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Life History of At the age of 4. In naval uniform at 10. YORK TO ASCEND THRONE AS EDWARD ABDICATES (Continued From First Page.) Pmblem as man to man, the King insisting they settle the whole ssue between themselves. Cheers rang through the chamber as Baldwin declared: “I reminded him of what brothers in years past, and that is< country ! this: The crown in this through centuries has been deprived of many of its prerogatives, but to- day—while that is true—it stands for far more than it ever has done in its history. “s “* * Its integrity is not only the last link of empire * * * it is a guarantee, 50 long as it exists in that integrity, against the many evils thet have affected and afflicted other countries.” In the tense House of Lords, the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury raised his voice to declare: “This is an occasion when our thoughts are too deep for tears, cer- tainly too deep for words.” Then the primate, united with Baldwin against morganatic marriage for the wearer of the crown, praised the “dignity, calmness a&nd courage” of the Queen mother. Correspondence on Case. Before he arose, Lord Halifax had read to the peers the correspondence which passed between cabinet and King in which Baldwin and his min- isters vainly sought to change Ed- ward's “irrevocable decision.” When he had finished, Baldwin, as & sign of the concilliatory nature of the King's renunciation of his throne, | took out a penciled note received from Edward this morning. It was interpreted as the last word from the sovereign. The Duke of York and the King, the note said, “always have been on the best terms as brothers. The King is confident the duke deserves, and will receive, the support of the whole | empire.” The drama of the abdication an- nouncement was enacted in the mel- low, theatrical light reflected into Commons from the high glass ceiling. Outside the fog brought utter dark- ness. Londons streets were as at mid- night when the fateful word was flashed to the world. Actual Signing of Papers. The actual abdication papers, it was learned, were signed at Fort Belve- dere at 10 a.m. today, with the hag- gard brothers gathered around their sovereign kinsman. As the signatures were affixed, the | flag of the Duchy of Cornwall, which had been flying over the fort since the crisis began, was lowered on its staff. Then it was raised—an indication, some thought, that the King might re- tain the title, Duke of Cornwall. Extra police were on duty outside | Commons, where the throngs took .the news in orderly fashion. Inside the chamber, the spirit of the old cry: “The King is dead; long live the King!” was evident as a great roar greeted Baldwin's words: “Let us rally around the new King!” At the Wlla Lou Viei, at Cannes, grief-bowed Lord Brownlow, Edward's gentleman in waiting, told newspaper men: “Mrs. Simpson has no statement. There is no statement; there will be no atatement.” His head bent low, he turned back 4oward the house. Moves Adjournment. Clement R. Attlee, leader of his Mmajesty's opposition, moved adjourn- ment of Commons as soon as the prime minister was through. “In view of the grave and impor- tant nature of the communication re- ceived from the King,” the Labor party went into- imimedinte session to formally decide its poli¢y—already a foregone conclusion that it would be with the prime minister, The House of Lards received the monarch’s message in absolute silence. The galleries there were occupied 90 per cent by women, their dress and manner as those at a funeral. Men- tion of Queen Mary brought tears to the eyes of some of the elderly peer- esses. Lord Halifax, announcing Baldwin was introducing immediate legisla- tion giving effect to “his majesty’s wishes,” added: “It will be my duty to ask your lordships, on the receipt of the bill from another place, to sus- pend the necessary standing orders to enable this House to similarly pass it * * * before we rise tomorrow.” The lord privy seal, shattering prec- edent, next proposed that the Lords meet Saturday afternoon to begin tak- ing the oath of allegiance to the new ‘The Lords rose at 4:30 p.m., after & dramatic session of three-quarters of an hour. The Accession Council is expected to convene at St. James' Palace on I have often told him and his Saturday, when the Lords, the Privy Council, the high commissioners of the dominions and India, the lord mayor and aldermen of the City of London will approve proclamation of the new King. Unofficially, it was stated there would be no alteration in coronation plans or the May 12 date. By abdication, Edward relinquished all his many titles, but it was expected a special dukedom ‘would be created for him. Whether he will await April 27— the date Mrs. Simpson's decree of divorce from Ernest Aldrich S8impson becomes final—to marry his betrothed, was not known. Many, however thought such a delay likely. Thers | has been no move, as yet, to accelerate [the time of finality, which may be accomplished only with the assent of the trial court and the King’s proctor. Lack of Demonstration. Over London there was a marked lack of demonstration when word of the abdication became known. Crowds | cheered Queen Mary when she left the new King's Piccadilly house at | 4:31 pm, however, and police rein- | forcements were called out to keep | the people moving there. H The people obeyed the police in- | structions, but refused to leave the | neighborhood, spreading into midstreet and interfering with the congested Hyde Park corner traffic. A thick, gloomy fog lay over the city. Knots of sober-faced people gather | in the inky darkness everywhere. There | were no newspaper extras as they are | known in America, but the papers in- serted abdication bulletins in their “stop press,” front page, columns. In the dominions and colonies, the general feeling was one of sadness that the old King had gone; deep relief that the crisis had passed; joy in the new King. B Canada Authorizes Acceptance. Tanada’s cabinet passed the rest, passing an order in council which authorized -the British government to include Canada in the act of abdica- tion acceptance, The governor gen- eral concurred. The other dominions were ready to act, through cabinets or Parliaments. London’s stock exchange closed firm and its members cheered the new sov- ereign. At 5:50 p.m., the Duke of York's motor car arrived again at Fort Bel- vedere, where Edward presumably re- mained. Baldwin (Continued From Pirst Page.) him and that man was the prime minister. “I felt doubly bound to speak, as it was my duty as I conceived.it to the country and my duty to him, not only as a counselor, but as a friend. “I consulted—I am ashamed to say it, but they have forgotten me—ncne of my colleagues. “I happened to be staying in the neighborhood of Fort Belvedere about the middle of October and ascertained that his majesty was leaving his house on Sunday, the 18th of October, to entertain a small shooting party at Sandringham and that he was leav- ing Sunday afternoon. “I telephoned from my friend’s house Sunday morning and found he (the King) had left earlier than ex- pected. “In these circumstances I. com- municated with him through his® sec- retary and stated I desired to see him. “It was the first and only ocoasion on which I was the one wWho asked for an interview. “I said I desired to see him and that the matter was urgent. “I told him what it was and I ex- to Sand- but I ‘wiser, if his majesty thought it fit, to see him at Belvedere because I was anxious at that time that none should know of my visit and that the first talk should be in complete privacy. Appointment at Belvedere. “His majesty replied he would mo- tor back Monday, October 19, to Bel- Pirticular M.‘mmdntbwdfiu A student at Eton, less he tells him at all times the truth as he sees it. “Whether that truth be welcome or not—and let me say here—as I may say several times before I finish, that dur- ing those talks-ewhen I look back— there is nothing I have not told his majesty of which I felt he ought to be aware, but never has his majesty shown any signs of offense, of being hurt at anything I have said to him, and the whole of our discussions have been carried through with an in- crease if possible of that mutual re- spect and regard in which we stood. “I told his majesty I had two great | anxieties—the effect of the continu- | ance of criticism of the King that at the time was proceeding in the i American press and the effect it would have in the dominions and par- ticularly Canada, where it was wide- spread, and the effect it would have in this country. That was first. “I reminded him of what I have often told him and his brothers in | the years passed and that’s this: “The crown in this country through centuries has been deprived of many of its prerogatives, but, today, while that is true, it stands for far more than it ever had done in its history. Guarantee of Integrity. “The importance of its integrity is beyond all question far greater than it has ever been, being as it is not only the last link of empire that is left but a guarantee in this country, so long as it exists In that integrity, against many evils that have afflicted other countries. “There is no man or woman in this | country to whatever party they may belong who would not subscribe to | that, but while this feeling vastly de- | pends on the respect that has grown up in the last three generations for | the monarchy, it might not take so long, in the face of the kind of criti- cism to which it was being exposed to | lose that power far more rapidly than | it was built up, and once lost I doubt if anything could restore it. “Now that was the basis of my talk on that aspect and I expressed by anxiety and then my desire that such criticisms should not have cause to | [ g0 on. “I said that in my view no popular- ity in the long run would be weighed against the effect of such criticism. “I told his majesty that I had looked forward to his reign as : great King in a new age. He has so many qualities which are necessary to it. “I told him I had come naturally and wanted to talk it over with him as a friend. Perhaps I am saying what I should not say here—I did not ask his majesty whether I might say this—but I will say it because I do not think he would mind and I think it illustrates the basis on which our talks have been held. “He said to me not once, but many times during these many, many hours we have had together, especially toward the end: “You and I must settle this matter together, I will not have any one interfering.’ “Well, I then pointed out the danger of the divorce proceedings; that if a verdict was given in that case which feft the matter in suspense for some time, that period of suspense must be dangerous, because then every one would be talking and, when once the press begins, as it must begin some time in this country, a most difficult situation would arise for me and for him, and there might well be the danger which both he and I have seen through all this, and one of the reasons why he wanted to take this action quickly was that there should not be sides taken and factions grow up in this country, where no faction ever ought to exist. Glad Ice Was Broken. “It was on that aspect of the ques- tion that we talked for an hour and I went away glad that the ice had ‘been broken. 3 “My conscience at that moment was clear and for some little time we had no further meetings. “I begged his majesty to consider all that I said. I said that I pressed him for no kind of an answer, but would he consider everything that I had said. The next time I saw him ‘was November 16. “That was at Buckingham Palace. By that date the decree nisi was pro- nounced in the divorce case and I felt it my duty on that occasion—his majesty had sent for me—I felt it my duty to begin the conversation and I spoke to him for a quarter of an hour on the question of marriage. “Again you must remember my cabinet hadn't been in this at all. “I reported to about four of my senior_colleagues the conversation at Belvedere, “I saw him Monday, the 16th, and I began by giving him my view on a possible marriage. “I told him I did not think that a marrisge was one that country. flmnnlu*mmn- A Knight of the Bath, 1910. Message Read to Lords Viscount Halifax Discloses Correspondence Be- tween Edward and Cabinet on Decision to Abdicate. | BY the Assoclatea Press. LONDON, December 10--Viscount Halifax, lord privy seal, moving the | reply to the King's message in the House of Lords, read correspondence which passed between the cabinet and | Edward vainly seeking to change his | “irrevocable” decision. The following letter was transmitted to his majesty after Wednesday's cabinet session, said Halifax: “Mr. Baldwin, with his humble duty to the King: “1. This morning Mr., Baidwin re- ported to the cabinet his interview with your majesty yesterday, and in- | formed his colleagues your majesty then communicated to him informally your firm and definite intention to re- nounce the throne. “2. The cabinet received the state- ment of his majesty’s intention with profound. regret and wished Mr, Bald- | win to convey to his majesty imme- | diately tHe unanimous feelings of his majesty’s servants, Urge Reconsideration. “The ministers, reluctant to believe his majesty’s resolve is irrevocable, still venture to hope before his majesty pronounces any formal de- cision, his majesty may be pleased to reconsider the intention which must so deeply distress and so vitally affect | all his majesty’s subjects. “3. Mr. Baldwin is at once com- municating with the dominion prime | ministers for the purpose of letting them know his majesty now has made to him an informal intimation of his majesty’s intention.” Halifax said Edward replied: Dressed for a naval function. At time of visit to United States. “The King received the prime min- ister's letter of December 9, 1936, in- forming him of the views of the cab- inet. “His majesty has given the matter | his further consideration, but regrets he is unable to alter the decision.” Canterbury Sad. i voice said: | “This is an occasion when our | thoughts are too deep for tears and | | certainly too deep for words.” “The Queen mother, as I weil know,” he added, “during these weeks of ten- sion and anxiety has borne herself with all the dignity, calmness and courage which have given her a place 80 secure in the hearts and minds of her people.” ‘The Marquis of Salisbury described the King's abdication as a wound in | the body politic. “It is a disaster,” he cried, leaves it mutilated and torn. “When we think of all the qualities |of King Edward, and that he has abandoned all these responsibilities, we can only bow our heads in sorrow.” Marquis Is Optimistic. ‘The Marquis of Crewe, leader of the | liberal peers, was more optimistic. | “The whole country and the whole | empire have been passing through some dark hours, but we look to the | coming day,” he hopefully proclaimed. | Halifax announced Baldwin imme- | diately would introduce legislation in the House of Commons giving effect to Edward's wishes. “that | volved a lady becoming Queen and I did tell his majesty once that I might be a remnant of the old Victorians but my worst enemy could not say this of me—that I did not know what the reaction of the English people would be to any particular course of action. “I told him that so far as they went I was certain that that would be im- practicable.” “I cannot go further into the de- talls but that was the substance, and I pointed out to him that the position of the King's wife was different from the position of the wife of any citizen of the country. “It was part of the price the King has to pay. His wife becomes the Queen. The Queen becomes the Queen of the country and therefore in the choice of the Queen the voice of the people must be heard. “It is the truth expressed in those lines which may come to the minds of the many of you: “‘His will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as so valued persons do, carve for himself, for on his choice depend the safety and the health of the whole state.’ “And then his majesty said to me, and I had his permission to tell you this, that he wanted to tell me some- thing that he had long wanted to tell me. “He said, ‘T am going to marry Mrs. Simpson, and I am prepared to go.’ “I saig, ‘Sir, that is most grievous news, and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today.’ “He told the Queen that night. He told the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester the next day and the Duke of Kent, who was then out of London, either on Wednesday or Thursday, and for the rest of that week 50, far as I know, he was con- sidering that point. “He sent for me again on Wednes- day, the 25th of November. “Meantime, the suggestion had been made to me that & possible compro- mise might be arranged to avoid those two possibilities that had been seen, first in the distance and then approaching nearer and nearer. “The compromise was that the King should marry and that Parliament should pass an act enabling the lady to be the King’s wife without the po- sition of Queen.” . King Urged Study of Plan. “I saw his majesty on Wednesday, | November 25. He asked me if that proposition had been put to me and I said ‘yes; and he asked me what I thought of it. “I told him that I had given it no considered opinion, but if he asked me my first reaction, it was that Parliament would never pass it. ministers of the dominions, and asked if that was his wish. “He told me that it was and I said I would do it. “On December 2 he asked me to see | him, and again I had intended asking for an audience later that week be- cause some inquiries I had thought proper to make had not been com- pleted. “But they had gone far enough to show that neither in the dominions nor | here would there be any prospect of | such legislation being accepted. Marriage Held “Impracticable.” “His majesty asked me if I could answer his question. I gave him the | reply that I was afrald it was imprac- | ticable for those reasons, and I do want the House to realize this. “His majesty sald he was not sur- prised at that answer. He took my answer without question and he never referred to it again. “I want you to put yourselves in his | | majesty’s place and realize what his | feelings are and to know how glad he | would have been had this been pos- sible. “There was no formal decision of any kind until I come to the history of yesterday, but when we finished that conversation I pointed out that possible alternatives had been nulled and it had really brought him into a | position when he would be placed in a grievous situation between two con- flicting causes in his own heart, either complete abandonment of the project on which his heart was set and re- maining as the King, or doing as he | intimated to me he was prepared to do in the talk which I have reported, and of going and later contracting that marriage if possible. “In the last days from that date | until now that has been the struggle in which his majesty has been en- gaged. “We had many talks, discussing the aspect of this limited problem. The House must realize—aud it is difficult to realize—that his majesty is not a | | | boy. “He looks so young that we all thought of him as our prince, but he is a mature man with a wide and great experience of life and the world. “He always had before him three motives which he repeated in the course of conversation at all hours and again and again—that if he went he would go with dignity; that he would not allow a situation to arise in which he could no do that, and that he wanted to go with as little disturb- ance to his ministers and his people possible. “He wished to go in such circum- | has never wavered from it. Think what all this| Simpson dispute because of the cheering crowds. I honor and respect him for the manner in which he behaved at that time. “I have something which I think | will touch the House. I have here & penciled note sent to me by his majesty this morning, and I have his authority for reading it. says: *“*The Duke of York and the King have always been on the best terms as brothers and the King is confident that the duke will deserve and receive the support of the whole empire.’ “Now, sir, I would say a word or two on the King’s position. The King cannot speak for himself. The King The white-haired Archbishop of | has told us that he cannot carry and | through may Canterbury then rose and in & choked | d0€s not see his way to carry those | may take a almost intolerable burdens of kingship without & woman at hic side. and we know that this crisis, if I may use the from that very frankness of his majesty's character wkich is one of his many attractions. “It would have been perfectly pos- sible for his majesty not to tell me this at the date when he did and not to have told me for some months to come, but he realized the damage thai might be done in the interval by gose sip and rumors and talk and he madé- that declaration to mme when he did on purpose to avold what he felt might be dangcerous not oply here but throughout the empire, to that very moral force of the crown which we are all determined to sustain. “He told me his intention and he I want the house to understand that. He | telt it was his duty to take into anxious consideration all representations that his advisers might give him, and not until he had fully considered them did he make public his decision. Ne Sign of Conflict. “There has been no sign of conflict in this matter. My efforts :luring these last days have been directed, as have the efforts of those most closely around him, in trying to help him make the choice which he has not made, and we have failed, and the King has made his decision to take | this moment to send his gracious message because of his confident hope that by that he will preserve the unity of this country and the whole empire and avoid those factious differences| that might so easily have arisen. “These last days have been days of | great strain. It was & great comfort to me and I hope it will be to the aouse when I was assured before I left him Tuesday night by that inti- mate circle that was with him at the fort that evening that I had left nothing undone that I could have done to move him from the decision at which he had arrived. “While there is not a soul among us who will not regret this from the bottom of his heart, there is not a soul here today that wants to judge. “We are not the judges. His majesty has announced his decision. “He has told us what he wants us to do and I think we must close our ranks. “At a later stage this evening I shall ask leave to bring in the necessary bill so it may be ready for the first time, printed and made available to the members. “The House will meet tomorrow at tie usual time, 11 o'clock, when we shall take the second reading and the remaining stages of the bill. It is very important it should be passed into law tomorrow and I shall put on the order peper tomorrow s motion to take the private members’ time and suspend the 4 o'clock rule. “Now I have only two other things to say. The House will forgive me for saying now what I should have said a few minutes ago. I have told the House that yesterday meorning when the cabinet received the King's final definfte announcement, officially they passed s minute and in acoord- ance with it I sent a message to his majesty which he has been good enough to allow me to read. (Baldwin then read the message sent to the King from the cabinet and the King's reply, both of which had already been read in the House of Lords.) Last Words on Subject. “My last words on that subject are that 1 am convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded. Those who know his majesty best would know what that means. “This House today is a theater that is being watched by the whole ‘world and let us conduct ourselves with that “It is just simply in pencil, and i!‘ In figing togs. ) One of his latest pictures. A. P. and Wide World Photos. her when wejhave to speak, as speak | we must during this debate. “We hlvr_rTfler all, as guardians of | democracy in’this little island, to see that we do ofr work to maintain the | Integrity of narchy, that monarchy |'which, as I ,:'!Z at the beginning of my speech, is nc¢w the sole link of the | whole empirc and guardian of our freedom. Let us look forward and remember ouy country and the trust reposed by r country in this, the House of Cogamons, and let us rally behind the few King. Let us rally ! behind him gnd Felp him. “Whatever jthe country may have suffered by swhat we are passing oon be repaired and we and again in trying to | make this cguntiy a better country for all the pepple in 1t.” No law exstst covering the situa- Queen Mary. | time has ma{:t to her and think of | word, has risen now rather than later | tjon, but it genérally was considered | true that Egwatd may not stay in | Great Britaitj oriany dominion of the ‘ emplire. § The passage of time may change | that situatiog. if the government be- | comes conviriced: his return would not be emba: politically. Many thought he gouid return to England wl?m a fewsyears and Mve the quiet 1ufE of & coujtry gentleman—a life he fers to the duties of so greatly | state. i ! To Mget Mrs. Simpson. | 1t Edward doas go to the continent, | his friends zaid; he undoubtedly will meet Mrs. Sjmpson at an early date. Had he avoided hbdication, he was re- signed to thy piospect of not seeing his bethothesi uhtil after his corona- tion. But with his life now com- pletely his oyn,.no one expected him to deny himgelf the companionship of the woman {vhc, above all others, he thinks, can give, him happiness. As for York, the King to be, he can choose any name he desires for his reign, the thirty-ninth since the Nor- man conqu ‘The Brit! ever, predic be “George His reign | of abdicati with authority it would il} begin after the act is finally passed and | signed, whi§eupon the lords, the | privy count the high commissions of the Dom: Mons and India, the lord mayor and the aldermen will gather to approve yroclamation of the new sovereign. Steps in tae accession of the new | Ring will be swift after the procla- | mation of accession, to be read Satur- day to the court at St. James' Palace. Accession Routine. Following *he accession council. the proclamation of the new King will be | read at Priary Court in the palace by | officers at arms, garbed in their me- | dieval tabards. Trumpets will sound a double fan fare as the-garter principal king of arms intpnes the proclamation. Afterward a procession, formed by the king of arms, heralds, pursuivants rogatives established by precedent old and obscured, will move through Lon- don streets to the law courts, to the royal exchange in the heart of the City, proclaiming & new monarch for the second time within the year. Baldwin's revelaiion of the abdica- point with fl"e quotation of the King's words of Nowmber 18, “I am going to marry Mrs. Bimpson and I am pre- pared to go,” was the ordeal of his career. From that expressed intention, the prime minister said, the King never wavered. i Baldwin qd the story of the negn- tiations in a speech never surpassed in Westmi r in its quiet dignity and moving apj Baldwin Speech Dramatic. He spoke almost without notes. The house, packed to every corner, fol- Jowed each syllable with an attention that resenteq even the flutter of an order paper. | more than an hour adjournment, Commons reconvened get on with-its business of changing® King. Attlee, the leader of his majesty's opposition, piaised the passing mon- arch in a speech and then said: “We hoped: it would not come to abdication, bui the King has made his decision. He. is resolved to abide by it. We can §io no other than accept jt. The wis§ of his people will be that he will kave a long, happy life.” P.T. A ‘qu Tomorrow. The Pareng-Teacher Association of the Patrick School will meet in the schood orrow at 8 pm. Harry K. Green, cotimissioner of revenue of Cognty, will be the speaker. cajbls will be sung by the Club of ithe achool. The Glee i undey the divection of Miss ‘Whits. Press Association, how- and other ancient officials, their pre-| tion details, ‘which reached its high| &o‘M (Continued From First Page.) plans to stay here at least until after Christmas.” Mrs. Simpson earlier talked at length on the London telephone today. Servants said she slept late and then was “on the line” for some time, in communication with London. Her solicitor, Theodore Goddard, reached London today. An airplane, reported to carry his legal brief cases, left Le Bourget this morning. No one at the Villa Lou Viei would say who initiated the London tele- phone call Eight French detectives stood guard outside the villa. Inside were British plain clothes men. Curious groups collected on the ad- jacent roads. The detectives listened in amused silence while one old man, wearing East Indian styled trousers fitting close below the knee, delivered an oration urging the British crown crisis “be referred to the League of Nations.” Even as London buzzed with spece ulation before the abdication, the ! twice-married, twice-divorced Amerie can woman reiterated her willingness to give him up *™if it will solve the problem.” { Tension grew. The Riviera villa (of her hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, hummed with excitement, marked by swift, secret movements of visitors from London. “L'Affaire Simpson™ appeared definitely pointed toward imminent climax, Rumors were everywhere One went so far as to say that Mrs. Simp- son already had departed—for where, no one seemed to know. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers denied this emphatica So did her spokesman, Lord Bro' low. “On my word of honor,” Lord Brownlow said, *“she has not de- parted and has no plans to depart.” Gendarmes remained on guard, at any rate, and the men from Scotland Yard, picked to protect Mrs. Simp- son, were still here. Her lawyer, Goddard, who flew from London—a journey regarded as so pre- | carious for him that his personal phy- sician, Dr. W. Douglas Kirkwood, ac- companied him—would not discuss the purpose of his sudden visit. The departure of the lawyer and doctor and the lawyer’s clerk indicated that whatever their business may have been, it was completed. Lord Brown- low said Mrs. Simpson had “signed no documents. { London reports that Mrs. Simpson | planned to request the courts to speed | action toward making her divorce de- cree effective were authoritatively de- imed. The divorce, obtained on | charges that Ernest Aldrich Simpson | had been unfaithful to his marriage | vows, does not become effective until :Apnl 27 of next year. | Only by “a general or special or- | der” could the divorce date be ad- vanced; &nd such an order would be made only after the trial judge and the king’s proctor had been sat- { isfled that such action was desirable. The Riviera seemed to sense that an announcement would come today, for increasing crowds appeared at the villa early this morning. No one outside the Rogers villa had seen Mrs. Simpson in many hours. Yesterday there were reports, both affirmed and denied, that the former Baltimore girl had slipped out for a short motor ride. Telephone calls to the villa last night were answered in a woman's voice, the speaker identifying her- self as Mrs. Rogers. “Mrs. Simpson is standing right beside me, she said; but Mrs. Simp- son herself did not come to the phone. MANILA RUSHES AID TO FLOOD SUFFERERS B the Associated Press. MANILA, December 10.—Govern- ment officials rushed suppiies into the flocd-ravaged Cagayan Valley today to check hunger and disease. Relief officials asked the government to pro- vide rice and medicine to the Echague sector, Isabela Province, where “fam- ine is evident.’ Doctors and nurses who reached parts of the valley by Cagayan River boats were inoculating survivors against typhoid fever and cholera, while soldiers Luried the dead. Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon issued an order from China setting aside $500,000 from the gov~ ernment’s gasoline funds for flood re- lief. 5 With communication facilities still severed, all authorities said it was im- possible to even estimate the number A