Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers today, cooler late this after- noon or night; tomorrow fair and coole gentle to moderate shifting winds. Tem. peratures—Highest, 89, at 4 p.m. yester- Subscriber or Newsstand Copy day: lowest, 73, at 3 a.m. yesterday. Full report on -page B-6. () Means Associate d Press. 81—No. 33,304 econd class matter i D 'C. he WASHINGTON, TH DAILY EVENING EDITION D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUL UNCERTAINTY OF AIMS IN TAX AND GUFFEY BILLS PERPLEXES CONGRESS Full Revision of Levy Base | Possible. MOVE TO DELAY FINDS SUPPORT Determined Effort to Test Coal Plan ‘ . N . Raises Cries. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Problems continued to pile up ye: terday for a much-harassed Congress which stood in recess over the week end. President Roosevelt sent a letter to Representative Samuel B. Hill of Washington, Democrat, chairman of a Ways and Means Subcommittee, urging prompt passage of the Guff coal bill, notwithstanding doubts to constitutionality, “however reason- | able.” The President’s idea is to put | the matter up to the Supreme Court At the same time, Hill, who also | happens to be chairman of the Ways | and Means Subcommittee which tackling the President’s tax program preparatory to writing a new tax bill | for submission to the House, made it clear that he and other members of the committee are looking for a “sub- stantial amount” of new revenue. He mentioned a sum between $350.000.000 and $500,000,000. In order to raise that amount of hew revenue. the whole tax structure, as it applies to income taxes have to be revised. New sources of taxation may have to be tapped. McNary Warns Against Haste. Senator McNary of Oregon, Repub. lican leader, declared that such a tax program should not be written into law in haste this Summer. “I feel confident.” said McNary, “that when the members of the House Ways and Means Committee and of the Senate Finance Committee have looked into the matter. they will come to the conclusion that these changes in the tax structure should be made after due deliberation and careful study. “I believe that they will come to 'h_fl conclusion that Congress should ! Adjourn as soon as the necessary bills #tll on the calendar have been dis- posed of, leavinz to the committees the duty of studying the tax question. Congress could be called back to Washington by the President in November or December and take up the tax bill and pass it. The income taxes on individuals and corporations | vn;xII not be payable until next March 15. anyway. From a political point of view. the passage of the bill in December or January will be no more unpopular than the passage of the tax bill in September. The taxpayers Will not begin to feel the hurt until March in either event.” Sum to Be Specified. Mr. Hill's statement of the amount of revenue to be raised by a new bill is only tentative. Sooner or later the administration will have to tell Congress just how much money is re- quired. Congress is not inclined to levy taxes unless it has put before it some measure of what is needed The Hill Subcommittee of the Ways and Means is to begin hearings on the tax program tomorrow. It has been suggested that a drive for a manufacturers’ sales tax may be launched if a large amount of revenue becomes necessary. That, however, would not be in line with the President’s tax recommendations to Congress which call for decentral- | dzation of wealth as a social reform. | President Roosevelt's letter to Hill urging prompt passage of the Guffey coal bill, which really sets up a system similar to the N. R. A. codes for that industry, is expected 1o give the nec- essary momentum to bring that meas ure to passage. His suggestion that | Congress go ahead and pass a bill of doubtful constitutionality was consid- ered amazing by some of the mem- bers of Congress last night. In some | quarters, however, it was suggested that the President is intent upon showing to the people that their Gov- | ernment cannot help them handle economic and social piroblems under the interpretation of the Constitution made by the Supreme Court when it declared his N. R. A. law unconsti- | tutional. A sentence in his letter to | Hill reads: “A decision by the su-! preme Court relative o this measure | would be helpful as indicating, with | increasing clarity, the consmutionnli Limits within which this Government must operate.” Hill expects to have a meeting of the subcommittee on the coal bill | ‘Tuesday night. In a formal statement, Hugh R. (See CONGRESS, Page 4. PARIS VETERANS BAN| RED FLAGS ON JULY 14 Only Tri-Color to Be Allowed to| Fly Bastile Day—"Tear Others Down" Is Order. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 6.—The decision of the powerful veterans’ organization per- mitting none but the tricolor of France to fly on July 14 today increased the nation’s fears that Bastile day will be | troublous. | The Executive Committee of the | National Union of Combatants, with almost 1,000,000 members, issued these | orders to veterans: | “If you see any flag other than the national flag flying on France’s na- tional holiday, tear it down.” The order is aimed directly at huge “anti-Fascist” parades planned by Communists and Socialists. These or- ganizations always carry a number of flags, 4 | utility or otherwise. Heard Voices TATIVE RANKIN. —A. P. Photo. TAPPING OF WIRES LAID TO UTILITIES Members of Congress Vic- tims, Rankin Says, on i Eve of Probe. | Br the Associated Press. Ch: es of wire more lightning impending utility gation The charge that utility holding company lobbyists “tapped telephone | wires of members of Congress” came | from Representative Rankin, Demo- crat, of Mississippi. proponent of both the administration’s “death sentence” for “unnecessary” holding companies and the measure to broaden the power of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Floor fights in both the Senate and House on the two measures will break this week. A group of pro-T. V. A. Representatives yesterday went into a huddle to map vote strategy for the T. V. A. bill. In the Senate arrangements were made to begin tomorrow and end Tuesday a showdown battle on the holding company “death sentence” legislation. passed by the Senate. re- jected by the House and now back for Senate concurrence in the House action. The House passed a bill to regulate instead of abolish holding companies. Predictions of Victory. From Senate and House proponents of both administration bills came pre- dictions of victory. Representative | tapping crackled yesterday over the bill lobby investi- | Maverick, Democrat, of Texas said | the T. V. A. bill would pass the House-| in the form wanted by President | Roosevelt with a 50-vote margin. | Chairman Wheeler. Democrat, of Montana of the Senate Interstate| Commerce Committee, said “four or five” more votes had come to the sup- port of the Senate bloc which barely squeezed through the “death sentence™ utility bill. Rankin sought to bolster his charge of wire tapping by asserting to re- porters that “they tapped mine for 1 days.” | We could hear them on the line,” he said, “but could not locate them and the telephone company declared | they® did not know where these con- | nections were.” While thee House prepared for open- | ing its lobby investigation by the Rules Committee tomorrow, 2 move was afoot in the Senate to broaden the scope of the proposed inquiry there to | include lobbying on all legislation, Over in the House Office Building, | (See RANKIN, Page 4.) DOCKMEN PLAN FIGHT if Coast Changes Are Attempted. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (#).— Harry Bridges, San Francisco long- shoreman president, said today he would urge Pacific Coast secession from the International Longshoremen Association should efforts be made at the general convention in New York next week to abolish local autonomy or revoke the San Francisco charter. Bridges, leader of the San Fraa- cisco general strike last Summer. de- clared he would ask the entire West Coast membership of 12,000 to bolt the Threaten Secession Roose_v;lt May Restate Aims of New Deal. 'STRATEGY OF TALKS MAPPED President Expected| to Carry His Case to People. BY ER!;ST K. Ll-\ DLEY. When—or if—Congress adjourns, President Roosevelt is expected to take | his case to the country in a series of major speeches—perhaps from three to six in number. The consensus of his chief aides is that the work of his administration so far and his objectives need restate- ment at greater length than a single “fireside” radio talk will permit. Mr. Roosevelt already has accepted tenta- tive speaking engagements for lalz| August and September. The present plan is to make these the occasion for major utterances, covering the main points of his program. If Con- gress adjourns in time for him to make his projected visit to the San Diego Exposition in September, at lease two or three of these speeches will be made at various points across the continent. As to the desirable tone for his speeches. there is some difference of opinion in the upper reaches of the New Deal. One trend of thought fa- vors a stalwart reiteration of the lib- eral aspects of the New Deal, spiced with militant criticisms of its prin- cipal opposing interests. Another trend favors a tone of general reas- surance, arising from a clear state- ment that the major legislative framework of the New Deal has been completed—assuming that Congress completes the “must” before it. A third trend favors laying the basis for a broad constitutional is- sue next year—taking cognizance of the possibility that the Supreme Court will cling to its obiter dicta in the | | Schechter case and declare other im- portant New Deal laws unconstitu- tional during the coming Winter. President Silent, The President has kept his own counsel, and it is anticipated that the tone of his speeches will depend large- Iy on what Congress does or does not do before adjourning and what he senses the temper of the country to be by late Summer or early Autumn His insistence upon the enactment of all proposed major legislation at this session is attributed by his close as- sociates to his desire to be able to say | that his program, in the large, has been completed and that he will have no important new recommendations the domestic field to make to the 1936 Congress. This, in the view of many of his close friends, would go far to clear the air of uncertainties, and encourage business men to go ahead. Some of the President’s liberal sup- porters fear that if he goes too far in | trying to reassure business he will ex- pose himself again to the danger of an effective liberal or radical third party movement. They point out that his efforts to strike a “truce” with bankers and business leaders last Fall was a failure and that it imperiled his political position. They feel that so long as he stands where he stands now there is no chance of the forma- tion of an effective third party move- ment on the left. For the last sev- eral weeks, the President’s chief politi- | cal advisers, regardless of their own personal tendencies, have been in sub- stantial agreement that he could much better afford to lose some of the right- wing Democrats than to lose the sup- port of the liberals in both parties. Recovery Aid Advised. On the other hand, the President's chief aides of all political tinges have been agreed for months that he should | try_to facilitate the upward trend of (See STRATEGY, Page 4.) D. C. MAN DIES IN CRASH Charles Robinson Killed as Cars Collide in South. DURHAM, N. C., July 6 (#).—Charles T. Robinson, 24, of Washington, D. C., | was killed near Hillsboro today when his automobile went out of control on a curve and crashed into another machine, driven by Clarence Rippy of Danville, Va,, who escaped injury. Robinson was en route here to visit his brother, Corpl. G. C. Robinson of | the State highway patrol. Other sur- international if “Eastern officials” at- Pvivors included his widow and a small tempt to effect either change. son. Elizabeth, Ex-Queen of Greece, May Wed Aide, Turn Farmer By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 6.— Elizabeth of Hohenzollern, Princess of Rumania, today abandoned hope of restoration to the throne of Greece. She obtained a divorce from former King George. The captial heard | whispers that she intends to marry her ‘secretary and run a model farm. | Greece is-to have a plebiscite in the Fall on restoration of the mon- archy. Elizabeth and Alauander Szanavy, tall, handsome, 40-year-old Greek who served in the Czarist army dur- ing the World War, have been on ex- cellent terms for some time. Recently Szanavy became court chamberlain and personal secretary to the former Queen. Friends say Elizabeth had farming in mind when she purchased an es- tate from Count Toraczonyi, Hun- | garian magnate, near Timisoara not so long ago. She regortedly paid 35,000,000 lei (about $3,500,000) for it. These friends say the former Queen intends to convert the magnificent estate into an experimental farm on the American model and manage it with Szanavy. The estate is the only place in Rumania where rice is grown. Elizabeth, now living in a palatial residence at Bucharest not far from that occupied by Mme. Magda Lupescu, King Carol's friend, expressed no surprise when informed her divorce suit had won. It had been understood long in ad- vance that the proceedings would be pure formality. George, now living in London, paid no attention to the trial. He was not even represented by counsel. He has five days from next Monday to appeal, but it is not believed he will do a0. - Z 2 program now | red-haired | BROVIN LADNCHES SHAKE-UP- NOVE BY POLIE SURVEY {Captains Called for Confer- ence as Result of In- creased Felonies. GETS JUMP ON HAZEN, WHO PLANNED PARLEY | Superintendent to Fix B,cspons'h‘ bility in Close'Study of Situa- tion—Merit to Count. Drastic shake-up in the Police De- | partment personnel. to include both uniformed officers and plain clothes operatives, is planned by Supt. Ernest W. Brown to remedy any inecfficiency that may be disclosed in a survey he ordered made promptly by precinct commanders yesterday. This loomed on the horizon of the department situation last night after Maj. Brown unexpectedly called the captains befors him and in terse terms told them he would hold them per- sonally responsible for what goes on in | their districts An increase in the number of felony cases was listed as a cause for the order for a careful checkup on the efficiency of the force. Sharp criticism was voiced by Maj. Brown against mis- | placed, misfit and inefficient men as | he called for the survey reports to give a more detailed check. l No “Buck Passing.” | Maj. Brown “jumped the gun” on Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen., who had just announced he would convene the captains in extraordinary session soon to lay down the law there was to be no “buck passing” as to their re- sponsibility. Hazen's declaration was the first fruits of the recommendations of the special committee of District officials named by the Commissioners to digest the report of the House Crime Investigating Committee. | One of the recommendations of this | | group. headed by Corporation Counsel Prettyman, was that precinct com- manders were too prone to let other police units worry about solution of problems after the commanders had | reported cases to headquarters. | The Prettyman body declared the | inability of a precinct commander to | show proper force and leadership and | responsibility to control situations in | his own precinct should merit de- motion. Maj. Brown insisted his move had no connection with the Commission- ers'’ Crime Committee, that it had been planned before he knew of the findings on the Prettyman Committee report. At the same time, however, his declaration showed a definite determi- nation to make more aggressive and responsible the work of the men in the various precincts. Maj. Brown called on his captains to investigate and report on the effi- | | ciency of the entire personnel of the | | department. There was nothing mild | | about his warning of what was to come if the general survey showed a lack of efficiency. | Merit to Be Rewarded. | The prospective shake-up would be | accomplished by promotion of the men of best showings, demotions of those who show lack of proper spirit, | aggressiveness and general efficiency, | and also by transfers of men from one assignment to another. A rise in the numker of iclonies committed in the District as shown in the June repori was given by Maj. Brown as his reason tor ordering the survey. He said ae also wanied to impress upon inc. commanders | their responsiviliiy for handling traf- | fic in their respective precincts, aside from work of the Traffic Bureau This reference vas closely paraileled (See POLICE, Page 3.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-6. Changing World—A-3. Lost and Found—A-9. Death Notices—A-9. Washington Wayside—B-6. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. | PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- | tures—D-2. | Civic News and Comment—D-4. Service Organizations—D-5-6. Women’s Clubs and Fraterni- ties—D-6. 2 Serial Story—D-T7. Resorts—D-7-9. Stamps—D-10. Short Story—D-10. Who Are You?—D-10. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-12. Well-Known Folk—E-3. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-11, Vital Statistics—E-11. Service Orders—E-11. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-3, Books—F-4. Stage and Screen—F-5. Music—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-7, Automobiles—F-8. Aviation—F-8. Cross-word Puzzle—F-8. Children’s Page—F-9. High Lights of History—F-9, PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. | wood Street, | otherwise Clusuifl:d Advertising — Pages A 1935— Sty Stare 102 PAGES. Not for Sale by Newsboys FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | |TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE TAX PAYER UTILITY STOCKHOLDER IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE POINT OF VIEW! EMPLOYERS BACK AD-CHEATING WAR Pay Rolls Are Being Checked Against Relief Lists for Chisellers. | Adopting rigorous tactics to put an end to chiseling, District relief of- ficials have established contact with 40 of the larger employers of labor so that persons may be dropped promptly from the emergency relief rolls when they gain private work, Miss Alice Hill. relief director, an- nounced yesterday. i A saving of $3,163 a month is being accomplished already by a system of | checking names on employers’ pay rolls against those on the relief roster, Miss Hill reported yesterday to El- welfare director. This is less than 1 per cent of relief dis- bursements. | So far the new system of detecting those not needing relief has resulted in the dismissal of 158 from the re- | lief list and in nine other cases the amount of relief was reduced be- cause of income obtained from private jobs which the relief recipients had not reported to District officials. Refunds Called for. Turning tables on the relief clients, | officials of the Public Assistance Di- vision also have called on 11 persons on the relief list to refund relief pay- ments made to them “which they had | improperly received,” Miss Hill dis- closed. Need for such a checking system | is expected by officials to disappear | when the new works program is in | full swing. since this is to give con- | tinuous work to all on the relief lists capable of working, leaving only the unemployables on relief. But that program will not be in full swing until Fall, according to present estimates. and the checking on relief clients will | continue as long as needed, officials | Mr. Street explained last night there should be no reason for relief clients to hesitate to take either full or part time private jobs since they can come back on relief when their private jobs are worked out. The pay roll lists were turned over to the Public Assistance Division at the solicitation of division officials, Miss Hill said. When there is reason to believe relief clients have failed to report outside work immediate investi- | gation is started. “If it is found that their earnings are sufficient to make relief unneces- sary, they are dropped from the relief rolls,” Miss Hill said. “If the work is only part-time work and the compen- sation inadequate to cover a minimum relief budget, the relief is at least re- | duced by the amount of the earnings which the person is found to have. “These employes are to be highly commended for their civic spirit in making available information which | could not have been | secured.” Among the firms which co-operated | were restaurants, department stores, | other retail 'stores, hotels, printing establishments, towel services, bak- | eries, newspapers, laundries, motion | picture theaters, automobile sales and service agencies, drug stores, telegrapn companies, life insurance companies, ice cream manufacturers, hospitals, Federal and District government de- | partments (for per diem employes) and taxicab companies. Sources Are Co-ordinated. In addition to checking relief lists against the pay roll lists of these em- ployers, co-operation in securing in- formation regarding persons having resources which “conceivably might make relief unnecessary,” has been worked out by the Public Assistance Division with the Veterans Adminis- tration, credit associations, the Post Office Department and the Police De- partment, Miss Hill said. “Most of the people who ask for and receive relief are honest and sin- cere,” Miss Hill continued. *“As often as not, we find that people who are receiving relief contrary to the spirit | and intent of our relief legislation and regulation, are doing so, not through willful misrepresentation, but through ignorance or through an acute sense of their own misfortune and very great need.” $250,000 Loss in Texas Fire. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 6 (#).— Pire destroyed about 150,000 bushels of mixed grain at Universal Mills late today at a loss estimated at be- tween $250,000 and $300,000. ¢ Secret Infidelity Cannot Be Cruel, | Judge Elabormes‘ Explains Ruling in Sep- aration Action Brought by Woman. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 6.—Supreme Court Justice Raymond D. Aldrich's decision that a husband’s infidelities, carried on discreetly and quietly, did not warrant a legal separation on adultery grounds, was explained to- day as applying only to the wife's charge of mental cruelty Justice Aldrich granted a separa- tion to Mrs. Etta S. Miller at White Plains, N. Y., yesterday, holding that | she was deserted by Robert McWil-| liam Miller, attorney, but ruled against the wife’s contention that she also was entitled to the decree because of her husband's affair with Mlle. Marguerite Jeanneret, pretty French maid in the Miller household. “The infidelity was brought into the case to show there had been mental cruelty,” Justice Aldrich said from his chambers in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. “I held that since the wife was not aware of it she could not have suffered mental cruelty.” The decision did not indicate what might have been the justice’s ruling | on the evidence in an action for di- vorce. COOLER WEATHER 1S PROMISED CITY Showers Expected to Break Heat Wave—Nation’s Toll Is 30 Lives. Cooler weather and refreshing showers today are expected to bring partial relief from 1935's first general heat wave, which yesterday caused upward of 30 deaths throughout the Nation. Despite a maximum temperature of 89 degrees at 4 p.m., coupled with the unusually high humidity of yesterday afternoon, Washington escaped the brunt of the heat wave with no pros- | trations reported. | The sun yesterday was relenting | after a show of power which brought | its year's high of 87.7 to New York City, a maximum of 100 degrees at Dodge City, Kans., and temperatures in the uncomfortable 90s to wide | areas of the country during the day. | Even the thundershowers that re- lieved some sweltering Eastern sea- board sections caused three deaths. Three persons were killed by lightning bolts in upstate New York, Connecti- | cut and Maryland. | Three additional heat deaths in Pennsylvania, the same number in| Ohio, another each in New England, | Missouri and Indiana brought the total, directly or indirectly, due to this cause to 17. Drownings totaled eight.| Two persons died in New York | Cily, the first recorded deaths from | heat in the city this Summer. The| victims, both men, collapsed in the) sweltering midtown area. LSRR Three Die in Blast in Italy. MILAN, Italy, July 6 (A’).—T'hree! workmen werc killed and four gravely injured today in an explosion in a chemical plant at Cesano Maderno, 10 miles from here. Damage Was estimated at 1,000,000 lire. ! sold in bottles. NEW LIQUOR BILL HTSFACA. PLAN ‘House Ways and Means Group Favors One Administrator. By the Associated Press A confidential draft of a new Fed- eral liquor regulation bill, tentatively agreed upon by House Wa and Means Committee Democrats, yester- day rejected the administration’s pro- posal for a separate agency to succeed the Federal Alcohol Control Adminis- | tration. The new setup would be in the Treasury Department and called the Federal Alcohol Administration. As now drafted, the bill provides for one | administrator. When the committee meets tomorrow to decide upon re- porting it to the House, a compromis2 from F. A. C. A. officials to create a board of three in the Treasury will be considered. Representative Fuller, Democrat, of Arkansas, said the compromise pro- posal would be considered, but that the committee would insist that actions of the administration would have to be passed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury whether there were one or three administrators. Bulk Sales Still Unsettled. The issue between the Treasury, F. A. C. A officials and the Ways and Means Committee over bulk sales of liquor in barrels and kegs has not been settled definitely. However, the draft of the bill provides that bulk | sales could be made to distillers and rectifiers and to wholesalers who clas- sified as rectifiers. This, a committee member said yesterday, would meet the Treasury's objection that it would cost more to collect revenue from wholesale tlers. The matter of selling whisky in bulk to retailers has yet to be deter- mined. The Treasury wants ail liquor Committee members charged this created a monopoly for the bottling industry, hurt the co- operative industry, and thereby caused increased liquor prices. In a confidential print of another bill proposed by the Treasury provid- ing rules and regulations for collect- | ing revenue on liquor, the committee | struck out a provision declaring in- toxicating all liquor containing over 1, of 1 per cent alcohol. Two years ago the committee, in approving the Cullen beer act, declared that 4 per cent alcohol by volume in beverages ‘Wwas non-intoxicating. Tax Held for Revenue Only. The committee contends that it is not taxing intoxicating liquor but beer, ale, wine, whisky, brandy, et cetera, for revenue, regardless of the quantity of alcohol they contain. This matter was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which ruled in a bill guaranteeing Federal protection to dry States under the twenty-first amendment that bever- ages containing alcohol 3.2 per cent by weight or 4 per cent by volume was non-intoxicating. HUNDREDS FLEE LIONS DARLINGTON, England, July 6 (#).—Hundreds of persons ran for their lives in the streets of Darlington today after mischievous youths re- leased three young lions at a caraival. Two of the lions were quickly recap- tured, but the third, after touring the town, broke into a house. Occupants locked themselves in the bath room. The animal finally was cornered and captured. bot- | MUSSOLINI FIRES ITALY T0 HASTEN PREPARATION FOR NEWTABLE” WA |“Decided on Struggle, Will | Not Turn Back,” He Cries Before 15,000 Black Shirts Headed for Africa. 'AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE ETHIOPIA Most of U. S. Missionaries Living in Troubled Zone to Stay at Posts Despite Warning—Selas- sie, Spurned by State Depart. ment, Turns to Britain for Aid. Copyrigh 5, by ROME, July 6 cry from Benito A ringing battle Mussolini’s lips Italy tonight as the turned heart and soul to preparaticns for the war with Ethi- opia now believed inevitable. Before nearly 15.000 Blackshirt vol. unteers destined for service in East Africa, who gathered at the Salerno today, 11 Duce, cheered to the echo, declared: We have decided upon a struggle in which we as a government and a people will not turn back. The de- cision is irretrievable ociated Press ) | echoed through I country | | Speaks From Cannon Top. A cannon top, significantly, was Il Dace’s rostrum for his fight and the throng of eager-faced y | of kinsmen. They were of the battalion from Forli, the pre- mier’s home town. In Rome the lead- er's two aviator sons. Vittorio and ! Bruno, signed up for African service. The Forli unit, with three other Blackshirt and two regular army di- visions, went over equipment tonight in expectation of speedy departure for the African adventure. Meaawhile, the steamer Celio left | Naples with 22 officers and 600 men aboard, while the Principessa Maria | began loading 40 officers and 1,350 men for departure tomorrow Total Reaches 130,000, | The Naples sailing. together with the troops scheduled to put out from Salerno, will push well past 130.000 men the army Italy has concentrated in her African colonies for hostilities | expected to begin after the rainy sea- son ends in September Special transports have 107.000 soldiers and workmen may be converted into soldiers 10,000 more have gone on mail boats They carried with them the most | astounding military equipment Africa has ever seen—flame throwers, gas outfits, the latest thing in tanks and airplanes and equipment for covering vast areas with chemicals designed to burn bare feet of Emperor Haile Selassie’s soldie Mediation Rejected. | While Fascists rejoiced at Mussolini's | escape from harm when lightning struck the wireless antennae of his big three-motor airship while it was fighting its way down through an electrical storm to the little West Coast town, authoritative sources here reiterated that Italy neither wanted nor would accept mediation of her conflict with Ethiopia Once again they declared the matter one to be seitled—and settled once for all—directly between Italy and | Ethiopia. Italy wants no half settle- ment such as territorial concessions they said. If Haile Selassie is willing to ask Italy to assume an armed protectorate over his country. these sources said then war may be avoided. If not, war is certain. “Italy Always Victorious.” Nothing daunted by his near disaster, Il Duce was in top oratorical | form as he told his massed fighting men the die was cas “Remember,” he said, “that Italians | have always defeated the black races. | Adua (where an Italian invading force | was badly beaten by ill-equipped, but numerically superior, Ethiopian de- fenders in 1896) was an exception | only because of the difference in pro- portion between the forces. There were only 14,000 Italians against 100.- | 000 Ethiopians." | Declaring the earlier Ethiopian | conflict unfortunate for Italy because | she was less concerned about her sol- le questions carried who About weekly | diers than with “muse of Parliament”—an iastitution his | Fascist rcgime has virtually aban- doned—Mussolini continued: “Italy today is rewriting an heroic page of her history.” He asserted the entire nation was “behind her sons who are leaving for Africa,™ and paraphrased the “(Gontinued on Page 5, Column 6.) 'WRITES OBITUARY AS DEATH WAITS Police Thicart 20-Story Leap, Thrill Crowd in Halting Suicide Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, July 6—Noon day crowds in sweltering East Forty-sec- ond street were .chilled for about 10 minutes today as they watched a man weave along the brim of a 20- story building until rescued by police. Jobless for two years, Morris Sand- ler, 35 years old, of Brooklyn, came perilously near ending his frustrated life and swelling the suicide list that annually reaches its peak during the first hot spell of Summer. With his back to the street and his arms threshing the air, Sandler side- stepped along the roof ledge of the Bartholomew Building until he had ¢’ cleared a setback and reached a point where the building fell sheer to the | root of a cafeteria 18 floors blow. Occupants of a building across the street saw Sandler and telephoned the police. Just 90 seconds later Patrolman Peter J. O'Rourke and De- tective Louis Serrett held Sandler in conversation while the detective ap- proached slowly and dragged him to | safety. At the police station Sandler :aid he had been a patient last year at Neurological Hospital at the Medical Center. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation. 4 Man of 84, Told He Is Soon to Die, Pens History of Life and Expires. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 6.—Martin Becker, 84, for 20 years a redemption clerk in the county clerk's office, was told by his physicians today that he had | only a few hours to live. “Bring me a paper and pen so I can write my own obituary,” he re- quested. With his son-in-law, Police~ ms Edward O'Malley, guiding his hand, he slowly wrote out a brief his- tory of his life, beginning with his birth in Pomerania, Germany, on September 25, 1850, His task completed, he told O'Mal- ley to take the paper to a Chicago newspaper “that I hape read for 40 years.” He dropped into a deep sleep. A half hour later he was dead.