Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight, minimum tem- perature about 26 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy, rising temperature; moder- ate winds. Temperatures—Highest, 38, at New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 33,159. 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 30, at 12:30 a.m. today. . Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, o Sfar 1935 —THIRTY PAGES. #*% The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,685 Some Returns Not Yet Received UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. NO MERCY FOR BRUNO, WILENTZ BEGS L BRANDS ACCUSED PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 OF WORLD IN DEMAND FOR DEATH & Hauptmann Is Thaw Out When He Hears | “That Switch Cold but Will J State Says. FINAL PLEA TURNS TO STINGING ATTACK ON REILLY WITNESSES Prosecutor Shouts Protest of Defense Effort to “Assassinate” Innocent Persons to Free Carpenter. (Copyright. 1935, by t FLEMINGTON, N. J., Febru murder trial of Bruno Richard . he Associated Press.) ry 12.—The State, bringing the auptmann toward its end today, charged the defense was fina-eed by “cranks, idiots and fools”: called Hauptmann “Public tnemy No. 1 of this world” and askéd the jury to show no mercy. “This murder of the Lindbergh child. " cried Attorney General David T. Wilentz, “would shrink into absolute insignificance in comparison to the crime that would be committed if this man were freed. That would be the cr ime of the century. “To let him roam the streets of this country and make every woman in her home shudder agal an American tragedy.” The attorney general charact is accused of kidnaping and murd jr., an “animal lower than the lowest form in the animal kingdom.” | expression, were reacting to the bit- He contended the testimony of Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, | terly-phrased summation. ransom intermediary who said he paid Hauptmann the money, | was enough in itself to convict Hauptmann of first-degree murder. 'm that was the only thing the State had.” he said. “if “Why, if we didn’'t have another thing, except this man Condon ‘there is the fellow I gave the money to,’ that would be all we would need to convict him of murder in the charge of He also answered Edward J. Reilly, who said the State was trying to make Hauptmann out as both a master mind and a fool. by saying the accused man was an ego- maniac. Only Hauptmann’s egotism. the attorney general argued, would cause him to think he could talk to Condon without a mask. The prosecutor defended vigorously Lindbergh’s identification of Haupt- mann'’s volce in the cemetery rendez- ‘vous. Defends Lindbergh Story. | “Lindy. whose ears were trained to the hum and whirr of every little wheel in that motor that went across the ocean; Lindy, whose very life has been built up by that keen intellect and keen training and keen mind and keen hearing; Lindbergh, with that keen hearing when he was out in that plot. the greatest moment of his life. he could almost touch him; then that voice comes out, ‘Hey, dok-tor.” ‘Hev. dok-tor” God! Could you ever forget it! Would anybody ever forget it? “Why, if that man said one word in this room above a whisper I wouldn't have to look around, I could tell you it was Hauptmann. There is a dif- ferent quality. There is something weird about it. Why, that voice! “ God! I can't sleep after I hear it nights myself.” The attorney general had not fin- ished his summation when court re- cessed for luncheon at 12:30 p.m. “If you get the feeling that this case | is what Mr. Reilly says, a perfect case, 1t is your solemn duty to find & verdict of murder in'the first degree.” “Hauptmann Can Answer.” | He described what he called a per- fect, case for mercy. and declared the Hauptmann case was not of that kind. | “There may be some questions you | can't answer.” He gestured toward | Hauptmann. “But there sits a man who can answer them. He will be | thawed out: he 1s cold, yes, he will be thawed out when he hears that| switch—that's the time he will talk " | At Wilentz's request the court ad- monisned Hauptmann and his wife to make no outcry at anything he said Wilentz swept his hand toward Hauptmann's defense staff. “There is nobody at that table who doesn't feel he is guilty, I don't care what they say.” He denied Reilly'’s contention that the State had to prove Hauptmann was | annual supply bill when it comes be- | alone in the crime. | “He could have had 50 help him. It he participated in this murder, that's all you've got to deal with.” A Describes Killer. Wilentz asked himself what type of man would commit the Lindbergh | crime. He also answered himself: | “He wouldn't be an American. No American gangster and no American racketeer ever sank to the level of Kkill- 1ng babies. It had to be a feilow that had ice water in his veins, not blood. 1t had to be the fellow that was an ©egomaniac who thought he was omnip- otent. It had to be a secretive fellow that wouldn‘t tell his wife about his money. It had to be a fellow that could undergo hardships, the kind of a fellow that would stowaway on a boat and travel 3,000 miles to sneak into the country in a coal bin. | “Yes, it would have to be the type of man that would hold up women at the point of a gun, women wheeling baby carriages. And the authorities | have found an animal lower than the lowest form in the animal kingdom, public enemy No. 1 of this world— Bruno Richard Hauptmann.” He charged the defense tried to “assassinate character” under the protection of the court, referring to Reilly’s charges that the police framed evidence and that Lindbergh servants were implicated in the crime. The prosecutor turned to Col. H.| Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the | New Jersey State police. | “Col. Schwarzkopf, please stand up!” ‘The police head came to his feet. “Does he look like a crook?” the “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1) Running account of Wilentz address to jury on Page A-4. in, that would be a real tragedy, | erized the Bronx carpenter, who ering Baby Charles A. Lindbergh saying the first degree.” Judge to Await Jury’s Verdict Until Midnight By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, Febru- ary 12.—Justice Thomas W. Trenchard will remain in the county court house until mid- night awaiting the verdict of the Hauptmann jury. If the jurors return no ver- dict by then he will go to his Trenton home, 24 miles away, and return to Flemington the next morning at 10 o'clock to re- ceive the verdict—if any. $38,098,000 NAVAL PLANS APPROVED Backing of Program by Admin- istration Is Announced by Vinson. By the Associated Press. Administration approval of a $38.- 098,000 public works program for the | Navy, of which about $15.000,000 would | jeaned forward intently. Ibe used to strengthen the base at| Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was announced today by Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Committee. Of the total. $10,000,000 would be spent for a huge floating drydock at Pearl Harbor. Another $2,000,000 would be used for the -naval ammunition depots at Balboa and Coco Solo, Canal Zcne. For armor. armament and ammuni- tion for naval vessels, $6,110,000 has been approved Vinson said $20,000,000 of the fund would come out of a $300,000,000 pub- lic works program which was included in the 1936 budget. The remainder would be obtained through regular appropriation chan- nels—perhaps tackec onto the Navy's fore the House. \HERBERT HOOVER TALKS| TONIGHT AT NEW YORK National Republican Club’s Ad- dress to Be Broadcast at 9:45 P.M. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—Former|‘ President Herbert Hoover will speak tonight at a Lincoln day dinner of the National Republican Club. His speech will be broadcast over the N. B. C.-W. J. Z. network, at 9:45 pm. He will be introduced by Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt and will be followed by Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, and Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey. The former President is in New York primarily to attend a meeting tomorrow of the board of directors of the New York Life Insurance Co., to which he was recently elected. Comics Features Finance ........ Lost and Found Radio ... : Serial Story Service Orders Short Story . Society e Sports secececme Mrs. Snyder, Upset By Wilentz Plea, Misses Luncheon Jurors Listen Attentively | | to Request Not to “Get Weak.” | By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 12. —Mrs. Verna Snyder, the Hauptmann No. 3 juror, was so upset after hear- ing the first part of the prosecution summation today she did not finish her lunch. | She left the crowded Union Hotel | dining room after her first course, 'and went to the jury's quarters by way of the back stairs. i Men and women stood on chairs in the dining room to see the jury come in for lunch. They massed in | the hotel corridor, blocking the pas- | sage until Defense Attorney Edward | J. Reilly arrived and cleared it. Mrs. Anna Hauptmann was stat- ueque in her court room appearance | today while Attorney General David T. Wilentz argued for her husband's | electrocution. Hears Stinging Attack. sat unmoving while the jurors | constantly, by little gestures and facial | | she At one point Wilentz said of Haupt- ann: “He’s cold—he'll thaw out when he | hears that switch.” i Her pale face under the felt hat pulled down over her eyes did not | change its expression. | Her hands were folded in her lap. | With her head drooping slightly she | 1ooked at the attorney general's blue- | clad figure as he urged the jury to | convict her husband. | “Don’t get weak if you think he's | guilty.” Four jurymen gazed at Wilentz, who | Lenned toward them with a clinched | st. Mrs. Snyder Thoughtful. Mrs. Rosie Pill rested her chin in one hand: Mrs. Snyder clasped her black pocketbook in both hands and | 1ooked thoughtful | The youngest jury woman, Mrs. | Ethel Stockton, was pale and intent. | She and Mrs. May Brelsford. the | | middle-aged No. 10 juror, sat with folded arms Mrs Pill had the grave, respectful |air of a church-goer hearing a ser- |mon. She sat on one side of her | chair, her grandmotherly face turned | toward Wilentz. Mrs. Snyder beside her was less in- tent. She frowned and jerked her pink collar when Wilentz came over | and sat on a table in front of the | | jury box. Charles Snyder, serious. aged farmer in the front row, looked impressed when Wilentz said that if he had sat in the same row with a | man he thought killed his child, “the 1 man might never have lived to face | trial.” | Snyder is the father of several chil- dren. George Yoorhees. another father on the jury, frowned and | middle- | | Scores of silent men and women | |stocd in a court ante-room and | craned. Among them were many resi- | dents of Perth Amboy, the attorney | general's home town. Wilentz's wife did not hear his sum- mation. She attended ‘only one ses- | sion and left, saying “it made me | | nervous.” Carpenter Intent. The carpenter on the jury cupped his hand to his ear and Mrs. Stock- | ton_blinked when Wilentz said: | “The murder of the Lindbergh child | would shrink into insignificance in | comparison with the crime that would | be committed if that man were free.” Mrs. Hauptmann did not move. but she reddened when the chief prosecu- tor added: “His nation will never fergive him ! for the disgrace he’s brought to them. “He smothered and choked that child right in that room into insensi- bility. Why didn't it cry out?—there’s the answer,” he said Mrs. Stockton, in her red blouse, drooped and looked sad. Another sad face was Mrs. Brelsford’s. Mrs. Snyder's plump face had a stony look when Wilentz shouted, “Look at his hands! Watch him walk- ing, panther-like, gloating, feeling good. Mrs. Pill straightencd ke shoulders when Wilentz said, “If we didn’t have another thing besides Condon sitting on the stand saying ‘That’s rhe man I gave the money to’ that’s encugh o convict him of murder in the first degree.” s Mrs. Stockton was leaning far to one side, her eyes on Wilentz when he pictured the fright “wken you find your child missing.” “Did you see Johnny?'- Two hours, and you're panic-scricken.” B LOST AVIATORS HUNTED H —_— | Pather and Son Missed After Flight During Storm. EL PASO, Jex., February 12 (®.— Airplane and mounted searching parties were organized today in an effort to find two men who have been missing since Sunday when they took off from Blackwell, Okla., for a flight to El Paso. The two, Frank Bowman, sr., Berino, N. Mex., farmer, and his son, Frank Bowman, jr., co-operator of the municipal airport here, have not been seen since they flew over Socorro, N. Mex., during.a storm. Five planes were assembled for the search. Horseback parties will search the mountains near Socorro. . %art of the Chief Executive’s ob- SWAPPING MIDDLE OF THE STREAM ENT IS DIFF HORSES IN THE \ S NOW FRoM MR LINCOLN'S DAY. OPINION ON GOLD | ACAIN S DELAYED Court Takes No Action. Morgenthau Assures Busi- ness on Dollar. | | By the Associated Prese. Supreme Court procedure took its usual course early this afternoon, in- dicating no decision in the gold cases was to be expected immediately. The possibility remained, however, that ourt could hand down its much- waited opinion several hours later. More than the usual number of spectators were on hand, but the ten- sion soon was relleved s the court | proceeded at 12:15 to routine business, | As the members of the bench took | their seats an attache of the Treas- | ury had appeared in the marshal’s | office and sought to establish a tele-\ phone conection with the Treasury Building and asked for permission to keep a line open. This permission was refused. Gourt officers told the official he t remain in the office to phone if he wished later, but that he could not keep a line open. = | / Attorneys Admitted. ‘ At the start of the court session a number of attorneys were admitted to practice there. Then the court resumed the oral argument in the New York milk-con- trol case, begun yesterday. The schedule was tor this to yro- ceed until 2 o'clock and then a half- | hour’s recess for lunch While it would be without prece- dent, the csurt could. if it desired, | deliver the gold opificn on return from lunch at 2:30 before continuing with arguments on other cases. | It is the rule of the court to ad- | e a | journ its session each day at 4:30. If it chose, it could deliver the gold de- | cision before adjourning for the day. | There are numerous precedents for | delivering opinions aftcr 4:30. In | some informed circles, however, the court was not expected to hand down the gold decision before Monday—the next regular opinion day. Announcement Unprecedented. | An unprecedented announcement | made by Secretary Morgenthau last | night was interpreted as an attempt to remove business nervousness lest it | unsettle trade. | Casting aside a mask of secrecy for | the first time since the Treasury's stabilization fund was created Janu- | ary 31, 1934, Morgenthau said the | $2,000,000,000 had been used and would be used to manage American currency abroad. The statement recalled frequent re- ports that the admiristration has been preparing to meet any adverse deci- sion with measures designed to steady the dollar and keep it from jumping disastrously. The attitude expressed by admin- istration officials is one of confident expectation that the New Deal mone- tary policy will be upheld, and Mor- genthau reminded reporters ~yester- day that he had not mentioned the (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) | Byrnes of South Carolina and Bank- | ‘Good Morning’ Is Greeting of Labor Department Clerks By the Associated Press. All the clerks at the Labor De- partment say “good morning” now whether they know each other or not. Secretary Prances Perkins started it recently when her de- partment moved into imposing new quarters. She called the workers together in the new audi- torjum and made them a little speech, in which she suggested they say a cheery “‘good morning” to each other, She promised them a house- warming, with music and dancing, and perhaps tea, “if the budget holds out.” GLASS COMMITTEE GIVEN BANK BILL Fate of New Measure Up to Group Headed by Prin- | cipal Critic. i By the Assoclated Press. The new bank bill submitted to Congress by administration officials was referred by the Senate Banking | Committee today to the subcommittee headed by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, long a defender of the present Federal Reserve System. The bill, which would expand the Reserve Board's authority over cur- rency and credit, was thus turned over to the subcommittee headed by the one man in the Senate believed to be | most critical of some of its provisions. This same subcommittee already was studying the nomination of Mar- riner S. Eccles of Utah as governor | of the Federal Reserve Board. Eccles was one of the drafters of the pro- posed new banking law, and recently termed the bill necessary to prevent a | recurrence of the 1933 banking col- | lapse. | Despite reports that the contro- versial bank bill would be handled by the full Banking Committee headed | by Senator Fletcher, Democrat, of | Florida, the committee at an executive session today decided unanimously to refer the measure to the group headed | by Glass. In addition to Glass. membership of | the subcommittee includes Senators | Bulkley of Ohio, McAdoo of California, head of Alabama, Democrats. and | ‘Townsend of Delaware, Couzens of | Michigan and Cutting of New Mexico, | Republicans. Campbell Delays Test Run. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., February 12 (A).—Roughness of the beach to- day prevented Sir Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, from taking out his huge Bluebird machine for a test run. 'Sole Surviving Guard at Bier Of Lincoln By the Associated Press. A 93-year-old Pennsylvanian, only survivor of President Lincoln’s last bodyguard, was received at the White House by President Roosevelt today as servance of the emancipator’s birth- day. The aged veteran was William Henry Gilbert of Craley, Pa., one of six Union soldiers who guarded Lincoln’s bier at Philadelphia, where the body lay in state before being taken to Illinois for burial. Wearing the uniform of the “boys in blue.” Gilbert was introduced to President Roosevelt by Representa- tive Haines, Democrat, of Pennsyl- vania. During the interview Gilbert sat in one of Lincoln’s cabinet chairs and viewed the famous Lincoln bed. Leaving the White, House, Gilbert went to the Lincoln Memorial and joined in memorial exercises there. As he climbed slowly t.he,%n( flight bé Visits Roosevelt ot steps to the statue of his former commander, the Marine Band played De_Koven's “Recessional.” The round of activities arranged for the old soldier included an address to veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, laying of a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a talk over a national radio hook-up. Mr. Roosevelt planned to remain away from his desk at the executive offices, spending the day quietly at home and welcoming no other callers. Simple ceremonies elsewhere in the Capital honored the Civil War Presi- dent. The House set aside 20 minutes for an address by Representative Blackney of Michigan, a new member, on the life of Lincoln. The Senate erranged a similar program, and two- score patriotic and civic organizations gathered at the Grecian temple which stands beside the Potomac in ever- lasting memory of the martyred Ex- ecutive. ‘Senator Barkley of Ken- tucky was to speak there, FAST TAKOMA BUS SERVICE ORDERED Other Changes Authorized in Plan for Direct Car Routing. | Establishment of a rush-hour ex- press bus service from Takoma to the downtown business section and re- moval of the street car tracks on Ken- | nedy street between Fourteenth street | and Georgia avenue as a part of al plan for direct routing of street cars| down Georgia avenue, was ordered to- day by the Public Utilities Commis- sion. The program was approved by the Commissioners, since such action re- | quires approval of the joint board, con- sisting of the District and the utility commissioners. Other features of the rerouting changes are the establishment of a feeder bus service for non-rush pe- riods, running from Fourteenth and Kennedy streets to the District line in Takoma, D. C., and construction of a double track for the Takoma Park street car line, east and north of Ken- nedy street and Georgia avenue, Bus Extension Ordered. At the same time the Public Utili- ties Commission directed the Wash- ington RWpid Transit Co., which oper- ates the Sixteenth street bus line, to extend further bus service to the Chil- lum Heights area. The line now stop- ping just north of Sherman Circle is to be extended to Madison and First street northeast. The problem of rerouting so as to give improved service to the outlying residential areas is one of the most important matters so far acted on by the commission, and the decision has been awaited for several weeks by resi- dents in the northern part of the city. Under the changes Fourteenth street cars will stop at Kennedy street. There | now is a large circle turn-around at | that point. The order calls for elimi- nation of the plow pit just south of | this point and construction of a new turn-around track on private property at Fourteenth and Kennedy streets. A suitable terminal shelter is to be erected there for patrons who will| transfer to and from the feeder bus service. Faster Service Planned. The street car service from the Takoma area in the future will operate | over the new double track system to Georgia avenue and Kennedy street, and a new section of track there will permit these cars to be operated to the downtown section via Georgia | avenue. Double tracks with overhead power lines are to be laid on Kennedy street between Georgia avenue and Third street, on Third street between | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MRS. COPELAND HURT| IN FLORIDA CRASH Wife of Semator Receives Frac-| tured Rib and Other Injuries | in Auto Accident. | By the Assoclated Press. ) WEST PALM BEACH. Fla, Feb- ruary 12.—Mrs. Royal S. Cops'ard. wife of the Senator from New York. received a fractured rib. severe head lacerations and a possible fracture of | the left leg in an automobile accident yesterday. A Her automobile, driven by a colored | chauffeur, collided with a cur driven | by Mrs. Howard K. Brinklow wife of a local physician, at a stre:t inter- section. Mrs. Copeland was visiting friends here and had planned to drive back to her Winter residen®e at Ven- ice. Fla. Dr. B. B. Sory, Jr., said further ex- aminations would have te oe made to determine definitely whether Mrs. Copeland’s left leg had been frac- ured. Senator Copeland’s son, Royal S. Copeland, jr., left their residence at | Venige this morning on his way to| West Palm Beach to jcin his mother. | He was expected to reacp there early this afternoon. Meanwniie the Sen- ator said no further word had been received here as to the extent of Mrs. | and presented SEEKING INQUIRY {Louisiana Senator Says He Will Risk His Seat to Oust | New Dealer. {ROBINSON AND BAILEY QUICK TO CHALLENGE | Arkansan and North Carolinian Hurl Caustic Remarks as Debate Rages. Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisi- | ana asserted in the Senate today that if James A. Farley was not “run out : of the cabinet within 30 days" after his proposed investigation of the Postmaster General starts he would go to Louisiana and raise $12.500 for the Democratic party. Long. who was protesting against Democratic Leader Robinson’s motion to send his investigation resolution to the Post Office Committee, added if Farley was dismissed as a result of the inquiry he would raise “double that amount” for the party. Long also asserted he would not have the “temerity” to run for re- election if his charges of misconduct against a cabinet officer and Demo- cratic national chairman were proved groundless. Would Risk His Office. “That would be practically running me out of the United States Senate. but I am willing to take the risk,” he said. His hands in his pockets and red suspenders_showing. Long also said Secretary Roper had intervened with Secretary Ickes u prevent a loan going to Louisiana for a hospital Referring to Farley as the “gen- eralissimo of the United States of America,” Long said “I was called upon by the man Jiv- ing in the White House to go out and raise funds to put an end to this kind of slime, filth and rottenness in Government. I went out and took up the cause. Reads Letter to Back Charge. “What did we get? To get rid of the devil did we get a witch? We want to know.” “Farley. Farley,” he shouted. ask- ing why people should have to “bow down to this demon.” The Louisiana Senator read a let- ter to him from a man he described as “a responsible gentleman” in the journalistic profession saying he un- derstood companies with which Farley was connected were getting Govern- ment contracts. The writer said he was told Farley made $1.000,000 on the cement con- tract in the construction of the Eighth avenue subway in New York and wes | connected with a company which 1ie- cently got a contract ‘or 1 posi office in the Bronx. Bailey Sees Flaw. Senator Bailey, Democsat, of North Carclina interrupted to remark that the writer of the leiter relied cn the statement “I am told” in making his charges. “I ask the Senator whether he would have me make accusations against him in letters received from his constituents using that parase?” Bailey asked. “Does he wish me to follow the golden rule and do to him as he now proposes to do to a mem- ber of the cabinet?"” “The Senate has investigated me,” Long replied. “I'll leave it to the Senate and the people whether the Senator has answered my question,” Bailey said. “I'll leave this Farley issue with the people of the United States,” | | Long_replied. A moment later, as Long continued his charges against Farley, Bailey in- terrupted again. “Accusatiohs have been made to me concerning the Senator from Louisana on hearsay and I challenge the Senator whether he wants me to present them to the Senate.” he said. “I don't care.” Lo g replied. *I have accusations made to me about the Senator from North Carolina. I have accusations against most Sena- tors, but I'm the only Senator who | has been investigated.” Yesterday the Senate Democratic | leader, Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas, | to hit back at the Louisianan. | “Apparently in resentment over some investigation of him. the Senator | has gathered together all rumors he, has heard, all newspaper innuendos | theém together in| charges against Mr. Farley,” Robinson | thundered. Robinson Aroused. “I think he ought to confine him- | self in his public charges to his own | personal knowledge.” “I have never vet failed to prove facts I have stated on the floor of the Senate,” Long interrupted. “I"do not impeach his veracity,” | Robinson resumed. “But I have| learned to question the soundness of his judgment and his credibility.” | Long again interrupted: | “Does the Senator intend to oppose the investigation?” “I do not oppose any investigation,” Robinson said. “I do not object to| any inquiry where the facts are in dispute. 1 am not determining what | action I will take.” | HOTEL—PLUNGE FATAL BOSTON, February 12 (P.—A | woman hotel officials said was regis- tered as Mrs. Al Hayes of New York | leaped or fell to her death today from the ninth floor of the Statler Hotel. She left two notes, police said, one | containing a sum of money to pay her obligation to the hotel, and the | second addressed to Charles Heck of | Danbury, Conn.. directing that her body be cremated. . \ ATTACK ON FARLEY BRITISH TAKE LEAD RESUMED BY LONG, T0 KEEP PEACE IN FTHOPIAN DISPTE Italian Mobilization Only Precautionary, Says Envoy in Rome. WAR PROSPECTS HELD GROSSLY EXAGGERATED Great Britain Puts Pressure Upon King Selassie to Restrict Tribesmen's Activities. By the Associated Press LONDON. February 12—Official British soutces said today peace ne- gotiations between representatives of Italy and Ethiopia opened yesterday in Addis Ababa Sir Eric Drummond. the British Ambassador to Rome, informed the British government today the Italian mobilization was “purely precaution- ary.” The Ambassador was assured by the Italian government that the Italian forces have not advanced their positions on the Ethiopian fron- tier since the trouble began and have no intention of doing so The gist of Sir Eric's message, ac- cording to these sources is: “The Italians do not want tc be caught napping.” Britain Peacemaker. Great Britain was vigorously pur- suing the role of peacemaker under the terms of a 29-vear-old treaty almost forgotten by the public. A tri-partite pact negotiated in 1906 pledzed Italy to consult both Great Britain and France on matters in- volving Fihiopia with anv one of the three powers British diplomats both at Addis Ababa and at Rome are, urging mod- eration on both sides. The opinion was confidently expressed here that the dipiomatic efforts will prove suc- cessful War Prospects Doubted. British officials well posted on the situation both in Italy and Ethiopia consider the prospeets of war grossly exaggerated. One said, “On the basis of information we have received, there never has been a war scare in the past couple of years in Europe so com- pletely out of proportion to the facts as this one spread yesterday.” Great Britain, nevertheless. is still determined that direct negotiations between Italy and Ethiopia as agreed upon at Geneva should be inaugurated with all possible haste There were strong indications here that Great Britain has become impa- tient with the Ethiopian Emperor and is inclined to be sympathetic with the Italian attitude. Official circles frankly disclosed that Great Britain is bringing strong press- ure to bear on King Haile Selassie to y check the activities of his tribesmen along the frontier. War Suggestion Rejected. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, it was reported today, rejected a sug- gestion of his advisers a month ago that he declare war on Italy. Feudal chieftains among the “King of Kings" cabinet were said to have brought pressure to persuade the monarch to challenge Mussolini's war machine to armed combat. In the end. these advices from Ad- dis Ababa said, the counsel of two close friends prevailed and Emperor Selassie was dissuaded from accepting the bellicose proposals of the ministers. ETHIOPIA MASSES 30,000. Move Follows Mobilizatien of 250,000 by Italy. (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Associated Press) ROME, February 12.—Thirty thou- sand Ethiopian troops are massing near the Italian Somaliland frontier in the vicinity of Ualual, a govern- ment spokesman revealed today. This information was made public as 250,000 Italian reservists received mobilization orders and stood ready to join a possible African military e: pedition. Of this number 30,000 a: ready have been moved to their con- centration points, and it was indicated the organization of units was still in progress. Fifty Planes Dispatched. At the same time 50 Italian Army planes were en route to Eritrea from Tripoli. Despite military activity on both sides. the government spokesman said it was still hoped an armed conflict might be avoided. Negotiations for settlement of recent clashes at Ualual | “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2. POST HOPES TO START FLIGHT EARLY THURSDAY Estimates Winnie Mae Can Reach New York in Eight Hours or Less. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 12— Wiley Post, two times girdler of the globe in his airplane, the Winnie Mae, hopes to leave Los Angeles about, 6 o'clock Thursday morning on a non-stop substratosphere flight to New York, but several tests will intervene. Post expects to make the trip in “eight hours or less.” If he does he will shatter the transcontinental record of 10 hours 3 minutes, held by Col. Roscoe Turner, Los Angeles speed flyer. His main objective, how- ever, is to demonstrate the feasibility of substratosphere flying with a full load. He will carry a consignment of mail. His landing gear will be dropped immediately after the take- off. in order to lessen wind resistance, and he will land on a wooden skid. L]