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Comics Magazine News Pictorials Section Finance Theater News Railroad News Section 2 2 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 Heavy Sentences Are Imposed Upon Bandit Pair Two Men Are Given 10 Gluck's Noted Overture to Be Played by Symphony Orchestra Tomorrow To 20 Years for Attempt To Rob Scranton Poolroom Color Contrasts Are Chief Feature of Easter Fashion Show Color contrast are the smart thing for women's spring wear, according to the Easter fashion show of Bowman Company, held in conjunction with the mimical revue at the Majestic Theater last night. Most of the ensembles featured two or three colors, with white used to advantage accessories. Afternoon and evening things are very- feminine, using much lace and chiffon. Among the striking costumes was a pink lace evening dress, a green net gown embroidered with flower, over which a short darker green wrap was worn and a black taffeta gown which showed the yellow organdie petticoat. Sports wear included knitted bou-clet suits and kid angora dresses.

Rose, green and blue are popular colors. Coats were largely blue and gray, gray fox fur appearing on a number of collars. Shallow crown hats witn brims are the fashion for spring. COURT TO RULE ON BALLOT CASE; KENT LEADING 2y I'nUed Prc MAUCH CHUNK, March 18. The Carbon County court set next Saturday as the date for a hearing on the arguments to dismiss the petitions for opening of ballot boxes in two Carbon County election districts in connection with the congressional election contest brought by Everett Kent, Democrat, against W.

R. Coyle, Republican. Taking of testimony in the case endedj yesterday, having been in progress for a week, and experts will assist the court in analyzing the ballots of each district where fraud is suspected. The last testimony taken was that of State troopers, who said that Squire Andrew Kushnerick, of Beaver Meadow, custodian of 3 PERSONS DEAD AND 9 MISSING IN HOTEL FIRE LYNN, March 18. Three guests were known to have perished, nine were reported missing, five others were taken to a hospital, three firemen were injured, and many other persons barely escaped death here today when fire raged through Hotel Lenox in the business district.

The blaze, which raged for three hours, was controlled only after aid had arrived from six neighboring cities and towns. Loss was placed at $200,000. Spectacular escapes and rescues, leaps from the hotel's sole fire escape, crowded with panic-stricken and lightly clad guests, and plunges into life nets, featured the fire. Two Hot Air Explosions Starting after two hot air explosions of unknown origin had blasted VISITING JUDGE WILL HEAR COOK CASE ARGUMENT Argument In the injunction pro ceedings brought by R. W.

Cook, supervising principal of the Lykena schools, to prevent the State Department of Public Instruction from revoking his teaching and supervising certificates, will be heard before Judge C. V. Henry, of the Lebanon County courts, here on April 8. The argument is on the motion of J. Dress Pannell, counsel for Cook, to strike off the record additional allegations filed by the department.

His contention is that the additional evidence is included in the original bill to which he has already filed an answer. MOTORIST SLAIN BY MAN, WOMAN FLEEING BANK 7.i(Tiio'iwnI Seat Service WILKES BARRE, March 18. City and State police today grilled intensively a man and a woman, whose names authorities declined to make public, taken into custody last night in connection with the attempted holdup of the White Haven Savings Bank, near here, and the fatal shooting of James Gibbons, 24, of Laurytown. Gibbons' slaying, to which police said the unnamed pair confessed, came at the height of a widespread manhunt for the three youthful bandits who, with a woman companion, had entered the White Haven bank but fled, lootless, when they became alarmed at the interference of Thomas Gallagher, White Haven merchant. Gibbons and his brother, Thomas, 27, were driving toward Weatherly when the man and women stopped them and asked for a lift, police paid.

When the pair got into the car, authorities quoted them as saying, they ordered Gibbons to turn around and drive to White Haven. Gibbons refusing, the man pulled a gun and immediately the three men in the car began a struggle for its possession, State police said. In the struggle, the gun was discharged, and Gibbons was fatally wounded. i'J If-1 I OSCAR STEGER One of the celloists In the new Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal for opening concert tomorrow -f CITY FIREBUGS PLEAD GUILTY From Page One Hess was accompanied by the Rev. E.

Martin Grove, chaplain of the fire department. $251,671 Insurance Paid The only other witness produced by the Commonwealth was Fire Chief Millard M. Tawney, who testified that a total of $251,671.14 was paid out in insurance as the result of these fires. He said that the insurance paid represents approximately three-fourths of the actual loss. Properties Set on Fire Properties involved in the fires are: Junk yard of B.

Abrams and Sons, 1598 North Cameron street; three houses, known as the Cinder Row, owned by the Estate, Ninth and State streets; warehouse of Ensminger Estate, Third and Cumberland streets; lumber yards of the United Ice and Coal Company, Seventh and Schuylkill streets; warehouse of Oliver Chilled Plow Works, Fourteenth and Howard streets; warehouse of Harrisburg Builders' Supply Company, Ninth and Herr streets; dwelling, owned by Charles Strayer, at Seventh antf Briggs streets; Bobrow Brothers' cigar factory, 323 South Cameron street; yards of the Wittenmyer Lumber 3129 North Seventh street; former State Motor Patrol barracks, Nineteenth and Swatara streets; warehouse of Miller Furniture Company, Twenty-sixth and Derry streets, cigar factory at Race and Vine streets, and a dwelling at 119 North street. "For Excitement Caldwell sought to bring out the fact that the dwellings, mentioned in the indictments, were unoccupied and that ho human lives were involved. Schrum contended that he met the four other firemen on August 13, when they decided to take a ride in Schrum's automobile. He said some one suggested to start a fire "for excitement." He admitted that he drove his automobile to the Bobrow Brothers factory, but nenied that he had Entered the building. He said that he had been drinking before he met the other firemen.

Zimmerman was implicated by Hess in the fire at 119 North street, which occurred on March 28, 1926. Forum Will Follow Services in Temple "The Spiritual Problems of the Machine Age" will be the topic of the sermon of Rabbi Alexander Burnstein at Beth-El Temple, on Friday evening. An open forum and discussion will follow the services. The Beth-El choir will hold a rehearsal at 7.30 o'clock Monday evening. The Misses Cerice Za'lkind, Mildred Baturin and Goldie Baltimore are in charge.

POISON ALCOHOL TAKEN FROM CAR A warning was issued last night to the thief who stole a bottle containing poison alcohol from the parked automobile of James Hepperle, Wormleysburg, salesman of fire extinguishers, presumably in the belief that it contained moonshine liquor. Hepperle told police that the liquid, which he used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the extinguishers, disappeared while he was absent from his car at Sylvan Terrace and Mulberry streets. Recovery of the alcohol was asked of police not because of the value but because of its deadly effect upon anyone who might drink it. It is of the methyl variety commonly known as wood alcohol, resembles moonshine in color and smell and a small quantity may have a fatal result, Hepperle said. SCRANTON, March 18.

Everett Horn, 24, Glenolden, and Clarence Foster, 25, Utica, N. were under sentence of from ten to twenty years in Eastern Penitentiary today following their plea of guilty an attempt to hold up a poolroom here. The men confessed to other robberies in Chester, Allentown and Stroudsburg. MAL DAUGHERTY IS SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PEN MAL DAUGHERTY B'l Vvitcd ire WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, Ohio, March 18. Mai S.

Daugh-erty, 68, former president of the defunct Ohio State Bank and brother of former U. S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, convicted of misusing funds of the bank, was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary and fined $5000 by Common Fleas Judge Charles S. Bell today.

Daugherty was convicted March 4. He was charged specifically with misapplying $5350 of funds of the bank. The court, overruled a motion for new trial. The judge asked the aged banker whether he had anything to say before sentence was passed. "I have nothing to Daugherty answered.

"Has counsel for the defendant anything to say?" the judge "Nothing," replied Ray R. Maddux, a defense attorney. "The Court," said Judge Bell, "will make no comment further than to say that the evidence warranted the' conclusion arrived at by the jury." The judge then pronounced sentence. Derry Township Woman Leaves Children $5300 Joseph Gordon. 2423 Pcnn street, today obtained letters of administration in the estate of his mother.

Mrs. Sallie Gordon, late of Derry Township. The estate is valued at $5300. A husband and four children are the heirs. Letters were also issued to Bernard G.

Laucks, of Hummelstown, in the $4000 estate of his wife, Mrs. Mary J. Laucks. A son is the only other heir. Suffers Injured Back In Collision of Autos John Backer.stoe, 15, of 1920 Forster street, was recovering at his home today from injuries of the back and arm, suffered in a collision' of automobiles at Eighteenth and Rcgina streets Monday moir.ing.

According to the police report, the cars were operated by Grover C. Wolf, 46, of 1926 Forster street, and H. V. Abel, 2021 Whitehall street. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits issued at City Hall empower M.

R. Acker to build a nine-car garage at 1508 Brookwood street, at a cost of $1500 and F. H. Young to erect a garage at 2254 Atlas street, at a 'cost of $700. 1 the basement, the fire mushroomed through the 100-room hostelry, quickly ruining a newly installed $50,000 miniature golf course and trapping scores of guests in their rooms.

Collapse of three floors of the five-story brick building impeded the hunt for bodies. Police believed some guests unaccounted for escaped and left the scene, but they considered it certain some of the missing had perished. Leap Into Life Nets There were seventy-five registered guests at the hotel, the largest and one of the oldest in Lynn. Several on the lower floors escaped with little difficulty, but those on the floors above, with a single fire escape offering the sole means of exit, were trapped. About a dozen persons, aside from guests, occupied private apartments in the hotel, increasing the total number of occupants to at least eighty-five.

When firemen arrived frightened i guests could be seen in upper win dows. Several were taken over ladders to safety. Others, partly overcome by smoke, were carried out. Eben Case and James Williams leaped from second and third-story windows, respectively, into life nets. Wildest excitement reigned as panicky guests crowded smoke-choked corridors in a frantic rush to safety.

The capacity of the hotel's only fire escape was taxed as guests poured down it, some jumping from the second-floor level to the ground. KEEN INTEREST IN HOME CLASSES From Page One Mosque, which is attractively arranged as a three-room apartment. The kitchen, the center of Miss King's activities, is modernly equipped, while the dining room and living room are fitted out in good taste. Spick-and-span cleanliness and absolute comfort are two of Miss King's requisites. She keeps busily occupied in her kitchen while preparing and cooking foods and always keeps everything neat and clean.

For those housewives who have "run-out" of ideas for their menus, Miss King prepared quite a number of tasty dishes, and as she mixed the ingredients she chatted in an interesting manner. Veal with macaroni, halibut with white grapes and a white sauce, a delicious cherry torte and bananas in a "blanket were among the dishes demonstrated by Miss King. Patrolman III City Patrolman Thomas Kin? became suddenly ill while on duty yesterday and was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital for observation. His condition is reported as satisfactory today. He resides at 410 Forster street.

the ballot box of that place, informed them that he was approached by Joseph J. Corkill, of Lansford, who requested the use of the ballots for a few hours. The squire admitted telling that to police but he told the court that it was an untruth. Mrs. Kushnerick testified that she advised her husband to put the ballot boxes in the basement of their home for safe keeping and he did.

Coyle, on the face of returns last November, was declared elected by a majority of 882 votes. Kent filed a contest against Coyle and he and his friends petitioned the court to open eight ballot boxes on allegations of fraud. Recounting of six of the boxes gave Kent a lead of 131 votes over Covle in the entire district. Signers of the petitions later appeared before the court and testified that they did not know what they were signing and they had no knowledge of fraud. On the strength of this development counsel for Coyle attempted to have the opening of ballot boxes dismissed, and prevent the opening of the other two boxes.

HAMAWEI SICK; CONTINUE CASE Advised that ill health prevented Ahmad T. Hamawei, 50, of South Second street, Steelton, from appearing in court today to face trial on iwo charges of felonious assault, Judge Hargest ordered the case continued until 9.30 o'clock Monday morning. Dr. F. Webster Byrod, of Steel-ton, informed the court that Hamawei is suffering from bronchial asthma and that it was impossible for him to appear in court today.

The same illness prevented him from appearing at the January sessions of court. Hamawei rs charged with shooting at Mr. and Mrs. Isaac A. Far-ran, of Atlantic City, while the two were rented at a table in a Market street restaurant, on December 16.

Mrs. Farrah was formerly the wife of Kay Hamawei, brother of the defendant. The continuance was strongly protested by Charles C. Stroh, attorney for Mr. and Mrs.

Farrah. Thomas D. Caldwell is representing Hamawei. Church Study Class Will Meet Tomorrow The Study Class, which is being sponsored by the Women's Church and Missionary Federation of Harrisburg, will meet at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Civic Club. The class is using the book, "Highways of International Goodwill." The leaders tomorrow afternoon will be Miss Anna U.

Wert. Mrs. Harvey Smith and Mrs. H. L.

Holbrook. -Brooklyn Times Following the presentation of the argument in this case. Judge Wickersham will join Judge Henry to hear argument in the case of the City of Harrisburg against the Harrisburg Academy. The academy is protesting1 against a levy against its property because of paving done by the city in North Second and Front streets. Tho academy contends that it is a public institution and is not subject to the levy.

ELECTION CODE TO BE CHANGED The election code, Introduced with the endorsement of the State administration, is being held in the Senate committee on elections for further study. It may be that amendments may be made, although Senator Harris, sponsor of the measure, indicated the bill has no chance in its present form. Separate bills to cover some of thel provisions may be introduced. Attacks upon various provisions of the bill have been made by Albert J. Williams, Delaware County solicitor; George F.

Holmes, Philadelphia County commissioner, and William C. Alexander, of Media, who appeared before the committee at the meeting. Enola K. of P. Lodge to Be Instituted Friday The newly organized West Shore Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, located at Enola, will be formally instituted on Friday evening at Pythian Castle, State street, with approximately 100 charter members.

District Deputy H. W. Sheaffer, Mt. Holly Springs, will be the instituting officer. The initiatory work will be performed by the degree team of Enterprise Lodge.

No. 508, under the direction of Robert Himmelrich, chancellor commander, and O. G. Bren-neman. degree master.

A number of members of the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge are expected to attend. The officers of the new lodge are: George Horning, chancellor commander; John B. Kmerick, vice-chancellor commander: Jacob B. Bordlemay, prelate: Harvey Zeiders. master of work; Richard J.

Kramer, keeper of records and seals; George Ream, master of finance; H. L. Hoffman, master of exchequer; V. S. Eisen-berger, master at arms; John Knauby, inner guard; William A.

Kepner, outer guard, and Greoge Bretji, Paul L. Bender and R. S. Hamberger, trustees. Reception Given for Park Street Pastor More than 200 members and friends of the Park Street Evangelical Church attended a reception given last night in honor of the Rev.

E. V. Sunanday, pastor of the church, and his family. The Rev. Mr.

Sunanday was recently returned for his second year to the pastorate of the church. The committee in charge included Miss Catherine Turns; Miss Beatrice EnHe and Merril Heil. The program included short talks by representatives of the severat departments of the church. Man and Woman Are Injured in Quarrel A man his wife were treated at the Harrisburg Hospital early last evening for injuries they suffered during a quarrel, according to hospital reports. They are Lemuel Morton, 24.

who was treated for lacerations of the right hand, and Mrs. Almeda Morton, 24. 1W2 Swatara street, who received treatment lot, lacerations of the lower lip. photographer, recorded on a photo graphic plate the existence of a hitherto unknown nebula that is 120,000,000 light years distance from the earth. The nebula is maintaining a speed of 11,000 miles per second.

Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of the observatory, stated. DOUBT STORY OF MAN'S SUICIDE From Page One police, they say, that the Williams story was a myth. Miss Mary Blessing, of 108 South street, told police, they reported, that she had walked along the river steps, from South street to Boas, and was retracing her steps when informed that a nm had jumped into the river.

She said she had seen no one along tin; river, either while walking northward or while returning from Boas street. Detectives say that the water at the point of the reported drowning is not more than three feet deep for a distance of twenty feet from the shore. Investigating officers believe that a body would have caught anion- the rocks. Arthur Fry, of 108 Herr street, told police he notified them after Williams and a boy of 18 notified him. Williams told police that he had asked a colored girl to notify them.

William Robinson, 1008 South Cameron street, and Guy Ramsey, 1644 North Fourth street, firemen at the pumping station, corroborated Fry's statements. Williams is about 25 years old. Plans to search for the body have been abandoned. Detective Sergeant Rineer, City Patrolman Hearns, Dennis Doh-oney, driver of the Mt. Vernon Fire Company, and Albert Me-haflie, driver for the Hope company, sought the body with grappling hooks until darkness compelled them to discontinue their efforts last night.

CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD PARLEY From Page One to the State Supreme Court to obtain some years ago, only to lose and pay the costs. If Council accepts the Valley's offer and adopts legislation which will preserve the right of the cross-river cars to enter the Square in the future, if restoration of such operation should become desirable, then the Harrisburg Railways Company will send its cars of Routes 2 and 5 through the Square in both directions. I -A decision favorable to rerouting probably will result in the preparation of the necessary ordinances In time to be introduced at City Council's meeting next Tuesday. Apart from this rerouting subject City Council next Tuesday will get ordinances intended to sanction rerouting of Harrisburg Railways cars at Fourteenth and State streets. To Abandon Tracks One ordinance would permit temporary abandonment of existing trolley tracks in State street from Thirteenth to Fourteenth and in Thirteenth street from State to Walnut.

Approval also would be given for permanent occupancy of Fourteenth street from Market to State street with a single trolley track. Use of Fourteenth street at present is under a temporary franchise grant. By this routing inbound ars of the Penbrook, Progress and Linglestown lines would pass down Fourteenth street to Walnut and then go west on Walnut to Thir- teenth to Market. Outbound cars would go to Fourteenth and Market streets and up Fourteenth to State, Christoph Gluck's overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis," which is said to have formed the foundation for the complicated structure of the modern opera, will be the opening number of the first concert by the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, to be given at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the William Tenn High School Audi-: torium. It will be followed by Franz Schubert's unfinished Kighth Symphony in minor.

The popular Piano Concerto in A minor, by Robert Schumann, will re played just prior to intermission, with Jacques Jolas, director of the Harrisburg Music Center, as pianist. The Prelude and "Spinning Song" from "Pelleas et Melisande," described as orchestral poems, will make up the fourth number, and two Slavonic dances will be given as the fifth selection. "Finlandia," a tone poem by Jean Sibelius, will close the program, Ceorge King Raudenbush, director of the orchestra, here to conduct rehearsals, said he was greatly pleased with the development shown by the orchestra. The patrons' list for the concert was announced today as follows: Honorary Patrons. Governor and Mrs.

Gifford Pinchot. Sustaining Patrons. Mrs. James M. Cameron, Miss Mary Cameron, Mr.

and Mrs. Mai tin A. Cumblcr, Mrs. Berne H. Evans.

Miss Anne i rs. Vance C. McCoimick, Mr. and Mrs. Ehrman B.

Mitchell and the Wednesday Club. Patrons. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J.

Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. George J.

Coloviras, Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Drake, Mrs. E. J. Doce-vee, Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Fackler, Mr. and Mrs. Martin W. Fager, Dr. and Mrs.

C. P. Faller, Judge and Mrs. John E. Fox, Mr.

and Mrs. Farley Gannett, Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson, Mrs. Robert Goldman, Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin M. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Henry M.

Gross, Judge and Mrs. William M. Hargest, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hayes, Mr.

and Mn. Arthur H. Hull. Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest J. Ingham, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Kuschwa, Kaufman's Store, Dr.

and Mrs. William L. Keller. Mrs. John C.

Kunkel, Thompson Martin, Peter Magaro, James McCormick, Dr. and Mrs. J. Horace McFarland, Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse J. Moore, Miss Mary E. Reily. Miss Mary B. Robinson, Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore E. Seelye, Mrs. Bernard Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs.

Emory Scheirer. Miss Eleanor Shunk, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

A. H. Stackpole, Miss Kathe-rine Sweeney, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C.

Stroh, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spof-ford, Charles Troup, J. H. Troup, John Troup, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry W. VuaPelt, Dan Vollnier, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F.

Walton, Miss Sara R. Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.

Webster, Dr. and Mrs. J. Landis Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence E. Zorger. Catholic Women Plan For Conference Here Tlans for the annual conference of Catholic Women of the Harrisburg Diocese were made this morning at a meeting of the Diocesan Council held in the Knights of Columbus HalU The conference will be held at the Penn-Harris Hotel on May 5-6. The council gave its endorsement to the bill now before the State Legislature, amending juvenile court procedure so as to include juveniles up to 18 years of age. The council also endorsed the bill for an increased appropriation for the "Mothers' Association Fund." This afternoon's program was to include a talk by Dr.

Frank D. Reiter, of the Stata Department of Public Instruction, on "The Physically and Mentally Handicapped." Mrs. George P. Vanier, of Steelton, president of the organization, The Not-So-Grand Canyon STEELTON MEN SENT TO PRISON Judson McAfee and Nathan Beverly, of Steelton, were sent to jail by' President Judge Hargest today after being convicted of aggravatca assault and battery, resulting from a fracas on January 15. McAfee was jailed for three months and Beverly for four months, beginning from January 16.

Each was fined $5. Charles Lee, this city, was sent to jail for from two to four months by Judge Fox and fined $25 for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Carrie Bennett, one of three women arrested in a raid on the house of Lena Testa in Cherry street, near Third, was convicted of being an inmate of a disorderly house and was sentenced by Judge Wickersham to sixty days in jail and fined $5. Betty Rogers, another of the defendants, was ordered acquitted and' a bench warrant was issued for Patricia Nolan, the third of the alleged inmates. A jury was deliberating in the case of Gus Bria, 28.

of Lurknow, a member of the Paxton Fire Company, who is accused of stealing a number of articles from the Mary Sachs store during the fire in the building on February 12. It is charged that he had taken a number of women's shoes, hats, hose, perfume and other articles' from the store and placed them in an automobile. The case of Robert Griffin, Mueneh street, near Fourth, who is charged with assault and battery on Mrs. Annie Gritz. 1540 North Fifth street, was given to the jury shortly before noon today.

Automobiles Collide; One Driver Injured Herbert R. of Jfil Wayne street, an employe the York Optical Company, 114 Walnut stret. is suffering, temporary paralysis and contusions of the left arm and shock as the result of a collision between his automobile snd another machine at Second and Washington streets early last evening. The other car was operated by Willis M. Kun-kle, 402 East Main street, Meehan-icsburg, who escaped injury.

The injured pian received treatment at the Harrisburg Hospital. WOMAN INJURED BY FALL In a fall at her home this morning, Mrs. L. E. Rousnley, 44, of 39 North Eighth street.

Lemoyne, suffered contusions of the chest and probable fractures of several ribs. She received treatment at the Harrisburg Hospital, COMING I ORGE 1 Hitherto Unknown Nebula, 120 Million Light Years From Earth, Photographed International Next Service PASADENA, March IS. A new record for long distance photography has been established at Mt. Wilson observatory with the aid of the 100-inch telescope, it was announced today. William H.

Christy, Mt. Wilson.