Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1935, Page 5

UNION PICKETING JAILS FIVE: MEN Sixth Is Taken to Hospital After Outbreak in Jackson, Miss. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss, July 30.—Five men were jailed and a sixth was car- ried to a hospital today following the first serious outbreak of labor union picketing here on construction proj- ects. Five pickets of the Central Labor Union of Jackson, protesting the em- ployment of non-union labor in the construction of a gasoline filling sta- tin, were arrested, police reported, after engaging in & fight with Sam Mason, construction superintendent. Mason was severely beaten about the face and shoulders. Carried to the hospital for emergency treatment, his wounds were dressed and he was later discharged. ‘ The five labor union men arrested | and charged with assault and battery | were booked as C. W. Tuner, Eddie Stanley, H. B. Hatfield, A. L. Poole and J. L. Armstrong. Mason, the construction superin- | tendent, who allegedly was assaulted, | was charged with disturbing the peace. B CLOTHING FIRED AS MAN SLEEPS Victim Tells of Waking Flames in Virginia Moun- tain Home. By the Associated Press. HARRISONBURG, Va. July 30.— Deputy Sherif S. F. Newman of Grottoes, Rockingham County, today looked for Augusta County authori- ties to arrest a man whom Matt Goens, 38-year-old mountaineer, said poured an inflammable fluld on his clothes and fired them while he lay asleep Friday night. The incident occurred at Goens’ home in Augusta County, the moun- taineer, badly burned and suffering from exposure, told the deputy. Goens 1s now at the home of a brother-in- law, Dan Rannells, in Grottoes. Newman quoted Goens as saying he was alone at his home in the Black Rock Spring section of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 2 miles from here, when he awakened with his clothes blazing. Though the skin on his back was burned almost completely off, in Goens said he tried to make his way | to a neighbor’s house for aid. How- ever, he collapsed in the woods, where he was found Sunday night. Goens was in such serious condi- tion last night when he first told his story to Newman he could not recite | all details of the affair, but did tell the officer the man he charged deliber- ately fired his clothing. bodied seamen. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1935. A Woman Takes the Helm Anna Schetinina, one of the many Russian women who have taken to the sea under the Stalin regime, is shown as she prepared to take the steamer Chavicha out of the port of Odessa as its captain. Despite her 27 years she is an able sea veteran and commander of a crew of 30 able- —Wide World Photo. RELIEF CORPORATION Food, Wool Cotton and Cloth Distributed by Surplus Agency. | By the Associated Press. | Harry L. Hopkins' Federal Surplus Relief Corp., agency for distributing food and clothing prepared in relief | workshops, did a big business in June, the administrator has revealed. The corporation shipped 40,676,002 pounds of beef alone during the month. The relief diet: 4,525,822 pounds of mutton, 7,610,078 pounds of veal, 19,097,953 pounds of beef. 6,772,736 1 pounds of hamburger, 1,515,120 pounds | of beef stew, 191,127 pounds of ground | beef, 59,940 pounds of hash. In addition there were large quan- tities of sirup, wool, cotton and cloth | for mattresses and ticking, as well as | 603,800 containers for the dried milk | which 4s supplied those on relief. The meat came mostly fron. cattle | and sheep bought by the Farm Admin- istration to relieve distress in the | Middle Western drought area. Autos May Take Place. Automobiles may replace the popu- lar two-humped camels for transpor- ! tation in Jehol Provincs of China. Store hours, 9 to 6 Close at 2 P.M. Saturdays during July and August Semi-An nual Sale A store-wide clearance of fine merchandise. Deep reductions in every department. Take advantage of these exceptional values while stocks are fairly complete. Year 'Round Clothing (1) Glenbrook Suits and Topcoats, $19.50 Were $25 and $27.50 (2) Richard Prince Suits and Topcoats. ...........524.50 Were $30 and $35 (3) Fashion Park Suits and Topcoats. . . Were $40 and $45 '(4) Fashion Park Suits and Topcoats. . Were $5 Tropical 0 to $60 38 Clothing (1) Imported Irish Linen Suits. . . .$1].75 Were $15 and $16.50—All Models and Sizes (2) Glenbrook Tropical Suits.. . . .$16.75 Were $20 and $25—Large Assortment Available (3) Pure Worsted Sports Trousers . . $6.95 Were $8 to $15 Smart Stripes and Checks; White Flannels Haberdashery—Straw Hats— Shoes 35¢ and 50c Fancy Hose. ..... . . Pastel Shades and Dark Colors 296 75c and $1.00 Silk Neckwear. . . . . . . 50, $1.50 and $2.00 Silk C 3 for $1.75 Neckwear. . .. .98¢ 3 for $2.75 $2.50, $3 and $3.50 Silk Neckwear . . $1.39 3 for $4 $2 and $2.50 Mode Shirts. . .. .....$]1.59 $4.50 3 1o Plain and Fancy—Collar Attached o White also with neckband 75¢ French-back Shorts . . ........45¢ Also Lisle Undershirts $1.75 and $2 Pajamas. . . .$1.39 3 for $4 $1.50 & $2 Rockinchair Union Suits, $3 to $10 Straw Hats. $1.10.51.50 All Stiff, Panamas, Leghorns, Bangkoks $5.50 to $8.50 Whitehall Shoes, $4.45-$5.85 Sports and Black and Tan * Open & charge account. Month- ly settlements—or arrange set- tlements on our convenient 12- Payment Plan. Free parking on Auto City Parking Lot—next to Columbia ‘Theater on 12th St.—while shopping here: The Mode—F at Eleventh DOES BIG BUSINESS | 20,000 SEE NEW STORE 80 Employed as Crowds Swamp Peoples Drug Establishment. More than 20,000 persons Visited the new People's Drug Store, Eleventh and G streets, yesterday and an even larger crowd is expected today, ace cording to M. B. Fetzer, manager. So great have been the crowds that, although the store opened only yes- terday, 11 new employes have been added to the sales Jorce. Seven were added yesterday and four more today, making a total of 80 waitresses and salesmea. ‘The new store handles approximate- ly 15,000 varieties of articles. It includes a soda fountain 200 feet long and tables and counter will seat 347 persons. There is a basement res- taurant end balcony tea room. A feature of the basement is a minia- ture radio studio for Arch McDonald'’s sport broadcasts. L\l Fishing Party Planned. Plans for a fishing party for mem- bers of the Brotherhood of the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation are be- ing made by Allen V. De Ford, presi- dent, and a committee composed of Norman Kal, Lee Pretzfelder and Burnett Baer. The party is to make its headquarters at Bowen's Inn, Solo- mons Island, Md., August 2¢ and 25. TWO MENINGITIS DEATHS REPORTED Montgomery Girls in Sep- arated Areas Stricken by Dread Disease._ By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 30.—With two deaths from spinal meningitis re- ported in as many days, State and county health officials were taking steps today to prevent any general out- break of the dreaded and highly-con- tagious disease in Montgomery Gounty. The first fatality was learned yester- day when the county health depart- ment was informed of the death of Virginia Mott, 14, at her home in Brookeville after being ill for less than 24 hours. Dorothy Turner, colored, 18, of Buck Lodge, died of the disease at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington last night. The first symptoms, physicians said, appeared on Sunday and she was rushed to the hospital that evening. Attending physicians are assisting Dr. Halliday in the absence of Dr. V. L. Ellicott, head of the Montgomery Health Department, who is vacation- ing in Pennsylvania. . N ‘The doctors in the Turner and Mott cases are taking precautionary meas- ures to prevent any spread and have ordered’ persons who came into con- tact with the two girls to undergo daily examination to determine if the contracted the disease. The Mott girl, daughter of Richard Mott, a Federal employe working in ‘Washington, became ill Priday night end grew worse steadily until Satur- day night, when she died, despite the continuous efforts of two doctors to save her life, Ethiopia (Continued From Pirst Page.) French Somaliland to insure neutral- ity in the event of a conflict between Italy and Ethiopia. Authoritative sources said fear that native sympathizers for Ethiopia at Djibouti, French Somaliland, might get out of hand, prompted the order. OBSTACLES FACE GENEVA. England Only Member Likely to Urge Forceful Action, (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, July 30.—The League of Nations confronted obstacles today in its apparent program of speaking soft- ly and moving gently in the impasse between Italy and Ethiopia. League circles said England appeared to be the only member of the Council likely to call for forceful action at the momentous session tomorrow. Reports from Scandinavian states, however, indicated that those tions were following keenly the League’s handling of the dispute and were insistent that it should protect the interests of smaller nations, \ Any persistent temporizing in the East African problem, Geneva sources sald, might lead to difficulties at the September session of the League As- sembly and possibly even to threats of new resignations. England’s stand for the special Council session aroused widespread interest. . League circles generally conceded that a settlement on the basis-of dis- cussion of frontier incidents by the Italo-Ethiopian Conciliation Commis- sion would not strike at the roots of the dispute. REVOLT CONFIRMED. Htalian Somalis Strike Out for Ethio- pian Border. (Copyright. 1935, by the As: ADDIS ABABA, July 30— Authori- tative Ethiopian sources said they re- ceived confirmation today of reports of a revolt of a number of native Somalis in Italian Somaliland. A party of Italians, meanwhile, de- parted from Addis Ababa. Complete details of cud p) ! the uprising Previous reports, however, said the natives in Italy's colony of Italian So- maliland, southeast of this “last black empire,” had struck out for Ethiopia in the vicinity of Ualual, scene of a frontier incident. Meanwhile, Ethiopian troops, 10,000 strong and modernly equipped, marched away from the capital under the command of former Cabinet Min- ister Dedjazmatch Haptemikael. Strict military secrecy surrounded the troop movements. The war office declined to confirm reports that the field army from Southern Ethiopia was headed for the frontier of Eritrea, Italian colony to the Northeast. —_—————— WHITE OFFICERS RUSHED Selassie Urges Capetown Recruits Be Speeded to Ethiopia. CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, July 30 (#).—Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was said in a dispatch by the Reuters (British) News Agency today to have asked for the prompt dispatch to Ethiopia of white men being re- cruited here as officers for Ethiopian troops. ‘The agency said arrangements had been made to equip them and rush them by airplane to Ethiopia at an estimated cost of £200—about $1,000— each. It was said that instructions to en- list British subjects have been sent by the Emperor to Seyd Ahmed Berhar- dien, whom he has appointed as official Ethiopian representative in Capetown. AMNESIA VICTIM FOUND John J. erbu, 49, of Baltimore was returned to his home last night after a policeman fcund him in Union Sta- tion, apparently a vicitim of amnesia. He said he could remember nothing since Friday. Relatives were notified and a na- | brother-in-law came to Washington last night to take Serbu home. O% gooa’ czgfarelz‘c, loo needs Pralance— And that's why the tobaccos in Chesterfield are carefully balanced one against the other...not too much of one—not too little of another. We take the right amounts of the right kinds of four types of to- bacco — Bright, Burley, Marylan and Turkish. It is ¢his balancing of tobaccos that makes Chesterfields milder and makes them taste better. On the Ethiopian Front Italian Soldiers Are Enthusiastic About Fighting for Glory Mussolini Hopes to Bring Italy in African This is the second of a series of #i3 dispatches in which a well known French author and journalist describes the tour she has just completed of the frontier provinces of Ethiopia and Italian Eritrea, telling of the military preparations and the temper of the natives and of her meeting with Ras Seyoum, ruler and leader of the first line of Ethiopian warriors. By Mail. BY MARCELLE PRAT. ADDI QUALA, Eritrea (NANA). —The day I was ready to start for the Ethiopian frontier the rains began. The car arrived, however, and we began the ascent among precipices and mountains that rose sheer to the sky. In the valleys the streams began to fill with a khaki flood. We faced & climb with 1,300 hairpin bends. As far as the eye could reach were cars or trucks loaded with native soldiers, which swung around curves and drove you to the very edge of precipices; camel caravans, strings of mules and lorries which carried spirit, rations and guns to the frontiers. The earth was fantastic, and the trains themselves were fantastic. Un- real. Donkeys moved obstinately ahead of us, slowing us down to walking pace for hours. To right or left they would not budge. Climb 10,000 Feet. ‘The pebbles kept up a continuous fusillade on the metal of the car. The bends increased. The chasms grew steadily deeper. We had climbed about 10,000 feet, and I was in a hurry to arrive at my first stop. Addi Quala, and fine black fellows sumptuously appareled. I went ahead of those tall shadows who were in the seventh heaven of pride because they carried rifles, to pay my visit to the official Italian residence. I was to stay several days there. i The rain beat on the iron roof. The electric light failed. All around the garden jackals and hyenas howled. The faint light of a candle threw | strange shadows on the wall. Three young fellows in black shirts, Italian soldiers, sat around me. “Have you been here long?” I asked them. “Only three months.” “And you are happy?” Careers Abandoned. “Our lives are not our own. We are a part of the army, and when Mus- solini issues a command we leave ev- erything to obey. The interests of | our country are greater than our pri- vate interests. In coming here, our careers have to be abandoned, the mills which we controlled have been closed down. But what does that matter? So long as Il Duce wishes it to be 50, that is all we want to know.” Arms crossed on their breasts, their Campaign. Among them speech was not dis- guised; one darel to use the word “war.” ““You think that war with Ethiopia will come 00n?” Their eyes turned heavenward; they smiled. “Just now we are in a truce, a truce imposed by God. We are in the rainy season. N can be done!” “But it will be a terribly difficult undertaking?” Ready for Anything. “With men enough, everything is possible. Mussolini has promised us & more glorious future. Besides, his subjects are ready to endure anything if only they can bring back to him the trophies of success. We shall flcl:’tluaere llw we fought during the rev on. ‘e shall through to victory.” e “And you do not long for, the life in Italy?” e One of them looked at me, and quo;e: Mussolini. “There are days which pass with- out leaving a trace in the monotonous succession. These are the gray days, days spent under gray skies, monot- onous and banal. And there are the | days of storm, outstanding days, days | of tumult, days of creation and days of destruction; there are days that are worth years!” At last leaving this little sf place, he pushed on Anm,wglzuemf and closer to the frontier. Finally one of my Fascist friends helped me down from the car. The rest of the way would be made on foot, since the road was not prac- ticable for the motor. We reached the summit of a mountain. Huge tents, large enough to house a Zep- pelin, were ranged side by side, Boy of 17 Mascot. Black Shirts formed on either side, making an avenue for us, their arms | raised in salute. They were engaging youngsters, bronzed and smiling. Some one summoned the youngest, that he | might be presented td me. He was small, lean, bashful; a boy of 17, who had volunteered for service. When | I spoke to him he blushed, not daring | to reply; he was the mascot of the regiment, they told me. It was all youth, tender youth, and courage. I could not prevent a shud- der when I thought that these lads | were at the very gates of the frontier. “We are the van,” they told me. “That is an honor which Mussolini has paid us, and for which we m} grateful.” A little way off, not many kilo- meters, the mauve peaks of Ethiopia's mountains pierced the sky. They looked peaceful enough in the deep- ening twilight. Their heavier shadows looked heavy with mystery. Yet here were hundreds of young | | * A5 an army could be checked, how such spirit could be broken. - Every day of this preparation fs, costing Italy milions. What is she lhlltnngtodohjufltyfillw (Copyright. 1935. i Newiouner Allisnos. Tae J meriees, COUNTY ASKS BIDS ON SEWAGE PLANT Alro Calls for Estimates on Re- surfacing 90 Miles of Streets. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., July 30.—Bids were asked for today by the Arlington County Board for the construction of a sewage-disposal plant and for resurfacing about 90 miles of streets. Proposals for the disposal plan, es- timated to cost $150,000, and for re- surfacing 60 miles of streets torn up by the laying of sewer mains, are to be submitted on September 323, while proposals for 30 miles of streets are to be opened August 12. FIRECRACKER FROM SKY Lightning Bolt Blasts Shoe on Girl's Foot. NESPELEM, Wash. (#).—Lightning struck the home of Columbia Joe, an Indian who lives north of here, Cecil Joe, his daughter, was knocked unconscious, her foot was burned and the shoe torn apart, as Joe put it, like a firecracker burst inside. There was no other damage. 6 FISHERMEN TELL THIS 153-Pound Alligator Gfar Takes From Creek. OKTAHA, Okla. (#).—Not one, but six fisheman swore by this story, and brought along the catch to prove it “It” was an alligator gar that weighed 153 pounds. The six took- it in Dredy Creek, near Muskogee, after shooting at it with a rifie for more than two hours. WE SOLICIT CONSIGNMENTS OF ART OBJECTS, PAINTINGS, SIL- VERWARE, JEWELRY, AN- TIQUE AND MODERN FUR- NITURE, ORIENTAL RUGS, TAPESTRIES, ETC., FROM EXECUTORS AND ADMIN- ISTRATORS OF ESTATES, RECEIVERS IN BANKRUPT- CY, ATTORNEYS, STORAGE WAREHOUSES AND PRI- VATE INDIVIDUALS. 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