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Evening star., 1936-04-04
FRANK BYRAM DIES
AT HIS HOME HERE
Illness Is Fatal to Retired EN-
ploye of City Post
Office.

Frank Byram. II. retired employe
of the City Post Office, where he
worked for more than 40 years, died
yesterday at his home. 3413 Holmead
place. He had been ailing for some
time and had been seriously Ill for
the last two weeks.
Mr.. Byram, a lifelong resident OF
this city. was the son of the late Eliza
and John Byram. For many years he
was well known in local musical circles
and. until few months ago, sang In
the choir of Westminster Presbyterian
Church.
Active in the Masonic fraternity, he
was a member of B. B. French Lodge,
F. A. A. NJ, and Mount Pleasant
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Carrie v. Law-Byram, music teacher
in Eastern High School, and a niece,
Mrs. Bernice Randall-Angelico of this
city.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Monday at the residence Burial
will be in Congressional Cemetery The
Masons will have charge OF the
services.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
StretZ
Continued From First Page.)

because, after many months of inti-
macies. he failed to marry her.
DR.. Gebhardt, president OF a Ger
man trade promotion concern, had a
wife in Germany and was the father
of two children.
Miss Stretz testified, however. he
told her he had not lived with his wife
for 10 years and was going to get a
divorce.
The young woman pleaded that she
shot him to protect herself from a
threatened unnatural assault after he,
pretending sickness, had lured her to
his expensive Tower apartment and
attacked her last November II.
Although Prosecutor Miles M.
O'Brien failed to ask the jurors to
give a verdict Of first degree murder
carrying a death penalty, Judge Cor
nelius F. Collins had told them they
could choose between that, several
lesser charges and acquittal.
The jurors deliberated three hours
to reach their decision.
Although the judge had warned the
spectators against making any demon
stration, several women screamed and
most of the others arose and ap-
plauded.
Miss Stretz was so overwhelmed a
guard had to hold her to keep her
from falling.
Then she spied her father and
rushed to his arms. Both of them were
weeping.
"I want to go home" she cried
Later, asked if she had any plans
for the future, Miss Stretz replied
with sigh:
Its been such nightmare. I just
want to rest"
The verdict added to the long string
of victories of defense Attorney Samuel
LeibowitZ. 1t was the 115th acquittal
he has won in 119 murder trials.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
STANDBY TOASK
NEW BATTLESH|PS
Texas and New York Will
Be Replaced if Admiral
Has His Way.

The battleships Texas and New
York. commissioned before the World
War and now the Oldest of their kind
in the American Navy. soon will be
replaced by two new 35,000-ton craft,
If Admiral William H Standley, Act
ing Secretary of the Navy, has his
way. Three new cruisers. each around
$500 tons, also will be urged by
Admiral Standley, initiating building
program in this type to secure between
10 and Is in the next six years.
Admiral Standley made these dis
closures at press conference yester-
day on his return as delegate from
the London naval parley. When Presi-
dent Roosevelt returns to Washington,
the Navy's highest officer will advo-
cate that Congress Immediately ap-
propriate $l0000,000, SO that as soon
after January l as feasible, the two
new battleships may be laid down.
That sum would care for the first
years work, although each new battle
ship would cost between 35,000,0 900
and $50,000,000. Estimates worked
out by the General Board would place
the figure around $42,000,00 Inas-
much as it has been 20 years since the
United States has constructed bat
tleship, it is now difficult to make an
accurate estimate, Admiral Standley
explained.
Admiral Standley expressed the
hope that the 1910 consultation, pro-
vided in the newly written treaty,
would bear fruit in naval limitation.
The provision for an announcement
of yearly building programs by the
signatory powers, he said. will tend to
allay the suspicion that is at the root
of naval armament races.
Italy will probably sign the treaty,
Admiral Standley said, and if Ger
many and Russia come in, a naval
race may be prevented.
The existing London naval treaty,
which expires December 81, prevents
the laying down of battleships prior
to that time. Admiral Standley wants
the plans all ready. so construction
can start without delay.
The Navy Department has had the
construction of new battleShips in
mind for some time, but pending the
outcome of the naval conference, has
hold the matter in allegiance, Admiral
Standley pointed out 1t will take
three to four years to construct a
battleship.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
CRIMINAL ALIENS
BILL UNDER FIRE
Senate to Resume Debate on
Measure Seeking Deportation
of Offenders.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate today was to resume
consideration of the King Coolidge bill
for deportation of criminal aliens,
with further attacks on the measure
promised by Senator Reynolds, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina
Reynolds yesterday accused Daniel
W. MacCormack, immigration COM
missioner, of deception" in connection
with information furnished the House
on the status of aliens in this country.
He offered a measure Of his own
which, he said, would expel criminal
aliens, reduce immigration from 153.-
900 to $1,000 annually and provide
for flngerprinting and registering
aliens now in the United States.
Senator King. Democrat, of Utah,
whose bill the North Carolinian said
was an importation" instead of an
expectation bill, defended his measure
with the assertion it would send 10000
alien criminals home.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
PARK WONDERS TOLD

Wonders of the national park sys-
TEN were described by DR.. H. c. Bryant,
assistant director of the National Park
Service, as the closing speaker in a
series of lectures before the National
Geographic Society in Constitution
Hall last night.
Speaking of the growing popularity
OF the Is national parks and the SO
national monuments throughout the
country. DR.. Bryant said more people
are visiting these points each year. He
pointed to the record Of Carlsbad
Caverns, where 900 persons visited
last year, as an example.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
CATHOLIC YOUTHS
FIGHT COMMUNISM
Students of High Schools
and Colleges Here Hit
"RedS" in Creed.

Communism was to receive the mass
disapproval of students in Catholic
high schools and colleges of Washing
ton and vicinity at a meeting at
Georgetown University today.
Delegates to the one-day convention
heard addresses by Catholic clergy
men, then drafted a five-point creed
proclaiming devotion to the doctrines
OF Catholicism as opposed to COM
munism.
Rev. Francis P. lie Buffe of New
York, Eastern representative of the
National Sodality Council. business
manager of the Catholic weekly
America and editor of the quarterly
magazine Thought. was to speak on
What Are You Doing About Com
munism?" Rev. John A. La Fargo,
also Of New York, scheduled addresses
on "Communisms Philosophy of Life"
and What to Do About Communism. I"
Presidents of the sodalities of the
various schools represented at the
convention met at $50 am. to plan
the days activities. This meeting
was to be followed by general as
sembly, with Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary,
president Of Georgetown, delivering
the invocation and Francis E. Hickey,
member of the National Advisory
Board Of the sodality, Catholic youth
organization, presiding.
The conference is under direction
Of Rev. Vincent S. McDonough, direc-
tor of the sodality at Georgetown.
Among institutions represented were
Georgetown, Trinity College, Loyola
College of Baltimore, Georgetown
Visitation Convent, Immaculate Semi
nary. Georgetown Preparatory School,
Academy Of the Holy Cross, Gonzaga
High School, Holy Trinity High
School. Immaculate Conception Acad-
emy, Notre Dame Academy, Sacred
Heart Academy, st. Anthony's High
School and st. Pauls Academy.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
FEDERAL JOB OPEN

The Civil Service Commission will
accept applications until April 27 for
the position of assistant director OF
historic sites and buildings, National
Park Service. Certain educational
qualifications are required. The sal
ary Is $500 annually.
"Details are available at the COM
mission, Seventh and r streets.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
MANIAC WHO SLASHED
YOUTH CAPTURED HERE
IS Stitches Needed to Close
Wounds-VictimR Refuses to
Name Assailant,

A maniac who slashed a youth so
severely 35 stitches were needed to
close his wounds was held in Gallinger
Hospital today for the Morgantown,
N. c., authorities.
T. B. Jones, escaped inmate of a
Morgantown asylum, was captured
at Eighteenth street and Columbia
road yesterday after a wild attack
on Star Lee Culp, 18, at the latter's
home at 701 Fourth street, who had
known Jones in North Carolina.
Culp was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for cuts on the left side of his
face, below his left ear, on the left
side of his body, on his neck and
down his back.
He refused admission to the hos
pital and would not tell police the
name of his assailant.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
PRINCESS IN ERITREA

ASMARA. Eritrea, April 4 R.-
Crown Princess Marie Jose Of Italy
arrived at Massaua yesterday to begin
her duties as Red Cross nurse in
Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. She
left Naples March 26.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Mustache Brings Sentence.

For refusing to shave off his mus
tache, a Guardsman in the British
Army was sentenced to 10 days in
the guardhouSe.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
MRS. DONAHAY DIES
Two Sons and Three Daughters
Among Survivors.

Among Survivors.
Mrs. Margaret T. Donahay. 72, for
the last l8 years O resident Of this
city, died yesterday at her home, 2609
Hamlin street northeast. She had
been Ill three months.
Mrs. Donahay is survived by two
sons, DR.. william B. Donahay and
James Dohahay; three daughters, Miss
Katherine Donahay, Miss Beatrice
Donahay and Miss Margaret Donahay;
four brothers and four sisters, all Of
Lock Haven. Pa, and one grandchild.
Her husband was the late Patrick G..
Donahay.
Funeral services and burial will be at
Lock Haven Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
High Blood Pressure Conquered
By Removal of Nerue Parts

arteries as a complication. While
per cent died as the result of the
operation, Is per cent apparently were
cured, 81 per cent showed marked i'm
provement, rs per cent were moder-
ately benefited, and II per cent
showed slight improvement. Only z
per cent failed to benefit.
The annual meeting of the College
of Physicians held its general session
at the university today, the program
including clinics for the presentation
of unusual cases and general discus
sions of progress in experimental and
clinical medicine.
Material changes in the structure OF
the body can result from emotions
which result when person is met
with situations to which he cannot
adapt himself, DR.. c. D. Camp Of the
medical STAFF told the physicians.
THE effect of emotional conflict
upon physiologic function may be
noted IN every organ of the body" he
declared, and IF the functional
change lasts long enough, secondary
structural changes may result"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
HOFFMAN UNDER NEW FIRE.
Legislator Charges Vehicle Depart
ment Hurt by Activities.

Legislator Charges Vehicle Depart
ment Hurt by Activities.
TRENTON, N. j., March 4 pa
fresh attack on Gov. Harold G. Hoff-
mans investigation Of the Bruno
Richard Hauptmann case was pushed
forward today by a member of his
own party, who believes the Cover
nor's activities are impairing the eff
cheney of major State department.
Basil B. Bruno of Long Branch,
member of the anti-Hoffman Repub-
lican group in the Assembly. cam
vassed the House members on their
views of his resolution which would
authorize an investigation of the mo-
tor vehicle department, which Hoff-
man headed before he became Gov
ernor.
The legislator charged that en-
ployes of the department are being
used by the Governor for other ac-
tivities, including investigation of UNI
solved angles of the Lindbergh kid
nap-murder.
Second Reprieve Indications.
Hauptmann, convicted of the crime,
is under sentence to die the week of
March 80, but there were strong indi-
cations the Governor would grant
second reprieve.
If he does grant another stay. it
was learned Prosecutor Anthony NJ.
Hauck of Hunterdon County. scene
of the trial, may apply for writ OF
certiorari to challenge it. Hauck
would base his action on an inter-
probation Of a law which holds the
1See IINDBERGH. Page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
MARCH BORROWING
IS OVERSUBSCRlBED
Cash Offering Will Run Seven
Times Over $3.50, 100000
Asked,
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Secretary .Morgenthau said today
the Treasury's s1,250.000, 900 March
borrowing was oversubscribed from
five TO seven times
While final figures have not been
compiled, he said, reports already re-
ceived indicated the cash Offering
bonds would run well over seven times
the $3.50, 900, 900 asked. Subscriptions
for the notes. OF which $500. 900. 900
were offered. were we'll over five times
that amount.
The bonds have a maturity OF IL To
Is years and pay interest at the rate
OF ga per cent. The notes have a
maturity Of five years and pay ~ per
cent.
Subscription books on the Offering
were opened last Monday and closed
the same day.
Books will close Thursday night on
the offer to exchange either the bonds
or notes for $685., 100000 Of ~. per
cent notes maturing April IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
Thing to Do about Diet Is Forget
1t. Baltimore Internist Auers

doubt If there's one real cast of it in
q thousand.
When you think that for cons and
cons your ancestors got along without
diet, isn't it strange that all of sud-
den we seem to get the idea that we
have to have certain special foods or
else?"
There is the vegetarian diet, for
one" smiled Dr. Brown.
ut has been said aptly that it fills
one up with wind and elf-righteous-
ness"
And as for vitaminS:
You probably get all the vitamins
you need in the average mixed meal.
Cooking may diminish the value of
some foods slightly. but if you eat an
average amount Of uncooked foods you
have no need to worry about your
vitamins."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
new DELEGATE FOE
GIVES SMITH FIGHT
Staten Island Attorney Enters
Primary Race for Favor of
Tammany Hall.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March ALFRED E.
Smiths hopes of going to the Demo-
cratic National Convention as dele
gate faced the certainty today of a
test of strength against an eleventh.
hour rival candidate.
Smith, who has threatened to take
a walk" if the convention supports
President Roosevelt, had been desig-
mated. with william A. Fetherston, as
the choices of Tammany Hall for dele
gates from the eleventh congressional
district.
With only few minutes left before
last nights filing deadline, however.
Joseph O'Neill, Staten Island attor-
ney, filed a petition nominating him.
self as a third rival. Two of the
three will be chosen at a primary
election April 2. The district COM
prises all of Staten Island and por-
ton of lower Manhattan.
ONeill by his method of filing.
since he asked either one of the two
seats, stood chance to win even
though he did not defeat Smith His
fight for election, however, was UNDER
stood to be aimed at the man in the
brown derby"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
Only Three Injured
In Traffic Crashes
Despite Heavy Fog

With motorists creeping along
in a thick. early-morning fog,
traffic mishapS were comparX-
lively few today. Only three
persons were reported injured in
the past "a hours.
Edward Spence, 4, of 1889
Newton street, suffered injuries
not believed serious when struck
near his home yesterday by an
automobile police said was driven
by Ralph B. Kelly, 1851 Abbey
place northeast. The boy was
treated at Garfield Hospital and
later removed to Children's Hos
pital.
Two colored youths were
slightly hurt when their car
struck a telephone pole guy wire
and rolled down an embankment
at Naylor road and T. street
northeast. They are Julius j..
Miller, 20, of 1892 SiX-and-a-half
street, and Milton Lewis, Is, of
lib First street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, March 4.-The
best thing you can do with diet-if
you listen to DR.. Thomas r. Brown Of
Johns Hopkins University-is forget it.
The sooner the better.
The American craze for dieting tops
all the queer things" the Baltimore
internist and associate professor OF
medicine at Johns Hopkins has en-
countered in As years of a medical
career, he said today.
The average healthy American, he
believes, can best stay that way by
eating average American food.
Building up bugaboos and fads on
medicine In this country meets with
most astonishing. success" he said.
For example, autointoxication; I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
L|NDBERCH. LETTER
PRAISES OFFICIAL
Schwarzkopf and Others in
Kidnap Case Mentioned
to Senator Moore.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Moore, Democrat, of New
Jersey, Governor of New Jersey at the
time of the Lindbergh KIDNAPPING, said
today he had received a letter from
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, expressing
appreciation of his efforts and those
of the State police in searching for
his child.
The letter. Moore said. was a per-
sonal note thanking him and praising
the work of Col. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, head of the New Jersey
State police, and his forces for their
conduct during that trying time 1t
was written in December while Lind
bergh was on his way to England.
Appointed Schwarzkopf.
II was Governor of New Jersey at
the time of the tragedy" Moore said
today. "and naturally appointed
Schwarzkopf, head of the State po-
lice, to conduct the investigation Col.
Lindbergh expressed himself as
thoroughly satisfied with the investi-
cation as conducted"
Moore said he had not made the
letter public because he wished to
observe the usual amenities of not
publishing a personal letter without
the permission of the writer
Mentioned to Schwarzkopt.
Naturally" he said, Il told Col.
Schwarzkopf and a few of my friends
of its receipt. Any one likes to know
he has been praised"
Moore said Lindbergh in his letter.
written on stationery of his ship. did
not philosophize" on his reason for
leaving America or say how long he
might remain abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04

1T is estimated that on the basis
of the undistributed net profits for
the taxable year 1885, Hill told re-
porters, that the proposed tax would
yield $500, 100000, if the profits are
not distributed. If they are dis
tributed, the corporations wouldn't
pay any tax at all
Would Pay Normal Taxes.
In the latter event, however, stock
holders would pay normal income
taxes on corporate dividends. The
President proposed that normal in
come taxes a per cent? on such divi-
dends be added to the present pro-
vision of the law for surtaxes on
them.
I'VE would lose by repeating COR
porate taxes now in existence" Hill
said, IAN amount which If deducted
from this billion six hundred million
I'm using that as round numbers
would leave net in revenue we now
are receiving of about $500, 100000"
Hill said the proposal discussed this
morning provided for no exemptions
and added: I'VE haven't taken any
action as to what institutions would
be in or out"
Hill said it would not make any par
ticular difference as to the range of
taxes just so they averaged 33ls per
cent.
I'VE might, say, commence at q per
cent and go up to IS per cent" he re-
marked.
He said the Presidents suggestion
that s5l7,0o0,00o be raised by wind
fall'' tax and excuses on the processing
of agricultural porducts was not con-
sidered today.
Smell Attacks Program.
Among the Treasury experts present
were Herman Oliphant, general coun-
sci for Secretary Morgenthau, and Guy
T. Helvering, Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue.
Calling the Presidents tax program
political stratagem," Representative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
BY the Associated Press.

.
ANN AR5OR. Mich, March "A
remedy for advanced cases Of high
blood pressure by surgical removal of
nerve parts which serve the body
cavities was advocated today before
the America, College Of Physicians.
DR.. Max Minor Peet of the Univer-
sity Of Michigan Department of Medi-
cine told general session of the
college that 1t was now believed that
high blood pressure was essentially q
nervous disorder, often hereditary,
which responds to this treatment.
The operation, successful In a large
number Of cases at the University Of
Michigan. he declared, involves the
removal Of portions Of the small and
large nerves Of the body cavities. The
object of this procedure, he added. is
to eliminate construction or drawing
together Of the blood vessels which
supply the kidneys.
1t has been used on 1870 patients
with advanced. high blood pressure
who did not have hardening Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
w. P. A. Aims to Cut
10000 From, Rolls
In Next 4 Months
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
New Deal officials plan to thin out
w. P. A. rolls by more than 100000
persons in the next four months.
They count on Spring expansion
in private employment and on such
Government activities as road-build-
ing and public works projects to alb
sorb many persons now getting relief
through the Works Progress Admin
istration.
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins said yesterday the administra-
ton believes 100000 persons a week
would be placed in private or other
employment from now until July l.
President Roosevelt previously said
at his press conference that he had
held a parley on unemployment. He
said it was an inconclusive discussion
of whether industry could absorb
more workers.
While relief needs in the fiscal year
beginning next July were estimated
unoficially at $4,000, 100000, the Pres
ident gave no indication how much he
will ask the present Congress to ap-
propriate for this purpose. He said,
however, there would be no unob-
ligated funds left from the $4,000
00O.O00 works fund at the end of this
year.
s2,1s6,00O,Ooo Relief Need.
1t was recalled that Mr.. Roosevelt
in his budget message said he did not
anticipate the need for additional
relief funds would be as great as
$2,136,000, 900. In his tax message he
reiterated hope of balancing next
years budget except for relief out
lays.
At yesterdays White House discus
sion were Secretaries Roper and Per-
kins. and Maj. George Berry, co-or-
dinator of industrial cooperation.
This meeting came only after the
(See JOBS, Page 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
10 NUNS STAY 9 MINUTES
AT MASS AS FIRE RACES
Services Completed at Convent
Before Leaving as Four Com
panies Battle Flames.

BY the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., March A.
Thirteen nuns calmly completed mass
in a second-story chapel of st. An
thongs convent here today while four
fire companies fought a f1rst-1oor
blaze in the building.
Mother st. Joseph, who discovered
the fire in a closet on the first floor,
had a sexton call firemen and then
notified other members of the congre-
cation who were at mass. Although
smoke filtered into the chapel, the
nuns waited nine minutes until the
Rev. Father Francis McCabe had fin
ished mass before filing out of the
building.
The flames burned through the up
per floors of the building later and
the interior was wrecked. but no Of
fetal estimate of the damage was
available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-03-04
Average Levies of 33!A Per Cent
ON Corporate SURPRISES Seen
in Secret Deliberations.
BANK AND LIFE INSURANCE
EXEMPTIONS HELD INDICATED
Smell Brands Program ''Political Strata
gem" and Says Message Proclaimed
End of ''Breathing Spell"
BY the Associated Press.


House Ways and Means Subcommittee and financial
today possibilities
suggestions with 1913 corporate
AS discussed behind
depreciation
Chairman washington
mi meeting however,
fduciary
He added that lit is contendd such would
poraon building
Split
preliminary sweeping proposal
The Presidents suggestion repeal of the
and substitution that would undivided
under pei
a