Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1935, Page 3

MUSSOLINI CALLS FOR WOMEN'S AID Urges Mothers and Widows Organize Each Family in Sanction War. By the Associated Press ROME, October 30.—Premier Mus- solini summoned the women of Italy today to fight against League of Nations economic sanctions, creating committees of mothers and widows of soldiers dead to organize every | family in the kingdom for execution | of restrictions required under the| Punitive measures. | Il Duce, after ordering food re- strictions and other economies, re- fused to adopt ration cards to limit tonsumption of such products as bread, | meat and coal and said he would rely | on the “self dicipline” of the Italians. Women’s Groups Assist. The meat restrictions, which thus | far will apply only through Cloamg\ of butcher shops on Tuesday and | limitation of sales on Wednesday, will | be made effective through the new | organizations of women. In every one of Italy’s 94 provinces, a group of war mothers and widows will centralize control of all restric- tive actions. The women will work through al hierarchy of lesser committees so that definite supervision will reach out into every village farm house, exactly as it does now in the vast Fascist organization with its many subsidiaries. Fascist Italy responded readily to Mussolini's call for seif-discipline un- der an imminent econcmic blockade by the League. i Corporation heads, after a confer- Shaded areas indicate the appro: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1935. How the War Progresses ximate territory occupied by Italians ence with Il Duce on food restrictions and other econcmies, consulted their subordinztes on means for the masses to carry out the orders. Officials Adjusting Selves. { Restauranteurs smilingly told their | customers to eat plenty while tix could. The measure effective next, Tuesday will limit meat sales and re- | strict public dining to one meat or fish | dish at a meal. Public officials, who had foreseen edicts cutting expenditures, took :Lflps\ to adjust themselves to the limitations. Government economies were ordered | in regulations, also effective Tue<da\.; with documents to be held to a mini- ! mum, furnishings to be limited and offices to be closed promptly to save electric light and heating bills. Similar orders went forth to schools and a wide range of other public in- stitutions. AMERICAN EXPORTS 70 ITALY HIT SLUMP, Experts Unable to Determine Whether Neutrality Policy Causes Decrease. By the Associated Press. A marked slump in United States exports to Italy in September was re- ported today by the Commerce De- partment. September exports amounted to $4,795,000, & drop of $800.000 from Au- gust, and only slightly over the $4.- 741,110 totals of September last year. Experts said they did not know | whether United States neutrality poli- cies had any effect. Exports to Italy | have been relatively high for months. The September drop was the first break in the upward trend. The Italian decrease occurred in the face of a $21,000,000 gain over August in exports to the United King- dom for a September total of $53,513,~ 000, while exports to Germany gained | $3,3(0,000 for a September total of | $8,890,000. Exports to France were $7,216,000, about $500,000 down from August. Exports to Russia hit a low of only $43,950, against August’s $826,000, and July's $5,520,000. Commerce Depart- ment experts declined to attach any significance to the Russian decline on the ground that marked fluctuations are usual. The gain to Germany was highly unusual, since exports to that country have been at a low level for‘ months. 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Heavlest shading in north shows forward movement reported today. Southern advances have been made | is declared, even though he knows irregularly in Dolo, Gerlogubi and Walwal sectors. the objectives. This Changing World Menace of War Rises in Far East, With China Fear- fully Awaiting Another Territorial Invasion by Japanese Armies. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. l HE guns of the Italian artil- | lery are booming again in the Ethicpian mountains, but the | war clouds are shifting now the Far East. This is not sur- | prising. President Roosevelt's advisers have | been warning him that as soon as the | situation in the Mediterranean be- comes really complicated. there is going to be a reaction on the Asiatic mainland. ‘ The Japanese. who have never missed a chance to take advantage of | any mess-up in Europe, are now | ready to swallow another slice of China—all the northern provinces. The Chinese are fed up with the unending appetite of the Japanese and would like to offer some resis= tance this time. But with Great Britain deeply engaged in the Mediterranean and with the United States preoccupied with the Euro- pean situation, China has bdut little chance to oppose Japan's mailed fist. Chiang Kai Shek may want to re- sist Tokio's imperialism, but it is hardly probable that he will obtain the necessary aid from the nations chiefly interested in China’s illusory independence. His eyes are turned principally toward the United States, main champion of China's freedom, but he does not expect any help from | that quarter—not even in the shape of the famous Stimson notes. There is no doubt that President Roosevelt is bent on a genuine “no war, no entanglements” policy. But the pressure from inside and outside quarters to “throw America’s moral influence in the balance of peace” is great. He tries to steer a middle course, advocating peace at any price on the one hand, and on the other hand whispering to the chief pro- tagonist of peace by sanctions, Great Britain, that she need not fear any interference on the pary of the United States when and if a blockade that a blockade means war. * %k Kk 1t is no longer a secret that the ad- ministration has made up its mind that should a biockade be necessary the United States will do its utmost to avoid such unpleasant incidents as have occurred between 1914-1917 be- tween this country and Great Britain. The mneutrality act passed by Congress in August is good for only 6 months. In high official quarters it is beliecved that the League of Nations will proceed systematically putting the screws on Italy, and if a blockade has to be enjorced this won't occur until some time late in December. Congress meets again in January, and in case of a really serious situ START A HECKING ACCOUNT With as little 4t~ ‘5 keep any balance vou want. Our Metered Service Charge Makes This. Possible ©® USE A BANK.., © GET A RECEIPT SAVE TIME @ SAVE TROUBLE |in an advisory capacity. | ported, even if a new peace compro- Makale and Harar are —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto, | tion arising between Great Britain and Italy it is conceivable that both houses might agree to reconsider and | amend the neutrality act so as to give Mr. Roosevelt greater powers to keep America out of the war. * ox % X ‘While waiting for new and more dramatic developments, President | Roosevelt has instructed his agents abroad to send him all possible in- | formation regarding the present crisis. | The State Department is mostly an information bureau for the White | House, with Secretary Hull and Assist- | ant Secretary Walton Moore acting In his anziety to obtain first- hand information about the true state of Europe, President Roose- velt had sent some time ago one of his most trusted friends and advisers on a “pleasure” trip across the Atlantic. This man is back in Washington | now and has told the President that after a thorough investigation there | is no doubt that the Italian people are 100 per cent behind Mussolini and | are prepared to suffer afhy hardship and make any sacrifices I1 Duce may require of them for the sake of Italy’s | expansion. It is equally true, the President’s friend reported, that public opmmn; in Great Britain is keyed up and is determined to support the Baldwin policy of forcing Italy to obey the orders of the League of Nations. to have a glimpse at it until after the votes for “the national govern- ment and collective security” are safely in the bag. France, the same reliable source re- ports, is anxious to get out of this mess, in which she can see no gains whatever may happen. Laval has made many promises to both the British and the Italians. He is represented sitting at his desk at the Qual d'Orsay looking at his handkerchief, where a number of knots are tied, and asking himself what does each of these knots repre- sent?" As jor the rest of Europe, most of the nations of that continent have joined in everything the pil- lars of the League of Nations have decided—with their fingers crossed. Their real psychology was illus- trated at the momentous meeting of the Assembly when the question of sanctions came up. The President of the Assembly en- tered the hall where the represent- atives of 52 nations were gathered. He read to them the order of the day: The application of sanctions The discussion was open. resentatives of looked at each other, none daring to gel up and express his views on the subject. After a painful silence, which lasted a few minutes, the British represent- ative, the handsome Capt. Eden, got | up and made his well-known address, demanding sanctions. Hardly had the | British minister for the League of Nations ended his spcech than two- scores of hands were waved in the air: “Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chmrman 3 shouted the owners of the hands, “I| concurs with the views so ably ex- Britain.” And so it goes at Geneva, where “small disputes between big nations tions" are easily settled. Makale __(Continued From First Page) Eritrean army thus had covered the ground as tar as Hauzien, about half- {way between Adigrat and the next objective of Makale. Gen. Rudolfo, Graziani's advance forces on the southern front were re- |pormd to be routing a small Ethio- pian force between Scillave and Gor= rahei. De Bono Views Troops. | Fascist forces in East Africa, visited the Feres Mai Valley, just occupied, |and reviewed his northern troops. More opposition than the Italians had met appeared to be in prospect, with Ethiopians reported gathering in the Makale and Gorrahel regions for their first real stand. The swift tanks, their machine guns turned against surprised tribesmen, were reported by Italian correspond- ents to have swung into several new, annamed fortified Ethiopian positions near Scillave recently after planes had bombed the defenders. PEACEFUL CAPTURE IS HOPE. by the Associated Press.) ADIGRAT. Ethiopia, October 29 (Delayed).—Troops of the left and central columns of Italy's northern armies penetrated a short distance deeper into Ethiopia today and the high command expressed hope Makale would fall without a battle. Adhering to the policy of peaceful penetration on which Italy is basug its claim that the East African cam- paign is not a war but a crusade of | “liberation,” bands of native troops | were sent forward in advance of the regular forces to win over the Ethio- pian population to the Italian side. Officers of the high command said (Copyright. 1035, Strange as it may seem, the British | people are more decided than me‘ government itself to apply sanctions | to preserve the League of Nations, even at the risk of a conflict. | The League of Nations, in this specific case, is the unwitting pro- tector of Great Britain’s line of com- | munications with the empire. * ok ox % The British cabinet 1is, however, | much less determined—in spite of the appearances to the contrary—to push the sanctions to their logical end: A blockade, which will mean war. But the Baldwin administration, which has just started a strenuous electoral campaign, is compelled to take into consideration the fact that no less than 11,000,000 voters have approved unreservedly the uphold- ing of the covenant of the League of Nations. Thus, the President’s informer re- mise with Italy is reached—and that must be at the expense of Ethiopia and contrary to the spirit of the League—the public will not be allowed Low-Cost Fuel 0il “Now, what promise did I make and | against the power which was pro-| nounced guilty of an aggression—Italy. | The rep- | the minor nations | want to say that my government fully | pressed by the representative of Great | and big disputes between small na- | Gen. De Bono, commander of all the ' Hyattsville Man’s "Ap- pointment Is Made by Magruder, |Experienced in Banking. Will Have Office in W ashington. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., October 30.— G. Shearman James of Hyattsville to- day becomes deputy United States col- lector of an internal revenue for the Maryland district, with offices in | Washington. His appointment was announced last night shortly after it was made by M. Hampton Magruder | of Upper Marlboro, recently named collector. Mr. James has been a resident of Hyattsville since 1908. Seven years ago he completed 40 years' service with the National Bank of Washing- ton, having begun his banking career | there as a young man in 1888. After leaving the Washington in- stitution Mr. James became affiliated with the Citizens’ Bank of Riverdale as cashier. For the past year he has G. S. James Is Deputy Collector Of Maryland Internal Revenue G. SHEARMAN JAMES. been connected with the A. H. Seiden- spinner real estate firm. Mr. James has four children, one of whom, Lieut. G. Shearman James, jr, who recently was graduated from the United States Naval Academy, distinguished himself in intercollegiate athletics. He played on the Navy foot ball team and was an all-America choice for lacrosse. | that if this strategy succeeded they | expected to march dnto Makale with- out experiencing the pitched batile which had been forecast during the last few days. | The forward movement of the regu- | {lar troops was largely in the nature of a reconnaissance operation. Caravan parties arriving here from | the west reported that the Ethiopian military strategy would be to attack the flanks and center of the Italian advancing troops. Considerable Ethiopian military ac- tivity was in progress south of Makale | and around Lake Asangi, persons ar-| riving here by caravan asserted. The operation of troops of the left and central columns was not marked by an advance of the entire force, | which was busy on road construction | to solidify its hold on territory already conquered and to move forward shortly | |in & secure manner. MAKALE REPORTED BOMBED. ADDIS ABABA, October 30 (Reu- ters).—The Fthiopian government re- ported today that two Italian planes bombarded Makale yesterday, without inflicting casualties. The government also said Italian patrols were pushing from Aduwa to- | ward Makale, in the Hauzien Plain, but were not encountering resistance, | the Ethiopian tactics still being to permit the advance without engage- | ments. APPOINTED CHAPLAIN Rev. Henry F. Klomans Takes St. Mary's Post. RALEIGH, N. C, October 30 (#).— Rev. Henry F. Klomans, 65, a native | of Warrenton, Va. has accepted the chaplaincy of St. Mary's Junior Col- lege here for the remainder of this | school year, succeeding Rev. Joseph F. Fletcher, resigned. Mr. Klomans has held pastorates in | Maryland, Virginia, Maine, in North Dakota from 1916-1923, and at one | time was dean of the cathedral in | War (Continued From First Page.) agreement on a distinction between Ethiopia proper (where the Amhanc‘ readiness to apply financial sanctions, cutting off their credit to the warring Fascist nation. Still missing from the financial sanctions list, the “buy-nothing” pro- gram and agreement not to export key products to Italy are 19 states of the League. Fifteen have not yet re- plied as to whether they will Join | the arms embargo. A serious examination of new funda- mentals for a peaceful settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian war was expected to be mace by Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare of Great Britain, Pre- mier Pierre Laval of France and other leaders when they returned to Geneva tomorrow for the meeting of the League general staff for sanctions to set the date for enforcement of the economic boycott. New Peace Plan Reported. Geneva diplomats heard that Great Britain and France were working in close co-operation on a new plan which would fit into the peace proj- ect elaborated by the League of Na- tions comnrittee of five for interna- tional development of Ethiopia—a proposal that was rejected originally by Mussolini. November 15 was deemed generally to have the support of the majority of the delegations as the day for | launching the economic blockade. The committee of 52 nations is ex- pected to inquire about the attitude of states whose sanctions replies have not been received by tomorrow. The recent lessening of tension be- tween Italy and Great Britain was not accompanied by the rapid easing of the general political situation for which statesmen had hoped. The British Navy still was concen- trated in the Mediterranean, and the Fascist legions of Premier Mussolini 5till were apparently bent on new con- quests in Ethiopia. Difficulties Expected. 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