court grand jury following presentation of the Commonwealth's evidence by District Attorney Bob- Harry Craig, of Delaware Meanwhile, prison authorities hound bus collided with a coal truck Jiroderick was state superintendent of banks for New York County, serving twenty to forty Board Will Award $500 Of fered by The Patriot Co. The board of three persons who will award the $500 that was offered by The Patriot Company, publishers of THE PATRIOT and THE EVENING NEWS, "to the person or persons adjudged most directly responsible for the return to her parents" of 13-year-old Marjorie Richards, who was missing from her home in this city for four days are assembling data upon which to pass their decision and will make their announcement after due deliberation of all of the facts. The board of three persons who will make the decision consists of District Attorney Karl E. Richards, father of Marjorie; Maj.

Lynn G. Adams, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania State Police, and a representative of The Patriot Company. were engaged in an equally methodical and quiet investigation. Sev at Daleville. near here.

Infant Is Smothered By Blankets International News Service WHEELING, W. Jan. 27., Another death had been recorded due to the cold weather here today but this time it wasn't from exposure or fire. Mrs. Louis Brothers, of Adel-phia, awoke to And her 2-month-old son dead in bed beside her.

The child had been suffocated by the unusual number of blankets the mother had been using during- the cold weather, according: to investigators. years, and Howard Davelman, of en; a. ortney. The injured, all passengers of the eral tools had been reported miss bus, were: R. C.

Cornell, Rochester, Shaffer's trial is listed to open the February session of court here ing, and after a long search they were unearthed in the cell of No. 9 N. May Mayiakely, Water Grove, and Ben Newman, of New York City. next Monday, with Corporal Bloom. during the bank holiday crisis.

Ransom is executive vice-president, of the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta, and has been prominent for years in the American Bankers' Association. McKee since 1933 has been chief Dr. Herbert M. Goddard. a mem paralyzed irom the waist down Wayne tounty, serving ten to twenty years for robbery, are under special surveillance following the interception of their escape-plot by prison officials.

For weeks they had worked carefully and methodically in their cell, chiselling away during the; said they were investigating ber of; the board, said that the a report that the truck was parked rrom bullet wounds, expected to be brought into, court as the State's prisoners would be rigorously dis partly on the highway with no sig ciplined, but did not reveal the principal witness. He did not ap nal flares burning. The bus was en nature of the punishment. Turn to Page Seventeen pear before the grand jury route to Scranton from New York..

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