Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1935, Page 3

BROAD AUTHORTY IN'SCHOOLS URGED Quinn Tells Brookland Group Other Agencies Create Turmoil. Injection of other governmental agencies into questions under consid- eration by the Board of Education has resulted in “turmoil and chaos,” Henry 1. Quinn, a member of the board, told the Brookland Citizens' Association last night. In the interest of increased | efficiency. Quinn declared, the board | should be given greater authority. Referring to changes made by the | Fine Arts Commission in plans for | the recently completed Woodrow Wil- son High School, which had veen sub- mitted by the board, he asserted an | *“architectural monstrosity” nas been created. A resclution to ask the board for | # new Brookland grade school was | passed. George R. Ellis, chairman of the Legislative Committee, deplored | “dilapidated” condition of the present building, which, he stated, was | built more than 40 years ago. In anticipation of increases in 1eal estate and personal property taxes the association proposed an inherit-| ance tax, an increased gasolie levy or a public utilities tax as a substitute. Development of Bunker Hill Park was explained by Edward Kelly of the | National Capital Parks and Planning Commission. A motion picture show- | ing park areas of the city was pre- sented. PILOT SMASHES PLANE * THE EVENING f British offer had been prompted by a desire to head off Italy before mil- | itary successes gave her a firmer grip on Ethiopia. DEPUTIES UPHOLD LAVAL. Believed to have been confused by | traffic on Military ington Airport, mercial airplane belonging to one of | the large oil companies damaged his plane in landing at the local air- port shortly before noon today. He was uninjured and left without giv- | ing his name to field attendants. The pilot apparently landed norm- | ally, but is believed to have slammed | declaring he refused “to go to Geneva | under humiliating conditions.” He called for the showdown after he had made a long defense of his | | reasons for assisting in the formulfl-i | on his brakes too vigorously. The | plane nosed up, damaging the pro- | peller, dragged a wing tip and smash- | ed part of the landing gear. The pilot climbed out, yelled to field at- tendants to take care of the plane, hailed a taxicab and came into Wash- ington. War (Continued From PFirst Page.) YLeague affairs, had announced that stand last week, and it was stated he probably would not change his position. The cabinet leaders, however, pre- pared their defense of the plan to be presented in Thursday's Commans debate. The Evening Star asserted Baldwir would declare that sanctions against Italy, and even the League itself, had failed. | Plan Is Condemned. Condemnation of the peace plan| came from the National Council of Labor, which adopted a resolution denouncing “any form of settlement which awards territory or political or economic advantages to an aggres- | sor at the expense of a victim.” Laval was sanguine on the question | of hi; participation in the peace parleys. “I accepted the ideas of Great Britain,” he related, “on whose understanding with France depends our safety.” Those proposals, he related, repre- sented the limit of Franco-British efforts to settle the war. Leftist | deputies shouted insults at him, the right wing and part of the center applauded. Meanwhile diplomatic sources said Italian Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti had brought Laval demands for further concessions in Ethiopia for Premier Mussolini. Il Duce was re- ported to be asking the right to build “® railroad swinging west of Addis Ababa and joining Italy's East African | colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland. These sources added Italy also wants the colonization zone in Southern Ethiopia, suggested in the original plan, extended to include a triangle | adjoining the Sudan. Council Meets Tomorrow. The importance of today’s British | tabinet meeting was heightened in | light of Thursday's scheduled barrage of questions directed at the govern- | ment in the House of Commons and tomorrow’s meeting of the League of | Nations Council, which will review the Franco-British peace proposals. Informed sources indicated the | Government will pledge continued support to League collective security and application of sanctions against | Italy if the peace plan collapses. Thoroughly informed sources at Rome said they believed Premier | Mussolini was certain to accept the | Franco-British peace plan, with res- | ervations. These reservations, it was said, would place on France and Great Britain the burden of showing that Italian commercial activities in the projected zone of influence had not been pre-empted by native or foreign interests. Men high in the Fascist party said the Italian Army could take whatever it desired and would resent being turned back by an incomplete diplo- matic settlement. These gharters said the Franco- SPECIAL NOTICES. ‘WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY %:]\:(! P%hefi;(lhnn lhustxéontrlc'#dt b!!eln‘y; ANT LOAD FROM ARKANSAS OR WAY points. hl“ DHCC insured: careful and andiins: owner-driver. North 050y TR!PB MOVING Bas e rren tg.ué"??;?.“".fia’%“ “Dependable Ser 'DAVIDSON TRANSFER .._phone_Decatur 2500. e erhvicE S5k ooofinm'rs T st Ratl B172, RIDA AD FROM_FLO! 20 to 23. 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'ARIS, December 17.—The Cham- ber of Deputies, by a vote of 306 to 242, assured Premier Laval today of | its confidence in his program to settle the Italo-Ethiopian war. Earlier the premier had dared the Chamber to overthrow his government, | tien of the now famous Franco-Brit- ish plan for peace between Italy and Ethiopia. He told the deputies he had fol- lowed the British lead in a “last ef- fort” to prevent war in Europe and asked that the Chamber postpone dis- | cussion of the plan until the Leagu of Nations had acted on it. He sug- gested the discussion be December 27. Socialists, however, called for a dis- cussion December 20. “At Geneva,” Laval declared, “I will follow only the "policy I outlined this morning. If you consider it danger- ous, do not wait until December 27.” Pact “Last Effort.” He had told the chamber he and | British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare agreed on their proposals for settlement as a “last effort.” Applica- | tion of an oil-coal-iron-steel embargo | gainst Italy—an additional war pen- alty, discussion of which the Anglo- French peace plan interrupted- threatened, he said, to “lead to wa In & spirited defense of his ac- tion in advancing the peace pro- posals as a basis for settlement, de- nounced by critics as a reward to Italy for its declared aggression on| Ethiopia, the premier declared: | “Article XVI of the League coxe-‘ nant (providing for sanctions) could have engaged in war. Believe me | that I weighed the meaning of my | acts “It is up to Geneva and others to! do what they see fit,” the premier as- serted, throwing the issue to the League of Nations Ccuncil, which | considers the proposals tomorrow. Defending himself against a charge | that he acted outside the League, Laval asserted he spoke “in the name of a country which respects its under- | takings.” He insisted he and the British foreign secretary were qualified to act as they did since they were “in ac-| cord with the League.” FASCISTS DRIVEN BACK. Officers Killed in Retreat in North, | Rome Reports. ROME, December 17 (#).—The long- awaited general battle in Northern Ethiopia, toward which the Italian and | Ethiopian ‘Armies have been maneu- vering for weeks, appeared to be under way today, with the first engagement | resulting in an advance by the Ethio- pians, The Italian government lnnounced that Italian troops had retired before an attack of about 3,000 Ethiopians on the northern front. The communique stated: “Notable enemy forces estimated at | 3,000 armed men attacked our ad- | vance observation posts on the Tak- kaze River near the ford of Mali | Timchet. “Our Eritrean troops, after | having put up a bitter resistance, withdrew to Dembguina Pass. Tanks, Planes Called Out. “At the same time, another group of Ethiopian warriors crossed the river valley, making a flanking movement in the region of Scire, the population of which has submitted to us. “The enemy maneuver resulted in a battle that now is in progress and in which, on our side, air forces and | detachments of tanks are taking an | active part. “In the first engagement, four of- ficers and nine national soldiers were | killed and three officers were | wounded. “The losses among the Eritreans were several dozen dead and wounded. “The enemy losses are not de- termined, but they were considerable.” BRITISH RETREAT SEEN. ‘Withdrawal of Support of Peace Plan Rumored in London. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, December 17.—A British retreat from active support of the Hoare-Laval plan for peace in Ethiopia was strongly indicated today as the government, in a cabinet meeting, outlined its position. Leaders of the cabinet met in the drawing room of Sir Samuel Hoare, the foreign secretary, consulting as to the British policy. As Anthony Eden, minisier for League of Nations affairs, departed by train for Geneva at 2 p.m, au- thoritative quarters stated it was un- likely he would withdraw from his statement at Geneva last week: “If the League of Nations does not agree with our suggestions, we shall make no complaint.” The cabinet's attention, however, was understood to be principally con- cerned with repairing the badly shat- us give yoi 18 produce by Dhot no proof- Colum:!a Planogrn.;m. 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