Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1935, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Probably occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; rising temperature, lowest ‘temperature tonight about 42 3 fresh south to southwest winds. Temper- atures—Highest, 41, at 3 p.m. yesterday; The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. % v lowest, 25, at 4:30 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 33457. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he II, DUCE DEFIES WORLD ON SANCTIONS, WARNING OIL BAN MAY HURT PEACE < Tells Deputies Courage Is High. BRITISH PLEA PRECEDES TALK | League Denounced | for Actions in Crisis. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) | ROME, December 7.—Premier Benito | Mussolini warned his economic be- siegers in a ringing speech before his Chamber of Deputies today that an oil embargo against Italy will “gravely prejudice” efforts for peace. Again defying the half hundred na- | tions which have imposed sanctions against the kingdom, Il Duce put his people “on guard” against “premature or excessive optimism” for a settle- | ment of the African war. The Italian people, he told the depu- ties, “will listen to words, but judge by acts.” “The act that is announced for the | 12th of December is an embargo of oil,” the dictator exclaimed, “and it is such as to prejudice gravely the out- come of the situation.” | Stormy applause greeted Il Duce's | words. p Attacks League Action. Mussolini again attacked the moral | aspects of the League of Nations’ sanctions actions: “The League’s penal code has no past,” he said, “because for 16 years it never was applied in cases infinitely | more grave and more situabte than ours, 1,000 Students Riot With Cairo Police Over Placing Shaft By the Associated Press. CAIRO, December 7.—One thou- sand students of Cairo University fought a rock and club battle with police for half an hour at Giza Bridge today before they were dis- persed. Dozens of police and’students were beaten and knocked down in the out- break of .rioting after two weeks’ respite, but no one was seriously in- jured. The police got the upper hand after firing guns over the students’ heads and using birdshot against their legs. student., returning to the university after their enforced holiday, were de- nied permission to erect a monument on the campus commemorating their classmates killed in the recent out- break. The police at first raised Giza Bridge and prevented the students from en- tering the city, but later they lowered it and « battle ensued. SELASSIE AGAN BOMBED FROM AR Italians Launch Second At- tack on King’s Headquar- ters at Dessye. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) ADDIS ABABA, December 7.—The Etniopian government that Dessye, field headquarters of “Neither has it any future. { “This penal code of the League, | drafted while the memory of war still | was warm, has only a present. | “It is applied only today; only | against Italy; exclusively against Italy, a nation guilty of striking the chains from slaves in barbarous lands where | treaties and the moral rights of blood; and sacrifice have conferred on Italy for a ‘half-century, recognized priorit® “Capital punishment by economic | asphyxiation, as decreed by the Geneva humanitarians, never was in- | voked before 1935 and probably never | will be tried again. Rich Seen Exempted. “It is inflicted today upon Italy be- | cause she is poor in raw materials, | and it exempts from Geneva’s law rich people, armed by their riches and | by the greater armaments which their riches makes possible. “But those who have put in motion the most unusual war device that his- tory knows have been mistaken in their calculations.” The Italian dictator then reminded the outside world what, he declared, | the League powers had forgotten. “Besides figures and graphs” he | contended, “they should have consid- ered the reserves of all kinds which a great nation slowly accumulates. “Above all, they have not taken into account the spirit of Facist Italy, the spirit matter, no matter what the cost, will find whatever it needs for resist- ance and salvation,” Mussolini as- serted. Believes Geneva Sees Error. “I have the impression they are be- ginning to see they have made an er- ror in applying their principles,” he continued; “so as to give the appear- ance of a world crisis to one of those colonial conflicts which other coun- tries have solved with force, even after the World War and even after the coming of the League.” Il Duce demanded execution of Ttaly’s full program as he concluded his speech. “I mean to reaffirm in the clearest | way that a solution of this crisis can be found only in fuil recognition of our right in safeguarding our African interests,” he said. “In the meantime, action continued in Italy and Africa where soldiers and Blackshirts are united in danger and are giving a merited and decisive vic- tory to their country.” The premier told his followers that | the conferences being undertaken in Paris between Premier Laval and, the British foreign secretary ‘“do not signify negotiations.” Then he added, significapntly, “and, whenever negotiations may be started, it is not certain that they will reach # happy and rapid conclusion. “We have been asked to make known our unshakeable demands. This request is out of order because on October 16 we made them known to the French government. “But instead of concrete conserva- (See ROME, Page 2.) POSSES HUNT TRIO -— IN ROBBERY-KILLING = Two Tennessee Fugitives Are Identified as Con- viats. By the Associated Press. NEW TAZEWELL, Tenn., Decem- ber 7.—Mountain rifiemen joined offi- cers in the hunt today for three gun- men—two identified as escaped con- victs—who looted a New Tazewell bank of $1,000, killed a sheriff and penitentiary at Nashville Tuesday. Sheriff L. B. Hutchinson of Union was fatally wounded in an attempt to halt the gunmen . Emperor Haile Selassie, was bom- barded heavily again today. The second aerial attack on the King of Kings started at 8 a.m. today, just 24 hours after the original as- sault which caused 55 deaths, wound- ed more than 300, damaged the American hospital, Red Cross tents and the imperial palace—but failed to injure Haile Selassie himself. One Thousand Bombs Dropped. Nine powerful Italian planes dropped more than 1,000 bombs and turned a stream of machine gun fire on the Ethiopian concentration point, between the northern and southern fronts, during the 17-minute attack yesterday, and the government indi- cated today's assault was again severe. ‘The Fascist bombers appeared anew, intent on carrying out their | mission, as authorities of the town, where the Emperor went last week w take personal command of his armies in the field, were attempting to care for those wounded yesterday and to quiet the panic-stricken popu- lace. Today’s bomb raid was carried out by four Italian planes, which dropped more than 50 bombs. Again today, as yesterday, the Em- peror escaped injury. The total amount of the damage was not immediately reported to the capital. International Red Cross representa- tives in Addis Ababa telegraphed a formal protest to Geneva of the bomb- ings of Dessye. HULL AWAITS ADVICES. Secreiary Has Not Been Informed of Hospital Bombing. By the Associated Press. Secretary Hull said at his press con- ference today that the State Depart- ment still was awaiting advices from its legation at Addis Ababa concerning the bombing by Italian planes of the American Hospital at Dessye. Asked whether this Government was contemplating any action in the matter, Hull said he desired to have the full facts before considering the possibility of taking any steps. Thus far, Re said, the department has received no official information directly and its only advices on the bombing are those contained in news- paper accounts. The trouble arose today because the | announced | Drummond Is Spokesman at Rome. HOARE PLAN IS SUGGESTED United Front for Peace Basis of Proposal. BACKGROUND— While their leadership guides League of Nations in applying pressure on Italy, England and France have sought peace propo- sal acceptable to Mussolini. Most recent suggestion called for cession of Ethiopian territory in south to Italy, establishment of corridor for Ethiopian passage to the sea. Sub- mitted early in week, proposal brought no decrease in campaign activities of Fascist troops. Yes- terday strong Italian air forces bombed Dessye, half way between Jront and Addis Ababa, damaged American hospital. By the Associated Press. LONDON; December 7.—It was offi- | cially announced today that the Brit- ish government has addressed a new peace appeal to Premier Mussolini of Ttaly. ‘The appeal, it was stated, was given directly to Il Duce this morning by Sir | Eric Drummond, the British Ambas-| sador to Italy. The two conferred on the subject. The appeal was said to have fol- lowed along the lines of the speech Thursday when he asked that suspi- cions be abandoned and that a common front for peace be maintained. Sir Eric’s action constituted a last- minute official request by the British government for an end to the Italo- Ethiopian conflict in advance of | Hoare's meeting later today with Pre- | mier Laval of Prance in Paris. The result of Ambassador Drum- mond’s conference with Mussolini was not immediately known in London, for Sir Eric was instructed to report direct | to Sir Samuel in Paris. An authoritative source said the Brit- ish government fel$ that while Hoare had made a public appeal to Mussolini in his speech in the House of Com- mons, the matter should be formally Pplaced before him as an official action. LAVAL, HOARE TALK PEACE. Effort to Map Plan to Please Italy| Continues. (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press.) PARIS, December 7.—Premier Pierre Laval and British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare undertook today, in & personal conference, to draft a definitive peace program for submis- sion to Italy and Ethiopia. The French premier and the British government minister hoped, informed sources said, that Italy’s Premier Mus- solini would break his long silence and | indicate he was willing at last to con- sider ending his war in East Africa for an “honorable peace.” Diplomatic sources. asserted that if 11 Duce failed to respond to this latest Franco-British plan, there was little chance of ending the Italo-Ethiopian hostilities before the Spring rainy season. The League of Nations Sanctions Committee of Eighteen will meet at Geneva in five days to consider addi- tion of the dreaded oil embargo to the war penalties already imposed on Italy. Oil Embargo Is Seen. If Mussolini refuses to consider the new Laval-Hoare project, expected to be telephoned to Rome late today, diplomatic circles believed, the oil embargo would certainly be adopted, raising anew the possibility of a spread of the warfare to Europe. Authoritative sources said Laval al- read;” had been advised from Rome taat Mussolini would refuse to nego- tiate under the pressure of an oil embargo, thereby putting off peace (8ee LONDON, Page 3.) to bring even a small toy. And yet that might happen, unless E E & i j £ g i H i highway bridge as they sped the scene of the robbery .Hldhfll.lur. Homeless Children on Santa’s List With Toy Matinee Aid Chance Given Grown-Ups to See That No Little Face Shows Disappoint- ment Christmas Morning. i g 3 g8 §ia84 HIHH M READY ToPuT VP S i D. C. Drys Say Liquor Licenses Are Issued to A. B. C. Board Target of Double-Barrel Attack—Killeen Illustration of Charges. Charges that “a rather large num- | ber of ex-bootleggers” had been per- | mitted by the Alcohol Beverage Control | Board to engage in the liquor business here have been filed with the board | |by Dr. E. M. Ellison, head of the| | made by Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign | United Dry Forces of the District, it | secretary, in the House of Commons was disclosed today. At the same time, Wilbur La Roe, jr., | chairman of the Committee on Civic Affairs of the Washington Federation of Churches, denounced the board’s action in issuing a beer license to Ed- ward V. Killeen, gambler, who was| murdered last month. | After receiving an explanation of this action from George V. Offutt, chairman of the board, La Roe said: “His answ . not set forth & single fact u? ,m, the issuance of | the license to Killeen. The board | knew he had forfeited collateral on | various criminal charges, which is an | indication of guilt and generally | treated as a conviction, yet Mr. Offutt | gives the technical reason that a for- |a woman who employed Maynard as ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BUT, JIM, THIS 1S No TIME To WN Ex-Bootleggers Named Specific feiture s not a conviction in an effort to justify the issuance of the lcense.” La Roe said the matter would be placed before his committee at its next | meeting for further action. Dr. Ellison asserted that Harry Maynard and Frank Shore are con- nected with licensed liquor establish- ments, although both have been con- victed of prohibition law violations. Chairman Offutt said no license had | been issued to Maynard and that he | knew nothing of Shore. Correspondence between Offutt and | Dr. Ellison showed that in the May- | nard case a license had been issued to chef. ‘This did not satisfy Dr. Ellison and he wrote Offutt asking: “Even though never convicted of & misdemeanor or | any felony as mentioned in the stat- ute, is it your practice to ignore the | fact that many of your applicants had | notorious reputations as bootleggers (See LICENSES, Page 2.) HAUPTMANNDEATH DELAY HELD SURE Governor Alone May Prevent Execution as New Probe Opens. BACKGROUND— Convicted last February for kid- naping first son of Charles A. Lind- dergh, Bruno Hauptmann since has sought legal repudiation of verdict. Upon denial of plea by New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, peti- tion for review was submitted to United States Supreme Court, is being considered in closed comfer- ence of justices today; decision may be given on Monday. Failure here would leave New Jersey Board of Pardons and Gov. Hoffman as last reliance; latter, interest in case increased, revealed he visited Hauptmann in cell in October, ad- mitted detective seeking new clues to crime. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, December 7.— Gov. Harold G. Hoffman may some day have to decide alone whether Bruno Richard Hauptmann is to es- cape the electric chair for the Lind- bergh baby kidnap-murder. This possibility, a result of the wording of the New Jersey statutes, was cited today by those close to the Governor as & reason for his visit with Hauptmann in the death house and for his interest in the private investigation being conducted by Ellis H. Parker, chief of Burlington County detectives. Hoffman, as & member of the Court of Pardons, must vote with & majority of the other seven for commutation of the death penalty to life imprison- ment. Although his vote is necessary for clemency, it is not required to up- hold the death penalty. Only a simple majority is required to reject a plea for commutation. ‘The source said the Governor was ready to delay the execution if “plaus- ible” evidence in Hauptmann's favor BOUNDARY REPORT FAVORS VIRGINIA Commission Says Low- Water Mark of River Is “Fair” Line. Holding that the “fair and proper | boundary” between the District and | Virginia is the low-water mark on | the Virginia shore of the Potomac, | running from headland to headland across creeks and inlets, the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary Com- mission, in its official report made public today, struck a staggering blow at the Federal Government's plan for park and boulevard developments across the river. The decision, which has been guarded for some days by the three commissioners, would remove from Federal jurisdiction and development land along the Virginia shore and some underwater stretches valued by Government officials at approximately $1,000,000. More than 300 acres of submerged territory where the Government has (See BOURDARY, Page 2.) S. E. C. ASKS DELAY IN UTILITIES SUIT Petitions Court to Await Ruling in Electric Bond & Share Case. By th> Associated Press. Court to delay action on injunction proceedings brought against the Gov- ernment by seven utility holding com- panies, pending a Supreme Court rul- ing in the Electric Bond & Share case. Expressing a desire for an early de- termination of the constitutionality of the controverted New Deal holding company law, the Government told the ‘The motion in the local Federal | drive for organization of industrial Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1935—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ###% CHAIRMAN HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS I ComMITTEE il LEWIS PROPOSES GREEN QUIT HELM Letter Urges A. F. L. Head Lead Industrial Unions’ Organization. BACKGROUND— Springing from the common background of the coal flelds, John L. Lewis and William Green for years have been dominant figures in labor movement of America. Through most of those years they have fought bitterly over issue of craft vs. industrial unionism. For- mer principle, supported by A. F. of L., involves independent organi- zation for each trade; latter, sup- ported by Lewis and United Mine Workers, means organization of entire industry in ome uniom, re- gardless of number of trades in- cluded. Recently, Lewis quit post of vice president of A. F. of L. be- cause of issue, was reported form- ing mew national labor organiza- tion. By the Associated Press. John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers' | chieftain, today invited William Green | to step out as president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and head a unions as opposed to craft unions. The letter recalled Green's recent | statement that he personally indorsed | industrial union organization, but felt | himself officially bound to support the craft union policy his own organiza- tion advocated. Suggesting that such a position might bring attacks, Lewis urged: “If you care to dissociate yourself | from your present positiom, the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization will be happy to make you its chairman in my stead. The honorarium will be equal to that you now receive. The posi tion would be as permanent as the one you occupy.” ‘The letter followed publication of an editorial in Labor, in which spokesmen for a group of craft unionists urged Lewis to spend his ammunition “on the foes of labor. not on its friends.” Continuing Conflict. The letter marked a continuation of the conflict between advocates of or- ganization of labor in crafts, as spon- sored by controlling groups in the fed- eration, and the industrial unionists headed by Lewis, who urge organiza- tion of labor by entire industries. The conflict grew so heated at the recent Atlantic City convention of the federation that Lewis and W. C. Hutcheson, a federation vice president, engaged in a fight on the floor. Subsequent to the convantion, Lewis and associates formed the Committee for Industrial Organization to press the industrial union program and drew on themselves criticism of Green and others that it would weaken the cause of labor. “Mr. Charles P. Howard, secretary of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, and other members of the committee have replied categorically and conclusively to the statements contained in your public letter,” Lewis sald in commenting on Green'’s state- ment. “I associate myself with their replies.” Lewis said he did not Green's federation presidency. “In proof,” he added, “I submit the “sovet” Pilot’s Shave Hinders Air Maneuvers by Static From Razor By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., December 7.— Henceforth, pilots participating in the Army’s general headquarters air force maneuvers in South Florida will not shave with “new- fangled” razors during mimic aerial attacks. Brig. Gen. H. H. Arnold, com- manding officer of the bombard- ment wing at Vero Beach, sent out this order yesterday when static interfered with radio com- munications from planes. * Investigation showed a ' pilot off duty was shaving with an electric razor. GEN. CHIANG MADE VIRTUAL DICTATOR OVER ALL CHINA Elected Chairman of Yuan, a Post Tantamount to Premiership. BACKGROUND— In 1926 Canton party of Sun Yat-sen undertook to conquer and control all China; movement con- tinued under Chiang Kai-shek. In 1930 latter proclaimed authority over all but few provinces in south- west; within months, however, actual control had been reduced to Yangtze Valley area. During con- flicts of succeeding years, Chiang influence uncertain throughout na- tion, but strong in Nanking region. Meanwhile Japanese took over Man- churia and Jehol, are now engaged in “freeing” five more North China provinces. On November 20 Jap- anese official announced Chiang had promised no resistance to auto- nomy movement. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) NANKING, December 7.—The Cen- tral Chinese government’s Executive Committee announced today election of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek as | chairman of the Executive Yuan, gi ing him the full responsibilities of virtual dictatorship. | Generalissimo Chiang, military over- lord of Central China, succeeds for- | mer Premier Wang Ching-Wei, who | was wounded recently by an assassin, | to the post which is tantamount to the premiership. Given High Offices. (® Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,626 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. APANESE DEMAND PARITY WITH U, S, AND BRITAIN OR PARLEY WILL FAL Delegates Inform Admiralty Equality in Reality Must Be Granted Before Other Discussions. AMERICAN DELEGATION IS HOLDING OPEN MIND Stand Wrecked Long Preliminary Bilateral Conversations Early This Year and Led to Tokio’s Denunciation of Washington and London Naval Treaties. BACKGROUND— World limitation of naval arma- ments was agreed on at Washington Conference in 1921. Parity for capital ships given United States and Great Britain; Japan, Italy and France receiving smaller allow- ances. London Conference of 1930 reached agreement on cruisers, de- stroyers and submarines; Japan given slightly greater allowance than in ratio for capital ships. In 193¢ Japan pressed demand for parity with United States and Great Britain in all classes, in De- cember abrogated Washington Treaty. Britain suggested “paper parity,” United States objected: preliminary conference broke wup without result. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 7.—The Japa- nese delegation to the forthcoming International Naval Conference ad- vised the British admiralty today that | Japan demands naval parity with the United States and Great Britain in reality and not merely in name. Further, the Japanese told the Brit- ish that no other questions can be discussed at the parley opening next Monday until Japan’s demands for parity are met. This viewpoint was expressed to ex- perts in the admiralty at a conference at which the Japanese were repre- sented by Admiral Osami Nagano. Metsuzo Nagai, Rear Admiral Iwashita and Taro Tarasaki, the secretary of Chiang also was named vice chair- man of the Kuomintang (Nationalist party) organ, the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee, which controls the nation when the full body is not in session. | He was named further to the vice | chairmanship of the Central Political Council. In view of Chiang’s dominance of | the most important departments, the | government became more than ever a | one-man regime. He continued to hold the chairmanship of the Military Affairs Commission. Speaking for the Japanese military, | Maj. Gen. Rensuke Isogai, mimary‘ ttache at Shanghai, said Chiang’s as- | sumption of national control, in name | as well as in reality, was a logical development. Gen. Isogal asserted “this places the responsibility for the future course of Sino-Japanese relations squarely on his shoulders.” Election Follows Crisis. The elections followed by only a day a declaration by a government spokes- man that the crisis arising from de- mands for separation of North China | from the Central government had grown worse. (A tentative compromise in the au- tonomy crisis had been reported by | the Japanese Rengo News Agency to have been effected at a Peiping con- ference between Cen and Northern (8ee CHIANG, Page 3.) HOPE IS ABANDONED FOR KINGSFORD-SMITH Australian Parliament Records High Appreciation of Serv- ices in Civil Aviation. By the Associated Press. CANBERRA, Australia, December 7. —The Australian government officially abandoned hope today that Sir Pethybridge, missing on an airplane flight from England to Australia, will <ver be found alive. The Commonwealth Parliament re- corded its “high appreciation” of Sir Charles’ services in the fleld of civil aviation. The cabinet is considering some form of recognition for Lady Kings- ford-Smith and her young son. (See LABOR, Page 4.) Beaux Arts Ball Is Giddiest Since Days Before De pression Py the Associated Press. court added: ball | tent. She wore & $5,000 costume of brate “quat’s art night in India,” & theme which at times became riotous paid homage to the Maharajah of Raj- put (Arthur Ware), for whose pleasure the ball was held this year. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken led the procession to the throne under a huge Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt followed, attractively gowned in a green sequin gown. Then Camerazsbo and Jazzbo, two naked elephants. Semi-nude Charles Kingsford-Smith and J. T.| the Japanese delegation. This means that the Japanese are standing solidly for a navy equal in size and strength to that of Great Britain and the United States, the stand which wrecked the long pre- liminary bilateral eonversations early this year and led to Japanese denunci~ ation of the Washington and London naval treaties. Today's conference was arranged at the request of the Japanese in order that they might officially advise the British of their stand. The delegations of five powers com- pleted their_programs today for the formal open of the conference. The delegates will hold final ad- vance consultations tomorrow before entering the negotiations which may lead to further limitation of fleets—or a naval building race. Will Exchange Views. The British will meet the delega- tions of the United States, Japan, France and Italy separately tomor- row to disclose to each the substance of their proposals for a new agree- ment to replace the Washington and London treaties expiring with 1936. The Italo-Ethiopian conflict and the Sino-Japanese relations over the North China autonomy movement provided further possibly inflammable back- drops to the discussions. ‘The American delegation, headed by Norman H. Davis, Undersecretary of State William Phillips and Admiral William H. Standley, however, com- mitted itself to exploration of all reasonable suggestions for continued naval limitation. Convinced that no government wished to take responsibility for any break-up of the conference, the Amer- icans felt the meetings would last two months or even longer. United States delegates declined to disclose their exact positions im- mediately, but said they were main- taining an open mind. to receive and weigh all proposals which may be ad- vanced. ISLAND VOLCANO ERUPTS Inhabitants of One Village on Tiny Isle Flee Homes. SUVA, Fiji Islands, December 7 (#). —A volcano on Niuafoo Island (also spelled Niuafu) erupted today, send- ing streams of lava pouring into the sea. Inhabitants of one village on the tiny island left their quarters as s precautionary measure. Niuafoo Island is a tiny dot in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of the Piji Islands. Numerous islands in that vicinity are of volcanic origin, and eruptions are not infrequent. Readers’ Guide Amusements -A-12-13 -.-B-8