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The Washington times., 1935-09-04
Mussolin Unlike Hitler Eliminates Doya Aides Without Boods
Slavery Big Problem
i For Ethiopian King

He ordered the cook to free the
slave.
The cook, in the Suavest way,
explained that the slave belonged
to his wife. Nevertheless, the for
eigner insisted. The next day the
cook came back and said that he
had divorced his wife.
The young slave carried on In
the kitchen and in a few days the
divorced wife moved back into the
servants quarters. And the for
eigner was back where he started.
1t is almost impossible to pre-
vent slave bootlegging in distant
borders. While the incidents have
greatly decreased, the police work
is not popular with the soldiers in
the low.lying hot border districts.
Communications are very bad. 1t
is difficult to move troops in the
rainy season. Furthermore, the
distant feudal chiefs are just not
interested.
To prevent smuggling Of slaves
by water is less difficult for Ethi-
opria has no waterfront and the
slave bootleggers must run the
gauntlet of the French, Italian or
British police, in order to land
their booty in Ethiopia.
A few weeks ago our ship was
nearing Djibouti, the front door
and port for Ethiopia in French
Somaliland, when there was sud
den excitement.
Signals of distress were flying
from a small freighter to the star
board. The brown weather beaten
men on the boat were in pitiful
condition. They had had no water
for four days. And it was very
thrilling to witness their gratitude
as the sailors lowered kegs of
water to them. Several of the pas
Sengers wished to give them food
as we'll but a hard boiled sailor
said:
"Save your tears, ladies'
that's an Ethiopian SIaver-and
she's waiting for q chance to
land at some port without get
ting caught"
The Washington times., 1935-09-04
By EDNA LEE BOOKER
Copyright. 1898. by international
NaMa SerYicel

NEW YORK O.N.S).-Th e
fight to suppress the bootleg slave
trade-to end the stealthy and
cruel night raids Of robber border
chieftains upon enemy villages for
slaves and ivory-to free all chill
dren born Of existing Slaves-iS be-
ing carried on heroically and al
most single handedly by Ethiopia's S
King Halle SelaSsie.
what about Moses?" say many
Of His Majesty'S subjects.
And Moses and the recognition
Of the Old Testament Of slavery as
an institution are proving great
stumbling blocks in Halle Selassie's S
anti-slavery campaign.
Since the admission of Ethiopia
into the League Of Nations, when
the country agreed Ito secure the
complete suppression of slavery in
all forms and of slave trade by
land and sea-" Halle SelasSie has
been striving to live up to his
agreement.
But slaves in Ethiopia are as
numerous as the sands Of the sea-
they are a heritage from Old TeS'
lament days-an integral part OF
an ancient social order.
And no one wants to give up
his slaves and from all I could
learn none Of the slaves wish to be
given up.
Every one has his slave. From
the wealthy chieftain who thinks
nothing of supporting 1,500 slaves
to the servant in the kitchen of an
American or European household
who owns a slave to peel the po'
tatoes-all classes-have slaves.
Many amusing tales are heard
of foreigners trying to get rid OF
the slaves in the household.
One man found out that his
cook had a slave who was doing
most of the cooking, while his
! cook enjoyed life.
The Washington times., 1935-09-04

The case Of Air Marshal 1talo'
Balbo, who was at II Duce's side
when he entered Rome, is cited
by these as a case in point.
Immediately after his sensa-
tional mass flight across the
Atlantic to Chicago, Balbo was
displaced as air commissioner
and appointed high commits
sioner for Libya. Many charged
Mussolini thus cruelty disposed
Of a potential rival. II Duce in
sisted he gave Balbo the job be-
cause only a man of Balbo's
caliber could handle it.
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took a revolutionary strike and
speech before parliament which
even in the fiery annals of II
Duce's public utterances has no
parallel, to do it. That affair dates
the beginning Of Mussolini's sole
assumption of power. Many were
the powerful figures disgraced and
sent into exile in those days. Rossi
was one of them. There we're
scores Of others. Members of his
government who could not be
identified as stanch Fascists were
dislodged- -MuSsolini writes that
they requested to be relieved of
their duties" They were replaced
in some cases by sworn Black
shirts, in others by Mussolini
himself
The Washington times., 1935-09-04
DistruSted Aides

There is no question that the
Matteotti affair was the worst cri.
sis Mussolini was compelled to un.
dergo. It served, more than any
other single factor, to make him
distrustfult of even his closest as
sociates. It is why he is now,
in addition to Prime Minister, the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, the
Minister of the Interior, the Min
lister Of War, the Minister of Air
and virtual chief of the army and
The Washington times., 1935-09-04
ICkes Is Threatened
By Calling Of Guard

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 4 G.N.S)
The Arizona National Guard will
be used to protect the States
rights unless Harold Ickes, Sec
retary Of the Interior, immediate
ly reScinds his order to resume
construction work at Parker Dam.
This was indicated here today fol-
lowing a lengthy confere enc e
between Governor B. B. Mouer.
Attorney General John L. Sulli-
van and James r. Moore.
The Washington times., 1935-09-04
Dictator Tactfully Gives
Orders for Exile to
Weed Out NaZis
This is the of repieng dramatic hi0hohts
the career of MuSSolini, modern Caesar.
By J. G. oEsTRE1CHER
Foreign Editor, International News Service


CCopyrght by News Service
Adoph Hitler ordered the execution Of Ernst Roehm chief Of
his Brownsh led in person the blood purge of June 30
1884 which rooted out by the most violent elements
within Naz party suspected of subversve activities
In all his 13 years in power Benito Mussoin has
launched such nquson against either enemies
colleagues stopped eachery gain their ends
Yet has been less successful than Hitler in wedding out
dsoyy He has been accused by Of his critics Of
clipping the wings of number of dyedin hewoo Fascsts
whose personal popularity has shown the slightest hint of
rnnd;u
The Washington times., 1935-09-04

IThiS is another OF a series
of articles By a correspondent
of international NeDS Service
1Dho recently returned from
Ethiopia. the first United States
1Oriter to come back from there
1Oith tirSt.hdrd information on
conditions as they are toddyD
The Washington times., 1935-09-04
Burkett, Former Giant, Hurt

SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass, Sept.
4 G.N.SO.-Jessie Burkett, IS, for
mer star of the New York Giants
baseball team and baseball coach
at Holy Cross College, was in a
serious condition at Harrington
Memorial Hospital today after
being struck by an automobile.
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possibly be known, they accused
FaSciSm."
by my orders, we began y
most painstaking and complete
investigation. The government
was determined to act with the
greatest energy, not only for the
sake of justice, but also to stop,
from the very first moment, the
spread Of any kind of calumny.
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27

office in a foreign country. He was
chosen on the ticket with Franklin
Pierce in 1852 but before his inaug-
uration his health failed and he
went to Cuba to recuperate. He
was sworn into office by a United
States consul there on March 4,
1853, and died on the following
April Is shortly after his return to
Alabama. He was one of the seven
Vice Presidents who have died in
office.
April 21-Sam Houston and his
Texans won a victory over the
Mexicans at the Battle of San ia
cinto, thereby winning also the free
dom of the Republic of Texas
May 17-Joseph Gurney Cannon
was born in Guilford, N. c. First
elected to congress from Illinois in
er house from that date with the
exception of four years. until 1923,
a period of 46 years, one of the
longest congressional careers in our
history. He also served as speaker
of the house four successive terms
from 1903 to 1911. He died in 1926
at the age of ninety.
June 15-Arkansas admitted to
the Union as the twenty-ffth state.
June 16-Wesley Merritt was
born in New York city. Graduated
from the United States Military
academy in 1860, he was assigned
to the Dragons and started on the
career which made him one of the
greatest cavalry leaders in our his
tory. He won distinction in the
Civil war, rising to the rank of
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of liquor. He did this first by Pc
titiOn to the Massachusetts legis-
lature in 1881 and afterwards in
1887 by report to the Maine legis-
lature. His report resulted in the
enactment of the Maine liquor law,
the first of its kind in the United
States. Appleton returned to his
native town and died there August
%, 1862.
June 13-Winfield Scott was born
near Petersburg, Va. He was des-
tined to become a general in three
major wars (War of 1912, Mexican
war and Civil wary and in three
minor conflicts Qualification dis
turbances in South Carolina, 1882
33; operations against the Sem
mole Indians, 1S35-37; Canadian
revolt, 1S37-3S). He was command
er-in-chief of the United States
army for 20 years (frOm July 5,
1S41 to November l, 1861, long
er period than any other man in
our history ever held that position
In 1914 he was given the thanks of
congress and a gold medal for his
services in the War of 1912 and
again in 1913 for his successful
campaign in the Mexican war. He
was one of three army officers who
have ever been thus honOred more
than once. (The others were Cen
Zachary Taylor and Gen w. 7.
Sherman.) Born $50 years ago,
Scott died just 70 years ago-on
May %, 1S66-in West Point, N. Y.
August 15-Beginning of Shays'
Rebellion in Massachusetts, when
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27
Anniversaries of 1896

major-general of volunteers; in the
Indian wars on the plains as colonel
of the "Fighting Fifth" cavalry; and
as major-genera in the regular
army in command of the land forces
during the Philippine campaign
which eliminated in the capture of
Manila on August 13, 1898. He died
in 1910.
June 2S-James Madison, "Fa-
ther of the Constitution" and fourth
President of the United States, died
in Montpelier, Va.
September 10-Joseph Wheeler
('Fighting JoeD, a distinguished
cavalry leader in two wars, was
born in Augusta, Ga. Graduated
from West Point in 1859, he served
in the dragons until the outbreak
of the Civil war when he entered
the Confederate army in which he
was commissioned major-general
and senior commander of the cav
airy. During the war he won dis
tinction as a bold and successful
raider.
After the war he studied law, held
a seat in congress from 1881 to 1890
and at the outbreak of the Spanish
American war was made major
general of volunteers. He command
ed the cavalry division in the San
tiago campaign, was appointed SEN
ior member of the commission to
arrange for the surrender of the
Spanish army and later served in
the Philippines as commander of
the First brigade of the Second di-
vision. Appointed brigadier-gen-
eral in the regular army in 1900 he
was retired on his siXty-fourth
birthday and died January %, 1906.
1861
January 29-Lewis Nixon, ia,
nous shipbuilder, was born in Lees
burg, Va. He was graduated from
the United States Naval academy
in 1882 and transferred to the con-
structiOn corps of the navy in
1884. In 1890 he designed the bat
tleships Oregon, famous for its
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27
Navajo Woman Is
Boss Of Wigwam
Her Word Final, Says Au-
thority on Indian
Customs.

Whlte women insist on their rights
and fight for independence. Navajo
women are such complete bosses in
the Wigwam they don't have to
worry Adopt emancipation.
They head their clans, which are
established On the mothers side
and holds the strings of the family
purse because the Navajo wealth is
in sheep, which are handed down
from mother to daughter.
This is divulged by Wick Miller.
who has given much time and study
to Indian arts and customs.
Navajo women don't argue about
equal rights" he said. "And they
don't insist on deferential gestures:
they know their word Is final, their
position is enviable."
One Of the Navajo weavers, Eekh-
pah Coming Again Woman), sub
Stantiated this idea. II don't argue
about my rights" she said. 81 don't
even think about them, and neither
1oes any other Navajo woman"
Dressed in deer-skin moccasins and
gayly colored skirt topped by
dark velveteen blouse, Eekh-pah
fingered her turquoise-set bracelets
and talked quietly about the Gus
soms of her people.
"Our women keep busy" she ex-
planned, with making blankets and
rugs. We get the wool from our
sheep. comb and card it, and then
spin it on that" She pointed to
distaff, a remnant of the ancient type
of spinning wheel.
She further explained that the wool
Is dyed after it is spun and then
woven into rugs and blankets on
loom.
Eekh-pah speaks English as well
as white woman for she went
away to school. Returning to her
tribe, she married young brave who
already had a wife and baby.
81 didn't want to marry him. l
didn't love-" she confessed. "But nv
people purSuaded me TO marry him.
Now, no longer live with him; 1
am divorced"
Divorce among the Navajos con-
sists in separation without benefit Of
a court decree. Marriage, also, often
takes place without a ceremony. The
common procedure is for the Navajo
maiden and her lover to begin living
under the same shelter, thereby an
nouncing to the clan they are mar
ried. Occasionally, after the first
child is born. they have a marriage
ceremony.
1T is not strange" said Eekh-pah,
"fOr a Navajo man to have more
than one wife at the same time. But
the woman never has two husbands
unless one is dead or unless she has
a divorce"
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voyage around Cape Horn at the
outbreak Of the Spanish-American
war;, Indiana and Massachusetts.
In 1895 he founded the Crescent
shipyard in Elizabeth, n. j., where
in six years he built over 100 of
the vessels which helped make the
United States a. modern sea power.
Among these was the Holland 9, or
"POrpoise," the first submarine for
the United States navy. 1t was de-
livered at the outbreak of the War
With Spain, but naval authorities
refused to use it on the grounds
that such use was inhumane!
March abraham Lincoln was
inaugurated as the sixteenth Pres
ident of the United States, and in
his inaugural address uttered these
immortal words: I'VE are not en-
emies but friends. We must not
be enemies. Though passion, may
have strained, it must not break
our bonds of affection. The mystic
cords of memory stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearth
stone all over this broad land, will
yet swell the chorus of the Union
when again touched, as surely they
will be, by the better angels of our
nature"
March THE Stars and Bars,
the first flag of the Confederate
States of America, was unfurled
from the roof of the state capitol
at Montgomery, Ala, then the cap
ital of the Confederacy. 1t was de-
signed by Randolph Orren Smith
of Louisburg, N. c., a veteran of
the Mexican war and of the Albert
Sidney Johnston campaign in Utah
in 1858 and it continued as the Off
cial Confederate flag until May /,
1868. Smith died on March 3,
1913, and was buried on March
4, the anniversary Of the adoption
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a prisoner of war to Florida, later
to Alabama and finally to Fort Sill,
Okla, where he died February II,
1909.
October 2S-The Statue of Liber-
ty on BedlOe's island in New York
harbOr was dedicated. 1t WIS the
work of Auguste BarthOldi, an AL
satan sculptor, who, as he entered
the harbor in 1871, conceived the
idea of statue Af Liberty Enlight-
ening the World" to stand at this
gateway to America. Funds for the
erection of the statue were raised
by the French people as evidence
Of their friendship for the people
of the American republic. On this
date, Bartholdi drew the cords of
the huge tricOlor of France which
concealed the statue and unveiled
it in the presidence of President
Grover Cleveland, members OF his
cabinet, a delegation of French Off
cials, members of congress, military
and naval leaders and "a vast
thrOng of OnlOOkers."
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27
Reducing by Simple Method

A young woman aged twenty-five,
height five feet six inches, consult
ed a physician about reducing her
weight, which was $50 pounds.
The physician examined her care
fully and found that her heart,
lungs and blood pressure were nor
nal as was also the haemOglObin in
the blood.
He advised that she should stand
around more at her work as a sec
retary. walk to and from her work,
cut down her starch foOds-pOta-
toes, bread, sugar ana pastry-by
one-quarter, her fat fOods-cream,
butter, fat meats and egg yolks-
by One-quarter, and all her liquids
water, tea, milk, soft drinks-by
One-half.
She was instructed to call up
the physician at the end of two
weeks. At the end of two weeks
the weight was down about five
pounds and as this represented be-
tween a quarter and half a pound
a day she was told to continue at
the same rate for another two
weeks. At the end of the second
two weeks she had lost another ten
pounds, a loss of 10 pounds in
four weeks.
@--WNU Service
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up In Massachusetts,, a frontier log
cabin down in Tennessee was the
birthplace of a boy whose name
was to be forever famous as a mar
tyr in a fight for freedom from
foreign oppressOr. David, his par
ents named him, but history knows
him as Davy Crockett, who on
March day 80 years later was to
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of his flag by the Confederate con
greSS.
April - The Confederate bat
teries in Charleston opened fire
on Fort Sumter, thus beginning the
greatest civil war in history.
October 4-Freder1c Remington
was born in Canton, n. Y. He be
came famous as an artist and de-
lineator of Indian and frontier types
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27

dren Deca use all
small animals drink
milk as 1t has great
food value, in
creases appetite.
and puts on the eX-
ira few pounds so
many children need
to fight the all
ments of h / l d.
hood"
Cows milk Is a
complete" food for
children as it con.
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the poverty stricken, despairing
farmers, led by Daniel Shays, a
veteran of the Revolution, tried to
right their wrongs by direct ac-
tion. Shays was proclaimed an out
law, fed from the state and died
in Sparta, N. Y, in 1925.
August 17-While Daniel Shays
and his men were preparing to
strike a blow for freedom from debt
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27

January 3-Postal banks estab-
lished in the United States.
February 14-HOuse of repre-
sentatives passed a Canadian reci-
procity bill. PASSED by senate July
u but later rejected by the Cana
dams in an electiOn.)
August 25-Aviator Atwood com
pleted a flight from st. Louis to
New York in 2S hours actual time
fight.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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and a pictorial war correspond
ent." He died December &c, 1909.
December 5-Patent issued to
Richard ]. Gatling for the first type
Of machine gun, the Gatling gun.
(The modern slang word of "gat"
for any kind Of gun is a survival
of the name applied to this new
type of weapon by Union soldiers
in the Civil war)
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Rx ELMO scoT1 WATSON

ANUARY l 1t marks
f33HG the beginning Of a new
2IW year in American his
I>SMEN tory.
EW &NE viii 1885 be more
MS eventful than 1885 be-
kAH cause it is leap year
GMS and has an extra day!
~ What babies, born
w. during this year Will
the historians of the future write
down as the great men and women
of their nation?
Which of its happenings, appar-
emily insignificant at the time, will
these same historians later point to
as the tremendous trifles" which
profoundly affected the destiny of
the nation?
Will history repeat ITSELF dur
ing 1896 and will there be events
which will closely parallel those of
1856, of 1886, of 1861, of 1886 and
of 1911?
Here are some of the anniver-
saries which, during 1886, will set
Americans retracing the trail of
memory back into the history of
their country:
1886
February lion this day was
born the man who was to become
known as the Father of Prohibi-
tiOn." James Appleton was his
name and he was a native of Ips-
wich, Mass. A colonel of militia in
his native state, he was made brig
adler general at the close of the
War of 1912. He moved to Port
land, Maine, in 1888, and was elect
ed to the Maine legislature in 1886.
Appleton was the first to advance
the principle of statutory prohibi-
tion of the manufacture and sale
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27
1OO.OOO.OOO Books

United States libraries owned 1OO.-
100000 books in 1884. The average
citizen read nearly four at a cost OF
SO cents.
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DNT0DAY
DR.. JAMES w. BARTON
Talk, About W
Milk Is a Builder

An INQUIRY showed that
L n thirty thousand metropoli-
tan school children have a dis
taste for milk. Head teachers
discovered that most of the OBJ
jectors were "girls who are
afraid it will make them fat"
I am quoting an item from Lon
don, England, which appeared in a
newspaper some weeks ago.
l believe that nothing could say
more for the value of milk for chill
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1886

May 4HOn this day Chicago po-
lice attempted to break up public
meeting of anarchists in Haymar-
ket Square. A bomb was thrown
by some person whose identity was
never established and seven police
men were killed and q wounded.
OF the anarchists who were cap
tured following this famous Hay
market Square Riot" four were
hanged year later and a fifth, who
was convicted, killed himself in
prison the day before his execution.
Three others were sentenced to
prison, two for life and one for 10
years, but all were later pardoned
by Governor Altgeld.
August 31-September IAN earth
quake almost destroyed the city of
Charleston, S. c., killing many peO-
pie and doing more than $S,0000O0
of property damage.
September 4-Through the infu-
ence of Lieut.. Charles B. GatewOOd
of the Sixth cavalry the famous
Apache war leader, Geronimo, sur
rendered to Gen. Nelson A. Miles
at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. This
brought to an end the long series
of raids with which these Indians
had harassed the Southwest for
more than a quarter of a century
and closed the last serious Indian
war in the history of the United
States. Geronimo was first sent as