Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1935, Page 4

MYSTERY SHIELDS EXPLOITING FIRM Incorporators Refuse to Disclose Interests Be- hind Plan. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 31.—An air of melodramatic mystery enveloped the New York headquarters of the Af- rican Development Exploration Co. today following announcement in Ad- dis Ababa that the firm had obtained exploitation rights directly in the path of Italy's projected march through Ethiopia. Investigation of the company’s brief history disclosed it was incorporated Even Wife Unable By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 31—Francis M. Rickett, the whose name was on the front pages of newspapers throughout the world to- day in connection with concessions in Ethiopia, is a “mystery man” even to his wife. London business circles, seeking to throw light on the past activities of the promoter credited with obtaining concessions for American and. British firms, could describe him only as a man with a house in London, a country place at Great Shefford, Berk- shire, a castle in Wales and a pro- clivity for “dashing off here and there” in specially chartered airplanes. ‘The promoter, it was learned, was at Dover, Del, on July 11, 1935, by the United States Corporation Co., & | firm which specializes in obtaining | charters for cther interests. | The incorporators were listed as | Alfred W. Britten, Edward S. Wil- liams and Vincent W. Westrup, who | were found at the offices of the | United States Corporation Co., at 150 Broadway, which also serves as “head- quarters” of the African development firm. once a director of a British ofl de- | velopment company which was granted | rights along the Tigris by Emir Feisal of Iraq. In the Near East, where he has quietly conducted negotiations many years, he is known as the “Lawrence of finance.” Doesn’t Discuss Business. Mrs. Rickett, living at the castle in ‘Wales, said today she new nothing of her husband’s enterprises, explaining he did not discuss business matters Insist Upon Secrecy. None of the three would discuss the | real backers of the African firm, as- serting their clients had insisted on the utmost secrecy at the time of the incorporation. The firm's charter authorizes it to drill for oil, seek out precious stones, | gold, silver and asphalt, and to en- gage in the work of general develop- ment. It was incorporated with a capital stock of 5,000 shares of a par value of $100 a share. Francis M. Rickett, the British pro- moter who negotiated the deal, said in Addis Ababa that the concern was controlled by the Standard Oil Co., but up until tonight none of the various Standard Oil groups had come for- ward to claim affiliation. W. F. Farish, chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, said it had no connection with his com- pany. While many of the officers of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. were away for the week end, those who could be reached said they had not been advised of any link between their group | and the African company. Socony- Vacuum handles foreign operations of Standard Oil of New York. Area Held Without Oil. Further interest was added by the statement of Dr. Barnum Brown, as- sistant curator of the American Mu- seum of Natural History, that Ethi- opia is barren of oil. Dr. Brown said he had spent one year in the African kingdom study- ing its oil development possibilities for @ subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co. “As a result of my surveys for the Anglo-American Oil Co.. a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co.” he said, “the field was turned down by the company entirely. The Anglo-Ameri- can would not even consider it.” Dr. Brown said he had reported that while Ethiopia probably had pe- troleum deposits many centuries ago, its oil cap had been shattered long #ince and the deposits had evaporated. Neutl"ality (Continued From First Page.) lican, of California paid separate calls at the White House. The Senators, both members of the Foreign Relations Committee and “isolationists” in their viewpoint on foreign affairs, insisted they were merely saying good-by before de- parting on vacations. Borah, who Friday night called the Ethiopian grant “buying an interest | in war,” said he had discussed neu- trality with the President, but de- clined further comment. Others Insist on i’eace. Other members of Congress joined | with him in negating the impression that American commercial exploita- tion in the troubled African nation | might lead to trouble. Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Utah said the grant ought not to be a danger with the neutrality resolution | in effect. Chairman McReynolds, | Democrat, of Tennessee of the House | Foreign Affairs Committee, observed | sharply: “We're not going to let some big corporation go over to a place where war is apparently coming and then draw us in with it.” The State Department received dis- Patches outlining the Ethiopian trans- action yesterday from Cornelius H. | Van Engert, American charge d’Af- | faires in Addis Ababa. Secretary Hull would not comment officially until he could study the dis- patches and obtain further informa- tion, but in response to questions, he said any private American transaction in Ethiopia presented no more question than it had or would in any other part of the world. Policy, Not Individuals. Americans are interested in com- mercial enterprises everywhere, he said, and the Government is not | formulating policies with respect to | the status of any individual interest. Hull declined to give a definite in- terpretation of the present adminis- tion’s policy with respect to protection of American interest abroad. To a specific question, he said it was not the policy for the State Department to be consulted by private interests before such transactions as the Ethiopian grant were negotiated. The State Secretary explained that his department deals with policy rather than individual projects, and that consideration is given to each problem on its merits as it arises. He added that the United States does not undertake to follow every American wherever he goes in foreign countries, oversee what he does or ad- vise him as to what he should or should not do in private business deal- ings. President Given Discretion. In addition to the temporary manda- tory arms embargo, the new law also seeks to prevent any future American entanglement in foreign wars by au- thorizing the President, at his dis- cretion: To prohibit American vessels from carrying war munitions to belligerent countries: To warn Americans against travel- ing on ships of belligerent nations or entering danger zones. To prohibit submarines from enter- ing American ports. To require bonds from American ships against their providing men, fuel, ammunition or supplies to war or supply ships of any belligerent na- tion. | A national munitions control board also is set up to oversee the manufac- | measure the with her. She said she was in ignorance of plans for the Ethiopian concessions. Expressing the hope he would re- turn to her and their three children before the end of the Summer, Mrs. Rickett said: “My husband left England August 10. Since then I have heard nothing from him. I knew that highly im- | portant negotiations of a confidential nature had been going on for some months, but I had no idea they con- | cerned such a huge deal. Spend Time in U. S. “Mr. Rickett has extensive interest | in an oil field and has spent a great deal of time in the United States, Ethiopian Oil Deal Dec Despairing of the efficiency of the League of Nations as a peacemaker, and abandoned by almost every country in the world, Emperor Halie Selassie tried to put over on tne | world one of the most colossal bluffs i known in the annals of diplomacy. Following the advice of his west- | ern counselor he handed over to an American-British company the min- eral rights of Abyssinia. He thus hoped to bring in a direct conflict the two English-speaking na- tions with Italy. The bluff was called, and the British government, which is supposed to have been | familiar with this maneuver, backed | out in time. For many months Abyssinian un- official representatives in this coun- | try have been knocking at the door | of pracitically every banker in ITew York to obtain a loan of $2,000.000 | for Selassie’s depleted treasury. They offered as security every- thing from the gold teeth of the | Empress to the custom receipts of the empire. They were met everywhere with the same sardonic answer: “And what will happen to those custom receipts nf yours if the Italians occupy your country?” There was no answer to such an argument. TS Some more adventurous bankers m- | quired at the State Department &nout | the advisability of such a loan. The State Department does not interfere with the banker’s business. But un-| officially, privately and off the record, the bankers were told that any sucn a loan would have to be given at .he risk and responsibility of the lender. And that was enough. * K % X Of course, a paltry $2,000.000 was net worth taking a chance. But when hundreds of millions of dollars are | involved the picture changes and the | Standard Oil Co. and its British as- | sociates have taken that chance by | cbtaining from Haile Selassie what is | considered the most important con- cessions given a group of Western na- tions during this century. * X kx X The Standard Oil Co. and its British associates have taken a chance because they are about 30 years behind the time. They do not realize that the “rules of the international game have been changed.” * %k k * As long as the Abyssinians were | threatened with invasion by a greedy | ‘Western power, the sentiment of 99 | per cent of the American people was | in favor of Abyssinia. Any coercive administration had deemed advisable to take against Mussolini would have been heartily indorsed by the bulk of the Nation. But the people of this country will never fight for oil. We have plenty. i But the eleventh hour concessions obtained by this Anglo-American company were so earmarked as politi- cal that even the man in the street, usually considered as a dumb-bell by high finance, could see through it. It is possible that the British people, confined in their small island, might think it worth while fighting for raw materials. But it is a cinch that the American people won't. And in this’ lies the psychological error of the Standard Oil Co. * % kX Of course, this move was in- tended to open a vast field of international complications. Under the terms of the trans- actions Selassie was to receive & handsome amount of cold cash. This would have enabled him to start purchasing war wmaterial abroad in large quantities. Selassie instead of obtaining gold, would have been given large credits for purchases at Krupps, Vickers- Armstrong, Skoda, Schneider and other important ammunition manu- facturing companies, 5 ‘The war materials were to bé taken to Abyssinia in foreign bottoms and through a large portion of the Italian ture and export of munitions under a system of licenses, fleet, already concentrated in the terranean. Eastern Medi | secretive Englishman | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 1, 1935—PART O Rickett a Mystery Man to Shed Light On Deals of Negotiator, : Radioed from London, this pic- ture shows Francis M. Rickett, British promoter, who negotiated .concessions with Emperor ~ Haile Selassie. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. but he never discussed his business POWERS WEAKEN ON CURBING ALY Fearing Sanctions May Fire Europe’s Powder Keg, Nations Hold Back. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 31. — Reports reaching Geneva on the eve of a fate- ful meeting of the council of the League of Nations next week indicated tonight there is no general sentiment to apply sanctions against Italy in case she declares war upon Ethiopia. From information sent to the seat of the League, the sentiment appears to be that sanctions may endenger & European war. Even Scandinavian countries, keen enthusiasts for the League, are reported hesitant concern- ing them. An air of keen expectancy, but al> one of gloom, pervades Geneva. Despite the supreme efforts Britain and France are known to be making to avoid war, the future appears highly uncertain. The general impression is that Mus- solini has gone.so far toward war it will be difficult for him to accept a compromise solution without affecting his position at home. Informed cir- cles generally predict he will insist on military occupation of at least some part of Ethiopia. Reports Mussolini intends to de- undertakings with me or the family. | mand Ethiopia’s expulsion from the “I do not think my husband is able to speak Amharic (the language of Ethiopia), but he has a happy knack of dealing with foreign people, gen- erally getting what he wants from | them.” One of Rickett's friends said the promoter, who is master of hounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire, “is a man of tremendously big ideas, who has carried out negotiations for big undertakings in many parts of Europe and the Near East.” This Changing World lared Colossal Bluff on Part of Selassie, Despairing of League. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. As lcng as Selassie had no money, the Italians, it is said, did not con- emplate proclaiming a blockade of Abyssinia. It would have opened possibilities of international compli- cations, which Mussolini seeks to avoid, and he was not worried about the few rifles and machine guns Se- lassie coud have purchased atroad. But the day it is positively known that the Abyssinians are going to be supplied with war material in large quantities it is likely Italy will block- ade Abyssinia and enforce that block- ade. And what will happen when Italian cruisers stop French or Brit- ish merchantmen—we are out of the picture the moment the President signs the neutrality bill—is difficult to conceive. A British fleet is already con- centrated at the mouth of the Suez Canal. The Italians are concen- trated in Sicily. Mussolini’s hope of terminating the campaign against Abyssinia lies chiefly in the fact that the Abyssinians are unarmed. 1f he sees a possibility that the struggle will be protracted by Selassie obtaining war material in large quantities he will not hesitate to apply all the rules of the war and make the blockade eflective. ke The Tavarish of the Third Inter- nationale must be licking their chops at this most important news. What a° marvelous field for propa- ganda tkey have, playing on the old tune of “capitalist greed.” “ammuni- | tion makers’ war” and the other cries | which have been used for the last 18 years. CONCENTRATING TROOPS DJIBOUTI, FRENCH SOMALI- LAND, August 31 (#).—Great Britian is concentrating important military and aerial forces on the frontier of British Somaliland and is building a new airdrome. The French are expected to send military forces into Ethiopia along the line of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa rail- road to protect the right of way, in- formed quarters reported. League were an immediate subject of discussion. Informed quarters pointed out that since the African kingdom has been an unobtrusive member for near- {1y 10 years, it ,would be difficult to throw her out. A unanimous vote of the council would be necessary. The same vote also is required for sanc- tions. . A definite move has set in to elect Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish Free State, to the presidency of the League of Nations Assembly. ETHIOPIA PROTEST MEETING HALTED Police Invade “Harlem” District, Arresting 300 Men and Women. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, August 31.—Sweeping into the South Side “Harlem” district today in squad cars and patrol wag- | ons, police prevented a widely adver- | tised protest meeting against Italy's policy in Ethiopia. Thousands of Negroes, who lined | the streets in an area a half mile square, were kept constantly on the | move by a force of more than 150 policemen, who used their riot sticks freely. In less than two hours, more than 300 arrests were made. Commissioner of Police James P. Allman ordered the meeting and a | parade which was to have followed it | broken up, charging Communists with having inspired it. Both men and women were bundled |into patrols, most of the prisoners being white, Several women carried bu? 1 | olice searched all those arrested, and said Communist literature was | confiscated. - PLAN MALTA DEFENSE VALETTA, MALTA, August 31 (®). —An official announcement said today a boom defense would be laid across island defenses. As the announcement was made the bulk of the Mediterranean fleet was drawing in around the Suez Canal for | what has been announced as “routine” maneuvers. Stevedores and soldiers | ments to bring Malta’s defenses up | to their full schedule. i Ethiopia (Cpntinued From First Page.) | $125,000) in gold coin or bullion, or | its equivalent, and a royalty of one duced for the first 25 years. Then the royalty would be increased. As soon as a pipeline is considered commercially justifiable, the company shall begin construction of a pipe- loading tank vessels is made available. (Ethiopia is landlocked.) If a pipeline is not four years after acces | company shall abandon all rights. | In the vent of a state of emergency, of which the government shall be the sole judge, the company must attempt to fill all the government's | petroleum and similar needs. The gov. ! ernment also may use the company’s | communications systems. laced within Selassie’s U. S. Financial Adviser Called One-Man Brain Trust E. A. Colson of New Jer- sey Busy Stabilizing Ethiopian Currency. Credited With Inspiring Restrained Policy of Emperor. - Everett Andrew Colson, American, and financial adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie, who, according to dispatches from Addis Ababa played an impor- tant role in negotiating the far-reach- ing economic concessions to Anglo- American finanacial interests as a means of averting war with Italy, is Ethiopia’s “one-man brain trust.” Mr. Colson is a resident of Bound Brook, N. J. He was selected as finan- cial adviser to the Emperor on Sep- tember 27, 1930, from a list of finan- cial experts submitted by the State Department here to representatives of the Ethiopian government. He is re- ceiving $9,000 a year for reorganizing the country's finances and stabilizing the curr-ncy. As a result of his studies, the government has been tax- ing certain articles, such as silk, per- £ es and wines. 5] Colson is generally credited with having inspired the restrained policy of the Emperor in not provoking Italy caring the mounting crisis and also in calming fiery tribal chiefs clamor- ing for action Colson is described as grappling myriad troubles of national impor- tance in addition t9 desling with the EVERETT ANDREW COLSON. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. intricate matters of finance affecting mobilization and maintenance of fleld armies, as well as supervision of general government revenues. He frequently works 20 hours a day, di- viZing his time between the palace, where 1. confers at length with the Emperor, and the dual office of the ministry of foreign affairs and finance. The short time that he has away from his duties.he spends with his wife in | their small bungalow on an obscure street of Addis Ababs, surrounded by native huts, | found in the pockets of some, and | the entrance to Grand Harbor here | next week as a further bolstering of | labored at Southampton loading arma- | shilling six pence per ton of oil pro- | line, provided a suitable port for| to a port, the | BRITISH ATTITUDE PLEASES ITALIANS Advice to Selassie to Hold Up Oil Deal Expected to Pacify Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME, August 31.—Italian official circles received tonight with satisfac- tion, mingl-1 with reserve, a state- ment by t-e British government ad- vising Emperor Haile Selassie to withkold concessicas he has granted American and English interests. A government spokesman said inas- much as it had refrained from com- menting upon reports of the granting of the concessions while awaiting offi- cial corroboration, it could do nothing less than await official corroboration of the strong stand England was re- portci t> have taken against the con- cessions. Dino Grandi, the Italian Ambassa- dor to London, was asked for full de- tails upon Britain’s attitude. Well informed circles were repre- sented as feeling the English action would pacify Italian feelings, which have run high today against what some regarded as “another British trick” to nullify the Italian program in Exst Africa. The newspaper Giornale d'Italia, in an article written by Virginio Gayda, «itor, who is considered to be excel- lently informed wupon the govern- ment’s plans, assailed the concessions. Gayda said they could not fail to arouse Italian hostility and would violate three treaties, including the tri-power one of 1906. PARIS SEES PERIL IN DEAL. Officials Believe Concession May Cause International Complications. PARIS, August 31 (#)—French officials said today it was “very inter- esting” to learn of Anglo-American oil concessions in Ethiopia and they pri- vately intimated the situation might prove to be a bomb which would ex- plode. Premier Laval, with only two days to reflect before meeting Anthony Eden, British minister for League af- fairs, here Monday, went to the coun- try last night to think things over. His advisers said there were several | possibilities, including these: 1. The loss of oil rights may show Mussolini war may be in vain and he had better get concessions peaceably with League support. 2. Italy may protest that the con- cession is a violation of the 1906 treaty between her, France and Eng- land. 3. Mussolini may think a delay would be costly and may march soon to prevent Emperor Haile Selassie | from selling out Ethiopia’s economic | system. Meanwhile the commission to arbi- trate the Ualual incident between | | Italy and Ethiopia decided today to| | extend its deliberations until Monday, despite the suggestion of the League | of Nations Council that a report naming the aggressor be completed before midnight tonight. 1 | (Continued From First Page.) part of the Ethiopian Emperor to in- | volve Britain and the United States in a ‘defense of rights,’ it has already | failed.” Aircraft Speeded. British aircraft factories went on| a 24-hour schedule today. The bombshell of the concessions was dropped just when the govern- | ment was doing ‘everything to avoid | moves which might give other nations | occasion to think British interest in | | the Italo-Ethiopian dispute was selfish. Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, who is suffering from arthritis at Nor- folk, directed an investigation into the deal. Sir Sydney Barton, Minister | to Ethiopia, was told to make a full | inquiry. While the aircraft: schedule was speeding up, the air ministry appealed for pilots to fiy 2,000 new machines. New training camps will be established | within six months. Fleet Maneuvers. As the British Mediterranean Fleet. | which left Malta Thursday, neared stations around the Suez Canal, the home fleet assembled at Portland be- | fore starting Fall maneuvers a week ahead of schedule. Diplomatic representatives made | final reports on developments in the | | Ethiopian dispute to principal coun- | tries. Anthony Eden, minister for League | affairs, will go to Paris Monday for a | special conference with Premier Laval | preliminary to the Council meeting at | Geeva Wednesday. Ecen hopes to| ! bring French policy more in line with Britain’s. London is still unable to feel it can | count definitely upon a strong French | stand for joint League action, but felt | France would choose the League in- stead of Mussolini in the event of a showdown. OHIOAN NAMED HEAD OF DELTA TAU DELTA N. Ray Carroll New President of Fraternity—Pittsburgh Cho= sen 1937 Convention City. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 31.—N.| Ray Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, was | elected president of Delta Tau Delta, college social fraternity, at its na- tional convention here today. Pitts- burgh was selected as the 1937 conven- tion city. The convention is held every two years. Carroll succeeds Harold Tharp of Indianapolis. Other officers elected: J. C. Creary, Palo Alto, Calif., vice president; Owen C. Orr, New York City, alumni secretary; Roscoe C. Groves, Kansas City, treasurer; Har- old D. Myer, Chapel Hili, N. C., secre- tary, and F. Darrell Moore, Troy, N. Y. supervisor of scholarship. watches — diamonds — gold I W ‘ola" xeld ‘and "Sasine SPOT British Statesman Declares U.S. Can Aidin Keeping Peace Lord Parmoor Believgs People Opposed to Conflict. . Thinks 1l Duce Facing Loss of His Power in African Crisis. (Note: In the following article the 82-year-old Baron Parmoor of Frieth, one of Britain’s few remain~ ing elder statesmen, appeals for “America and Britain to join to- gether as meutrals to stop this Ethiopian business.” Baron Parmoor 18 a former lord president of councii, Jormer leader of the House of Lords and was a friend of former Presi- dents Taft and Wilson.) BY LORD PARMOOR. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) PARMOOR, Henley - on - Thames, England, August 31.—When I was at Geneva in 1924 as head of the British delegation, we produced a protocol, a series of amendments to the frame- work of the League Covenant, whereby all disputes without question are com- pelled to be submitted either to arbi- tration, conciliation or to World Court decision. I hoped thus international common law might gradually be instituted, having the same authority as the common law of the United States |and England. Dispute Well Covered. It was the government of Great | | | LORD PARMOOR. “Today there is no security apart from the authority of the League against an outbreak of a more disas- trous war than the ruinous outbreak of 1914. “Actually, T have a seciet feeling there won't be war. I am sure there will not, if the United States, Great Britain and her children within the | empire remain neutral. People do not want war, my villagers who from 1914 until 1918 had shunned me as a peace agitator, realized I was right when their sons and brothers came home and told them “I remember how, after the last war, | SANCTIONS TALK ASSAILED BY DUCE Says Those Who Would “Slow Up” Italy Will Be Disillusioned, By the Assoclated Press. TRENTO, Italy, August 31.— Premier Mussolini paid a surprise | visit today to the town where he was ohce a newspaper editor and told a | cheering populace, “Those who do |not know how to grasp the wheel of destiny in historic moments per- haps will never grasp it.” Il Duce drove into Trento after completion of gigantic war maneuvers in northern Italy near Bolzano. There he announced plans to call 1 200,000 more troops to the colors, and warned: “The world should know vet again that as long as one talks absolutely and provocatively of sanctions we will not give up one soldier, one sailor or one aviator.” (Great Britain is expected to press for sanctions by the League of Nations if other efforts to avert an Italo-Ethiopian war fail.) In his brief but bristling speech here, 11 Duce said: “All those who delude themselves with the idea of arresting or slowing up with miserable politics the force- ful march of this young Fascist Italy shall be disillusioned.” His entrance into the town, where he was once in bad repute with Austrian authorities, was that of a triumphant hero, Measures were announced at Britain which decided to JetumniGcrmnnsoldxerswerz]ustashumanu Bolzano calling 200,000 men into the suggestion of amendments to the Covenant, and thus sterilize any fur- ‘British Tommies. “I am sincerely sorry for my friend, service in September, which will | bring Italy’s forces to more than ther progress toward effective all- |the Emperor of Ethiopia, for he is up | 1,000,000 men. around disarmament. The present dispute between Italy and Ethiopia still, however, comes within the pro- | visions of the Covenant as it stands and the Kellogg pact. I have always regretted that the United States did not join the League of Nations, but it is clear, of course, that in some respects they have a freer hand outside the habit of centuries-old disputes in which the several states of Europe from time to time have | been corcerned. “I gratefully remember, however, the words of my {riends, the late Presidents Taft and Wilson, with whom I was in | close agreement at 2 meeung in the United States, where the proposition was formulated that steps be taken without delay to make any further out- break of the World War impossible. against Mussolini, who knows the turn- ing point in his career has arrived. The fact is Mussolini had wonderful suc- cess to lead Italy so long and I am afraid he is in for trouble if he attacks Ethiopia, for the Italians are soft— they are not fighters. | that tHe Ethiopians are Christians. | Their greatest pride is in their Chris- tianity. I was able to appreciate this fact when in 1926 I entertained at tea | Emperor Haile Selassie—Ras Tafari, as ! he was then—and his suite. There 15 still a chance for him and for Italy. “If the love of which Dante wrote carnot move Mussolini, then we and the French will have to start employing sanctions in a quiet way—for example, closing the Suez Canal by authority of | the League.” Neutrality Law Explained President I's Directed to Enumerate Arms, Ammuni- tion or Implements of War Under Embargo to Belligerents. By the Associated Press. Intended to safeguard the United States against being drawn into war, the neutrality law signed by President Roosevelt yesterday provides: “That upon the outbrezk or during the process of war between, or among, two or more foreign states, the Presi- dent shall proclaim such fact, and it shall thereafter be unlawful to export arms, ammunition or implements of war from any place in the United States, or possession of the United States, to any port of such belligerent states, or to any neutral port for trans- shipment to, or for the use of a bel- ligerent country.” The President is directed to enumer- ate the arms, ammunition or imple- certificates, valid for five years, may | Closkey, Brig. Gen. Manus; ments of war whose export is pro- hibited. This section expires February 29, 1936. Although it is made mandatory on the President to embargo arms ship- ments to the original belligerents, a any exporter to ship munitions from G provision in the resclution gives him discretionary power to extend the em- bargo to “other states as and when they become involved in such war.” Can Extend Embargo. The President is given discretionary power to issue a proclamation making it unlawful for any American vessel to transport arms and munitions to beliigerent countries or to neutrals for trans-shipment. He is authorized, if deemed ad- visable, to require vessels to post bonds as a guarantee they are not evading the embargo by transporting war sup- plies to war or supply ships of bel- ligerent nations, and to issue a procla- , matién forbidding belligerent sub- marines to enter American ports for refueling or supplies. A distinct section establishes the National Munitions Control Board, made up of the Secretaries of State. Treasury, War, Commerce, Navy, and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House For- eign Affairs Committee, or members designated by them. | | within 90 days to require that all | manufacturers or exporters of mu- nitions shall register with the Sec- retary of State and obtain licenses permitting them to operate. The reg- istrption fee is set at $500 and the be renewed for five-year periods. The United States Government is | prohibited from purchasing arms and munitions from any unregistered manufacturer and it is unlawful for this country without a license. All violations of the law are subject to fines of $10,000, imprisonment for | not more than five years, or both, {and the vessel or vehicle of trans- portation is subject to confiscation. The Munitions Board is required to make annual reports to Congress of any data concerning the manufacture |or export of arms and munitions | which may be useful in the determi- nation of questions connected with control of the industry. . Steel Firms Prosper. Czechoslovakia's steel industry is prospering. “I wish the Italians would r(‘a]ize: The State Department is directed | Standing at the top of a valley, with a vast army below him—in- fantry, cavalry and artillery units— and King Victor Enunanuel beside him, Mussolini said: “The demonstration you have fur- nished these last days, above all the highest morale which animates you, give us a sense of security that il tomorrow the country calls you fulfil tasks requiring more sacrifices, you will do so with enthusi courage and resolute decision to very end.” to STAR ATHLETE WEDS LORETTA TURNBUL | Speedboat Queen Becomes Br’ of Thomas Richert in Cali- fornia Church Ceremony. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 31- Loretta Turnbull, 23, speedboat queen |and Thomas Richert, 25, star athlet | were married today at a quiet cere- mony in St James-by-the-Sea, pictur- | esque Episcopal Church in suburban La Jolla. Only members of the two familie: and a fow close friends were present After a short reception the couple went aboard the Turnbull yacht for a brief hcneymoon cruise through local waters. They wil; motor East in time for Richert to resume his medical studies at McGill Unjversity, Mon- | treal, September 15. ARMY ORDERS. ‘The following-named officers of the United States Army are named as members of a board to meet here on September 30 and thereafter for the purpose. of making classifications of officers: Callan, Maj. Gen. Robert E.; Mc- Tracy, Brig. Gen. Joseph P.. Darrah, Brig. Gen. Thomas W.; Scott, Brig. Gen. Ernest D.: Miles, Brig. Gen. Perry L.; | Conkling, Brig. Gen. Arthur S. Pickering. Col. Richard R., Adjutant eneral’s Department, named a re- corder, and Hyssong, Capt. Clyde L., Adjutant General's Department, as as- sistant recorder, without vote. GUN REPAIRING 5-Shot Repeaters con- verted to comply with New York Duck Law. Fries, Beall & Sharp FISHING AND HUNTING SUPPLIES | 734 10th St. N.W. | TAXES! —won’t seem so big if you pay by our monthly deposit plan The lump-sum expense which taxes im- pose need cause you no worry, even though you may not have the necessary funds to meet your assessments. Morris Plan was established to give help- ful em assistance in just You can arrange throu financial ergencies. such gh the Morris Plan for a loan under terms that will enable you to pay your taxes just the same as you now pay your rent, You can thus cancel your tax indebted- ness through a convemient process of monthly deposits. When you obtain a loan for the purpose of paying your taxes or for any other reason you will have an entire year for Tep: ayment. Loans may be made from The Morris Plan Bank with character and earning power as the principal basis “ for credit extension. MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision of U. S. Treasury 1408 H St. N. W.