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ROAD DEATH TOLL - THIN 15 MONTHS Defense Highway’s Black Record of Agony Spurs Improvement Drive. Another blast at Defense (“Death”) Highway was fired today when police disclosed that its “criminal record” was one of the blackest in the State— fatalities have occurred on its treach- erous surface at the rate of almost one & month for the past 15 months. Fourteen deaths in 15 months is the notorious record against the highway which public sentiment demands must be widened at once. “The life-blood of those 14 inno- cent souls, three of them nuns, will have been spilled in vain unless the authorities recognize that the contia- ued operation of the highway in its present condition is a menace,” State’s Attorney . Alan Bowie of Prince Georges County said. Many Death Traps. The victims, however, may become martyrs, he said, if the authorities can be impressed with the magnitude | of the death list, resolve to check 'he rate at which it is growing and abolish the road’s many “death traps” through widening. Having directed the police investi- gations of all the accidents; none of which resulted in the conviction of drivers involved, Bowie and those who | have served on coroner’s juries are convinced the responsibility for the fatalities lies chiefly in the structure of the road. When it is borne in mind that for every fatality there are at least 100 persons injured, the amount of human agony that has re- sulted from accidents on the highway becomes even more impressive. Every milepost along the treacherous curves marks the spot where some tragedy occurred. Officials Awakened. Their mute appeal for a better, wider, straighter highway has awaken- ed county and State officials to the need for converting “Death Highway™ into one of life and security. Eloquent of the necessity for im- mediate action is the bulky file of fatal accident reports in the Laurel State police station. So much like any other file of letters, and yet so different—it constitutes a record of human calamity which citizens and officials feel cannot be brushed aside with a mere “no funds available to build the road now” | excuse, There could be no better use for money than to improve “Death High- ‘Way” to prevent a doubling or trebling in the next 15 months of this record of fatalities: May 23, 1933—F. A. Anderson of Jacksonville, Fla., killed when his car ‘went off one of the treacherous curves near Bladensburg and struck a tree. Man and Wife Killed. June 27, 1933—-Mr. and Mrs. George Harvel, 2109 Water street, killed on the curve near Trinity Church, May 30, 1934—J. C. Duke, 3945 Connecticut avenue, killed near Priests Bridge. July 22, 1934—Everett C. Passeno, 1226 G street northeast, killed near Priests Bridge. August 24, 1934—Margaret J. Cal- lahan, Baltimore, killed near Trinity Church. November 15, 1934—William Edward Carrill of Elisia, Md., killed near Col- lington. May 20, 1935—Thomas E. Mohler of Tuxedo, Md., killed near Bladens- burg. June 19, 1935—Annie Dorsey, col- ored, Fairmont Heights, killed near Lanham. August 20, 1935—John McCarthy, 626 Quebec place; Sister Mary Ber- nard, Sister Frances Gabriel, Sister ‘Winifred Jean and Miss Winifred Slaven, killed near Trinity Church curve, e NO WORK, NO RELIEF, JOHNSON’S EDICT Final Warning Issued for Those Refusing W. P. A. Jobs in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24—A fort- right and bristling policy of nc work no relief was shaped -last night by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Federal works progress administrator, in an effort to Zpeed up the transfer of unemployed on home relief to W. P. A. jobs. The general’s program, evolved after conference with city and Federal offi- cials, calls for court action and pos- sible jall sentence against family heads who decline jobs where ‘the wel- fare of dependents is involved. The W. P. A. policy, coming after much speculation as to the relief sta- tus of W. P. A. strikers, boils down to an edict of work or go hungry for those who would prefer workless home relief to sweating on a W. P. A, job for their relief money. Delegates Named. SILVER SPRING, Md., August 24 (Special) —Joseph C. Cissel, L. T. Faulconer and H. 8. Giusta have been elected delegates from Cissel-Saxon Post, American Legion, to the annual State convention September 4-7 at Ocean City. Alternates are R. M. Mc- Donald, George Tighlman and Thur- man Metcalf. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES. £ADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA PREFERRED DIVID] Notice is hereby given that the followin dividend has been leclared by the board of directors On the outstanding shares of the “A’ preferred stock (including shares of “A” preferred stock represented by outstanding unexchanged certificates of originel pre: of ree quarters % third qusrter of the year 1935. amount- ing to 87% cents per share, payable on October 1st. 1935, to holders of record of gaid, stock at the close of business on the of September. 1935. tock transfer books will not be sed. Dividend checks will be mailed. Gl E 8. DESOUSA, Treasurer. Dated August 23, 1935. CHES. 3.00! and Elbertas, 2 R. 20. G. J. TH )AILY TRIPS MO' to_and '“I“'% 0 BU.. GEORGIA BELLE ‘miles north of Colesville, (OMPSON, Ashton 25-P-23. TA BELLE PEACHES AT QUAINT ACRES Choice white freestones for canning, pre- serves, etc. - Bilver !vfl’:.l-éuluvflh Dike, te 2. Note detour o PEACHES — PEACHES ROCKVILLE FRUIT FARM. R B A S A BEAL F‘I'J“.NERA Au $75 EE B tremendous | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935. Bottleneck Beginning of “Death Highway” MOONEY WITNESS Intersection of the Baltimore Boulevard and.Defense Highway in Bladensburg, scene of weekly traffic tie-ups, which, together with the many “death traps” along the highway, would be abolished under s plan to widen the road and construct a cut-off through Kenilworth avenue advocated by Maryland officials. ALCOHOL CONTRO BILPASSESHOSE Conference Report, Called “Surrender to Lobby,” Is Approved. Although it was described as a “sur- ESpain’s Air Attache Sees World War Balked by Aviation | | Statesmen Know Civiliza- tion Would Be Doomed, Says Franco. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24—Col. Ra- mon Franco, Spanish revolutionist, | render to the liquor and glass botlle';nd that country's first air attache | lobby,” the conference report on the |to the United States, believes progress | Federal alcohol control bill was ap- | of aviation has made a new world war | proved today by the House. | improbable. Senate acceptance will make the| «Old World statesmen all know a measure ready for transmisison to the new war would mean destruction of President. our civilization from the air,” Franco The critic was Representative Fuller, cajd today upon his arrival here en Democrat, of Arkansas, who objected | route to Washington. that the final draft forbids the sale of liquor in bulk and exempted breweries from Federal control. “After this bill has been in effect a | while,” Fuller told the House, “we will have a bigger liquor scandal than we ever had before prohibition.” Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee denied Fuller's accusations, remarking that breweries would be subject to State laws. The deadlock which threatened to | block passage of the bill this session | was broken when the conferees reached an agreement late yesterday. Their compromise was a partial vic- tory for each House. The Senate's victory lay in elimina- tion of the House provision which permitted the sale of liquor in kegs and barrels. Some legislators held such sales would throw the door open to illicit practices, though others con- tended the present set-up in the bottled goods trade led to high prices which spurred bootlegging. In return for the concession by Ouse members, Senate conferees agreed to permit the new Alcohol Commission to function as a division of the Treasury instead of as an in- dependent agency as provided when the bill originally passed the Senate. trol of beer, but with an added pro- vision that Federal beer regulation should extend only to such States as have laws as stringent as Federal laws. A Senate amendment providing for collecting internal revenue taxes from retailers was struck out. Smashing of the log-jam brought satisfaction to friends of the meas- ure on both sides of the Capitol. For weeks the bill had seemed hopelessly mired by the dispute over sale of bulk liquor to hotels and clubs. Only this week the House Ways and Means Committee voted, 20 to 4, to insist permitting the bulk sales. But shortly after Charles West, former House member and now presidential liaison ma1, conferred with commit- tee Democrats yesterday, the group agreed to yield. ‘The new liquor control is a substi- tute for one that fell with N. R. A. Slaying (Continued From First Page.) was abandoned. The dogs were brought from Lorton. Brush was last seen alive about 3 p.m. by John Vandermark, a farmer, who occupies adjoining property. The aged man was walking about his place, and it is believed he started a few moments later for Hummer's home, where he read the papers every day. Hummer found him at 6:30 p.m. lying on the pathway, covered over with undergrowth and bushes, his head mashed in by a big rock. Hummer immediately called Sergt. Alton Shumate of Falls Church and county police and Dr. C. A. Ransom, coroner of Fairfax County, issued a certificate of “death at the hands of & person or persons unknown.” Brush’s house, an old, ramshackled place of three rcoms, had been ran- sacked. The living quarters contained an old bed without any bedclothing, a wood stove and a number of empty food cans. Three cats were found sleeping on the bed today. Brush was the son of Truman Brush, sr., who came to Fairfax almost a 100 years ago. A brother, John, died a number of years ago. He has a niece, Mrs. Jeanette Williams, liv- ing in Washington. Because little was known of the recluse’s affairs a legend has grown up around the country, police said, that he had a large sum of money hidden in the old house. Sheriff Kirby said he was convinced that some one in the Falls Church district had decided to rob the old man and had waylaid him on his way to Hummer's house. Two colored suspects were appre- hended this morning by Sergt. Shu- mate, but were released after ques- tioning. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. FIRST JAIL IN-20 YEARS GRASS VALLEY, Calif., August 24 (P)—Grass Valley opened its new jail yesterday—the first one it has had Lode gold mining district, sold the site of the old jail to a hotel in 1915. In recent years, while the population was increasing from 4,000 to 6,000, the law-breakers were jailed in neagby towns. Senators also agreed to permit con- | “The speed and range of bombing | planes and their numbers make it im- | ‘poslhl: to prevent their swift attacks on centers of industry and communi- cation. attacked can only retaliate by raids 'of their own. Modern European au-‘! forces can render ineffective the most | powerful army by crippling its move- ments. “This is especially true in Europe.' | The United States, lacking enemies | at her borders, still regards aviation | | more as a defensive than as an of- | femsive weapon. Progress here is in commercial flying, in which the vast extent of the country is a great ad- | vantage in eliminating duplication of | organization and international regu- ! | lations.” REVOVAL DELAYED | FOR ROGERS' BODY homa for at Least Month or Two, Says Son. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 24.—Will Rogers, jr., indicated last night it would be & month or two before his father’s body is taken to his native Oklahoma for burial. “All our plans in that regard are very indefinite,” he said. “We are trying to get mother away for a few weeks' rest, but it may be some time before this can be done. There is so much around here that keeps reminding her of dad.” The Twentieth Century-Fox studios, where most of Rogers’ pictures were made, announced a new $200,000 sound stage now under construction ‘would be named the Will Rogers Stage and a bronze plaque placed over the entrance. Rogers’ body reposes in a mauso- leum receiving vault at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, about which an estimated 100,000 persons jammed while it lay in state before funeral services yesterday. MEMORIAL MAY BE AT CAPITOL. Oklahoma Considers Monuments on Grounds. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 24 (#)—The Oklahoma Capitol grounds was proposed last night as a site for permanent, home State memorials to ‘Will Rogers and Wiley Post. A committee of Oklahoma City busi- ness men will confer with Gov. E. W. Marland Monday and ask him to ap- point & commission having State-wide representation to assume direction of the movement. CROSSON FLIES TO SEE BOY. Spans Half of Coniinent to Visit Son of Old Friend. CHICAGO, August 24 (#).—Joe Crosson, pilot of the funeral plane which brought the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post home from Alaska, flew half way across the con- tinent yesterday for a three-hour visit with® the orphaned son of an old friend. ‘The boy, 6-year-old Donald Edward ‘Young of Menominee, Mich., greeted Crosson with a man-sized handshake at the municipal airport and then de- parted with him for a “real long chat” at a downtown hotel. Donald’s father, Edward Young, was killed in September of 1933 while fly- ing with Crosson for the Alaskan Air- ways. A few months later his mother died. Until April of 1934 Donald mained in the Northwest, the “pal” of Crosson and other flyers. Then he returned to Michigan to live with an uncle, James Young. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN TRAIN SCHEDULES FROM WASHINGTON Not to Be Taken to Okla-| STEEL AND AUTOS FAGE LABOR BOARD New Relations Body Begins Work—Wagner Act Cov- erage in Doubt. By the Associated Press. Whether the Nation’s largest indus- tries such as steel and automobiles are covered by the Wagner labor disputes act will be one of the first major issues io face the new Labor Relations Board. Two members of the new board- CALLS AT CAPITOL McDonald Makes Affidavit to Convince President of -Peijury. ‘With John McDonald, self-accused perjurer in the Mooney case, in the Capital, en effort is being made to interest President Roosevelt in his story that he was forced to testify against Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, serving life for the Prepared- ness day bombing in San Francisco 19 years ago. McDonald, partly paralyzed, came here yesterday from Baltimore where, for 10 months, he has been in the poor ward of the City Hospital. At the office of Representative Caroline O'Day, Democrat, of New York, he made an affidavit, which he is hopeful of getting before the President, in which he said he is “willing end anxious to go back to California and serve time for the wrong I have done Mooney and Billings.” The document amplified: “At the time, I was forced to per- jure myself against Mooney and Bill- ings while in the clutches of Charles Pickert, Ed Cuhna and of a lot of cops. I never saw Mooney till the cops took me to his cell after the Pre- paredness day explosion.” McDonald came into the limelight several years ago when he first re- pudiated his testimony against Mooney | and Billings. The newest affidavit was made after he went to the capital in company of John Jenkins, chair- man of the local Mooney Defense Committee, to seek ald in bringing the case to the attention of the Presi- dent. Mrs. O'Day said she had already Mooney as have cther members of Congress. written to the President in behalf of | “] Was Forced to Lie” John McDonald (seated), who says he gave perjured testimony against ‘Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, prepares an affidavit in the case, which he hopes to get before President Roosevelt. chairman of the local Mooney Defense Committee, and Alice B. Norton, notary public. Ethiopia (Continued Prom First Page.) the outside world in the event of & bombardment. The Emperor ordered the capital LAW ON UTILITIES RUSHED 10 BOOKS Two Houses Struggle to With him are John Jenkins, ~—Assoclated Press Photo. Britain (Continued From First Page.) is the most defenseless of all the great powers. Our defcnses—weaker than they've ever been since Britain's name Enact Compromise Be- fore Quitting. By the Associated Press. Administration leaders praised and foes condemned the utilities bill to- day as the Senate and House rushed along toward enactment of the com- promise measure before adjournment. After weeks of struggling, conferees representing the two branches reached an agreement on all points yesterday, including the highly controversial sec- tion calling for abolition of certain holding companies. Quick approval of the conference report by the Senate and House was forecast. The bill then goes to the ‘White House for signing by President Roosevelt, who urged the compromise. The Senate had voted mandatory ebolition by 1942 of holding companies deemed “unnecessary.” The House decided to give the Securities Com- mission discretionary sauthority in ebolishing them. The compromise would permit the imposition of two holding companies on one “integrated system” of operating companies serv- ing adjacent territories. Victory is Argued. Who won—the Senate or the House—in the tug-of-war over the holding company issue was still a lively subject in the post mortem ex- amination that followed acceptance of the compromise. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, co-author of the Senate bill, was highly pleased. He said: “If any one can see a victory in city divided into zones, each in charge meant anything.” of a judicial officer directing Lhe} Faint hopes that Premier Musso- movement of thousands of mules, lini might at least slow up his troop horses and wagons, mobilized to assist movements to East Africa as a result in the evacuation. of the British cabinet’s emergency The dense forest of eucalyptus trees session this week were dashed with a enshrouding the outer fringes of Addis report from Rome that Italy's biggest Ababa will afford a protective screen | consignment of troops on one ship— to the thousands of natives who will | 4,500 men—was embarking today in & this, it is hardly one for the utilities people. No measure has ever gene so far toward regulating holding com- panies and eliminating them when they are unnecessary. It is & good bill.” Power officials, who led the long fight against the legislation, con- demned the compromise. Philip H. Neutrality need to remain near the capital. Americans who plan to remain here (Continued From Pirst Page.) even in the casé of war, including Joseph W. Madden of Pittsburgh and | Edwin S. Smith of Boston—started work today after their appointment by President Roosevelt yesterday to administer the Wagner act. The third, John M. Carmody, will take office as soon as he returns from Air forces of the countries!the Pacific Coast, where he has been | [hlndlmg a case for the National Me- | diation Board. Carmody is a member of that board. Green Withholds Approval. Although he gave unqualified ap- proval of the appointment of Smith, a member of the old Labor Relations Board, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, | withheld indorsement of Madden and | Carmody pending investigation of their labor records. Green said, however, their qualifica- tions showed them “fitted to assume this most important post.” Leaders in the steel and automobile industries have indicated they in- tended to challenge the constitution- ality of the Wagner act as applied to them as soon as complaints against | them were filed. Green recently said such complaints would be registered as soon as the new board got down to work. ‘The Wagner act seeks to guarantee labor's freedom to join and to deal with employers through independent unions, but President Roosevelt said when he signed the measure that it was applicable “only when violation of the legal right of self-organization would burden or obstruct interstate commerce.” Records of Members. Madden, the new chairman, has been a law professor at & number of universities, including Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Chicago and Ohio. He was arbiter in a Pittsburgh street car an assistant attorney general in 1920. Carmody, an industrial engineer, has been by turn in recent years a mediator for the old National Labor Board, chairman of the Bituminous Coal Labor Board and chief engineer for the C. W. A. Smith, former labor commissioner in Massachusetts, was appointed to the Labor Relations Board more than a year ago. In recent weeks he has been setting up the machinery for the new board to start running. EX-MARINE AND TAXI ‘CAPTURE’ BATTALION First Blocks Highway Near Pine Camp—Then Tricks Whole Guard Unit. By the Associated Press. PINE CAMP, N. Y, August 24— The 1st Division was set back a half hour in its advance to wherever it was going yesterday by a taxicab and an ex-Marine, William H. Minor. Minor was transporting four sol- diers of the 43d Division, and he drove through a battalion of the 1st be- fore he was captured. They ordered him to turn around. He backed up and stalled his motor with the cab across the road. The road choked with artillery and no argument would budge the ex- Marine. They put him under guard and ordered hm to drive to 1st Divi- sion headquarters. The ex-Marine still had the situa- tion in hand—he knew the roads, the guards didn’t, and he took them to the 43d Division headquarters and made them prisoners. day comes to you missionaries, business men and cor- States has adopted a policy of mind- | respondents, will need to make special ! arrangements for protection frem air ing its own business, to keep out of | | European controversies, raids. European | | vessel built to accommodate 1,500 per- | wars and the like. The American Legaton is nearest sons. | The British foreign office has ! ciamped down on a proposed public appeal for funds to send medical aid to Ethiopia. Move to Protect Canal. Feeling that protection and control Gadsden, chairman of the Committee of Public Utility Executives, said: “It Is simply the original death sentence in another form.” Blow Seen to Investors. “By accepting it,” he asserted, “the House struck a blow at the millions of y lity of all diplomatic missions to the cen- of the Suez Canal is necessary to Americans who have invested in utility “It's a delightful time now to find | justification of the men who stood |firmly years ago for maintaining American security and keeping out of every foreign entanglement and svery European war,” Johnson said. Sympathy Given Consul. “Today marks the triumph of the | Determined to overlook no detail international isolationist and marks | in his effort to keep peace with Italy, the doom of the internationalist.” !the Emperor sent his secretary slosh- Johnson said the sponsors of the | ing through the mud of the capital's resolution had his “hearty sympathy” | streets to the Italian Legation to ex- for thelr “laudable desires,” but he | press his personal sympathy for Baron 1 ter of the city. The Italian Legation is 5 miles away, the British 4, and the French, German and Belgian 3. All | are scattered. | i said those who believed it would be | Muzzi Falconi, the Italian consul, labor dispute at one time, and also was | 2 means of preventing America from ; Who was critically injured by acci- becoming involved in a war Were “doomed to disappointment.” Connally followed Johnson and as- serted he would vote for the resolu- tion only because it was “at least a gesture in behalf of peace.” “This resolution itself does not mean peace,” he asserted. “I want real peace, but the surest way to | involve us in war is to tell the world we'll fight under no circumstances.” The resolution had been pressed through the House last night without a record vote, modified in accordance with the President’s request for the provision requiring that the manda- tory embargo on shipments of arms to belligerents shall terminate next February 29. The Senate originally had voted a permanent embargo. It was evident that some House lead- ers were opposed to the mandatory na- ture of the arms embargo. Chairman McReynolds of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which sent the measure why he objected to the mandatory feature. Finally, Representative Mav- erick, Democrat, of Texas, who wanted “this is the best we can get,” asked | McReynolds: “Are you for this bill or against it?” McReynolds then indorsed it. Scored By Wadsworth. Representative Wadsworth, Repub- lican, of New York, attacked the bill. He said by way of example, that “Italy is a great and powerful nation; Ethi- opia is utterly lacking in industrial resources.” To declare a mandatory embargo against both, he contended, would mean that “the weak should not be permitted to purchase weapons. “This is an open invitation to the great and powerful to attack the weak,” he said. Representative Knutson, Republi- can, of Minnesota remarked: “I won- der where we would be today if France had had such a law in 17762" Representative Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts argued it was wrong to pass & measure of such gravity with brief consideration. “Think of passing something in 40 minutes that may jeopardize the future of our country,” she said. “In the days to come we may regret our acticn.” However, when a vote was called for few “noes” were heard. WILL YOU LET US EXPLAIN WHY Have a world-wide reputation and are sold in 48 countries? Ralph J. Moore Coal Co. Phone Potomac 0970 . . delivery The very latest tad complete news of the in the last edition of The ° Star—the Night Final. The Night Final is printed at 6 p.m. and delivered to your home shortly thereafter for 55 cents a month (or, together with The Sunday Star, 70 cents a month). Call National 5000. Say you want the Night Final to be delivered reg ly to your home. Delivery will start Slar to the floor, explained at some lengtn . stronger legislation but said that| dental discharge of his son’s revolver on a hunting trip. A clean-up of beggars, lepers and others who have been seen in num- bers on the streets of Addis Ababa ' has been ordered to eliminate annoy- ' ances to foreigners and as part of a campaign for order and stricter polic- ing. While the Emperor, somewhat heartened by the news from London of the British cabinet’s stand, tried to | stave off hostilities, his capital and the surrounding plateau country shivered from unseasonable cold. The people struggled through streets turned into quagmires by torrential rains. For- eigners hurried to meagerly stocked stores seeking heavier clothing and rubber boots and clamored in the city market for firewood. LEAGUE MAY ATTACK ETHIOFIA. French Ask Il Duce to Air His Com- plaints, Give Ground for Action. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 24.—Ethiopia may | find the League of Nations judging her instead - of Italy when the Geneva Council tackles the problem of peace or war September 4, some French ob- servers said today. Both Premier Pierre Laval and An- | thony Eden of Great Britain told Baron Pompec Aloisi of Italy at their conference last Sunday that they had certain “sympathy” with Italy’s need for expansion. Since then, the observers said, Laval sought to induce Premier Mus- solini to send Aloisi to the League| Council session instead of defying it or ignoring it. Mussolini, it was un- derstood, agreed, and Laval was fur- ther reported to have suggested that Italy make a full presentation of Ethiopia’s alleged misdeeds to the Council. 1l Duce heretofore has talked so much of colonial expansion that the border troubles have been overshad- owed. There is no expectation here that the Council would approve an Italian conquest of Ethiopia but, it was pointed out, the evidence might be considered as justifying & “punitive expedition” which the League might tolerate without actually approving. the very life of the Empire, the De- fense Committee ordred provisions for elaborate naval, military and air de- fenses of that all-important gateway, {one informant said following yester- day's meeting. It even was reported that grave con- cern was expressed over the possibil- ity Italy might attempt to seize the canal in the event of war. The critical press reflected an opin- ion expressed both in naval and mili- tary circles that the fleet alone can not hold the canal and that the army jand air force therefore have been | given their orders in case of trouble. |~ Meanwhile the cruise program which will bring the cream of the crack Mediterranean fleet to within almost overnight striking distance of the Suez Canal, by September 1 was announced officially. ‘The warships will leave Malta Au- gust 29 and will be concentrated in a tight, small ring ranging from the actual entrances of the canal and | within the canal to points from 150 to 400 miles from the Mediterranean en- trance. Concentration at Alexandria. ‘The biggest concentration will be at Alexandria, Egypt, where the ships ‘Revenge and Valiant, the first and | third cruiser squadrons, the aircraft- carrier Glorious and other warships | will be assembled. | | 'The first destroyer and first sub- | marine flotillas will remain at Malta. Coincident with the announcement of the fleet movement it was denied officially that the fleet would be strengthened. In addition to the assignments to Alexandria and Malta other units will | proceed to Suez, Port Said and Ismaila, | which are the Red Sea and Mediter- | ranean entrances, and a point midway in the canal, respectively. Ships at Haifa and Acre. Ships will also be stationed at Haifa and Acre on the Palestine coast | and at Famagusta, Lanarka and Lim- assol, all in Cyprus 250 miles from the canal. No Adriatic ports will be visited in what is rather prosaically described as “the existing e program.” Simultaneously with the announce- ment of details of the cruise program | the government ordered construction | of public air raid shelters in every dis- | trict of the island. Leaflets instructing the public in| precautions to be taken in case of | poison gas attacks from the air were ! distributed by police. . The possibility of an encounter in the Mediterranean with hostile sub- | marines and aircraft was not over-| Jooked in today’s press. securities.” He attributed adoption of the compromise to the “Government lobby” and “patronage.” Other disputed points settled by the compromise agreement provided: Holding companies may issue bonds secured by a first lien on properties owned directly or upon properties of subsidiaries, with the Securities Com- mission empowered to say whether other assets could be made the basis for bond issues. Affiliates or subsidiaries of holding companies which perform services for the operating companies must do so at cost. -—— WINNING MARE’S TRAINER FACES NARCOTICS COUNT Arrest Follows Test of Baliva After Race—Entry Owned by Glyndon, Md., Woman. By the Assoclated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y, Aug- ust 24—Ernest J. Sietas, a trainer, was charged by Federal authorities today with unlawful possession of nar- cotics as an aftermatk of an investi- gation of a horse race here August 13 He was arrested and released on $1,000 bail. Sietas was the trainer of the mare Fluffy Lee, in whose saliva morphine was found after her winning a race on the thirteenth. The horse s owned by Mrs. C. V. Williams of Glay- don, Md. ‘The State Racing Commission noti- fled the Federal Bureau of Narcotics of the findings of the commission’s laboratory and investigators were sent to Saratoga. A search of the Sietas stable disclosed six bottles of a patent colic mixture highly impregnated with morphine, the Federal agents said. and that Italian air forces in the Eastern Mediterranean are five times as powerful, the Mail warned Great Britain is “in no position to threaten Italy or any other country with ‘strong action.’” The Daily Telegraph also moted that, while “our own army maneuvers this year are on a larger scale than any that have been attempted re- cently,” they will be “but miniature affairs compared to those of Italy be- ginning Sunday, with Il Duce in su- preme command.” Meanwhile the Exchange Tele- graph Agency's correspondent at Djibout!, French Somaliland, said Swedish and Belgian officers who have been acting as instructors in the Ethiopian Army received orders from Declaring the Italian submarine fleet is far larger than the British their governments to resign and re- turn home. 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