Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1935, Page 5

RED CROSS SEEKS ETHIOPIAN FUNDS Italy Shuns Offer of Aid. New Legislation Likely on Neutrality. By the Associated Press. Neutrality, world trade and Red Cross relief problems held the spot- &ight here today as official Washing- ton kept close tab. on the Italo- Ethiopian warfare. For the first time since the World War the American Red Cross launched a war budget by appealing to the pub- lic for funds to aid the Ethiopian Red Cross. In view of diplomatic delicacy in- volved in this country’s neutrality stand, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross chairman, conferred with State Department officials before ap- pealing for funds. Italy, it was explained, was offered aid, but had adequate relief means of her own. The Ethiopian Red Cross, however, responded to a similar offer with & request for essential supplies and materials for the care of sufferers. Grayson said the American Red Cross did not contemplate sending American doctors and nurses into the war zone. He asked for cash contri- butions, pointing out only the most carefully selected and specially packed materials can be used in Ethiopia. Contributions, he said, will be received by all chapters or directly at national Red Cross headquarters here From Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee came & prediction that new legisla- tion on “the very live issue o. neutral- ity” will be enacted at the January session of Congress. Four Navy radio mechanics detailed to keep the Government advised on Ethiopian developments will reach Addis Ababa today or tomorrow, ac- | cording to “unofficial” information received by Admiral William Standley, chief of naval operations. He said they probably would operate by using “friendly” stations as relay points. Meanwhile, Commerce Department experts estimated Italy ended the first eight months of the year with an un- | favorable world trade balance of $60.- 000,000—“to be paid for in all prob- ability in gold by Italy.” Germany was Italy’s major cus- tomer during the first half of the year, when Italian imports from the United States were $38,735,000, against ex-| ports of $13565,000. United States exports to Ethiopia in 1934 were only $19,000 and $2,365 the first half of this year. Imports from that country | were $522,000 in 1934 and $333,000 in the first half of this year. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 50 Miles an Hour—!! Arthur Godfrey Tells Own Story of Crash ! That Almost For four years Arthur Godfrey, popular radio funmaker of Station WJSV, would mever discuss the accident that almost took his life. Recently, in order to help the safety campaign being waged by’ The Star, he told the horror of it to listeners to his Sun Dial pro- gram, After persuasion, he agreed to write it in the cause of safety. BY ARTHUR M. GODFREY. N the interests of The Washington Star’s Safety Campaign, I did a l broadcast from the District Morgue not long ago. It was done & the almost desperate hope that somebody — somewhere — would listen and remember! It made weird broadcasting and, no doubt, gruesome listening; we hope not wholly ineffec- tive! As for me—well, the emergency will have to be a matter of life or death before I'll be in a hurry—again! I was in a big hurry oace. It was September 26, 1931—just four years ago. It was a Saturday morning, clear, warm, just the day for gliding and I felt like a Spring colt. Ten hours of sleep under my belt and no program until 7 o'clock that night. The whole afternoon to myself. It was then 11:30 am, I phoned the airport. “The wind is just right for gliding now,” they said, “but hurry up! It's too good to last!” Hurries Through Breakfast. 1t didn't take 10 minutes to swallow some coffee and jump into some slacks. (I was just a student. then, and hadn't yet learned to wear goggles and & helmet and flysig clothes.) At about 11:40 I was on the road in an ancient sedan of doubtful ability and | origin. Two or three minutes later I | was bouncing along Riggs road west of Mouat Rainier—like a speed boat in the surf. With the accelerator on the floor, the speedometer struggled valiantly to keep pace with my impa- tience and managed a bare 45. Once, over an unusually vindictive bump when the wheels left the ground en- tirely, I think it went to 50. Now Riggs road, while not wide, is fairly straight, and, when not jammed with traffic nor patrolled by police, affords an excellent opportunity to “make time"—I thought. Besides, I was in a hurry: The wind might grow stronger any minute at the airport and spoil some nice soaring! Come on, junk! Let's go! | Oh, oh! Here comes a truck! He must be moving, too! Look at that fool bounce around! Almost as bad| as I am! Hope he stays over on| his own side when we pass! Holy; smoke! He's off the road! Stay { was—the pain in my chest woke me Killed Him. over there, you—! eyes are as big as saucers! Arm Torn to Shreds. T didn't lose consciousness imme- diately. I remember the other driver sailing over the top of my car. I can still see my motor coming in through my dashboard. And I'll never forget grinning stupidly at my left arm, which was torn into horrible shreds from knuckles to elbow. The bones and tendons were clearly ex- posed and I could see them moving as I tried to move my fingers. I) didn’t know then that anything else had happened. I felt no pain, but I was terribly sick and shaky. I sensed panic coming on, too, and I thought: “Gosh! I'd better get to a doctor with this arm!” I reached for the door handle with my good hand, opened it, and fell out into the road. I tried to get up. Pain such as I had never known before tore through my pelvis and hips and knees. I glanced at my legs. The right one was dou- bled up under me like a straw doll's. I saw something sticking through the flesh in my right thigh. I felt it with my good hand—it was the ball on the upper end of my leg bone, torn com- pletely out of§ the hip socket! I gasped! A streak of pain seared through my chest like a hot wire! “My ribs,” I thought. And then, blackness—dark, merciful blackness! Awakened by Pain. Days later—nine days, I think it Gosh! His ‘Wham! up. It was as though some one was sticking @ knife into me at each breath. “There’s a hole in your left lung,” the doctor said. “It's what we call & spoitaneous pneumo-thorax. That lets air into the chest cavity. The comparative vacuum on the other side has drawn the heart over on the right side.” And then he told me the rest of the story. Both kneecaps smashed, the right hip badly dislocated, the left hip-joint shattered, several fractures through the pelvis, forty-some stitches in the left arm and hand and that gaping hole in the left lung. I was in a cast from my knees to my chest and all I could move was my right arm. Six hours of expert surgery had saved the left from amputation and I would spend, in all probability, the —_— S For tastier meals s have it on the table! LEA & PERRINS sAucE THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE Dining Ensemble from the FEDERAL AMERICAN DINING GROUP You should see this Federal American Group, fash- ioned at Grand Rapids from fine Cuban mahogany. Twenty different pieces in all from which you may choose your own dining room ensemble. A group that truly captures the gracious charm of the Virginia manor houses of Colonial days. rest of my life in a wheel chair, Out- side of that, I was all right. Effects Still Remain. Well, that's enough. I could go on and tell you about the weeks that fol- lowed in that cast, the months on crutches and canes and the endless fight against adhesions, which is still going on and probably will continue until arthritis and rheumatism have won. I have learned to hide the limp now except when I'm very tired. I can even run a short distance in a lumbering sort of way and, for short periods, I ride my horse Judy. But every step she takes drives another nail into my right hip and at the fences it's just plain hell! I just went back and read this over. It sounds like cheap, maudlin slush to me and falls far short of the picture I have tried to paint. I feel like tearing it up and forgetting all about it, but I won't, because there may be somebody who reads this who will ignore my obvious lack of literary style and read between the lines. To that kind and tolerant somebody I want to point out just one thing which should justify all this sordid detail: Except for the lacerations in my left arm, which were caused by flying glass, there was not a black-and-blue mark of any kind on my body—not another break in the skin! All those fractures and dislocations and the hole in my lung were caused by the ter- rific explosive force of that sudden stop when that truck skidded across the road and hit me head-on! Fifty miles an hour did that—nothing else! e e Quake Recorded in England. BIRMINGHAM, England, October 10 (#).—A slight earthquake shock lasting for half an hour was recorded at 10:10 last night (5:10 p.m. East- ern standard time) by Seismographer J. J. Shaw. He said “apparently the disturbance is about 1.000 miles away, possibly Iceland or Italy. ---Hitch up Old Dobbin BORDER ARRESTS SHOW INCREASE FOR YEAR By the Associated Press. An increase in arrests by the border patrol in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1935, was reported today by the Labor Department. The department several days ago announced an increase in the number of aliens endeavoring to enter the country exceeded the number leaving for the first time in several years. Arrests for the last year by the border patrol totaled 11,674, as com- pared to 11,016 in the previous year. In 1931 border patrolmen seized 23,593, while arrests dropped steadily until 1934, Coast Guard officials said 37 aliens had been seized aboard ships inspected within the 12-mile limit. They re- ported a vessel carrying an unknown number of Chinese had illegally land- ed them in the Chesapeake Bay area. Some have since been captured, it was said. \ RALLY ON SUNDAY H Street Christian Church to Ob- serve Special Program. The anual rally and home-coming of the H Street Christian Church, Sixth and H streets southwest, will be held Sunday. Bible school will begin at 9:45 a.m., with Lord’s supper and sermon at 11 o'clock. C. N. Williams, minister, will deliver the sermon, with Henry Magnuson, choir director, and Mrs. Gladys Thrift, or- ganist, leading a special musical pro- gram. Under direction of Mrs. George Motherhead a turkey dinner will be served at 12:45 p.m. Minerva Her- bert and Walter Avery head the Committee on Invitations, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1935. Safe Driving Pledge N THE interest of accident prevention and safer conditions on the streets and highways and in co-operation with the Safety Council of The Evening ) 1 promise to: Never operate at reckless speed. Drive on right of highway. 3. Stop at all 8-T-O-P signs. 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