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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. RADIOMEN FACING TASK IN ETHIOPIA American Link Success Un- certain With Prior Tests Necessary. The four naval radiomen, en route to Addis Ababa, Etbiopia, to estab- lish an emergency radio station to communicate with fhe State De- partment here, are confronted with @ task of uncertain proportions, it developed yesterday. State Depariment officials explained that while the radiomen are taking with them “a small field set,” a period of experimentation will be necessary to determine how it is going to work. Whether any relay radio station will be necessary between Washing- ton and Addis Ababa is one question that remains to be determined. Some radio officials believe the high-fre- quency apparatus of the Navy will earry well, with favorable weather conditions, between Northern Africa and this city. But the four Ameri- can radiomen, who are considered among the best men in their ratings in the Navy, will have to supply the real answer. The Navy Department announced fast week that the emergency wire- less will be rigged up so official Wash- ington will be able to communicate with the Ethiopian capital in the event normal communications break down. The naval men will work from the American Legation. Efficiency of Post. Great distances are known to have been covered in the past with the efficient naval ratlio. The Office of Naval Communications at the Navy Department handles a mass of traf- fic, not only for” the State Depart- ment, but for the other Government agencies as well. This saves Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. From the far-distant Philippines, the kilocycles come trooping into Washington from the Navy Yard at Cavite. But there it is normally necessary to have a relay station at San Francisco, so as to give the tired kilocycles, that have hopped across the Pacific. a “shot in the arm” to speed them on their way to Washington. With the Office of Naval Communications and its far- flung radio net, communication in the Navy, to which oter departments of the Government are entitled, is a speedy affair. The giant radio towers of the Navy, located at Arlington and Annapolis, are both utilized for sending. The Naval Research Laboratory at Belle- vue, is used for receiving, and con- stant experiments are going forward there to improve reception. This work is considered highly confidential and of great naval and military value. The laboratory will likely be called upon to assist in improving reception from Addis Ababa Tanner's Previous Duty. Chief Radioman Walter Edgar Tan- qer, 31, of New London, Conn., who heads the quartet, was on duty until & short time ago on the Reina Mer- cedes, the station ship at the Naval | Academy at Annapolis. He is a native of Hunnewell, Kans, and came into the Nayy in 1922. Since 1933 Radioman (First Class) John L. Cauthen, 26, of Auburn, Ala., was on duty at the Naval Radio wta- tion at Arlington. Auburn and enlisted in September, 1928. Radioman (Second Class) John Wil- fard Anslow, 33, was recently serving at the Naval Radio Station at Nor- folk. He was born at Cambridge, Mass., and enlisted in the Navy in July, 1921, Radioman (Second Class) Franklin Cavanah, 27, of P! phia, served recently in the Office of Naval Communications here. He was born in Sibley, I, and enlisted in August, 1927. These four men will serve at a little radio station in North Africa, which might become extremely im- portant to Uncle Sam should war crackle about their heads. Out from Arlington and Annapolis will go vital messages to them, sent by a man who sits at a transmission key in the busy Office of Naval Communications. Cecil Clty of Mamla. ‘The Spanish, in 1565, occupied the Philippines and a city government was established in 1571 in the native col- ony at the mouth of the Pasig River. 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Mussolini’s rejection of the League of Nations plan for the administration | of Ethiopia was neither brutal nor final. Not that he means to accept | This Changing World Washington Diplomat: Have Faint Hope War May Not Come. | war may be | quickly in Sicily, force in Africa with an eye not only to Ethiopia but to Egypt and the Su-!‘ dan. Mussolini worked hard and where he organized in a short time the Bay of Augusta |as a formidable air and submarine anything near what Geneva has pro- | posed. That is out of the question. He wants Ethiopia and nothing but Ethiopia without tags or strings at- tached to it. sladel- | despised oriental bargaining is some- times adopted even by the dignified diplomats of the big Western powers. Mussolini hopes that Great Britain and France might take advantage of the crack he has left in the door to squeeze out of a difficult and unpleas- ant situation. | While diplomats are mighty poor at | maintaining peace they are sometimes adroit at finding solutions which legal- ize a rape such as Mussolini intends on Ethiopia to have a legalistic coverage. ‘There is no doubt that Mussolini is | scared of a world war. But he is | others yield. He has learned since he became Italy’s dictator that if he sits tight and tells the British and the French: with you, but do not interfere in my business in Ethiopia for otherwise I | am determined to face any risk,” the others, who in their days have done the same thing Mussolini intends to do now regarding Selassie’s empire, may back out. ok Few wars have been more thor- oughly prepared and all possibilities taken into consideration than the Ital- ian campaign againsi Ethiopia. Ger- taught Mussolini a lesson. Despite the assurances from France and Great Britain some-eight months ago that under certain conditions these countries would not oppose the occupation of Ethiopia, Mussolini pre- pared his country for a possible war against almost any country in the world. 2 ks He has mobilized a large force on the Austrian border to forestall a Ger- man intervention in Austria. But in the meantime he has also quietly con- centrated an important force on the French border . . . “just in case.” Gen. Italo Balbo was “exiled” to Tripolis to organize an Italian air Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and watches into MONEY at— A.XKahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 43 YEARS at 935 F STREST But Il Duce knows that the much- | | willing to face the music unless the | “Gentlemen, I do not want | to fight you, I want to live in peace | many’s lesson in the World War has | base and has rendered the small island of Pantelleria almost impregnable. With these fortified points he can prevent the free passage of ships from the Western to the Eastern Mediter- ranean, thus interrupting the all-im- portant line of communication be- tween Great Britain and the empire | through the Suez Canal route. | | to put over a little piece of propa- jregnrding the exportation of peanuts He has assured for Italy a satisfac- tory supply of food and oil from Hun- gary and Rumania and has laid hands on all golc and foreign exchange Ital- | ian nations and banking msuluuom‘ possessed. * % Having thus prepared Italy for the worst and still hoping for the best— the occupation of Ethiopia without in- | ternational complications—he is sit= ting back and is ready to talk to the leaders of the League of Nations, x x % % Foreign diplomats who, as a rule, | are not limelight shy_after a few | months of residence in Washington, | are becoming different now that the | European situation has become threat- | ening. In the past they used to chat will- ingly with the crowd of newspaper men when they left the Secretary of State’s office, and more than one took advan- tage of this informal press conference * ok ganda. It was all in fun. Now things have changed and some Ambassadors wish the Secretary of State had some secret door through which they could slip out without fac- | ing the eager reporters who are lay- ing in wait in the hall of the State Department every time it is known that some Ambassador or Minister is calling on Secretary Hull or Under- secretary Phillips. * kK % The representatives of the powers involved in the present European mess want to snoop around the State De- partment and satisfy the curiosity of their governments regarding the fu- ture attitude of this country in case of another conflagration. But they want to do it nonchalantly. They don't want to appear really interested and are visiting the high officials of the State Department under usually futile pretexts. It is not difficult .0 change from a topic such as the situ- ation of Jews in Mesopotamia or the point of view of the administration into Italy to feed the monkeys of the Italian organ grinders to “of course, 1 know you cénnot tell me anything about what products you will put on the embargo list, but would it be cor- rect to anticipat that * * *” However evasive Mr. Hull or Mr. Phillips may be a certain amount of Enroll for classes now forming in FRENCH GERMAN SPANISH RATES TO szmu A“ENTRANTS FOR | COMPLETE SCHOOL-YEAR COURSE ENDING SOLY 3. 1056, LAST CLASSES 21 weekly, $75 essons weekly, WEEK 3 lessons weekly, $95 Registration fee, $10 €0-Minute Bessions_—Native Teachers Small Classes, 7:45 a.m.—9:00 p. EASY PAYMENTS—ENRO! uowx BERLITZ SO oF Tacss I'll ‘-“-om. a0 Contrast in Forces on Ethiopian Front 929 C., SEPTEMBER 1935—PART ONE. MUNITIONS RULE ISSETUPBYU.3. Agency Under Assistant Secretary Moore Has Green as' Chief. By the Associated Press. The Government created a central agency yesterday to establish the Fed- eral supervision of munitions directed by the neutrality law. Within the State Department, an “office of arms and munitions con- trol” was set up under Assistant Secre- tary R. Walton Moore. Joseph C. Green was named chief and Charles W. Yost assistant chief. In making the announcement, Sec- retary Hull expleined that questions involving arms and munitions had been handled by different divisions in the past and that establishment of the new office would systematize the super- vision of all Federal munitions activi- ties under one head. Crisis Connection Denied. Officials emphasized that creation of the office had no connection with the Italo-Ethiopian crisis or the gen- eral European situation. The office, they said, would have been necessary under provisions of the neutrality law Some impression of the strength of Italy's wings is given in this bird's-eye view of a massing of planes at the Campo Di Ferrara Aerodrome. These smiling warriors, armed with spears and long-sheathed knives, men. are typical of the old- —A. P. Photos. intelligent anticipation can be ob- tained after half an hour's talk:- Everything would be allright if xt were not for the State Department re- | porters, who are buttonholeing the foreign diplomats upon their leaving the Secretary’s sanctuary. These men can do their “intelligent anticipations,” too. If Ambassador Rosso, for ine stance, says that he has discussed the fine September weather with Mr. Hull the story goes out that he has informed the Secretary of State that the rainy season in Ethiopia has come to an end and the Italian Army will be ready to march on Addis Ababa withinl the next few days. Sk High State Department officials knuv\ that the foreign representatives | cannot avoid the news hawks, and re- | gardless of how careful they may be, some story close to the truth will be | tion also implied a pledge to recog- | rally at Kelso. he denounced Italian written as a result of the cross-ex- amination of the diplomat. Hence they are reluctant to say the slight- est thing to the foreign representa- tives, outside official non-committal banalities. Of course, Italy, Great "ritain and France are extremely anxious to find out how the neutrality act is going to be applied and, when the Ethiopian- | Italian war starts, what interpretation the State Department is going to put on the words “implements of war.” * % k x An embargo, even on raw materials, cannot bother Italy very much for the time being. She has been pre- paring for war for 10 years and for the African campaign for the last| 14 months. She has stocked her ware- | houses with enough copper, cotton and ,scr'\p iron to carry on a war for at| least 18 months in the face of any blockade. DOG BARKS AT SHOE BOX IN SWAMP; BABY FOUND Two-Day-0ld Boy, Crying, Aban- doned in Brooklyn—Youth, 14, g Makes Discovery. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—A dog's bark led to the discovery to- night of a 48-hour-old baby boy aban- doned in a shoe box in a Brooklyn swamp. Charles Fuinano, 14, and his dog were playing in the swamp, located in the old mill section of Canarsie, Brooklyn, when the dog started bark- ing at the shoe box. Charles investi- gated and found the baby, which was crying. Doctors at Trinity Hospital said the infant had been in the swamp three | or four hours. Low-Cost Fuel 0il | But which vested administration of its pro- visions in the State Department. That act created the National Mu- nitions Control Board to register and | license all manufacturers and export- ers of “arms, munitions and imple- ments of war,” before November 30. It also provided for issuance of licenses for all future arms shipments to for- eign countries. The new office will perform much | of the board’s duties, assembling all | data and carrying out the mechanical details of registration, licensing, and the enforcement of rules and regula- | tions. To Draw Up List. Green, who has been the State De- partment’s munitions expert, also is expected to draw up the list of articles | which may be haracterized as “arms, munitions and implements of war” for the purposes of the act. A somewhat similar list is expected 1o serve as the basis for any presiden- tial proclamation against munitions shipments to belligerents in the event | of foreign war. The Munitions Board—composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy and Con rerce—will hold | its initial meeting at the State De- partment next Tuesday. . Geneva (Continued From First Page.) | ities for three months after adoption of the Council's report it Italy should begin a war, she would, under the punitive article of the Covenant, be deemed to have engaged in war on all members of the League. Sanctions Automatic. Consequently, economic and finan- cial sanctions would automatically operate against her, and if the Coun- | cil decided the situation justified graver measures, it would be em- powered to invite member nations to contribute their armed forces “to be used to protect the Covenant.” If unanimity cannot be achieved in the Council's recommendations (only one member of the Council need vote against them), then members of the League hme the right to take such action “as they shall consider | necessary for the maintenance of right | |and justice.” | In other words, if the situation should develop into war between Italy and Ethiopia following failure to at- tain unanimity in the Council, the British, for exa.mplr could take in- dividual action against Italy without violating the Covenant. Swinging abruptly from the pessim- ism of the last few days % optimism, some delegates ever. saw the Italian | communique in the light that its im- plied recognition of League medm-‘ ‘ nize League procedure and a promise | not to resort to war without exhaust- | |ing all means of conciliation and arbitration. | Council May Meet Immediately. Announcement that the League As- sembly would meet in plenary session | Tuesday coincided with the news from | Rome and it was rumored without confirmation that the League Council might meet almost immediately in | order to save time. An Italian spokesman dispelled fears that Italy might withdraw im- mediately from the League by saying: “Everybody is staying here for the present.” In some British circles doubt was expressed that Mussolini would get a better offer than was made him by the five-power committee. Some League officials tonight re- called the famous dispute between Italy and Greece in 1923 when Italian troops occupied the Greek island of | Corfu in connection with the present | situation. At that time Ttaly showed a disin- clination to accept League procedure. She contended the League's inter- ference was unjustified. But eventually Italy withdrew from Corfu after Greece had promised to pay an in- demnity of 50,000,000 lire and apolo- gize for the killing of Italian officers Furnag”ngarts BRING THIS COUPON Monday and Tuesday Special Any shape crystal, 29¢ Any make spring, i3 taken com- | pletely apart by a watch expert and cleaned with | peace efforts at Geneva | ber of Parliament, continued the at- | tack on Il Duce by asserting at Mon- | | Interior Gloss \Favorite Varnish St Your watch is 1 | Joseph C. Green (right) has been appointed chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control, to supervise international traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war. assistant. Their appointments were announced yesterday by Secretary of State Hull, who also named his assistant, R. Walton Moore, to direct the work. who were slain on Greek soil while serving on the Greco-Albanian Fron- tier Commission. Similar Course Hoped For. This dispute was recalled because some officials are clinging to the hope that the Italo-Ethiopian conflict may run a similar course, ending in a solu- tion without resort to war. The League committee’s project, de- signed to make Ethiopia into a mod- ern nation and to satisfy the expan- sionist dreams of Premier Mussolini, was undertaken to find a basis for conciliation. It provided for the appointment of a series of foreign advisers to act as heads of various Ethiopian depart- ments, including police, finance, com= munications and general administra- tion. The appointments would have been made by the League but Emperor Haile Selassie would have had the power to veto them. The League would have designated |a general adviser to co-ordinate the work of the various departments. A force of gendarmerie, it was under- stood, would have beer instituted with foreign officers. ‘The questions of what nationalities were to help Ethiopia would have been worked out later. But it was understood Italy would have been allotted the privilege of developing Ethiopia economically and financially, without impairing Ethiopia’s political independence. It likewise was understood the plan said France and Great Britain were prepared to make Rertain territorial concessions to Ethiopia in the inter- ests of a settlement of the dispute. London (Continued Page) and two destroyer squadrons which left Gibraltar some days ago, presum- ably bound east in the Mediterranean. Reasonable Demands Backed. In informed circles it was reported that the British feel proposals of the Committee of Five should satisfy “reasonable” TItalian demands for economic outlets and colonial security. If today's Italian cabinet com- munique was a hint for prolongation of arbitration, it was said in these quarters that such action would not find British diplomats adamant. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and one of the key ministers of the cabinet, ex- pressed the hope today that British “may limit if they cannot avert hostilities. and at any rate mitigate the sufferings and losses bound to follow a war in Africa.” Speaking at a Conservative party press attacks on Britain and asserted Britain would “never use its forces | for aggression.” The Labor leader, Sir Richard | Stafford-Cripps. speaking at Leicester | today, called Mussolini “The Mad Dog of Rome.” Maj. H. L. Nathan, a Labor mem- mouth that Mussolini dog of Europe.” “is the mad Wedding Feast Stolen. While Miss Joubert of Johannes- burgh, South Africa, was being mar- ried at the church, thieves broke into the home of her parents and ate the | wedding breakfast, but missed the wedding presents. 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