Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1935, Page 4

A—4 %% TRBUTE IS PAD | ROGER WILLIMS Tercentenary Speakers Stress Importance of Re- ligious Freedom. Religious freedom and its vital re- lationship to the progress of civiliza- tion was emphasized by religious and | educational leaders yesterday in ob- | servance of the Roger Williams ter- | céntenary, commemorating the ban- | ishment in 1635 of this famous pi- oneer of religious liberty from the colony of Massachusetts. i Speaking last night at a banquet at | the National Baptist Memorial Church as a feature of the celebration, | Roger Williams Straus, son of the late Ambassador Oscar Straus, pre- sented a general picture of certain periods of history “to indicate how strikingly we find that religious lib- erty may serve as a fairly accurate indicator of the state of civilization.” He said Roger Williams was a rare and inspiring man and the effect of his thinking and courageous action was great during the formative period of our country ““His example teaches us that it is the duty of all of us * * * to feel it incumbent upon ourselves to be guard- {ans of the principle of religious lib- erty as he enunciated it.” he de- clared The tercentenary celebration began with the placing of a wreath on the statue of Williams in Statuary Hall by former Gov. Norman S. Case of Rhode Island. Prominent representa- tives of the Daughters of the Amer- iean Revolution and the Rhode Island Socicty and other interested groups were among the distinguished guests at the various features. In paying tribute to Williams, the former Governor quoted an inseription from the Rhode Island State House: “To hold forth a lively experiment ! that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments.” ‘This inscription, he said, “embodies in a single sentence the basic principles for which Roger Williams and his followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.” Roger Williams' historical material in the Library of Congress will be ex- hibited today in the rare book room Last night's banquet was followed by a mass meeting in the Baptist Memorial Church, at which addresses were delivered by Dr. R. E. E. Hark- ness of Chester, Pa., president of the American Baptist Historical Society, | sponsor of the celebration. ar Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, jr., of Raleig N.C CHURCH T0 OBSERVE Pastor of Hamline M. E. to Make ' Brief Addresses at i Services. | Hamline M. E. Church will observe | #ts seventh annual Joash Chest day | tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Brief | s will be delivered by the , Rev. H. W. Burgan V. p.m. the young people will hear Miss Florence Yeager on the presentation and interpretation of modern hymns. The Washington District Epworth League will hold its annual booth festival Tuesday night The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Executive will meet Wednes- day, at 12:30, at the home of Mrs. E. Herman Erickson, 6506 Maple avenue, Chevy Chase. A men’s rally will be held October 27. when Dr. Harry E. Woolever will speak on the proposed merger of the Methodist Protestant, Methodist Epis- | copal South and Methodist Episcopal Churches, CHURCH TO OBSERVE HARVEST HOME FET Takoma Lutheran Pastor Preach on “The Story in the Apple.” Harvest home will be celebrated at . the Takoma Lutheran Church tomor- row. The pastor, Rev. J. Adrian Pfeiffer, will preach on “The Story in the Apple.” Food and clothing will be brought and later sent to the Lutheran Inner Mission Society. Rally day will be celebrated in the 8unday school. To liquidate the indebtedness of the congregation a “Jehoida Chest” service will be included in the regular morning service. The program will be concluded with holy communion. The Luther League meets Thursday evening. Beginning tomorrow and continuing throughout che Winter the congregation will visit on Sunday eve- nings from home to home to hold Seth Parker programs. The meeting tomorrow will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gullickson, 817 Tewkesbury place, at 8:15, to DR. CANTER RETURNS FROM CONFERENCE Pastor of Epworth M. E. Church South to Preach on “Today's Church.” Dr. H. M. Canter, pastor of Ep- worth M. E. Church South, has re- turned from Staunton, Va., where he acted as secretary for the annual ses- sfons of the Baltimore Conference. He will preach tomorrow at 11 o'clock on “The Church for Today,” and at 8 pm. on “Elijah and His God.” The services of the young people will be held at 7 p.m. Dr. Canter will speak Thursday night on “The King’s Throne.” - The Minot Bible Class elected the following officers: President, E. E. Davey; vice president, Harry Russell; secretary, I. A, Lehman; treasurer, W. M. Dove. The annual banquet of the Hummer Class will be held in the social rooms Wednesday. Dr, Angie Smith of Mount Vernon M. E. Church South and W. W. Millan will be the speakers, e HOG REDUCES 100 LBS. LEBO, Kans, October 19 (#).— Farmer W. C. Jenkins’ hog found how to reduce. ‘Weighing 175 pounds, it disappeared while Jenkins was threshing wheat. Sixty-nine days afterward, Jenkins said, other hogs rooted the lost porker out of a straw stack—scaling just 100 pounds less than when last seen. Weak, it still was able go grunt. Former Gov Norman Stanley Case of Rhode Island and Mrs. Daniel J. HefTernan. president of the Rhode Island State Society, placing a wreath on the statue of Roger Williams in Statuary Hall of the Capitol. ~—Wide World Photo. (ITIZENS PROPOSE ZENGE IS UNMOVED sasw st oav T N BUS FARE BY GULLTY VERDICT Glover Park Association Asks Rate to Compare With Chevy Chase. A city-wide reduction in bus fares ton conform to that Chase line was asked in a motion passed last night by the Glover Park Citizens’ Association. The motion, which provided for the sending of a letter to the Public Utilities Commis- sion stating the association's views, asked that special atiention be given to fare reduction on the Burleith- Glover Park line. Raymond Ruebsan, who introduced the motion, stated that on the Chevy Chase line, the longest public trans- portation route in the District, the fare for local service is only a 7),- cent token or a $1.00 weekly pass. On the Burleith-Glover Park line, he | pointed out, the fare is an 8!3-cent | token or a $1.25 weekly pass. Some other lines, he said, do not even have the 8!5-cent token, but a 10-cent cash fare. | Oppose Change in Route. ! The letter to the commission also | asked that no busses on the Glover | Park line be diverted over the Fox- | hall Village or Potomac Heights route as has been suggested by the Foxhall Community Citizens' Association. The letter also stated the association’s { willingness to help the Foxhall asso- ciation get better bus service and re- | duced fare, but not by reducing the number of busses on its line. Another motion requesting better street car service on Wisconsin ave- nue during rush hours was referred to the association’s Public Utilities Committee with authority to act on | | the matter. | The use of funds raised by a gaso- line tax for other purposes than street and highway building and repairs was | vigorously opposed in a resolution in- | troduced by William D. Harris. He | made comparison between the condi- | tion of highways in Ohio, where the gas tax is diverted to other channels, |and that of Pennsylvania, where the gas tax is used exclusively for high- | ways. He also stated that the Dis- | trict is using money borrowed from i the P. W. A. and on which it must pay interest for highway construction and repairs while at the same time | there is a surplus from gas taxes. Suggest Lower Rate. It was also suggested at the meet- ing that if the District continues to have a surplus from gas taxes, that the taxes be reduced rather than be- ing used for other purposes. Approval of a letter written by H. E. Juenneman to the Commission- ers asking for improvements on the playground of the Benjan in Stoddert School was voted. The letter asked that ground on the west side of the school facing Calvert street be graded and developed for use as tennis courts and as a school garden. In the interests of safety the asso- | ciation voted to request that more readable traffic signs be installed at | Beecher street and Tunlaw road. Members of the association pointed out that neither the stop sign on Beecher street or the “Do not enter” sign on Tunlaw road could be seen, and that several accidents had been narrowly averted at that point. The elimination of parking on the west side of Thirty-seventh street in the morning, and on the east side in the evening was also requested. Adjt. Decker of the Salvation Army, and Marshall Nichols, captain of the Community Chest in Glover Park, spoke briefly in behalf of the Com- munity Chest. —_— Important Raw Material. Karaya gum, a product of India, has become an important raw material of the cosmetic, food and other indus- tries, according to W. E. Thrun and H. V. Fuller of Valparaiso University in Industrial and Engineering Chem- istry. The gum resembles tragacanth, but it is more readily soluble. of the Chevy | ‘Counsel Announces Appeal. Jury Recommends Life | Sentence. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 19.—Mandeville | W. Zenge, convicted of the emascu- lation slaying of the man who mar- | ried his school-day sweet..eart, pre- servd his characteristic inscrutability today as he faced the prospect of life | | imprisonment. A gaunt smile played over Zenge's face when he heard a Criminal Court Jury’s verdict of guilty, with a recom- mendation of a life sentence last night. Court attaches said he was even less |emotional than at any other time | during the trial. | Joseph Green, counsel for Zenge, | announced the verdict would be ap- pealed. Judge Cornelius J. Harring- | ton set October 25 for hearing on a | new trial. | The reserve which neither the po- | lice nor his former sweetheart, Louise | Shaffer, could break down appeared |almost indifference as Zenge heard ‘the penalty demanded for the crime which ciused the death of Dr. Walter J. Bauer, 38-year-old professor at Kirksville, Mo. USE OF FATAL GAS IN ETHIOPIA DENIED U. S. War Adviser Says All but Tear Fumes Would Be Ineffective. By the Associated Press. A comparatively harmless tear gas —similar to that used to disperse mobs in this country—was said by one chemical authority today to be the only gas Italian troops are likely to employ against the Ethiopians. Dr. Charles L. Parsons, a member of the Government's Advisory Board on Gas Warfare during the World War, said poisonous or mustard gases would be “ridiculously ineffective” in Ethio- pia. ‘These gases, he said, could be used effectively only on concentration of troops lng would be “useless in open areas.” Declaring Italian chemists are “fully informed,” Dr. Parsons added that “if gas is used at all,” they will center their efforts on the manufac- ture of tear gas, which temporarily blinds but leaves no permanent in- Jury. Tear gas, he said, could be used to halt an Ethiopian mass attack or render defenders vemporarily helpless. He expressed the opinion there “is no gas known that would be superior to tear gas” for warfare such as that in Ethiopia. ARMY ORDERS. Hamilton, Lieut. Col. Willlam B, Ordnance Department Reserve, from Birmingham, Ala., to active duty in office of the Assistant Secretary of ‘War, here, November 10. Lloyd, Maj. Willilam H., Medical Corps, to be retired November 30. McQuilkin, Capt. George, jr., Spe- cialist Reserve, from Merchantville, N. J.. to active duty in office of the Assistant Secretary of War, here, No- vember 10. Miller, Second Lieut. ‘Charles H., Air Corps Reserve, from Millersburg, Ky, to active duty at Langley Field, Va., November 15. NAVY ORDERS. Medical Corps. Dowling, Lieut. Comdr. George B., detached Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., about November 15; to Nayy Re- cruiting Station, Washington, D. C. Humbert, Lieut. Comdr. James, de- tached Navy Recruiting Station, Washington, D. C., in December; to U. 8. 8. SONORA VIGTORIES CLAIM OF REBELS Several Cities Ridded of Op- position Officials by Raiding Bands. By the Associated Press. SANTA ANA, Sonora, Mexico, Oc- tober 19.—Rebel forces claimed vic- tory in their campaign through this strife-torn district of interior Sonora today after ridding several cities of oppositionist officials. At the same time there was a lull in the raiding activities, coincident with rumors that roving bands, which have claimed 10 lives in two weeks of sporadic attacks, have disbanded. It was reliably learned that many workers who had joined the move- ment against the present government had returned to their jobs on farms and in the mines. At Magdalena rebel leaders declared they had learned Gov. Ramon Ramos had resigned from office when he went to Mexico City to confer with Presi- dent Lazaro Cardenas. In official sources, however, the re- port of the resignation was not seri- ously considered. In several important centers the rebels supplanted the ousted mayors with those of their own choosing. Temporary mayors were installed at Magdalena, Altar and Caborca. Tranquillity prevailed here as citi- zens ballotted on a temporary mayor to replace the municipal chief who was killed by raiders last Monday. At Magdalena, where residents were in a state of terror while raiders camped nearby, Francisco Moreno was elected acting mayor pending a general election to be held later. New leaders are reported governing Hermolillo, the state capital, where the old officials fled after receiving threatening letters from the raiders earlier this week. Other officials were repotred in hiding at Sonoyta, just across the border from Ajo, Ariz. DR. J. S. BEZZANT WILL PREACH HERE Former Dean at Oxford to Speak at St. John's Tomorrow Night. Dr. James S. Bezzant will preach on “A Nation's Welfare” at the evening service at St. John's Church, Six- teenth and H streets. Dr. Bezzant is canon residentiary and chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral, formerly fellow, dean and lecturer of Exeter College, Oxford, and vice principal of Rlpon“ Hall, Oxford; examining chaplain to the bishops of Worcester, Liverpool and Coventry, and an examiner in the Final Honours School of Theology in the University of Oxford. University of Oxford. will begin at 7:45 o'clock. The rector, Dr. Oliver J. Hart, will pearch Sunday morning and his sub- The service ject will be “The Reality of a Child's | Religion.” He has called a special meeting for M women of the parish when he will out- line the plans of the work for the year. | The meeting will be held in the parish hall | INSURANCE l-.lNIT ELECTS | NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—Eu- gene H. Russell, New York, was elected | president of the Association of Life ica yesterday. Other officers elected were: Chester T. Brown, Newark, first vice presi- dent; Samuel B. Scholz, jr., Philadel- Cook, Minneapolis; Ross Huston, Des | Moines, and Walter E. Thornton, Fort | Wayne, Ind,, executive committeemen, EWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. | Card and bingo party, W. B. A, CITY VN Trust Building, 8 N Meeting, Biological Society of Wash- ington, Cosmos Club, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Alpha Chi Sigma, La Fayette Hotel, 8 pm. Dance, Idaho State Society, La Fayette Hotel, 10 p.m. Tea dance, Washington Club of Trinity College, Willard Hotel, 4 p.m. Dinner meeting, American Phar- maceutical Association, Mayflower Hotel, 6 p.m. Dinner dance, Beta Mu Sorority, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, University Club, 6 p.m. Dance, Beta Gamma Phi Sorority, Omega Chapter, Beaver Dam Country Club, 10 pm. ury Chest Committee, street northeast, 8 p.m. Bingo party, degree team of Victory Unit, No. 4, American Legion, Killeen club house, 3204 M street, 8 p.m. Lecture, League for Larger Life, 1414 Sixteenth street, 8 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Meeting, Advisory Committee, Women's Patriotic Conference, May- flower Hotel, 3 p.m. Meeting, Bartenders’ Union, Old Local No. 75, 720 PFifth street, 3 p.m. Oyster roast, Potomac Boat Club, Thirty-sixth and K streets, 10 a.m. Births Reported. Charles V. and Ruth Corder, boy. George C. and Clara Wentsel, boy. Harry W. and Eiizabeth Reed, boy. James and Mary Finotti. boy. Clarence G._and Nellie Harris, girl. Prank and Emma Fenske, girl. Bernard J. and Helen R. McCarthy. girl. Russell and Julia E. Leake. boy. Robert and Eleanor Johnson, Wade and Lillian Love, boy. — Deaths Reported. Bet7, Goyrtman. 86, 9 2nd et nee. lward irk, 76, U. 8. Soldiers’ Home. JThomas H. Hall, 74." 1719 Lincoln rd. n.e. N(:lle Gillmore Townsend, 73, 5104 14th Lydia A. Boardman, 67, 2701 14th st. John W, Davey, 67, Georgetown Hospital. Emma Toepper’ Melton, 68, 824 Shepherd at. William Musselmen, 65, U. 8. Soldiers’ Home Hospital. Henry Jay Bulzy. 61, 1028 Connecticut Vi ave Percy’ 2 6L, 1d Hospital L Bl O, G e M osittal. 'H::IHEI‘. 42, Veterans’ Administration L. Karp, 41. Casualty Hospital. Adam Abrgham, .w,‘flm-mmu. n Vaj th . ‘Gallinger Hospital. “h=fl\l‘l' wson, 61. Gallinger Hose D L. il b1 alis ter, B1. i Broganimy. ses dobn Go Hsh ‘h xRN o 3012 Tenth Y. He holds | | the degrees of B. D. and M. A. from the onday everfing for all the business | Insurance Medical Directors of Amer- | phia, second vice president; H. W.| No. 3, room 418, Washington Loan & | Bingo party, Lebanon Chapter, Treas- | Here is a contemporary Ethiopian artist’s conception of the first battle of Aduwa, in 1896, where an invading Italian army was cut to pieces by the infuriated natives. sudden defeat never ended until their army captured the city on October 6. Italy’s feeling of humiliation over this CHAINED CONVICTS BURDEN TO HARAR “The Shadow,” Who De- nounced a Judge, Among Those Who Bear Penalties. BY LAURENCE STALLINGS, HARAR, October 3 (By Airmail).— Harar is a city of chains. That song of “Water Boy” with its captivity comes from a darker blackness than ever a Georgia prison camp engen- dered. For in Harar chains are so common that droves of prisoners slow {the traffic of the pinched and fetid streets as, three times a day, they herd through the town. Their clanking is not unmusically pitched against the discordant cries of street loungers, though the chief prisoner of the town wears shackles linked too close for clanking. This prisoner's name, when writ- ten in the Amharic of the Geez, will stretch across an envelope. In Eng- |lish translation it might mean “The Shadow Cast by the Power of the Word.” to connote that the name —A. P. Photo. AT TAKOMA' PARK | Citizens’ Association Hears Criticism of Pan for Semi-detached Houses. Opposition was expressed last night | at a meeting of the Takoma Park | | Citizens' Association to the rezoning | of Third street between Aspen and | ‘Whittier streets from residential A restricted to residential A. Under the | proposed change, erection of semi- | detached houses would be permitted. | | The association indorsed the order | of the Public Utilities Commission for | improved street car facilities to Ta- | | koma Park and urged that the im- | provements be speeded. The Capital | Transit Co. was commended in a| resolution for installing “express” | bus service oetween. Takoma Park and the downtown section. School Building Urged. Mrs. Mary Lamond White urged in- | clusion of $500,000 in the next Dis- Itrlct budget for construction of a new northern high school and $165,000 for | completion of the Paul Junior High | School by addition of 10 rooms and gymnasium. She said the Board of | Education had approved these pro]-’ ects. Mrs. M. W. Hobbs, principal of the school on Ray road, requested co-op- eration in securing the playground, both as a school and municipal play center, together with the necessary equipment. The association voted to {ask the purchase of additional school ground sites by the school authorities of Montgomery County in the vicinity |of the present elementary school in | |the Hodge's tract, for which $10,000 | has been made available, according to Dr. C. C. Galloway. Street Projects Indorsed. Judge Herman C. Heflner, presi- dent of the Community League, re- ported on the present status of the widening and improvement of Eastern avenue; extension of New Hampshire avenue, and construction of Sligo Park. The association indorsed these projects, following an estimated cost of the improvements presented by L. R. Grabill. Diversion of gasoline tax receipts was opposed in a resolution presented such funds should be used for high- ways. At the sugestion of Dr. Guy Clin- ton, the association indorsed the safety campaign of The Evening Star. President Walter Irey appointed David T. Blose chairman of the Com- mittee on Laws and Legislation and John Walker, vice chairman of the Committee on Taxation and Zoning. _London (Continued From Pirst Page.) Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massing- berd. Gen. Deverell will be succeeded in the easfern command by Gen. Sir W. Edmund Ironside, commandant of the royal artillery. Lieut. Gen. Sir John Brind, who commanded the international force in the Saar during the plebiscite which returner the territory to Germany, will be the new adjutant general in India, and Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur Moens, quartermaster general in India. Maj. Gen. Sir Douglas Baird was appointed commander in chief of the eastern command. NEGOTIATE ONLY ON NAVIES. Conferees Not Discussing African Situation. .ROME, October 19 (#).—An Italian government spokesman declared to- day that the present negotiations be- tween Italy and Great Britain are “restricted solely to the Mediterranean problem” and have no direct influence on the military situation in East Africa. In other words, it was made clear that while Italy and Great Britain may come to a friendly understanding, eliminating the tense situation which has developed over the presence of Italian and British battle fleets in the Mediterranean, Italy has no intention of swerving from her campaign in Ethiopia. In the face of League of Nations sanctions, Italy today began a drive from trade abroad, the government passing a decree to force the expor- tation of silk. It ordered a silk requisition at 10 per cent under the world’s price as a threat expected to encourage the holders of silk stocks to market them abroad. The British Ambassador was under- stood to have given I Duce formal sssurance that Britain did not seek military sanctions against Italy for its East African warfare and had no intention of blockading Italy or of closing the Suez Canal. VICTORY SEEN FOR LAVAL. Rome PARIS, October 19 (#).—France’s “favorable” note to Great Britain on REZONING OPPOSED Park driveway on the edge of Takoma | by John Walker, which set forth that | Hidden Witness MARIE McKEEVER, Key witness in the murder of Allen B. Wilson, is now in hiding under guard. Police fear she may be “put on the spot” for having told what she knows of the case. (Story on Page 1.) REVIVAL CONTINUES E AT BAPTIST CHURCH Metropolitan Pastor, Dr. Ball, As- sisted by Misses Stockton and Gould. Special revival meetings will con- tinue next week at the Metropolitan | Baptist Church under the leadership | of the pastor, Dr. John Compton Ball, | assisted by Misses Amy Lee Stockton | and Rita Gould. The Sunday themes of Miss Stockton will be, in the morn- ing, “God’s Controversy With You,” | and in the evening, “The Greatest Sight in God’s Universe.” Monday will be loyalty night. Bap- tisms will precede this service. Dr. Ball, Miss Gould and Miss Stockton will tell the story of their baptism. Sub- “Living Waters.” arvest Home” night on Tues- day. An illustrated message will be given by Miss Stockton on “The Last | Great Harvest Home.” The farmer's | chorus, “Bringing in the Sheaves,” will be sung. Prophesy night, Wednesday. Sub- Ject, “Christ and the Anti-Christ.” Thursday evening Miss Gould will give special selections on the vibra harp and vocal solos. The sermon theme of Miss Stockton will be “The Night When Jesus Sang.” Friday evening birthday anniversary night will be observed. Subject, “Will We Spend Our Next Birthday in Heaven?” “CHRISTIAN HOME” IS SERMON TOPIC Rev. R. Paul Schearrer to Preach at Takoma Park Presby- terian Church. Rev. R. Paul Schearrer, pastqr of |the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, will preach at the 11 o'clock service tomorrow on “Toward the Making of & Christian Home” and at 8 pm. on “The Unchanging Cre- dential.” A reorganization of the young people’s work will be inaugurated to- morrow. A junior high school group will meet at 5 o'clock, under the guid- ance of Robert A. Jewett; senior group at 7 o'clock, under the supervision of Miss Catherine E. Dennis, and young people’s group at 7 o'clock under the direction of Edmund H. Fraser. Walter H. McClenon will address the Brotherhood Bible Class tomorrow morning on “The Social Teachings of Jesus.” The lecture will be intro- ductory to a series on that subject which Mr. McClenon will give on the third Sunday of every month. The Mother Gordon Bible Class will meet Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Norman C. Jones, 312 Cedar ave- nue. Dr. Lauretta Kress will be the guest speaker. The Executive Council of the church school will meet Tues- day evening in the church office. ment’s demand for assurances of naval aid in case the British fleet was attacked by Italy while enforcing sanctions to cut short the Italo- Ethiopian war was expected to satisfy both right and left parties. The note was characterized as a “diplomatic masterpiece” by the pre- mier's friends. It came on the eve of the senatorial elections Sunday, in which Laval is running for re-election, and in which he is gauging France's conflicting political sentiments under the international tension. Whether the note would satisfy Britain was another question French officials conceded. The British Embassy said in a statement that Laval “expressed an opinion and reply in a plain, affirma- tive té all question put to him” by Britain » JELLIGOE'S NAVY TALK CHALLENGED U. S. Officers Deny England Was Forced to Yield to Parity Desire Here. By the Associated Press. International debate raged today over responsibility for post-war naval equality moves as American officials scoffed at assertions by Earl Jellicoe, commander of the grand fleet in the World War, that the British Navy's “present weakness” was partially at- tributable to the United States’ desire for parity. One authoritative American naval source, who preferred to remain anonymous, described the British ad- miral's remarks as patently inaccu- rate: “We couldn't have wanted ‘parity’ | with Britain, because at the end of | the World War we already had more | than that, counting ships built and | bullding. ~ President Wilson wanted | the greatest Navy in the world and we were building it when he went out of office. British Jeopardized. “This concerned the British be- | cause it meant that for the first time their supremacy of the seas was jeo- pardized. As a matter of fact, the | first suggestion for a naval limitations conference emanated from British | sources, and President Harding's ac- jtion in summoning the Washington conference followed closely upon these overtures. “As it turned out. we scrapped more actual and potential tonnage than the British because at the time of the Washington agreement we were potentially superior.” | Jellicoe, addressing the British Navy | League’s Trafalgar day dinner in Lon- {don, declared “the reasons for the present weakness are presumably the mistaken idea held hv all political parties since the war that if we dis- armed other nations would follow suit; | financial difficulties resulting from the great war, and the desire of the United States to possess parity with us in na- val strength.” Invitation Recalled. | President Harding, in issuing invi- | tations to the 1921 conference, it was recalled here, emphasized the world's enormous armaments burden was se- | | riously impeding recovery and menac- | | Ing peace, and that the time had | come to make a “practical effort to | remove causes of misunderstanding” and heavy expenses through naval dis- armament. Lord Curzon, accepting the invita- | tion for Great Britain, declared “his | majesty’s government and the British nation are in whole-hearted sympa- thy.” { In the naval treaty subsequently | signed, all participating nations— | Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States—agreed to lim- | it their naval strength within specified tonnage. War (Continued From Pirst Page.) | the Ttalians, gave the Ethiopians the | odds by far on this front. in not allowing great masses of men to concentrate too near Makale, Ethi- opians said, was demonstrated further by the fact that Italian aviators had /down and machine-gunning native warriors they spotted below them. ETHIOPIANS REPULSED. | Suffer Heavy Losses in Attack on Italians in Eritrea, (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) ASMARA, Eritrea, October 15 (De- layed in Transmission).—Ethiopian forces were repulsed with heavy losses in a sharp clash today when they at- tempted to invade the Italian colony of Eritrea near Omager. The fight occurred along the Setit River, which marks the western end of the Eritrean frontier. Many Ethiopian chieftains and their followers in the Omager region ‘were then reported to have made sub- mission to the Italian authorities. Meanwhile, Premier Mussolini’s sol- dier-sons, Vittorio and Bruno, like all other Italian airmen here, were burn- ing with eagerness to encounter Ethi- opian aviators. On each flight over Ethiopian ter- ritory on this northern front, they searched keenly for Ethiopian planes, hoping to gain the distinction of being the first to bring one down. Thus far none has been sighted, either in the air or on the ground. A communique, reported here to have been issued at Addis Ababa, say- ing Ethiopian airplanes made recon- naissance flights over the Makale re- gion south of -Aduwa was scoffed at by Italian aviation officials. They insisted such a flight would be impossible without becoming known to them. Gen. de Bono, in & speech to the clergy at Aksum and Aduwa yester- day, the text of which was released today, said Italy would pay the peo- ple of Tigre Province for damages caused by the military occupation and “restore the fortunes of Tigre, which-was under the oppression of chieftains who deprive it of its wealth.” ¥ 3Gen. de Bono sald the invasion was{and Belgian marks. ‘The wisdom of the Ethiopian tactics | | given up bombing in favor of swooping | bearer stood radiant in full light, looming so favorably that his shadow was of great significance. 1 always thick of him as “the Shadow.” “The Shadow” has done, for his crime, what every man secretly has | wished to do. In the grip of autocracy, himself of noble lineage and owning | many bondsmen, he had brooded over some injustice. Accordingly, two years ago he repaired to court in high ses- sion and with great competency de | nounced the judges, giving them a classical tongue-lashing in a country where, a donkey man will practice hours the ways in which he may in- | clude all related womankind in ine sults addressed a passerby. Variety of Chains. ly, he got his chains. There are chains in Ethiopia for all offenders from debtor, chained wrist to wrist: their, foot to foot, and mure derer, hand and wrist. “The Shadow” got only three links, each 4 inches long, of heaviest iron. As 2 inches are overlapped in cou- plings, he has a 10-inch stride. Each day he sidles to the market place with his guard, for the brief exercise al- lotted -him, always in coolest, whitest cotton johdpores and chamma. He has had fashioned a delicate chain which fastens to the center link be- tween his ankles. This chain, like a little dog's leash, then runs up to his hands. As he walks he minces little 4-inch steps, delicately keeping the steel silent from his ankles, holding himself literally in leash, where once, figuratively, he failed to check him- self. | As “the Shadow™” holds his hands | folded across his breast they seem presented to his adherents for devo- tion. The fidelity of his slaves is ape parent from their temerity in rushing forward to kiss these offending hands beneath the scowls of his political guards. The man’s cell on the second floor of the jail is reached from an outside stairway. He accomplishes a gym- nastic feat each time he ascends these stairs, for the steps have eight-inch rises and he has a ten-inch stride. He toes-up the stairs, sidling, placing a great toe like a handgrasp upon the edge of the stair and then, by strength of his arch, raising his powerful, tall form vertically on nice balance. inch ing along the step-tread until bal- anced another degree higher than ten seconds before. | A Semitic Conqueror. As he is one of the Semitic con« querors of these black, Hamitic Gallas, he permits no one to touch him while affecting his mightly climb. Nor does | he seem remotely conscious of these ichains. He walks with great pride, a | man to whom chains are old in psalm {and story since rivers first knew captives of Babylon. It is one of the amenities of Harar that chains are taken as part of life itself. Both Hamatic and Semitic, slave and master, know of old the culture of the chain. They are sur- prising in agility. Two murderers | begging alms to raise blood-money and placate relatives of the deceased will seem to be struggling bitterly in the dust. Yet, when one whips a mule to an ambling pace to pass them, they cannot be distanced, but will keep pace, running as one man on four legs, screaming for the piaster which flings them so much farther from death. There seems only one man, however, who can bear chains in a lordly way. “The Shadow” has worn them two years, and the other day I heard that he was being kept in irons until he asked a trial—which would mean an apology—and that he was even ofe fered opportunity to demand one. They say his answer was that he was in no hurry. “Tell them,” he said, “the chains have taught me the virtue of reflection and patience. If the judges will wear them two years, who knows but they might, in time, arrive at wisdom, too, instead of being the flea-bitten sons o§ their mothers, those gray, lice-covere: she-donkeys which bring flour from the mills.” (Copyright, 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.. and Fox Movies tone News.) LECTURE-SERMON At the Church of the Epiphany toe morrow evening Dr. Z. B. Phillips, retcor, will give the third of a series of lecture-sermons. The general sube ject is “The Religious Implications of the Present Situation in Russia.” The historic background of the lec« ture-sermon tomorrow evening will be the period from the emancipation of the Serfs in 1861 to the revolus tion of 1917 Regular services tomorrow: 8 am, holy communion; 11 a.m., morning prayer and sermon by Dr. Phillips; 6:30 p.m., Young People’s Fellowship; 8 p.m., evening prayer and lectures sermon. . Body Follows Coroner. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (#)— ‘When Justice of the Peace Cullen Briggs, acting coroner, could not go to the inquest, it was brought to Briggs. Called while holding court, Briggs excused himself, saying he was busy. Ten minutes later a man in« terrupted court to announce, “We brought him here, judge.” caused by chieftains who opposed Italy’s work of civilization, and he promised the clergy respect for their religion. Information from the Southern front said the Italians were about to occupy Gorahel on their march out of Italian Somaliland. Military authorities disclosed that when Ttalian troops entered the ghebbi (palace) of Ras Seyoum, gove ernor of Aduwa, they found a large store of modern rifles bearing English ~