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Evening star., 1936-04-04
STOCK RALLY LED
BY STEEL SHARES
Many Market Leaders at New
5.Year Peaks in Buying Rush
at Weeks Close.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April A rush OF
buying in the steel shares lifted
many stock market leaders to new
highs for the past five years today.
Shares of the leading steel makers
were actively bought coincident with
weekend reports indicated ingot pro-
duction at the highest level since the
Summer of 1880. Reports that U. S.
Steel Corp. had purchased $4,000 to
10000 tons Of steel scrap were viewed
IN Wall Street as indicating further
increases in production schedules.
United States Steel common rose
more than 50 to touch a price of $40
q share for the first time since 1881.
1t slid off a little from the best, in
profit taking in the final dealings.
Youngstown Sheet g. Tube, fire.
quently wide mover, jumped nearly
SIS to above $56. Bethlehem rose So
to around $61. A rise of more than
81 carried Republic Steel shares
above $25.
Miscellaneous issues rising 81 to So
included General Motors, Chrysler,
American Telephone, Allied Chemical,
Case, Du Pont, N. Y. Central, South
ern Pacific and Santa Fe.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Only Minor Changes Made in Previ-
Gus Regulations.


Regulations under which the Gov
ernment will insure modernization
loans were mailed to lending insti-
tutions today shortly after President
Roosevelt signed the bill extending
the insurance plan until April l.
1887.
Housing administration officials said
previous regulations were reissued with
only minor changes necessitated by
revisions in the national housing act
Government authority to insure
modernization loans expired Wednes-
day, but officials explained the bill
extending the insurance is retroactive,
Thus, it was said, loans advanced be-
tween the expiration date of the
old law and the Presidents signature
of the new bill may be insured.
Housing authorities expect a slight
drop in the volume of moderniza-
tion loan insurance as a result of
a provision i'll the new law prohibiting
insurance of loans for movable house.
hold equipment.
The new measure also changes
previous requirements as to whom
may receive modernization loans,
stipulating that only owners of prop
erty or persons holding leases ex-
tending six months after the ma
turity of their loans are eligible.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
TRIAL WEDNESDAY
IN KILLEEN SLAYING
Maddox Case Is Postponed Two
Days by States
Attorney.
BY a stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, April 4.-The
trial of Mrs. Lillian Maddox, indicted
for the Staying Of Eddie Killeen, WASH
ington gambler, Is scheduled to open
here Wednesday.
Mrs. Maddox was indicted for man
slaughter and her trial originally set
for Monday. States Attorney James
H. Pugh revised his docket, however,
and with the consent of the court, set
nine other cases for Monday.
State Senator Stedman Prescott and
Attorney Harry Whalen of Washing
ton represent Mrs. Maddox. She Is
said by police to admit shooting Kill
Ieen at his home on Conduit road last
Fall, but claims she acted in self
defense.
Chief among the cases set for Mon
day is one charging Elsie Wheatley
Frazier, colored, with the murder Of
her father, Scott Wheatley.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

Maj. Brown revealed that even prio-
to receipt of special instructions from
the Commissioners regal ding extra
attention to such matters, he ha0
directed precinct commanders and
their men to see that garbage and
trash are put in the proper place and
in proper receptacles. and to take
stern measures against persons caught
dumping or discarding garbage and
refuse in violation of police regulations.
Police inspectors were commanded
by Brown to give particular atten-
ton" to insure that his order is car
ried out
Declaring he believed the Capital
should be "a model of cleanliness"
Maj. Brown said his force would con-
centrate on achievment of this ideal
despite the difficulty of discovering
offenders in offending acts. He pointed
out that surmise is not sufficient to
Evening star., 1936-04-04
WOMAN AND CHILD BURN
AS BOY CRIES FOR AID
Bodies Of Tennessee Mother and
5-Year-old Found in Fire
Swept Home.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April awhile
q small boy stood on balcony and
screamed for aid, his mother and s.
year-old brother burned to death when
fire swept their home today.
The bodies, those Of Mrs. Grace
Phelps, 20, and Jimmie Phelps, were
found in an upstairs room Of the two
story frame residence.
The fire was discovered after neigh
bors were aroused by the screams Of
Jimmie's brother. Johnny. standing
helplessly on the balcony.
The father, John Phelps, was away
on Q business trip.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 4-Like a per-
son just awakened from the horrors
of a nightmare, Vera Stretz-acquit-
ted of numbering DR.. Fritz Gebhardt,
her lover-sought rest and forgetful-
ness today.
Her father, 70-year-old Frank
Stretz, clasping the blond young wom-
an in his arms, said she was going
away for while to try to forget"
Several prominent persons, he said,
had invited his daughter to spend a
few weeks at their homes in the
country.
A carefully selected "blue-ribbon"
Jury returned the verdict last night
which set the 32-year-old defendant
free.
At the words "Not guilty" Miss
Stretz collapsed.
She had been on trial for two weeks
on charges she killed DR.. Gebhardt
Evening star., 1936-04-04
TRAPPED THRICE. P. w. A.
WORKER DIES IN CAVE-IN
Wou1d-Be Rescuers Uncover Vic
TINS Head Twice, Only to Be
Baked by New Slides.

Ey the Associated rress.
WALPOLE, Mass, April 4.-Frantic
work of would-be rescuers failed to
save today a 25-year-old p. w. A. en-
ploye, who was smothered under tons
of sand and gravel in a sewer excava-
ton slide.
Twice rescuers uncovered Tony Mac
celdi's head and shoulders, but new
cave-ins buried him again.
A steam shovel was pressed into
service, but when Macceldi was found
Medical Examiner Edward H. Ewing
said he was dead from suffocation.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Man WHO SWALLOWED
FALSE TEETH IS SAVED
Quick Action of Police Is Held
Responsible for Preventing
Strangulation.
81 the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 4.-The quick ac-
tion Of Lawrence police officers prob
ably saved James Garrow. 40, Of Island
Pond, VT, from strangulation today
after he swallowed his false teeth.
He staggered into Lawrence police
headquarters and shakily wrote on a
piece Of paper:
Swallowed my false teeth. Am
dying from lack Of air."
The police brought him to Massa-
chusetts General Hospital here, where
physicians gave him temporary relief
and prepared to operate later. Hos
pital atendants said he probably would
recover and that danger of immediate
strangulation was passed.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
ENGLAND REJECTS
FRENCH PLEA FOR
L0CARN0 MEETING
Session of Signatories at
Brussels April 8 Had
Been Requested.
EDEN CITES CONVOKING
OF LEAGUE COMMITTEE
Paris Planned to Insist Upon
Reich Sanctions or End of
Those on Italy.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Remilitarization of Rhineland in
piolation OF Versailles and Locdrno
treaties brought French demand for
military sanctions against Germany,
but result Uns condemnation of
Germany by the League OF Nations
and presentation to Hitler OF an
"ultimatum" by Great Britain,
France, Belgium and Italy.
To allies demand TOR negotiation
for q settlement OF the Rhine prob
lem-phile an international force
pdtrolled the dred-Hitler countered
1uith a proposal OF four month
negotiation for q "neW LocGrno,"
the frontiers OF France and Bel
gium being patrolled in the mean
time By a commission.
Britain distinctly cool to French
demands for neD session OF Locdrno
poWers to consider more dctiue steps
against Germany. Italy, meanwhile.
labors under League sanctions i'm
posed for her Ethiopian campaign.
LONDON. April 4 CP.-British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden toda,
rejected formal French request TO
a meeting of the remaining Locarn
signatories at Brussels April 8.
Pointing out that session of tn
League Of Nations Committee of l.
had already been called, Eden said
Locarno conference would not be de
sirable at present.
The British officials decision wa
communicated to French and Belgian
representatives in London.
The foreign secretary asserted tina
the League Committee meeting woult
afford an ample opportunity for al
exchange Of views on proposals ant
counter proposals for European Sc
curity.
ATTrDN a rTvyrc M n NyNyrn
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Ex.R pres en- tative Fort
Makes Case Issue in OPP.
posing Governor for Place
at G. 0. P. Convention.
LEGISLATIVE PROBE
POSSIBILITY DINNER
Informed Sources Doubt Jersey
Executive Will Continue Kid
nap Invest gations-Haupt-
mann Dies in Chair Keeping
Silence to the End.
BULLETIN.

(copyright, 1896 by the Associate Press)
TRENTON, N. j.. April (P.-
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman'S Office
announced today he would press
for a legislative investigation of
the handling of the Lindbergh kid
nap-murder case, now that Bruno
Richard Hauptmann is dead.
(Copyright, 1886, by the Associated Press.)
TRENTON, N. j., April Am
immediate threat to Gov. Harold
G. Hoffman's political future
arose today as an aftermath OF
Bruno Hauptmann'S silent death
in the electric chair, although
possibility of a legislative inveS-
tigation appeared at an end.
Even before Hauptmann'S body
had been embalmed in the State
prison morgue, former Repre-
sentative Franklin w. Fort an
nounced he would oppose the
Governor at the polls for the
position of one of the delegates
at large to the Republican Ma
tional Convention on the sole
issue of Hoffman's activity in the
Hauptmann case.
when a Governor makes a
mockery of our courts and jurieS
and drags his high office into the
mire, I cannot remain silent, J"
said Fort, President Hoover'S
floor manager at the 1928 con-
vention.
Fort, who said he had with
held his announcement until
after Hauptmann's electrocution
last night, filed as a candidate
against Hoffman in the May 10
primary, when Republicans will
pick their delegates.
That there may be no other
ISSUE" said Fort, Il have declared,
as he has, for Gov. Landon for
President"
Hoffman Has Urged Probe.
Gov. Hoffman, who pushed an in
quiry into the kidnapping after his
visit to Hauptmann in the death
house last October, has urged a legis-
lative inquiry into the entire case.
There appeared to be widespread
feeling, however, that this phase might
be dropped, along with the petition
of "a prominent Princeton residents
for an inquiry to determine if any
State official had laid himself open
to impeachment or removal.
Hoffman once said he would con-
tinue his investigation of the kid
naping after Hauptmann's death, but
Informed sources expressed doubt that
any active search would be pushed.
Technicalities in the strange case
OF Paul Wendell, who repudiated a
confession" of the kidnapping, re-
mained to be cleared away.
The Mercer County grand Jury,
which heard Wendell assert that four
men abducted and tortured him until
he signed the document, is expected
to free him Tuesday of the murder
complaint.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann's last-min-
ute affidavit in Hunterdon County
accusing Wendell of the kidnapping also
must be quashed.
Wendell Case Goes On.
Wendell will 60 to Brooklyn Tues
day to aid officers in locating the
house where he said he was held
prisoner for 10 days.
From there, he asserted, he was
taken to the Mount Holly home of
County Detective Ellis Parker, who
was closely associated with the Gov
(See HAIIPTMANM pana ~
Evening star., 1936-04-04
PRESIDENT SIGNS
HOUSING MEASURE
Loan Authority Extended
to April 1-Long.Te
Program Studied.
BY the Associated Press.

DS liiC AoooSIdlCu rACoS
MIAMI. Fla, April 4.-President
Roosevelt has signed the bill extending
for one year title l of the Federal
housing act, authorizing loans for re-
pair and modernization of homes.
The renewed housing authority is to
continue until next April /. The bill
was signed by President Roosevelt
aboard the u S. S. Potomac. it was an
nounced here today by Marvin H. Nc
Intyre, q secretary to the President
Meanwhile. a corps of Federal ex-
perts were seeking to work out long
term housing program, but there was
still some doubt whether this will be
ready in time for action at this ses-
sion of Congress.
INSURANCE RULES MAILED.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
MISS STRETz ASKS
CHANCE TOFORGET.
Acquitted of Numbering
Lover, Blond to Go Away
for Rest.
BACKGROUND

ACKGROUND-
Vera Stretz met DR.. Fritz Geb-
hdrdt on southern cruise in Decem-
Der, 1884. Friendship led to in
tinlacy.
Last November IL, she testified,
he lured her to his apartment un-
der pretert of illness, after she had
told him their intimacy tpas ended
because he ,Das "practicing decep-
ton" on ,pife in Germany. She
testified she shot hin, in SELF
tense toIlen he attempted to at
tack her.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
HANGED AT OWN TIME
Slayer Set Execution Date Before
Pastor Went Abroad,

WALLA wALLA, Wash, April 4
R.-Barney Flemming, 20, colored,
who set the date for his own execution,
was hanged at the State prison here
last night.
Convicted of Staying Mrs. Labella
Butler, also colored, he expressed a
wish to die before his spiritual adviser,
Rev. Arvid Ohrnell, left for Europe.
The court granted his wish.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
c. OF c. OPPOSES
NEW TAX PLANS
Administration Censured as
Committee Works for
Quick Passage.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Each Roosevelt Congress except
the first has been called upon to
enact new tar legislation. The
latest proposal, uhich Uould open
up ne,D reuenue source in lepy
on undistributed corporation profits,
has been attacked by business as q
Shdre-the-Uealth noue, but admin
istrdtion officials defend it as more
tdir to stockholders than the pres
ent leUy on corporation income. The
tar message embodying this propo-
sal tDds forwarded to Congress as a
suggested method OF paying the
bonus and reUarding crop-controll-
ing farmers DEo no longer could be
paid from the processing tar.
Py the Associated Press.
Administration motives in urging
that the present corporate tax system
be discarded in favor of a new sys.
tenn based on undistributed earnings
we're questioned today by the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States.
As the Ways and Means Committee
pressed its tax hearings toward con.
clusion in order to get the new reve.
nue. program through the House within
q fortnight, the chamber, in its weekly
business summary. said:
Those business representatives who
have appeared before the House com.
mittee have generally contended the
proposed tax on uodistributed cor.
porate earning would have retard-
ing effect on recovery and re-employ.
ment; that 1t would work a severe
hardship on corporations with little
or no accumulated surplus; that il
would penalize prudent and thrifty
management; and that it would mis-.
use the taxing power to enforce eco
nomic changes.
THE question, therefore, troubling
1See TAXES PAGE Ion
Evening star., 1936-04-04
BULLETIN.

TRENTON N. j., April 4 R.-
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman answered
today request that he withdraw
his candidacy as delegate at large
to the Republican National Con-
vention to protect the party "of
contamination from the ghastly
situation which has arisen." with a
statement he would run If he re-
ceived only 10 votes.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
COMMITTEE OF 10 TO MEET.
Madariaga VIII Report on Attempts
For Peace.

GENEVA, April (P.-The League
of Nations announced today that the
meet before Easter to receive report
from its chairman, Salvador dc
Evening star., 1936-04-04
by the Associated Press.

NEWARK, N. j., April 4.--Former
Representative Franklin w. Fort said
today he was opposing Gov. Harold g.
Hoffman for post as delegate at large
to the Republican National Conven-
ton solely on the issue of the Gov
ernor's activity in the Hauptmann case.
when Governor makes q mockery
Of our courts and juries and drags his
Evening star., 1936-04-04
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, April "A
squadron of Italian airplaneS at
tackled the airdrome of this cap
| 1tal OF Ethiopia today, machine
cunning two Ethiopian planes
and firing one of them with in
cendiary bullets.
The five raiding planes flew
over the capital itself for As min
utes, precipitating an evacuation
by the populace, but dropped no
bombs Immediately.
The Fascist flyers appeared to
concentrate over nearby Surkaki,
where both the airdrome and
wireless station are situated, but
the wireless station was not
damaged.
Natives from the surrounding terri.
tory crowded the capital for Saturdays
market day At first in panic, crowds
started streaming for the countryside,
but the evacuation was carried out in
orderly fashion.
Foreigners Go to legations.
Foreigners went to their legations
and took refuge in trenches and dug
outs with which number of these
centers were equipped.
The Italian planes, in their assault
on the airdrome, descended to an alti.
tude of less than 100 feet while turn.
ing their machine-gun fire on two
Ethiopian planes standing outside a
hangar.
A fire, started by the incendiary
bullets. destroyed one Of the standing
planes-an old one, not used for a
year. The hangar also was struck
and went into flames.
Warriors Fire Into Air.
From every corner of the city,
bearded warriors-many of them vet
Grams of the 1896 battle of Aduwa in
which an earlier Italian invasion was
repulsed-fired antiquated rifles wildly
into the air. but they caused little
danger for the planes.
The planes reconnoitered for three
quarters Of an hour, despite fire from
anti-aircraft guns, and then turned
toward Northwestern Gojjam Province.
Empress Mennen, accompanied byl
Foreign Minister Bellaten Guetal
Herouy. toured the capital to inspect
the damage and to learn whether any
victims had been taken, Immediately
after the planes left.
Cheered by Crowd.
She was cheered by a crowd before
the imperial palace.
Emperor Halle Selassie's cabinet
met to consider new defense schemes.
Jijiga and Diredawa were also re-
ported attacked during the morning
with the airdrome at the latter city
machine -gunned in attacks similar to
that at the capital.
The reports did not state any cas-
ualties or the amount of damage.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
ALTERNATIVES PLANNED.
Punish Reich or Free Italy, France
Would Ask.


Would Ask.
PARIS, April IA (P.-Diplomats
said today France will insist that sane
tions be imposed on Germany or lifted
from Italy.
These sources declared that Pierre
Etienne Flandin. French foreign min
lister, will confront Great Britain with
such a choice at the projected session
OF Locarno powers.
Since Great Britain is known to be
opposed to sanctions against Germany
for its Rhineland action, Flandin is
convinced, diplomats asserted. he can
obtain agreement to abolition of sane
tions against Italy for aggression in
East Africa.
Explained to Cerutti.
Semi-official sources declared Flan-
din had explained his proposal to Wit
torio Cerutti, Italian Ambassador to
Paris. Cerutti reiterated his assur-
ance that Italy would attend the
Locarno session, expecting French in
f1uence to remove sanctions and thus
restore Premier Mussolini to full
standing with his French allies.
The present concern of the French
foreign minister Is how to carry out
his proposal. The present plan Is to
lSea I0CApNO pao.1o\
Evening star., 1936-04-04
BILLION IS SOUGHT
IN HOUSING BILLS
Wagner and ElIenbogen Are
Authors of Four-Year
Program Plans.
by the Associated Press.

by me ASSOCIATED treSS.
A construction program to provide
$1,000, 0,000,0 900 over a four-year period
for low-cost housing, and asking an
immediate appropriation of s5l, 900, 900
was before Congress today in bills in
troduced simultaneously by Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York, and
Representative Ellenbogen, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania.
Through extension of Federal grants
and loans, the bills seek to stimulate
construction of modern dwellings for
low-income families, encourage slum
clearance and increase employment by
q revival of the durable goods and
building industries.
With Federal experts differing on
the program, and without full admin
istration Endorsement, there is no GER
tainty Of action at the current session.
ss7s,ooo, 900 Carried on Bill.
The bills provide an estimated
s976, 100000 through authorization for
SIS 100000 in bond issues; the appro-
priation of s5l ,000,0 900 for 1887, and
authorizations for future appropria-
tions of s275 ,000,0 and a loan of
500, 900, 900 for the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, covered by assets of
the housing division of the P. w. A.
Through a Federal housing author
ity, 60-year interest bearing Federal
loans would be provided State or local
housing authorities from bond issues
of 100000, 900 in 1897 and s150, ,000,-
900 in each Of three succeeding fiscal
years. Supplementing the loans, Fed
eral grants not exceeding As per cent
of the construction cost of any project
would be provided by the $5l 900 900
appropriation in 1887, authorization
of SIS, 900 900 in 1888 and s100 900 900
in 1899 and 1910. Provision is also
made for loans to limited dividend
corporations to assist in housing
development.
Authority Would Include Four.
The housing authority would be
composed of the Secretary of Interior
and four members to be named by the
President for five-year terms, subject
to Senate confirmation.
Senator Wagner said in support Of
his bill that even before the de-
100000 families were liv.
ing under conditions which did not
protect their health and safety, and
that q long-range building program
would mean construction of 10000, 900
new family homes in the next 10
years.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Squadron of 5 Fires on Adds
Ababa Airdrome, Igniting
Building and One Ship.
Visit Lasts As Minutes.
PANIC.STRICKEN CROWD
FLEES TO COUNTRYSIDE
Jijiga and Diredawa Also Are Re.
ported Objects of Machine Gun
Assaults-League Committee to
Hear Madariaga Before Easter
on Cancellation Efforts.
BACKGROUND

Adds Ababa, containing iega-
tions and consuldtes, hitherto es-
capped attack during Italian CAM
pdtgn OF conquest in Ethiopia:
uistted once by lone italian plane
during the early fighting.
Use of aviation marked, howeUer,
tn fighting along the northern and
southern front, proping its efec-
ttDeness tDhen heather and terrain
prevent activities by ground forces.
Foreign representatives in Ethi-
opid long prepared for air attack
by constructing bomb-proot dug
outs and shelters for use OF their
nationals In case of q raid.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

(See WAR, Page 10.)
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Explained to Cerutti.

(See LOCARNO. Page 10.)
Evening star., 1936-04-04

(See STRETZ, Page So
Evening star., 1936-04-04

(See TAXES, Page l0.)
Evening star., 1936-04-04

(See CLEANUP, Page -
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(See HAUPTMANN, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-04-04
WEATHER.

(U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and slightly warmer tonight; to-
morrow fair and warmer; minimum tenn
perature about 80 degrees. Temperatures
Highest, AZ, at 3:45 pm. yesterday;
lowest, 80, at lis am. today.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
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