By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
THIOPIA 1s conquered, Emperor
Halle Selassie has fled to Pales-
tine aboard a British cruiser, and the
Itallan army is in possession of Addis
Ababa, The war In
East Africa is ended.
But this climax may
be only the beginning
of a still greater story,
for Benito Mussolinl
tells the world that
all of Ethiopla now
belongs to Italy, to be
treated as a colony
and defended by force
of arms If necessary.
He toned this down
Benito just a little by giving
Mussolini the French ambassa-
dor assurance that he would not in-
fringe on French and British Interests
in East Africa, meaning the French
railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa
and the British interests in the Lake
Tana headwaters of the Blue Nile. Il
Duce intimated that If France
in Ethiopla and exclude all other na-
tions. :
about to meet in Geneva and it
believed anti-Fascist sentiment
among the French left that
have just come into power would Influ-
there. The
too, were said not to be recon
and it was
Secretary
the
parties
the French attitude
British,
ciled to Mussolini's victory
understood
ence
Foreign
would insist on continu: » of the pen-
xl the other
the
sanc
alties against Italy, pre
leading nations agreed. Indeed,
well ralse the
tions if the Dean pow
league could not
ers take the
ting defeat for Great Britain
I3
tige of the
the house
military sanctions
against Italy was “due to the
of war and not to fear of the u
failure to take
inte
outcome.”
by their attacks and he refused to dis-
close what the government's policy at
Geneva might be, demanding a free
hand to deal with circumstances as
they might arise,
One result in Washington of the
taking of Addis Ababa was severe
criticism of the State.department for
having so wretchediy protected a lega-
tion there. Minister Engert had only a
few weapons and the bullding was
open to attack. Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts intro
duced a resolution calling on Secretary
Hull for information as to measures
taken for protection of the legation
stafl,
MPEROR HAILE SELASSIE of
Ethiopia gave up the hopeless fight
against the Italian Invaders and fled
from Addis Ababa with his family.
Mussolini's victorious
troops soon after
marched Into the cap-
ital, the first to enter
being a picked reg!
ment representing all
units of the Itallan
army, the Askari, In-
fantry, artillery, air
force, engineers, gren-
adiers, bersaglieri, Al-
pinl, eavalry, marines
* 1.2 #4
gy.
and Fascist militia #4
men. Haile Selassie
Thelr coming was welcomed by the
foreigners who remained in the eity,
for as soon as the negus left, the na-
tives began to pillage, plunder and
burn. The business center of the
town was speedily wrecked and the
government bulldings were stormed
and ravaged, these including the treas-
ury from which the state's store of
gold was stolen, and the armory. The
streets were strewn with corpses and
the Ethioplans, crazed by liquor,
rushed about shooting at random and
gathering up their loot to carry it to
the hills,
5
ITH the Introduction of the un-
employment relief bill calling for
appropriation of a billion and a half
dollars, a lively fight started in the
house. The Republicans and a fair
sized bloc of Democrats attacked the
measure chiefly because the entire big
sum was to be turned over to Harry
Hopkins, WPA administrator, in ae
cordance with the wishes of President
Roosevelt. The Chief Executive had
refused to countenance the earmarking
of $400000000 for projects of the
heavy type sponsored by Secretary
Ickes, head of the Public Works ad-
ministration, and so the adherents of
the latter gentleman were prepared to
revive the old Ickes-Hopking feud. Ma.
Jority Leader Bankhead was confident
the bill would be passed as reported
by the appropriations committee,
At a Republican caucus Represent.
ative John Taber of New York, rank-
ing minority member of the appropri.
ations committee, explained the meas
ure to his colleagues as that they could
conduct an “intelligent opposition” to
it. He promised a real fight on the
bill. When Hopkins was before the
committee In secret session, he was
ordered to give detailed Information
concerning his expenditure of the fom
bililons deeded him by congress last
year. Hopkins reluctantly admitted
that nearly two billions of the original
huge fund was still unexpended.
Added to the extra one and a half
billions requested by President Roose
velt, Hopkins would have three and
a half billions to spend in an election
year, it was pointed out.
ALIFORNIA’'S Presidential Repub.
lican preference primary, eagerly
awaited by the whole country, resulted
in the defeat of the Landon slate of
delegates that was put
forward by Willlam R.
Hearst and Governor
Merriam, with Lan-
don’s tacit consent,
The winning delegates,
backed by Herbert
Hoover and nominally
pledged to Earl War-
ren though uninstruct-
ed, carried
by a majority of about
90.000, Mr, Warren an
that
the state
Alf Landon
at once
ize, to
vote as they see fit in the convention
nounced
he released them from their ple
This looked like a blow to Governor
Landon, certain extent It
but his managers claim at least
the delegates will
and to a
¢
18 of ro over to the
Kansan on an early ballot. Moreover
many friends of 1
fact that Hearst
him, be 1g it
andon deprecated
the
harm than good: and
to see him freed
they consider an ine
Democrats voted
Mr. Roosevelt. Upt
rs ticket received something over
Me
100.000 votes that of John 8
Groarty, Town
about half as many.
In South Dakota a slate
pledged to Senator
though the margin was slender
ENRY P, FLETCHER, Republican
national chairman, bas taken a
leaf from the plans of the Democrats
and announces that the men nominated
at the Cleveland convention to head
the Republican ticket will be notified
of the fact at a grand outdoor cere.
mony In the Municipal stadium, near
the convention hall, immediately after
the adjournment, This plan, of course,
is conditional upon the wishes of the
nominees. The Democrats had previ.
ously announced plans to notify Pres
ident Roosevelt and Vice President
Garner of thelr renomination with a
ceremony at Franklin field, Philadel-
phia,
ENATOR ARTHUR H. VANDEN.
BERG of Michigan has asked Gov.
Frank D. Fitzgerald of that state to
present his name to the Republican
convention In Cleve
land for the Presiden
tial pomination, but
the senator Insists
this does not make
him an active candl-
date.
“The Michigan state
convention generously
instructed the Michi.
gan delegation in
Cleveland to present
my name,” the senator
sald. “But the delega. _ Senator
tion is unpledged-—at Vandenberg
my request, It is free to vote as it
pleases. | have not sought a delegation
here or elsewhere and 1 shall not do
80. | have not sought the nomination
and shall not do so. My situation is
not changed in the slightest.”
Friends of Senator Borah In Utah
tried unsuccessfully for a Borah
pledged delegation from that state. The
Republican state convention in Ogden
voted to send an uninstructed group to
Cleveland, following the recommenda-
tion of the resolutions committee,
Col. Hetfry Breckenridge, who offered
himself to the Demderats as a Presi.
dential nominee aspirant merely so
that disaffected members of the party
might have some place to go, received
about one-seventh of the votes in the
Maryland preference primary, The rest,
of course, went to Mr. Roosevelt
Breckenridge made no campaign,
HE national resources committee,
which Is headed by Secretary of
the Interior Ickes, has submitted for
the approval of President Roosevelt
a plan for the creation of a Pacific
Northwest Power agency that would
outrival the Tennessee Valley author
ity and would produce almost as much
electrical energy as the entire nation
could utilize,
Two of the New Deal's power ven.
tures, the Bonneville and Grand Cou-
lee dams, would be embraced by the
PNPA. The ultimate cost of Bonne
ville will be 75 mwiilion dollars and that
of Grand Coulee 204 millions, The ad-
ditional dam and power plant projects
proposed by the committee would en.
tall expenditures of approximately 520
millions, making a total of 505 millions.
ANIEL ©O., HASTINGS, senator
from Delaware, chairman of the
Republican senatorial campalgn com-
mittee and outspoken opponent of the
New Deal, will pot
seek re-election when
his present term ex-
pires, He so an
nounced in a letter to
the party leaders of
his state, giving as
his reason the neces
sity to devote himself
to’ ‘his “law practice.
This may have influ
enced his decision, but 4
it is more than sus 4
pected that the real Sen, Hastings
reason was the fact that the dn Pont
senatorial seat should go to Gov. CO.
du Ponts by marriage.
ings has always been ready and elo-
quent In defense of the du Ponts
against attacks by the New Dealers.
N INERS and operators in the Penn-
sylvania anthracite fields have
agreed upon the continuance of exist-
ing wage levels for two years, though
final detalls of the contract are still
being worked out,
Other points decided upon, it was
sald, are a complete checkoff of union
dues, a form of equalization of work-
ing time In Idle collieries and a seven-
hour day during the second year of
the contract. The miners now work an
eight-hour, six-day week and had been
seeking a six-hour, five-day week,
N his press conference the President
announced that administration lead
ers had reached substantial agreement
on the principles and objectives of a
housing
He dec
Wagner bill, which Is designed to en-
program,
lared himself in favor of the
courage better housing through
sium
clearance. He Indicated the bill could
§
be mo 1 10 inc {
for low
homes
f low income cl
lude provision
better
bring
IS8e8,
* on the
The red
with the
S OME one
. humor
discovered at
inwn
the marble
stall atop
supreme
It was so
Hat po-
an hour
olutionary
ECRETARY OF STATE HULL has
S
ciprocal
KlLICCesR
trade agreement. It Is with
France and was signed at the Stare
Mr,
de
negotinted another ree
department by
Holl and Andre
Laboulaye Freucnh
ambassador, It will be
tive on June
15, and the details of
the pact were not Im
mediately made pab-
He. It is belleved the
terms Incinde dnty
concessions by the
United States on
French wines, cliga-
Sec’y Hull rette papers, and lux-
uries such as laces and cosmetics, and
by France on American exports of ag.
rieultural and industrial products. The
agreement is also understood to con
tain increases in French quotas on
American exports of fruits, and pos
#ibly other products.
An announcement by the State de
partment sald:
“The agreement with France is the
first comprehensive arrangement for
regulating commercial relations with
that country In many years. It will
provide improved opportunities for the
expansion of trade in products of spe-
cial interest to each country, and will
enable the commercial Interests con-
cerned to develop these opportunities
without fear of the sudden and unfore.
seen changes to which they are exposed
in the absence of such an agreement,
“In addition to duty concessions and
quota increases by France and duty
the
come efile
carefully selected lists of products, the
by each country of the commerce of
the other”
uties in the hands of the revolutionary
the confusion Is »o great that there are
seats,
Ses international naval disarma.
ment efforts have falled, those who
advocate adequate national defense re-
Joice in the passage by the house of
the bill appropriating approximately
$581,000,000 to bulld our navy up to
treaty strength. Representative Mare
antonio of New York and a few others
put up loud opposition, but a record
vote was not necessary. The objectors
dwelt especially on a clause authors.
ing the laying of keels for two 85,000
ton battleships after January 1, 1987,
should any foreign signatory to the
London naval treaty start a battleship
replacement program, Two days later
they might bave read dispatches from
London saying rumors had reached
there that Japan was considering lay.
ing down a 55,000 ton battleship armed
with 21-inch guns,
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Pays for New Wife
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Vitamin D Diet Offers New
Food Value, Study Shows
Experiments which suggest an un-
expected human value to be derived
from vitamin D were made public at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
nology.
The findings were derived from
1,000 X-ray photographs of rats
which had been fed diets contain
ing more or less vitamin D, compar-
able to the diets of human beings.
The pictures were taken after a but
termilk-barium drink, like that given
human subjects previous to X-ray
examination,
Investigators found that food res!
dues were retained twice as long In
the Intestinal tract after a previous
diet deficient in vitamin D as com:
pared with retention from a diet in
which this vitamin is plentiful,
Foreign Words
and Phrases »
Apropos. (F.) Bulted to time,
place or occasion; pertinent; appro-
priate,
Compte rendu, (F.) Account ren
dered.
Dolce far nlente, (It.) Bweet doe
ing nothing; delightful idleness,
Experto ecrede, (I.) Believe one
who speaks from his own expert.
ence,
In toto. (L.) In all; entirely,
Meum et tuum, (L.) Mine and
thine,
Nota bene (N. B.), (L.) Note well ;
take notice,
Peccavl., (L.) I have sinned,
Sic tur ad astra. (L.) Thus one
may rise to the stars (I e, to Im
mortal fame).
“Sea Horse” Beats Elephan
in Bloody Duel to Death
Passengers
callbur at
leaving the liner Ex.
Boston told of a death
battle on the ship between a 400
pound hippopotamus and a plgmy-
elephant the Belgian Congo.
Roarsof the hippopotamus and trump-
eting of the elephant awakened the
passengers as the ship passed through
a storm. Eight native boys trapped
the hippopotamus four hours after the
elephant had been slain,
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