Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1935, Page 1

* WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair, lowest temperature to- night about 15 degrees; tomorrow cloudy and somewhat warmer, probably followed by snow. Temperatures—Highest, 33, at 1:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 14, at 7 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 33471 post office, W BRITISH MAY SEEK FURTHER BACKING AGAINST A SUDDEN ITALIAN ATTACK League Council Summons to Discuss Mutual Defense Measures Is Mentioned. Replies Are Encouraging. TANKS ARE MUSTERED ON EGYPTIAN FRONTIER Chamberlain Urges Return to Sanctions Policy, Denying Peace Proposals Will Be Revived. New Penalty Pressure Awaits | Support From Other Powers BACKGROUND— Break between Britain and would be followed by rapid mili- tary action in Mediterranean zone. British naval strength concen- trated at Gibraltar and Suez; troops, tanks and aircraft standing by near Egyptian-Libyan border. Italian submarines and aircraft also in readiness for action, strong jorce of latter facing British on same border. Meanwhile, League economic pressure continues against Italy, but with cil embargo still in abeyance; yesterday Britain sought | assurances from League nations on Mediterranean that they would co-operate in military enforcement of League program if necessary. Italy (Copytight, 1933, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, December 21.—The Brit- ish government was stated by a reliable source today to be considering further precautionary measures against the possibility of a warlike act on the part | of Premier Mussolini of Italy because | of Great Britain’s determination te reinforce sanctions against Italy. Meeting of the Council of the League of Nations to discuss the question of | mutual defenses against an act of | desperation on the part of Italy was mentioned in government circles, but | ‘was not confirmed officially. Support Indication Sought. In government offices, however, it was authoritatively confirmed that steps have been taken to see what sup- port by other nations could be mobi- lized in the event of a warlike move. It was said that the replies to in- quiries thus far had been encouraging. Thus far the British government has confined its approach to Mediter- ranean powers. A responsible source said the action had been taken “as a necessary matter of precaution” and that there was no reason to suppose that any power ap- proached would fall short of its ob- ligations under Article XVI—the sanc- tions article—of the League Covenant. A British officer in Cairo informed an Associated Press correspondent that it would require “a bigger and more mobile force than the Italian army in Eritrea to penetrate Egypt from Libya.” Harrying Defense Planned. Informed military sources in Egypt said that in the event of an attack from Libya, Great Britain would not attempt a serious defense of the Egyp- tian border, but would adopt harrying | tactics with light tanks and airplanes and would depend upon the vast desert stretching from Libya to the Nile to defeat the invader. For some time past, said the advices from Cairo, Great Britain has been mustering tanks in the vicinity of Matruh near the border. However, Great Britain has not made a large concentration of either men or eflu1p~1 ment there. The force of British| troops has been estimated at not more than 3,000 men. The government’s action in taking precautionary measures follows the pointed statement made by Sir Samuel | Hoare, the resigned foreign secretary, who stressed in the House of Com- mons that only Great Britain was ready to act in the Mediterranean against a sudden act by Italy and that no other powers had taken pre- cautions. British Steps a Secret. ‘What steps the British were taking | remained a secret, although there| were hints that defenses were being tightened up farther in the vicinity of Egypt, where the danger. of attack was felt to be greatest. ‘The attack fears appear to be based on a belief in some quarters that Mussolini eventually will have to sue for peace on terms offered by the League of Nations or else try some act of desperation. Lord Snell gave voice to this belief in the debate Thursday in the House of Lords when he said: “Having em- barked 250,000 men on an African crusade, he (Mussolini) would rather yield to an overwhelming force than €0 to a lingering death or risk another Aduwa. (It was at Aduwa in 1896 “ that the Ethiopians slaughtered an invading Italian army.) “Mussolini might feel that if sanc- tions were to be imposed which would be decisive, causing his defeat, he would prefer to go down fighting against us and France or against us alone rather than ultimately to re- treat.” Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, who has been men- tioned widely as a possible new foreign secretary, expounding the policy of application of war penalties against Italy, told Conservative party workers at Birmingham: “I trust the nations of the League will show that they are prepared to make themselves resist ttack (8ee LONDON, Page 3.) Parking Meters to Earn $55,000. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 21 (P)—City Auditor F. G. Baker esti- mated today Oklahoma City's annual revenue from downtown parking meters would approximate $55,000. The city now owns 525 of the nickel elot devices for timing automobile parking. Fifty-three are yet to be placed in operation, L4 Full report on page A-2. | three-day battle in the Takkaze sec- Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1935.—THIRTY PAGES. Milne Leaves Hospital First picture of Caleb J Milne since his release by kidnapers. shown (at left) leaving Doylestown, a Federal agent. He is Pa., Emergency Hospital today with The young kidnap victim was hurried away by Gove ernment men to an undisclosed destination. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ETHIOPIA REPORTS | VILLAGES RETAKEN Ten Tanks Declared Seized | as Italians Retreat in North. Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, December 21.—An | Ethiopian government communique | reported today the vanguard of Ded- jazmatch Ayele’s troops on the north- ern front recaptured Enda Silasi, 30 | miles west of Aksum, and Dega Shah from the Italians. “The Itahan losses were consider- able,” the communique said. “Our troops captured 10 tanks.” Government officials sald the action | occurred December 15. ‘The two villages reported recaptured by the Ethiopians lie about 35 miles northwest of the Takkaze River site where a bitter three-day battle was waged early this week. The Ethiopian officials set the time of the action near Aksum, holy city, which submitted early in the Italian invasion, at almost the same time that warriors under Ras Imeru, cousin of | Emperor Haile Selassie, charged across the Takkaze at Mai Timchet. ‘The Italian government reported the Ethiopians were drawn back into am- bush in the Dembe Guina Pass by retreating Fascist outposts in the ‘Takkaze sector combat' and were | routed. Dedjazmatch Ayele named as leader of the troops near Aksum, is another of Haile Selassie’s principal aides in the horth. He had reported to Addis Ababa Thursday that his army had defeated the Italians in another “major engagement near Aksum.” | The communique added: “Our forces also captured 28 machine guns, | two trucks, two automobiles and seven white Italian prisoners.” Three foreigners were expelled from Ethiopia today on charges of espionage and pro-Italian activities. They are Josef Hinterzatz, the cor- respondent for the Frankfurter Tage- zeitung; his wife and Ladislas Phar- ago, the Hungarian director of an Addis Ababa bank. Five soldiers escorted the three for- eigners on the train to the frontier, departing at 7 a.m. The Hinterzatz automobile, equipped with a radio transmitting set, was con- fiscated by the government. TAKKAZE AREA “CLEANED UP” Italians Pursue Natives From Air and on Ground. ROME, December 21 (#).—Italy’s northern army concentrated today on cleaning up “trouble spots” after the tor, from which the Ethiopians were reported withdrawing. Aerial bombing squadrons and ground scouting parties co-operated in pursuing the natives. Italian correspondents reported that scouts sought also to determine whether an Ethiopian force reported defeated south of Abbi Addi yester- day constituted the remnants of Ras (See WAR, Page 2.) - BRIDGE IS YULE GIFT BULAWAYO, Rhodesia, December 21 (#)—The world’s third largest single span bridge was presented to the people of Southern Rhodesia yes= terday as a Christmas present. The steel span, built over the Sabi River, is 1,080 feet long and cost $500,000. It was a gift to the colony from the estate of the late Alfred Beit, philanthropist. MEXICAN REVOLT REPORTED BALKED Arms Seized, Six Arrested in Raid on Home of Calles Follower. BACKGROUND— Return of Gen. Plutarco Calles to Mezico last week started polit- ical pot boiling. One-time Presi- dent and dictator, Calles broke with President Cardenas last June, went to Los Angeles. Leader of Labor party when he first reached | presidency in 1924, Calles became more conservative with time, finally was repudiated fully by radical political elements. Asso- ciate during his days of power was Luis Morones, still loyal to old leader. (Copyright, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) | MEXICO CITY, Deeunhq}lfi fur. Mexican government announc ! day that it learned a rebellion was | scheduled to start in Orizaba, indus- | trial center of the state of Vera Cruz, where the Laborista party has its greatest strength. The movement already has been | frustrated, the department of interior | might have decided to take Milne | George Rochester, expressing belief | asserted, by seizure of arms and am- | munition and arrest of six persons in | raids here on a house of Luis Mo- | rones, labor leader and associate of Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles. Revolution Plans Denied. ‘The announcement of the proposed rebellion followed denials by both Morones and former President Calles, who returned here last week from Los Angeles, Calif, that they planned | !0 take charge of the case, remained | | any revolutionary movement. Insisting it had discovered rebel- lious activity, the interior depart- ment announced, “However, the move- ment lacked importance.” Local Laborista leaders at Orizaba added another blow to those already | directed at Morones and Calles, notify- ing the government that the Vera Cruz branch of the party decided to sepa- rate from the Mexican Laborista party, which Morones controled through the regional Confederation of Mexican Workers. Demonstration Tomorrow. Leaders of other labor organizations completed plans for a monster anti- Calles demonstration here tomorrow, announcing more than 50,000 persons would participate, President Lazaro OCardenas, with whom the one-time “strong man” Calles split over economic policies be- fore going into the voluntary exile from which he returned, ordered gov- ernment employes not to join in the parade of protest against Cailes' ar- | rival back in Mexico. A left wing group of the Chamber of Deputies voted to invite labor unions to declare a general strike January 1, if Calles still remained in Mexica. e VENEZUELA TO ELECT Congress to Name President in December 26 Session. CARACAS, Venezuela, December 21 (#)—Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contreras, provisional President of Venezuela, to- day convoked a special session of Congress for December 26 to elect a President to complete the unexpired term of the late President Juan Vicente Gomez. ‘The term will expire April 19, 1936. General Lopez arrived in the capital last night to be received by an enthu- siastic demonstration. He addressed the assembled crowd from the balcony of the foreign office. Oldest U. S. Club Will Serve ‘Plymouth Suc By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, Mass., December 21.— The Nation's oldest dish—succotash— will be served tonight at a banquet in the Nation's oldest club to commemo- rate the 315th anniversary of the land- ing of the Pilgrims. Housewives began preparing early yesterday for the “Plymouth succo- tash” dinner in the Old Colony Club, founded long before the Revolutionary ‘War. Served but once a year, the dish re- quires two days of preparation. Into it go chicken, corned beef, potatoes, turnips and hulled corn. cotash’ Tonight First boiled and then stewed, the MILNE IS SHIFTED FROM HOSPITAL T0 MOTHER'S HOME Kidnap Victim, Pale and Weak, Is Taken to Woodstock, N. Y. U. S. AGENT SAYS MOVE MADE FOR PROTECTION Federal Operatives Accompany Party—Clash Reported With State Police. BACKGROUND— “Dr. Green of Gracie Square” last Saturday lured Caleb Milne, dth, grandson of wealthy retired textile magnate of Philadelphia, jrom New York apartment. Kid- naped for flve days, Milne was found Thursday morning in road- side ditch mear Doylestown, Pa., semi-conscious, gagged and blind- Jolded. Ransom demands for $20,000 brought both New York police and Federal agents into case. Story of victim resulted yesterday in locat- ing of kidnap house in Pemnsyl- vania countryside. By the Associated Press. WOODSTOCK, N. Y., December 21.—Caleb Milne, 4th, returned today to his mother’s home in Woodstock. Pale and limping, young Milne was helped out of an automobile by G-men, who accompanied him on an automo- bile trip home from the hospital in Doylestown, Pa. He showed visibly | the effects of his days in the hands of supposed kidnapers. Mrs. Frederica Milne, his mother, and his two brothers—Frederic, 18, and Aubrey, 16—came home with him. AGENTS LEAVE DOYLESTOWN. | Federal Operatives Accompanying Kidnap Victim on Trip. By the Associated Press. DOYLESTOWN, Pa., December 21.! —Federal agents took young Caleb J. | Milne from the Doylestown Emergency Hospital, placed the kidnap victim in an automobile and sped away. | Accompanying the big sedan carry- | | ing the 24-year-old actor-writer was a | | second sedan bearing Government operatives. Pale and weak, Milne was helped | into the car, the agents climbed in, his | mother and brother joined them and | the two cars sped away. Milne was hatless, but wore a trench coat with a | collar. “ Previously the Government agents had refused to reveal when Milne | day on the theory the film beauty was | would be taken from the hospital, but | the victim of an accident—not “a per- | it was expected that when he was re- moved he would be taken to hu‘ grandfather’s home in Philadelphia. | It was pointed out the agents| back over the route he said his kid- | napers followed to Doylestown after | luring him from his New York apart- | ment last Saturday. He was found trussed and gagged along a road near Doylestown Wed- nesday night. | Harold O. Nathan, assistant chief | 17’5 A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN NoT To BE Go” AFTER SOMETHIN'] The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¥ (®) Means Associated Press. " Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,685 Some Keturns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. NO POSTAGE WASTAGE HERE! POLICE END PROBE O TODD DEATH Believe Star Was Victim of Accident—Jury Col- lects Data. BACKGROUND— Thelma Todd, blond movie come- dienne, was found dead in jfront seat of automobile in her garage last Monday. Autopsy established cause of death as carbon monozide poison- ing: surgeon reported death oc- curred early Sunday morning. Coroner’s jury announced verdict that death was apparently acci- dental. Friends declared, however, they had talked to Miss Todd after hour set for death; others told of Saturday night party she attended. County grand jury foreman called Jor further investigation. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 21.—Po- | lice dropped investigation of the ques- | tion-marked death of Thelma Todd to- fect crime” or suicide. However, the county grand jury gathered up the strange loose ends of the bizarre mystery, with the foreman, the actress was slain in a “murder by monoxide.” Decision of the Los Angeles Police | Department to agree with the county | autopsy surgeon’s report and the cor- | day in the condition of Thomas D.| | oner’s jury verdict that the Actress | gopg plind Minnesota Senator, who | | died “apparently accidentally” was an- | nounced by Capt. Bert Wallis of the of the Bureau of Investigation in homicide squad and Chief of Detec- Washington, who came to Doylestown ' at the hospital. tives Joe Taylor. The officers said evidence so far un- | covered showed the actress died acci- “Doylestown is out now,” Nathan |dentally of carbon monoxide poison- ing. said later as he left for Philadelphia. Asked by reporters the reason for the trip North with Milne, his anly answer | was: “We're merely protecting him.” Says No Money Paid. He said last night he would direct the inquiry from Philadelphia. He refused then to comment on most queries put him by reporters, but did | say Milne's abductors demanded $20,000. No money was paid, he added. Government operatives clashed last (See MILNE, Page 3.) TOMORROW —n— “THIS WEEK” * K Kk x “What Was The Star Of Bethlehem?” HARLAN T. STETSON —Author of “Man and the Stars,” probes ancient records for an- swers to the questions “Was it a comet, a meteor, a ‘nova’ or some other astronomical curiosity?” “Lo! An Angel” JOSEPH AUSLANDER —gives you a Christmas poem and an universal plea for peace. —And in— The Feature Section “Capital Prepares for Gayest Christmas” —A larger and more prosperous Federal city has spent more lav- ishly on its Yuletide festival than at any time since 1929. . s . “Japan Adopts succotash is set outdoors and allowed to freeze the night before the banquet. A few hours before serving, it is “warmed over.” ‘The forefathers’ day observances, with traditions 13 generations old, opened with prayers—just as the band of Pilgrims prayed at Plymouth Rock on December 21, 1620, on completing their hazardous voyage in the tiny Mayflower. . Nearly a fourth of the city’s 13,000 residents trace their ancestry to that group. 3 y & Christmas” - —Land of the rising sun takes over the customs and symbols of the occidents’ greatest holiday. These and other features and fiction will be found in The Sunday Star Possibility of Suicide. George Johnson, deputy district at- torney, discounted the theory of mur- der and pointed to the possibility of | suicide. More than 30 witnesses, including filmland celebrities, were summoned for the grand jury’s first hearing next Monday in an effort to check every known action of the comedienne from the moment she left the night club | party until her body was found. The grand jury foreman’s cryptic statement he had found evidence in- dicative of murder was supported ap- parently by the report of Tom Cavett, district attorney's investigator, who disclosed he found blood stains on the (See TODD, Page 2.) MARYLAND SESSION LIKELY IN FEBRUARY Nice Plans to Call Assembly Then to Act on Relief Meas- ures and Taxes. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 21.—Gov. Harry W. Nice today said he had decided to call the special session of the Legislature the first week in February to act on relief measures. “I have practically made up my mind to call a special session the first week in February. That, of course, is subject to change if things should develop,” the chief executive said. ‘The legislators will be asked to provide aid for needy families in the State, enact legislation for unemploy- ment insurance and revise the old- age pension law to conform with the national social security act. Readers’ Guide Amusements ... Christmas Music . Church News __ Cross-word Puzzle -...._.B-10 Editorials Finance _ Lost and Found CRASH AT SEA LAID TO STEERING GEAR JAM Federal Officials Place Attach- ment Against British Freighter Claiming $20,000 Damages. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 21.—A bit of metal jammed in the steering mechan- ism of the British freighter Seven Seas Spray was given unofficially to- day as the cause of a collision be- tween the cargo carrier and the MERCURY PLUNGES 10 14 DEGREES ‘Drop to 15 Forecast To- night—White Yule Pros- pects Good. Boston lightship. Assistant United States Attorney Charles W. Bartlett said the informa- tion was given him by a member of the Lighthouse Service. The Seven Seas Spray was laden with scrap iron consigned to Spain, when it struck the lightship yesterday. Federal officials later placed an at- tachment against the British vessel, claiming $20,000 damages to the light- ship. “We believe,” Bartlett said, “the ac- cident was caused by negligence aboard the vessel (Seven Seas Spray).” SCHALLIMIPROVING, DOCTORS REVEAL Senator Believed Regaining Consciousness—Many Messages Received. A slight improvement was noted to- is in a critical condition at Casualty Hospital after being run down by an automobile Thursday night. The 58-year-old Senator, who suf- fered a fractured skull and left leg in the accident at Cottage City, Md. showed signs for the first time of re- | gaining consciousness. A bulletin issued shortly before noon by Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol physician, said: “Senator Schall's condition is re- garded as slightly improved. While unconscious most of the time, he rouses occasionally. His condition is still considered very critical, but somewhat more favorable.” Messages of sympathy and encour- agement continued to pour in today {on the Schall family from many sources. The Senator’s wife, Mrs. Margaret Huntley Schall, still waited at the hospital for him to regain full con- sciousness. She felt that when the time arrived he would call for her, and she wanted to be there. “I won't worry if he regains con- sciousness,” Mrs. Schall said. “Tom is a fighter, you know.” Helen Keller Calls. Among messages of encouragement received by Mrs. Schall was a tele- phone call last night from Helen Keller, an old friend of the family. Miss Keller and the Senator under- stood each other because both were blind, and both had refused to pe defeated by the handicap. Senator Borah and others tele- phoned to inquire as to Mr. Schall’s condition. Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit’s radio priest, notified Mrs. Schall he had said a special mass for her husband. The small, gray-haired woman, who was decorated for valor during the World War, has spent most of the time since the accident sitting beside her husband’s bed, holding his hand. Last night she retired to the Schall Winter weather moved into Wash- ington bag and baggage today, with the mercury nose-diving to 14 degrees at 7 am. | Tomorrow marks the official begin- ning of Winter—starting at 1:37 pm. | —and it also will be the shortest day of the year. | Predictions for today and tonight were for fair skies, with the tempera- ture going to 15 degrees tonight. | Freezing Before Dark. Preceded by a light snowfall early yesterday, chill winds last | started shoving the mercury down into | the 20’s before dark. Before 10 o'clock |the temperature stood at 20 degrees |and at midnight had slipped to 19. The 14-degree low this morning broke | the former seasonal record of 23 de- grees set on December 5. Weather Bureau officials were reti- cent today about predicting snow for Christmas, but indicated prospects for a “white Christmas” are excellent. The low temperature this morning marks the ninth time in 20 years that the mercury fell as low as 14 degrees in December. The last time was on December 30, 1933. Down to 7 in February. Today was the coldest since last Februar; when the mercury dropped to 7 degrees, Elsewhere in the country Winter vas reported on a rampage and the Associated Press listed 12 deaths indi- | rectly due to the weather In South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota the mercury slid below zero and from Illinois almost to the‘Amki and Admiral Osumi were the JAPAN MAY FIGHT MONGOLIAN ‘REDS' 10 GUARD BORDER Manchukuo ‘Survey Parties’ Reported Harassed by Natives. SOVIET DOMINATION OF AREA IS CLAIMED Outlook for Peace in Northeastern Section Is Gloomy, News- paper Declares. BACKGROUND— Principal area of resistance to Japanese plans for extension of in=- fluence into Asia has been Mon- golia, pro-Soviet province adjoining Manchukuo and China proper. Fearful of Japanese program, Rus- sia has made vigorous eflort to maintain domination in Mongolia, use it as buffer state between pro- Japanese territory and Siberia. Japanese exrpansion began in 1931; has resulted in “independence” of Manchuria, Jehol and more re- cently Hopeh and Chahar. Through- out tension has ezisted between Japan and Russia. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 21.—The Japa- nese Army in Manchuria is “most ine dignant at the lawlessness of come munistic Outer-Mongolians on the Manchukuo border and may be come pelled to take adequate measures to insure the safety ot the Manchue Mongol frontier,” a Hsingking dispatch | to the newspaper Yomiuri said today. The dispatch said the Manchukuo ! parties “making the necessary investi- | picture of prospects night | peace in Northeastern Asia. government was attempting to define the frontier through patrols of survey gation of frontier conditions from th standpoint of geography and history,” | but that the parties were harassed and fired on by Mongol groups in Mane chukuo territory. Vernacular newspapers _disclosed that War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawae shima and other army leaders stressed Soviet Russian domination and ine creasing penetration of Outer Mone | golia, adjacent to Manchukuo, as the most disturing factor in a gloomy for continued i Seek to Justify Arms Cost. ‘The militarists expressed this view in a series of recent meetings With members of Parliament in which they | sought to justify the record army ape | propriations for the new budget, ape | proved by the cabinet and to come | before Parliament. The militarists also asserted Soviet | completion of a double tracking of 1,365 miles of the trans-Siberian Raile way from Karymsk to Khabarovsk, capital city of Far Eastern Soviet | Krai, intensified the Russian “menace” | to Manchukuo. Meanwhile Emperor Hirohito sance tioned today the elevation of Gen. Shigeru Honjo, Gen. Sadao Araki : and Admiral Mineo Osumi to baronies for their outstanding parts in the 1931-33 Manchurian conquest and the | 1932 Shanghai conflict. Gen. Honjo was commander of the Japanese Army in Manchuria at the beginning of the conquet and Gen. from the Canadian border to below | St28es Of the empire’s military advens | tures on the continent. | the Mason-Dixon line, minimums for the year were chalked up generally. Warmer weather was east-bound | from the Western plains, where the | mercury was up in Nebraska, Mon- | tana and Wyoming. | Firemen here were on the jump sev- |eral times during the night as fur- naces were turned on full blast for the | first time this Winter. Most of the | alarms were for chimney fires. | Police Inspector William E. Holmes | issued orders for policemen to work in “sections,” one section being kept warm in the precinct stations while the other is doing patrol duty. Police records showed several re- ports of suffering from the cold. One couple was reported freezing and Capt. Paul Kelly of the Volunteers of America men's shelter set out with a basket of groceries and made provi- sions to get coal for them. Capt. Kelly said all available space at the Volunteers’ shelter was taken up by men and women seeking to keep warm. The Central Union Mission was “crowded to the doors,” officials said. ‘The record books showed 170 persons timated that the ‘“unofficial” total would be nearer 200. RECEIVED BY KING LONDON, December 21 (#).—King George granted an audience in Buck- ingham Palace today to Sir Samuel Hoare, who resigned as foreign secre- drew up with French Premier Pierre Laval for Italo-Ethiopian peace. Escaped Chimpanzees Wreck Classroom in Spree at Hopkins By th Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 21.—Three huge female chimpanzees escaped from their quarters at the Johns Hopkins Medical School today and during & period of liberty spread havoc on the campus. Swinging along with the ease and grace of jungle days, they first enm:ed a classroom in the Anatomy Building by a window. Test tubes flew in all directions as the chimpanzees listened merrily to the-tinkling of breaking glass. One of the chattering trio was try- ing to find out what made an electric clock tick when & small posse of in- structors descended upon the class room. The chimpanzees slipped quietly out through the window as the Instructors entered. The chase led to the courtyard of the Medical Library. Onme of the ) - chimpanzees, nicknamed Mae West, swung a lusty punch at an unnamed instructor in anthropology as he at- tempted to lure her with food. The instructor ducked, just in time, and fled. Another of the skylarking apes, accepting an apple extended as a gift, flung it violently at the giver. The third wrested a movie camera from the hands of a would-be photog- rapher of her antics and hurled it to the ground. All the while Propinquus Dayton Pan, male head of the family of four anthropoids -kept at the Medical School, was raging in his cage—in a fury because he could not slip through the bars and join the antics of his cavorting mates. Finally, the havoc-making trio was coaxed back into the cage with food and the excitement ended. ¢ I sought shelter there, but it was es- | tary after the collapse of the plan he | | Honjo is now the Emperor's chief | military aide de camp, Araki is a | member of the Supreme War Council and Osumi is minister of the navy. | DEMAND RIOTS BE STOPPED. | e Japanese Authorities Protest Studen§ | Demonstrations. | HANKOW, December 21 (#).— | Japanese consular authorities tonight demanded the immediate suppression of student demonstrations here fole lowing an alleged attack on a Japanese spectator. In a stiffly-worded note to the mayor, the Japanese consulate also demanded the arrest of the attackers and the | payment of compensation to the man | who was beaten up. The consulate alleged that the | assault occurred when a Japanese ate | tempted to photograph the demon= strators. The note said the mob beal 1 him and smashed his camera. | At Wuchang, across the Yangtze River, students stampeded the wharf demanding the resumption of the ferry service to Hankow, which was stopped | with the hope of suppressing tha | student demonstrations against North China autcnomy. SIX KILLED, 3 HURT IN SHIP EXPLOSION Nitrate-Laden Vessel Sinks in Santos Harbor Follow- ing Blast. By the Associated Press. SANTOS, Brazil, December 21.—8ix persons were known today to have been killed and three injured in an explosion on the Swedish ship Britt Marie, carrying nitrate, in the harbor here yesterday. Earlier estimates by authorities had placed the number of dead much higher. Damages to the 3,019-ton freightes were estimated unofficially at between 2,000 and 3,000 contos (between $120,« 000 and $180,000). The mast of the ship, which sank almost immediately after the blast, was still visible, protruding from ths water. Jon Anderson, captain of the ship, expressed the opinion the explosion was caused by the bursting of a boiler. Ong of the dead was identified as & fireman who had been aboard ship visiting friends, while two others were known to be quay vendors. Bags of nitrate were hurled on to the docks by the force of the exploe sion and some persons were hurt by fiying fragments. «