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Woman Accused of Slaying
Husband Will Get No Special
Privileges, Says Sheriff.
By the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, Md., February 27.—
Mrs. Jeanette Trader, accused of mur
dering her wealthy husband, was
placed in the new "penthouse" jail
here today, a few hours before the
new' building was dedicated.
Sheriff Charles H. Truitt said that
Mrs. Trader “will have no special priv
ileges, but will be treated as other
prisoners.” He said she would be
permitted to have visitors only at the
regular periods three days a week.
Prisoners in the new jail are com
pletely isolated from the outside world
from the time they pass through the
steel doors to the cell block. Mrs.
Trader had complained of lack of
privacy in the" Snow Hill Jail.
The Circuit Court judges ordered
her removed from the Snow Hill, Md.,
Jail, where she had been held since
her arrest and indictment for the
murder of her husband, Clarence J.
Trader.
The removal order, signed by Judges
Benjamin A. Johnson, James M.
Crockett and T. Sangston Insley, said
that the "welfare of the traverser will
be more adequately served" in the
new and modern jail atop the addi
tion to the Salisbury court house.
Mrs. Ernest C. West, wife of the
sheriff, and her husband, accompanied
by a friend and the colored cook in
the sheriff’s home, took Mrs. Trader
on the brief trip from Snow Hill, coun
ty seat of Worcester County, to this
city, court town of Wicomico County.
The trip was made without incident.
Trader, owner of the Stockton, Md.,
electric light and power plant, was
found dead January 14 in the home
of Mrs. Trader, from whom he was
estranged.
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Spain
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Spain, in which the sender cabled
“estoy bien. • * *” (“I am well.”)
In London diplomats sought men to
direct the International "Hands-off
Spaln" Committee's land and sea
blockade against the flow of foreign
men and munitions to the civil war
Bone.
The supervised control plan was
acheduled to go into effect at midnight
next Saturday, but it was considered
unlikely in London the machinery
would start operation then because of
the number of details remaining to be
completed.
NEW OVIEDO DRIVE LOOMS.
Two Attempts to Capture Provincial
Capital Futile.
BAYONNE, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, February 27 (>P).—A renewed gov
ernment onslaught against insurgent
held Oviedo, “the Alcazar of the
Asturias." appeared imminent tonight
even before firing ceased in the futile,
costly attack which started a week
ago.
Twice now government forces have
sought to drive the Insurgents from
their barricades within the city. At
tacks In force, with Infantrymen,
artillery and aviation, have driven the
defenders behind ramparts—even
underground—but have failed to cap
ture the provincial capital.
Reports from insurgent headquar
ters at Salamanca. Spain, said the
government's second big offensive had
been resisted successfully. Command
ers within the besieged city said the
attack had cost the government
forces 12.000 men while their losses
were “minor."
Heavy rains were said in govern
tnent communiques to be the reason
the attack had dwindled to artillery
fire. Troops, they said, were taking
the opportunity to recuperate after
the desperate, hand-to-hand fighting
of the last seven days.
Government commanders said the
Oviedo prison had been captured and
attacking positions had been consoli
dated in other sections of the devas
tated city. Advices from Gijon quoted
a government official as saying “the
regular army has been organized, pro
vided with magnificent artillery and
Its morale Is good.”
CENTRAL MADRID SHELLED.
Insurgent Guns Send Many Fleeing
to Underground Safety.
MADRID, February 27 (A*).—'The
whine and crash of insurgent shells
broke a flve-wek respite for central
Madrid today.
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“Suicide”
WIFE’S QUEST FOR BONUS
SHOWS MAN ALIVE.
FREDERICK W. WOITKE,
Former New York advertising
executive, who was believed to
have committed suicide in
1928, as he appeared in a po
lice photograph made in the
Dade County Jail in Miami
following his arrest recently,
charged with abandonment.
Attention was drawn to him
when his wife, believing her
self a widow, sought to collect
his soldier's bonus, discovered
that it already had been paid
to her husband. An investi
gation followed and Woitke
teas seized as he was working
as a clerk in a liquor store.
—Wide World Photo.
tered for shelter. Passersby dragged a
wounded man into a cellar. In Ma
drid's long food queues women, knit
ting on camp chairs, jumped to their
feet. Some clung to each other.
Mothers rushed to their children,
playing in the nearby avenues.
Street cars continued to run, the
passengers’ startled faces peering from
windows. Excited refugees clustered in
basements, asking about their friends.
The shelling, in mid-afternoon, came
after a quiet morning during which
the ohly shots heard were occasional
bursts from West Park and University
City, western and northwestern Ma
drid battlegrounds through most of
the siew that has lasted since No
vember.
Until the shells fell in the center of
the capital, Madrilenos shrugged and
said: “It's only el abuelo"—"the
grandfather”—as they call the large
government cannon.
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Germany
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a few large landholders, and the re
maining 73 per cent is divided among
3.9CO.OOO farmers and settlers.
FAIR STRESSES COLONIES.
Annual Spring Trade Show Is Relied
I'pon by Nazis.
LEIPZIG, Germany, Februr.v 27
C45).—Germany's aspirations for return
of her colonies abroad and for a bigger
place in the economic sun held most
Interest tonight on the eve of the
annual Leipzig Spring fair.
The fair, with its origin lost in the
mists of the Middle Ages, is Germany’s
big trade window and is being relied
on this year to give powerful impetus
to the Colonial ambition and to the
Important export trade.
Germany, intent on stimulating her
foreign markets, also is eager to import
those essential raw materials for which
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discovered. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has
emphasized both go hand-in-hand,
that Increased exports are vital to
provide funds to pay for necessary
Imports.
The Reich’s claims to its war-lost
colonies are being reinforced by arti
cles and broadcasts by Gen. Franz von
Epp, governor of Bavaria, and other
chiefs of the Nazi “Colonial office.’’
All stress the “justice” of re
turning foreign possessions in view of
Germany’s technical and scientific
achievements.
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler has de
clared the third Reich’s policy is to
encourage and promote trade inter
course abroad. That Is held to be the
basis of the four-year self-sufficiency
plan and an important weapon to
"break the Jewish boycott."
The Importance of the United
States as a customer for German wares
was emphasized by Dr. Raymond
Koehler, president of the fair, who said
the shrinkage of German-Amerlcan
trade had gone far beyond the bounds
imposed by consideration of either
nation's domestic Interests and was
regrettable.
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Egypt's henna experts increased
more than 25 per cent in 1936.
CLOSER SCRUTINY
OF UTILITIES SEEN
McNinch Tells Harvard Class
Industry Is Facing
New Era.
By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 27.—
Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the
Federal Power Commission, said to
day that administration of public
utilities in the futuae would be sub
ject to closer scrutiny and greater
measures of control by public regu
latory bodies.
Speaking before the class of Dr.
C. O. Ruggles, professor of public
utility management at Harvard Uni
versity, McNinch warned that prob
lems now facing management of this
Industry would not be solved or the
responsibilities of the times met “by
resorting to obstructive litigation."
“The management of the public
utility industry today faces a new
era and new problems. It remains
to be seen whether this manage
ment will be equal to the test. Vig
orous Federal regulation, a militant
demand in many regions for municipal
ownership, the deflnltel.' established
policy of the National Government
to utilize the Nation’s natural re
sources of water power in the public
Interest—these are only some of the
major problems now facing the man
agement of private industry,” he said.
Guy Newall, Actor, Dies.
LONDON, February 27 OP).—Guy
Newall, British stage and screen actor,
died yesterday at his Hampstead home
at the age of 51.
RADCLIFFE TO SPEAK
Senator Radcliffe of Maryland will
make the principal address tomorrow
at the annual convlvium of the alumni
of Kappa Alpha Order, together with
active members o Alpha Nu Chap
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banquet, which will be held at 7:30
p.m. in the Kennedy-Warren. H.
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