Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1935, Page 3

LAVAL MANEUVERS IN GHAMBER CRISIS Plots Course to Avoid Strife Between Right and Left Wings. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 4.—Premier Pieire Laval took a 24-hour breathing spell today to plot his course in the Chamber of Deputies between the leftists, demanding dissolution of “Fascist” leagues, and the rightists, scoffing at fears of fascism. After yesterday's tumultuous scenes in the Chamber, it was believed the premier would make the maximum promises possible concerning control of political leagues, to hold the ma- Jority of radical Socialist Deputies in line when the Chamber resumes its discussion tomorrow. The radical Socialist course was to be determined today at a meeting of the Chamber group. It was not pos- sible to estimate how many Deputies had been swung into opposition to the government as a result of yesterday’s debate. during which the Laval cab- inet was charged with conniving with the leagues, especially the Croix de Feu. Former Premier Edouard Herriot was expected to act as the govern- ment’s chief radical whip tomorrow, with widespread predications that Laval would come through the crisis with a narrowed but safe majority. Monopoly (Continued From First Page.) port of the alleged agreement is ab- solutely false in every respect.” Sees No Reason to Intervene. In response to inquiries as to the status of the company’s relations with its Italian subsidiary, Teagle's office | referred to his statement of October 18, in which he said he saw no reason to interfere wtih the regular com- mercial oil business between Standard and its Italian company. At that time, Teagle’s office issued | this statement: “Persistent “press comments thati‘ major oil companies are discussing & possible world-wide embargo of petro- leum sales to Italy brought forth from the Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) a flat de- : nial of knowledge of any such deci- | sion. Subsidiary’s Record. “An Italian subsidiary of Standard | ©Oil Co. (N. J.), Societa Italo-Ameri- cana del Petrolio, has been marketing petroleum products in Italy for more | than 40 years.” The statement concluded that Btandard had not been approached with any suggestions that it restrict regular shipments to its Italian sub- sidiary and that Teagle saw “no re: son under existing conditions to inter- | tere with the regular commercial busi- | ness which had been carried on in Italy.” Peace (Continued From First Page.) | negotiate for less than he has been demanding. A possibility of a conference of French, British and Italian repre- eentatives, in an effort to break the deadlock was reported in diplomatic circles. Informed sources said Laval was considering inviting Sir Samuel Hoare and Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italy's Geneva spokesman, to meet him later either in Paris or on the French Riviera. The ostensible purpose of the tri- power conference would be to discuss | & technical plan for settlement. | GROCER FINED $50 One of the largest fines yet im- ! posed for minor violations of the weights and measures law was paid in Police Court yesterday by Alex Mates, proprietor of a grocery store in the 8100 block of M street. Mates was fined $50 by Judge John P. McMahon. It was charged that the grocer sold a tufkey on November 27 to Mrs. Katherine Dwyer, and when the fowl was weighed later it was more than & pound short. When first arraigned on November 29, Mates entered a not guilty plea. He changed the plea to guilty yes- terday. SPECIAL NOTICES. #HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the National Capital Insurance mpany of the District of Columbia, for the election and the transac- flon o “any otber business that may be brought to the attention of the meeting. will be held at the office of the company. Pennsylvania ave. and 4 Wi C.. 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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER - 1085, - blood to the brain is increased, making mental work speedier. to satisfy Italian public opinion, which is very much disappointed in Laval's official attitude. * ¥ * % In the meantime the stage is being set to avoid an immediate clash over the oil embargo. Following the example of the United States, the League of Nations will declare an embargo only on such quantities of oii as exceed the normal Italian consumption in peace time. The French hope this measure will not force Mussolini to declare the embargo a casus belli. The con- sumption of oil for private use can be drastically curtailed and the im- ported quantities can be used ex- clusively for military purposes. Despite this diplomatic gymnastic of the European leaders, the danger of another- general war has not di- minished. This danger is due more to the psychology of the European coun- tries than to anything else. For the last 18 months the nerves of the inhabitants of Europe have been streined by the governments themselves. There is not a single country on that continent which has mot had daily drills for protection against air attacks. The radios warn the * population against “tonight an air attack,” the whistles are blowing in the main cities at certain hours ordering the population to clear the streets and take shelter in specially provided bomb and gas proof cel- lars. There is mot a single hotel on the continent which does ot display a- huge sign in the main lobby, “Anti-bomb and gas shelter first stairs to the left.” The war hysteria has gripped every nation Jfrom Bristol to Constantinople and LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, N. Y., December 4— Justification for the man who likes to work with his feet on his desk was suggested today in experiments at| Colgate University, showing that feet higher than the head posture speeds mental work. He may be taking an easy way to| | get more blood to his brain. A few months ago Dr. Donald A. Laird, Colgate’s professor of psychology, found that office workers slowed down mentally after a heavy lunch more | than after a light one. He suspected the explanation might be that the | digestive process was drawing blood from the brain. To test this, he had six young men | by unwise eating when mental work is do mental arithmetic while lying on cots alternately tilted so that their heads were a foot lower than their feet and a foot higher. They made 100 successive mental | additions in each position. With hem!.sJ low, and ear flushing showing more | ! blood to the head, they were 7.1 per | cent faster and 14.1 per cent more | accurate. “The erect position of human beings,” said Dr. Laird, “apparently | gives them a moderate but perpetual handicap of cerebral anemia, a handi- cap which many probably accentuate | BYRON S. ADAMS | to be done.” Dr. Laird suggested Rodin's statue of the thinker, with bowed head, might be a natural gesture of escape from this handicap. “Some of the implications,” he ex- plained, “are profound. The superior | size and structure of the human brain | may be an evolutionary overcompen-] sation to make up for this slowing and | the inaccuracy the upright position brought in its wake. “Sleep itself may be more important for man than for the higher animals because the horizontal position per- mits an increased blood flow through the brain.” You Can Quickly give your frame home the appearance of a brick residence with Johns-Manville Bric-side Asphalt Shingles applied right over the old walls. This Changing World Britain Hopes Ethiopia Will Become Political Tomb of Mussolini—Selassie’s Army Ap- pears to Be Stiffening Resistance. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. | HE British government lives in hope Ethiopia will become the political tomb of Mussolini, in the same manner that it ended the political life of Francescd Crispi, Italy’s famous premier of 40 years ago. | % Kk ‘There are indications the resistance of Emperor Selassie’s warriors is stiffening. War material in large quantities has been sent into Ethiopia from Egypt and Kenya. Military ad visers conversant with modern strategy have reached the headquarters of the Ethiopian army. The British do not expect the Ethiopians to defeat the Italian troops, but they hope intelligent guerilla warfare might retard the advance of Marshal Badoglio’s troops and prevent them from en- tering the plateau before the rainy season begins. If Selassie is capable of doing that the Italians will have to suspend the campaign from March until October. During that time the pressure of eco- nomic sanctions and the problem of feedng some 250,000 men might bring Mussolini to his knees. Tl Duce realizes the dangers of such a strategy. At the outset of the cam- paign he gave Gen. de Bono 18 months to conquer Ethiopia, with strict in- structions to avoid loss of life as much as possible. De Bono, following those ine- structions, began the campaign leisurely, thinking more about lines of communications than of an im- mediate penetration of the high= lands of Ethiopia. For political considerations, in order not to excite the British too much, the Italian high command did not push westward toward Lake Tana and the Sudan, but confined the troop move- ments southward. * ok K X In view of the danger of being hung up before the Ethiopian mountains Federal INSURANCE ON SAVINGS 4% BEING PAID Easy Inferest Rates— Easy Payments on HOME LOANS inferest Low as 5% | without penetrating them before the | next rainy season begins, Marshal Badoglio is reported to have decided | | to overlook all political considerations | and to turn the Ethiopian front by | marching into Western Ethiopia from Aksum and occupying Gondar. ke % | 11 Duce is intensely annoyed with | the French, whom he accuses of hav- ing double-crossed him. In order to make an impression on | French public opinion, which will have the final word in a question of France joining Great Britain in the great adventure against Italy, Musso- lini has decided to move several divi~ sions from the Brenner Pass to the Alps. * o k% When Italy mobilized 1,000,000 men at the outset of the Ethiopian cam- paign, the most inexperienced troops were sent to Ethiopia. The crack Italian divisions, abont 500,000 men, and the best motorized units were sent to the Brenner Pass. This was done in accordance with the agreement made with Laval in January, 1935, as a warning to Hitler that he will find serious op- position in case he intended to march into Austria when Italy was engaged in East Africa. Some 300,000 reservists—elderly men—uwere sent to the French fron- tier “because,” Mussolini ezplained, “there was no adequate room for these troops in the interior of Italy.” Turin was the headquarters of that army. 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