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OGDENSBURG, N. Y.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935 PRICE THREE CENTS

Selassie Pledges Not To Draw First Blood Emperor Prays For His People

B y t h e A s s o c i a t e d P re s s L O N D O N — B r i t i s h c a b i n e t h o l d s e m e r g e n c y m e e t i n g

wi th fear g rowing t ha t Mussol in i ' s a sp i ra t ions for conques t a r e a t h r e a t t o British co lon ia l possess ions .

A D P I S A B A B A — E m p e r o r Ha i l e Selassie, a t p raye r , p r o m i s e s n o t to d r a w t h e first b l o o d .

R O M E - ^ O m c i a l l y inspi red press offers exp lana t ion of I t a ly ' s des igns .

PARIS— -F rance fears has ty ac t ion of British cab ine t m a y he igh t en I ta ly ' s d e t e r m i n a t i o n of conques t .

M A D R I D " — S p a i n minimizes mi l i tary m o v e m e n t s t o w a r d M e d i t e r r a n e a n front ier as " n o r m a l a n d p recau t ion ­ary .

Copyright, 1935, By The Associated Press Addis Ababa, Aug. 22—The soft voice of Emperor

Haile Selassie, a frail, gentle-eyed figure seated in the dim-lit throne room of the imperial palace, today was lift­ed in prayer to prevent Ms 7,000-year-old kingdom of Ethiopia from being drenched in blood.

Fatal Air Crash at Pine Plains

-'God, give, me the patience and courage to hold back my army un­til all- efforts- for peace •ar.e ex­hausted," he said slowly in deep, emotion-fraught tones. "We shall not be the first to draw blood."

The king of kings, granting a private interview to the Associated Press , sat bowed down in thought for a few long moments. His dark wistful eyes, stared hah>shut into the glowing log-wood fire in the open liearth of the sandalwood-paneled room. The fire's gleam cast a strange radiance on h i s finely chiseled features. Spiritual serenity is written there, and an-

.guish. He seemed a Judean figure out of the hible.

" I still have faith in England," lie continued, " I a m still hopeful that the League of Nations will work out a solution. But if a war desecrates our soil, an order for blood must come and we are ready to preserve the- kingdom our fathers gave us... "•?*•*••

"We would he untrue to our great past, which goes heyond Biblical times, and we would stain our proud record of -victories if we failed in. our duty.

"If Italy attempts to conquer us , " he said earnestly, his eyes cathing the gleam of the fire, "we shall repeat our -victory of Adua. We shall be strong because we must ."

Outside a curfew tolled from a neighboring Coptic church a s dark­ness enveloped the emperor's mountain kingdom. l ie rose and walked to the window and stood looking down upon thdusands of his whiteclad warriors, drilling with medieval lances and swords on the green grounds of the pal­ace. Rain was falling,, drenching the soldiers who in a few weeks, per­haps - in a few days, m a y march forth to- sell their livgs for him.

(See Emperor, Page 7)

Mystery j Shrouds Shooting

BOYS KILL SNAKE Kanab, tTtah, Aug. 22—CAP)—

playmate, Mack Frost, stumbled accidentally upon a mige rattle­snake, coiled and apparently pre ­pared to strike.

"We threw rocks at it but it didn't do any good," said Harold. "Then we remembered our sling­shots and- got him with them."

Middletown, N. Y., Aug. 22— CAP)—Mysteriously shot while sitting in the grandstand at the Orange County Fair , Horace Ketcham, 38, of Otisville, lay near death today in Horton Me­morial Hospital.

Ketcham. was sitting with his family last night watching the performance when he was seen -to slump forward in his seat. At first it was thought he had fainted but an examination dis­closed he was bleeding from the back. He was taken, to the hos­pital Where, x-rays showed a bullet, had entered his back and lodged- in a lung, .two inches from the heart.

Nation Pays hinal 1 rikute to Rogers

Los Angeles, Aug. 22— (AP)—It was time for Will Rogers' formal exit today from the earthly scene he ruled so long as master of philosophy and wit.

FEATHERED Santa. Rosa, Calif., Aug. 22 —

(AP)—Two men were tarred and feathered and three others order­ed to leave town by self-styled vigilantes who conducted an all night series of raids against al­leged communists in Sonora coun­t y . '

The two tarred and feathered in an outlying district said they were Jack Green, Santa Rosa com­mercial artist, and Solomon Nitz-burg, rancher at two rocks near Petaluma, whose residence was the scene of disorder and gunfire.

Newspapermen who trailed the vigilantes said they numbered ap­proximately 300 and traveled throughout the county in about 50 automobiles, the license plates of which had been covered. The driv­ers and occupants were dise-uis'H in old clothing and masked or blackened faces.

The five seized were forced to kiss the American flag before they were released. .

The huge Hollywood bowl, sea t ing 35,000 and the community Presbyterian Church of Beverly Hills were meeting places for the general public." At the motion pic-ure studios including the "one at which Rogers was a star, fellow film players-were called to pay him homage.

A proclamation of Governor Frank F . Merr iam asking a min­ute of silence throughout Califor--

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runo Los Angeles, Aug. 22—(AP)—

Cloaking his activities in secrecy, Lloyd Fisher, chief counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, de­clared here today that he was confident he was- on the track of

Day of Rest Ordered For Wdr Game Troops

\ _, Pine Gamp, N. Y., Aug. 22

(ASP)—Today was a n unofficial aay of rest lor the 36,000 Na­tional Guard antf Regular Army troops here for the Ar­my's war games.

Unit training was prescribed for the various commjands, but a t the divisional commander 's discretion it was generally un­derstood that rest wouia be the order of the day.

- Tired in body but buoyant in spirit after their interdivision-al maneuvers yesterday—for many their first tastiof hard­ships In the- field—they did in­tensive tours of "bunk fa­t igue".

Swimming holes were in high favor despite the slightly brisk weather that followed the drenching downjtour in which the maneuvers were held. ;

Outfits that suffered damage from mud and rain put in a lazy day getting them into shape for the corps maneuvers that s tar t Friday when the en­tire a rmy strength will be

thrown into the field with troops from New England fac­ing troops from- New York and New Jersey.

Today was essentially a day of ceremonies for the officers of the camp. Foreign military attaches paid their respects to the commanding generals of the first division, the 37th divi­sion and the army. In the aft­ernoon the 44th division will formally invest Col, Edward Omsted, chief of staff of the division, with his brigadier general's s tars . I t will likely be the only such ceremony of the maneuvers."

.A sad note in the general feeling of laxity, the Army prepared with military honors to pay its last respects to Lieut. iBobert Sherer who was killed Tuesday night when his plane crashed near here as he was returning from parti­cipating in an anti-aircraft demonstration.

At the request of his par­ents the body, with a mili­

tary escort will be sent to Ol-ney, m. , today.

Bruno Hauptmann information "which will save Hauptmann from the death sen­tence."

Aside from admitting he will confer with Mrs. E m m a Gloeck-ner, Hauptmann's sister, who lives here, Fisher declined to elaborate oh his mission to the west coast. He arrived here last night.

" I will be here probably a week," he said. "Then I will go to San Francisco and from there, probably back east again ."

Hauptmann, awaiting action on his appeal from the death sen­tence in the Lindbergh baby kid­naping, "is in fine physical and mental condition," Fisher said.

WRITER DEAD Albany, N. Y., Aug. 22—(AP)—

Harry C. Scott, 62, editorial writer for the Albany Times-TJhion and former city editor of the old Al­bany Press, died at his home to­day. He suffered a paralytic stroke while on his way home in a taixi Saturday, and another on Monday. *He entered newspaper work in 1891.

Survivors include two sons, Har­ry C , Jr. , of Albany, and Wade E. Gott, also a sister, Mrs. Albert Welch of Slingerlands.

nia at 2 p.m., the time of the services, was to be followed by city and federal offices, and most business houses here, with flags 'at half-staff throughout the day.

At Ciaremore, Okla., which. Rog­ers called" his "home town" me­morial services were set and at nearby Chelsea, the Rev. Argus J . Hamilton, classmate of the hu­morist, was to deliver a eulogy.

Motion picture producers and distributors of America announced more than 12,000 theaters over the country would -fee darkened for two minutes, during, £k$ seryicesr

At the Teauest'.ol -tM family the' .casket was unopened'fas Rogers ' body lay in state from 7 a.m., until noon within the gates of ,Forest Lawn Memorial P a r k in Glen-dale. Ahd at their wish the pri­vate 'funeral program at the Wee Kirk O' the Heather at the Pa rk was made brief and simple.

At these services the Rev. J . Whitcomb Broughter, associate pastor of the Glendale Baptist Church and intimate friend of Rog­ers, was to read the funeral ora-

(See Nation, page 7).

HANGAR CAVES IN, 2 0 KILLED

Brasov, Rumania, Aug. 22— (AP)—Twenty workmen were reported killed and 30 injured today when the steel frame of" a new airplane hangar under construction here collapsed.^ -

Authorities said they feared still more bodies were crushed under the debris. The archi­tects were arrested.

FLOYD KNOWLES DEAD Portsmouth, O., Aug. 22—(AP)—

Floyd W. Knowles, 73, who was active',in the steel industry more thari -50: years, died last night. He was special agent for the Wheel-ing-'Steel Corporation during the World War.

CONGRESS SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED

Washington, Aug.. 22— (AP) — Congress was all tangled up - in such formidable difficulties today that guesses as to the adjournment date ranged as far ahead as next Wednesday.

Some legislators, however, in­sisted that Congress might Quit this Friday. Still, others feared that House members, if they got a chance to vote on the $250,000,-000 tax bill quickly, wouid drop all else and head for home, thus forcing an impromptu adjourn­ment.

WILEY POST'S FUNERAL H E D ; PAID TRIBUTE

Oklahoma Bids Sad Fare well to Noted Flier •*— Body is Placed in Crypt

Oklahoma-City," Aug. 22— CAP)— Oklahoma bid Wiley Post a sad farewell today.

A place of honor was prepared in the rotunda of the state cap-itol for the body of the intrepid fjier to lie from 10 a.m. until noon (Central Standard Time).

Gov. E . "W. Marland. and other dignitaries chose noon to pay their respects to the world flier and stratosphere -explorer who. fell-Jo-: ais-desth -v̂ ith1 Wli>Sogers in Alas. ka .just a week ago. - Funera l services were to be held

at the First Baptist Church ' a t 2 p.m. They will he hrief. and sim­ple.

Post 's fellow pilots will pay fi­nal tribute to him as his body is taken from the capitol to the church at noon. National Guard planes will drone overhead in for­mation with one place vacant. Oth­er military planes and commer­cial pilots will follow, dipping wings in salute and strewing blos­soms at the .south entrance of the capitol.

The body will be placed in a crypt at Fairlawn Cemetery, to remain until the aviator's widow decides whether its final resting place will be in Arlington Ceme-ery or Oklahoma City.

PERMANENT FIREMEN RE-ELECT PRESIDENT

Binghamton, N. Y.,. Aug. 22 — CAP)—James J. Glenn of Schen­ectady will serve for another year as president of the New York State permanent Firemen's Associ­ation. He was • elected yesterday at the closing session of the group's annual convention. Other officers: S. A. Ward of Bingham-ton, vice president; Frank A. Bm-deh of TJtica, secretary-treasurer; members of the legislative com­mittee, Edward Quinlan and Ber­nard Gannon of Albany; Frank Ein-den of TJtica and Eugene Abba of Schenectady.

The next convention will be held in Kingston.

SAYS GOP WILL WINN. ENGLAND

Batavia, N. Y., Aug. 22—<AF)— Col.. Frank Knox has told upstate New York Republican legislators that New England, Indiana, Mich­igan, Ohio and Illinois are ready to go Republican jn 1936.

Attempt To flevive Old Milk Racket Is [flocked

New York, Aug. 22—(AP)—An attempt to revive the late Larry Fay's milk racket was believed hlqcked today by Attorney General John J,. Bennett with the indictment of five alleged racketeers, two of them former lieutenants of the slam night club proprietor.

The attorney general disclosed the attempted revival after Edward j Taylor and Barney Metzer had heen held in $2,000 bail each for a hear-1 ihg Monday. 1

U. S. SEEKS TO AVOID ILL WILL

'Compromise' Arms Em­bargo Sought, Report— C o n f e r e n c e Is Held

Copyright, 1935, By The Associated Press

Washington, Aug. 22— After a White House con­ference on the history-mak­ing neutrality legislation swept through the Senate, prominent House members were reported today to be seeking a "compromise" arms embargo law.

Authoritative sources said this was designed to avoid stirring up ill-will abroad. Under it,, it was said, the effective date of the po­tential embargo would be shifted ahead to some time in the fu­ture say Feb. 1, 1936, so as to in­dicate that the legislation was not aimed in particular a t the Italo-Ethiopian situation or any other.

This is one of several changes to be sought. Others were described as broadening the Senate's sev­en-point legislative to include a credit embargo against warring nations," and modifications to make the plan more ''flexible."

The Senate's resolution contain­ed a mandatory embargo on ex­ports of arms, munitions arid im­plements of war to all belligerents in a foreign conflict in which this government was not involved.

(The legislation, marking a ma­jor departure in" American policy, who t ravel on belligerent's vessels dp so "a t their own risk." I t pro­vides for licensing of munitions manufacture and; exports a& a per­manent pejiicy and; amctag. other-measures, would prohibit Ameri­can-Ships ''from Aarryjng^iaunitions-torffifly fleutfarpbflTTor-'resnfpme'nt" •to warding .natiohs)i .--,--ar*--*;

' While President Roosevelt^ Vas made ho pronouncement '̂ ofi. _ -a. mandatory embargo, . ' persons close to him have believed he fa­vored platcing 'permissive powers m , the hands of the chief exec­utive, rather than making the em­bargo compulsory.

(See H. s., Page 7)

Mr$. Dorothy Sherwood

Towanda, Pa . . Aug. 22^-(AP)— Clinton Benjamin, his wife and Leslie Bellis,. all of Binghamton, N. Y„ were indicted by the grand jury charged with larceny of foxes woth $2500 from the Wesley Cass farm.

The prosecution started last spring but was dropped because it was impossible to get witnesses from New York State. •The action was renewed after a

recent act of the .legislature made reciprocity between the states in sUch cases possible. The trial will be held hi September.

MAN ON HONEYMOON , ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Liberty, N. .Y„ Aug. 22—(AP)— Charles Foos, 24, of Bridgeport. Conn,, who accidentally shot him­self while on a honeymoon trip, waa in a critical condition here today. Coroner Ralph S. BreakSy said the youhg man shot himself yesterday as he accidentally dis­charged a small calibre rifle in the back seat of his automobile*

. Newbm-gn, N . Y., Aug>;:|2—CAP). Mrs. Dorothy Sherwobd„"27-year-old former show girl and- Salva­tion Army lassie, was granted a few houfs of "freedom" today fs> attend the funeral services Of She small son she said sae drdwned because she couldn't support m m .

The funeral services are a t -Cal-icoon, Sullivan" County, . alt, the home of Mrs . Sherwood'* another* in-law. Immediately after the services the former showgirl, r e ­turns • to her ceil. in. tKe ;*Orange County, jail at Goshen wHere she i s 'he ing held on a charge, of first degree murder to await action of the grand jury.

The young mother told' police; and Orange C<5unty authorities she drowned her two-year-old- soni James, "because I found i t too hard to care for myself and the baby." She was quoted as saying she took the child to a creek near Newburgh and held his head un­derwater until he was dead. -Then she dressed the body in dry cloth­ing, she said, and carried it to po­lice headquarters in Newburgh.

In investigating -her story, po­lice said they learned her hus­band died four months ago and she has been Working as a wait­ress in a Newburgh restaurant . She was found to be •Hiree weeks behind in her rent and police said she had been told to "pay iip or get out."

It was also learned tha t she had attempted to place "the child in* a children's home. but her applica­tion was denied, Coroner Andrew Gayler. said, because She could not guarantee to pay a stipulated weekly rate.

Mrs. Sherwood's father Who lives in EUsinore, Mo., said she Was his daughter "by a former marr iage . Her mother, he said, died "when Dorothy was ten years Old.

" I joined the Army .in 1918, he said, "And sent the girl to a home. Later I learned Dorothy Was with the Salvation Army for a while, and then she joined a road show." . He sa id she was unable to be of financial service to las daughter now4 - - • - - v * • « • - . • " .

Baby James Sherwood

BIG EXTORTION PLOT IS

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Addis Ababa, Aug. 22—CAP) Baron Muzzi FalGoni, an Ital­ian consul, was in a hospital here today suffering with two bullet wounds and Ethiopian authorities alleged he had shot himself while on a hunting tr ip.

The alleged accident occur­red last Tuesday and the wounded man was brought to the Italian Hospital here to­day. .

GETS RENO LICENSE Reno, NeV., Aug. 22— (AP) —

Jack H. Sobers of Oneonta, N. Y., and Vewillda B. Summer of portr land, Ore., obtained a marriage li­cense here today. Sohers gave his age as 29 and Miss Summer, 24.

STORAGE HOLDINGS OF BUTTER IS INCREASED

Albany, N. Y.. Ang'. 22—(AP) — Cold storage holdings of butter in New York State increased more than a hundred oer cent over the previous year. Commissioner of Agriculture Peter G. Ten Eyesk rer ported today. There are 17,001,030, pounds in. storage this year com-i pared to 5,5.00,019 pounds last year, A decrease was shown in. holdings of poultry broilers and American cheese.

Buford, Ga., Aug. 22— (AP)— A wholesale extortion plot, involving demands for more than $50,000 and threats of death to 15 mem­bers of eight of North Georgia's •wealthiest and most prominent families, was under investigation today by the United States De­partment of Justice. ,

W. A. Rarer, chief of the Atlanta office of the Bureau of Investiga­tion, Department of Justice, said in Atlanta, "we are investigating several extortion notes," but de­clined to discuss the ease further.

In. each case, so far as could be learned here, the letters bore the tj'peWrltten signatures, "vigilance committee, "justice for the poor people." In addition to money, lands were demanded of some ot those receiving the threats. • John, Victor and Bona Allen, brothers, of fiuford, and operators of a large leather goods plant here, were among these who re­ceived the letters. Members "of their families were threatened.

PART OF HOLDUP

SURPRISE BOUQUET Chicago, Aug. 22—(AP)—Isaiah

Gordon, engineer for the Bureau of Safety, at a meeting of the Chi­cago Safety Council yesterday said, "truck drivers are becoming more careful and courteous on the streets than the most conscienti­ous pleasure car operators." -

ASKS CITIZENS CARE FOR HOMING PIGEONS

Albany, N. X., Aug. 22—(AP)— Conservation Commissioner Lith-gow Osborne today urged al l citi­zens of the state who find passen­ger or homing pigeons" immedi­ately to feed and water, the birds and then release them, if fee bird is in good condition and not suffer^ ihg from hunger or thirst, it should be granted its freedom immedi­ately, the commissioner said.

Deposit, N. Y., Aug. 22—(AP)— With -a small part of the loot re­covered," police of two states threw a cordon about all roaSs-rieat the New York^Pennsylvania bolder to­day in an effort t o trap" two baiid-its who held -up and robbed the Farmers National Bank here of approximately $6,000. . About $145 of the money stolen from the bank yesterday by the two' armed men was' recovered from an automobile hear Milford, Pa . , last night by Corp. E.--H. Stine of the Pennsylvania highway patrol. The automobile was aban­doned after i t was wrecked hy the driver during a wild four-mile cll£LS6 *

FORMER CHOIR SINGER FACES MURDER CHARGE

Fitchburg, Mass;, Aug> 22 — (AP)^-Newell P , Sherman, 2.6-year-old former scoutmaster and choir singer, will be arraigned in Worcester early next week on

. an indictment charging the imur? derof his 23-year*ld wife; Alice.

A Worcester County grand jury returned the indictrnent yes­terday after hearing the. testi­mony of Miss Esther Magill, 17^ year-old Whitinsville girl, de­scribed by the state as the '"un­witting motive," and nine other witnesses. '

Mrs. Sherman, mother of two children, drowned in Lake Siiigle-tary,. nar Sutton, oh the hight of July -20. ' -

Saturday Is Dollar Day In Ogdensburg Stores—Splendid Bargains Are Being Offered