Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1926, Page 7

ROSS IS REMOVED FROM DEATH HOUSE Slayer Taken From Prison to Testify at Trial of Al- leged Accomplice. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., February Ambrose Ross. convicted murderer, was whisked from the death house at Sing Sing under heavy guard before daylight this morning and taken to Mineola to testify in thg trial of Stanley Klvana, alleged accomplice in the Bellmore National Bank hold- up of April, 1924, Officlals 'feared the underworld might seek vengeance on the slayer in_the belief that he has “squealed. Ross was handcuffed to a keeper, and placed in a sedan. Other keepers and the chauffeur were armed. A second sedan convoyed the first. Usually only two officers are ployed to move prisoners, who, erally, are sent by railroad. It was the first time in a year and a half that Ross has been out of the death house and dressed in civilian clothes. He is scheduled to die during the week of February 15, although there sibility that he may escape the depending on the testimony he t Klvana's trial ife has Leen reprieved three tin each time within u few hours of his scheduled death, because of promised revelutions on the witne. terday District Xttorney his opening statement to th jury, said that Ross would name the conspirators in the hold-up which re sulted in the death of Ernest L Whitman, a bond salesman. B— em- gen- TURKEY POSTPONES TAX | paper: ON AMERICAN IMPORTS | Delays Applying Schedule to Give Time for Pact Rati- fication. By the Az ated Press CONSTANTINOPLE, F T —The Turkish government I | poned for six months the application the new tariff schedule, which vould levy a tax of 60 per cent on mports from the United States. This Ax has been the subject of official protest by the United States and would amount to eight times the duty levied on merchandise from countries which have commercial treaties with ary 3 s post | gave out [t was indicated yesterday the post ponement w I the United | States Government additional time to atify the treaty of Lausanne and re storé normai commercial treaty rela tions with Turkey. MAUBORGNE TO SPEAK. \! 8ignal Corps Officer to Discuss Radio Topics. The influence of the 1925 Iuterna tlonal Telegraph Conference at Paris on the coming international confer- ence in Washington will he disciissed at a meeting of the Tnst Fnglneers a1 a meet tonght_in_ tie Dey merce Building. The pri will be Maj. J. O. Maul Bignal Corps of the Arm: ipal speaker rene of the |RAIL REPORT ERROR | Americ | in Japan. THE EVENIN ST AR, Will Run Own Business SOCIALISTS READY T0 UPHOLD LEAGUE Morris Hilquit Announces De- cision at Internaticnal Congress. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Febr Hilquit, Socialist e last night the International Socialists in their recent congr at Marsellle had decided to abandon their previous opposition to the Le: and to indorse it ¢ realization of world Clarence Darrow, attorney, debating with Mr. Hilquit at Carnegic Hall, called the league a “futility” on the ground that human nature can- not be changed by institutions Mr. Hilquit urged Socalists to work for the entry of the United States into the league. Mr. Darrow asserted he could see “no sort of understanding uniting the whole of the world in defense.” ‘Such a league,” said Mr. Darrow, “would not function unless it had un der its control a power greater than the two greatest nations on eartn, a superpower which would suppress liberty. We haven't much liberty now and what we have we had better hanx | on to. | | announced MARY PICKFORD FAIRBAN] MARY PICKFORD HEAD OF HER OWN COMPANY Final Papers Signed Separating Business Interests From | _“There will always be wars in Europe and A probably when Africa becomes civilized enough there will be wars there. There is no r that I can ses why we should get mixed up in these wars if we don't want to.” By the Aw LOS A . February 3.—Final in the separation of the busi ness interests of ) v Plekford from those of her hushand., Douglas Falr banks, were filed yesterday fin the cot clerk’s office in the shape of articles of {incorporation of the Mary Plekford Co. The capital stock is listed at $1,000.- HAMMOND TO PUSH | U. S. TRADE WITH SPAIN | 000. There are four directors—the e | film star herself, Charlotte Pickford Smith, Nell A, McKay and John G Mott Ambassador Speaks at Luncheon | 1 months ago Falrbanke deeq.| 17eR Him by Manufacturers’ | ed property valued at $1.000,000 to | Export Body. Mary Pickford and her mother x| the first step in the division of iheir | business interests. | By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, February 3. Ogden | | 1. Hammond, newly appointed An bassador to Spain, yesterday pledged the support of his office to the pro motion of Americ trade with Spain. Speaking at a testimonia tendered him by the Amer facturers’ Export Association, he that the American forefgn service | was vitally interested in free trade intercourse between natl nd that | the forelgn service was well organ ized to assist {n bringing this about Alexander P. Moore, former assador to Spain. who guest of honor. said that during three vears of residence in that try he had read of only one mur |and never had heard of a robber d in the ‘-Nw,i Mr. Moore attacked the embargoes ¢ Japan.” | placed upon certain Spanish fruits due to an error | because of alleged crop pests and said that protesting horticulturalists *h: stateq | more bugs in thefr heads than tl are in the plants.” The embargoes. | added to the tariff, he said, formed ites in 1924 and 140 tons | @ serlous handicap to free trade inter 5. These figures do not mr‘lndr\\“'“rf& rail imports by private interests | CORRECTED BY JAPAN Large Orders Placed by Govern- 1 luncheon n Manu- | ment in U. S., Figures Reveal. February 3 () of the Imperial TOKIO, department ment Rail figures correcting re, purchase he rail | | sovern. | ¥ cesterday | 1 recent | statement of | n rail dispatch s stated * has been of December ne small rail o he rall department today that 470 tons of rails were purchased | by the Japanese government in the Will Relieve Vag'mnt Clu]dren MOSCOW, February 3 (P).—The oviet government has appropriated 000 for the rellef of vagrant khlhh‘ell of which there are numerous | bands living a precarlous existence & wres include shipments of [all parts of Russia. It is estimated owned i Wwhich | thatthere are 400,000 such childre: 000 miles of track. | throughout Russia of the United States De- of Commerce give the to from this country to 1e first eleven months . and 33.943 tons| ures tment ail_exports 751 ton tely | Ch loniyto the | which | tive. 1| tions of the cour ITALY’S WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, TEBRUARY 1928. AND ENFORCED BY MUSSOLINI Dictator Gives Himself Abso]ute Conlml of Legisla- tive, Judicial and Executive Branches, Moderwell Asserts. (This is the second of Mr. Moderwell's articies on_ fascist Italy, and how com wletely it is ruled by Missolini.) BY HIRAM KELLY MODERWELL. Ccrrespondence of The Star and the Chicago ROME, Its in this portfolio the nex shall presently t to you which yau will approve.” Mussolini, speaking to the Ttaltan mber of Deputies at the opening of its Winter session! And the Chamber composed almost exclusively of Fas cisti (the others having stayed away in protest or having been driven out by Fascist fists) applauds the announce ment that, as a legislative organ, it is dend. Under the new laws it cannot Initiate legislation or overturn a min- istry, since Mussolini is responsible ng. The only national body in Italy which can be said to have anything approaching legislitive pow ers is the Ist National Council, which sometimes discusses projects the government proposes to promulgate. A Fascist newspaper re cently, in pathetic serlousness, urged that somebody find a dignified fob for the Parliament senate is to be half, together, elected by t de unjons, slonal socie nd chambers of commers 1 by officers chosen for them d upon them by useist headquarters Mussolini the Entire Show. In Musolini's Italy the legislative as well as the judiclal branch of the state 1s wholly subordinated to the execu tive. Logically this would be equiv lent to saying that the tail wagged the dog. But practically it means that the legislative and judicial functions have heen handed over to the execu Mussolini as legislator solemn Iy proposes laws to himself, which he unanimously. approves. he then proceeds to administer them As Judiclary he applles and inter prets them. This transformation has been achieved by a serfes of laws denatur ing Par explained ahove and revol fvil service norms fur the judiciary s well s the istrative organs of govern ment. Judges. as well as other em ployes of the st may be dismissed if they openly refuse to think like Mussolini. One ¢ > two chief funce laws which 1 and nd eventn the individual against capr pressve or unconstitutional acts of the state—has been abolished. The acts and intentions of the government can not bep called into question by the courts. lous, op Up-to-Date Tyranny. But this 1s not to say that the M solini regime is a medieval tyr If it 1s a tyranny it is very up-to. The characteristic feature of Mussc lint's system is not its rigorous repre ston of opponents, but its extensi the powers of the state over area national 1y supposed to lir outside the political sp He that the state had enormous potential powers under the complex conditions |of modern life and he determined tn utilize them to the limit. Besides the legialatura and the fudi clary he has transformed the foilow ing Into obedlent organs of the execu tive power: The Schools.—These state institu tions are required, from the kinder garten to the universitv. to teach Fuseist doctrine. Teachers who oppose. or who have in the past opposed Facism, may be dismissed (many have been) on the theory that Fascism com pletely incarnates “the new Italy,” As executive | hat of protecting | and hence he who 1s ant{-Fascist is anti-Ttalian. The Trade Unions.—The Fascist un- fons, claiming @ membership of 2 000,000, are the only unions juridicall recognized and have the sole right to treat for wage fncrea The various employers’ associations are more or less forcibly sliged to recognize their i monopoly. The government arbit | tion courts dectde & sputes ind thelr decisions | necessary. by milita Iascist unions are either forcibly organized and obliged to adhere to the Fascist group or made to die of in anition. Individuals, especially in the government service and the less or- ganized trades, are more or less co erced into joining. Government Rules All onal and Other “Functional —The war veterans Profe: Socteties tions, th E law assoclation and many others officers foreibly cist appointees, wher Iready elected officers t authorities. ietles.—These ssful institutions members st, lend Sroroied by _The Co-opers which sell nece { money for the purch o of tools and the financing of crops. undertake | reclamation work and even Industrial production, have been forcibly ab sorbed into the government system {under administrators appointed by | Mussolin. The | negligible exceptions, i instrument for impo | ment's will and idea The Provincial Councils of Economy. —These newly created organs, though technically udvisory, may as sume almost di torlal powers over rezional econom ctivitles, dictating “ crops to be planted, the produc of small industries, and certain ;r,,,‘.“ prices, co-ordinating all with the zovernment's economic program The Army.—Half of this, the Fascist hlackshirt ‘militia, admits none but Fascist party members. Officers of the regular army and navy would cer tainly not last long if they ven sympathies other than Fase! on the theory that “antiFascist wnti-Ttalixn Local Government.—Already two thirds of the territory and half the population, including the city of Rome is administered directly by the n: tional executive, whose appointed pre fects, commissioners, fown |and ce chiefs are responsible ex- pers, “I(h frankly the govern. st | indlcated that al-} | Clergymen and Methodist Laymen“’l Ao rouncils ¢ to it and not to the Inhabit- | it is the national Fuscist goy which collects ry tax, every cow and pig born privileges and issues exemp. ions. It is easy to understand what power the mient has to in fluence the thoughts and actions of individuals in the village and farm communities. The system, it has been hinted, will he extended to all citles that do not elect, councilors. Farm Product Prices Fixed. ants | citizens to thus Fascist mayors and | | Industry and Trade.—Although prop- , |erty is technically free, industry gen- erally in Italy is completely dependent | on the good wiil of the government, by means of subsldles, tariffs, wage |scales, cheap credit to semi-public undertakings permission to float ans and even, in many cases (espe- cfally that of farmers), through gov ernmental fixing of the retail price at | which its product may be sold ! Tt is cer {tion as an army to be discipl | neighbo | from 7" S LAWS DRAFTED, PASSED _ [p\CUIFR |G FREF]) FRIENDS PAY FINE Jail Term Suspended for Man Who Stole Bank Funds to Feed Family. By the Associated Press. , Me., February ence E. ind treasurer of the Hullowell Savings Bank, who stole $10,000 of the hank’s money to “keep the body and soul of hi nily *is free. | nds and paid . fine of $500 in Au uperior Court v Judge Fishier suspende two to four years prison. Sheperd, who is the father of four small children and whose salary at the bank was $1,600 a year, went to work as a truck driver as soon as he left the courthou: “I will show my fellow citizens that I am not afraid of work and I am sure that they will never regret the nfidence that they have placed in he said County Attorn prosecuted the m 1se, suld no Sheperd had for gambling or h “wine, women and son “The money which he did take used for keeping the body and of his family together,” he said Frank S. Wingate, president of the bank. said he thought the dispositior of the case would meet with general | approval ne used money 1 spent it on was RACIAL RESfRIéTIONS FOR BARBERS OPPOSED |} Disapprove Atlanta Ordinance. By the Associated Press ATLANTA, Ga., February tion of eity council Manday in pa - ordinance prohi bers from servin meeting with op) Resolutons ordinane here yester day by the Evangelical Ministers' As sociation and by @ confer o Methodist laymen from North Before becoming law the ordinance must be approved by Mayor Walter A Sims. We deplore the the city of Atlunta ads part of the lay n's resolution, as “being unjns to the negroes and unworthy of wh diserimin: agains the negroes, to whom we t 5 be just and helpful to the limit of our ability, In guarantes them life liberty and the pu of happiness. The Mnisters’ Association, “looks with disfavor upon an ordinar that wil prohibit colored barbers fro) serving their white rons as has al ways been their custom. bar- stomers 1s the sinst oposed action ¢ ists assert, that Mussolini is * of the capitalists.” Rather his faithful executiv ven the most powerful bLankers are being obliged to bow to his will. He con celves the economic forces of the na ed anid used for the national advantage and he is commander-in-chief Mussolini is nobodv's pro forma, the King's Ttalian is, by force he too! they are in exce ather ev choiee or hix | obedient subject. inly not true, as the Social- | (Copy ight, 1028, br Chicagn Daily News Co Clar- | and | | By many | sereer dermere filmed Chairman citizens’ ¢ coln day dinner, February 12, at the City Club. COLIN H. 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