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no me IMS LMJ UU DLJ.U. LaJ 7 cZj gr4 A vw1 is wtt i v. -f sj 0 train Jumped the track, the aid of flare globes. Picture at the left, taken at daybreak by cameraman for THE EVENING NEWS, shows how cars landed In canal bed when the Williamsporter express of the Reading Company came to disaster at Clement station, opposite Sunbury, at midnight. After the the locomotive and five cars crashed through a portion of the Susquehanna River bridge and were scattered in the abandoned canal and along the highway of the Susquehanna Trail, The picture at the right, taken by THE EVENING NEWS about 3 a.

m. with ihows the portion of the train that landed on the highway. (...: BffMalPllirtliKI WEATHER: Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow. PRICE TWO CENTS Entered as Second-Clans Matter At the Post Office at Harrisbur Under th Act of March 3. 1879 NUMBER 5879-22 PAGES HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, JAN.

31, 1936 FORMER ROAD SUPERINTENDENT DIES SHARON, Jan. 31. John Greer, 68, former MIIl in superintendent of highways in Mercer County and Iff I a Republican chairman in Mercer County in 1924, died today at his home here. JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN TROOPS CLASH MOSCOW, Jan. 31.

A company of Japanese- Wreckage of Locomotive After Crash SENATE LEADERS Manchukuoan troops clashed with a group of twenty- Reading Train Speedy five Soviet border guards in the region of Grodekovo AGREE TO OFFER today. There was intensive firing and both sides suffered losses. Over 30-Foot Plunge AMENDMENTS TO SARRAUT WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE PARIS, Jan. 31. The Chamber of Deputies voted Bank; Probe Is Started BILLS SUPPLY confidence in the government of Premier Albert Sar-raut tonight after a stormy debate during which thej government came in for severe criticism.

AGED COUPLE ARE SUNBURY. Jan. 31. A broken rail caused the wreck of the Williamsporter, crack Reading Rail- Bv United Press todayin-whicb WSHTOM-Jan. "SlThe j.i.JljiftteF.a persons were killed and WILENTZ AVERS ARREST 2 MEN Senate Appropriations Committee today agreed upon a method of I II tnirtv-two were injured, two sen- providing funds for payment ot The tram left the rails at a bridge approach at Clement's Sta the bonus and new farm program costs which was expected to head tion, across the Susquehanna River off temporarily at least House from here, and plunged more than flation threats.

thirty feet to the bed of an aban Appropriations for both the NEAR CARLISLE CARLISLE, Jan. 31. A chance visit by a physician to their farm in South Middleton Tovraship, about two miles northeast of, Carlisle, late yesterday revealed the frozen doned canal and State Highway HOFFMAN LACKS AS FALSE FIRE NEV EVIDENCE ALARM IS GIVEN international New Service Traced by their footsteps in thes TRENTON, N. J. Jan.

31. New snow, two men were captured early bonus and the farm, program, it Koute mo. 11, known as the sus quehanna canal and the Susque hanna trail. was agreed, will be ottered as amendments to supply bills which have already passed the House In this manner, it was thought, The locomotive and some of the cars landed in the canal bed, while two of the cars landed on the State bodies of an aged Cumberland Jersey's state police will "co-oper- aav iess. xte" i are alleged to.

have turned in the rising House inflation movement may be checked. The Appro ate 100 per with Governor alarm that sent six nieces County farm couple. -The victims; succumbing- to ex priations Committee procedure, Harold G. Hoffman in the reopened 0f fire apparatus and the fire chief however, does not settle the ques haustion and exposure to the cold, and his assistant on a hazardous investigation of the Lindbergh tion of whether taxes, inflation or additional bond issues is 1 to be The remains of the locomotive of the WilliamsDorter. crack Readinff Railroad exnress.

is shown lvinc used to provide the Treasury with in the canal bed at Clement's Station, across the Susquehanna River from Sunburv. into which the train murder, Attorney General David T. Wilentz said today. He made the statement in his office, in the presence of Col. H.

were John Brown Kelley, 74, and his wife, Martha Huston Kelley, 72. All theories of foul play were eliminated last night after an investigation conducted by Dr. Edward A. Haegele, of Mechanics- funds to meet the appropriations. piungea xnis morning aner leaving me raus as it nearea a oriage approacn.

Kauroaa officials said a broKen rail caused the wreck in which three persons were killed and thirty-one injured. Earlier President Roosevelt an highway route. The Reading Railroad made an official announcement at noon today that a broken rail had caused the wreck, and indicated a more complete statement would be issued later. Two of the dead were members of the crew and the third was a passenger. In the early official list of victims announced by the Reading Company, it was reported that a fourth person an unidentified Bucknell University student had also been killed, but this was nounced at his White House press Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the conference that new taxes must be state police.

It was to Schwarz Dr. Guy Rothfuss Third in imposed to finance the farm pro SECURITY TRUST gram. tie added tnat metnpas oi kopf Governor Hoffman yesterday directed his sensational order for the. "arrest of everyone" cpnnected, financine the $2,000,000,000 bonus trip over ice-covered streets to Race and Paxton streets. The accused pair are: John Park, 25, of Nineteenth street near Sycamore, and Fred A.

Hoyler, 25, of Race street near Tuscarora. They were' held on a charge of sending in a false fire alarm, An additional charge of drunken driv ing was lodged against Park, who furnished- $1000 bail for a hearing with Hoyler this afternoon in-po-. lice court. Responding with' firemen to tha false alarm, sent in at Box 13 at 3.12 a. City Patrolmen Charles A.

Winn, James Lytle and Theo-. dore F. Berry said they were in formed by Walter Erhart, a. drivei I for former soldiers were still unr burg, county coroner. The bodies of the aged pair were discovered by Dr.

G. L. Zimmerman, of Carlisle, who decided to pay the Kelleys a visit while in the vicinity of their home yesterday. He had previously treated Mrs. Kelley for a hip injury' 8he ASSETS WILL BE with the crime.

i Family of Eight Sons to Die in Violent Manner der study. That means a tax bill will have to be pushed through later withdrawn. Previous to this correction by the company, Buck Congress in an election year, move always avoided by admin nell University officials had said they had accounted for all of their International News Service TRENTON, N. 31. Attorney General David T.

Wilentz's answer to Governor Harold G. Hoffman's order reopening the; Lindbergh murder investigation istrations if possible. The tax bill also carried threats of a delay in Dr. Guy H. 31, of students known to be aboard the RELEASED SOON There is good news in the offing for the 6202 depositors of the closed Security Trust Company.

Dr. Luther A. Harr, State Secretary of Banking, revealed tram. The dead: congressional adjournment, per haps beyond the political conventions in June. Williamsport, brother of Dr.

Paul A. Rothfuss, Deputy Secretary of Health, Riverview Manor, this city, turned out today to consist of one FORESEE CRISIS IN FINANCES AT Dr. Guy Rothfuss. 31. Williams- Turn to Page Eight DEFEATED GREEK PREMIER IS DEAD International News Service brief paragraph.

It was: port, brother of Dr. Paul Rothfuss, No decision was made on the sources of the new taxes but one "All the -columns of interviews, Deputy Secretary of Health for statements and published reports Pennsylvania. method mentioned was increase in come levies on small salaries. by persons interceding in behalf from his Philadelphia office today that within ten days the Se killed today in the Sunbury week, was the third brother of a family of eight sons of Charles H. Rothfuss to meet sudden death.

Engineer William Ramp, Tama of the defense, and all the state Both the independent offices and qua. curity will have paid back to the ments of the governor, including the deficiency bills are before the Fireman Washington Danshaw. ATHENS, Jan. 31. In the the letter to Colonel Schwarzkopf, United States Government the last of the $223,116 loan made to Charles H.

Rothfuss is a former lamaqua. STATE CAPITOL i A new financial crisis has arisen at the Capitol. With the payment of $2,000,000 in salaries contain no fragment of new evi Turn to Page Eight midst of political turmoil resulting from his defeat at the polls in Lycoming County Commissioner Mrs. Daniel BrownelL 68. of dence.

The case stands as is. Williamsport. sufferinz shock and the bank August 11, 1934, and the Government then will release $300,000 worth of bank assets to whose term expired two years ago. Four of his sons were The statement was. handed out last Sunday's parliamentary elections, Field Marshal and former for the Paxton Fire Company, tha he believed the occupants of an au tomobile that was stuck in a show drift in Paxton street, east of Race, had turned in the alarm; The patrolmen reported they traced fresh footsteps in the snow from the automobile, which was abandoned, to the fire alarm box.

While Berry, Winn and firemen continued to trace the footsteps from the fire alarm box over a half dozen city blocks to Indian street, near Race, where they say they found Hoyler hiding behind a fence, Gilbert Moyer, of 319 South Front street, and Marlin Metzgar, of the Paxton firehouse, both members of the Paxton company, seized Park in the yard of the old cigar factory in Race street. by Assistant Attorney General BANK CLEARINGS doctors and four of them served in the Army during the World body contusions, and Fred Funs-ton, of Muncy, with severe lacerations and contusions of the face and body, were reoorted in seri Joseph Lanigan at about 12.40 be liquidated for benefit of the depositors. and other items today the general d. m. War.

fund has been reduced to $2,500,000 The $300,000 figure, Two hours earlier, Wilentz had Reuben, a lieutenant of field ous conditions at the Mary Packer at the close of the month. AGAIN HIGHER Hospital. told reporters that he would have "something of importance" to say The Commonwealth's obligations artillery, met death in battle in France; Elmer was fatally kicked at his Williamsport home by a K. B. Brown, vice-nresident in Premier George Kondylis, hero who crushed last Spring's revolution, and who was mainly responsible for King George's-return to the throne, died of heart failure today.

Kondylis, 56 years old, lived just long enough to see his victory at arms turn to disappointment at thej polls. He 1 died just as Themi-j stocles Sophoulis, lieutenant of Harr's office said, is the appraised value, not the face value, of the collateral which the bank had posted as collateral for the loan made in 1934. When the loan was obtained it for February already are Showing even better business horse, and "Duke," the nickname charge of operation and maintenance, arrived in Sunbury from Philadelphia to direct the company's investigation into the disas 000, while the iiormal estimated revenues for the coming month are strides than were maintained in the latter half of 1935, bank clear of Doctor Guy, died- in today Turn to Page Eight WILL SEEK RE-ELECTION International News Service WAYNESBURG. Janl "31. Assem Reading wreck.

$6,000,000. This with the general ter. Dr. Guy Rothfuss was born on ings in Harrisburg and Steelton this month exceeded the corresponding month of last year by more than $1,200,000. Harvey J.

Rose. Harrisbure. of Eleutherios Venizelos, leader of was distributed to the Security de Turn to Pare Eight i i Coasting on Sheet of blyman Roy E. Furman, Waynes- fund balance of $2,500,000 makes $3,500,000 or only a little more than half the amount needed. Deputy Comptroller of a farm near Williamsport and was a graduate of the Williamsport High School; West Virginia Uni- the republican revolution, was burg, Democratic floor leader during the accident division of the Public Service Commission, also came James A.

McLaughlin, manager part of the last legislative session. Currency Will Resign At least $7,000,000 will be pro about to form a coalition govern ment, leaving out Kondylis. will be a candidate to succeed bim vided for unemployment relief for Tnrn to Page Six Steel, 2 Boys Killed self at this year's election, it was here today to make an investigation for the commission. While the official investigations of the Harrisburg Clearing House Exchange, who released the figures, emphasized the fact that announced today. Children Save Mother WHEELING.

W. Jan. 31 ebruary next Tuesday wnen tne State Emergency Relief Board meets, and the State's subsidies Estate of Atterbury Tarn to Fare Six From Sentence in Jail WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. F.

G. Await, who piloted the Nation'a banks through the 1933 bank crisis, will soon resign as deputy comp troller of the currency and take up private law it was learned today. Await, who has been with the for the fourth-class- school dis Valued at $613,306.89 1935 had the best bank clearings report in five years and that 1936 starts out with clearings way ahead of the first month of last Kenneth Cook, 13. and John Shera-sky, 12, were dead today, victims of coasting accidents. The youths, according to authorities, used a sheet of steel for a sled and rode under the wheels of 2 Cloze Friends of International Vewt Service PITTSBURGH, Jan.

31. Escap MEDIA, Jan. 31. An estate ap tricts, amounting to $6,750,000, will be due in February. To this must be added, $2,000,000 for salaries 30 STUDENTS IN OVERTURNED BUS praised at $613,306.89 was left by mg a jail sentence, Mrs.

Julie Queen Mary Succumb Broce, red-haired McKees Rocks ituck, and running expenses of the de Dartments. Federal Treasury sixteen years, was acting controller of the currency By United Press year. -v-" The total this month which was almost ahead of the big December record: $1,200,978.74 higher than LONDON. Jan. 31.

Two close the late Gen. W. W. Atterbury, retired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The property, bequeathed to the widow and their three children.

The expected revenue of beauty shop operator, who admitted attempting1 to influence testimony of a witness in the James J. West-wood murder trial, was under or friends of Mary, already BURNS TO DEATH IN MASH By United Press -PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 31 from September, 1932, to April, 1933, a period when Federal authorities were confronted with the bank International News Service CLEARFIELD. Jan.

31. Thirty 000 for the new month includes the anticipated return from only four stricken by the death of her hus January, 1935, and $1,886,546.39 more than January, 1934. In other band, King George, died last consisted mostly of railroad securi Bragg, 32, foreman, was burned to death when he fell into a vat of hot mash at a distilling company. night. ties, which were estimated at ing crisis.

Await was born at Laurel, January 5, 1895. He practiced law at Baltimore, joined the Army during of the emergency unemployment relief taxes now in full operation. They are the stamp tax on docu Victor Baroness Sackville. 73. a words this month's gain over January, 1935, is almost twice the amount by which 1935 surpassed 345.27.

The balance was in cash and personal effects. famous hostess of the times of Clearfield school students escaped death or serious injury today when their bus overturned en route to Woodland. The most; seriously hurt were Jean Mulhollen, who suffered a broken wrist, and Joyce Stevens, the war, and then came to Washington in 1920 when he was coun King Edward VII, was one. She 1934 at the outstart. ments and the cigaret, gasoline and amusement levies.

The money expected from the died at Brighton. der to pay a $100 fine today. In sentencing her to pay the fine for contempt of court, Judge William H. McNaugher said: "There is one thing that interfered with my sending you to jail, and that is your children." Mrs. Broce was ordered out of the courthouse when she told a witness to "go easy" on Westwood, then on trial for the murder of his wife, Martha.

LIQUOR STORE SOBBED By United Press MARCUS HOOK. Jan. 31. A clerk Susan, Duchess of Somerset. 83, ILL WOMAN ENDS LIFE International News Service WYNNEWOOD, Jan.

31. Des "The Bachelor Prince Who Became King" On Page 19 Today also a well-known hostess, died here. Her husband, the late fif of a State liquor store and a cus sel to the Ordinance Claims Board. Later he took up legal work with the war loans staff of the Treasury Department In 1927 he was made Second Deputy Controller of Currency and in the following year promoted to First Deputy Controller largest of the emergency revenue measures will not show appreciable returns for several months. These will come from the 6 per cent, cor- teenth Duke, carried the a broken thumb.

A half dozen others were bruised and scratched. The driver was Elmer Jury. It was believed the steering apparatus was broken. tomer were held up by five bandits last night while the robbers looted the dispensary of a small Quantity pondency over illness today was blamed for the suicide of Mrs. Ann Ellis, 31, whose body was found in the bedroom of her home here.

symbol of world authority, at King Edward VU coronation. of liquor and $175 in cash. Turn to Face Nineteen of the Currency..