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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
HOSPITAL TOTS
 TO VIEW PLAYS
North End Community
 Thespians at St. Mary's Tomorrow

The Children's Dramatic group of the North End Community cen- ter at St. Paul's M. E. church will present, Easter Bunny's Birthday" to children patients at St. Mary's hospital Tuesday afternoon at 400 p. m. The characters in the play will be costumed in cheerful colors and the presentation will probably be greatly appreciated by the chil- dren confined to the hospital.
 Other members of the younger dramatic group are working on two new original play -pageants, to be produced as part of the community program at the end of the month. These two offerings will be entitled: |"The Pirates Honor" short play for boys; May Day With Mrs. West Wind," short affair for girls. The instructor points out all children in the cast are between and B years land they have adapted themselves Ito the drama in its basic stages in a remarkable manner. Before the end |of the year it is expected 8 full length play will be given.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
DR. CONDON WILL
 NOT BE PRESENT

New York, April 13-UP)-Dr. John F. Condon today refused to accede to the request of Allyne H. Freeman, Mercer County, N. J., grand jury foreman, to appear be- fore that body in connection with its investigation of the Wendell case.
 Condon declined in the following telegram to Freeman, made public at his Bronx home by Gregory Cole man, public relations counsel and friend of the celebrated Jafsic Of the Lindbergh case.
 "Your unusual request in the form of a personal telegram inviting mo to Trenton in connection with the Mercer county phase of the soc called Wendell case has been re- ceived.
 T know nothing whatever about the Wendell case and am certain that my presence would add noth. ing to the activities in which you arc reported to be engaged"
 Dr. Condon would make no fur' ther comment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
GUFFEY ACT IS
 NOT DECIDED

Washington, April 13-(UP)-The supreme court today recessed for two weeks without handing down a decision on the validity of the Guffey coal control act.
 The court will return in two weeks to hear one week of argument on cases on its calendar. Thereafter, 1t will meet each Monday at noon only to hand down orders and deci- sions on cases already argued.
 AS a result of the courts failure to act, no decision on the Guffey act case can be presented before April 27.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
INSURANCE STOCKS
 LOWER LAST WEEK

New York, April 13-1nsurance stocks in the New York City mar ket registered small decline dur ing the past week. The aggregate value of 20 leading fire and casualty insurance issues totaled $669, 9,576, 900 on April 9, compared with $673, ,23l,- GOO at the close of the previous week, a decrease of $3,655,000 or 0.54 per cent. The current average yield of the 20 issues of 3.l2 per cent com- pares with yield of 3.11 per cent on April 3. The current market val- ue equals 1.26 times the current liquidating value, against 1.27 timese at the close of the previous week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
HAS
 MORE BATTLES
Two Writers in One Punch Scrap Helen Twelve
 trees Assault Victim

Hollywood, Cal, April 13.-CUP) The second punch" battle in Hollywood in less than a week was reported today to have been staged over the Easter week end.
 Robert Riskin, prominent scen- ariSt, and fellow writer, Harry Ruskin, were said to have been par ticipants in battle in a Hollywood night spot early Sunday.
 The fight occurred about the time that Helen TwelvetreeS, screen ac- tress was informing friends that her estranged husband, Frank B. Woody, struck Ed Forest, San Francisco business man. Forest, she said, was held by two men while he received blow in the eye.
 Refused to Talk
 The principals in both battles re- fused to comment.
 Riskin was said to have been en- tertaining party which included Barbara Stanwyck, film star, zeppo Marx of the Marx brothers and others prominent in the movie in- duStry.
 Exact cause of the battle was not known. Most reports said Ruskin made remark as he sat near his fellow writer which angered Riskin.
 Stepping up to Ruskins table, RiS- kin was said to have invited him outside. Eyewitnesses said Ruskin declined, remarking he liked the air inside better.
 Riskin then was said to have in- vited Ruskin to stand up and Rus kin obliged. A lusty smack resounded through the room, if those present were correct, and Ruskin went down and temporarily out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
NEW YORK BANK
 STOCKS OFF I.37ec

New York, April 13-New York City bank stocks closed the past week at lower levels. The aggregate market value of Is leading issues in April g totaled $l.726, ,493, ,00O, com- pared with, $l,750, ,498, 900 at the close of the previous week. decrease of $24, ,005, ,000, or l.37 per cent. The current average yield of the six teen issues of 3.74 per cent compares with yield of 3.69 per cent on April 3. The current market value is now l.37 times the known value against 1.38 times at the close of the previous week. Based upon cur- rent figures the sixteen issues are now quoted at an average of TIA times their known earnings, against 17.6 times on April 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
YOUTH CAUGHT
 IN THIS CASE

Boston, April 13-(UP)-John J. Burke, 24, of Charlestown, one of several youths tried but acquitted several years ago in connection with the staying of Charles (King) Sol omon, night club operator, was sen fenced to three months in jail today for a robbery in which he obtained 50 two-cent stamps and wall plaque.
 Burke pleaded guilty to a break ing and entering charge and was sentenced by Superior Judge John M. Gibbs. He was on parole from New York where. since his acquit- tai in the Solomon case, he had been sentenced to 2ls to 5 years for burglary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
By ELMER c. WALLER United Press Financial Editor

NOhLeu ETeSS rlndnCldA EulVOrD
 New York. April 13-UP) - &c., lective buying featured a highly irregular and dull stock market to- day.
 Extremes ranged from 2 1-2 point loss in Greene Cananea to a B point gain in New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway. American Chain at its high was at 56 3-8 up 3-8; Case I'll 1-2 up 4 1-4; Min neapolis Honeywell 75 up 3-4; Philip Morris 76 1-2 up 3; Schenley 47 3-8 up 3 3-8.
 On the downside, Auburn auto touched 45 IA of 3; Columbian Carbon 129 1-2 of 4 1-2; Douglas Aircraft 61 of 3 IA; Monsanto Chemical 100 of 2; U. s. Industrial Alcohol 55 IA of 2 IA; Amerada 110 1-2 of 3 1-2 and A. O. Smith 55 1-4 of 3-4.
 Other sections generally moved over one-point arc. Rails had periods of strength. Motors moved in opposite directions, featured by Crysler which made a new high since 1929 at 103 3-4 up 1 l-4. Atchison and New York Central made new tops. Kennecott and Anaconda were at new highs in their section.
 Schenley touched new low at 43 IA and then rose to Al 3-8 where if WaS m 2 3-8 IT & Rllb- Der issues and Goodyear were bid up. General foods made new top.
 Demand for Coppers was appar- ent. Calumet and Hecla was parti- culraly active, rising to new high on gain of more than a point. Higher prices were anticipated for copper since the domestic price has been generally raised to g 1-2 cents pound. Before today's adjust
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
NEW YORK CURE MARKET
SAID IT WITH FISTS

Boston, April l3-(UP)-An un- identified pedestrian said it with fists instead of flowers Easter Sun day when he apparently thought taxi cab had cut too close to him. The aroused pedestrian let fly a short jab which shattered a window in the taxi. Mabel Leng of Boston, passenger in the cab, suffered lac era tions of the right eye-from fly ing glass-and was given first aid treatment at a hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
PLANT WILL NOT
 CHANGE CITIES

Boston, April 13-(U.P0-Reports that Pacific Mills, woolen manufact- urers, contemplated moving their plant from Lawrence to Fall River were denied today by President A. E. Colby.
 We will continue to operate at Lawrence as always" Colby told the United Press. We have no intention of opening plant in Fall River"
 Colby likewise denied that the company's plant or any part of 1t had been condemned because of damage in last months floods. Op- erations are rapidly nearing the pre-flood level, he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
BREACH OF PROMISE

Worcester, Mass. April 13-(UP) Mrs. Sadie E. Shoughnessy, 50, of Somerville will appear in superior court today to ask $10,000 for al- legged breach of promise. In her suit she claims Jasper D. Akers, chief petty officer in the U. s. navy, prom ised 200 times to marry her-then married someone else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
INSURANCE STOCKS
Investment Trust Quota6on,| G. T. CULHANE CO.,. INC.
 68 Center Street

Bid Asked Amerex Holding Corp. 20R 221s Associated Standard Oil StOCkS .............. OS tA British Type Investors Class A. ...... AZ .62 Century Shares 27.32 29.38 Diversified Trust tee Shares B. ......... 105s Diversified Trustee Shares c. ........... 4.65 500 Diversified Trus tee
 Shares D. ....... 6.95 7.70 Dividend Shares .... III 1.83 Equity Corp. of Del. pfd. ................ 3sa 43h Fixed Trust Shares A l2.33 Fixed Trust Shares B 1924 Incorporated Investors 22.82 24.54 Massachusetts Investros Trust ............. .Zo.o4 zo.3u Nationwide Sec. B. .... AT 4.57 North American Trust Shares 1855 ...... 3.42 Spencer Trask Fund. 1896 2l.22 Trusteed N. Y. Bank
 oDdTeS .....,..... 1.oS Ito ! S. Elec. Light & Power Shares A. .... 1915 19A U. s. Elec. Light & Power Shares B. .... 2.97 BOY
 HOME LOAN BONDS
 Bid Asked Home Owners Loan
 2%'s ..10l.2 101.21 Home Owners Loan
 3's ................ ..1O2.6 1O2.24
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13

Combined earnings from underwrit- ing and net investment income equal 7.O4 per cent of market value, compared with TOO per cent on April 5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
WOOL MARKET

Boston, April 13- Domestic wool quotations in Boston showed little change in the close of last week, according to today's report of the U. s. Agriculture department.
 They continued unsettled, how ever, as most manufacturers were not in mood to buy raw wool. In view of the absence of trading. the price situation was dominated largely by the prices at which wool houses were offering to deliver new wools when available. A few new western grown wools had been sold before they arrived in Boston. The secured basis prices estimated on the wools involved in these trans actions were around 86-88 cents for average to good French combing length territory wools.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13

continued, Newbury made efforts to sell some of the clothes in England, Germany, Russia, and other foreign countries but William Derwin, presi- dent, on February II, 1883, advised Payne that the efforts were unsuc- cessful and requested the domestic clause be added in the contract.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13

Karl Salisbury Wood, the painter, has put on canvas pictures of 300 windmills in England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13

INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
 Bid Asked Ann. Hardware Go. .. 34h 36ls Bristol Brass Corp. com 66 69 Colts Pat. Fire Arms
 Co. ..............,. 53,s 55.s Eagle Lock Go. ....... % 32 Eastern Malleable Iron. 31 34 Landers, F rary &
 Clark ............... 44H 46i3 New Brit. Mach. Go.
 com. ............. 2O ZZ North & Judd Mfg.
 Co. .................. 331s 35B Pesk, Stow & Wilcox
 Co. ............... Remington Arms ...... Az 5ia Scovill Mfg. Co. ..... 35 37 Stanley Works Go. com. 44ls 46ia Torrington Go. ....... .1011s 103is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13
TWO WERE HURT
 IN AUTO CRASH

Continued from Page l.)
Evening star., 1936-03-15
j. s. RECOGNIZES
PARAGUAY REGIME
Francois Appeal, Direct to
Roosevelt, Revealed by
Officials Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
American recognition of the new
government of Paraguay was formally
announced last night by the State
Department.
At the same time, it was disclosed
that Rafael Franco, provisional preSi-
dent, had notified President Roose-
welt that if recognition were withheld,
Paraguay might not be eble TO carry
out the terms of its Chaco peace set
tlement with Bolivia.
In announcing the diplomatic rela-
tions had been established with the
new regime, the State Department
made public an exchange of cables
between Mr.. Roosevelt and Col.
Franco, who led the military uprising
which unseated the old government
less than a month ago.
Sent Message to Roosevelt.
This correspondence revealed that
despite the absence of a formal dip
lomatic relationship between the two
countries, Franco. signing himself
colonel and provisional president of
the Republic of Paraguay cabled
President Roosevelt on March 5:
Until now there has not been re-
establishment of official relations
with your excellency's government and
with the peace conference and, in
consequence, my government feels
legitimate fears that the time periods
agreed upon in the peace pacts may
come to an end without it being pos
sible to give fulfillment to undertake
ings, despite our firm will to do So"
Franco referred to the peace con-
ference at Buenos Aires in which the
United States joined with the govern
ments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Peru and Uruguay as mediators in the
settlement of the bitter Chaco War
between Paraguay and Bolivia.
Five Nations Join U. S.
Each of these South American gov
ernments acted in concert with the
United States in extending recogni-
ton.
The same cable was said to have
been sent by Franco to the heads
of the other nations at the same time
as he addressed Mr.. Roosevelt.
Franco added:
I'm view Of the possibility of so re-
grettable a circumstance occurring.
(See PARAGUAY. Page AID
Evening star., 1936-03-15
HOOVER GETS MEDAL

Presentation Is Made at Relief
Association 18th Reunion.
NEW YORK, March IA (P.-Former
President Herbert Hoover, retiring as
president of the American Relief
Administration Association, was pre-
sented with the medal of the League
des Internationale Amateurs tonight
at the associations twelfth annual re-
union.
The medal was awarded to Hoover
at the instance of the late King Albert
of the Belgians in 1888. Perrin C..
Galpin made the presentation. Hoo
yer gave talk reviewing his war
relief experiences in Europe.
Evening star., 1936-03-15
OKLAHOMA CITY OIL
ZONE TEST READY
Petroleum Company to Start Well
Within Three Blocks OF
State Capitol.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March IA
test for Oklahoma City's oil-zoning
authority was prepared tonight-an
outlaw we'll staked three blocks south
of the Capitol Building without deposio
of a 81 900 drilling permit.
Kent Shartel, attorney and one OF
the organizers of the K. & l.. Petro-
leun Co., said the well would be
started either Monday or Tuesday.
Asked what the company would 90
il the city attempted to halt drilling,
Shartel said: I'VE will contend the
city coming ordinances are illegal and
discriminatory"
It is near State land which the
Oklahoma Board of Affairs sought
recently to lease. The State contends
present wells are draining State lands
of valuable oil deposits and has sought
to have the latter included in the drill
ing zone.
At Ponca City, Gov. E. w. Marland
said: "I am heartily in accord with
any move testing the zoning authority
which -" permits land to be drained
Of oil without recourse.
Evening star., 1936-03-15
RIOTS FLARE ANEW
IN TROUBLED SPAIN
Church, School and News.
paper Offices Reported
Burned in Outbreak.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated HTeSS.
MADRID, March 14.-Several per-
sons were reported shot tonight in
demonstrations at Logrono in which
Catholic institution and a school
were burned.
The offices of the newspaper Diario
de la Rioaa, Rightest journal, and
the local headquarters of the popular
Action party. the strong Rightist Or
ganization, headed by Jose Maria Gil
RobleS. also we're destroyed by fire.
An attempt to attack an artillery
barracks was frustrated. Other de-
tails of the outbreak were unavail-
able because of censorship.
Madrid on Guard.
Reserves OF storm police were con-
centrated in Madrid tonight to pre-
vent renewal of disorders after a
day in which monarchists, defending
churches against mobs of extremists,
were arrested in wholesale lots.
Churches, converts and schools
were heavily protected. and guards
were thrown around the offices of
bISlllSG newspapers.
The police charge against the ar
rested monarchiSts-seiZed when the
government ordered drastic measures
to end the terrorism which has oc-
Cured Spasmodically since the Leftist
regime came into power in February
was that they were fomenting the
disorders.
Among those taken into custody was
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, head
of SPANS FasciSts and the son OF
the late monarchist dictator, Gen.
Miguel Primo de Rivera, who ruled
Spain absolutely for six years under
the nominal authority of former King
Alfonso.
200 Fascists Arrested.
Young Primo de Rivera and the
members of his Executive Committee
were alleged to have disobeyed the
decree which ordered them to fur
nish the names of all their party
members to the government.
About 200 Fascists were arrested: 72
we're captured in the Church of San
Geronimo, where they said they had
gathered to defend it against Leftists'
violence.
The government of Premier Manuel
Azana was worried by reports from
virtually the whole countryside that
Rightists and Leftists were in yio-
lent outbursts.
The government was expected to
hear criticisms of its policies Mon
day, when the new Parliament meets.
Evening star., 1936-03-15
Plane Pilot Who Sa,u Meteor
Thinks 1t Grounded in Virginia

of them awakened by the rumble or
shock and fearful that there had been
an explosion in one Of the several
arsenals in the State.
Police on patrol in shore towns said
the meteor apparently hurtled into the
ocean far of shore, but an airplane
pilot reported from over Virginia that
it appeared to drop to earth near Law
renceville, Va.
Two reports indicated that portions
of the disintegrating meteor might
have fallen into the Hackensack River
and New York Bay.
There was "a kissing, sizzling noise
like hot metal being thrust into cold
water" as the meteor passed above
Secaucus, according to Robert M. Nc
CHM of Lyndhurst, yardmaster for
the D. L. & w. Railroad. McGinn
believed it came from particles drop
ping into the river.
Lehigh Valley Railroad police said a
See METEOR, Page A-l5.).
Evening star., 1936-03-15
France Willing
tOWeaken i'm
Demands.
WOULD ALLOW
RHINE ARMY
Paris Offer Eases
Tension After
Conference.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 14.-An en-
battled France offered tonight
to soften it's stand on the queS-
ton of Germany'S remilitariza-
ton of the Rhineland as "A ma
tionS sat in judgment on the
violator of two treaties intended
to insure Europe against war.
"We do not want to stick
blindly to our insistence on evac-
uation if we can get something
better" said a French spokeS-
man attending a meeting of
the League of Nations Council
called to consider the Reich'S
violation of the Locarno pact
and the Versailles treaty.
The something better" was
left unexplained.
The French pronouncement
and the Councils invitation to
Chancellor Adolf Hitler to state his
case Monday afternoon through a
representative eased the tension which
has gripped Europe since Reich troops
goose-stepped into the Rhineland q
week ago.
(The New York Stock Market, re-
assured that war threat" news from
abroad has been premature, climbed
swiftly. equities soaring for gains Of
around 81 to 81 a share)
Eden Explains Mission.
Nevertheless, Foreign Minister An
thony Eden of Great Britain told the
grave first session of the Council: 1T
will not be too much to say that the
future depends upon the wisdom of
our action here"
Protestants at the bar of interna-
tional justice to which Germany was
called we're France and Belgium. The
buffer, demilitarized Rhineland zone
where Germany has re-established her
troops, was intended for their protec-
ton.
Memories of 1914 infused Queen
Anne's drawing room, in historic st.
James Palace, hung with scarlet and
gold, as the Council listened to indict-
ments of the Nazi regime for de-
nouncing the Locarno pact and she'd
ding another clause of the Versailles
treaty.
New Chance for Peace.
Council circles considered the offer
to Hitler as opening new pathway
to European peace.
Though the Council called on Ger
many to explain herself, her vote as a
signatory Of the Locarno pact could
prevent any proclamation OF punish
ment for the violations.
Moreover, Italy was expected to op-
pose imposition of sanctions on Ger
many. Experts drew up system OF
economic and financial measures, but
(See FRANCE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-03-15
QUIZ TO FIX BLAME
|NELEVAT0RDE
Probe Ordered After 0eh-
mann Finds Building Law
Was Violated.

Disclosure that the automatic ele-
vator which last Wednesday crushed
to death l3-year-old Harvey Crowell
was not installed in accordance with
District regulations yesterday led
Building Inspector John w. Oehmann
to order an investigation to fix re-
sponsibiiity for the faulty inspection
Regulations provide for only AZ
inches of space between the inner
safety doors and the outer doors OF
automatic elevators. In the nstalla-
ton in the apartment house at 1911
Georgia avenue, where the boy was
killed, the inspectors found nearly 8
inches, or enough space for the body
to have been caught between the two
doors as the outer one closed and
crushed when the elevator started.
His body was found later at the foot
of the shaft.
To leam why the defect was not
noticed and corrected long ago, and
the person responsible for the neg
lect, is the object of Oehmann's inves-
tigation.
The elevators in every building are
inspected when the installation is COM
pleted and are supposed to be IN ac-
cordance with District regulations be-
fore a certificate Of approval is issued
by the building inspectors Office, -
Oehmann declared.
Built Since Rules Passage.
1.-THE elevator regulations now in
effect were passed in 1880 and the
building is only four years old. How
this obvious violation was allowed to
go unremedied before a certificate
was issued, and why it has continued
to go unremedied for four years is
what am trying to find out in my
investigation. I won't have it COM
pleted until Monday"
Meanwhile, Oehmann has given
orders for a metal grille to be at
tached to the inner side of the hallway
doors on each of the six floors. The
grille will extend outward three
inches from the inner side of the
doors, cutting down the space between
the hallway and elevator car doors
to that specified in the District regu-
lations. The grilles had not been in
stalled yesterday afternoon.
Oehmann declined to forecast what
action would be taken to remedy
the situation, or whether the grilles
would be considered a compliance
with the elevator regulations.
Rule 1l0 Of the District elevator
regulations states in section "g" that
"the distance between the hoistway
side Of the landing door opposite the
car opening and the hoistway edge OF
the landing threshold shall be not
more than four inches"
Rules on Hoistway.
The elevator in the apartment, how
ever, is of the type described in the
regulations as "full automatic push
button elevators" The second para
graph of rule ITO, section 'g," pro-
vides that "the distance between the
hoistway side of swinging landing
doors at openings to hoistways of full
automatic push-button elevators and
ISee nj ,EVATOR. Page A-8)
Evening star., 1936-03-15
BY the Associated Press.


NEWARK, N. j., March 1.-THE
most brilliant meteor to flash across
Eastern skies in recent years, turned
night into MONDAY brightness early
today and reused hundreds of sleep
ers from their beds with its tremor.
The phenomenon occurred a few
minutes before o'clock and although
apparently centering over New Jersey,
was visible throughout large part
of the Eastern seaboard.
Its course was uncertain, its "land-
ing spot" as yet undetermined, but
all those who viewed it-police on
night duty, airplane pilots, and other
norturnal workers-agreed that the
bright lights dimmed street lights to
the strength of candles and that the
rumbling which followed few seconds
after the ball of fire" disappeared
into the East, rocked buildings.
Telephone exchanges were flooded
with calls by excited hundreds, many