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League Council To Meet on July 31st
NAT. GUARD HELD READINESS MORE TROUBLE
Senate Confirms Appointment Judge J. H. S. Morison
i
Nomination Judge
J. H. S. Morison Is
Confirmed Senate
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 26, — The
nomination of Judge J. H. S. Mori
son of Tennessee as District Judge
of Second Division, at Nome, Alaska,
was confirmed by the senate Thurs
day.
Judge Morison received word at
his office this morning by private
telegram that his nomination had
been confirmed.
Judge Morison was nominated
last summer following the resigna
tion of Lestor O. Gore, republican,
who desired to return to his busi
ness pursuits in southeastern Alas
ka.
He arrived here on the Arctic
Cruise of the Alaska Line in Aug
ust last year and immediately took
up his official duties. He was appoint
ed as Administrator of Federal Em
ergency Relief Administration act
ivities immediately following the
big fire on September 17th, doing
much to expedite relief conditions
. wherever necessary.
Judge Morison was joined by Mrs.
Morison and grandchild in the fall,
and this spring their daughter Miss
Edith Morison came to Nome by
plane to visit them. Miss Morison
was an outgoing passenger aboard
■the S. S. Dellwood day before yes
terday.
Judge Morison is receiving con
gratulations today from his many
friends, on his confirmation.
Heir Of Moneys
From Standard
Oil Co. Is Dead
(By The Associated Press)
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y.. July 25
—Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers,
who inherited one of the large for
tunes made by Standard Oil Com
panies, died here today.He had been
ill since October last, when he con
tracted pneumonia. His son H. H.
Rogers was formerly vice president
of the Standard Oil Company, and
one of his father’s right hand men.
New Cabinet Is To
Be Formed On A
Broad Basis
(By The Associated Press)
HAGUE, July 26, —Queen Wil
helmina charged D. P. Aalberse,
Catholic party leader with the for
mation of a new cabinet, to be con
stituted on as broad a base as poss
ible, following the resignation of
Premier Hendryk Colijn, in a fin
ancial crisis.
ITALY CHANGES MIND
HAS NO USE LEAGUE
WANTS A COMMISSION
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 2G—The League Council, is expected
to meet July 31st on the African controversy, with the pro
posed session recognized as unpopular with Italy.
Authoritative sources today from Rome indicated that
the Italian government preferred the revival of the concilia
tion commission. The Ethiopian government, in view of
this report, was represented as opposed to such a revival,
largely, on the grounds that the dispute with Italy could be
placed on the path of conciliation only through the delinea
tions of the frontier between Ethiopia and the Italian colon
ies of Eritrea and Somilland, the matter which Italy con
tended up to now, could not be undertaken by the concilia
tion commission.
Great Britain, it was understood this afternoon had or
dered a hundred soldiers from a British post, to guard the
British legation at Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian government officials expressing disappoint
ment at the British government’s ban on the export of arms
to both Italy and Ethiopia, charged that the action favored
Italy, inasmuch as there are no arms factories in Ethiopia,
while Italy is well equipped to meet munitions manufacture
requirements. Ethiopia is putting its hope for a solution of
the controversy squarely up to the league.
Legally Dead 3
Times: He’s Not
Even 111 As Yet
Painter’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
—He Explains Mix-up.
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. July 26, —If Mr. Fred
Sauter, a painter, were a devotee
j of Mark Twain, undoubtedly he
would have asserted the words of
that writer:
"The report of my death was
greatly exaggerated.”
Three times Sauter has been pro
nounced dead in court adjudications.
One insurance company, the Metro
politan of New York, paid a $1,000
policy on Sauter’s life, as the result
of a court finding that he was dead.
This finding was based on the fact
that he had been missing from
Memphis, Tennessee, for seven years
and seven years of absence raises a
legal presumption of death.
To start at the beginning, Sau
ter said he moved his business
from Memphis ten years ago, and,
when his wife refused to follow him
to Birmingham, Alabama, he ob
tained a divorce. Shortly thereafter
he came to Chicago and that’s where
everyone lost track of him.
His wife, Mrs. Sophia S. Sauter,
died in Memphis and the estate
went to two daughters, Mrs. Thel
ma Ryan and Mrs. Frieda Reiff.
They sued to collect on Sauter's in
surance and collected on the Metro
politan policy. Juries also returned
verdicts for the sisters on two other
$1,000 policies, one in the Massa
chusetts Life Company and the oth
er in the New York Life company.
Attorneys for these concerns still
are battling these verdicts in the
higher courts. A few days ago a
Massachusetts company representa
tive here found Sauter alive and
well here, though minus a leg, lost
a few months ago in an accident.
Sauter told the insurance man he
had no intention of disappearing,
and he knew nothing about the ef
forts to collect on his insurance.
A. E. F. Sweetheart
Injured In An Auto
Wreck, Improving
(By The Associated Press)
EASTVIEW, N. Y„ July 25—Elsie
Janies, severely injured in an auto
accident, is responding favorably to
treatment today. The famous enter
tainer suffered a concussion of the
brain, a deep gash in the back of
her head and loss of blood.
A blood transfusion might be nec
essary the doctors reported. Her
husband. Gilbert Wilson was driv
ing truck when the accident occur
red. He suffered a slight head in
jury, also. She was known as the
sweetheart of the A.E.F. during the
world war.,
Mine Disaster
(By The Associated Press)
CALCUTTA, July 25—Thirty-three
persons were killed today and forty
three injured in a mine disaster in
Giridih.
Demo Forces Are
Against \ Central
Bank In The D.S.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 26, —Dem
ocratic senate leaders lined up their
forces to brush aside Father Cough
lin's and Senator Nye’s plan for a
central bank owned by the govern
ment, after which they hoped to
pass the omnibus banking bill with
some changes which were not wel
come by Governor Eccles.
House administration leaders mean
time passed word around what the
inflationary Frazier-Lemke bill, to
the refinancing of farm mortgages
with three billion dollars of new
money would do for this session.
They based their prediction on the
fact that they had made new pro
gress in their campaign to remove
signatures from the petition to force
the house to vote on these measures.
France Completes
Plans To Slave Off
East African War
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, July 22—France’s plans
to stave oil war between Italy and
Ethiopia by using the utmost con
ciliation procedures of the league,
were completed today and submitt
ed to the cabinet for approval.
Authorities said that Italy had
made it plain that she has no pres
ent aims of quitting the league, her
action depending entirely on what
is done at Geneva.
French and British diplomats were
reported to have suggested to Italy
that she forestall league action by
raising the case herself under Act 12
of the Covenant providing for arbi
tration, rather than let Ethiopia or
some other power cite Italy under
Article 15.
No Jews Compete
On German Team
For 36 Olympics
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 26, —The probabil
ity that no Jews will participate for
Germany in the 1936 Olympic Gam
es. was seen in a disclosure by the
Olympic Committee, that there were,
no Jews among the athletes who
have already been chosen to com
pete for the German Olympic team.
This came close on the heels of the 1
Nazi administration's decree dissolv
ing the entire steel helmet war vet
erans organization of East Prussia,
and the assignment of a supervisor
of non-aryan art, with the specific
duty of eliminating Jewish influenc
es from German art.
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NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
REMAIN AT HOQUIAM IN
CASE OF OUTBREAKS
(By The Associated Press')
IIOQUIAM, July 25—National guardsmen are being
held in readiness for fresh troubles, after lumber strike sym
pathizers stoned a company rushing to the aid of a squad
surrounded by a mob of five hundred persons.
With loud jeering the crowd laid down a barrage of
rocks when the company arrived in trucks at the house
where the squad was holding off a threatened attack. One
of the guardsmen was struck on the back of the head by a
rock and slightly injured. The guardsmen charged with
fixed bayonets into the throng, and the crowd surged back
ward, finally breaking and scattering.
The trouble developed from the slight wounding of five
persons by blasts of shotgun fire yesterday from a house in
which twelve working men at the lumber mills, had been
surrounded by a crowd of pickets. They were staying at
the house after a riot caused their removal from a hotel.
German Sniper Is
Winner 20 Years
After Shot Fired
llis Bullet Finally Causes Death
After Adventures in the
Victim’s Brain.
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 26—Scouting be
fore La Bassee on May 16, 1915, a
German sharpshooter sent a bullet
into the brain of William Hornby,
a London chemist. Hornby didn't
die—not then. He died recently in
the National hospital for Brain Dis
eases, London. He had worked as
a chemist for 20 years before the
German bullet actually got him.
At the inquest Dr. Ingleby Oddie
of the hospital told the story of the
bullet and its adventures in the
brain of Hornby. Hornby had been
struck in the back f the neck—a
mere flesh wiund. it appeared to be,
and it was decided that it was a
spent bullet and had dropped out.
All went well with Hornby until
two years ago, Dr. Oddie said, when
he became unable to carry on and
developed very curious symptoms.
He had fits of unconsciousness and
tearfulness. His head began to
shake and his arm to move continu
ously up and down. He then lost
the use of his legs and became com
pletely incapable.
Finally, continued Dr. Oddie, he
was unable to speak, did not realize
where he was and was a completely
broken man.
A post-mortem examination shows
that the bullet had traversed his
brain, up to the top of his skull,
where it lodged against the mem
branes lining the inside of the skull.
In the course of all these years the
track made by the bullet through
the brain had become calcified, mak
ing a tunnel, and at last the bullet
dropped to the bottom.
It was not at all improbable that
the lead of the bullet gradually had
poisoned Hornby by absorption.
5-Year Program Is
Planned Increase
Japan Air Forces
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, July 26, —A five-year
plan, costing nine hundred million
yen, or about two hundred and six
ty-one million dollars, for the mod
ernization, improvement and en
largement of military land and air
forces, which was drafted by war
office and general staff, was submit
ted to the cabinet for inclusion in
the budget, it was learned today.
The plan calls for the annual ex
penditure of approximately fifty
two million yen, and would require
an appropriation in addition to the
regular military funds.
It was pointed out that the plan
was made necessary due to the fact
that Japan's air force is inferior to
that of other nations of comparable
size because Japan is extremely vul
nerable from the air.
The limitations of Japan's indust
rial capacity require that the pro
gram be concentrated on land equip
ment for the first two years, and on
the air forces during the last three.
Mussolini’s 2 Sons
Officers Air Force
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, July 25, —Benito Musso
lini’s sons, Vittorio 19, and Bruno
aged 17, today became officers in
their father's East African Air
Force. Vittorio became a second
lieutenant and Bruno a sergeant.