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April 20, 1936

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PRISONER ADMITS ABDUCTING WENDEL; TWO OTHERS FREED; Martin Schlossman Confesses After Alibi Witness Fails to Support His Story. MOTIVE IS KEPT SECRET Brooklyn House Identified as Lair -- Alterations Made After Victim Described It. POLICE CHARTER A PLANE Detectives Flying to Detroit, Presumably in Quest of Two More Suspects. PRISONER ADMITS ABDUCTING WENDEL

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M Schlossman confesses; 2 others freed

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GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR SECURITY BILL; Lehman Demands Passage of Measure by Republicans in the Assembly. CITES FEDERAL BENEFITS In Radio Talk He Asks Public to Back Aid for Youth and Age by State and Nation. GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR SECURITY BILL

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by Gov on radio

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ITALIANS MARCHING TOWARD RAILWAY; ETHIOPIANS RALLY; One of Two Columns Moving From Dessye Is 65 Miles From Road to Sea. ALL IN CAPITAL TO FIGHT Crowds Cheer Proclamation -- Invaders Far From Harar, Battle in South Reveals. EDEN TO MAKE NEW PLEA He Will Urge the League Council Today to Rebuke Italy, but No Positive Action Is Expected. ITALIANS MARCHING TOWARD RAILWAY

By G.l. Steer.wireless To the New York Times

2 Ital columns move from Dessye toward Awash and toward mts of Northern Shoa Province; Ethiopian population of Addis Ababa ordered to prepare to fight; Crown Prince rallies Ethiopian troops south of Dessye; Rome bulletin refutes repts of capture of Jijiga and Harar; Graziani's troops defeat Ethiopians at River Giana Gobo

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Woodland Arts Fail to Succor 23 Scouts, Marooned by Neglect of Carfare Budget

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Bklyn Troop 326 marooned on day's outing for lack of sufficient carfare

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HOUSE CHIEFS HOPE TO RUSH TAX BILL BY CURBING DEBATE; Doughton Expected to Ask for a Sixteen-Hour Limit on General Discussion. REPUBLICANS MAP REPORT Committee Minority Is Said to Oppose Any New Levies, Preferring Economies. HOUSE CHIEFS HOPE TO SPEED TAX BILL

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

House leaders plan to rush bill by curbing debate; Repub com members work on minority rept

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Notable Births

1936Lisa Davis, English-American actress^[†]

Lisa Davis is a retired English actress, who appeared in her first role at the age of 13 in the film The Man from Yesterday (1949). Her elder sister was singer Beryl Davis.

1936Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2012)^[†]

Joen Pauli Højgaard Ellefsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1981 to 1985.

1936Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician^[†]

Charles Patrick Roberts is a retired American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Roberts served 8 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1981 to 1997, before his election to the Senate.