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The Washington times., 1935-11-13
T0RRID NOTES s
ARE GEBHARDT
DEATH CLUE
Teacher Admits She
Slew Economist, But
Gives No Reason

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 Q.N.S).
Was DR.. Fritz Geohardt, German
economist, slain by blonde, 23-year.
old Vera Stretz because he sudden
ly revealed he was married and
the father Of two children, or
because he was unsuccessful in his
effort to divorce his wife in Ger
many?
Behind these two questions, po-
lice declared today, lies the secret
OF the passion murder Of DR.. Geb-
hardt, whose body, riddled by four
revolver bullets. was found in his
apartment in a fashionable East
Side Hotel yesterday.
TOrrid Love Notes
Torrid love notes and records Of
equally torrid transatlantic cable
grams were being scrutinized by
police today, while the young New
York University graduate and sub
stitute school teacher remained
sullen in the women's detention
home, where she is being held
without bail.
She refused to discuss DR..
Gebhardt's death beyond a la
comic admission Yes, I shot
him" despite hours of ceaseless
grilling.
1t is known to the authorities
that the close friendship between
the girl and the German edu-
Gator preceded a recent visit DR..
Gebhardt made to his home in
Baden Baden. There was no
indication, however, that Miss
Stretz knew before the trip that
he was married and the father
Of a girl II years Of age.
Yet the contents Of the notes
seized in DR.. Gebhardt's apart
ment and in Miss Stretz's home
in the same building indicated
the couple realized there was an
obstacle to the marriage upon
Gebhardt.
Police Theories
It might have been, detectives
surmised, that DR.. Gebhardt in
formed the girl he had to go
back to Germany for a short
time, but would return and
marry her, as she said he had
promised.
Or it may have been that he
told her he would make a personal
appeal to the mother of his chill
dren to divorce him.
1t was obvious the girl planned
the Staying almost from the mo-
ment DR.. Gebhardt returned, po-
lice said.
They found a note in her purse,
dated Sunday, which read:
I'm tired Of all this. I'm leav.
ing the world in good, sound
mind"
She even willed her personal
belongings to two friends, detec,
tiveS announced.
But Miss Stretz did not die
Police believe she lost her nerve
after firing four bullets at DR.
which they are believed to have
agreed, police said.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
CANADA TRADE
PACT FAVORED
BYPRESIDENT
Executive Also Studies
Niagara Problem
With Premier
international News Service

President Roosevelt today
signed an order authorizing Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull to
conclude a new reciprocal trade
agreement with Canada.
In announcing at his press con.
ference that he had signed the
authorization order, the President
explained no definite time had
vet been set for the signing Of
the agreement itself. However,
it is expected before the end Of
the week.
Signing of the authorization
order by the President was a
routine matter, merely indicating
that the agreement is nearing a
conclusion.
The President also disclosed
that he had discussed with
Premier Mackenzie King the
problem of the recession of the
edge of Niagara Falls. He said
that as a result of the converse.
tionS with the Premier concern
ing this matter, he had asked for
report on the problem which
has been drawn up by the New
York State Authority and the
Army engineers.
Questioned as to whether he
had discussed with Premier King
the question Of reviving the st.
Lawrence Waterway Treaty, the
President remarked there was
nothing new he could say on that
subject at present.
In other quarters. it was learned
that the subject had been dis
cussed, but officials declined to
disclose the trend Of the dis
cusSion.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Annual ConVoCation
Opened at Howard i

The nineteenth annual convo-
cation of the school of religion
at Howard University opened
yesterday in Rankin Memorial
Chapel with DR.. E. P. May, dean
of the school, presiding.
Tonight at 8 o'clock in So
journer Truth Hall, the convo-
cation banquet will be held. The
session will close tomorrow.
Speakers include DR.. Joseph R..
SiZoo, DR.. Mordecai w. johnson,
Jerome Davis, Francis P. Miller,
and the Rev. Richard Bowling.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Boondoggling
TRACKS

Residents of Middlesex county,
N. J., do not like their street car
tracks. They want them torn up.
So they asked the Federal Gov
ernment to help them. The Works
Progress Administration granted
an allotment of $26,6O7 to the
county for tearing up the tracks.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
Ethiopians Speeding South
To Save Railroad Line

" ~ONS SON SibN
LONDON, Nov. 13 G.N.SO,
Ethiopian troops are rushing to
Daggah Bur and Jijiga to rein
force the garrisons there, an ETH,
opian communique, carried in dis
patches from Adds Ababa today,
said.
These two important towns, on
the road to Harar and the rail.
way at Dire Dawa, are still in the
hands of the Ethiopians, contrary
to Rome newspaper reports.
italian airplanes reconnoitered
over Daggah Bur and Jijiga, the
communique added, but no bombs
were dropped.
Italian war planes left Daggah
Bur for Harar, north of there,
today, Reuters reported from
Harar.
The Washington times., 1935-11-13
$40, 900 Ethiopians
Ready for Battle

ROME, Nov. 13 G.N.S0.-Ethio-
plan forces ready to fight Italy's
triple advance whenever Emperor
Halle Selassie gives the signal
total $4,000, italian correspond
ents with the Italian army at
ASmara agreed today.
Divided among the three fronts,
the newspapers said, are 240, 900
The Washington times., 1935-11-13

CONTINUED from Page ~
General Grant used at Five
Forks in 1865.
Adds ABABA-H. R.
Knickerbocker continued, via
cable, report of flight to
Dessye and first visit by any
correspondent to Seventh Day
Adventist hospital on Ethio-
plan front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
HOME BY AUGUST
 l5, BATTLE CRY OF DEMOCRATS
Leaders Meet With Presi- dent Over Week-End to
 Talk Things Over

Washington, July 15- (UP) - Democratic leaders who spent the weekend with President Roosevelt returned to their legislative wars today with the battle cry of Home by August 15." The president re- turned from the two-day Jefferson Island Harmony" meeting smiling broadly, and with vice-President John N. Garner and Postmaster General James A. Farley on either side. Two score others trailed. The president said the Chesapeake Boy outing was social rather than poli- tical. Congressional leaders indi- cated a clear understanding of the presidents plans regarding remain ing must" legislation.
 Speeding Up Action.
 They talked of speeding up ac. tion on several controversial meas ures and adjournment by August 15, if all goes well. Opposition. such as has formed about several meas ures, may cause added delay, they admitted. With Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson, Speaker Joseph Byrns and Vice-President Garner available, it was believed the possibility of pushing through the administrators legislative pro- gram was discussed. One of the principal obstacles to early enact ment of the long program has been lack. of complete party harmony. Many democrats have joined the opposition, especially in the tax, utility, coal and banking measures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
Chinese Gang Fleeing With
 Woman Sought For Murder

aided in Lang's murder and dis memberment. Evelyn told me to keep my mouth shut tight" police quoted her. "She said the Chinks would kill us both in a minute if we blabbed. She said she was afraid if the police got hot they'd kill us anyway"
 Tracing Jung and the Oriental riff-raff clement with whom he as- sociated in Chinatown dives, de- tectives gave her fears increasing attention. They asked police of Indiana, wisconsin and Iowa to watch for the girl and her Chinese companion in a sedan in which they fled. A blonde woman and Q Chinese man were arrested al Rockford, H., soon after broadcast of the alarm, but were not identi- fled. Illinois state police blocked a highway to Peoria after an anony- nous telephone correspondent re- pormted to Chicago authorities that "a Chinese accompanied by a blonde" passed through Streator in a rapidly driven automobile.
 While the search spread relays of detectives questioned Mrs. Dun- kel, frequently weeping but often so p ert that she told her inquisi. tors to "get the hay out of your ears if you can't hear me the first time I answer question" She as. serted the Smith Girl doped Lang in her apartment with highballs and, when he was thoroughly intox. icated, killed him with ether held under his nose on a rag. "Shs wrapped a rope around his necI and choked him, too," the unre' pentant grandmother said.
 To previous confessions sht added a statement that she lef the apartment during the murder went in a taxi to a laundry oper' ated by lungs brother, an dtool Juung back to aid in the butcher! that followed. "I didn't see tn, rest of it," she said. T left tn, cab and walked around awhile. She said a trunk disappeared iron Evelyn's apartment immediatel. after the murder. T think the, sent Ervin's legs some place il that" she said. The legs still arr missing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
BANK STOCKS AT
 NEW HIGH AGAIN
New York Bank Stocks Continue Gains of Pre-
 viOus Week

New York, July 15.-New York city bank stocks continued their gain during the past week, estab- fishing a new 1885 high on July 10. The aggregate value of sixteen leading issues on that day totaled $1505,461, 1000. There was a small reaction from the new high at the close of the week, however, the aggregate value on July IF being $$1,483,782,000, which compares with $1, 1000 at the close of the previous week, net increase of. $16,516,000, or 1.13 per cent. The new high compares with a low point for the year of $1,226,175,00 900 reached on April 30.
 The current average yield of the 16 issues of 4.63 per cent compares with 8 yield of 4.69 per cent on July 5, and yield of 5.77 per cent on April 30, the low point of the year. The current market value is now 1.21 times the known book value against 1.20 times at the close of the previous week. Based upon current figures the 16 issues are now quoted at an average of 14.2 times their known earnings against 13.S times on July 5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15

Chicago, July 15-(UP)-Police of four states guarded highways an dsearched underworld dives to- day in quest of a young burlesque strip-dancer, who in fleeing arrest on murder charges was believed to be racing to death at the hands of Chinese gangsters.
 The girl, Evelyn Smith, was re- ported fleeing from Chicago with Chinese consort, Harry Jung, accused with her of the murder of Erwin Lang, 2S,fi whose bobbed- haired mother-in-law confessed that she paid the girl $500 to have him killed.
 Lang's body was found Tuesday, lyegs severed and missing and the torso slashed with the knife marks of a namateur butcher, in a swamp near Hammond, Ind, formerly used as a burrying ground for ride" victims by Chicago gang sters. Police said Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, Lang's mother-in-law, con- fessed that she hired the Smith women to kill Lang because loved him." Lang's wife died re- gently and he supposedly planned to remarry.
 The gray-haired grandmother in custody, police said, convinced them that unless they arrest the hunted girl within hours she will be slain by Jung or some of the Chinatown thugs who aIlegedly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
Thirteen Percent or Rise In Steel Issues
Towards Close, However, Adverse Reports of Ame-i.
 can Telephone and Du POnt Made Trading Irregular

Iron & Steel institute announced the rate scheduled for this week for the industry was S9.9 per cent against 35.3 per cent in the preceds ing week, and 2S.8 per cent a year ago. It was a new high since the week beginning May 27 when the figure was 42.S per cent.
 Steel common stocks rose frac- tions to more than a point while several of the preferreds were up 2 points or more. Otis Steel prior preferred touched 52 1-2 up 4 S-4 points and new high for the year. U. s. Steel preferred equaled it's high for the year at 94 up 1-2. U. s. Steel Common touched S7 1-2 up a point while National Steel made new high for the year at 54 IA up point.
 Railroad shares rose along with the steels on the belief the group would soon receive some sort of aid.
 Coppers shares provided fair amount of business, especially Ana conda. Silver shares picked up despite slight decline in the metal in London. Gold mining shares were dull throughout the day.
 Automobile issues were again in demand. General Motors made q new high for the year. Heavy trad- ing came into Electric Boat and the stock rose to new high for the year at 6% up A point.
 Railroad Equipment issues were again higher with Pullman up a point at its high.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15

protected and respected; that no penalties be threatened or in- fiicted during the time which must necessarily elapse pending a de- termination of all of the facts and the legal issues involved In an orderly way and after full hearing by the trial court, and. in case of appeal. upon . review by the ap- pellate court.
 It is not conducive to good or- der, in this land of steady babits, that applicants for renewals or for permits should be required 10 seek out Judges. and temporary protee. ton at their hands, at all hours of the day and night and during the so.cailed vacation Heasonn." at great expense and inconvenience Co ail concerned in an endeavor t0 preserve Q status quo which ought Co be arrived nt Co an orderly way by agreement or stipulation.
 Tho motion Co dissolve the ins junction in 1eniod.
 FRANK p. NoEVof,
 q tn191 pf nc superior Court
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
INSURANCE STOCKS
 AT NEW YEARS LEVEL

New York, July Reinsurance stocks in the New York city mar ket recorded further gains during the past week, reaching a new 1895 Ligh on July 10. The aggre- gate value of 20 leading fire and casualty insurance issues on that day amounted to $616,706,000. There was a slight decline from the new high at the close of the week, howveer. the aggregate value on July 12 being $615, 900 against $601,S93,O0O at the close of the previous week, @ net increase of $14,594,O00, or, 2.43 per cent. The low for the year. reached on March IA, was $$4S1,61S,000. The current average yield of the 20 is- sues of SPA per cent compares with a yield of 3.32 per cent on July 5. The current market value equals 1:43 times the current liquidating value against 1.39 times a week aUO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
DISABLED VETS ARE GATHERING
 AT NEW HAVEN
I5,00O Are Expected to Be Presented at One Week
 Convention

New Haven, Conn.,, July 15.- (UP)-Thousands of veterans from all over the country gathered here to-day for informal parties and reunions which marked the open ing of the 18th annual national convention of Disabled American Veterans. When the first busi nesse session is held Wednesday, it was expected there would be approximately 15,000 ex-service- men and auxiliary members, mem bers of their families and friends. participating in the program.
 Sight Seeing Trips
 For the next two days dele gates were turned over to guides for sightseeing trips and amuse- ments. / National officers were to arrive aboard a special train to- morrow for the military ball Tues day night. After a field day and athletic meet at West Haven Wednesday morning, district cau- cuses will be held to select dele gates to the executive meetings. Distinguished guests will be ban quoted in the evening. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hine, administrator of veterans affairs, and U. S. Sen. Wright Patman, Texas, author of the bonus bill, and Rep. John F.. Rankin, Mississippi, were sched- uled speakers at Thursdays ses- sion. Both branches of the or ganization will hold memorial ser vices at Shubert theater Thursday night.
 To Get Verdun Medal
 Members of the 316th infantry of the 18th division, will gather on the central green Saturday morning to receive the Verdun medal. Citations were to be read either by M. Labouloye, French ambassador to the United States, or the French consul at New York.
 Balloting for officers will take place Saturday. Michael Whalen, Detroit; M. Froome Barbour, Cin cinnati; Judge l.. Harlan, Fl Paso, Texas, and Paul Mercier, Utica, N. T., have been proposed for national commander. Business sessions of the auxilairy, attended by about 2000 delegates, will open Thursday under National Com mander Francis M. Connolly, 1rv- ington, N. J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
THOUSANDS ARE
 DEAD IN FLOODS
 THROUGH CHINA
Over 3O,OOO Victims in One District - List
 May Be Swelled

Shanghai, July 15 = (U.P) = Casualty reports of horrifying pro- portions reached Shanghai to-day as the great Yangtze river menaced new territory on its raging way to the sea.
 Dispatches from Hankow re- ported more than 30,000 deaths in the Tienmen Lake district of Cen. tral Hupeh Province, north of the Yangtze and contributory to it.
 Two thousand deaths were re- ported at Lihsien, in Human Prov ince to the south of the Yangtze.
 Bodies Washed Ashore Corpses were washing ashore to- day on the Yangstze's banks where the three important cities of Han kow, Hanyang and Wuchang are grouped together. Fifty were found in the suburbs of Hanyang as the river ever rising, approached with in a few inches of the dike tops. Big as the casualty estimates were, they covered but fragment of the thousands of square miles of coun- try now revealed as having been ravaged by the great Yantgze's tri- butaries to it's north and south None of the deaths reported to-day were from the Yangtze itself but from the basins of the rivers that feed it.
 Total To Be Larger
 Dispatches from provincial cities in estimating casualties said that those reported were belated and that it was believed the total of deaths would prove to be much larger than they indicated. News of the toll of life exacted by the Yangtze and its tributary rivers added to anxiety for cities i-l the Hankow region and to the east, where bodies and furniture of houses were floating past from the areas first affected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
Spurt in Grains, Huge Rise in Steel Helped Market
J. (Dizzy) Dean
 Not Very Popular

St. Louis, July 15-(UP)- Emphatic denial that Dizzy Dean, ace hurIer of the St. Louis Cardinals, had been traded to the Chicago Cubs Cor anyone eIse," was made today by President Sam Breadon.
 "We are not even cOntem- plating such a move, and no club in the league wants him." Brcadon said, brush. ing aside a report that Dean was to be delivered to the Cubs after this season.
 Branch Hickey, vice presi- dent and general manager or the Cardinals, was more em- phatic, declaring:
 Reports like this only tend to make his (Dcan's) head swell a few inches moro. What has he got? Nothing but a right arm. No back ground. Not a club in the league wants him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15

(COntinueQ rom rage 1.J assistant U. S. district attorney scoffed at the claims by defense that the property on which the still was found, owned by Devino and leased to Mastrianna, had been sub-let to "Bcano".
 eve hear all about Beano," the government lawyer said, but we haven't seen him, and no one else seems to have seen him. Devino knew what was going on at his own property. There is no such person as Beano, in my belief. might point out that Beano and Devino harmonize quite we'll"
 The district attorney also em- phasized a claim that the name Beano appeared in different hand writings on various papers. This, he said, showed that Beano was just a pseudonym for the still op- orators.
 No Evidence of Guilt "There is absolutely no evil dence," said Attorney Mascolo, (which warrants the binding over of these men to federal court :. There has been nothing presented to show that Devino knew what was going on in the building where the still was located. These men have been arrested without any evidence against them. and their names should be cleared"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
By ELMER 0. WALZER United Press Financial Editor)


 New York, July 15-(UP)-A spurt in grains and a 13 per cent rise in steel operations helped the stock market advance today. To- ward the close, however, adverse earnings reports by American Tele- phone & Du Pont brought moder- ate irregularity.
 American Telephone sold off on it's report for the first half showing income equivalent to $3.16 a share, against $3.31 in the corresponding period of 1884. Du Pont declined more than a point on its report which placed net at $1.74 for the first half, against $1.s6 for the first half of the last year.
 Steel shares made their best showing in some time just before and shortly after the American
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15

structors shall in no wise be re- stricted from explaining publicly the doctrines and maxims of the church.
 "The concordat," the paper said, guarantees full liberty in the preaching and teaching of the faith as we'll as freedom of the press"
 The Holy Sees remarks ap- parently were occasioned by recent incidents in Germany involving the closing of some churches, the ex- pulsion of nuns and priests and moves by the government to curtail expansion of Catholic youth organ izations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
FISHERMAN CAUGHT DUCK

Rochester, Ind. (UP)-Halbert Thompson, Kokomo, wants to know if fishing for ducks is against the law. Thompson baited his hook with minnow one night and re- tired. The next morning he found that a Blue Bill wild duck had snapped up the minndow. He freed the bird.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
WOOL MARKET.

Boston, July 15-(UP)-Recent business transacted by Boston wool houses has comprised largely the finer grades of western-gown aver age to short combing wools in ori- ginal bags, according to today's re- port of the U. S. Agriculture de- pertinent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
VATICAN CHARGE
 AGAINST HITLER

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
DECISION IN CASE
 IS RESERVED

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-16
SETTER is IN LEAD
FOR NATIONAL TITLE
Sturdy Max Faces Plenty of Late
Opposition for Pure-Bred
Dog Championship.

NEW YORK. N. Y. June IS
~ Champion Sturdy Max, an Eng
lish setter, leads the race for Amer
icas national pure-bred dog cham
pionship, according to the latest fg-
ures on the Variety Group Prize. an
nounced by the American Kennel
Club. governing body of the sport.
This prize Is for the American
bred specimen. of any breed, winning
the greatest number of best-in-group
honors during 1885. The winner will
be regarded as the leading American
bred dog of the United States, for
the prizes are being offered at A. K. G.
member club shows in every part OF
the country.
So far there have been 1o1 group
prizes, won by 80 dogs. owned by 81
different exhibitors.
A total of $2,825 has been paid by
the A. K. C. to the group winners.
Champion Sturdy Max has won the
gun dog group four times. His lead
ership should be challenged seriously
during the second third of the year,
which has. a very full calendar Of
shows. Such dogs as the Russian
wolfhound, Champion vigow of Ro-
manod; the Irish setter, Champion
Nilsson O'Boy, and the wire, Cham
pion Leading Lady of Wildoaks, now
are rolling up victories in rapid or
der, and may overhaul the English
setter.