Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, & Weather Bureau Porecast.) Pair today and probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle vari- able winds. Temperatures—Highest, 76, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 57, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-T (#) Means Associated Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1,589— No. 33,360. MRS. ICKES IS KILLED; TURKISH DIPLOMAT, WRITER ARE INJURED Hit-Run Accident Fatal to Wife of | Secretary. MRS. HERRICK AND ATTACHE ARE HURT Party Was on Way to Indian Festival in New Mexico. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex., August 31.— Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, 61, wife of the | Secretary of the Interior and a politician in her own right, was killed | tonight in a motor car collision which State police charged to a hit-and-run | driver. With three companions in a taxicab she was plunged into a ditch 30 miles | north of Santa Fe while en route hevs | for a fiesta, apening tomorrow, from her Summer home at Coolidge. N. Mex. Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, well known Washington newspaper cor- respondent and a house guest of Mrs Ickes, was injured critically. Also injured was Ibrahim Seyfullah, | attache of the Turkish Embassy in| ‘Washington, and Frank Allen, Gallup, N. Mex,, taxicab driver. State police, under Capt. E. J. House, first identified Seyfullah as| John Herrick, husband of the writer. | but a later check of effects dispelled the confusion and Herrick was located in Washington. J. R. Modrall, assistant State at- torney general, who rushed to the #cene, said none of the survivors was able to give a coherent account of the accident. Hunt Hit-Run Driver. The “hit-run” car, he reported. was described only as a “dark sedan.” The victims said they did not see the /4 MRS. HAROLD L. ICKES, MRS. GENEVIEVE F. HERRICK. U.S. WARNS SOVIET 0 KEEP PLEDGE OR LOSE FRIENDSHIP Secretary Hull, in Official Note, Declares Failure May Break Relations. REPUDIATION IS CHARGED TOMOSCOW GOVERNMENT State Department Considers Re- ply to Protest Against Comintern Activities. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. In an official statement issued last night Secretary Hull puts it squarely | up to the Soviet government to adhere | strictly to its pledge of non-inter- ference in American affairs if it wants to continue the present friendly rela- tions with the United States. After charging the Moscoy' govern- ment with having wantonly broken its | written pledges to the United States, undertaken in the Nover.ber, 1933, | agreement, and having disclaimed all | responsibility for the actions of the Third Internationale, Mr. Hull stated: wndl WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION “If the Soviet government pursues & policy of permitting activities on |its territory involving interference in | the internal affairs of the United | States, instead of ‘preventing’ such activities, as its written pledge pro- | vides, the friendly and official rela | tions between the two countrics can- not but be serlously impaired. “Whether such relations between two great countries are thus unfortunately to be impaired and co-operative op- portunities for vast good to be destroyed, will depend upon the at- titude and action of the Soviet gov- ernment.” Last Warning to Soviet. The Secretary of State made this statement in reply to the note of the Moscow government of August 27, GOEBBELY ORDER DEFIEDBY SCHACHT \Reichsbank Head Rein-| states Man Nazi Sent to Prison Camp. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 31—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Germany's “economic dicta- tor,” threw down the gantlet to Paul license plate. State police launched a hunt for a sedan bearing the marks of a collision. The Ickes party was just emerging from the steep-walled Rio Grande the Taos- | Canon, through which Santa Fe Highway winds, when the] crash occurred. l The injured were rushed to Espanola, a tiny adobe settlement in | the canon, for first-aid treatment. Mrs. Ickes' body was taken to Espanola and later removed to Banta Fe. { Friends said Allen, the taxi driver, frequently drove Mrs. Ickes on her tours of mountain lands around | Coolidge, in the northwestern part of the State. Puneral services for Mrs. Ickes will be held Tuesday in Winnetka, Ill, Chi-| cago suburb, which has been the family home for many years. \ Studying Indian Culture. * The death of Mrs, Ickes came after she had spent a month in the South- west studying the culture and ritual of Indisn tribesmen. Indian cele- brations are incorporated in the San- ta Fe fiesta which she planned to attend. A keen student of Indian life, she wrote of them under the name of Mrs. Anna Ickes. “Mesa Land"” is one of her best known books. Last Saturday she prepared a spe- cial story on the snake dance of the Hopis in Arizona at the Walpi Reser- vation for the Associated Press. | “When one becomes a snake dance fan,” she said, “one finds each one more interesting than the last. No matter how often one sees them, no two dances are quite the same.” Dr. Sophie Aberle, superintendent of the United Pueblo Agency, said | Mrs. Ickes and her companion visited | the Isleta Indian Pueblo yesterday | en route to Santa Fe. | Mrs. Ickes, a Progressive Republi- ean, served three terms in the Illinois Legislature as the Representative of a | suburban Chicago district. | ACTIVE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. Mrs. Ickes Was Legislator and Active Camj er. ‘Mrs. Ickes was known to the Capi- tal as a woman of varied interests who almost matched her husband in | the number of her activities Some | time after coming to Washington late | in 1933 she continued in a threefold career—wife of & cabinet member, Tllinois Republican legislator and stu- dent and writer on the Indians of the Southwest. T nally she decided to relinquish her seat in the Illinois Leg- | islature, but only after serving three terms. Before her marriage Mrs. Ickes was Anns Wilmrath Thompson. Born in 1873 of an old and distinguished Chi- cago family, she was educated in a private school in Boston and gradu- ated from the University of Illinois. She was first married to Prof. James ‘Westphal of the University of Chi- cago. They were divorced in 1909. Two years later she was married to Ickes. She we- an active collaborator with her husband when he helped to or- ganize the progressive wing of the Republican party in Illinois. Her in- terests were broad. ‘Was University Trustee. She had been president of the im- portant Chicago Women's Club and ‘was one of the first women to serve as trustee of the University of Illi- nois. Long interested in educational matters, civic activities and political reform, she soon rose to prominence as & progressive Republican. When her children, Mrs. Bryant, Wilmarth, Raymond and Robert Ickes, were small Mrs. Ickes limited her activities to club and edu- tional work, but when they married entered college she launched into her political career. Interest in politics dated back to dency. national pro- Mrs. Ickes devoted much of her (See MRS. ICKES, Page 3.) ¢ - OFFICIALS MOURN WTH SECRETARY Ickes, Stunned by News, to Start to - Chicago —~ E4rly Today. Official Washington, headed by President Roosevelt, * stened to offer condolences to Secretary Ickes last night after receiving word of the tragic death of Mrs. Ickes in a New Mexico automobile accident. The President telephoned the In- ' terior Department chief to express his and Mrs. Roosevelt's sympathy just, before leaving for Hyde Park|N. Y. Later it was learned Mr. Roosevelt had suggested cancelling his trip home, but Secretary Ickes urged him to continue with his plans. Mrs. Roosevelt, who had preceded the President to Hyde Park, tele- phoned the White House and said she would attend the funeral services, to be held Tuesday at Winnetka, the Chicago suburb which has been the family home for many years. News of the accident, in which Mrs Genevieve Forbes- -~ Herrick, noted newspaper writer, suffered a fractured pelvis. was told to Secretary Ickes by Fred L. Marx, his secretary, Stunned by News. For a moment, the Interior chief sat in his chair as though stunned. Then he said, “You are sure? There couldn't be a mistake?"” A telephone call to Santa Fe .on- firmed the story. Meanwhile, mes- sages began to pour in from Wash- Lng]wn friends offering sympathy and elp. Within an hour the Secretary’s of- fice was filled with members of his stafl who hastened to his side. “There is nothing any one can do,” was his | answer to each caller. Mr. Ickes personally sent telegrams to members of his family out of wwn. Late in the evening, he was still at his desk, quietly waiting. He will leave for Chicago this morning. Herrick Telephones Wife. John Herrick, husband of Mrs. Herrick, got in telephonic comm ini- cation with his wife as she lay in St. Vincent's Hospital, Santa Fe, he- fore leaving his Alexandria home ior New Mexico on & midnight plane. “I feel alright; my leg nvris though,” she said. “She could hardly talk and it was plain she was hurt more than she imagined,” Mr. Herrick added. He said Mrs. Herrick did not know at at time that Mrs. Ickes had been led. He identified 8 man who was in the automobile with Mrs. Ickes and Mrs. Herrick at the time of the accident as Tbrahim Seyfullah, secretary of the Turkish Embassy here. Mrs. Herrick had written him several days ago, he said,«that Seyfullah’s car had broken (See OFFICIALDOM, Page. 3.) order to avoid an interminable ex- | bank official who had been sent to a change of official notes. | concentration camp. Officially, the statement is intended _ Dr. Schacht, president of the to inform the people of the United | Reichsbank and minister of finance, States about the state of affairs be- | insisted that the “honor” of the man, In fact, | Emil Koeppen, be fully restored. (Dr. Schacht in an address tween the two countries. however, it is intended as a last warn- | |Ing to Moscow and it says in clear language that two weeks ago denounced “unregulated in- 1935, and chose this indirect way of | Joseph Goebbels, minister of propa- | communicating with the Soviets in | ganda, today by reinstating a Reichs- | the next time this l dividual acts” against Jews and “other | Government finds that the Soviets | state enemies,” warning “Jew-baiters” have broken their written pledges, the relations between the two countries will again be broken off. T~ Amswer Held Evasive. The State Department considered ‘the reply of the Moscow government | to the note presented by Ambassador | Bullitt regarding the activities of the Third Internationale as unsatisfactory, | evasive and provocative, Mr. Hull expressed clearly the views of the American Government in this | matter: “In its reply of August 27, 1935, the | Soviet government almost in so many words repudiates the pledge which it gave at the time of recognition, “that | it will be the fixed policy of the gov- ernment of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics not to permit and to prevent the very activities against which this Government has com- | plained and protested. Not for a mo- ment denying or questioning fact of Communist international activities on Soviet territory involving interfer- ence in the internal affairs of the United States, the Soviet government denies having made a promise “not | to permit and to prevent” such activi- ties, asserting that “it has not taken upon itself obligations of any kind | with regard to the Communist Inter- | nationale.” Hull Cites Paragraph Four. Mr. Hull points out in his state- ment that the language of the pledge as provided in paragraph four of the 'GALE WHIPS OCEAN NEAR BAHAMAS Second Disturbance of Hurricane Season Is 500 Miles From Miami. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 31. —Winds “possibly of gale force” were believed howling at the center of a tropical disturbance near Long Island in the Bahamas late today. An advisory issued by the Weather Bureau sdid the storin apparently was moving west-northwestward. Its po- sition, roughly, was about 500 miles southeast of Miami, Fla., at 3:30 p.m. Caution was advised Bahama Islands and ships in the vicinity. Walter J. Bennett, senigr meteorol- ogist in charge of the Weather Bureau office here, said it was impossible as yet to determine what course the disturbance would take. It was first discovered as a suspicious low pressure area north of Turks Island yesterday morning. Boy, 9, Admits Killing Girl, 4, During Argument Over Peaches By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 31.—A chil- dren’s quarrel had a tragic sequel tonight in the death of 4-year-old Elizabeth Vonderhosen, whose body. head crushed from repeated blows by a stone, was found in a marshy gully in the Classon's Point section of the Bronx. Shortly after police stumbled on the body of the child, who had been hunted for hours by her frantic par- ents, they picked up a 9-year-old boy playmate of the girl and obtained the story of her death. Assistant District Attorney William Smith said the boy confessed to beat~ ing Elizabeth over the head with a piece of rock in a fit of gnger when 1 L she would not concede the merits of his argument that peaches are the best of all fruit. He then ran home, frightened. The boy's identity was learned when police questioned a girl playmate, who | they were causing serious damage to | Germany’s business.) Eviction Basis of Ban. In addition to being a Reichsbank official Koeppen managed several | apartment houses. named Riecker for non-payment of | rent in November, 1934, and Goebbels’ Berlin newspaper, Der launched a bitter attack, saying Koep- pen acted contrary to social principles of Nazi Germany. Arounsed, an angry crowd storme Koeppen's home, broke windows and forced his arrest and suspension from the Reichsbank. [ Goebbels later said In a speech to Berlin Nazis that Koeppen had been sent to a concentration camp for three months. “National Socizlism stands not for the letter of the law but for justice.” he said. Blow at Schacht Seen. There were rumors in financial circles Goebbels picked on Koeppen in order really to strike at Schacht for not giving him as much foreign exchange as he wanted for propa- ganda abroad. | Schacht significantly addressed his | demand for restoration of Koeppen's | honor not to Goebbels as bropa- ganda minister and party leader for Berlin, but to Gen. Hermann Wilhelm ! Goering, & third Nazi power, as Prus- [shn premier and chief of the secret | police. Schacht wrote Goering he nad | ordered an investigation into he | Koeppen case and found there was | no occasion for disciplinary proceed- | ings. Wife Held in Stabbing. ST. PAUL, August 31 (#).—John A. Jackson, who was found with a six- | inch hunting knife blade in his skull Thursday, died in a hospital today. Police held his wife, who said she was absent from the house when Jackson ‘was wounded. Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1-18. Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-5. Death Notices—A-9. Lost and Found—A-9. Vital Statistics—A-9. Sports Section—Pages A-11-15. Boating and Fishing News—A-15. PART TWO. Editorial and Finance. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages D-4-7. * Resorts—D-8. PART THREE. Society, Classified. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-6. He evicted & man | IN THIS NEW DEAL ERA ONE NEVER KNOWS WHAT'LL HAPPEN Mr. Berryman Returns | The Star announces with | | pleasure today the return to active duty, made possible by his full recovery from serious illness, of its cartoonist, Clif- ford K. Berryman. During Mr. Berryman's jliness, which took him from work May 30, the cartoons were prepared by his son, James T. Berryman POLICE CARKILLS MANDURING CHASE "Colored Pedestrian Is Hurt Fatally by Officers Pur- suing Speeder. | A police car pursuing a speeder at| 2612 Wade road southeast. the fifth fatality since Police Supt.| paign was begun more than six weeks ago. Private G. A. Wcud, eleventh pre- | | from the curb directly in front of | his car, although the siren was go- ing full blast He swerved, but was | unable to avoid striking the man, the | officer added. Wood and Private C. P. Ripperger, a fellow officer riding in the police car, took Ryce to Casualty Hospital, | but he was dead on arrival. Picking up the speeding car in Congress Heights, the two officers gave | chase, traveling at high speed to- ward the center of the city. The acci- dent occurred in the 2600 block of Nichols avenue. The speeder escaped. Policeman Suspended. Inspector L. I H. Edwards was | called to the eleventh precinct and | after an investigation, ordered Wood | }suxpended and held pending action | | by the coroner. He later was re-| |leased in custody of the precinct | captain. | | 1ast night and late yesterday, and a | hit-and-run driver was captured by | a bystander. Worker Chases Car. Solomon Butt, 22, of 1363 Twenty- eighth street, a grocery store worker, saw a car, allegedly driven by William | Spitzer, 51, 1300 block of Fourth | street southewest, sideswipe another machine near Sixth and E streets southwest. When the car failed to stop. Butt jumped into a truck and overtook it after a chase of about six blocks, but not before it had struck a second automobile. ‘When Butt grabbed Spitzer, the man is said to have struck him on the arm with s hammer, but Spitzer held on until police arrived. No one Wwas hurt in either collision. Those injured during the afternoon and night included Coleman Young, 28, colored, 2000 block of Claggelt street northeast, who suffered head injuries when struck by a street car at Fiftieth street and Dean avenue northeast; Camille C. Robinson, 5, 1343 Clifton street, knocked down by an automobile near his home and cut and bruised; Melvin Parrish, 3, col- ored, 900 block of E street southwest, struck by an automobile in front of his home, sustaining a brain con- cussion, and Willlam Cannon, 69, and Edith Hubbard, 46, both of 1355 Massachusetts avenue southeast, both severely cut when their car collided with another machine on the Marl- boro plke near Meadows, Md. CONDITION OF COUZENS CONTINUES TO IMPROVE E-6. g%z Advertising — Pages PART FOUR. Senator’s Diabetes in Ailment Feature Section. Necessitating four Operations fl'::: Fe““emfi;lmfle Believed Under Control. on (% w-:hnm —] D-t By the Associated Press. “Those Were the Happy Days,” |- ROCHESTER, Minn. August 31.— Boo DK MansieldoF-3. | A rosmer o o Senaio ks—F- Ji Couzens' ition noted i‘:‘fl:_“,‘.‘s‘mn—"l :‘;m Sis Mayo Clinie phm::m to- . 5 fl” . s Th!!plmnwul::ehlmdtup # in bed for a | 3 cm"m‘.m . .8, The Michigan Senator's diabetes, & Serial —F-8. : com) factor in the ailment Chfldrq“lflfi&-!‘-!. which necessitated four operations and mg’l; u"hhm History—F-9. i z;:!. blood m.m:n‘-. :;:u con- Civic News Comment—F- physicians ‘making. Organisations—F-11-12. . Dew tests, i ] l - / / \ \ \ ,\. (\ ) QA 5\ Ms ) ¥ \"\?!/t' 5 | By the Associated Press. | messee Valley Authority act. Y Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1935—SEVENTY-EIGHT PAGES. * ACKN é" ’o\\u‘“‘ BHALRROX . Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE BRITAIN ACTS TO BAR SELASSIE’S OIL COUP; U. S. REMAINS ALOOF London Tells Ethiopia to Shun Concessions to English and American Companies. ITALY IS ANGERED BY DEAL; CHARGES TREATY VIOLATIO e PRESIDENT LEAVES CAPTAL FOR REST and Harbors Bills in Busy Day. President Roosevelt departed for his Hyde Park, N. Y, home last night after a buSy day, during which he signed the last three major measures | enacted by Congress that had not already received his formal approval. ‘These were the precedent-breaking neutrality legisiation, with its tempo- rary but mandatory arms embargo; the $610.000,000 rivers and harbors bill, and the amendments to the Ten- | | The President left by special train shortly after 11 pm. He expects to take a brief rest at his ancestral home before traveling to the Pacific Coast. Signing of the T. V. A. amendments to Hyde Park, Concededly, many will Angrift, Ernest W. Brown's traffic safety cam- | pe vetoed. Accompanied by Staff. The President was accompanied by a secretarial stafl. As usual, an office q | cinct, the driver, said Ryce stepped | yy) pe established in nearby Pough- | keepsie with wires open to the White | House. | With his departure, contractors cut off all light and water at the Executive Mansion to complete installation of a new kitchen and other repairs. The T. V. A. amendments provide new ramparts intended to protect the Government’s huge power experiment in the Tennessee Valley from legal onslaught. The measure, in addition to the broader protection administration of- ficials hoped it would give the orig- inal act, provided much wider au- thority for the power agency. At the White House when the President inscribed his name were Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska, and Representative Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi. Both have . been strong advocates of public power | Several other persons were injured | conirol and Norris had much to do | situations that call f with the original act which put the old Muscle Shoals Dam into service for that purpose. Says All Doubts Lifted. “I have had no doubt of the con- stitutionality of the law from the be- ginning,” Norris said afterward. “Nor has this appeared to be doubtful in the minds of judges who have passed on the question. They have held that while Congress might have the constitutional right to let such an agency sell power, it had never given the agency the legislative right. This removes any doubt. “The new bill also will allow aid to municipalities to obtain power through loans. And it makes cer- tain limitations on the powers of the controller general with respect to the Authority. He must give the Author- ity the right to reply. Nor can he charge the entire expense of his audit to T. V. A, but only that part of the expense which is allocated to powe! The sale of surplus T. V. A. power recently was declared unconstitutional | by an Alabama Federal court, but this decision was reversed by the New Orleans Circuit Court. The new bill would give T. V. A. specific permis- sion to make such sales. Can Lend Cash. In the promotion of such sales, the agency would be allowed to lend money to States, counties and com- munities to obtain transmission lines to distribute its electricity. It also would be allowed to begin large scale production and sale of fertilizer. Other things T. V. A. might do under the new law were: Mussolini Warns “Miserable Politics” Will Not Halt Fascist Progress. Addis Ababa Hopeful. The Ethiopian Situation. LONDON —The British government moved last night to check oil and water concessions Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia gave American and British interests. The British minister to Addis Ababa was authorized to tell the Emperor that London advises him to withhold the concessicns. ADDIS ABABA —An official communique disclosed details of an ofl con- cession to American interesis and one involving the water of Lake Tana to an BEoglish corporation. ROME.—News of the concessions provoked a flery reaction. Virginio Gayda, the editor, considered to reflect Premier Mussolini's views most accurately, :lgetd in a newspaper article. He said the concessions would violate three reaties. TRENTO, Italy.—Premier Mussolini, in a speech after the conclusion of war maneuvers, said: “Those who do not know how to grasp the wheel of destiny in historic moments perhaps will never grasp it. Any one who at- tempts by miserable politics to impede Fascist progress will be disillusioned."” He disclosed plans to call 200,000 more meu to service. WASHINGTON.—As mandatory neutrality legislation was signed by President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull indicated the United States Government would maintain a “hands-off” policy, taking no official steps. | GENEVA.—Reports to the seat of the League of Natlons indicated o general 'Signs T. V. A, Neutrality | sentiment to apply sanctions against Italy if she wars on Ethiopia. Ethiopia Thinks Italian Thrust Is Blocked. (World Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press) ADDIS ABABA, August 31.—The swift stroke of Emperor Haile Selassie in turning over approximately half his empire to English and American interests for exploitation was generally regarded today as blocking Itallan economic penetration of Ethiopia. An official communique confirmed the concession, made as the Emperor prepared for a feared Italian invasion. Diplomatic quarters here appeared stunned. (The British foreign office inst Official U. S. Steps Avoided, Neutrality Resolution Signed By the Assoclated Press. “Hands-off"” policy toward American |oil concessions granted in Xthiopia became evident yesterday as President & 55-mile-an- hour rate along Nichols | measure late in the day concluded the Roosevelt signed a war-avoiding neu- avenue southeast late last night struck | bill signing, and a sizable stack— trality resolution. and killed Oscar A. Ryce, 52, colored. | mostly private bills—were packed away | r It Was | in the presidential luggage to be taken | Emperor Haile Selassie to withhold Despite Great Britains advice to {the concessions for exploitations | granted to English and American in- terests, State Department officials in- dicated the United States would take no official steps. patches notifying him of the startling deal, told importunate newsmen the | American commercial venture pre- sented no question of involving this , Nation in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Mr. Roosevelt, while calling the pur- pose of the neutrality resolution “wholly excellent,” indicated some dissatisfaction with the provision for a mandatory embargo on munitions shipments to belligerent nations which expires next February 29. Might Defeat Own Purpose. “This section,” he said, “requires further and more complete considera- | tion between now and that date. | !good. It is the policy of this Nation | to avoid being drawn into wars be- | tween other nations, but it is a fact | that no Congress and no Executive can | foresee all possible future situations. “History is filled with unforeseeable or some flexibility of action. It is conceivable that situ- ations may arise in which the wholly inflexible provisions * * * might | have exactly the opposite effect from that which was intended. In other words, the inflexible provisions might drag us into war instead of keeping us out. “The policy of the Government is definitely committed to the mainte- nance of peace and the avoidance of | any entanglements which would lead us into conflict. At the same time it is the policy of the Government by | every peaceful means and without en- | tanglement to co-operate with other similarly minded governments to pro- | mote peace.” Proposes Expansion of Act. Emphasizing that “further careful consideration of neutrality needs is most desirable,” Mr. Roosevelt pro- posed an “expansion to include provi- sions dealing with other important aspects of our neutrality policy which have not been dealt with in this tem- porary measure.” Coincident with the signing of the resolution, Senators Borah, Repub- | lican, of Idaho and Johnson, Repub- (See NEUTRALITY, Page 4.) London Communiq By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 31.—The British government moved swiftly tonight to halt the granting of concessions in Ethiopia to American and English in- terests, Provide a nine foot navigation (See ROOSEVELT. Page 6.) No Late Editions TOmOl’l‘OW Because of the holiday there will be no 5:30 or Sports Final Editions of The Star tomorrow. Night Final subscribers will receive the Regular Edition. Asserting the deal could not be nego- tiated without consultations among Italy, France and Britain under the tri-power treaty of 1906, the govern- ment announced its Minister to Addis Ababa had been authorized to advise Emperor Haile Selassie to withhold the concessions. ‘The foreign office, in one of its rare official communiques, made the start- ling annoupcement disclosing the gov- ernment was turning thumbs down on & deal concluded by one of its own subjects, Francis M. Rickett, ‘The government said it had had no confirmation of the concessions of oil and water rights, but felt it necessary to inform the British Minister that “such concessions would undoubtedly be a matter for preliminary consulta- tions by his majesty’s government, the Prench and Italian governments under ) Secretary Hull, after receiving dis-' “Here again the objective is wholly | ructed its Minister to Addis Ababa “to inform Emperor Haile Selassie Britain advises him to withhold the concessions. The announcement said the concessions would necessitate con- sultations among signatories of the 1906 treaty pledging the independence of Ethiopia and dividing spheres of economic influence there—namely, Britain, France and Italy.) Italian Aims Held Blocked. The agreement was seen in some quarters as a blow to Italian economic aims in the hinterland of Italian Somaliland and the only oil-bearing portion of interior Eritrea, also an Italian colonial possession. The communique explained an oil concession was granted to the African Development Exploration Co., incor- porated in Delaware, for development of oil resources. (The African Development Corp. was chartered at Dover, Del., July 1, 1935, with a capital stock of 5,000 shares at $100 a share par value. Alfred W. Britten, Edward 8. Williams and Vincent W, Westrup were the in- corporators.) At the same time another conces- sion +as granted separate English in- t.rests, a corporation known as the Lake Tana Conservancy Syndicate giving it the right in perpetuity to build & dam and pw :ping stations at Lake Tana, headquarters of the Bl Nile. The lake is vital to Egyptian Sudan’s water supply. Standard Oil Control Claimed. The British promoter who negoti- ated the vast concession, Francis M. :kett, said the exploration company is controlled by “the Standard Oil | Co.,” but did not designate which one. | Speculation had been keen here over the effect of the concession upon | the Anglo-Franco-1' n treaty of 1906. Registration of the company | in the Unitec States, and its backing !by American capital, some sources | believed, would prevent any interven- |tion by the three powers. They ! pointed out the door is not closed to | investors of other countries. | The great question to Ethiopians is what will Mussolini say and do. Most Ethiopians believed the Emperor's sur- prise maneuver in opening the coun- | try to Americans provided a kind of insurance against wa.. Details of the vast concessions were disclosed today in the official text of t:e convention signed yesterday. Ex- ‘\rluslve rights are given the corpo- Ir-non to explore, prospect, drill and | extract for trade petroleum, naptha, | natural gases and other bituminous | substances, along with jodine from salt aters of any wells drilled. Rights Expire After 75 Years. | These rights will expire at the end of 75 years, and buildings of the com~ Wpany, its land and other property be- | come the property of the government. An authoritative source said the company would pay the Ethiopian government annually £25,000 (about (See ETHIOPIA, Page 4. ue Says Signers Of 1906 Treaty Must Approve Deal article 2 of the tri-partite treaty of 1906." Addis Ababa Effect Unknown. The wireless station to Addis Ababa was closed for the night and it was impossible to learn what effect Brit- | ain’s action would have upon Haile | Selassie. | Observers, however, pointed out that since London is the chief hope of the “conquering lion of Judah” to prevent | an expected Italian invasion, he is cer- | tain to listen closely to any suggestions from here. The political correspondent of the Sunday Express sald it can be stated categorically that despite what inter- ests are involved or “whatever con- cessions may be threatened should Italy go to war with Ethiopia, the Brit- ish will not plunge the country into war to defend them.” “The United States Government | takes the same line,” the writer con- tinued. “In other words, if a ‘con- cession’ was & shrewd move on the (8ee LONDON, Page 4.)