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A Call To Arms Is ssued In Ethiopia
BUSTER KEATONS ARE IN DIVORCE TANGLE
Patterson First Vessel Arrive At Point Barrow 1935
EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA
CALLS FOR HIS PEOPLE
TO FOLLOW HIM WAR
(By The Associated Press)
ADDIS ABABA, July 18, — Emperor Haile Selassi call
ed all Ethiopians to follow him into battle, declaring that
it is better to die free than live without liberty. The dyna
mic emperor addressed both the parliament and his sol
diers in impassioned tones and said that the military pre
parations of Italy, proved her intention to conquer Ethio
pia.
He said he would lead his troops to war himself. “Our
ancestors preserved their independence by sacrificing their
lives and we are prepared to follow their example; God will
be our fortress and shield, and the modern armament of
aggressors cannot deter our duty which is sacred, for in
dependence of Ethiopia,” he shouted.
Reviewing Ethiopia’s past relations with Italy and the
events to the present date from the initial skirmish last Dec
ember, the Emperor described Ethiopia’s efforts as being
always toward a peaceful settlement of the dispute.
He said similar efforts by the British for a peaceful
settlement were “brutally rejected” by Warlord Mussolini.
ROME, July 18, Mussolini today informed the people
of his nation, that Italy’s military preparations in her col
ony of Eritrea. East of Ethiopia, were in excellent shape.
Ambassador Sugimura of Japan confirmed official Ital
ian versions, that representations had been made to Musso
lini that Japan had no political interests in Ethiopia.
Another Gunman
Bootlegger Days is
Killed In Chicago
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 18, —Louis ‘Two
Gun’ Alterie big time gangster and
supposedly the only one of any im
portance who survived this city’s
bloodiest bootlegging wars in the
past was shot down as he left his
hotel tonight. He died an hour later.
A blast of shotgun slugs dropped
Alterie who was so seriously wound
ed he barely survived the ambulan
ce ride. His assassins missed his
woman companion who was later
identified as his wife Irma, aged 35.
Captain Daniel Gilbert, chief U.
S. Attorney and the police blamed
the slaying on labor troubles.
He was once the partner of the
slain Dion O’Bannion notorious
Chicago bootlegger. Alterie had
lately been elected as an official of
the janitors union Gilbert said.
He died without making any
statements as to who his assassins
might have been. The doctors said
that nine slugs struck him.
His wife was taken into custody
by the police tonight. At one time
Alterie was known as an underling
of Capone.
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Business Congress
Opened In London
34 Delegates There
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 18, —Delegates
from 34 nations assembled today for
the opening of the sixth internation
al congress for scientific manage
ment termed the largest business
parliament ever assembled. The
Duke of Kent substituting for the
Prince of Wales in opening the ses
sion asserted the industrial future
of every country is closely bound up
with recognition of the importance
of the management factor. The
congress will get underway tomor
row, unique in that there will be no
resolutions and it will consist of in
formal discussions.
Boeing Plane Is
Receiving Final
Tests At Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 18, —A huge
Boeing ship powered with four 725
horsepower motors, with a wing
spread of 105 feet, was prepared for
final tests today. Engineers said
the plane, which they described as
the largest land plane ever built in
the United States, would have a
maximum speed of 200 to 250 miles
per hour.
4 Victims of Plane
Crash In B. C. Are
Now In Hospital
(By The Associated Press)
WHITEHORSE, July 18, —Four
victims of an airplane crash at Me
Dames Lake, British Columbia, are
progressing favorably in the hospi
tal here. The men are pilot How
ard MacDonald, mechanic Ray Ar
nold, and passengers Lynch Dealli
son and C. Cushwa MacDonald, who
is the most seriously injured.
He has a fractured pelvis bone,
broken ribs, and a smashed face.
The plane crashed Saturday and
the injured were brought here by
Pilot Everett Wason in another air
plane.
Circuit Court Holds
TVA Constitution
al And Is Legalized
(By The Associated Press)
NEW ORLEANS, July 18, — The
act creating the Tennessee Valley
authority wias held to be constitu
tional by the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals here Wednesday.
It sustained the government’s
right to sell electric power in com
petition with private utilities.
The holding reversed the decison
of Judge W. I. Grubb of the northern
district of Alabama which annull
ed the contracts between the TVA
and the Alabama Power Company,
for the sale of government power in
seven Alabama counties.
The decision Wednesday, not on
ly held the TVA constitutional but
ruled that congress had conferred
the necessary statutory power on
the gigantic federal agency.
Man And Woman
Found Dead At A
Health Resort Hut
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, July 18, —The bodies of
Mrs. Edwin F. Thompson of New
York and Nedham Walter Scott, 49,
British manager in Italy of the Am
erican Express Company, were found
today in a *cabin at the sulphur
baths of Acque Albule, near Tivoli,
according to a preliminary report
received by the American consulate
here.
Both Mrs. Thompson and Scott
were dressed in bathing suits and
their bodies were at opposite ends
of the same cabin. Mixed bathing
in the sulphur waters is customary
and a usual routine at the health
resort. Early unofficial accounts
tentatively attributed the deaths to
carbon monoxide.
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BUSIER KEATONS ARE
ENDING UP IN DIVORCE
COURT: WIFE IS SUING
(By The Associated Press')
LOS ANGELES, July 18. — The marital affairs of Mr.
Buster Keaton, film comedian, were brought to the divorce
court today by his wife Mae Elizabeth Keaton, at the same
time he is entangled in the already complex domestic rela
tions of Mr. and Mrs. Barton Sewell. Mrs. Keaton filed
suit for divorce from her husband charging infidelity and
naming as correspondent, Mrs. Leah Clampitt Sewell, whose
husband is the beneficiary of a twenty-eight million dollar
trust fund.
Simultaneously Mrs. Keaton filed suit for two hundred
thousand dollars damages agair't Mrs. Sowell, charging
that she had stolen her husband’s love.
The Sewells figured in a wife swapping divorce suit in
February of this year with Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Emer
son. At that time Emerson named Sewell correspondent.
Mrs. Emerson named Mrs. Sewell as a correspondent in a
cross complaint.
Mrs. Keaton alleged that her husband and Mrs. Sew
ell were guilty of misconduct at a Santa Barbara hotel sev
eral times during the past three weeks. The Keaton’s mar
ried venture which began in 1933 ended sharply on July
4th of this year, when Mrs. Keaton asserted that she found
Buster Keaton and Mrs. Sewell in a hotel room, and that
they remained there until July 7th when they returned to
Los Angeles. They continued to see each other even then.
Mrs, Sewell when informed of the suit termed Mrs.
Keatons allegations “ridiculous”.
Germany Is A^ain
In Dispute Cathol
icism With Vatican
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 18, —General Her
man Goering, Minister of Aviation
and commander of Germany’s secret
police, issued orders this evening
for the criminal prosecution authori
ties to enforce strictly, existing de
crees against ‘political Catholicism’.
He said this Catholicism must be
overcome by a positive national
stoicism. Foreshadowing the end of
all Catholic youths' organizations,
he stressed the important task of
the Hitler youths movement.
The present clash of religious and
patriotic movements was followed
by a bitter protest from the Cath
olic church against the sterilization
law and the restriction of Catholic
youths organizations.
President of Bolivia
Dead Heart Attack
(By The Associated Press)
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 16, —Dr.
Daniel Salamanca, aged sixty-six,
President of Bolivia during most of
the Chaco war, died Wednesday
night of a heart attack, on his plan
tation at Cochabamba.
First Boat Arrives
At Point Barrow
Unloads Supplies
(13y The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW July 18 —The
motorship Patterson, Captain C. T.
Pedersen tied up to the ice about a
mile off shore, Tuesday night, and
unloaded mail, emergency supplies
and food, which sleds, driven by
Eskimos and whites took to an op
en lead near shore and which was
then transferred to skin boats and
paddled to the beach.
Captain Pedersen, a veteran ice
man, navigated a narrow lead many
miles away to reach Barrow. After
unloading supplies he retraced the
lead and laid his course toward
points to the Eastward, and Arctic
Canada, where he has trading in
terests.
Rolled oats and canned milk don
ated by people in the states will be
i used for free lunches daily in the
hospital, to needy adults.
Other ships, their masters less ven
turesome than Pedersen are wait
ing for more open water.
The Army plane, Captain McClel
land commanding, left for Fairbanks
via Wiseman, July 16th.
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Bridges Is In Fight
Against President
J. P. Ryan of I. L. A.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, — Be
rating labor racketeers for asserted
ly working chiefly in the interests
of ship owners, Harry Bridges, San
Francisco stevedore head, today
struck back at persons who have
charged him with being communist
ic by issuing the first written state
ment of his career. Bridges partic
ularly struck at Joseph P. Ryan, re
elected International Longshoremen
Association president last week ov
er Bridges’ opposition.
Green Warns Union
Be Careful Of New
Power Organizing
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 18, — Wil
liam Green, president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor urged
union members to be absolutely
sure of their ground before prose
cuting employers under the new
Wagner Disputes bill recently pass
ed by congress, insuring labor's
right to organize and to bargain col
lectively. The enactment of this
measure, long and bitterly fought
by organized employers, marks the
beginning of a new chapter in the
history of American labor, he said
in a statement to union leaders. The
responsibility rests with workers
and management alike. ,
Sees Wife Lowered
Into Grave: Was In
Accident With Her
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, July 18, —A few steps
from where he stood not quite a
year ago and delivered an impas
sioned farewell speech over the
grave of Austria’s martyred leader,
Englbert Dollfus. Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg Tuesday watched the
coffin of his wife Herma lowered
into the soil of Heitzing Cemetery.
Schuschnigg himself, was injured
in the automobile accident last Sat
urday that killed his wife. The
chancellor nevertheless walked the
mile from the church to the ceme
tery.
Find Seven Out Nine
(By The Associated Press)
VANLEAR, New York, July 18,
—Seven out of nine men entombed
by a coal mine explosion, were found
dead today. Rescue workers aban
doned hope of finding the other two.
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