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Evening star., 1936-04-18
STAINS MAY BARE
T|TTERT0N KILLER
Clothing of Two Persons
Under Examination by
New York Police.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Assaulted and slain, Mrs. LetUis
H. Titterton, 1Uite OF broddcdsting
erecutiue, WlS found dead in the
bath room OF her apartment last
Friday. The husband, questioned
by the police, has been unable to
supply an important clue.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 16.-Indications
mounted today that police believe they
may be close to solution Of the mys-
terious Staying of Mrs. Nancy Evans
Titterton.
DR.. Alexander o. Gettler, chief city
toxicologist, rushed an examination of
the wearing apparel of two persons,
whose names were not disclosed.
While officials declined to comment,
it was believed that DR.. Gettler was
looking for stains comparable to those
found on Mrs. Titterton's skirt, bath
robe and bedspread.
Florist Clue Discounted.
Detectives classified as highly
doubtful" story told them yesterday
by woman florist that an unidentified
man frequently bought flowers in her
shop for Mrs Titterton.
Lewis H. Titterton, husband of the
victim, told the officers a plant found
in their apartment which the florist
said had come from her shop, actually
had been bought by himself at another
place.
The police said Titterton also de-
MED reports that he had named
possible suspect, and that he had
said his wife had been annoyed by
a would-be suitor.
A piece of cord found with the VIC
TINS nearly nude body in the bathtub
of the Titterton's apartment, gave
increasing promise, however, of lead
ing to the man who assaulted and
Strangled her.
Assistant Chief Inspector John A.
Lyons ordered detective to go to
Hanover, Pa, where he was advised
officials Of the Hanover Cordage Co.
plant had identified the cord as one
of their products.
Police believe the cord was used to
bind Mrs. Tirterton's wrists while she
was being attacked.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
DETECTIVES ADDED.
BY c. 0.P.PROBERS.
Professors Held DiSappoint-
ed in Accomplishments
of "AideS."
BY CARLISLE BARGERON.


In addition to their recently acquired
professors, it is learned the Republic
ans also have gone in for detectives IN
the aggressive campaign which is get
ting underway against the New Deal,
A nationally known private detec-
tive agency has been employed to dig
up such material as will not be de-
veloped by the research work from the
professors.
There is some question as to whether
these detectives are being employed
directly by the Republican National
Committee The impression is the'
they are being employed by sources m
New York who have to do with Re-
publican finances. But they are re-
porting to the Republican National
Committees recently acquired brain
trust. And this reporters information
is that this brain trust, headed by
Prof Glenn Saxton of Yale, is rather
disappointed in the information the
detectives so far are turning up. Their
(see DETECTIVES, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Radium Spray Effect Waited
By2Professors, Risking Death

the bones and for which scientists say
there is no cure.
DR.. Joseph E. Raycroft, chairman
of the Department of Health and
Physical Education at the. University,
pointing out that the malady is "cum-
ulative" and cannot be cured, said it
was impossible to state now lust what
danger Prof. Ladenburg and Van
Voorhis are in" He said the disease
can be checked
The men were attempting to seal
the gradium compound in a tube
Thursday night. Prof. Ladenburg ap-
piled a fame to the end Of the tube
in which 200 milligrams of radium
sulphate had been mixed with five
grams of Berylium. The mixture ex-
ploded.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
EaStman's Vote Breaks Tie
Among |. c. c. Members
and Assures Basic 2-Cent-
Per-MiIe Fare June 2.
LINES AGREE TO ACCEPT
3-CENT PULLMAN COST
Co-ordinator Challenges Conten-
tions of Carriers Floods Made
Cut Inadvisable and Ascent
Charge Would Provide Proper
Test.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Eastern railroads today lost
their fight before the Interstate
Commerce Commission for an
l0-month poStponement in the
June 2 effective date of new low
passenger fares.
The roads had asked the postpone.
ment of basic 2-cent-per-mile rate
for passenger coaches recently pre-
scribed by the commission and the
substitution of a trial ascent rate
during the interim period.
They agreed to accept Scent Pull
man rate fixed by the I. C. C. OF the
major Eastern roads. only the Balti-
more g. Ohio failed to join in the re-
quest for postponement.
The commission divided S to on
the postponement petition and the is
sue was referred to Transportation Coz
ordinator Joseph B. Eastman for de-
termination. Eastman is a member Of
the commission, but because of his
position as co-ordinator votes only in
case of ties.
Two EACepIlOnS NOLeu.
In statement. Eastman said the
poStponement petition presented moth.
ing either on the law or on the facts
which was not before the commission
and considered by it at the time of its
decision in this proceeding. with two
exceptions"
These he listed as the carriers plea
that extraordinary food conditions"
had made a rate cut inadvisable and
that they asked authority to institute
2.5-cent fare voluntarily.
Eastman challenged the carriers
contention that they could get de.
pendable test of experimentation" by
instituting the ascent rate.
Eastman said that any results from
this rate would not be at all con.
elusive" as to possible effects of the
2-cent rate.
Sees Accurate Test Assured.
IF experimentation is desired" he
continued, conclusive results can be
obtained only by putting to the test
the fares which the commission has
prescribed, and such results should be
available in a period of time shorter
than the Is months proposed by the
petitioners"
Eastman long has been an advocate
Of lower rates as a stimulus to rail
travel In its original decision, the
commission voted without Eastman.
Chief effects of The commissions
order will fall on Eastern railroads,
because low fares already are in effect
in the West and South.
In prescribing the reduced charges
the commission cited improved pas.
Senger traffic in those sections as in
dicative that similar benefits would
result from a rate slash in the East.
The Eastern carriers, however. con.
tended commuters comprised a large
portion of their passenger traffic and
a fare reduction would be unlikely to-
bring any substantial increase.
The commissions decision today
cleared the way for the court attack
Eastern railroads had indicated would
be made if the commission denied
their plea for a postponement.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
ROOSEVELT BACKS
W.P.A. WORK TYPE
Opposes Setting Aside
Funds for Use by ICkeS'
P. w. A.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Administration has tended to
place increasing reliance in made
work OF light type OF projects as
principal palliative for unemploy-
ment. Tug-of-tGar oUer issue de-
veloped last year t0hen S4,S80, ,000,-
900 tUaS appropriated NTH no quail
fcdtionS as to spending. w. P. A.
Administrator Hopkins favored
light t0ork, P. W. A. Administrator
Ickes favored heavier and more
lasting projects. Former won
decision.
This year, President Roosevelt
asked for $500, 900 900 NTH same
lack OF strings as to disposition.
Appropriation bill now before
House committee
BY the Associated Press.
Adhering to the w. p. A. type of re-
lief, President Roosevelt set his face
today against demands in Congress
that about half of next years proposed
81 500, 100000 work fund be used for
Secretary Ickes' heavy construction
projects.
This White House victory for Harry
L. Hopkins lighter, faster-starting
undertakings did not, however, induce
Representative Better, Democrat, of
New York to abondon his drive to
have the House earmark 1000, 600
of the fund for IckeS' Public Works
Administration.
Better, head of the "P. W. A. bloc, "
announced:
We're positively going ahead. We've
got the votes now to earmark the
P. w. A. funds"
At press conference late yesterday
Mr.. Roosevelt expressed opposition to
such a move on the ground the money
would not go so far in putting men tc
work. The s1,50O,0O0,00O, he said
was being sought to give a certain
number of jobs in the next fiscal year
If an alteration of plans required the
purchase of more materials and q
longer time to complete the projects
he said, then more money would have
to be appropriated to provide work fol
the same number of people.
Petition to President.
Better said the P. w. A. bloc hoped
by the first of next week to have the
names of more than 200 House Demo
Gratis on petition to the President
in addition to the signatures Of
number of Republicans.
AS this fight went on, anti-Nev
Dealers continued their attacks or
Administration handling of relief
Representative Bacon, Republican, oi
New York, said in radio address thai
there are manifestations of political
craftsmanship shocking to the Amer
lean tradition of honesty in Govern
ment."
As officials sought to figure out fu-
ture unemployment and relief needs
the American Federation Of Labor
issued a statement dealing with the
subject 1t said the country was "on
(see RELIEF. Page %
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Police Charge a ''Zioncl,eck''
Dr0re Car 20 Miles an Hour
"Can You Imagine Me Up at $780, Asks
Representative From Washington,
Casting Doubt on Identity.

Out Connecticut avenue, a few min
utes later, car whizzed to Chevy
Chase Circle. In hot pursuit came a
scout car bearing Policemen M. J.
Meenehan and c. E. Riley. They were
being outdistanced, they said, when
the circle forced the driver to check
his speed.
Returning south on Connecticut ave-
nue., so the police story goes, the
car slowed to curve around a lum-
bering Capital Transit Co. bus At
Fessenden street the pursuing police
caught up. They had been following
for 2 miles, they said
The driver, whom the police booked
as Zioncheck, was taken to the eighth
precinct station, where he explained
he had been trying out" his new car
He was allowed to go home to get SIS,
(See "ZIONCHECK," Page 81
Evening star., 1936-04-18

Marion A. Zioncheck, booked at No.
8 precinct as a Congressman of
Washington, tried out" his big, new
gray roadster on Connecticut avenue
early today and ended up at the
station, charged with speeding 10 miles
an hour.
At the station house, the police say,
Zioncheck renewed acquaintances
which he made there New Year day
when arrested for telephone antics in
a Connecticut avenue apartment house.
Wearing a golfing sweater and
crumpled felt hat, Zioncheck left about
$50 am. and went for a trial" spin
in the high-powered car he purchased
q few days ago.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
RESPIGHI, COMPOSER
OF NOTED OPERAS, DIES

Sy the Associated Press.
ROME. April 1S.-Ottorino Res
pighi, 56-year-old Italian composer,
pianist and conductor, died today Of
heart disease.
The author of the operas, THE
Sunken Bell" and La Fiamma,"
which have been presented in New
York, had been Ill for some time
with blood poisoning. which resulted
in the heart trouble.
Respighi was guest conductor for
the Philharmonic Symphony Orches-
ira in New York In 1882.
He died, with his wife, other mem.
bers OF his family and friends at his
side,
Evening star., 1936-04-18

VATICAN CITY, April 18 (R.-A
brief dispatch reported today that
Monsignor Tito Crespi, auditor Of
the Papal Nupziature at Madrid, died
aboard boat carrying him from Bar
celona, Spain. to Genoa, Italy.
Monsignor Crespi had been suffer-
ing from a serious nervous breakdown,
as a consequence of overwork during
the recent troubles in Spain, he was
en- route to Rome to recover. The dis
patch gave no particulars of his death.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
BY the Associated Press.

PRINCETON, N. j., April ia
Princeton University physics professor
and his assistant, sprayed with a
$4,000 radium compound, waited anx-
iously today the results of blood tests
to determine if they will escape ra-
dium poisoning.
Rudolph Ladenburg, brackette pro-
fessor of physics, and Cletus Clinton
Van Voorhis, research associate, re-
ceived radium burns" when the sub
stance was scattered in a small ex-
plosion in Palmer Laboratory.
The professor and his associate sub
mitted at once to blood tests that will
disclose whether they are to be VIC
Tins OF the poisoning which affects
Evening star., 1936-04-18
States Must Be Prepared to
Use Military Sanctions for
Collective Security, He
Tells Political Rally.
4.DAY HARAR ASSAULT
BY GRAHAM REPORTED
Badoglio Communique Declares
Ethiopian Chieftains Surrender
as Italians Move From Dessye
Toward Adds Ababa-Musso-
lini Fortifies Home Forces.

BACKGROUND
Italy's inuasion OF Ethiopia met
Ddrying success until forces moD-
ing from north extended their dd-
Uance as far as Lake Tdna and
captured Dessye, Emperor Halle
Selassie's field headquarters on the
northern front, routing SelaSSie's
crack troops.
Attitude of Mussolini toUard
League OF Nations and its peace
efforts stifened Uith report italian
troops are on the road to Adds
Ababd, less than 100 miles from
DeSSye.
Tension NTH Great Britain
heightened by conquest OF Lake
Tdnl'S shores.
BY the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, England, April
18. - Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin said today the only way
to secure European peace was to
be ready to fight for it if neces-
Sary.
collective security will never work
unless all nations which take part in
it are prepared simultaneously to
threaten with military sanctions and
to fight an aggressor if necessary he
declared at a political rally.
Peace Held Up to Hitler.
The premier, who advised the nation
he had no intention of being forced
out of Office, told his audience that
Adolf Hitler, more than any man
living in Europe" could make OF break
peace on the continent.
He admitted the League of Nations
has failed in its efforts to halt the
East African war and said:
There does not seem yet to be
effective machinery for stopping war
if one of the parties is determined to
go to war and will not submit its diff
ferences in the dispute to discussion
and arbitration"
League of Nations influence has
been weakened by the non-member-
ship of Germany, the United States
and Japan, Baldwin said. thus making
'the imposition of sanctions of much
less force"
"Slow Sanctions Lose Force"
Sanctions which are slow in action
lose a great deal of their force unless
they can be supported by an ultimate
sanction, which is a blockade" the
prime minister asserted. 1T is diff
cult to see how under the existing
membership Of the League the block
ade would be agreed to-"
Baldwin included the Rhineland in
his discussion describing the Reichs-
fuehrer as "the dictator of Germany
who has it in his power to do more
at this moment to lift the black
(See WAR. Page O.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
HOUSE TAX REPORT
EXPECTED MONDAY
Language of Measure Due
for Approval Today
in Committee.
By the Associateo Press.

The House Ways and Means Com
mittee gathered today amid forecasts
that the language of the new tax
measure will be approved before
nightfall and introduced Monday.
No estimates of the expected yield
were forthcoming last night, when
Democrats of a tax subcommittee
said they were virtually ready to ap-
prove the measure.
Chairman Samuel B. Hill of the
subcommittee said there was posi-
bility that Chairman Doughton of the
full committee would introduce the
complicated measure Monday, and, if
so, the bill would be taken up We'd
nesday.
Exact Estimate Impossible.
While the measure has been called
the $799, 100000 revenue bill, a num-
ber of changes made it impossible,
it was said, for legislators to an
nounce an exact estimate of the yield.
Hill said the figure would not be
known until the Treasury makes cal
culations on the basis of the altered
measure.
In answer to question whether the
bill would balance the budget for ordi-
nary Government operations, he said:
1--WE are not working to the definite
end of balancing the budget. but we
are hopeful that the revenue will
at least approximately balance the
budget"
S792, 100000 Revenue Hoped for.
He said the major hope Of the sub
committee is to have the revenue ap-
proach the s792 100000 figure men,
toned by President Roosevelt.
Four original provisions on which
the subcommittee worked were re-
vision of the corporation tax system
Expected to yield $591 600, ,000), a
"windfall' tax to recover portion of
the unpaid or refunded A. A. A.
processing taxes ($100, ,000,0 tenn
porary retention of capital stock and
excess profits taxes 1888 5000, ,000) and
a tax on dividends to foreigners
(S25 900 OO0l,
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Madrid Normal After Strike.

MADRID, April 18 P.-A one-day
general strike of Madrid workers,
which brought business in the capital
to a standstill, ended today an3
normal operations were resumed after
leftist leaders said the government
promised measures against fascist
provocation."
Evening star., 1936-04-18
German General Injured.

BERGEN, Germany. April 18 R.-
Gen. Werner Won Fritsch. chief of the
army general staff, suffered chest in
juries today when his horse stumbled
and threw him to the ground.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Wirephoto Advances.

BOSTON, April 1S P).-The Boston
Post today began publication of As
sociated Press wirephotoS, becoming
the sixtieth newspaper to participate
in the service.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
LINERS SPEED TESTED
Queen Mary Makes 80 Knots in
Trials Off Isle of Arran.
BY the Associated Press.

GOUROCK, Scotland, April ,18 R.-
The new British liner Queen Mary
established speed of more than 80
knots approximately IS miles an
hour) in speed trials off the Isle of
Arran today.
The huge new ship made five trips
over a measured course, the results
Of three of the trips being registered
at 20, 30.4 and 80 knots, respectively.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
WEATHER.

%. 8. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair, continued cold tonight, minimum
temperature about 81 degrees: tomorrow
fair, slowly rising temperature. Tempera-
tures-Highest, 54, at las pm. yester-
day: lowest, 38, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

(See KIDNAP, Page o.
Evening star., 1936-04-18

(See WAR, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-04-18
MONSIGNOR DIES

(See RELIEF. Page %
Evening star., 1936-05-19
Policewoman Covers County.

Dorset, England, has appointed its
first policewoman and has given her
q beat" Of 625,612 acres, for she must
cover the entire county.
Evening star., 1936-05-19

that both bus and car operators drive
their vehicles down the street with
eyes to the right or left, viewing
the scenery at the side of the street
when their eyes and attention should
be continuously in front Of them. On
one occasion a bus driver started his
bus, and as he did so looked directly
to his left for q space Of two or three
seconds. then on looking in front
found an automobile within a few
feet of him. He put on his brakes
with force, throwing all passengers
forward and just escaped hitting the
automobile. Had his eyes been In
front this would never have occurred"
!. These are but samples Of the many
complaints on file against the busses.
These complaints. however. are in
terspersed with Communications, and
the many advantages of buses mean
but one thing-the gradual passing Of
the old street car. The following pas
sage from a Public Utility Commis-
sion report clearly indicates the mod
ern trend:
Material changes in the lines of
the Capital Transit Co. have taken
place In the District. Since 1923
many miles Of track have been aban-
doned, no track extensions have been
constructed since 1910, and a net
work of bus operations has been es-
tablished since the advent of the
first bus operation"
Evening star., 1936-05-19
CAPITAL CLERGYMAN
ASKS BAPTIST UNITY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ST. LOUIS, May 19.-Denouncing
denominational sectionalism as the
tragedy Of America" DR.. Rufus w.
Weaver, Washington, D. c., executive
secretary Of the Columbia Association
Of Baptist Churches, urged closer CO.
ordination before the joint session Of
the Southern and Northern Baptist
conventions in session here today.
Pointing out that there is no scrip
tural mandate for Mason and Dixon
line in the Kingdom of God" DR..
Weaver declared the Luther Rice Gen.
tennial to be celebrated next Septem-
Der offers an opportunity for the re-
vval Of sacred memories that be-
long to the time when American
Baptists were all happily united"
"Out of this hour should come some
thing more than platform oratory and
door fraternity" he said.
DR.. Weaver, who is executive secre-
tary of the Luther Rice Centennial
Commission, with headquarters in
Washington, outlined the part of the
pioneer Baptist leader in founding
Columbian College, now George Wash
ington University, and described plans
for the worldwide celebration.
Evening star., 1936-05-19
HULL CITES WAY
TO REVIVE TRADE
Urges Equality Of CONNER.
ciaI Treatment of All Ma
tions in Talk Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Worldwide equality Of commercial
treatment for all nations was urged to-
day by Secretary Hull as the most
effective means of restoring interna-
tional trade.
Addressing the International Cham
ber of Commerce in the Mayflower
Hotel on the occasion Of foreign trade
week, the Secretary Of State called for
an end to discriminatory trade prac-
tices In favor of the reciprocal most
favored nation treatment principle
which he is seeking to promote.
Recalling the collapse Of interna-
tional trade during the last six years
and the "protracted inability Of gov
ernments to recreate the conditions In
which it can recover" Hull declared:
1.-THE shrinkage Of foreign trade has
deprived of their means Of livelihood
millions of workers who, despite the
efforts of their governments to create
domestic prosperity in the midst OF
international stagnation, are still for
the most part the objects Of public as
sistance.
Increasingly. governments are
tempted to find relief from pressure
and distress at home by recourse to
military adventures abroad"
Evening star., 1936-05-19

sick headache and nausea, having
driven Just couple Of trips"
Another bus rider complained Of
bus being in such bad shape that
the driver had to hold the gear shift
lever in place with his hand or knee
while driving, to keep the gears from
disengaging. Several complaints have
been received that the company char
ters its good buses. replacing them
with old ones for regular passenger
service.
Busses Failed to Operate.
F. A. Sager, chief engineer for the
commission, reported that six sched-
uled busses failed to operate at all
on the Chevy Chase line from FIJI
teenth and H streets on December
between Sis and SAT pm, the
height of the rush hour.
From sis until $50, he said, all
busses went by with full" signs, leav-
ing from II to % prospective pas
sengers waiting at the stop. Some OF
these buses, he added, had to stop
for a traffic light, and the drivers,
importuned by people standing in the
street, did take on two or three pas
sengers, despite the "fulr' signs.
Sager. testifying at the hearing In
December, also reported numerous
cases of overcrowding, 50 passengers
on buses with capacities for 80 not
being uncommon.
One of the most significant reports
made by Sager, a recognized trans
portation expert, urged the inaugura-
ton of psychological tests to determine
the fitness of bus and street car oper-
ators for their work.
In connection with the operators
of busses and street cars" he said
II believe that the character of the
service would be greatly improved II
attention were given by the Capital
Transit Co. to the mental and temper
amental characteristics of motormer
and conductors as determined by ordi-
nary reaction tests which have beer
for some time in common use by
certain street railway companies. Il
a man Is not mentally or temper.
amentally equipped to operate a bus
or street car, the operation Is not
safe and will not be regular. II, how
ever, these tests are applied to al
men who operate motor vehicles, ths
chances are that unfit men will ne
longer be permitted to drive vehicle
loaded with 80 to so passengers
Therefore, the risks of the company
| will he oraaf1v decreosed and fht
operation of the busses and cars viii
be more comfortable.
From my own observations I know