Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional showers tonight and tomor- row; no change in temperature; gentle northeast and east winds. Temperatures —Highest, 69, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 11:15 a.m. today. Full report on page A-4. New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 33,361 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he #n + WASHINGTON, D. OIL DEALS OWN BUSINESS, SELASSIE TELLS ENVOYS AS 3 POWERS PROTEST British, French#(;mund Sapped and Italians Object. ALL LEGATIONS ARE STUPEFIED Big Nations’ Plans Upset by Rights Given Firm. BULLETIN. LONDON, September 2 (#).—The Reuters correspondent at Diredawa, Ethiopia, said today he had heard an unconfirmed report that an ad- vance guard of 1,000 Italian troops with 1,500 native troops had crossed the Ethiopian frontier west of As- sab. The report was that the Ital- ian force had entered the Damakil country and that the natives were abandoning their villages. The Ethiopian Situation Today. The British, Frerch and Italian Min- isters to Ethiopia were told by Em- peror Haile Selassie that he wouid do as he pleased in granting con- cessions. All three of the diplcmats made representations = concerning the oil rights granted a United States corporation. The Italian cabinet was expected to meet to formulate a national poucy on the matter. The government was anxious to fix responsibility. Anthony Eden, British minister for League of Nations affairs, went to Paris to confer with Premier Laval. It was believed the Ethiopian oil concession would be uppermost Both will continue on to Geneva | for the League Council session| MUSSOLINI SEEKS Eden Flies t by Oil Grant, o Consult Laval British to Maintain Peace Policy, but Continent Regards It Now as “Shopkeeper’s Cunning.” By the Associated Press. | LONDON, September 2.—Anthony | Eden, British minister for League of | Nations affairs, flew to Paris today to | confer with Premier Pierre Laval in the hope of strengthening opposition | to* the Italo-Ethiopian war at the League Council meeting Wednesday. | Eden will attempt to get France's| pioning the League as an attempt to, signature to the joint report of the | collapsed tri-power conference, which | urged sanctions against the aggressor | in such a war. Revelations of a $50,000,000 -deal negotiated by Francis M. Rickett,| Briton, which gave an American com- pany a 75-year oil and mineral con- | cession over half of Ethiopia, added complications to Eden's formidable | task of trying to secure unqualified French support at Geneva. | Despite the hurried and almost un- | precedented denial of the British gov- | ernment that it was either aware of or involved in the deal, official circles | here regarded the developments as most unfortunate. It was stated there would be not the slightest change in British policy at Geneva, even though the Rickett deal is ‘nterpreted by the continental press as a stroke of Brit- ain's “shopkeeper’s cunning,” dis- closing her whole attitude in cham- mask British imperial interests in Ethiopia. Eden was confronted with a new ele- ment of distrust on the part of France, which is already leaning toward Italy— particularly toward Italy’s mission of bayonets. The rising tide of British public opinion against Italy was evidenced on several fronts, including a demand by the Archbishop of York, Dr. William Temple, that Britain uphold the League covenant obligations. “If this involves the use of armed forces,” said the archbishop, “we ought to be prepared to use them.” OIL DEAL AUTHOR Wants to Fix Responsibility for Concession Blocking | Wednesday. A squadron of British cruisers and destroyers arrived at Haifa, Pales- tine, from Malta, increasing the concentration of British fighting | ships near the entrance to the Suez Canal. By the Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, September 2.—The | British, French and Italian Ministers, | upon instructions from their govern- ments, today made representations to Emperor Haile Selassie concerning the } concession of oil and mineral resqurces | to an American corporation. | The African potentate only beamed upon them and said he had a right to do as he pleased within his own | that it gave any cognizance or any His African Aims. By the Associated Press. ROME, September 2 —Ministers of Premier Mussolini’s cabinet returned from their military service in the war maneuvers today and found among their first duties the fomulation of a definite Italian attitude toward the granting of oil concessions in Ethiopia to an American corporation—termed here “a new African trick.” ‘The Italian government is anxious to straighten out the responsibilities of this affair, particularly in view of the denial by the British government | support to the negotiations. Speeches Are Praised. Italy also busied itself with its house. Sir Sidney Barton, the British Min- | ister, urged the Emperor to recall the | concession, but the latter only re- plied, “Peace be unto you” and re- minded the British Minister one of | his own countrymen, Frances M. Rickett, who negotiated the conces- sion, was already soaring over the African mountains to Europe with a signed and sealed charter in his pocket. Legations Are Dumfounded. The stupefaction caused in the for- | eign legations by the Emperor's grant continued. The feeling prevailed that | the soft-spoken but astute little sov- ereign had thrown an Ethiopian mon- key wrench into the international ma- | chinery, upsetting all the calculations | and plans of the powers, and perhaps | forcing a postponement of the League of Nations Council session. Previously the Emperor told the| Associated Press that the pressure | of the British government would be useless in making him revoke the con- cession “Surely,” he said, “the British gov- | ernment cannot interfere in a conces- | sion granted to the United States. “As a sovereign state, we have the | right to do anything we please in our | own territory. U. S. No Party to Treaty. “The United States is not a party to the 1906 treaty in which England, France and Italy merely pledged themselves to do nothing to encroach : on the interests of others. “That is one of the reasons I gave the concession to Standard Oil. As the agreement ic already signed, sealed and delivered, I do not see how it can be recalled, if such a thing is sug- gested by the British government.” Emperor Haile Selassie, who made these statements in an interview, turned to discussion of threatened war with Italy. He said his warriors had sufficient arms and his country suffi- cient resources to carry on for some time. But he attacked the arms em- bargo as unfair. “We have not thought of ceasing our efforts for peace, nor of resorting to force to repel a further invasion. In the event that war is thrust upon us, we expect that these arms em- bargoes will be removed.” To Protect Foreigners. Should the League of Nations fail to halt war, the Emperor said, the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners within the African empire would be protected to the limit of the Ethiopians’ powers. The de- tails of these protective measures, he said, would be announced when and if hostilities begin. Pressed as to whether he would cede territory to Italy to avoid war, the Lion of Judah said: “I do not wish to institute the prac- tice of giving bribes in order to induce potential aggressors to refrain from ‘war and respect their territorial obli- gations.” MOTORS CARRY ARMY IN BATTLE OF MARNE By the Associated Press. MOURMELON, France, September 2—France’s motorized army began “the battle of the Marne” at dawn today, when 40,000 men assembled for the Fall military maneuvers in the region between Paris and the German frontier, the historic theater of the | on unspecified ships. World War. 2 » campaign in East Africa, feeling sure | that II Duce had once more given | pause to “meddlers” in his terse speeches of Saturday. The military port of Naples hummed with activity in preparation for the embarkation of 4,000 Blackshirt troops marching there from the training camps near the mountain City of | Benevento, where they training. They sail during the week | A dozen small cargo boats are load- ing supplies for departure this week. These sailings follow those of the | liner Conte Biancamano, which has gone with 3,490 troops, and the Um- bria, which took 2,625 men and officers to the military zone. Soldiers Return Home. As an aftermath of the big military meneuvers throughout Italy, various towns bedecked themselves gaily for the return of the dozens of regiments. Soldiers returning from the barracks at Bolzano, Trento, Udine and other points which sheltered 11 Duce or King Victor Emanuel during the maneuvers joined the populace in a demonstration of favor to the regime. | They shouted: “Long live the King! | Long live I1 Duce!” The sailings in the next two weeks are expected to fufill the total of 200,000 men desired by Mussolini for East African service. . POSTAL CLERKS OPEN ATLANTA CONVENTION| Vincent Burke, Deputy to First Assistant Postmaster General, to Address Session Today. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 2—The Na- tional Convention of the Federation of Post Office Clerks and Women's Auxiliary today opened their formal program. More than 700 delegates were regis- tered before the convention opened and additional registrations today and tomorrow were expected to swell the roll. to 1,500. An address by Vincent Burke, dep- uty to the First Assistant Postmaster General, was scheduled for the open- 1 ing session. Burke and Frank Ellis, assistant supervisor of postal service, were here as representatives of Post- master General James A. Farley, who was unable to attend. Lewis Fisher, Civil Service commis- sioner, is expected to arrive from ‘Washington today to take part in the sessions. RS END SEARCH FOR FLYER Coast Guards Believe Phillips Lost at Sea. NEW YORK, September 2 (#).— Coast Guard officials today called off the search for Donald K. Phillips, 23, aviator missing since last Wednesday. Searchers who have scanned the shoreline from Salem, Mass., to Prov- idence, R. I, declared they believed Phillips was lost ¥in the sea off Long Island.” ~ Phillips, formerly of Providence, disappeared after he took off for an unannounced destination. - His wife, who said she had not been told of the prospective flight, asked the Coast Guard to begin the search. RED ROW BLAMED IN ENBASSY DELAY Strained Relations Seen Blocking U. S. Building in Moscow. By the Associated Press. Strained official relations between the United States and Soviet Russia was given today as one reason for blocking plans to erect a new Amer- ican Embassy in Moscow in the im- mediate future. ‘The Foreign Service Building Com- mission, headed by Chairman Mc- Reynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, it was learned, already is considering allocation of $1,100,000 previously earmarked for eonstruction of the new embassy for building pur- poses in other foreign countries. Administration officials declined further comment on the future of Soviet-American relations, brought into question by Secretary of State Hull's statement of policy Saturday aight in which he asserted continued | 3 | friendly intercourse depended “on the | Washington's population had taken attitude and action of the Soviet | government” in suppressing subversive activities of the Third Internationale, a world-wide Communist organization. After reviewing relations between had been the two Nations since recognition of | the Soviet Union, Hull said flatly the United States held the Soviet Union- accoratable undér the pledge of non- | interference given President Roosevelt by Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, for unfriendly acts and propaganda originating in Russia which had a bearing on this country. Observers here interpreted Hull's statement—which was not sent to Moscow and calls for no reply—as placing respeasibility for curbing the Third Internationale’s activities squarely up to the Soviet authorities. Officials said piegonholing of plans for construction of the Moscow em- bassy was not entirely caused by the controversy over Communistic agita- tica. Although building plans have been completed for some time, em- bassy officials are understood to have encountered numerous obstacles dur- | ing the last year and the project was making extremely slow headway. SKIPPER MUST DIE FOR RESCUE NEGLECT Soviet Court Dooms Captain Who Let 27 Perish in Fire on Tanker. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 2.—A steam- ship captain who stood by while 27 persons perished on a blazing tanker in the Caspian Sea was sentenced to death today by the Supreme Court. At the same time the court an- nounced death sentences for two spec- ulators convicted of receiving millions of rubles from the state bank’s financ- ing of bogus co-operative organiza- tions. The sea captain, tried at Baku, was named Krivonosov. His freighter was towing a Soviet tanker May 27 when a fire broke out on the latter. The skipper cut the tow line and let the blazing vessel drift, rescuing only two members of the crew, who clung all night to an overturned lifeboat. ‘The speculators were convicted at Kiev. One was head of an illegal business, the other chief accountant at & communal bank. Numerous other bank employes and city treasury workers convicted of complicity were sentenced to prison. No Late Editions . Today Because of the holiday there will be no 5:30 or Sports Final Editions of The Star today. Night Final subscribers will receive the Regular Edi- tion. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., - LABOR DAY PLANG Many Return to Capital From Resorts as Chill Rain Upsets Play. Showers and leaden skies marred the Washington has devoted solely to rest and relaxation. Many of the hopeful thousands who had trouped to nearby beaches and | resorts for the long week end were re- turning by noon today, disappointed { that the drizzle and low temperatures of yesterday and today had spoiled their brief vacation. The weather prediction locally was for continuance of the chill showers | through tonight and tomorrow, with | no temperature rise in sight until Wed- nesday or Thursday. Washington was not alone in its Labor day weather misfortune. Rain blanketed Pennsylvania, Maryland, Northern Virginis and the entire mid- dle section of the country from Texas north, although the West, New York and New England enjoyed clear skies. At 10:30 a.m. today the thermometer tered but 61 degrees, considerably below the average for this time of year. No Parades Held. For the first time since 1922 there was no parade, either of firemen or union labor, and a goodly portion of advantage of the lull for excursions. | There was almost a record number in the exodus, according to bus line, rail- road and air line officials. At Union Station it was said the outbound crowds Saturday and yesterday were the largest since Christmas. Visitors to the Capital kept the city filled, however. During the week end there were incoming special trains from New York, Philadelphia, Scran- ton, Wilkes-Barre, Altoona, Harrisburg, York, Reading and Western Maryland. With Congress adjourned and Presi- dent Roosevelt away, officialdom here took Jno notice of the day. ‘The quiet was in marked contrast to (See HOLIDAY, page 3.) CAMPBELL MAY TRY FOR RECORD TODAY Will Test Racer on Salt Flats Before Deciding on Speed Dash. By the Associated Press. BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah, September 2.—Sir Malcolm Campbell may face the hazards of sun glare and mirages in & new land speed test on the salt flats here today. Although planning only & short test of his famous Bluebird racing car, Sir Malcolm was said by associates to be likely to change his mind and make a record attempt immediately if he finds driving conditions to his liking. The six-ton juggernaut in which the 50-year-old Englishman set the pres- ent record of 276.816 miles an hour at Daytona Beach, Fla., was tuned and ready for the first run over the graded 13-mile straightaway prepared for him. But it was impossible to forecast whether the glistening white salt— baked by 2,000 years of desert sun—would provide traction enough to attain the terrific speed sought. WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN STRANGER'S HOME Suicide Indicated—Couple Finds Body on Bed—Son Admits Knowing Her. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, September 2—The bullet- plerced body of a well-dressed ‘young woman, found lying on a bed in ble home where she was a provided a riddle for Denver MAC, GET IN ToucH WITH JIMFARLEY AND FIND OUT HOW JiM HAM RATES AS A PROPHET. King M ay Be Absent as Belgium SHUWERS I]AMPEN Pays Farewell Tribute to Astrid |Leopold in Seclusion as Thousands of His Subjects Reach Brussels for Funeral of Queen Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. | BRUSSELS, September 2—Fear pold would not be able to attend the | funeral of Queen Astrid tomorrow. ‘The monarch, twice bereaved in the last 18 months, remains in seclusion !in his castle, shut off from all con- tact with the world and even from sympatRhetic overtures from the scores of royalty gathering here from all | parts of Europe to attend Belgium's farewell to its Queen, killed motoring | in Switzerland. ‘The King's three children, who are with him, have been told of their | mother's death, sbut they cannot | understand its meaning. They will not be allowed to witness the pomp which will attend their mother to the grave, The funeral procession will begin at 10:15 a.m. (4:15 Eastern standard time), headed by detachments of cav- alry and infantry, with other service men carrying flags and banners., The ening Star MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. | pallbearers will be members of the | royal family and of foreign royal! | Labor Day holiday, the first in 13 years | Was expressed today that Kng Leo- | families, members of the diplomatic corps and government officials. | | The King, if he is able to attend the services, will follow his Queen's coffin on foot. The street lights have been hung with crepe along the route of the pro- | cession, which is the same as that followed by the funeral of King Albert. | | The walls of the magnificent fif- | |teenth century Cathedral of St.| | Gedule have been draped with black | and silver hangings in preparation for the solemn obsequies. After the serv- | ice the body will be taken to the royal | | vault in the Church of Our Lady of | the Lake for burial. Brussels, mourning for the Queen, is & city of whispers. Outside the pal- ace, where her body lies in state, great crowds stood today, 'with scarcely a murmur heard. By every train and highway tens of thousands ef mourn- ers are pouring into the city, to gather | in the hushed streets. WOMAN SLAIN, 13 SHOT INMILL 0T South Carolina Governor Calls National Guard in Pelzer Qutbreak. By the Associated Press. PELZER, S. C, September 2—A woman was killed and at least 15 wounded in a short-lived but terrific gun battle at the strike-torn Pelzer Manufacturing Co. mills here early today as workers attempted to break picket lines. Two companies of National Guard troops were called out by Gov. Olin Johnston. - Mrs. Bertha Kelly, 21, mother of two children, was the one slain. She was killed during the fighting at the company's main plant. Two Critically Injured. J. P. McDougal, a watchmaker tak- ing his son to work, was perhaps fatally wounded in a second gun b: tle at the No. 4 plant, a mile away where the majority were wounded. Clarence Dunlap was said to be in critical condition. Witnesses said approximately 500 pistol and rifie bullets screamed through the air during the two fights that lasted but five minutes. All those shot were said to be mem- bers of the group of strikers and pickets that ringed the plants shortly before opening time. A half stick of dynamite was ex- ploded in front of the main plant, but (See RIOT, page 2.) PIUS’ SPEECH AWAITED Officials Look With AExpect:ncy for Address to Ex-Soldiers. CASTEL GANDOLFO, September 2 (#)—Vatican prelates today predicted an important speech, possibly dealing with ~ the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, when Pope Pius addresses ex-soldiers at the basilica of St. Paul Saturday. The Pope will leave Saturday to celebrate mass for the International Ex-Servicemen’s Congress, following which he will deliver the address to which officials looked with expectancy. Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Lost and Found Women’s Features......B-12 Vital Wx-m--"’ GITIES BARRICADE - AS STORM NEARS Cuba and Florida Fear Trop- ical Disturbance Moving " Toward U. S. By the Associated Press. | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 2—Cuba and extreme Southern Florida kept anxious eyes today on| & tropical storm which moved threat- | eningly westward from the Bahamas apparently headed for the 90-mile water gap between Havana and Key ‘West. Early today the Army Meteorologi- | | cal Service in Havana said the storm center was located about 180 miles | | each of the Cuban capital and was/ moving slowly westward with in- creasing intensity. Observers reported hurricane winds near the storm center, Warnings Sent Out. Expecting the storm to pass through the channel between Havana and Key West sometime this after- noon, Cuban forecasters warned Havana and Mantanzas along the north coast of the island to take precautions against tidal waves. A second tropical storm ecrossed the coast of Mexico south of Vera Cruz late yesterday, sweeping the coastline with violent winds, but ap- parently doing no great damage. Town Virtually Evacuated, ‘The New Orleans Weather Bureau said the disturbance was of moderate intensity and apparently was losing most of its force as it swept inland. The town of Isabella Des Auga in Santa Clara Province virtually was evacuated last night as residents fled to higher ground. . Key West boarded up in prepara- tion for the storm and shipping in the Keys and as far up the coast as Miami took to cover. Reports to the Colonial government ! at Nassau said the Bahama Islands escaped with minor damage when the storm passed over Long Island and Jjust below Andros Island. KEY WEST FEARS HAVOC. Citizsens Fear Brunt of Approaching Storm. MIAMI, Fla, September 2 (#).— Florida’s extreme southern tip, bar- ricaded behind storm shutters, today awaited the assualt of another of the tropical storms that periodically lash the area. Key West, the Nation’s southern- most city, seemed likely to bear the brunt of the disturbance, apparently headed for the Florida Straits. However, coastal towns as far north as Fort Lauderdale were prepared, and the few thousand residents of the thinly populated Florida keys made ready for high winds. Miami, alternating between light ‘The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. | has been a requisite. | with which this is viewed by Federal | taw permits, and for the extension of Cireulation, * FEDERATION HEAD CONDENINS ABUSE OF CVIL SERVICE Luther C. Steward Defends Merit System as Convention Opens in Yellowstone. POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF PERSONNEL SCORED Declares Public Is Awakening to Evils of Spoils System—As- s Rival Organization. BY J. A. FOX, Staff Correspondent of The Star. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo., September 2.—Sounding the keynote of the thirteenth con- vention of the National Federation of Federal Employes, Luther C. Steward, | president, in his report at the opening | session today, condemned abuses of civil service in Government the past two years have witnessed and pledged | the organization to seek corrective measures. Approximately 200 delegates were on hand as the convention started in Old Faithful Inn, and the visitors expected to participate included Sen- ator Wagner, Democrat, of New York; Senator. Carey, Republican, of Wyom- ing and Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, who arrived last night on a trip through the West. Defends Merit System. Assailing “the increasing number of virulent attacks on the merit sys- tem by rapacious spoilsmen,” Steward told the delegates that “not within the memory of any one now living has the merit structure in the Federal service been so beset by attacks, open and covert.” “The newly created agencies, in so far as personnel matters are con- cerned,” he said, “have for the main | part been whirlpools where every form of political and personal influence has dominated and qualification has been an incidental consideration. By congressional enactment and execu- tive order, positions by the thousand have been placed in a political cate- gory. Political influence in perma- nent establishments has not only been permitted, but in numerous instances “We shall continue with unremit- ting vigor our fight to eliminate from the Federal service the present men- acing evils of incompetent administra- { tion and of political manipulation of | personnel matters, until the Federal service is put upon a career basis and the citizens and taxpayers of the United States are able for the first time to secure adequate return for the expenditure of Federal funds for per- sonal service.” Public Is Awakening. He added that the public is recog- nizing the dangers of the spoils sys- | tem and no longer is apathetic. Along with Steward's address, the resolutions going before the conven- | tion were made public, and the number dealing with the merit system | issue demonstrated the importance workers all over the couatry. President Steward also unleashed | another attack on the rival American | Federation of Government Employes,; although he did not mention it by | name. ‘The omnibus bill for reforms in Goverament employment, sponsored by the latter organization and intro- duced by Representative Sirovich, Democrat, of New York, “unquestion- ably delayed consideration of Federal employe legislation,” he said, “par- ticularly as to the proposals for per- mitting the retirement of an employe at & much earlier age than present an annuity to a second life—com- monly referred to as a widow's annuity.” “Subsidized Racket.” Steward asserted that the other group, which he described as “the sub- sidized racket” of William Gugeen, president of the American Federation of Labor, of which it is an affiliate, had “created an unfavorable impres- sion” of Government workers “in the | minds of the general public.” Steward told the convention the next session of Congress would see a renewed effort to obtain extension of the classification act, an issue of im- portance to the employes who seek this pay scale for the field. “The President has been unfavor- able to classification legislation at the session just concluded due to the increased most involved,” he said. “We expect to secure definite and favorable action: at the next session.” The federation also is hopeful of having the marital status law modi- fled greatly, Steward said. Outlines Accomplishments. Steward outlined the legislative ac- complishments of the past two years, incfuding termination of the pay cut and removal of most other economy act's inequities. He emphasized, how- ever, that even though the ban is off of promotions, increased appropria- tions will be necessary to do much in this respect. ‘The annual repert of Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary treasurer, showed an increase of nearly 4,000 active members in the past two years, bring- ing the total to 44,368. Several thou- sand more are in arrears, she said. The majority of the delegates arrived here early last night, when the executive council met. Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Commission, will speak tomorrow or Wednesday and the election of officers also is due the latter day. All incumbents are expected to be named without oppo- sition, B —_— TEXANS FLEE FLOODS EL PASO, Tex., September 2 (#).— About 1,000 acres were inundated and several families moved out of their while the Coast Guard station at Fort. Lauderdale reported winds of 30 ¢ homes as the swollen Rio Grande broke through levees in four places near Fabens, 35 miles east of here, last night. An early check revealed no A SATURDAY'S 116 168 (P) Means Associated Press. SUNDAY'S Circulation, 129,142 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. MYSTERIOUS AUTO STORY PROBED IN MRS. ICKES' DEATH Witnesses’ Testimony on “Black Sedan” Conflicts. Attache Uncertain. SECRETARY GOES HOME FOR FUNERAL TOMORROW Seyfullah Says Victim Told Him She Had Confidence in Driver. Allen Dies. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex., September 2.— Persistent reports of a nearby “black sedan” in the isolated area where Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the cabinet | member, died in an automobile acci- dent, puzzled investigators today after a hit-run crash theory was abandoned. ‘Two witnesses who saw the wreck Saturday insisted a second car figured in the tragedy, while a filling station attendant, who also was a witness, supplied contradictory detajls. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Wash- | ington, D. C., newspaper woman, and Ibrahim Seyfullah, attache of the Turkish Embassy, were recovering from pelvic fractures suffered in the crash on the rugged Taos highway north of here. Allen Dies. Allen died at St. Vincent's Hospital this morning. He had been uncon- scious until late yesterday. Officials were unable to get a statement from him before he died. District Attorney David Chavez hoped to question the others shortly. ‘The body of Mrs. Ickes, distinguished as an author, legislator and reform leader, was escorted to Lamy, N. Mex, at the foot of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, by militia. Mrs. E. H. Oak- ley of Santa Fe, long-time friend, ac- companied the body toward Chicago, where it is due tomorrow by train. Seyfullah was quoted by E. J. House, State police head, as remegnbering vaguely a car so far ahead of their own that it resembled only a “black spot.” Vary on Second Car. But J. R. Modrall, an assistant at- torney general, brought a story from Magdalena Lopez, of a “black sedan” passing her driveway about the time of the accident. A. F. Snow, vaca- tioning from Los Angeles, insisted there was a second car while Robert Ferguson, filling station operator, saig the Ickes hired machine was alone. John Irving Pearce of Chicago, who was driving behind the Ickes party, told an undertaker he thought he saw a black sedan departing from the scene. House, in summarizing, said “we heard at fisst it was a case of hit- and-run driver, but there was no evi- dence the wrecked car had been struck | by another.” A coroner’s jury found Mrs. Ickes died of a fracture of the cervical verte- brae and possibly a skull fracture. Dr. R. O. Brown, the attending physician, said Mrs. Herrick seemed the least seriously injured of the three and that she probably would recover speedily. He said Seyfullah might be found to have suffered internal in- juries. The physician permitted no one but House to talk with the patients. Officers estimated the car was travel- ing between 60 and 70 miles an hour when it swerved and crashed. Seyfullah’s Story. “I remember we went around one car,” Seyfullah told House, “and it seemed to me we met another but I am not sure. Anyway it seemed the driver pulled to the right of the road for some black object went parallel for 50 paces or so, then cut sharply across the road. “Then we sgperved and the next thing I knew I was on my stomach trying to get up. “Mrs. Ickes was riding in the back seat with me and I remarked about the speed. She said she had perfect confidenc in Allen who had been driv- ing her for 15 years. I don't know how fast we actually were traveling but it was fast.” Fergusom, whose filling station at Velarde is within 100 yards of the accident scene, testified he saw the car turn over four times after his attention was attracted by the screech of tires. Chief House said a black substance found on the fender of the wrecked car was determined to he asphalt and not paint from another car, an earlier theory. The Ickes party was traveling from (See TCKES, page 3. Sl ALLEGED TERRORIST ARRESTED IN FRANCE Discovery Made During Patrol Preparatory to Paris Visit of Yugoslavian Premier. By the Associated Bress. MULHOUSE, France, September 2, —Police arrested an alleged terrorist early today shortly before the arrival of the train bearing Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch of Yugoslavia, who is en route to Paris for conversations with Premier Laval. Government agents and police au- thorities were stationed along the en- tire route of the premier’s train from the Swiss border to Paris. Police gave the name of the asserted terrorist as Budal Coloman, 45, who recently came from Marseilles. NEW YORK FLYERS HURT Two Young Aviators in Small Plane Crash at Ithaca. ITHACA, N. Y., September 2 (#).— Two young fiyers were seriously in- jured at 7 a.m. today when a small plane in which they were flying crashed at Cayuga Heights, Ithaca. They were Allen Austin, 32, and Scott Parsons, 30, both of Ithaca. They were rushed to a hospital,