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- TALY-ETHIOPIA CONFLICT SERIOUS Boundary Dispute So Far Has Cost the Lives of 730 Soldiers. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The boundary conflict between Italy and Ethiopia, which has cost so far the lives of some.130 Italian soldiers and 600 Ethiopians, is considered seri-, ous in responsible quarters in ‘Wash- ington. It is indicated that Italy will pot arbitrate. The Ethiopian government is a member of the League of Nations and has demanded that this frontier dis- pute should be submitted to that or- ganization on the basis of the treaty which had been signed between the two countries in 1928. That treaty provides that neither eountry should resort to armed forces until all efforts for arbitration and conciliation have been exhausted. Since no such effort has been made yet, the government of Emperor Hailie Belassie is asking that the provisions of the treaty should be enforced. Calls Ethiopians Aggressors. The Italian government claims that the Ethiopians have been the aggres- sors, and consequently the provisions of the 1928 treaty are of no conse- quence. Behind all this, well-informed quar- ters believe, there is another Ethiopian intrigue and that the Abyssinians may have to pay the price for Italy's ac- ceptance of the settlement of the Yugoslav-Hungarian dispute. Conndential reports from Geneva ndicate that the Italians have been | encouraged to expand their surplus energy on extending their Somaliland possession into certain parts of Abys- sinia, rather than adopt an intransi- gent attitude in regard to the Hun-| garian, Yugoslav dispute which could have had world-wide-reaching conse- quences. The Italian-Abyssinian frontier is {1l defined. It follows the movements of certain nomad tribes which occupy that border region. But every time these tribes move, the boundaries move too. Recently, the nomads have moved to the Wall-Wall Wells and the Italian Somaliland authorities con- sidered that their frontier reached that far into the heart of Ethiopia; that is to say some 40 miles outside the old froniier. A British-Ethiopian commission happened to pass the important wells and the representatives of Emperor Selassie finding them occupied by Italian troops communicated with the capital and a force was sent to expel them. A fight followed in which, according to official reports, some 600 Ethiopians were killed, while the casualties of the Somali soldiers of Italy amounted to only about 130 men. Skirmishes Not Infrequent. Such important frontier skirmishes are not infrequent in northern Africa and as a rule are settled without much trouble. But in the present case the situation may become more compli- cated. Ethiopia is a country which has never been conquered by any European nation. In the late nineties the Italians attempted to occupy it but were utterly defeated by the armies of Emperor Menelik. Nobody has tried since to encroach on the Abyssinian territory. The country is well run by the present Emperor and possesses great wealth, especially rich gold mines. The Italians have had an eye on Ethiopia ever since Mussolini took over the government of Italy. A con- flict between the two countries led to the treaty of arbitration and concilia- tion of 1928. But, in the negotiations which have been going on in Europe to bring about a Franco-Italian rapprochement Italy is reported to have been given a free hand to deal with Ethiopia in any way she liked. by both the French and the British. To show their sincere intentions, the British government forbade the export of military airplanes to Abyssinia while the French told the Italians that they would not oppose any measures, regardles how drastic, Italy may want to take against Ethiopia. ‘The Ethioplans, it was reported to- day, are determined to fight for their independnece. But they want to fight legally, that is to say, not before all the peaceful means for a settlement with Italy have been exhausted. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE SOCIAL PROBE BEGINS President Appoints Group to Study Fraternities Hit by Student Governors. By the Assoclated Press. HANOVER, N. H. December 14— President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College yesterday ap- pointed a special committee of alum- ni, college officials and undergrad- uates to investigate the Dartmouth fraternity system and the entire fab- ric of undergraduate social life. Palaeopitus, student governing body, yecently requested such an investiga- tion, branding the fraternity system as “unwholesome, unhealthy and un- patural.” o Tokio Requests U.S. Language Officers Give Up Immunity American Envoy to Ja- :pan Forwards Note to State Department. By the Associated Press. . Japan has requested the United States to withdraw diplomatic im- munity privileges now accorded American Army and Navy officers as- signed to the embassy in Tokio as language students and make them liable to ordinary legal procedure. Joseph C. Grew, the American Am- bassador to Japan, today forwarded a note from the Japanese foreign office to the State Department requesting the removal of names of the language officers from the diplomatic list. The 14 language officers are, by the listing, entitled to immunity from ar- rest. + State Department officials declined comment other than to acknowledge that the request was under consider- ation. Some Tokio dispatches said the ac- tion was taken as a result of Japanese niewspaper assertions that officers at- tached to the French Embassy were guilty of espionage. They also re- ported the British government had been requested to change the status of its language officers. The State Department did not make ‘public, however, any reasons put for- ward by the Japanese government in requesting the action. N Charts Show. Huge Profits on War Materials e ok s Charts indicating huge profits to manufacturers of war materials during the World War and rises in com- modity prices were introduced at the Senate munitions hearing yesterday by Alger Hiss, committee investigator. Left to right: Senator Bennett C. Clark, Senator A. H. Vandenberg, Senator W. Warren Barbour and Hiss. DU PONT WAR PACT WITH U. S. ASSAILED . BY BAKER, PROBE HEARS (Continued From First Page) gotten $7,500,000 instead of $13,500,- 000 for construction of the plant. Reporting to Baker on this, Brooking said Gen. Crozier, Col. Hoffner and Mr. | McRoberts of the Army Ordnance De- partment insisted it was reasonable | and “evidenced the greatest generosity | on the part of the Du Ponts.” i “You can readily see,” Brooking wrote, “how difficult it is to get men who have so conclusively passed upon a proposition to admit they have made a mistake.” Big Gain Denied. But Du Pont oficials contended | sharply the picture drawn by Alger | Hiss, the Senate Committee investiga- tor, is misleading. They said they managed the construction of the $85,~ 000,000 plant for a payment of $1 and operated it for a royalty of 3 cents on every pound of ammunition produced. This netted about $2.451,185, but $1,- 976,645 was paid back to the Govern- ment under the excess profits tax, the company official said. This left $474,540 for the Du Pont subsidiary that handled the project, but company officials said only $275.- 000 of this ever reached the parent organization because the Government | refused to allow $200,000 spent in & | bonus to employes. On the other hand, the committee contended the contract carried no risk for the Du Ponts because the Gov- ernment put up all the money. Could Have Cut Profits. Brookings reported he felt the War Industries Board could have reduced profits under the contract by one- half if it had participated in the ne- gotiations, which were rushed through in the early stages of the war. Even under these reduced terms Brookings said the Du Ponts would have “ap absolutely secured profit of $7,500,000 per year for nothing on earth but directing the policy of the company from their main office.” Irenee du Pont challenged this state- ment. “It was not our opinion that it was a handout for doing nothing,” he said. ‘Hiss brought out that the Du Ponts, | on America’s entry into the war, were able to sell the United States powder | at about 50 cents per pound, whereas it had received $1 per pound from the allies earlier. The profit had been used to amor- tize expense in tremendous plant ex- pansion, it was said. Fortuitous Circumstance. «1t was then merely a fortuitous| circumstance that the United States| got its powder cheaper,” Hiss re-| marked. “I don't understand that remark,” Du Pont said. “Well, certainly patriotism played no part in this lower price.” Hiss said. \ “Naturally,” Du Pont said, “we had | to recover the expenditures we had made. We would not be good trustees | for our stockholders if we had not.” Pierre du Pont volunteered the ac- count of his conversation with Baker. “Baker told me just after he can- celed the contract that it was time | the American people did things for themselves,” Du Pont said. “It was a clear indication to me that the Du Ponts were not wanted and ‘were not considered as Amer- icans. “His implication was that we were & species of outlaws.” ‘War Profits Told. The committee swung into the war profits phase of its inquiry yesterday after making at least an outward peace with President Roosevelt. Wed- nesday the Senators were plainly irked when Mr. Roosevelt named a distin- | guished group to study the problem of “taking the profit out of war,” appar- ently, at the same time, ignoring the munitions probers. Senator Clark, one of the commit- tee members, visited the White House yesterday and returned to report that Mr. Roosevelt expected the two groups | to work together. He saw, he said, “no basis for conflict,” adding that the Senate Committee was “trying its best to get something done and welcomed aid.” Meanwhile, the chairman of the White House Committee, Bernard M. Baruch, journeyed South for a vaca- tion, equipped with voluminous docu- ments on the problem, in which he has interested himself for years. At the War Department, simultaneously, plans were made for bringing up to date the price “freezing” and high tax recommendations of the War Policies Commission made in 1932. High Tax Proposed. These would impose a 95 per cent tax on all profits of a corporation in excess of its average for three years prior to the war and would vest in the administration autocratic authority to stabilize prices and control credit. Negotiations leading up to the war- time contract between the Du Ponts and the Government, on which the Delaware munitions company re- celved the $2,000,000, were first brought up late yesterday. ‘This capped the day devoted to the exposure of war profits running in many cases, to 20, 30 and 40 per cent of invested capital and even some to several times that figure. Some concerns made between 100 and 800 per cent in 1917. In the same year there were 181 individual in- comes of over a million dollars, 41 of which had not appeared before. 800 Per Cent Profit Shown. One copper company, Calumet & Heckla, was shown to have made 800 per cent in 1917. Several-steefoam- panies were listed as making beétween Veteran Buried SERVED UNDER COL. JOHN S. MOSBY. LUKE E. WOODWARD Of Rectortown, Va., Confederate veteran, who served under Col. John S. Mosby in the 43d Virginia Battalion during the War Between the States, was buried in the fam- ily plot near here Wednesday. Mr. Woodward died Monday at the home of his son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. T. Russel Davis of Orange County. He lived in Rectortown until about 1917, when he removed to Washington, stay- ing here until 1933. He was & member of Confederate Camp No. 171, in Washington, and was 89 years old. 100 and 300 per cent profits. Other figures disclosed a jump of two score in the million dollar incomes of indi- viduals for that year. All in all 181 were recorded. Referring to the huge war-time | profits listed, Pierre du Pont applied | an 80 per cent tax figure, saying the gains shown probably would be re- duced by that much. Some of the individuals whose an- nual income was $1.000,000 or over in | any of the years from 1915 to 1920, follows: Arbuckle, Christina, New York City, 1915-16-17-18-19-20. Astor, John Jacob, New York City, 1920; Astor, Vincent, New York City, 1915-16-17-18-19; Astor, Waldorf, New York City, 1917 and 1920. Baker, George F., New York City, 1915-16-17-18: Bauernschmidt, Fred, Baltimore, 1918; Bostwick, Helen C New York City, 1915-16-17-18-19 Bourne, F. G, New York City, 1915- 16-17-18. Candler, Asa G., Atlanta, 1915-16- 17; Cannon, James W., Concord, N. C., 1916 and 1920; Carnegie, Andrew, Hoboken, 1915-16-17 (Hoboken 1is| supposed to be headquarters for the Carnegie estate); Clark, Willilam A, New York City, 1915-16-17-18; Coch- ran, Alex Smith, New York City, 1915-16-17-18; Converse, Edmund C., Greenwich, Conn., 1915-16-17-18; Couzens, James, Detroit, 1915-17-19; Crane, R. T, jr, Chicago, 1920; Curtis, Cyrus H. K., Wyncote, Pa, 1915-16-17-18-19; Cutten, Arthur W., Chicago, 1916-17. Dodges Included. Davison, Henry P., New York, 1915- 16-17; Dearborn, George S., New York City, 1916-17; Delamar, Joseph R, New York City, 1915-16-17; Dodge, Cleveland H.,, New York, 1915-16-17- 18; Dodge, Horace E., Grosse Point, Mich,, 1919; Dodge, John F., Detroit, 1919; Dodge, Mary M. H. (Miss), New York, 1916-17; Duisberg, Carl, Lever- kusen, Germany, 1918: Duke, James B., Somerville, N. J., 1916-17-18; Du Pont, Alfred I, Wilmington, 1915-16- 17-18-19: Du Pont, Mrs. Franics G. (Elsie W.), Wilmington, 1916-17; Du Pont, Henry F. Winterthur, Del, 1916-17; Du Pont, Pierre 8., Wilming- ton, 1915-16-17-18-19; Du Pont, Thomas Coleman, Wilmington, 1915- 16-17; Du Pont, William, Wilmington, 1915-16-17-18; Durant, William C., Deal, N. J, 1916 and 1919. Eastman, George, Rochester, 1915- 16-17-18-15-20; Ehret, George, sr., New York, 1915-16-17-19; Epstein, Jacob, Baltimore, 1916-17. Fords, Father and Son. Ford, Edsel Bryant, Detroit, 1920; Ford, Henry, Dearborn, 1915-16-17- 18-19-20; Forstmann, Julius, Passaic, 1916 and 1919-20; Frelingbuysen, Ad- We Specialize in Small Orders of Lumber and Millwork you can obtain any of Lumber or a special We cater r. liver . ¥ r be dell promptly, and without extra charge. e — Pe., 4'x7". 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A. publicity section. According to those present, rally was called to: 1. Restore morale possibly damaged the by thestatement attributed to John- son that the N. R. A. was dead. 2. Inspire confidence by selling the idea that the N. R. A, as soon as Congress could act, will become a permanent institution. 3. Placate admirers of Gen. John- son by tributes from the present high command to his ability, acumen, ete. N. R. A. employes who attended had been sworn to secrecy. Several con- fided, however, that every mention of Johnson's name was greeted by an ovation. Richberg Present. Present at the handclapping were Donald Richberg, who has risen from first lieutenant to Gen. Johnson to first lieutenant to President Roosevelt; A. D. Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, members of the National Recovery Board; Leon Henderson, chief of the Bureau of Research and Planning, and W. A. Harriman, jr, the present N. R. A. executive officer and spokes- man, Richberg was quoted as referring to Johnson as “the only man who could have so splendidly handled such a trying assignment.” But other details were withheld be- cause those attending were told that the meeting was “most emphatically secret, confidential and off-the-record.” Steamer With 21 Lost. MARSEILLE, France, December 14 (#).—The cargo steamer Schiaf- fino, which left Port St. Louis Sunday and was due at Sete Monday, was lost | with all the 21 members of her crew in a terrific tempest, it was learned here | today. FIVE MORE NATIONS |ALLEGED DIVORCE DEFAULT DEBT AGAIN France, Italy and Poland File Notice—Only Finland Agrees to Pay. By the Associated Press. Envoys from European debtor na- tions called at the State Department today to serve official notice that their governments would default on war debt payments totaling $630,000,000 due tomorrow. 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