Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1935, Page 3

BRITISH COAL MINE STRIKE POSTPONED Winter Held Wrong Season, and Baldwin Aid Later Possibility. Bpecial Cable to The Star. LONDON, November 22.—There will be no national coal strike until Spring at least. This was virtually decided by the Miners’ Federation today, al- though the ballot of the miners gave | an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike. Two reasons are given for the decision: First, the weather, since a walkout would be almost hopeless in the cold Winter months, and seconu, hopes that Prime Minister Stanley Bzldwin may exert pressure on the coal owners. Representatives of the miners are meeting cabinet delegates today in an attempt to hammer out a provisional settlement. The miners demand ad- justmen . of wages on a national basis, as provided by the coal act of 1930. Despite this act, the coal owners have been able to maintain the present| system, whereby wages differ accord- ing to districts. Pay and Pension Demands. The miners want 2 shillings a day increase in pay and pensions of £1 a week at the age of 60. The owners say they cannot afford this, partly because of the enormous fm‘ they have to pay the landowners, | who possess the royalty rights in the mine areas. 1f, contrary to expectations, the | strike should be declared it would come at an awkward moment for industry, since the present stocks of | coal in Great Britain would not last more than three weeks, il is cal- culated. Cabinet Reconstruction. Baldwin is expected to announce his reconstruction of the cabinet today or tomorrow. It is assumed that both MacDonalds (Ramsey, former lord president of the council, and Malcolm, his son and former minister of col- | onies) will remain in their present posts and seek to return to the House of Commons in by-elections. The Tories are angry at the “fan- tastic arithmetic” whereby the Na- tional Labor party, which possesses exactly eight seats in the House of Commons, has three posts in the cabi- net. The Liberal Nationals under Sir John Simon—who only squeezed into | the House by the skin of his teeth— | have 33 seats in Commons and no fewer than four cabinet ministers. ‘The Conservatives, with a colossal block of 384 seats, have to be satis- fied with the rest of the cabinet posts, about 20 in all. But Baldwin wants to maintain the pretense of a national government, and so the restless Tories champ their lips in vain. (Copyright. 193 NEW FIRE APPARATUS < SOUGHT BY MANASSAS Chief Says Present Equipment Inefficient on County Roads. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va.,, November 22.— Funds for the purchase of fire-fighting | equipment “capable of negotiating the secondary roads of Prince William County” were requested of the newly- elected Board of Supervisors by Chief ‘Thomas W. Howard of the Manassas Fire Department, at the annual ban- quet of that organization here last night. Among the guests who heard Chief | Howard’s criticism of road conditions were District Commisisoner Melvin C. Hazen and Chief Engineer C. E. Strom and Sergt. A. J. Bargagni of the Dis- treit of Columbia Fire Department, s | well as fire department chiefs from a | number of Northern Virginia towns. Chief Howard told members of the incoming board the present heavy ap- paratus is inefficient in operation over country roads. C.C.C. Drivers Need Permits in District, DepartmentAdmits Attempt to Exempt Men From Law Uncovered in Traffic Court. An attempt on the part of nlterior Department officials to allow operators | of Civilian Conservation Corps vehicles | to drive by permission of that depart- | ment instead of securing District of Columbia permits was brought to light in Traffic Court today when Peter Olenick, & C. C. C. member stationed at Fort Dupont, was arraigned before Judge John P. McMahon on charges of speeding and operating without a. permit. Olenick was released on his personal bond on the speeding charge because he sends $25 of his $30 a month pay to his family in Pittsburgh, Pa. The other charge was nolle prossed upon the promise of C. C. C. officials that they would secure permits for all their drivers in the District of Columbia. ° When arraigned, Olenick showed a mimeographed form from the Interior Department allegedly giving him the right to drive. Judge McMahon ques- tioned the authority of the depart- ment to take such action, pointing out that Washington'’s traffic laws are all acts of Congress. After an investigation into the question, department officials notified the court they were in error and had today withdrawn the operators’ forms ~4n so far as the District of Colum- ..Dia is concerned. Drivers are not subject to State operators’ permit " laws, however, it was claimed. 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This Changing World Laval’s Worries Soon to Be Over With Ousting From Office. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. REMIER LAVAL'S worries will soon be over. Within the next few weeks he will be out of office and won't weep over it. Because of the threatening inter- national situation and the growing domestic difficultles the Prench are sending their gold out of the country. It is impossible for the present gov- ernment which is nominally—al- though not in fact—responsible for the situation to maintain itself in power, * % X % The people of France have little | choice in the selection of a new premier. They shuffie and reshuffie the same deck of old cards and the same jokers come out—Herriot, Chau- temps, Flandin, Tardieu, etc. Hence the French political philosophy “the more it changes the more it is the same thing.” Nobody knows quite who will suc- ceed Monsieur Laval. It is possible President Lebrun will try and offer his people a new man in the person of Monsieur Mandel, the former sec- retary of the Tiger—the late Georges Ciemenceau. Whether Mandel will be able to improve the situation is a matter of speculation. Judged by his past record and especially by the opinion of his late chief he is less able and less likely to put order in France’s affairs than any of the other possible candidates to the premiership. But he is & new man and that may induce Lebrun to try him out—for a few weeks at least. * ok kX ‘There is going to be some shooting in Tokio within the next few days. ‘The military which is the dictator of Japan is intensely annoyed because the diplomats double-crossed it and postponed the declaration of “auton- omy” of the five provinces of Northern China. The Japanese soldiers accuse the civilian diplomats of being chicken- livered, of having yielded to what they describe as a British diplo- matic bluff. The reason why the Japanese foreign office decided to postpone the annezation of the five provinces —the ripest plum Japan ever found in China—is that the British gov- ernment let it be known in direct terms that the days of highway robberies are over. According to reports, the Japanese Ambassador in London was informed by the foreign office that the sanc- tions which the League is applying against Mussolini because of his at- tack on Ethiopia will also be applied against Japan if she goes farther into LI The Japanese were given to under- stand that sanctions THE EVENING ST 251,42 GNEN WORK RELIEF 10BS District Reports 8,612 Em- ployed on Various Projects. Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress for 2,367,242 jobs as of November 16, which places him under the necessity nf creating 500,000 jobs a week to reach the desired goal by the. end of the month. The figures today showed an in- crease of 357,903 jobs since the previous report of November 9. De- spite the fact the program must provide 1,132,758 persons with em- ployment during the remaining weeks in November, Aubrey Williams, as- sistant administrator, reiterated that no State will receive direct relief al- lotments beyond December 1. The jobs provided to date are giv- g employment to 1,624,112 persons on W. P. A. projects, 539,403 in the C. C. C., and 203,727 on other Federal projects. With 26 States already shut off from direct relief allotments, Williams ap- peared confident the objective would be reached December 1 without seri- ous consequences to the remaining huge relief population. The reports for the District of Columbia, which has received its last direct allotment for relief, shows 8,612 on work jobs. of total, 5,029 were on W. P. A, projects, 2,688 on emergency conser- vation work and 895 were employed on various Federal programs. Maryland has accounted for 14,582 jobs and Virginia for 41,397, e BALTIMOREAN HURT AS PLANE CRASHES En Route to Take Pilot License Test, Man Hurt in Belts- ville Fall. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BELTSVILLE, Md. November 22. —Fred G. Williamson, Baltimore lum- berman, was seriously injured this morning when his airplane nose-dived into a cornfield near the Old Powder Factory road here while flying to Washington to take a test for a pri- vate pilot's license. Bladensburg Rescue Squadmen, who rushed to the scene, were forced to cut him loose from the wreckage. At Casualty Hospital, Washington, it was said his injuries were undetermined. Williamson fell on the Higgins farm apparently while attempting a forced landing. Residents of Beltsville said he circled the community, suddenly nose-diving from a height of about 150 feet. The cause for his attempted landing could not be learned imme- iately. The fiyer was en route from Curtiss- Wright Airport, Baltimore, to Wash- ington Airport when the accident oc- curred. He intended to try to get his private flying license in the Capital obtained his student license about six months ago. Williamson was flying his own two- seater monoplane. CHIROPODIST 50 YEARS TO GET BANQUET HONOR Dr. Eugene C. Rice Tomorrow Will Celebrate Half Cene tury in Profession. Fellow chiropodists, members of the Kiwanis Club and friends will pay tribute tomorrow night to Dr. Eugene C. Rice, who at that time will celebrate his fiftieth year as a chiropodist, 48 of them being spent in Wash- ington. It is expected that more than 100 persons will attend the ban- quet to be given in honor of Dr. Rice at the May- flower Hotel. Dr. Rice took a four - year course in general medi- &8 cine, two at Georgetown and two at Columbian College, now George Washington University, gradu- ating from the latter in 1897. Despite this general training, he continued the practice of chiropody, being one of the country’s few medical men to do so. He came to Washington in 1887 and opened his office at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. end the military started a new one next morning. Consequently everybody believes that the annexation of Northern China to Japan is only a temporarily postponed operation. There is a tacit agreement between the powers interested in China to keep the foreign military contingents in Tientsin. Not that they have a military value under the present circumstances but from the diplomatic point of view it today, having taken up aviation and | WASHINGTO. D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935 U. S. Navy Radio Station in Addis Ababa In Plane Over BACKGROUND— James A. Mills, veteran Asso- ciated Press foreign staff writer, was the first American newspaper man to fly over the southern fromt in the Italo-Ethiopian war. In the Jollowing dispatch he describes the dramatic trip. BY JAMES A. MILLS. | (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) ADDIS ABABA, November 22—I have just completed a 700-mile flight over the southern front, penetrating two-thirds of the way into Ogaden Province right to the battle lines and south to Daggah Bur. During the outgoing and return flights my plane paralieled Emperor Halle Selassie’s giant, single-motored | ship for parts of the journey, while he was making his first visit to the War zone. Ras Nasibu, Ethiopian commander in chief on the southern front, and his aide, Wehib Pasha, former gen- eral of the Turkish Imperial Army and Dardanelles hero, warned me of the danger of being shot down by Italians. I flew over Gorrahel, which the Italians occupy, flying sufficiently high to outdistance Italian anti-air- craft fire. City Bombed Daily. From there I fiew to Daggah Bur, 150 miles northeast of Gorrahel, which is bombed daily by the Italians, and thence to Jijiga, 100 miles farther to the northeast and general head- quarters for the Ethiopian southern armies. ‘The population of Daggah Bur, mis- taking my plane for an Italian craft, fled the city. Two Italian planes were reported to have preceded me over Jijiga and nearby Harar, flying to Diredawa to observe the movements of the Em- peror, who was preparing to return by air to Addis Ababa. “Your flight is a highly hazardous one,” said Ras Nasibu, “because the unlettered natives know only Italian planes. They will undoubtedly mis- take your machine for an enemy plane and may attempt to shoot you down. “I advise you to fly at the maximum speed of 200 miles an hour, mainfain- ing the utmost height in order to avold anti-aircraft guns and rifle fire. “Yours is the first foreign airplane to enter this zone, which is far more dangerous than the northern front because the Italians bomb this area unceasingly daily and our hospitals) are jammed with wounded from air bombs.” When I took off from Jijiga for Daggah Bur, Ras Nasibu and Wehib Pasha appeared at the air field to deliver a final caution and to say fare- well. Within & half hour I was flying over Daggah Buhr, where Dr. Robert W. Hockman has the only American fleld hospital in Ethiopia. The Stars and Stripes fly proudly from Dr. Hockman’s tents, warning the Italians that they must refrain from bombing this remote refuge. is important that they should stay army. where they are—they are, so to speak, hanging on the tails of the Japanese. And that worrles the Tokio foreign -, | theless was Italy’s greatest source for Four United States Navy radiomen, dispatched from Washington to the American Legation in the Ethiopian capital, shown in front of the radio station they erected in Addis Ababa for use in case regular means of com- munications are broken off. Left to right: Mass.; Chief Operator Walter E. Tanner of New London, Conn., and Cecil F. Cavanah of Rocky Ford, Colo. War Correspondent Risks Life Southern Front Follows Selassie on Tour, Visiting, Towns Bombed Often by Italian Flyers—W ounded Fill Hospitals. with only scattering human habita- tions For thousands of square miles the | inhospitable and unproductive Afri-| can plain is covered with cactus, brush and brambles, reminding one of the wildest parts of the Western United | States. | No water is anywhere visible on the | plains and the rivers are dried up. | Only here and there does one see | small, fungus-covered lakes in vol- canic craters, giving the land a pesti- lential appearance. The utter flatness of the country is sometimes relieved by chains of gray, sun-scorched mountains and deeply scarred, dried-up water courses. Land Lacking Even Roads. If any fiyer had the misfortune to come down here, undoubtedly he would not be found for months be- cause there are no roads, telegraph lines or human establishments. Everywhere I landed in the eight- hour flight through the war zone, 1| found unbounded enthusiasm for the ‘emperor. “Now that we have seen him on the actual battlefront, we know he will be as great in war as in peace and we are sure he will lead us to victory like Menelek,” was one ex- pression. The name of Haile Selassie was on every one’s lips. It was clear that the emperor’s visit stimulated the morale of his troops. All seemed impatient to face the Blackshirts. One hardy warrior said: “We are tired of the silly air bomb- ings by Italians, which are not a real man's way of fighting. We want to fight the Itallans hand-to-hand as real soldiers. That's why we tackled John L. Cauthen of Auburn, Ala.; | nation. | stimulation due to the war scare and John W. Anslow of Cambridge, —Wide World Photo. pressing mopping-up operations in the Eastern Tembien sector. Of interest in the ever-present de- | bate over the European collective se- | cumy system, in which Italy has a lecided stake, were reports from Paris mnv. the French Ambassador to Ger- many and Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler had made a broad exploration of Franco-German relations and the in- | ternational situation. Hitler Is Reassured. It was understood that the Ambas- sador, Andre Francois-Poncet, assured Hitler the Franco-Soviet mutual assist- ance pact was not aimed at any other The Hitler regime is bitter against Moscow. In America the Government con- | tinued to keep a close watch on ex- ports to Italy and Ethiopia. Ickes said oil producers “should comply both in letter and spirit with the efforts of the Government to pre- vent shipment of munitions to bel- ligerents.” He acknowledged he had “no au- thority at all” to order a compulsory ben. September Exports Higher. A Commerce Department report said oil exports in September were higher than in August, “indicating that the other factors outweizhx the usual sea- sonal decline.” Exports were slightly smaller, however, in October than in| September. | The Government watched today to| see what effects Ickes' suggestion would | have. Larger oil companies at Hous- ton, Tex., indicated a disposition to comply. An official of Humble Oil & Refining Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, said: “We adopted a policy of not selling any oil to Italy some weeks ago. that we have shipped was sold prior to that time.” Offices of some other oil companies Co. said at Dallas: “We've not even quoted any oil for Ttalian skhipment and don't expect to. We're delighted to go along with the Government in this mat Not Banned Under Embargo. Oil is not banned under the com- half a dozen tanks armed with ma- chine guns while we had only rifles and swords.” War (Continued From First Page.) reassembling deeper in the interior to continue resistance. Ras Seyoum, beaten off by an Italian column yesterday at Abaro Pass, turned and attacked the Italian rear guard today, but was repulsed again after a hot skirmish. On the diplomatic front the “eye for an eye” principle was enunciated by the Italian government in viewing the efforts of the American Govern- ment to lend added strength to efforts to end the war by outside pressure upon Italy. Only a few weeks ago American oil interests acceded to the wishes of the American State Department in with- drawing from ‘an Ethiopian conces- sion. During January to September of this year, Italy imported 467,299 quintales (each metric quintale weigh- ing 22046 pounds avoirdupois) of lubricating oils, of which 404,347 were frem the United States. At the same time the Untited States supplied Italy with only 59,574 quintales of gasoline out of a total of 1,149,433 Imported—but the United States never- this fuel, except for Rumania, Russia and other nations subscribing to League of Nations economic sanctions. Italian engineers conceded that if other non-sanctionist nations followed the United States’ lead, Italy’s fuel andelubricant problem would become serious. Other scattered reports from the war zone included one from Addis Ababa had pulsory embargo proclaimed by Presi- dent Roosevelt on arms shipments to Italy and Ethiopia. However, he has warned that Americans who carry on any transactions with the belligerents do so at their own risk. (American trade with Ethiopia has been neg- ligible.) Secretary Hull also has declared that exports of, oil, scrap iron, steel and similar goods are “contrary to the general spirit of the neutrality act.” Hull has said the American policy is to keep out of war and “to use our influence in any appropriate way” to settle disputes peacefully. ATTACK IS REPULSED. Ras Seyoum Again Repulsed in Rear Guard Action. WITH ITALIAN ARMIES AT MAKALE, November 22 (#).—The redoubtable Ras Seyoum, beaten off by an Italian column at Abaro Pass yesterday, circled and attacked the Italian rear guard today, but was re- pulsed again after a hot skirmish. The leader of Ethiopian Northern Army was reported in dispatches from the Italian command in the Temp bien region to have engaged 15 bat- talions of Italian native troops who form the head of the column now attempting to reach Amba Alaji. Four Italian battalions of infantry and a squadron of cavalry reported yesterday that they had smashed through an Ethiopian ambuscade after several hours’ fighting. It was the rear of the same column that Ras Seyoum and his men at- tacked today, aparently after a fast overnight march The Italians, however, were await- ing the maneuver and were prepared. MARKET ACTIVITY HELD CONTROLLED Reserve Board Ready to Curb “Runaway” Boom, biit Favors Expansion. By the Assoclated Press. 3 The Federal Reserve Board is de- scribed as confident it can curb any “runaway” boom. ‘This word was passed today as it became known that officials have taken notice of increasing stock mar- ket activity and an expanding basis for speculative credit. It was said in semi-official quar- | ters, however, that for the present the emphasis is decidely on encour- | aging, rather than deterring, legiti- | mate expansion of credit. In acting to check any speculative | boom that might tend to get out of control, it was pointed out that the | board can increase bank reserve re- | quirements and sell Government bonds in the open market, thereby reducing surplus bank funds. Meeting This Week. The board has been meeting this week with the Federal Advisory Coun- cil and technical assistants. Among | subjects considered was an important | change in methods of determining margin requirements for stock trans- | actions. The board also is drafting regula- tions applying margin limitations to bank loans intended to finance pur- | chases of securities. | Some attention was given to the| present high level of excess bank re- | serves. They are now at an all-time | peak of more than $3,000,000,000. That | amount, during a stock boom, may be multiplied by 10 in credit, thus pro- viding a wider credit base than that which underlay the boom of 1929. Wall street traders have long sought the change in methods of computing margins. They say the present system 1s confusing. More Rigid Requirements. Present margins are based on the lowest quotations on individual issues of securities within a given period. As prices rise the margin requirements are more rigid. It was hinted strongly the effort is toward evolving a formula under which flat percentages would prevail, | although there is some question of | how far the board’s discretionary pow- er goes. It is authorized to govern margins by the securities exchange act. Promulgation of rules covering mar- gins on bank loans to their customers | has been delayed for more than a year, largely due to the complicated nature of the subject and a feeling that there was no need for immediate action. Canal Progresses. Russia’s eighty-mile Moscow-Volga | Canal will be completed in 1937. this genuine Pennsylvania 811 E St. N.W. daylight, regulate ventilation and l? your window shades are in and see the new colors. They said they had repulsed the rear guard attack without loss. gave rise to the belief today that Halle Selassle’s warriors are concentrating their fire on the white leaders of the an air of smartness and charm to the There’s a real practical side to Venetian blinds, too. 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