Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 3

WAR MACHINERY IN ABERDEEN SHOW Army Demonstrates Latest Weapons, Both on Ground and In the Air. By the Associated Press. ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., October 4—With roaring guns and droning planes, the Army pre- sented a convincing demonstration of its strength—both on the ground and in the air—at the annual war show | here yesterday. Approximately 8,000 persons—in- cluding Army and Navy officials, mili- tary attaches of 11 nations and repre- sentatives of munitions companies— saw a mighty array of new and deadly combat instruments put through prac- tice paces. The demonstration marked the opening of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Asso- ciation in co-operation with the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers and the United States Army. The first, and most thunderous shot | was fired from a 16-inch coast defense | cannon, said to be the largest per- mitted under arms treaties. It is| capable of hurling a 2,100-pound projectile 30 miles. i Belching away with it was a 14-inch | gun The artillery demonstrated ranged downward from the huge coast guns to a trench mortar with a range of 742 yards. Swift pursuit planes “ground stafed” with machine gun fire while bombers dropped their deadly eggs into con- | centrated areas. i The Army also brought out its new | motorized artillery and showed how quickly its 75 and 155 millimeter guns could be whisked about. Meanwhile, | speedy and agile tanks, far different from their lumbering predecessors, lunged at fortified positions. Secretary of War Dern was repre- sented by Assistant Secretary Harry Woodring. Others present included Admiral William H. Standley, chief of | naval operations; Gen. Benedict Crow- | ell. chief of the Army Ardnance Asso- ciation, and Maj. Gen. A. J. Bowley, 8d Corps Area commander. e Ship Soldier’s Random Shot at Bird May mission Advances Rea- son for Conflict. By the Associated Press. random shot at a bird may have been the spark that touched off Italo-Ethi- | opian hostilities, in the opinion of Dr. for New York, because of the possi- Pitman Benjamin Potter, former pro- bility of a conflict in the Mediter-| fessor of political science at the Uni- ranean Sea, it was learned today. r\crm\ of Wisconsin. All passengers who planned to em-| Dr. Potter, one of the four mem- bark at those ports must go Wwith|bers of the international commission their luggage to Marseille, France, to which adjudicated the Walwal inci- which the ship will proceed directly dent, returned yesterday on the liner from Port Said, Egypt, omitting stops Bremen (Continued From First Page.) Have Started War Member of Walwal Com- 3 NEW YORK, October 4.—A soldier’s | at Alexandria, Egypt, Genoa and Naples. The sudden change in sched- ule upset the plans of many travelers, The ciash of Italian and Ethiopian troops at Walwal on the Ethiopian border early last December crystalized several of whom had gone from Rome | the dispute between the two nations, to Naples this week and now must Which has now burst into open war- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, U. S. Guns Bark in Aberdeen Military Show A French 75-mm. gun belches flame and shell. Photo taken yester- day at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where Army exhibited the latest military devices. Black, smokeless and flashless powders were used in successive charges to illustrate the progress made in development of propulsive ex- | plosives. At the right is one of the new-type field guns equipped with pneumatic tires. Below: Newly developed Army tank going through its paces. ~—Star Stafl Photos. This Changing World Britain and France Have Failed to Bring Back to Life the Grinning Corpse of the League of Nations. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The booming of Italian guns and | province, has 30,000 warriors, and Ras the cheers of Fascist legionnaires in | Dedjazmatch Ayaleu in Aoussa, bor- East Africa reverberate not only in|dering the French Somaliland, has| the valleys and gorges of Ethiopia. | a similar number of men. | They also are shaking the foundations | The command of the army destined of that ephemeral institution called | to defend Ogaden and Ofrar prov- | {in Europe. | street, the official residence of the ' people, with an eye on the Rhine, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. NEGROES, ITALIANS CLASH N GOTHAM Police Increase Guard Over Sections of City After Street Fighting. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 4-—Fighting, which threatened to attain riot pro- portions, broke out in Harlem snd Brooklyn late yesterday between Ne- groes and Itallan sympathizers at odds over the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. So tense was the situation that hard-pressed police officials went into conference at headquarters late in the day, with the outcome pointing to es- tablishment of heavy police reserves in each precinct of the mixed neigh- borhoods. several hundred white and Negro youths swarmed from a junior high school at Saratoga avenue and Dean street to “settle” the Italian-Ethio- pian feud with knives, clubs and fisf Gang fighting among the pupils The most serious trouble threat- | ened in Brooklyn late in the day when | ITALY TO GET COAL Contract With Black Sea Com- pany Reported Signed. LONDON, October 4 (#).—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from| Upset Stomach Goes \n Jiffy with Bell-ans, Istanbul, Turkey, today, said Italy has | signed a contract with the Black Sea | Zongoulshak Co. for large shipments BELL _‘.“» of coal. The first saipment of 50,000 | gOR mmotsnou Ewes Furnace Parts to Italian ports. FOUNDATION TO ROOF NOW 1 EAT Cabbage The contract was reported to have been made because of the inability of ‘Welsh collieries to maintain shipments to Italy untll Italian bfiyers meet heavy obligations which they under- took for past purchases and because of fear an official embargo will be placed on export of coal from Great Britain. ROCKBOTTOM PRICES. soon resulted in the gathering of a in sympathies. School authorities | put in a call for police. The crowd was dispersed but a gunrd | was posted to watch for further trou- | ble in the neighborhood, populated | about equally between Negroes :nd Italians. Shopkeepers in the district, in wh!ch streets were jammed by shouting pu- | pils, reported several were injured. | In Harlem, fists were swung and | police were called when a group of | young Negroes attempted to boycott | an Italian market at 118th street and Lenox avenue. A crowd of about 150 Negroes and whites gathered and fought, but the arrival of radio cars | and riot squads prevented a disturb- | ance of serious proportions. —_— able difficulties when they penetrate deeper into the Ethiopian wilds. & e In the meantime, scenes reminiscent of the fateful days of 1914 are occur- ing in almost every important capital Commodities Drop. Commodity prices are falling in Lithuania. Crowds are milling near 10 Downing British prime minister, cheering, not as lustily as 21 years ago. the British statesmen as they enter the premier's residence. The British ports are emp- tied of men of war. The fleet has| gone to the Mediterranean and the | captain of each vessel has in his| safe the ominous envelope containing | secret orders, to be opened only at a special, given signal. 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There are no cheering crowds around the Quai d'Orsay— only worried faces. worried over the tremendous re- our representative call with complete information and color chart showing the many beautiful colors in which the slats are finished. return and make the long trip by rail to Marseille The vessel was to have sailed from Naples tomorrow night and trom Genoa next week. A full complement of passengers had been booked, and there were tons of freight on docks at Naples and Genoa ready for load- ing. The Dollar Line agent here said he understood the change was prompted by an official suggestion from Wash- ington. He called the attention of the American consulate to the revised, schedule. Henry Herbermann, vice president of the American Export Lines, said his company’s ships will continue to call at Italian ports. War risk insurance rates of Amer- fcan underwriters remained un- changed. - FLEET BACK IN JAPAN TOKIO, October 4 (#).—Home again sfter two and a half months’ stren- uous war games, 112 men-o'-war, the majority of the Japanese navy's com- bined fleets, steamed into Tokio Bay today and anchored off Tokio and Yokohama. They will remain several days to permit the public to visit the war-| ships and entertain sailors ashore, thus restoring the navy to public no- tice, from which it was removed for over a month. With the fleets in home waters, a memorial service was held at the ‘Yokosuka navy base, attended by Ad- miral Mineo Osumi, minister of navy, end high navy officials, for 54 officers and men who were swept overboard in a typhoon last week. One of the injured men later died, making a total of 69 lives lost in the maneuvers. _— SPECIAL NOTICES. 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BAKER HEADS PEACE GROUP, | Named Chairman of Committee to Draft Program of “Inter- national Understanding.” By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, October 4—Coincident with the agreement of England and France to apply Italy, it was announced yesterday that Newton D Baker, former Secretary of War, had been appointed chairman of | a committee to draft a program of | action in the United States “for in- ternational understanding.” Baker was chosen chairman at a meeting at Columbia University at- tended by leaders of opinion on inter- national affairs. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, head of the Carnegie Endowment for In- ternational Peace, was the presiding officer of the gathering. Among other matters the committee | will study the obligations of the United States under the pact of Paris. In addition to Baker, the commit- tee appointed consists of Roland S. Morris of Philadelphia, former Am- bassador to Japan: Senator James P. | Pope, Henry L. Stimson, Thomas J. Watson, Josephine Schain, John Nevin Sayre, William T. Stone, Walter A. Van Kirk, Dr. James T. Shotwell, | Clark M. Eichelberger and Dr. Butler, |all of New York. $115,951 HIGHWAYS IN D. C. APPROVED Widening and Repaving of Tenth South of Avenue Among Contracts. Projects for the improvement of four | District highways at a total cost of $115,051, to be financed out of Federal grants to the District, were approved today by the Commissioners. The contract for widening and re- paving Tenth street, from Constitution i1 | to Pennsylvania avenue, was awarded to Corson & Gruman Co., which sub- mitted a bid of $23,951. Contracts for the other work wilN be let later. The projects are for widen- ing and paving Twelfth street betweea Constitution and Pennsylvania ave- nues, with the exception of the circle near the new Post Office Building, the | cost of which is estimated at $29,600; widening and repaying Thirteenth street, between Florida avenue and | Clifton street, estimated to cost $21,400, and repaving the west side of Four- ING. | teenth street from Rhode Island ave- nue to U street, estimated to cosi $40,500. A Irish Issue Army Call. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, October 4 (#)—The Irish Free State govern- k | ment today asked volunteers in what was. described officially as the usual Autumn call. Notices were posted calling for vol- unteers from among men from the ioin | ages from 18 to 56, and the recruiting offices were crowded. P About 100 sol- | sanctions against | | the League of Nations. Death sentence on the League was pronounced in 1931, when the Japanese began their occupation of Manchuria. It's execution and burial was performed by the League members themselves in 1932, when they gave their tacit consent to the Japanese aggression. The British and the French are now endeavoring to revive the corpse, but so far they have been able only to (bring back to a harassed world a | ghost—the ghost of war. The League was founded to be a barrier for general war. That was its express and fundamental purpose. By a more ingenious reversion than Mephistopheles could have conceived, the mainstays of the League, the British, the French and the smaller /it into a cause of more and worse wars. Sanctions, other than economic | and financial, will mean that without shadow of doubt. * ¥ * % Political observers compare fire with water. When fire occurs in one house of a street one does not seek to spread it if it cannot be quenched at once. That is the ordinary instinct among humans. The same thing with war. Wise statesmanship demands that wars, if they cannot be avoided, should be at least localized—even if the blaze is wantonly and culpadbly kindled. To this principle nations owed their exemption from general war for a hundred years between Waterloo and August, 1914, * x ¥ x believed that the last war was the last of wars and that the wolf and the lamb had actually become bed- fellows, overlooked the fact that almost every statesman who solemnly pledged his nation to live up to the many post-war treaties did so with his fingers crossed. Treaties and pacts were all right for the other fellow. But, as is natural in a world like ours, pational exigencies still take pgie- cedence over treaties, agreements and pacts. * x ox x As a consequence of this situation, nations throughout the world are girding themselves for a final show- down. It may yet be postponed if coercive methods are not adopted against Italy. But whether it can be altogether avoided is a different ques- tion. * ok ok X Even if military and naval sanc- tions are not adopted against Italy Il Duce’s legions will have a hard time in front of them. Besides the terrain difficulties which have to | inces has been intrusted to Ras Ded- | spomsibility with which he is faced, nations, are now endeavoring to turn | Those honest idealists who firmly || jazmatch Assibou, who has under his | | orders 60,000 men, while Ras Bayama | will defend Borona with 25,000 men. ook % In theory all these jorces are under the supreme command of Ras Muluguetta, Emperor Selassie’s minister of war, but, as telegraphie communication in Ethiopia is al- most mon-existent and the only means of maintaining a ligison is four girplanes, the armies will op- erate independently. In a war be- tween European organized forces this would mean an almost fatal disadvantage, but the Ethiopians are not going to follow the well es- tablished rules of war. It is cer- tain that the Ethiopian chiefs will avoid as far as possible pitched battles with the Italians. The world is likely to witness in the | first few weeks a war without battles, Selassie’s troops withdrawing slowly before their powerful enemy, especially in the Ogaden Province, where the grounds permits the use of motorized units and tanks. If the unity of the East African em- pire is not endangered by this sem- | blance of defeat and the individual | commanders obey their orders and avoid giving the Italians a chance to | | Premier Laval, | | | is still endeavoring to hunt with the hounds and run with the fox. He has given assurances to both the British and the Italians. He has pledged his word to co-operate with | Great Britain in applying economic Dlstrict 3324 for Estimates and financial sanctions against Italy, | and has assured Il Duce that he would not participate in any military or naval sanctions against Italy. But he and his country men don’t know how | long he will be able to play this game. ' * x ox ox Rome is in a delirium of enthusiasm (and is proud of Mussolini. The hos- pital ships and the troopships with | the dead and the wounded have not | yet reached the Italian ports. How enthusiastic they will be when these | do begin to come back to Italy only | the future will decide, Exports Gain. Great Britain's exports to Empire countries are running from 7 to 16 per | cent above last year's fignres LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS fight a regujar battle, Il Duce's men may meet with almost unsurmount- SERVICE delivery, our fuel and most dependable mete: This taken to assure our customers Only Williams 0il-O-Matic owner knows OIL BURNERS BLICK COAL CO. 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