Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1935, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, much colder tonight, preceded by rain this afternoon; minimum temper- ature tonight about 46 degrees: tomorrow, fair, colder. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 2:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 65, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 15, 16,17 No. 33,412. CUGIND IS NAMED ASWILSON KILLER: SHOTGUN STUDIED Seek to Identify Weapon as One Used by Dead Racketeer. GUN-IN-RIVER REPORT IS NOT DISREGARDED Search to Be Continued if Proof Fails—Case Ready for Grand Jury. BY JOHN H. CLINE. ‘The murder of Allen B. Wilson, shot to death a year ago tonight by gang- sters, who were paid “less than $2,000 to kill another man,” has been solved | and the case is ready for presentation to the Montgomery County grand jury. In announcing solution of the case today, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, super- intendent of police, said his detectives have recovered a sawed-off shotgun and are attempting to identify it as the one used by Tony “The Stinger” Cugino, Philadelphia racketeer, named as the actual murderer. himself in New York several months ago after admitting he had murdered *at least” nine people. The police chief, however, also said his investigators have received infor- mation that the shotgun used by Cugino was thrown into the Susque- hanna River as the slayers were mak- ing their escape to Philadelphia. Unless the gun now in custody can be identified, it was said, the river wil be dragged in an effort to recover the other one. Others Involved in Killing. Besides Cugino, Maj. Brown said other principals in the slaying of Wil- son, who was mistaken for Mickey McDonald, local gambler, were: John “Slim” Dunn, former tri-State gangster, who is serving time in Al- Brewery. Ernest W. Myers, also a former member of the tri-State gang, who is being held at the District Jail. Po- lice say he drove the car used by the killers. William Cleary and Dewey Jenkins, petty racketeers, both of whom al- legedly were present at the time of the shooting. Claude Bailey. who was killed re- cently in an attempt to escape from | Lorton Reformatory, Police also have the murder car, which Maj. Brown said was in Jen- kins' possession when he was arrested in Baitimore a month ago. Maj. Brown said Albert S. Sutton, also in the District Jail, was not in- volved in the actual shooting, but is being held in connection with the case. Police are investigating reports that he paid the gunmen for the crime. Efforts to trace the money to one of Washington's better known gamblers, he said, have met with little success. As police reconstructed the murder, the gunmen, after several unsuccessful attempts to kill McDonald in Wash- ington, went to his home, in Takoma Park, Md. shortly before midnight last October 23 and concealed them- selves in a clump of trees across the road from the house. Unknown to them, McDonald had returned home hours before and was asleep in the house at the time. After waiting nearly six hours a car was seen approaching down the road. Dunn, the “lookout” man, took his identification which led to Wilson's death. Cugino and Myers, police say, opened fire and wounded Wilson, who was delivering a newspaper to Mec- Donald’s homs. Fired Into Rear of Car. Wilson, despite the wounds, tried to drive away, but Cugino ran out into the road and fired again, through the back of the car. One of the slugs crashed through the back of Wilson's head and lodged in his brain, inflict- ing the fatal wound. All but Dunn then ran back into the woods. Realizing by that time he had made a mistake, Dunn ran into the road to see who had been killed. Inadvertently, he got in the path of the car’s headlights and was seen by Mrs. McDonald, who had run to a window of her home upon hear- lng the shots. Dunn, who was out on bond at the time in the robbery case, was sur- rendered by his bondsman, who had become suspicious that he might leave the city. The other members of the gang got away. Cugino, however, was caught in New York, where police had traced him through a girl friend. State's Attorney James Pugh of Montgomery County, in whose hands rests the. respcasibility of convicting the suspects, said he was ready to put the case before the grand jury. Cugino killed | post and made the mistaken | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Named as Slayer TONY (THE STINGER) CUGINO. “W’ MEN T0 SEEK CRAFT IN RELE Offenders Manipulating Federal Funds. By the Associated Press Determined to scrutinize every ex- penditure under the $4,000,000,000 works-relief program, the Federal Government has put into the field a | special squad of 50 trained investiga- tors to track down grafters. They are known here as “W" men | to distinguish them from the “G” men of the Department of Justice. At their | | head is Dallas Dort, 27-year-old at- | torney, who is director of the Works | Progress Administration Division of Investigation. | These new Federal agents, working | catraz for the robbery of the Heurich out of Washington and 13 regional offices, will operate both independently and in co-operation with other Gov- ernment agencies, notably the Secret Service. “Our job is to keep graft out of the program and we are going to do it,” said Dort. He explained he planned to take over most of the 65 State re- lief administration investigators when the huge spending program gets fully under way. Job Campaign Speeded. ! This was one of several develop- ! ments as the administration sought to speed its job-giving campaign. Others | included: 1. The $147,000,000 rivers and harbors allotment was slashed by $16,000,000 to give additional funds for Works Progress projects. Included in this cut was $5,000,000 taken from | an initial allotment of $10,000,000 to start construction of the Passama- quoddy Bay, Me., project to harness the tides and generate power. 2. Aubrey W. Williams, acting W. P. A. administrator, reiterated his pre- diction that Federal direct relief or “dole” machinery would be liquidated in most of the States during November. 3. A survey of the Federal Relief Administration disclosed that State governments are increasing their ex- penditures for the destitute. Most of the special investigators to trace down grafting are former “G” men. accountants, all experienced in detec- tive work. To Supervise Local Area. Dort will maintain at Washington supervision over Maryland, Delaware, | the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. The other 12 regional offices will em- brace the remaining States. Dort said administration of the | works relief act, which itself makes | any kind of“false statement or corrup- tion involving the appropriation a | $1,000 fine and two years imprison- ment, would expedite prosecution. (See RELIEF, Page 3.) MRS. BUXTON INDICTED CHESTERTOWN, Md,, October 23 (#).—The Kent County grand jury today returned an indictment charg- ing Mrs. Thelma Buxton, 28, with the murder of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Effie Buxton, 69. The elder Mrs. Buxton was hacked to death in her apartment here. The younger Mrs. Buxton, wife of Dr. Ken- neth Buxton, professor at Washington College here, is now at Spring Grove Hospital. It is not known whea Mrs. Buxton will be brought to trial. She was examined by alienists in the jail here and the report was that she was “mentally unsound.” Europe Sends Air Experts To Probe Atlantic Service By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 23.—Aviation authorities disclosed today that four European experts, representing as many nations, have been assigned to investigations in the United States concerning the possibility of a “quick” establishment of regular trans-Atlantic air routes. It was indicated that “quick” meant within the next 12 months. 4 The contemplated air services would transport not only mail and express, but passengers. One of these foreign experts already is in the United States. He is A. Plesman of the Royal Dutch Airlines, which operates out of Amsterdam to as great a distance as the Dutch East Indies. The three others known to be on their way or coming shortly are Hans Wronsky, representing Germany's Lufthansa; G. E. Woods-Humphrey of the British Imperial Airways, and M. Couche of Air Prance, the French international flying company. ernment subsidized. All four of them operate into the Far East; and the German line, Lufthansa, combined with the Deruluft Co., co-operates with the Russians in flying from Mos- Ccow across Asia. Two of these companies, and a third to a minor degree, are already in competition with United States en- terprise in America. Lufthansa and Air Prance are op- erating services across the South At- lantic to compete with Pan-American Airways, operating south from the United States to connect every re- public in North and South America by air. The Dutch are flying a serv- ice among their American possessions. ‘The European companies have been unable to speed up their service to a point at which they offer serious competition in Soutn America. The air service competition in South, America has been intense be- cause of the fact that Latin America is recognized as one of the three world markets still in process of develop~ ment. The two others are China and, & Al four of these airlines are goWp to a much smaller degree, Africa. Ch ! labor Fifty Trained Men to Hunt| The remainder are lawyers and | In addition to his “flying squad,” | Federal misdemeanor punishable with | | _The nearly $3,000,000,000 spent on | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,009 Some Returns Not Yet Received =2 WASHINGTON, ‘D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. STRIKES THREATEN MARYLAND W. P. A IN'WAGE DISPUTES Prince Georges and Cum- berland Projects Are Cen- ters of Dissatisfaction. MAYOR AND COUNCIL BACK LABOR DEMAND | State-D. C. Federation-Head Pre- dicts Walkouts—Conference Called in Baltimore. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 23 —Threats of State-wide strikes loomed in the background today as municipal offi- cials from Cumberland—one of the trouble zones—gathered here today for a conference with State Works Prog- ress Administration heads. Difficulties over prevailing wage rates in Prince Georges County and in Cumberland presented an imme- diate and pressing problem to Francis H. Dryden, State W. P. A. head, with leaders at the latter point threatening a general walkout Mon- day. Backed by Mayor. Backed by the Allegany Trades Council and the Cumberland Cham- per of Commerce, Mayor George W. Legge and the City Council told Dry- den that unless demands for a re- adjustment of wages and hours were | met the strike would result. Mayor Legge advised Dryden the | city backed a readjustment to provide a minimum wage scale of 50 cents an hour. The demand and the strike ultimatum were wired to Federal Re- lief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. In Prince Georges County only nine workers appeared on a State-spon- sored project after 65 had been told | to report. They complained the se- curity wage payments, under the pres- ent scale, would average about 23 cents an hour. Cite Higher Pay Elsewhere. On the nearby Berwyn Heights Re- settlement Administration dubbed “Tugwelltown,” they claimed, workers were recelving 45 cents hourly. Possibility of State-wide strikes was forecast by Joseph P. McCurdy, presi- | dent of the Maryland-District of Co- lumbia Federation of Labor, who as- serted the walkouts were certain to come unless the W. P. A. met pre- vailing wage rates. Dryden postponed settlement of the problems pending a report by D. L. B. Fringer, his assistant, who sat in at a conference in Cumberland yes- terday. W. P. A officials held that security wages and hourly wages could not be compared fairly, in that security wages are paid regardless of bad weather which may prevent men from working. Hourly wages are not paid for time lost. Communities to Lose. It was pointed out that communi- ties where labor objected to the pres- ent scale were likely to be the losers. The Federal allotment for each proj- ect is specified, and the political sub- | division is required to make up the difference. Should Dryden allocate more money from the Federal funds for labor, the community would be required to make up the remainder. State Relief Administrator Harry Greensteir struck an optimistic note in requesting the Federal Government to allot Maryland $799,572 for direct relief during November. Word has gone out from Washing- ton that direct relief will end Novem- ber 1—with the exception of some localities.” . eenstein’s request in- dicated officials are hopeful a further grant will be made to Maryland. The November amount sought com- pares with $890,000 asked for Oc- tober—of which $825,000 was granted. Effects of the W. P. A. program were credited as causing the decrease. HOOSAC MILLS CASE DATE IS CONSIDERED Supreme Court to Decide Request of U. S. to Advance Hear- ing to November 20. By the Associated Press. Solicitor General Stanley Reed today asked the Supreme Court to advance for hearing on or about November 20 the Hoosac Mills case involving the validity, of the processing tax under A A A Counsel for the Hoosac Corp. urged the court not to hear the case before December 9. Chief Justice Hughes announced the court would take the matter under consideration. It appeared probable the Hoosac Mills case wouid be the first of the New Deal controversies to to come before the court for hearing on constitutional questions. The Government is said to be par- ticularly anxious that a decision by the court on the validity of the tax will be delivered before the meeting of Congress in January. Counsel for the Hoosac Corp. stated outside of court that he considered the constitutional question presented “too important to be crowdec.” He also said his associates in the case had other court business requiring their attention. Readers’ Guide project, | 1936 SENATORIAL SWEEPSTAKES ! AND JOE,REMEMBER YOU'VE GOT THIS RACE. WON BEFORE You Start! ek kk (#) Means Associated Britain to Invite Powers to Naval Parley Dec. 2-3 ProspectsViewedGloom- ily, With Japan Ask- ing Full Parity. Special Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, October 23.— The British government has decided | to issue invitations for a naval confer- | ence to meet in London December 2 or 3, it is learned today. The conference is made necessary naval treaty which provides that a new conference shall be held within a year after the denunciation of the denounced the London last December. The provisions of the treaty expire for all signatories at the end of 1936, and a conference would in any case be convened sometime soor ‘The prospects of the conference are treaty view of the Japanese demand for a Oriental euphemism for parity. (Copyright. 1935.) $8m,m,[m DUE D. C. Naval Reservists Pledge Support for Safety Campaign FOREHT STATE D. C. in 45th Place in W. P. A., P. W. A. and Crossing Project Grants. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Eight large States arc slated to re- ceive about half of the $1.640,000,000 that had been allotted up to a recent date as Federal grants through P. W. A. W. P. A. and for highway and grade-crossing projects—three main phases of the present $4,000,000,000 | work-relief crive, These States and the totals each will obtain from the three sources are: New York, $229,509,503; California, $119.- 381,158; sylvania, $97,315.636; Ohio, $96,798.- 835; Texas, $71,952,573: Michigan, $58,751,299, and Massachusetts, $48,- 924,386. These States also are the largest in population and in number of families on relief, although not in ex- actly the same order that they rank in Federal grants. The grants allocated to the District of Columbia for the same three pur- poses total $4.674,522, which places Washington in forty-fifth place—44 States receiving more and only four less. Washington in 45th Place. The totals for the other States and territories is shown in the accompany- ing table, confined to the amounts be- ing given by Uncle Sam in the form of grants, as distinguished from loans or other classes of work that will be car- ried on by numerous agencies of the Government out of the remaining $2,- 360,000,000 of the work-relief appro- priation. All States and the District will share in these other expenditures as the ad- ministration pushes ahead in its drive | to end direct relief in the near future by creating work, but the allotments to Federal agencies cover such a wide variety of projects and surveys that it would be difficult to show at this stage of the program exactly how much of the total fund will go into each geo- graphical area of the country. For example, one of the major allot- ments out of the $2.360,000,000 is the $600,000,000 set aside to operate the Civilian Conservation Corps until the end of the fiscal year, next July. Each State and the District fur- nishes a quota of the 500,000 men en- rolled in the corps, and a large part of the outlay goes back into each area through the compensation checks the men send home to their families. Members of the corps are paid $30 a month, of which approximately $25 is sent home. A complete picture of the distribution of C. C. C. benefits, how- ever, would include the improvements made by the men, working on projects near the 2,427 camps throughout the country. Statistics on this distribu- tion of benefits may be available later. $1,000,000 for Resettlement. Other substantial allocations are $100,000,000 for the Rural Resettle- ment Admi) tration and $1,000,000,~ 000 for the: fural Electrification Ad- ministration, which are planning ex- tensive programs for the benefit of farming areas. In addition to these New Deal agen- cies, numerous allocations have been made to the regular Federal depart- ments and bureaus to carry on a wide assortment of improvements of a per- manent nature, the construction of which will stimulate employment. Some Government departments like- wise are being allotted funds for sur- veys and researches that would tend to reduce the number of unemployed in the clerical and professional groups. Of a somewhat similar nature is the W. P. A. allotment of $27,300,000 for cultural projects to aid artists, musi- cians, actors and writers. ‘Then, there is the National Youth Administration, with an allotment of $27,056,268 to provide clerical and ap- prenticeship jobs, in co-operation with Illinois, $113,074.392; Penn- | |Officers and Men of Units Subscribe to | Star Drive—Post Office Workers Receive Warning. Co-ordinating their training for na- tional defense with the campaign of The Star Safety Council to save lives and limbs on the streets and high- ways, officers and men of the District Naval Reserve organization have | joined the safety campaign as a unit. | Under the leadership of Lieut. J. E. Sullivan, on duty in the Navy De- partment and in charge of the local reserve training, officers and men of ! the local reserve units have sub- | scribed to the safe driving pledge of | The Star Council. At the request of | Lieut. Sullivan, special pledge cards | were provided for the purpose by The Star Council. The Naval Reserve organization is the first large military reserve unit to join the safety campaign, although | | several Regular Army outfits have | begin at home, the officers and men | who will be given the first call to pro- been enrolled, including the entire | Fort Myer garrison. A transport sec- tion of the District National Guard | also has enrolled. The necessity for wholehearted co- operation by all local Navy Reserve personnel in the drive to cut down the slaughter and maiming of men, women and children on the streets of Wash- ington was presented by Lieut. Sulli- | van to the reservists at the regular weekly training period this week in the reserve quarters at the Washing- ton Navy Yard. Agreeing that the true defense of the lives of American citizens should tect the Nation in case of national emergency, pledged themselvs as in- (See SAFETY, Page 5. ABC. BANSLIOUOR AT COTTON CLUB Board Sets Hearing for Five Other Resorts Accused of Violations. Launching a more determined cam- paign for strict obedience to the liquor | law and regulations. the Alccholic Bev- | 2rage Control Board today revoked the permit of the Cotton Club, a night -resort at Tenth and U streets for col- ored and white patrons, and cited five | other establishments for alleged vio- lations. ‘The Cotton Club was found guilty of several charges, including selling | drinks to persons apparently intoxi- cated, permitting the place to be used for disorderly purposes and selling drinks after prescribed drinking hours. The revocation order is effective at midnight October 29. Five Others Cited. The five other establishments cited to answer charges at early hearings are: The Madrillon Restauraat, Fifteenth street and New York avenue, charged with permitting a disorderly place and drinking after hours. hearing set for 10:30 a.m. October 29; Dupont Amusement Co., 1538 Con- necticut avenue, otherwise knowa as the Heigh-Ho Club, charged with per- mitting drinking after hours, hearing set for 10:30 a.m. October 30. La Paree Restaurant, 804 Four- teenth street, charged with permitting drinking after hours, hearing set for 2 p.m. October 30: The Co-operative Restaurant Corp., 727 Fourteenth street, otherwise known | as the Lotus, charged with allowing drinking on premises after legal hours; hearing set for 2 p.m, Octo- | ber 29:; and Mayflower Market, Inc., 1122 Con- necticut avenue, charged with pur- chasing beverages for resale from per- sons not licensed to sell such bev- erages for, resale; heamMng set for 10:30 a.m,, October 25. New Rules Adopted. The citations and the revocation come on the heels of an announcement late yesterday that the board had adopted two new rules for prosecution of liquor dealers, which indicated a | move for more severe treatment of violators. “The presence of an intoxicated per- son in an on-sale liquor establishment will be regarded by the board as evi- (See WORKS-RELIEF, Page 4.) A. P. WIREPHOTOS “Today’s Pictures Today” Freddy Bartholomew (See LIQUOR, Page 3. and Aunt, Page A-3 Alyce Jane McHenry, Page A-4 Louisville Death Mystery, Page A-4 Chicago Auto Wreck, Page A-7 COOPER CHARGED BALDWIN CALLS | ELECTION NOV. 14 Commons Cheers Claim That Risks of Peace Re- quire Strength. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 23.—Prime Mine ister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons today that he would go to the people for support of a rearma- ment program and called national elections for November 14. He announced “In the interests of world peace, it is essential our defensive services should be stronger than today. “I will not pursue a policy or be responsible for the government of this country if T am not.given the power to remedy those deficiencies that have occurred in our defensive services | since the war.” i Announcement Cheered. His declaration for strengthening | the defenses was received with cheers by the members of Parliament Baldwin said it seemed to him that the wisest thing to do was to get the elections over- with. | Parliament, will be prorogued and | dissolved Friday. ment will meet November 26 for the election of a Speaker and the swear- ing in of members. Its state opening will be Decem- ber 3 “I am not speaking of any kind of unilateral rearmament directed either in reality or imagination against any particular country,” said the prime defensive services within the frame- WITH TAKING CASH, U. S. Attorney Asserts He Pocketed Funds Through Bank Manipulations. for selfish ends.” Cites Peace Risks. | ain was running risks for peace the present international | Baldwin said he was convinced, how- | ever, that the Parliament and Charging that Col. Wade H. Cooper, by a series of “manipulations,” paid into his own pockets iilegally turx of the defunct Commercial Natiol Bank, the Government today asked a jury in District Supreme Court to convict the former bank president of violation of the national banking laws. Assistant United States Attorney Irving Goldstein. launching the long- | delayed prosecution of Col. Cooper, outlined with the aid of a blackboard intricate financial transactions involv- ing the so-called merger of the Com- mercial Bank and the Continental Trust Co., whereby, the prosecutor de- clared, Cooper defrauded the Com- mercial Bank for his own profit. The jury, consisting of 10 men and 2 women of varied occupations, was selected after an hour and a half of questioning and challenges. Transactions Held Approved. Replying to the opening statement by Government counsel, William E. like a thief in the dark.” but with the approval of the controller of the currency and the stockholders of both banks. Goldstein explained that on Jan. uary 18, 1930, an agreement was reached between the Commercial Bank and the Continental Trust Co. whereby the Commercial took over the | Continental’s deposit liabilities to the extent of $2,803,906 and received as security for these liabilities the en- | tire- assets of the Continental, having a book value of about $4,000,000. Cooper, at the time, was president of the Continental and on the con- solidation became also president of the Commercial Bank. “As it started out,” the prosecutor stated, “the transaction was innocent enough, but, as it turned out later, it gave the defendant Cooper op- portunities to perpetrate what we con- tend were deliberate frauds.” Loans Held Illegal. Goldstein said it is the contention of the prosecution that certain divi- dends paid by the Continental and certain loans made with Commercial funds: to the Continental Bank were illegal and tainted with fraud. “At several times,” the Federal at- torney said, “the Continental Trust Co. declared dividends when it had not a penny of assets. All the assets had been taken in as security by the Commercial National Bank. In order to pay these dividends, Mr. Cooper, who was president of both institutions, and financially interested in both, advanced money from the Commercial to the Continental and charged it to what was called an incoming expense account in the Commercial Bank. Some of that money was paid in dividends to Mr. By such “manipulations,” the prose- cutor charged, the Commercial paid $105,000 to the gfimntfl, of which (See Page 2.), meet the risks inherent to the crisis. | “I warn the country,” he said, “that Then he there are risks of peace.” called for “the power to remedy de- ficiencies.” “If T am not given that power,’| “I will leave this policy of peace to those who think Baldwin declardd, | the risks are worth running, remem- | bering that the government woman and child.” COLD AND RAIN DUE TO END D. C. WARMTH | Decline in Temperature Forecast ' Province, | Late Today or To- T morrow. A sharp decline in the temperature Leahy, chief of counsel for Cooper, |late today or tomorrow will put an told the jury the charges are based on | €nd to Washington's belated Summer, transactions “not conducted at night | the Weather Bureau predicted this afternoon. | Colder weather, | the sudden change may | early tomorrow. | The minimum tonight will be about be between 60 and 65, | The mercury had climbed to 76 at | noon, | ternoon would rival yesterday. mark of 82 was reached at 2:45. was 65 at 6 o'clock this morning. Ruth Nichols Improving. TROY, N. Y.. October 23 (). because of article 23 of the Lond()nl treaty by any signatory. Japan formally | viewed here with extreme gloom, in ' “common upper limit” which is an | The new Parlia- | minister. “It is a strengthening of the | work of the League of Nations for the | sake of international peace and not Frankly admitting that Great Brit- in situation. the country were behind the government in its policy and that a greater meas- ure of preparedness was necessary to is re- sponsible for the safety of every man. accompanied by {rain, is scheduled before night. but on Harar. hold off until | 46, while tomorrow’s maximum will Miss | TWO CENTS. PEAGE TALKS EASE EUROPE'S TENSION; QUIET PREVAILS ON ETHIOPIAN FRONTS |British Stand Against Use of Military Sanctions Spurs Efforts of Diplomats to End War in Africa. Pr HOARE’S POLICY DRAWS FIRE OF LABOR PARTY e Selassie Utilizes Delay in Italian Advance to Bolster Forces—Bes lated Rains Bog Down Fascist Troops in Sov’a, While 200,000 March to Meet Them. By the Assoctated Press. Fears of a European conflict, cipitated by Italy’s conquest Ethiopia, were allayed generally On every hand there was talk of peace. The “behind the scenes” cons versations between Paris, London and Rome, seeking a satisfactory solution | to end the East African conflict, were progressing. ‘The pacific reports were given new life by Sir Samuel Hoare's House of Commons address, in which the British government left the way open for an end to hostilities without ims posing military sanctions against Italy, Premier Pierre Laval of Prance pre« dicted success for his personal peace | efforts. Laval sought Mussolini’s mini« | mum terms for ending his invasion of Haile Selassie’s empire. Last Word Up to League. One highly important thing was still emphasized by the British, even with all the peace talk: Any peace must be acceptable both to Haile Selassie and to the League of Nations | While diplomats over Europe werq | giving credit to Sir Samuel, theq | British government was criticized al | home by the Labor party. Labor party leaders criticized tha government's apparent lack of a defi. nite plan to halt the conflict in Africa, Sir Samuel's speech, to them, was an indication Britain intends to sit baci and do nothing more to end the war | Military operations in Ethiopia wer¢ still at a standstill. An official sRame communique ine dicated the drive into the Ethiopiag interior, toward Makale, was immis | nent. Gen. Emilio de Bono, comy | mander in chief of colonial troops said the preparations were “advanced For the day all was quiet on both the northern and southern fronts. “Among the populations of the ocs cupied territory,” De Bono informed Rome. ‘life resumed its completely normal aspects.” The Italian authorities in the oce | cupied area about Aduwa formally proclaimed religious liberty and equaj rights for all religious sects | Ciano Describes Bombing. Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-laW of Il Duce and bombing squadroy leader on the northern front. gave a graphic description of some of thq bombing flights over the Aduwa and Adigrat area. Bombs weighing lesy than 10 pounds have been used, hq said. The giant tri-motored planeg first drop small bombs, which explode with the effect of shrapnel. “These cause panic,” the count ree lated. “The enemy flees, revealing his position and number. Then we swoop down to between 300 and 354 feet, bombing and machine gunning simultaneously.” Selassie Bolsters Defense. Haile Selassie was making good usq of the delay in the Italian advance, Thousands more tribal warriors werq streaming from Addis Ababa to the various sectors at the front. The heavy and belated rains in | Southeast Ethiopia, in the Ogaden have bogged down the army under Gen. Rudolfq Lut they have allowed thq to deploy advane pre- of to= | Italian Graziano, | Ethiopian forces tageously. With 200,000 troops, Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of the Emperor, drove down the valley of the Webbe Shibeli River. Graziani's column way making up the river in the campaign ’ Twenty thousand warriors from the | mountains, after partaking of a raw meat festival staged by the Emperor yesterday and last night, left Addig | Ababa today for the northern front, | Arms shipments were arriving daily a prediction that the early aft- in Addis Ababa, one of the benefits hen a |of the League of Nations sanctions It | against I1 Due’s Fascist government. Geneva, announcing the adhesion of Yugoslavia to the arms embargo on Italy, said 25 nations had put this | sanction into effect. Ruth Nichols, noted aviatrix gravely injured Monday in the crash of a giant airliner that cost the life of her pilot, was reported today as ‘“con- siderably improved in general condi- | tion.” | George V Returns to London. | LONDON, October 23 (#).—King George and Queen Mary returned tq 1 London today from their Sandringham | home. Hopes to Fly By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 23 —Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, hard-bitten fiyer quered both the Atlantic and Pacific, took off from Croydon Airdrome today for a three-day flight to Australia. i still weak after a “nasty shake-up” from a week-end chill, did not aim to break any records, but hoped to demonstrate the feasibility of fast air-mail service beeween England and Australia. He headed for Sydney by way of Marseille. Baghdad, Singapore, Port Darwin and Melbourne. Kingsford-Smith and his co-pilot, J. T. Pethybridge, were flying a 500- horsepower American (Lockheed Al- tair) plane, ing only 118 gallons of gasoline by ¢v ministry regulations, “from dcwn under,” who has con-| Kingsford-Smith Off to Sydney; Route in 3 Days |excluding any possibility of extrae | long hops. | The flight was twice postponed— | first by delay in getting an air ministry | certificate. due to Kingford-Smith’s | desire to carry a heavier load of gaso= | line, and second by his illness. Contrary to a report that the flyers intended to take on a heavier load of ministry regulations governing amount of fuel would hold through= out the flight. Kingsford-Smith, if all goes well, | will have no difficulty in breaking his | own record for an England-Australia hop. His last trip over this route in October, 1933, took 7 days, 4 hours and 47 mlm‘an