Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon, probably changing to light snow and much colder tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 32 de- grees; tomorrow fair and colder. Tem- peratures—Highest, 75, at 3 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 61, at 5:15 a.m. today. Closing New York Marl No. HILL AND MURDOCK WL TELL ‘TS T0 LOBY PROBES Pair Named by Smith Get| Black Permission to Testify Today. HEARST SUIT DELAYS INQUIRY BY SENATORS 33,558. Expose to Be Continued Later by | Committee, Subpoenaed in Injunction Action. BACKGROUND— Court injunctions against com- mittee actions and discharge of lobbyists by employers were among high spots incidental to Senate committee investigation of con- gressional lobbying up to yesterday. Then came serving of subpoena on committee chairman, followed closely by disclosures that members ©of Congress actually had lived with lobbyist. Investigations always have been popular congressional sport with some members of Congress building their principal fame upon inquisi- torial ability. Most probes may be classified as “locking door after horse is stolen” since no great | amount of important legisiation | may be traced to investigation find- ings, although punishment fre- quently has been meted out to sub- jects of probes. BY REX COLLIER. Two of the Western Representatives named by a so-called lobbyist as being among many of “the boys” he had en- | tertained in his home requested the | Benate Lobby Committee today to hear | “the real facts” from their own lips. kets, Page 18 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Fire Destroys Old 1 Coughlin Church; Perils New Shrine $30,000 Loss Blamed by Radio Priest on Faulty Wiring. By the Associated Press. ROYAL OAK, Mich., March 17.— Fire destroyed Father Charles E. Coughlin’s original Shrine of the Little Flower, a modest frame structure, to- day. The imposing, new half-million- dollar shrine, as yet incomplete, was not damaged. Father Coughlin, at the fire him- self, estimated the loss at $30,000. He and firemen were agreed that faulty wiring was the cause. Two Royal Oak fire companies, given assistance from nelghbonnz} Birmingham, brought the fire under control, but not before 75-foot-high flames had threatened to spread to the nearby shrine from which Father Coughlin makes his weekly radio broadcasts. | A call from an alarm box near the | shrine at 6:17 a.m. brought firemen. | Three telephone calls to the police- fire headquarters followed shortly. Nuns from the nearby Little Flower T (See FIRE, Page A-2) JAFSIE WILL TALK T0.GOV. HOFFMAN Declares He Will Confer, | but Will Not Go to New Jersey. (Picture on Page A-6.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—Dr. John | F. Condon, returning to New York | from a Panama vacation, was quoted | by a fellow passenger on the liner | Santa Inez today as being “very” will- | Representative Knute Hill, Demo- erat, of Washington and Murdock, | Democrat. of Utah received permission | New Jersey in Dr. Condon's own | legally elegible and can show the from Senator Black, chairman of the | committee, to appear as witnesses at | & special hearing this afternoon so that they can deny they had any im- proper association with lobbyists. Robert E. Smith, representative of Western power and railroad interests, testified yesterday he had dined a large number of Congressmen and that he had shared a house with six of them—not including Knute Hill end Murdock. Attended One Dinner. Represeatative Murdock told The Star he had discussed Smith’s testi- mony with Hill and they agreed the | committee should “know the real facts,” which were, he said, that he and Hill *had been invited by other members of Congress on several occa- sions to attend meetings at Smith's home of “Western Congressmen.” Mur= dock said he attended one dinner in honor of Gov. Ross of Idaho and an- other one for a reclamation official. “I never heard any discussion at any time of pending legislation,” Mur- dock declared in an interview. “The chief topic of discussica was reclama- tion.” Its chairman and members under court subpoena to answer an injunc- tion suit brought by William Randolph Hearst the committee delayed further regular hearings pending consideration of its mounting legal troubles. The committee was determined to proceed later with its expose of lobby- ing, buoyed somewhat by its dis- closure yesterday, when Smith said six Representatives “divided expenses seven ways” with him in renting “a colonel’s” house at 3126 Thirty-eighth | street, were Pettengill, Indiana; Scrug- ham, Nevada; Sutphin, New Jersey: Cary, Kentucky; Fiesinger. Ohio, and Clark, Idaho. Smith was castigated by Senator Scnwellenbach, acting chairman of the committee, for ‘“monkeying around” with members of Congress without telling them he was “a paid lobbyist for the utilities.” The six Representatives last night Joined in an explanation that they had not been guests of Smith, but had paid their share of the rent. Smith represented himself as “inter- ested in conservation and irrigation in the West,” they said. Black Asks Advice. S8erved by a deputy marshal with & summons to answer in District Su- preme Court within 20 days the in- junction suit by which Hearst seeks to compel the committee to surrender his “personal telegrams,” Chairman Black was to confer today with his former law partner, Crampton Har- (See LOBBY, Page 6. S MINIMUM PAY LAW RULING SOON SOUGHT New York State Officials Call on Supreme Court to Give Decision Quickly. By the Associated Press. New York State officials today asked the Supreme Court for a speedy ruling of constitutionality of the State's 1933 | minimum wage law for women and minors which was held unconstitu- + tional by the New York Court of Ap- peals March 6. John J. Bennett. jr., New York at- torney general, told the highest court that “no constitutional rights exist to cheat and exploit another’ by rea- son of a more potent economic posi- tion.” He added, the New York law was “for the promotion of the public welfare 4nd protection of women from oppressive wages and exploitation.” Bennett told the Court that the 1933 New York law had been held invalid by the highest State court because of a Supreme Court ruling which held a 1918 minimum wage law of the District of Columbia unconstitutional. Noting that lower New York courts had found the law valid and that the highest State court’s decision was a 4-to-3 opinion. Bennett contended that defects in the District of Co- lumbia law had been eliminated by ‘,hc New York statute. ‘ | ing to discuss the Lindbergh case | with Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of | Bronx home. | “Jafsie” himself declined to make | | any comment whatever on the last- | | month efforts of Bruno Richard | Hauptmann to escape execution for | the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. { "Bl the Rev. Henry Beets, director | of the Presbyterian Missions in South America, with headquarters at Val- | paraiso, Chile, qouted him as having said: “I will be very glad to receive Gov. | Hoffman at my home in the Bronx, | which should be a very lovely place now that Spring is here, and give him a good dinner and talk with him over the cigars as long as he pleases, but I don't see any reason why I | should go to New Jersey.” | Refuses to Comment. The gray-haired educator, closeted in his home, consistently refused to amplify his earlier statements of “no | comment,” made when he and his | daughter, Mrs. Myra Hacker, were, ! met on the ship by newspaper men. | Aboard ship, Dr. Condon parried | questions about the Lindbergh cn.sef | with pleasantries about his trip and | | the state of his daughter's health. | “I believe the rest has been bene- ficial to my daughter, although her health has not improved as rapidly as I had hoped,” he said. | “Jafsie’s” return came only 24 hours after C. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann | counsel, announced he would demand |a rigorous examination of the Bronx | school teacher in the hopé it might | provide a clue to new evidence, the last chance in saving Hauptmann's | life. Scheduled to Die March 30. Hauptmann is scheduled to die the | week of March 30. Condon’s return presaged swift de- velopmengs in the case. Gov. Harold G. Hoffmen, who has said Condon should clear up state- ments made since the trial, is expected to write him either today or tomorrow, inviting him to come to the State House for examination. What course Fisher might follow should Condon refuse to comply vol- untarily was not known. As the 76-year-old educator landed, Liberty Magazine in an article by Ful- ton Oursler, its editor-in-chief, said that Abraham Samuelsohn, a Bronx cabinet maker, had told Condon he made a three-section ladder for Hauptman several months before the kidnaping. Tells Tale of Ladder, Samuelsohn, the magazine said, told Condon on November 16, 1935, that three men and a young woman came to his shop, and Hauptmann recited specifications in which lumber was to be cut for a ladder. (One of the State’s strongest points against Hauptmann at the Flemington trial was that he had made the ladder from wood stripped from his attic with nails and tools traced to his garage.) Sister Who A few hours after her sister wrote a letter hinting suicide “unless they stop talking about me,” Besste Tippett, 16, was found dead in a gas-filled room today at 2327 Pennsylvania avenue, In bed beside her was the sister, Mrs. Nettie East, 21, who was found in a critical condition and taken to Emer- gency Hospital after members of the fire rescue squad sought to revive her. The three-page letter, unfinished, harped on the possibility that some- body might find the body of Mrs. East, who was separated from her cab- driving husband six months ago. Detective Sergt. Clyde Tolson of the homicide squad took possession of the letter pending developments in Mrs. East's condition. The girls were found at 10 a. and where the young sister was a fre- quent visitor. Both of them were brought from Baileys Cross Roads, Va. last night mmmo'cloetlnumhfh‘ @h | the limit on the number of stores which | mathematical WASHINGTON, SLOW REDUCTION INLIQUOR PERMITS 10 300 APPROVED D. C. Commissioners Back Plan to Cut Number of Grade A Licenses. 100 WILL BE RETIRED BY REISSUANCE BAN None to Be Revoked Simply to End Them—Proposal’s Foes Fear Sale Price Gouging. Gradual reduction of the number of class A liquor licenses was approved today by the Commissioners in adopt- ing a recommendation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Commissioner George E. Allen dis- sented from the approval given by Commissioners Melvin C. Hazen and Dan I. Sultan The action was taken after a two- hour hearing in which institution of may be licensed to sell bottled liquor, wine and beer was urged by spokesmen for civic and business groups. No Revocations Planned. ‘There now are 400 class A licenses The number will be reduced over @ period of years, as permits are revoked or voluntarily surrendered by dealers, | until it drops to 300. The rule does not mean any existing permits will be! revoked because of the limit instead of | for violations. Allen dissented because he feared | maintenance of a definite mathe- | matical limit might give an unfair advantage, perhaps a monopely, to persons who obtained permits before the limitation was, invoked. He also protested a legitimate dealer should | have the right to a permit if he is need for service in any community. The commission called upon Vernon E. West, acting corporation counsel, for his view. West said the particular | point of law at issue had not yet been tested at court. He sald it was a 50-50 chance which way the court | might rule. Commissioners Have Last Word. While the A. B. C. Board is given power in the liquor law to issue, trans- fer, revoke or suspend permits, it is | the Commissioners who are specifical- | ly given the power to limit the num- ber of any class of permits. Allen voiced fears that if the stated real estate and permit “racket” might be developed, with persons holding | amounted to $43,609,969 as against | licenses being in a position to “hold | up new applicants for fancy prices | before they oguld get one of the limited permits.” | Allen also said he could see no CHURCH REQUESTED TO STILL CHIMES Residents Near Chevy Chase Circle Complain of Early Morning Ringing. Capt. J. E. Bowers, eighth precinct police commander, was ordered today | by Assistant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson to ask the Church of the Blessed Sacrament to stop ringing its chimes at 7 am. The order followed a hearing before Neilson in which three residents of the Chevy Chase neighborhood pro- tested the ringing of the chimes “wakes people who want to sleep.” Those who complained were Eugene | Young, 6001 Western avenue; William H. Finckel, 3630 Western avenue, and Jerry Crane, 5829 Chevy Chase park- way. Neilson suggested that if Rev. Thomas G. Smythe, pastor, would not comply with the order civil action may be brought. The witnesses testified “the chimes would not be so bad if they were in tune.” Capt. Bowers said he would confer with Father Smythe at once. ——i GOES ON VACATION Morgenthau and Family at Sea Island Beach, Ga. BRUNSWICK, Ga., March 17 (#).— Henry Morgenthau, jr., Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at Sea Island Beach today for a Winter vacation. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mor- genthau and their son, Robert. Gas Kills Girl and Overcomes Hinted Suicide father, William H. Tippett, employed by the Calvert Realty Co. as a laborer at the Keystone Apartments, 2150 Pennsylvania avenue. Bessie lived at Baileys Cross Roads; where she was & pupil in the seventh grade. limit was adopted, a | p: that her daughter had ¢ Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, N N N N/ *\‘&\i‘ s MARCH 1'7th.__1938. q Sfar TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936—FGRTY PAGES. %% INCOME PAYMENTS GAIN NEARLY 507% Virtually All Collection Dis- | tricts Over U. S. Report Increases. By the Associated Press. Income tax collections of $281,758.- | 032 for the first 16 days of March, representing & gain of 464 per cent over the corresponding period last year, Treasury. X These receipts, which included first installments on 1935 incomes, boosted | the total of income tax collections for | | the year to $361428990, or 45.6 per! | cent greater than last year. { Virtually all collection districts, in preliminary telegraphic reports to the Treasury, announced gains over last Collection of income taxes in Jlnu-i ary amounted to $36,060,989 as com- ared with $22,320,790 in January last year. February's collection $33,309929 in 1935. The remainder of the $361.428,990 was collected in March, The President’s revised budget esti- mate had forecast receipts of $1,434.- 000.000 for the fiscal year which ends | June 30. Through March 14, date of | the latest Treasury statement, a total | of $717,945,662 had been realized. Actual collections last year were $1,099,000,000 and the year before $818,000,000. Increase 30 Per Cent in Chicage. CHICAGO March 17 (#).—Income tax collections in the Chicago district for 1935 totaled $28,557,005 at the mid- night deadline, Collector of Internal Revenue Carter H. Harrison announced today, an increase of 30 per cent over last year. Many returns by mail had not been opened, Harrison said, estimating 000. Taxable returns counted at the | deadline were 97,400, compared with | 83,700 last year. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 17 (#).— Income tax collections throughout Ohio showed increases today ranging from 40 to 74 per cent over last year's figures. Collectors of internal revenue reported the best returns in at least two years and in some instances the best since 1930. Cincinnati reported the first district total at near $5,000,000, 74.4 per cent over last year. Incomplete figures from Cleveland indicated collections $3.000,000 greater than for the first quarter of 1935. Columbus reported (8ee RECEIPTS, Page A-6.) TYDINGS DENIES BERMAN’S CHARGE Declares He Never Sent Lawyers | to Annapolis to Represent Anybody. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—Un..ed States Senator Millard E. Tydings, in New York to address a town hall meeting, termed as “absolutely ridicu- lous” charges made by Theodore B. Berman in the Maryland Legislature that the Senator's law partners were sent to Annapolis to lobby for private interests. “The charges are without the slight- est foundation in fact,” Senator Tyd- ings declared at his hotel (the Am- bassador). “I've never sent any lawyers to Annapolis to represent anybody,” he said. “I myself have not been in Annapolis during a session of the Legislature for many years, except last year, when Gov. Nice invited Senator Radcliffe and me to come were reported today by the | Shillalah Replaces Speakers’ Gavel in Session of House Instead of a gavel, Speaker Byrns of the House today used an Irish shillalah, adorned with green ribbons, which was pre- sented to him by Representative Hartley of New Jersey. He re- ceived a vigorous round of ap- plause when he wielded the shil- lalah with unusual decisiveness to quell a discussion on the floor in which Representative Blanton of Texas was the central figure. Speaker Byrns had on his desk a small pot of Irish shamrock sent to him from the Botanic Gardens. In his button hole he wore a carnation, dyed green, which Mrs. Betty White of his office force dashed madly to a florist shop in a taxicab to pro- vide for him when he appeared in his office without an emblem of St. Patricks day. UPPER POTONAC FLOOD FORECAST D. C. Inundation Unlikely Unless Coming Rain Is | Very Heavy. year. Each Month Shows Increase. | The Potomac River here is due for | | a rapid risegbut there is no danger of | flood unless the predicted rainfall dur- ing the next 24 hours is especially heavy, the Weather Bureau said in a | special bulletin today. | “Flood stages will be reached in the Northern Branch of the Potomac, but | over the remainder of the basin the | rains up to noon Tuesday had not | been heavy enough to produce floods, | | but will cause the Shenandoah’ and | they would boost the total to $40.000,- | the lower Potomac to rise rapidly,” | the bureau said. Forecasters qualified this informa- tion with the statement that only steady downpours in the immediate future can produce dangerous condi- tions in the river in this locality. Gale Routs Spring. put to rout the premature Spring which Washington has enjoyed the last few days. The Weather Bureau sald the wind was a prelude to much | colder weather, with rain and possibly snow tonight. Snow as deep as 18 inches was reported in Southwest Vir~ [ginia. Southeast winds, . which brought hints of Spring ahead of its (See WEATHER, Page A-2) HOLT T0 ASK PROBE OF W.P. A. PROGRAM Senate Inquiry Ix.xto Conditions Throughout Nation Is Aim of West Virginian. By the Associated Press. Before going to the Senate today to renew his attacks on Harry L. Hop- kins, Senator Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia, announced his aim was a senatorial inquiry into W. P. A. con- ditions throughout the Nation. The investigation, he said, would sift charges that politics is involved with the handling of Works Progress Administration programs in many States. The West Virginian has charged in repeated Senate speeches that W. P. A. in his home State is politics- ridden. Readers’ Guide A-14-15-16 B-20 Women's Features ,.....a-xs | Thursday. |out word today on the amount the | President would ask, but sdministra- ‘Meanwhile, a 46-mile-an-hour gale | have | ROOSEVELT CALLS 3T RELIEF PARLEY Congressional Chiefs to Dis- cuss Sum Needed for Next Year’s Work. | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today summoned congressional leaders to the White relief appropriation. The conference was called for late this afternoon to go over the entire relief problem and discuss the program the Chief Executive expects to submit Congressional leaders were still with- tion spokesmen forecast it would be far smaller than some estimates. Those invited by the President to the White House discussion on the relief appropriation: Vice President Garner, Byrns, Senator Robinson of Arkansas | and Representative Bankhead of Ala- bama, the Democratic floor leaders, ‘Smator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia | and Representative Buchanan, Demo- | crat, of Texas: the chairmen of the Appropriations Committees and Sen- | ator Byrnes, Democrat, of South | Carolina, a member of the Appropria- | tions Committee. The President asked the group to meet him in the Executive Mansion and it was expected a final determina- tion of the amount to be recommended for works relief during the next Gov- ernment year will be fixed then by | the President. SABOTAGE DISCOVERED IN SOVIET COW HERDS Speaker Government Investigators Report Needles and Nails Have Been Fed. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 17.—The Soviet government today accused unnamed persons of sabotage work on milch cows. Needles and nails have been fed, government investigators said, to prize animals to prevent the spread of the Stakhanoff movement, intended to increase the milk yield on many collective farms. — LOTTERY STUBS SEIZED St. Louis Postal Officials Nab Sweepstakes Tickets. ST. LOUIS, March 17 (#).—More than 1,000 tickets on the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes were seized yesterday by post office officials here. The tickets, although mailed sep- arately in various types df envelopes from several foreign countries, were detected by New York customs officials and segregated before being sent: here. Post office inspectors confiscated the actual receipts as unmailable matter, but opened the envelopes in the pres- ence of ticketholders and permitted them to jot down the serial numbers. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Circulation Over 140,000 TWO CENTS. HITLER AGREES TO JOIN LEAGUE RHINE PARLEY Sends Envoy as Britain and France Face Impasse Over Nazi Peace Plans. UP) Means Associated Pross. LITVINOFF ATTACKS FUEHRER FOR ERECTING SMOKE SCREEN | House for a conference on next year's| Paris Reaffirms Intention to Stand by Demands on Rhineland—Flandin Sees ng Edward. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, March 17.—Reichsfuehrer Hitler today accepted an invitation by the League of Nations Council to discuss the interna- tional crisis brought about by his placing an army back in the Rhineland. The League secretariat received a telegram from the German government announcing that Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hit- Ie‘{'g glght-hand diplomat, would represent Germany at the coun= cl able. | Hitler’s answer to the League invitation came in the midst of 2 critical day. Great Britain, France Near Deadlock. Great Britain, which seeks to study Hitler's proposals for peace, had been almost in a deadlock with France, which was in- sisting that Germany be branded a treaty violator by the League. Great Britain was reported, without confirmation, to have at- tempted to smooth over the difficulty by proposing a reinforced | Locarno treaty, with Germany participating, under the framework | of the League of Nations. The reply from Germany came dramatically while delegates, just released from a secret session of the Council, were standing about the halls of St. James's Palace. | A messenger entered the palace and delivered the telegram to | the League secretariat. As soon as it was delivered the delegates immediately returned to their chamber to resume the meeting. | < Authoritative sources said that | - | Hitler's reply had opened wide new Japanese Cabinet possibilities for & solution of the Eu- | . . . ropean crisis. Disappoints Public | gen. von ribventrop, it was statea, In Setting New Goal By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 17.—The new Japa- nese cabinet, under Premier Koki Hi- rota, announced tonight that it “in- tends to inaugurate a positive, con- sistent and coherent foreign policy and simultaneously provide fully for na- tional defense.” ‘The declaration added: “Both diplo- macy and nationAl defemse prepar: | tion must be in accord with the em- pire’s policy of promoting mutual well- being and common prosperity between Japan and other Far Eastern nations, especially Menchukuo. * ¢ * “It is the consistent policy of the Japanese government to cultivate cor- dial relations with all nations on a basis of international good faith and Jjustice.” Statement Called Vague. The declaration had been eagerly awaited by the nation, anxious for definite indications of the new govern- ment’s course, especially in regard to relations with Russia and China and concerning its taxaticn and monetary policies. The vagueness of the statement was somewhat disappointing. Its publica- tion was first promised at noon and de- layed several hours because army and navy leaders considered the first draft too mild. Conferences among high army and navy officers were necessary to ap- prove the revisions. The declaration emphasized the ! necessity for promoting orthodox con- ceptions of the divine rule of the Em- peror. Seek “Glorious Unity.” “Japan's basic principle of govern- ment,” said the cabinet, “lies in the realization of the glorious unity of our pation—the solidarity of all subjects under one sovereign. * * * “Therefore, it is the first duty of the government to clarify the concept of our immutable national polity—the focal point of all domestic and foreign policies.” The declaration promised to support the expanding of trade and industry | and to reform taxation and banking. ————— LA FOLLETTE PICKETED Striking W. P. A. Workers Watch Office of Governor. MADISON, Wis,, March 17 (#)— Striking W. P. A. workers, who have lodged in the State Capitol for five days, assigned pickets to the office of Gov. Philip F. La Follette today. Members of the group were ordered to take up posts near the executive's door as leaders reiterated their inten- tion of holding their position until they obtain satisfaction. Selectio for the leading tracks will be Entries - Scratches ns American race found in the NOON EDITION of The Zoening Sefaf Interesting comment from the scenes of racing. will take part in the discussions be- ginning Thursday. The basic position of the French, who said they refused to negotiate, remained unchanged. but the definite news that Hitler had yielded sufficient- ly to send an emissary was believed likely to pave the way for vital negotia« tions for peace. Just before the German message was received “officially,” Ambassador von Hoesch of Germany went to St. James | palace to confer with Stanley M. Bruce, | president of the League Council. | Litvinoff Attacks Hitler. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff of Russia attacked Hitler violently in & speech in the Council meeting. The Russian diplomat charged that Hitler was using his oft-stated fear | of Russia “merely as a smokescreen for the aggression, which is being | prepared against other states.” The pudgy, bespectacled Litvinoff decried what he claimed was a growe | ing tendency toward treaty violation, | declaring: | “This is the third time in the 18 | months of membership of Russia in . the League that its representative | has had to speak on breaches of ine ternational obligations.” | He cited Germany's infringement | of the military clauses of the Vere sailles treaty, through the construce tion of an air corps, submarines, and a conscript army, and the war be- tween Italy and Ethiopia. | The new word from Hitler was understood to be that he was willing to send representatives to meet with | the League Council Thursday pro=- vided France, Belgium and Great Britain agreed to negotiate on his peace proposals. The French delegates said, howe | ever, that they would not yield one | step in their refusal to negotiate with | Hitler and in their demand that the League of Nations condemn the Ger- | man government as a treaty violator., Powers Draw Demands. | France, Belgium and Great Britain, | all presented memorandums indicating what course of action they desired. The French memorandum was under- | stood to be a definite statement of France’s position as given above. The British memorandum was re- ported, without confirmation, to con- tain two outstanding points: 1. Any idea of sanctions Germany is ruled out. 2. Great Britain proposes a rein- forced Locarno treaty, with Germany participating in the pact, the pact itself to be merged with the League of | | against STOCKS SWEPT UP $1 10 $3 OR MORE Brokers Attribute Rally to Eas- ing of War Fears and Busi- ness Gains. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—The stock market swung into another recovery move today, many issues advancing $1 to $3 or more a share. Brokers attributed the rally partly to the apparent lessening of warlike tension in Europe, as well as to the brightening of domestic economic | | news. Trading in leading equities was fast at the start. A somewhat slower pace developed later. Intermittent profite taking flurries failed to interrupt the forward trend and prices were around their best at the beginning of the afternoon. Conspicuous stock gainers included United States Steel, Bethlehem, Chry- sler, Auburn, General Motors, National Steel, J. 1. Case, Deere, Johns-Man= ville, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Santa Fe, Great Northern preferred, Consolidated Gas, Du Pont, Interna- tional Nickel and American Smelting. Secondary bonds improved, while commodities were narrowly mixed. Leading foreign currencies were about MERTI“M”M.