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Good Morning Will thn League plea to end Ethiopian war Ito heeded by Italy? MORNING HERALD Weather Report nlr warmer lllht rain colder nlfntr Thursday (enerilly fair and much colder, except itnow flurrlea trone went portion. VOL. XL, NO. 54. Freit Bui B.SOO HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936.

AaiociaUd Preii SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS. BRUNO'S CASE GETS DEEPER INTO POLITICS Relations between Democratic Leaders Strain- I ed, Report BATTLE IS RAGING OVER POLICE HEAD Accused Judge Hauptmann Again Visited by His Wife in the Death Cell Trenton, N. March 3 (7P). jovernor Harold G.

Hoff- nan's activities in the Bruno Hichard Hauptmann case have ed indirectly to strained re- ations between leaders of the Democratic party in New Jer- icy, an authoritative source lisclosed tonight. 1 This aaicF the dispute i Judge Halsted L. Bitter Impeachment of Federal sled L. Ritter Florida, accused "high crimes," has been voted by the House of Representatives. jurist will l)e tried Senate.

by the if Norman Schwarzkopf as i PLANS PUSHED FOR ipad of-tbe state police. Schwarzkopf's five-year term expires in June and reports have Ions pocn niiTent that tbe Governor, has heen critical of tbe slate I lolice work in tlie Lindbergh kid- ap case, does not intend to re-1 him. Friends of Schwa rz- have his reappoinfment, i nd on Febrnnry 3 Henry Baltimore, March 3 JCssox county and I thp latest snow fall, Maryland pmber of tbe Republican group Pushed ahead in ils plans to repair ppoppd to Hoffman's llnuncial poli-'lhe damage caused fiy one of the es, introduced a bill lo protect severest winters in many years. cliwarzkopt by continuing him in i Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer fiicR until snccessor i.s confirmed.

State Roads Commission, Thfi bill was sideti'acked and no announced badly damaged macadam roads on the Eastern Shore REPAIR OF DAMAGE I Badly Damaged Roads on Eastern Shore to Be Relocated was (a ken on it today when legislature met for several The authoritative source said will be relocated when funds are available for the work. the clearing of the Chesa- mma; had counted on votes of prake Ray of ice, the Baltimore Aa- Democratic minority, but that I sociatlon of Commerce announced support was suddenly shifted that more ships had been moved in aml mu BaUimorft hnr or slate Dem- Hm nR the pa st months than any similar period since If) 30. I The report, of the. Export and Import Knreaii I hnl the Maryland Pilots' Associa- lion handled vessels during the was suddenly HHinst ihr bill thronsh intervention Mayor Knnik lln Inador. Tbe sanin iMimre said Attorney "iieral David T.

Wiletitx antl fnle Senator John K. Toofan, Mid- IP.SPX county Democratic leaders id staunch supporters of to ptM-smuk 1 llaj-'iiu to re- mstdcr his wlanil. was Han pi ma mi's chief at the Fleniin.ston trial id lias conferred witli Schwarx- in the Lindbergh crime inves- ual ion. huipimanu, who is under sen- ed to months as comp last year and in Kallimore wiis on the weather dividing line Awing last night's snow fall. To the west, the State had up to three inches of snow and to the ensL and south there was fog.

Salisbury experienced a thunder ice 10 die the week of March HO. siol during the night. is visiled today by his wife, nna. ami earlier by his chief- conn- 1. 0.

Lloyd Fisher. Mrs. Haupt- rinn said her husband was un- and hopeful tile most rent developments run execution. The Governor, a rehahle source CHINESE REDS MAKE ATTACK save Shanghai, March 3 (A 3 A Chinese Com inn is army swept into i Shansi province tonight and crave said, will sign a new reprieve 1 ears Ha pt man and will itlier approve nor oppose the Assembly Session Will Open At Noon Legislators Gather at Caucus to Nice to Deliver Message in Person Soon After Legislature Meets Annapolis, March 3 Democratic and Konublican members of the Maryland Legislature meeting in separate caucuses here tonight reorganized for the special session liy electing the same presiding officers that guided the 1933 regular session and adopted a resolution limiting measures that will be considered. Democratic memhers of the House of Delegates unanimously selected Delegate Emanuel Gorfine 4lh Baltimore), to be the Speaker for the special session.

A threatened revolt of a bloc of county members aimed at selecting a new speaker, was smoothed over by agreement. The Democratic Senators agreed upon Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer Prince George's), as Senate president. Senator J. Allan Coad St.

Jlary's), and Delegate R. Mullikin Prince George's county), will he the majority floor leader. The Republicans meeting at Carvel Mall, nominated Senator J. David Balle Carroll), as their candidate for Senate president, which will make him the minority floor leader in that body. They re-elected Delegate Thomas Popp Allegany), as, the minority floor leader in tbe Mouse.

Resolution Adopted Gorfiue and Sasscer will be elected when the Legislature convenes at noon tomorrow, givJng tile body the same leadership as at the regular session. PLEA IS MADE BY IE AGUE TO MAKE PEACE Both Democratic House and Senate members adopted a resolution drawn up by a conference of Democratic leaders held at the office of Senator Millard K. Tydings, In Washington. The House vote for the resolutions was to 1, Delegate James B. Knight 5th Baltimore), casting the only dissenting vote.

The resolution lays down the principles to guide the special session, prescribing that deliberations shall be confined to: 1. Necessary relief legislation, including such measures and eo-ordi- nated legislation both necessary to make peace, but optimism was Optimism Noticeably Absent among League Officials WEEK IS GIVEN TO NATIONS TO REPLY Cold Reception Said to Have Been Given by Mussolini Geneva, March 3 The League of Nations appealed to Italy and Ethiopia today to comply with all Federal and social security requirements. 2. Such legislation as the Legis- lature may deem advisable to enact with regard to the Executive Mansion. 3.

Only such local measures as are clearly remedial and necessary. Senator Walks Out The resolution also provided that noticeably absent among officials. One week was given for a reply. Some members of tbe "Committee of 13," including all members of tbe council save the belligerents, found hope in tbe fact Premier Mussolini has not yet officially and finally rejected the peace project. (Rome dispatches said the peace the specified local measures would I plea was received coldly there but not be passed until after the relief that Fascist officials were giving It and social security legislation had been acted upon.

The resolution met with less enthusiastic treatment in the Senate. Senator Mary B. W. Ristau, only feminine member of the Upper House, left the chamber as soon as it was introduced, rather than vote on it. Before the session.

Senator Ristau said "Senator Tydings can't sit (Continued On Page 10) BOND ISSUE ASKED FOR NEW SCHOOLS Board of Education Urges Bill Be Introduced in Assembly VIOLENCE REPORTED IN GOTHAM STRIKE Total of 78,000 Workers Out, Union Officials Claim At a meeting of tbe Board of Education yesterday afternoon, resolution was adopted urging that Charge Made Senator Holt By Charleston, AV. March 3 investigation Senator Rush Holt I'D-VVVa) is conducing ought a char.nn from tho junior Miator today that, works unit em- oycs were Ix-hiK inlimidated to (hem frfim Riving him infor- ation. State A dm in is I rat or F. Witcher cCulloiiRh promptly denied the large. i Winding up "for the time bding" i scrutiny of the mountain slate's PA after talking to more than were aroused for more than a score of American missionaries believed to be in the path of the invasion, New Sino-Japanese complications also were threatened by the Red attack from tlie soul Invest into (lie east-central province.

An army was hurriedly mobilized at Taiyuan, capital of the by tbe aged war lord, Marshal Yen i Msi-Shaii, and a virtual state of martial law reigned. Two battalions of Shansi prov-: iiice already have been ambushed! and wiped out by tbe Reds, said advices reaching authorities in Tai- yuan. Tlie general of the defending troops killed himself to avoid capture. No word lias been received from '21 American and Canadian mis- New York, March 3 leaders tonight claimed to have crippled or curtailed elevator and a bill be introduced in tbe special beating service in G.OOO buildings in New York and threatened a "light lo the finish" unless their demands for higher pay are met. At.

the pnd of the third day of a strike marked by violence and Italian ships, disorders, union headquarters announced 78,000 building service workers were out, as compared with 71.000 in buildings yesterday. Police head'iuartprs said their I count showed only 3.30!! buildings affected, ami employers' spokesmen placed the figure as low as 500. As negotiations for a settlement were suspended for the night it was announced at strike headquar- i was denied. UTS 10,000 THiflciing superintendents I A bill was introduced in the last were preparing to join tbe walkout. I session of the Legislature provid-1 For tho first time since it began ing for a bond issue for the above; Sunday, the strike spread to hotels! schools, but the measure was killed ft ml clubs.

Heretofore tbe apart- after, being amended in the House! nient disiiicts were hardest hit. I to include, a number projects Windows were smashed, substi- not previously proposed. tule workers kicked and boilers tampered with and elevator i cnbles sliced as roving bands moved through the city. An effort by strikers to pull 2fi elevator operators and porters oil of the fieuenil Assembly providing for a bond issue for new cbools at Sharpshnrg, Manugans- ville. and Sandy Hook.

The proposed program would in-1 volve about to be divided' follows: Sharpsbnrg, Maugansville. and Sandy Hook, $10,000. It is expected that, a measure ill lie defied and introduced with-j in I be next few days in the Legis-; iiilure. Application for Public Works Administration funds for the construe-; tion of these schools was made some time ago but the application a close study.) In British circles pessimism was pronounced. It was repeatedly emphasized the peace move was a French idea and that sanctions would continue as usual until and if peace is actually concluded.

The sanctions committee of IS will meet tomorrow to instruct its technical committee to proceed to draw up a detailed plan for enforcement, of an oil embargo, so as to have it ready if the peace move fails. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary who announced yesterday his government is prepared to go ahead with an oil embargo, prepared to leave for London. Foreign Minister Pierre-Elienne Flandin oE France also is departing. There were rumors of possible Franco-British talks within the next few days on the general European situation, particularly in view of Adolf Hitler's recent reported gesture to France. If Italy and Ethiopia refuse the overture for peace, the sanctions committee of 18 will meet March 11 to vote on an oil and possibly other sanctions, such as closing ports of league members to Private Banking Ends Home.

March banking in Italy was abolished today by a sweeping banking reform, passed by the Council of Ministers in a ses- (Confinued on Page 30) HALF OF POLICE FORCE IS FIRED Planned On Route Eleven Columbus, Ohio, March 3 Two hundred picket selected to observe and report traffic to work lipre today. They were named by officials seeking to head off a wave of automobile accidents expected to follow dismissal of nearly half the city's Some motorists scoffed at die mergeucy plan to augment the re- Rebuilding of Route 11 through the 'jnb'in'the" New York' Stock i oli( ft flforrc aild Franklin county so there will be no i failed when private police; wont work. Others lauded the dangerous curves between lingers-' tnni0(l them awa from the town and Chambersburg has been nig. Kadi siilf announced 1)y the Pennsylvania State Highway Department. in Greencastlc the, proposed new profession- forced to lav al strikebreakers were being im- policemen an idea.

Among ij.s supporters were tlie accused. (lie, other of Columbus Motor club and Safety Director Harry M. French, who was lay off almost half the tl firemen because of 0, Holt asserted his requests for tsts data mi projects had been ro- sed by oflicials. route would leave the present i i ported from out of town to ugiu crisis in IhO'citys finances. sionaries stationed at Fenuhow.

GO i Route 11 about a mile north of On-1 1 'bis union men. Building men de-i Director trench said the citizen miles southwest of Taiyuan, since last Saturday. TO SENTENCE PRISONERS Prisoners convicted at (he Fell- tenu of Court will be sen- this afternoon at 1:30 lock liy Judge Frank (i. Waga- tISON ROAD GANG PLAN CONSIDERED Wage Law Ruled Invalid By Court Square and would (ravel tbe I i lined tbe charge. volunteers were provided with enhre length of Carhsle slrect to, Bi nl i(: a8sp tlon that torras on wl)k Ilia southern end of tl, fi nQ fm ther strike Six dangerous curves would ho eliminated between Hagerstown calls until the City Hall conference tonk a (i like urn, workers will New i wny and Chamborsburg.

The new mart wa (P nllt ()f a number of. build- Alliauy, N. March 3 York's highest Court; work would be. started. of itself today to! precedent of the United Slates Su-j prenin Court antl held unconstilu- tional the state labor law selling up minimum wages for women.

The division wns four to three. The Court of Appeals based ils leeision on a ruling by the United on forty feet wido but hi li- i illgs ns the afternoon, officials wei'e unable lo say RUMOR OF WEDDING DENIED IN LONDON cten 3CEU to import viola- lions. On tbe first report, the name London. March 3 was an- Iliallimove. Slarch Means ot The Court of Appeals based ils slated lonisht that a idleness in Maryland's decision on ruliiiK by the United niarriage between King Edward iuslilutions were sought to-l Slates Sunremo Court that the IOIS UK 1 former Infiinln JMi-ia of the complainant remains secret avoid the possibility of hard feelings, or hard words if one of the "T-men" should cile a friend or neighbor.

i Second offenses will result in the CORN IS REPORTED I filing of charges against the violators, French said, with the "T-rnan" (that stands for traffic) signing an affidavit against Hie person he reported. were sol Ity Harold 10. Donuell, state porintc'tidenf of prisons, as a re of tho Supreme Court's ap- oval of the Hawcs-Cooper act. said ho favored a "lira- i use" of prison road gangs, as I arranged for a conference on question wilh Judge Joseph Iman, head of the Federal com Isslon on reorganization of prison Federal minimum wage law was Chrislina of Spain, hinted at by a unconslitulional because it violated Spanish newspaper, is tho right of a cilizen to make con- right of a citizen tc tracts. INJURED IN ACCIDENT K.

Mavlty, 1200 block Salem Ienne, sustained cuts about the In the head-on collision ot two lomobiles on West Washington loot yesterday afternoon about -I llocli. The driver of the other 0. .1. Clippingor, local auto legman, escaped injury. Patrol- In Davis and Rnaorc investigated.

QUARANTINE EXTENDED Cumberland, March 2 Dr. Joseph P. Franklin, city and county health officer, following a telephone conversation with Dr. Mark Welsh, slate veterinarian, of Hallimore, today announced that the quarantine area in the George's Creek section of Allegany county would bo extended to Include a considerable aren south of Barton, this county, Ilnrton was the previous southern boundary of tho quarantine area. Tills notion was taken following Iho biting of eleven persons in tho area Saturday and Sunday by a rabies-infected dog.

under a HriiiPh law whereby the king cannot wed a Catholic. It was pointed out even if such an obstacle, did not exist, the British would object to an alliance with a family afflicted by hemophil a he- cause of the possibility of an heir lo the ihrono. ORDERED TO APPEAR Harry Dorsey, who pleaded guilty to soiling beer to minors at the February term of Court, has been ordered lo appear on Saturday before Hie Washington County Liquor Hoard to show cause why his 11; cense should not be suspended or revoked. Itorscy was the proprietor of an street tavern known as tho "Salty Dog." Des Moliies, ilarcb 3 I Midwest agronomists said today the corn belt faced a shortage of high quality seed corn unparalleled in years, as fanners planned their plantings, scarcely two luouths away. The agricultural experts termed the situation serious in Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, wilh good scarce in Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and South Dakota.

They warned against "panic buying," asserting the solution of the problem lay in locating and dis- Iribuling tho seed from abundant areas to dfiticicnt. ones at fair prices. They advised farmers to test seed now even though tests were run in tlie fall. PROPERTIES SOLD The Phleeger property, at Funkstown, was sold for and the Sowers property, near Cearfops, brought l.fllli In front ot the Court HUUHO yesterday afternoon. Fred M.

White the auctioneer, COAL ACT DEFENDED Washington, March 3 of the Cluffey act to regulate the soft coal industry was defended today in a brief filed with tho Supreme Court by tho United Mine Workers of America, The document, presented in connection with the arguments on tbe legislation March 11, contended that tbe act was "removed from I he taint of fascism and contemplates a reasonable spirit self-government by the Industry itself." CONDITION IS IMPROVED The condition ot former Mayor R. J. Halm, who has been at the Washington County Tospltal since -January was reported yesterday as about the same. His condition has shown sonio Improvement, however, since he first entered the hospital. Crushed By Italians In Battle Ras Kassa Ras Seyoum Heavy death toll among Ethiopians and unconfirmed reports that Ras Kassa, one of the Ethiopian commanders, was captured and Ras Seyoum, the other, was wounded, resulted in.

what was described as the most desperately-fought battle of the Italo-Elhiopian war in the Tembien section, west and southwest of Makale. According to reports, 40,000 Ethiopian troops were cut to pieces by some 20,000 Italian soldiers who 1 trapped them. ATTACKS MADE ON WHEELER MEASURE Washington, March 3 The Wheeler fail! to expand the Federal Trade Commission's Investigative powers today drew fire from two business groups on the ground that it would permit an administrative agency to conduct "fishing expeditions" against ail persons doing business in the nation. "It is nothing more nor less than an attempt to set up an American Ogpu for the harrass- ment of business," Elisha Hanson, counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, told the Senate Interstate Commerce committee. He referred to Soviet Russia's secret police.

TWO MEN INJURED AS TRUCK CRASHES Truck Hits a Stone Embankment on Sideling Hill One man was seriously injured and another escaped with minor cuts and lacerations when their tiuck ran away while descending Sideling Hill, a few miles west of Hancock, and crashed into a stone embankment. The largo west-bound truck was demolished and its load of brick- tile was strewn along the highway for several hundred feet. Thomas Brown, colored, Baltimore, sustained a probable skull fracture, while Charles Lloyd, white, also of Baltimore, was slightly hurt. Both were taken to Memorial Hospital in Cumberland. The truck, owned by the Jacobs Transfer Company, of Baltimore, was en route from Baltimore to Cumberland.

The two men, caught beneath the wreckage, were extricated by passing 1 motorists and wore, taken tci the hospital in an ambulance sent from Cumberland. The highway was cleared of the wreckage by the State Roads Commission. Deputy Leister Isanogle investigated the accident. WILL NOT SIGN Akron, Ohio, March 'A Paul W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company told a press conference today that "the.

committee will not, sign any agreement with the United Rubber Workers even if a vote of employes shows (hat a majority wish to be represented by the union." "There arc two reasons," he "First, the law docs not require it. The second we won't discuss." FARM CHIEFS WILL OPEN CONFERENCES Washington, March 3 executives of the A.AA headed for Memphis and Chicago today to launch tbe new $500,000,000 soil conservation-subsidy program at regional meetings ot farm representatives. Representatives of the Soil Conservation Service, the Agriculture Department solicitor's office, statisticians and economists accompanied them. The three-day conferences will open Thursday. FIGURES ANNOUNCED The Agriculaural Adjustment Administration said yesterday that had been paid In rental and benefits in Washington County fiom May 12, IMS, through December, 1935.

A total of was paid Marylanders. The Washington County payments were broken down as follown: Wheat, corn-hogs, ETHIOPIAN FORCES COMPLETELY ROUTED Troops under Ras Imeru Routed After Three- Day Battle With the Northern Italian Army in Ethiopia, at the Front, March. 3 northern army, continuing a series of major triumphs, to'daS' smashed the last complete Ethiopian army on the northern front. A force of 30,000 Ethiopians under Ras Imeru was routed after a three-day battle on the western sector, along the Takuzze River. There the Ethiopians had attempted to block azi Italian movement toward Lake Tuna, headwaters of the Nile.

Fascists proceeded swiftly with mopping up operations In the Tem- bein area and in every direction the ground was littered with enemy dead, wounded and abandoned arms. The was described complete a one as the recent ones over three Ethiopian leaders- Rases Mulugheta, Kassa and Sey- oum. Driving forward, the Fascists occupied four Enda, Mariam and Quoram, Italian airplanes riddled with machine gun tire 4,000 Ethiopians who sought to fiee from the sector and flew up and down the Valley of Takazze to mop up any resistance. (The following dispatch from Xeil with the Italian army at the front, dated oMnday, was received today.) Concluding a week's rapid advance, the Italian army early today captured Abb! Addi, the capital of Tembein province. There was no opposition.

Remnants of the Ethiopian war- ors who served under Kassa and Seyoum and had concentrated in Abhi Addi worn believed now to have scattered into mountains to the east, but are still trapped in a circling movement of Italian columns. Many were reported to be abandoning their arms, making it difficult for the Italians to distinguish them from peasants. TAX PLAN GIVEN TO CONGRESS Roosevelt Proposals Sttr. Apprehensive Solons to Controversy URGES HEAVY LEVY ON SURPLUS FUNDS Accumulation of Undistributed Profits Hit in Message Washington, March 3 A White House proposal that, $620,000,000 be added to cor-' porate industry's annual tax bill through a major revision of the Federal revenue system today stirred an obviously ap-' prehensive Congress to im-: mediate controversy. In a brief special message, PresI-' dent Roosevelt suggested that tarm; relief and payment of the bonus ba financed from a tax on profits -which' corporations amass In their treasuries as surplus instead of distributing as dividends.

Later, speaking to the press, he drew a broad distinction between' provide working capital and cover depreciation of equip-' surplus, which lie said represented earnings, needed by, the smaller stockholders, which should be taxed or distributed. Plan Is Condemned In both the message and at his press conference he condemned- the accumulation of undistributed: profits as a method of evading taxation. The message termed this an "evil 1 that "has now reached disturbing proportions from tbe standpoint of the inequality it rep-, resents and of its serious effect on the Federal revenue." With some Democrats applauding while others were openly or frowning, with many Republicans frank in their denunciation, and Administration leaders emphasizing that the President's plan was only a "suggestion," machinery was geared for starting a tax bill through Congress. Even as a vigorous row developed on the House floor, the Ways and Means committee, which will frame tbe measure, relegated the whole subject to a subcommittee will begin its task tomorrow. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) said open hearings before the full committee would follow.

Rapped by Knutson Representative Knutson (R-Minn) touched off an explosive floor interchange with a critical speech. Minority leader Snell added a assertion that, but for corporation reserves unemployment would hava been greater. Representative O'Connor (D-NY) accused the Republicans of already playing politics with the tax proposal. Chairman Harrison (D-Miss) of the Senate Finance committee, which will take charge of the tax bill when it emerges from the House, termed the message a "complete answer to those who bava been shouting about unbalanced budgets." He hoped they would "cheerfully pay their share." Mr. Roosevelt suggested the present corporation income tax be replaced by a graduated tax on future undistributed profits, which some close to the Administration (Continued on Page 10) THIRTY BALTIMORE POLICEMEN ACCUSED IN LOTTERY PROBES Presentments Returned by Grand Jury Officers Ordered Stripped of Badges by Police Commissioner Gaither Baltimore, March 3 two city policemen, including six sergeants, were ordered, stripped of their badges and other equipment and suspended today after the grand jury named them in presentments resulting from its investigation of alleged lottery rackets in llalllmore.

Kight policemen, who had been presented on bribery charges, were also named on new charges of conspiracy. They had been suspended from the department after the first charges were made against them by the grand jury. All thirty were accused ot conspiracy with alleged numbers operators to violate tne state lottery laws. The new names reported by the grand jury today are: Sergeants Edward Holthaus. Michael E.

Command, Robert A. Dldertch H. Classen, l.onls Cohen and William Keogh. Patrolmen Herman R. Traulnor, Arthur T.

Gnnlriini, George D. Price, Lntiln C. Hchak, John M. Voelkar, John McCluiktr, Wil- liam H. Gardner, Albert Meln- schein, Edward F.

Swartz, Jamea A. Homer, William E. Conroy, Charles W. Frlzzell, Wilborn B. Nelson, Clarence Smith, Louis Mohr and Harry W.

Hinkel. The officers named in both the conspiracy charges and the previous bribery accusations are: Lieut. Kdward L. Hitzelberger, Sergeants Joseph S. Seidl, Kdward Gulnan, Martin J.

Llndung and John W. Simpson; Patrolmen Walter Pruett, Robert Hardesty and William Gray. Police Commissioner Charles Gaither announced immediately after the presentments were returned that each ot the named om- cers would bo summoned bis district headquarters and stripped of his police equipment. Each would be suspended and taken to court to arrange ball, lie added. State's Attorney J.

Bernard Wells asked that ball (or each be let at The presentment! had nuked (or (25,000 In bond (or each but the State's Attorney had this van reduced after confennct with tha court..