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PAGE EIGHT THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936 Members of University Singers of Harrisburg COAL SHORTAGES Junior League Holds Casting Rehearsal ADC CDDCAimiG ii VI IlkllVIIIV TO DEEP SOUTH CHICAGO, Feb. 7. Bitter cold held its grip on the Dakotas and Minnesota today while the midwest enjoyed a brief respite from subzero temperatures. A new ice storm swept up the Eastern coast from Florida. Coal shortages which have kept scores of Iowa families shivering ill 4 yWQ- i 111 for days spread to the deep South.

Swollen rivers throughout Dixie surged over their banks and sent hundreds of families fleeing. Alabama, miners will work to morrow to speed up production, Governor Clyde Herring, of Iowa, expected a reply today from mine unions asked to work a forty-eight hour week to relieve distress. Wis Members of the University Singers who attended a rehearsal yesterday at the home of Mrs. Lloyd White, director, 221 State street, are shown here. In the front row, left to right, are Mrs.

Paul A. Thomas, Miss Louise Denmore, Miss Gertrude Yungel, Miss Virginia Thrush, Mrs. White, Miss Mildred Moyer and Miss Mary Witmer. Rear row, Mrs. R.

C. Knowlton, Miss Margaret Wildman, Miss Nellie Van Dyke, Miss Helen McFarland, Miss Sarah Monohan, Mrs. E. A. Quackenbush and Mrs.

William M. Hyler. consin industries were clamoring for coal and faced a shutdown un less prompt deliveries were made. ness, Ray Clifford, who lives within a shell of the type used by Shaffer Below zero temperatures struck DEFENSE RESTS the Rocky Mountain region with could not be inserted in the chanv ber of Lucas' gun. Gillette, reporting 20 below Shaffer into its submission, went into the record.

1 In addition to outlining Shaffer's alleged account of how his shots, Sred at Bloom, killed his sister, the statement named the defend-! and Helena, Mont. 24 below. Fortney then announced the Commonwealth had completed its case. The defense counsel said a block of the shooting scene at Shamokin, was called to refute the testimony of John Novak, presented by the defense as an eye, witness to the crime. Clifford said he arrived at the scono fAW sprnnris after nine More than 3000 sheep died from IN MURDER CASE exposure and starvation on the (f -AsJtrllj mpj 1 Tjjf 5- fet ranch of Art Allison, near Gillette, they would call no rebuttal wit nesses and Judge Cummings re ant as responsible for roadhouse stickups at Waverly and near Erie, and other establishments at when he was unable to push From Page One shots were fired, but did not see through drifts to bring them feed cessed court for lunch at 11.34 a.

m. to reconvene at 1 p. m. when attorneys will make their final Novak. after he fired five quick shots and State Trooper Lester Lucas, re pleas to the jury.

called to the stand, said he also Rock Springs and Shickshmny. Shortly before the shooting on October 12, Shaffer said, he told Roberta Gessner he had decided to marry a girl at Wilkes-Barre instead of her. Miss Gessner, who did not see Novak at the scene of Traffic the Pacific Northwest was tied up in a snowstorm which swept across British Columbia and Washington. Fifty passengers were rescued from a snowbound Milwaukee road train at Hyak, and transferred to Defense counsel, D. W.

Shipmen, Sunbury, and Daniel Kearney, drove away the ahamokin ambush. Pale and Fidgety and smiling during the first four days of the trial, the handsome i defendant was pale and the shooting in front of the Wil Shamokin, will make their pleas liam Conway home, Shamokin. He said he saw Novak at.the Shamo first, each-speaking about an hour. so testified, phoned State police where they might meet Shaffer the Points to Troopers kin Hospital several minutes later. buses.

aide to Corporal Bloom, Washington logging camps were closed, throwing hundreds of men fired four shots at Shaffer as the former convict fled from the scene same FORfTOWN Testimony of the former convict, yesterday, who was captured last December 28 by a Benton physician, was a sharp contradiction of State witnesses who said Shaffer out of work. Snowplow crews in Michigan after firing five shots. Novak said Bloom and Bertha Shaffer worked frantically to open roads fidgety today. Jail attendants said he was nervous during the night and slept little. His necktie and belt were removed from his cell during the night.

As the trial opened today, his sister Mrs. Anna Schneider, Shamokin, conferred 'with him briefly. As he took the stand to resume the cross-questioning begun late yesterday, Fortney objected to his pose of holding his left hand toi were standing and uninjured as admitted killing his sister and crip to dairies when milk supplies ran Shaffer drove away, indicating pling Bloom. Two troopers had short in Kalamazoo and Muske that the defense hoped to create PRINCE IS ILL From Page One testified Shaffer confessed the slaying in their presence, without These groups were photographed yesterday afternoon at the Civic Club, where members of the Junior League of Harrisburg held a casting rehearsal for the children's play, "Racketty-Packetty House," to be presented in March. Those in the upper photograph are, left to right: Mrs.

Ralph Moxdorf, Mrs. John Y. Scott and Mrs. William Johnson. Below are, Mrs.

Paul Rhoads, Miss Rebecca Johnston and Mrs. Robert Beale. some doubt as to whether Shaffer gon County. -Snow prevented removal of 100,000 tons of coal from the Muskegon. docks.

or Lucas fired the shots which any duress. But Shaffer, pointing killed the defendant's sister and out half a dozen troopers as his Trains throughout the Central stead, still refusing to be recon wounded Bloom. assailants, declared: States returned to normal sche ciled to his eldest son's non-royal "I was knocked down and when Jus face and chin. Despite tne orders of defense counsel and Judge W. H.

Cummings, the former convict continued to talk dules after fighting snowdrifts for two days. marriage, he telegraphed secretly Governor Landon Writes to His West Middlesex Nurse I arose, was knocked down again, then picked up by the hair." PRESIDENT TO GUT SPENDING Arms Expert Called The third rebuttal witness, John A. Harrisburg, examiner of small arms at the State Police Training School at Hershey, was Colder weather was forecast for softly and could hardly be heard in to a close friend. Former Queen Victoria, the Count's mother, also at Rome, though estranged from Opening their case, defense counsel endeavored to convince the the entire Eastern half of the continent over the week-end with more snow in the North Central States. jury that Bertha Shaffer was shot called by the State to establish To Brighten 85th Birthday Alfonso, telephoned direct to the apartment in the fashionable Ve-dado suburb where Count Cova- whether the gun carried by Shaf From Pago One down by Bloom or Trooper Lester Lucas, the officers who were at fer or Lucas fired the fatal shots.

Trial of Three Men Is International News Service donga lay. tempting to arrest Shaffer when paralleled spending that has boosted the national debt by for a life that has been spent in making the road brighter for ii i j. nr Funk said the .38 caliber bullet removed from Bertha Bertha cried, "Don't stop, Dave WEST MIDDLESEX, Feb. the cops are here." The bandit Shaffer's neck could not have been contiruiTto VHo in to. years were fired in the .38 special Colt re Of the many presents and felicitations that came to Mrs.

Mary Reed Baird in celebration of her eighty- may Goa bless you tor your good Ul eveiai nw uuuw was keeping a date with -Roberta Gessner, 19, Shamokin, the girl who "tipped" State police of his Continued to Feb. 18 The trial of W. A. Brettinger, Derry street, near Seventeenth; John McMullen, Sayford street, near Perm, and Jerry Corder, Wallace street, near Kelker, scheduled for resumption in the Dauphin County Court Monday, has been ordered continued to Tuesday. February 18.

All and kindly Hie. Many nappy re-iferences. turns and best wishes." tjh nlans were indicated in a volver used by Trooper Lucas. He said the cartridge was from a ".38 short" and could not be inserted in the chamber of a .38 special re whereabouts. the court room.

Asked why he bought more cartridges after the Shamokin shooting, Shaffer replied, "I don't know exactly," and then added, "I had been threatened." He said he had carried a gun during fourteen of his twenty-nine years. Prompted by the District Attorney, the defendant said his hands were cuffed to a belt in front of him throughout his stay at the Heading barracks of the State-police, where a purported confession was signed. Shaffer had testified previously that police subjected him to "excruciating pain" by "pulling his arms up his back" to get the confession which he repudiated. "If your hands were cuffed like fifth birthday anniversary, the silver-haired woman today treasured Landon was born in this little Student Gives Blood He was at the home of his wife's people. She was Edelmira Sam-pedro, daughter, of a plantation owner.

Surgeons used indirect means of blood transfusion. A medical student gave his blood at a mid-town hospital and it was rushed to Cpvadonga's bedside in a container, handled with extraordinary care to prevent coagulation or contamination. Dr. Pedro Castilla, with Dr. Ra one above all.

Leaning forward in the witness chair, the youthful bandit told how he fired on a man in civilian clothes volver. It was a letter from Governor The bullet removed from the series of swift developments that included: 1. Announcement that would be lopped from lending authorizations of Federal jurors serving in the case were no community and spent but two weeks of his life here. Mrs. Baird was his nurse.

Said the aged woman: "Maybe he'll be President, but it Alf M. Landon. of Kansas, the bud who came toward his car, gun spine of Corporal Bloom was iden drawn, from Bertha's side. get balancer and Republican presidential possibility, whom Mrs. tical to that which killed the girl, "When he got to the side of the Funk said, and both could have agencies.

Baird helped bring into this world seems just yesterday when he was; 1-1 1 i been fired by the Harrington and 2. A report by department heads more than two-score years ago. a iittie DaDy ana i neia mm on my car, I fired," Staffer related. aimed at his arm, I fired five continuous shots. Richardson .38 caliber revolver In congratulating Mrs.

uaira, knee. If he elected, this rug Ira making for him may be used in fael Menocal and Dr. Alberto Re used by Shaffer. tified by the sheriff today of the change in date. The men are charged with larceny and fraudulent conversion, involving the alleged acquisition of two automobiles valued at $200.

on liens filed by automobile salesmen. The trial started before the close of the January criminal session, but was not completed. Today Maurice R. Metzger, counsel in the case, informed the court that he could not the governor wrote: "My sister was standing near on probable spending needs at a two-and-a-half hour White House conference. 3.

Assertion by Democratic congressional leaders that the Presi the White House. "Permit me to congratulate you him but I didn't know she had do, two of the leading Havana administered the transfusion aided by Count Covadonga's that how could your arms have been pulled up your back?" Fort been hit until I read about it next The defendant previously testified that the gun he used the night of the shooting was a "Harrington and Richardson revolver using regular .38 caliber shorts." He said dav in the papers." male nurse Schwirzer. FEAR DOG HAS SPLIT REPORTED Shaffer denied he knew the man It took them more than half an resume trial on the original date be hour in the closely barred, heavily curtained sickroom on the ground cause or a contact with another case. DIED IN TRAP ON FARM PLAN floor of a luxurious apartment he- tossed it into the Mississippi River several days later in his flight' from Pennsylvania. Lucas was called a third time to identify the gun he used the night of the shooting, and the shells that Dauphin Youth Division at whom he fired was Bloom, saying: "Confession" in Record "I didn't know he was a cop.

want you to understand this. 1 thought I was defending my Over the nrotests of defense at house to find a suitable vein, in the left arm above the elbow, to ney asked. Call Rebuttal Witness The witness slowly replied that the pain was inflicted after the cuffs were removed immediately prior to his signing of the alleged confession. Defense counsel questioned Shaffer forty-two minutes and the prosecution one hour and twenty-one minutes. The State's first rebuttal wit From Page One transfuse the blood into the nearly dent had dropped bonus tax proposals for this session.

4. White House assurance claimed by congressional tax experts, that the Administration's tax proposals would be principally for financing the $300,000,000 farm program. In announcing that lending powers of the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and other similar agencies would be reduced by $1,000,000,000, Roosevelt indicated other and similar reductions. This, observers pointed out, was Plans Special Program The third annual international party of the Youth Division of the held the bullets fired at the time. bloodless body of the Prince.

Dewalt didn't go to the hole yes An abscess developed on Count tm-dar. but nlanned to be there Dauphin County Council of Relig- torneys the defendant's purported "confession," obtained by State police who denied they had forced Recess for Lunch The jury ofjtwelve. men seemed impressed as" F6rtney showed how; Covadohga's thigh several days ious Education, will be held in the From Page One through provision for conserving our soil resources and for making proper utilization for them." Surplus Condition The minority report approved the idea of "general soil conservation" but said that it could not aero, and his condition at once Market Souare Presbyterian Church iToaay wnen lne iour men from Ickesburg. mesday evening, February 11, at alarmed physicians. He rallied occasionally, but there was always Trustees of Juniata College Meet Here i.ia ociock.

Kaymond Trayer will be in charge of the worship Droeram. But last night a report, which couldn't be altogether verified, the fear that the hereditary tend The entertainment, to which the ency to bleed "the curse of the came to this village that some one agree with the "absolute and com Bourbons" would make his recov who had visited the hole during pumic ana an citizens naturalized during the past year, are invited, plete authority given the Secra ery impossible. the day hadn't been able to see the tary of Agriculture to carry out wm inciuae ioik vocal and instru Wis condition became urgent dog and hadn't heard it bark or; the bill's provisions. mental music of Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan. Wales.

Serbia and A blood transfusion whine. It charged public hearings Macedonia. was attempted in the morning. It On everv other dav. particularly should have been held and con Two booths will disnlav curios when food was shoved in at the from India and China.

The Rev. was necessary to stop it when his heart weakened. In the afternoon the transfusion: was tried again, end of a forked stick to the im tended the program would increase materially production of livestock and dairy products, further dislo Lottie Lehman, missionary recently returned from Botrra. India, will be prisoned pet, the little animal could be seen running around and purely a "book" saving, since the New Deal found the large authorization made by Congress would not be fully needed. Much of the money loaned to non-Government agencies has been repaid.

No word was given as to what transpired at the long White House conference yesterday with heads of spending agencies. Participants emerged tight-lipped." Capital reports were that Roosevelt had directed his aides to report on any possible reductions in the amounts they have been authorized to spend. With an election campaign com-inir up the President was reported cating agriculture. in charge of the Indian exhibition. A third and dissenting report always yelped when Dewalt called with success.

But it seemed too late and physicians admitted that the Count was unlikely to live through the night. ioiiowing the presentation of two religious sketches, the Rev. Vernon was filed by Representative Ger to him. ald Boileau, People s. Wisconsin, R.

James, instructor in the Steelton Hygenic School, will speak on the subject of "World Fellowship." Volunteers Go Albert Snyder, Charles "Wilson, Conrad Bice and George Reisinger who opposed the measure as harm' ul to the dairying industry. Traces of Blood Poisoning To complicate the case, the phy "Apparently, said the pnnci are the volunteers from Ickesburg pal minority report, "it is the pur JAP AND SOVIET who started out to join Dewalt. Because of the inaccessible loca sicians found in the Count's blood traces of blood poisoning and they announced that he was affected by septicemia. 1 pose of the secretary to carry out the conservation program at the expense of the dairy and livestock tion of the crevice, they didn't expect to get any word back to this anxious to curtail Federal expenditures wherever possible. Congres Soon after 10 p.

m. the bleeding TENSION GAINING industry, which now faces a sur town or Ickesburg until late in tne stopped, unexpectedly, and physi cians gained hope. sional leaders assurance that new tax proposals be held to the minimum. day about the animal. Although fed every second day Shortly before midnight the LONDON, Feb.

plus condition." Suggests Amendment The minority recommended re-neal of reciprocal trade agree by Dewalt. the doe has had to de transfusion was begun, the final Advertise Tomorrow for pend oil melting snow for his hope, to continue" throughout the Innkine water. Dewalt at first night. ments, protection of the domestic Eight More City Trucks The work of motorizing the city Physicians said in the early hours of this moming that it was had thought of shooting the dog rather than have him die of thirst or exposure, but later gave this up and saying "I think we can get nese frontier friction reached the explosive stage today with more than 5000 Japanese-Manchukuo troops preparing for instant movement towards the border of Soviet-controlled outer Mongolia, Reuters dispatches said. Warning that "we can remain inactive no longer," a semi-official Officers of Juniata College who 'attended the meeting of the college board of trustees at the Hotel yesterdav are shown here.

They are, left to right: R. Myers, treasurer; Dr. C. C. Ellis, progressing satisfactorily.

agriculture market for American farmers, a tariff-equalization program based upon a domestic allotment plan for the farmer, and "adequate appropriations" for soil president, and Dr. J. Harvey Brumbaugh, secretary. Alfonso renounced his title of ash and garbage bureau will be completed with the purchase of eight more trucks for which bids will be advertised tomorrow. They will be opened February 17.

him out," began rescue efforts. Prince of the Asturias, which he held as the heir apparent to the The terrier is small, weighing Snow Plow Is Almost Snowed Under Spanish throne-which has been A sale win oe neid at tne city only about three pounds, and la a sort of specialty fox dog. He is usually enlisted when a fox goes non-existent since Alfonso was de military announcement issued at Dairen, Japanese port in southern Manchukuo, said that Manchu ar stables, Twelfth and Forster streets, Wednesday afternoon, March 11, at 1 o'clock, to dispose of the city's re throned in favor of a republican This program was generally similar to the so-called Hope-Lan-don plan. Boileau suggested an amendment that would prevent Federal erants which would tend to in fregime 1931 to marry Senonta into close and other dogs can't follow the hunted animal. maining twenty-two horses, wagons Sampedro.

He had met her at a sanitarium mies under Japanese officers had "decided" to advance to the frontier. The outer Mongolians and So and equipment crease commercial livestock and crop production. in Switzerland, where they were taking treatment he for the AUDITORS FILE REPORT Auditors of Berrysburg report a viets are "busily engaged in warlike preparations along the entire haemophilia. balance of $196.04 in the borough BASKETBALL GAME MILLERSBURG. Feb.

7. The Maroon and Gold varsity and Jayvee boys' basketball teams of Millers-burg will play the Dauphin Boy Scout teams, at Dauphin tomorrow night. Without this provision the bill should be defeated, he said, al For a year Senonta Sampedro treasury at the end of 1935. The receipts were $2983.09 and the ex Mongol and Manchukuo frontier," where clashes are constantly recurring," the statement charged. though agreeing with the soil conservation-erosion features.

refused to consider marriage, because she knew that the marriage! penditures were $2787.05. would mean Alfonso estrange ment from his family and the loss Auxiliary of Wornileysbur of his royal status. He renounced all his nsrhts and titles. however, was made "Count WW fiSSjT 4. jo of Covadonga and they married at Lausanne, where thev met.

It was mmmwmm IP! a sad wedding. Young Alfonso wept at times because his father i 9 refused adamantly to give his blessing even when he knew he mi could not prevent the marriage. Since then the Count and his mmmm wife have lived mostly on the continent, visiting the United States and Cuba occasionally. 'to ft 4 SLACK-SCHAEFFER SUNBURY. Feb.

7. Announce-ment of the engagement of Miss Margaret Schaeffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burt H. Schaeffer.

320 South Fourth street, to Harold Slack, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Slack, AT.r.nNOTiTN.lll.. Veb. 7.

Throuch mountainous drifts. Dlows slowly sliced their way to free scores 27 South Tenth street, was made at a party given at the home of the former's sister, Mrs. E. F. Miller.

The wedding will take place in the Here is a general scene at the banquet held last night by members of the ladies' auxiliary of Wormleysburg Fire Company, No. 1. Officers seated at the head table, beginning with the third woman from the left are, left to right: Mrs. Mary Potteiger, president; Mrs. Stella Earley, vice-president; Mrs.

Margaret Hall, secretary, and Mrs. Julia Keystar, treasurer. of stranded motorists in a near-record snowfall that accompanied sub-zero weather in a great area from northwest to the east coast, this scene near Algonquin being a typical one of rescue. Rail and highway traffic was paralyzed, schools were closed, and blocked roads brought grave peril of fuel famines in jnany communities. Spring..