Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1936, Page 5

‘ETHIOPIAN WAR THRILLS RELATED Edward Neil, A. P. Corre- spondent, Addresses Man- aging Editors’ Association. B the Associatec Press. CHICAGO, November 13.—The kardships and the humor of covering war in Ethiopia were described to members of the Associated Press Managing Editors’ Association yes- terday by Edward Neil, who was a front line reporter for the Associated Press in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. Neil was among several speakers at 8 session of “shop talk” held by the more than 200 newspaper executives attending the Association’s annual eonvention here. He got & medal in Ethiopia—but he Bad to give it back. Recounting the incident, he said he was awakened one morning in Addis Ababa, told to put on his boots and appear on the parade ground. Medal Belonged to Officer. » “Well, they gave me a gold medal,” he sald with & grin. “As I was walk- ing from the parade ground a be- whiskered officer tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to give his| medal back.” It developed the medal had merely been loaned for the ceremony. Neil got one of his own later, and he also was decorated by the Ethiopian gov- ergment for his journalistic work. wveli spoke of the rigors of censor- ship and the uncertainty of getting a story through after it was written, | commenting it was like “throwing a | bottle into the sea and hoping a ship | = would pick it up.” He described ine fighting between the Italians and Ethiopians as re- v lentless, with no quarter on either side. He gave no credit to the Ethiopians as rifle marksmen, but said they were deadly with their short | swords, fashioned somewhat like boomerangs. The editors were given an eye-wit- ness account of the death of an Itallan priest, Fra Juliani, slain by an Ethiopian swordsman when he left the protection of his own lines | to administer the last sacrament to | a dying soldier. Such evidences of | # heroism, Neil said, were frequent | among the Italian conquerors. Another speaker at yesterday’s ses- | sion, presided over by Oliver Owen | Kuhn, managing editor of The Wash- ington Evening Star, general chair- man of the association, was John Evans, chief of the Associated Press | foreign service. Evans declared the two American continents were the only places in the world in which there appeared no = present likelihood of armed confiict. Spain Declared Symbelic. In a general discussion of world aflairs as he found them mirrored in the cables passing daily through his office In New York, Evans said the | situation in Spain was “symbolic o(l Europe.” “Spain, to start with, is an uncer- tainty,” he declared. “All Europe is nebulous.” Dealing with most of the major possibilities of trouble in Europe, he | discussed what might happen in the event that Russia, “as a leader,” and o France, “as a possible supporter,” went to the aid of a defeated lib- eral government in Spain. Other speakers on the afternoon program, which included discussions of election and convention services and news writing, were Basil Walters | of the Register and Tribune, Des | SEVERAL MEN BOOKED IN RAILROAD THEFTS $1,500 Worth of Goods Taken Off Fourth Street Station Plat- form in Few Days. Seven colored men have been ar- rested in the last few days for alleged participation in the theft of more than $1,500 worth of goods from the rail- road station platform at Fourth street and Virginia avenue southwest, the Detective Bureau announced today. Detective Sergt. T. F. Sweeney, C. H. Trammell and M. J. Mahaney and Detective R. E. Williams of the second precinct made the arrests. Most of the loot has been recovered. The arresting officers said the seven men had confessed. No charges have been placed against them, however, MINISTER JAILED, WEDDING WAITS Vice Consul of U. S. in Soviet Russia and Fiancee May Fly to Finland. BY the Associatea Press. MOSCOW, November 13.—A Rus- sian-born German Lutheran clergy- man was one of a dozen persons jailed Wednesday in an alleged anti-Soviet plot, reliable sources said last night. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Streck, was to have performed a wedding for United States Vice Consul George Minor and Mildred Wright, both of Charleston, W. Va. The pastor suddenly became ‘“un- available,” and responsible sources said he was in jail. At Charleston, relatives of Minor and Miss Wright said the couple prob- ably will fly to Finland to be married. Minor is United States vice %onsul at Moscow. He has been in diplo- | matic service several years. Miss Wright is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Staley of Charleston, and was employed as ® secretary in the offices of a Charleston law firm. She sailed from New York October 23 to meet Minor in the Russian capital. The German Embassy said nothing had been heard from Mr. Streck for several days. The German officials said they were powerless to act since the pastor was a native Russian, al- though of German parentage. The embassy, however, redoubled its efforts to learn the charges placed against five German nationals re- ported to have been held incommuni- cado since November 5. ‘The German Ambassador, Werner von Schulenberg, was returning from a Tiflis vacation to handle the case personally. Likewise concerned was the Austrian | Embassy, whose spokesmen said they had been unable to learn the names of three Austrians reported held with the Germans, a Swede and several other persons. It was reported that the Austrians held were “Schutzbunders” who fled Vienna two years ago during the au- thoritarian regime there. —_—_— PRICE ADVANCE 0.1% All-Commodity Index for Week 81.3 of 1926 Average. ‘The Bureau of Labor Statistics re- ported today that wholesale com- modity prices advanced 0.1 per cent Moines; Roy Roberts of the Star, Kan= sas City; Luther Feeger of the Palla- | dium, Richmond, Ind.; E. S. Beck of | the Chicago Tribune, M. V. Atwood | of the Gannett newspapers. Roches- | ter, N. Y, and L. D. 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Evans, presi- » dent of the Henry George Foundsation of America, declared land levies have | been increased “gradually” and that | effort was being made to “extend the | system to the entire county.” Evans and other speakers declared favor of the single tax as “the only Just economy,” adding, in effect, that the Government has no moral right | to enforce uniform levies. ‘The Congress will be concluded to- night. | Careful, scientific planning developed this “’super oil burner”’ to the point where it has been chosen by 125,000 home owners throughout the country, 3,000 of which live in end around Wash- ington. There must be a reason — learn it by phoning for @ home demonstration, or come to our sales room. See It in Actu during the week ended November 7. ‘The bureau's all-commodity index for the week stood at 81.3 per cent of the 1926 average. 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