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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
POLITICIANS ARE PERIL
TO ITALIAN FIELD ARMY
Military Should Seize Ethiopia if Left
Alone, but Armchair General
Would Find New AdOwa.

HarasSed by disease and starvation,
Emperor Menelek was about to re-
treat when on March /. 1896, scouts
informed him that an isolated brigade
of Italian troops was at Enda Kidane
Maret. The Abyssinians swarmed
down upon the lost brigade and cut
it to pieces. Other brigades coming
to its assistance met like fate. The
Italians put up valiant battle against
odds. The Abyssinians suffered 1900
casualties, including $500 killed. The
Italians lost 1000 dead. The Abyssin-
ians emasculated $500 Italian pris-
oners. The Gems. Arimondi and Da-
bormida were among the killed and
Albertone was taken prisoner.
Kings Throne Rocks.
Gen. Baratieri was court-martialed
and acquitted. Rome rioted on hear
ing of the disaster, and Premier
Crispi left his Office in disgrace
There we're threats of revolution and
King Humbert's throne rocked. Peace
was restored in Rome and Africa, but
Italy never forgot the stain of
AdoWa.
The beginning of the Roman En-
pire on the Red Sea dates back to
1869, when the Italian Steamship Co.
bought from local sheik the harbor
and trading post of Assab, so miles
from the mouth of the Red Sea. In
1882 the Italian government bought
a concession from the company and
signed friendly treaty with Emperor
Menelek, then the King of Shoa, in
the southern section Of Abyssinia.
About this time the British and
Italians had their first conflict over
Abyssinia. With Emperor John, who
ruled Northern AbySsinia, the British
entered into a deal for the mutual
use of Nassau, then an Egyptian
port. When Egypt evacuated Nassau
the Italians grabbed it, ignoring the
AbySSinians. The Italians rapidly ex-
tended the colony, named it Eritrea,
and pushed forward toward the Abys-
sinian highlands. The battle of
Adowa resulted.
Today the Italians are still aiming
for Adowa and the highlands, and
Nassau is the port from which
Premier Mussolini's legions have de-
barked. I'D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
Japanese Geishas Gust
Shanghai Russian Girls
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special GlSpaCC0 70 Inc Star.
SHANGHAI.-In Chinese cabarets
and larger dance halls the Japanese
dancing geishas are slowly but surely
ouSting their Russian contemporaries.
In one Shanghai cafe, the Park Pa
vilion, Russian girls held undisputed
sway until several months ago when
the proprietor introduced few Japa-
nese dancing partners to the night
loving Shanghailanders.
The Japanese girls. demure, pretty,
good dancers and unassuming, made a
decided hit in their native costumes
The Russian dancers, finding partners
becoming more and more scarce,
shortened their dresses at both ends,
practiced new steps, heightened their
color and announced that the battle
was on. Since, then, however, more
and more Japanese girls have been
added to the dancing staff, replacing
the Russians and leaving the field in
almost undisputed possession of the
geisha girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
THE MEDITERRANEAN CHESS CAME.

on protecting Gibraltar and Port Said,
two gates to the Mediterranean, and
have moved the biggest and slowest
ships from the central naval base at
Malta, which is too close to Italy for
comfort.
Premier Mussolini has divided his
navy into two fleets. keeping one in
Italian and Greek waters and send
ing the other to the Red Sea area
to support his invading armies in
case Great Britain attempts to close
the SueZ Canal.
Now that Great Britain has rein
forced the Mediterranean feet anc
shifted it away from Malta and closer
to the Suez Canal the government is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22

the best part of the home fleet. Par
ticipating in the Mediterranean fleet
maneuvers now are the battleships
Resolution. Revenge, Valiant and Bar
ham; the cruisers London, Devonshire,
Shropshire, Australia, Arethusa, Delhi,
Durham and Despatch; 20 f1otilla lead
ers and destroyers, six submarines and
one aircraft carrier. To back them
up the admiralty has sent the battle
cruisers Hood and Renown to Gibral-
tar. accompanied by the cruisers
Orion, Neptune, Achilles and 10 de-
stroyers. The cruiser Ajax OF the West
Indies station was also dispatched to
Gibraltar.
The British are now concentrating
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22

more confident that the navy will
live up to its tradition of never losing
a battle However, such an expert
enced naval expert as Hector c. By
water comedies that one of Premier
Mussolini's outstanding achievements
Is the rebuilding of the Italian Navy
in a decade, and that Italy has be-
come one of the worlds great naval
powers and will spare no effort to
keep the rank she has won by ire
4 mendous effort"
Italy cannot forget her two outlets
to the ocean are under British control
Premier Mussolini has often referred
to the ''insidious straits" of Gibraltar
and Suez.
The British are confident they car
hold on to Gibraltar despite the Ital-
ian submarines and bombers, but
are frankly worried about the Suez
Canal and the seaway to India. Les:
than 100 miles separate Italy's Stellar
bases from the African shores, anc
Italy's submarines, mine layers ano
aircraft might block this paSsageway
Moreover, Italy has a huge air force
under Marshal Italo Balbo in Libya
adjoining Egypt and within bombing
distance of the Suez Canal.
The flow of troops to Abyssinia has
led the public to anticipate war on
land, but if the trouble spreads there
! may be more war in the air and or
the sea. The BritonS have been re-
minded of late that Premier MuSso-
lini once said: The Italian people
must be composed of agriculturist:
and sailors; the sea and the Alps are
Italy'S natural defense" and again
'On the Fascist banners at sea should
be inscribed, 1T is necessary to de
more than live, it is necessary tt
navigate.
Copyright 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
Germany Is Striving
To Win Yugoslavia
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, September 2l-Germany's
penetration into Yugoslavia in an at
tempt to wean that strategically stu
ated nation from France and the Little
Entente is assuming great proportions
An Associated Press correspondent,
who has just crossed Yugoslavia from
east to west, and then visited the big
port cities along the Dalmatian coast,
found the German influence in Yugo-
Slavia amazingly strong.
In the north, Croatia the big ag-
riculturalists and live stock raisers
we're interested in selling their prod
ucts to an industrial Germany. Among
the port cities the German influence
struck one Immediately.
There is Ragusa CDubrovnik), the
biggest YugoSlav port, as an instance
The writer went to an international
newsstand seeking an Italian newspa-
per, because Dubrovnik is directly
across the Adriatic from the big Ital-
ian port of Bari. The latest Italian
klCWOpdRCL 11C SO0Al AAA4O W Go OAAC "CCh
old. But the same newsstand carried
seven of the principal German news
papers, which had just arrived.
Along the streets of Dubrovnik the
swriter saw big advertising signs writ.
ten in Yugoslav, Croatian and Ger
man.
The writer sat at an open air cafe
and asked the waiter in German:
do you speak Italian?"
"No."
French or English?"
mo"
"What do you speak?"
"Yugoslav and German only"
The same walters eyes glistened
with pride a few moments later when
he recounted that Reichpresident Goe-
ring and his wife spent three weeks
at, Dubrovnik.
German tourists were everywhere in
Yugoslavia, spending money and
therefore arousing good will toward
Germany. The book stores displayed
more German books than those of any
other language but Yugoslav.
italy is not unaware of the German
advance in Yugoslavia and keeps q
keen watch. Her cultivation of Yugo-
slav friendship which began recently
is partly motivated by desire to off,
set Germany's overtures.
Hungary, too, is much interested in
the German-Yugoslav development
The writer found in Hungary grow
ing movement to give up her terrific
rial claims against Yugoslavia in ar
effort to wean that country away
from the Little Entente into a bloc
comprising Germany. Poland, Austria
Hungary and Yugoslavia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
ONDON, September 21-"The

ONDON, september Zl.- Inc
stain of Adowa," which the
Italian armies hope to wipe
- out before many days, was the
African version of Clusters last stand.
In the judgment of British military
experts the 1895 defeat was not the
fault of the Italian army, which was
massacred and mutilated, but Of the
ambitious prime minister in Rome
who goaded his generals to do some
thing spectacular.
The British now are wondering
whether history will repeat itself in
that respect. The present italian
forces should capture Adowa and
Adds Ababa provided the generals
are not interfered with by politicians
in Rome, but it is thought that if
Premier Benito Mussolini attempts to
direct the fighting from swivel
chair, then another Adowa tragedy
may be In the making.
Premier Francesca Crispi was the
villain of the defeat of 80 years ago.
He did not escape unscathed, for Italy
burned him in effigy and swept his
cabinet out of Office, fate which
awaits Premier MuSsolini if his Afri-
can adventure does not succeed.
In 1896, as today, the Italians and
AbySsinians were bad neighbors and
quarreling over boundaries. Gen.
Baratieri led his little army out of
Eritrea toward Adowa. Taking the
route which the Fascist army will soon
be treading, Gen. Baratieri crossed
the March River and invaded the
northern plateau Of Tigre. He cap
tured Adowa, the capital of that
province, and Axum, the holy city
of Abyssinia.
The Abyssinian chiefs went on the
warpath under the leadership Of En-
peror Menelek, who recruited an army
of 140, 900 men, including 10000 non
combatants. Against these Gen.
Baratieri had only $4,000 combatants,
many of them native troops. Realiz-
ing he was outnumbered anG appre-
ciating the dangers OF advancing
through the wild and unknown coun-
try, he cautiously held back.
If Rome had permitted Baratieri to
bide his time, nature might have won
for him, for murrain ragged among EN-
peror Menelek's mules and horses and
his hordes of warriors ran short of
food. In a few more days the Abys-
sinians would have been forced to re-
treat. Emperor Menelek prayed for
miracle, and one came from Rome.
Baratieri Forced On.
Like Mussolini, Premier Crispi had
spent vast sums on the African expedi-
ton and wanted something to show
for it. When Gen. Baratieri wired for
more troops and supplies, Premier
Crispi turned on the general with a
sizzling reply, your campaign is a
military phthisis." without inform
ing Baratieri, Premier Crispi sent Gen.
Baldissera to supersede him. A friend
at home cabled this news to Baratieri,
and the desperate general decided to
advance against his better Judgment.
Gen. Baratieri's four brigades, un-
der Gems. Arimondi, Ellens, Alber-
tone and Dabormida, moved forward
overnight with the object of attacking
the position held by 10000 of the
enemy. Gen. Albertone was to march
to a place called Kidane Maret, but
could not find it on his map, so went
instead to Enda Kidane Maret B
miles ahead. u.s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
Australia to Extend
Inland Airmail Service

MELBOURNE, September 14.-Alls.
tralia is planning important extern
sions to the inland airmail service,
which will have direct effect on Wis
itors to the island continent Within
a few months airplanes will carry all
first-class mail between the six capital
cities at ordinary letter cost, together
with reductions on long-distance mail.
All surcharges will cease, so that e
penny letters will be standard. There
will be daily service between Brisbane,
Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Ho-
bart, covering 1000 miles Of flying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
BY JOSEPH F. DRISCOLL.

T ONDON.-The relative strength
and modernity of the Italian
and British naVieS has become
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15
Arrested For
Selling Black Bass
Fined $25 and So Costs In Justice
Bettendorf's Court at
st. Cloud

Game Wardens Ed Erickson, Of
New London, and Fred Schroeder,
of Paynesville, recently caused Jo-
seph Dirnberger, of Sank Centre,
much embarrassment, says the st.
Cloud Times.
The Wardens ate black bass in
the Belmont Cafe, owned by Mr..
Dirnberger, in this city, at two
meals, dinner and supper, and af-
ter they had partaken of bass at
both meals, they apprehended him.
The case was tried in Justice
Bettendorf's court in st. Cloud,
where Mr.. Dirnberger was fined
S25 and also paid costs Of So for
selling fish.
Local authorities have been I'M
able to learn how or by what au-
thority this case was tried in st.
Cloud. According to Section NO.
911O, of Masons Minnesota Statut-
es, in Paragraph Fourth, pertain
ing to laws organizing justice
courts, the case could have been
tried no where else except in this
city, as it states that no justice OF
the peace has jurisdiction OF any
offense committed within the limits
of any city or village wherein a
municipal court is organized and
existing. Hence, the status OF the
case, as one might say, Is probably
UP in the air, and what local au-
thorities would like to know is
,.yhx, this casa was taken to s..
Cloud?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15

Stearns County's 33rd annual fair
and flower show will open tomor-
row, Friday, August 10th, and will
continue with an interesting and
well-balanced program until Sun
day night, when the 1885 show will
end in a blaze Of glory, with a won
derful display Of fireworks. Friday
will be entry day, while Saturday
and Sunday will be show days.
During the past week arrange
ments were completed for a good
baseball game which will take
place on Sunday afternoons pro-
gram, and which will be called at
1:3O. This event will be staged by
the st. Cloud Semi-Pros, who have
been playing on the local diamond
for several weeks, and the Willmar
team, 1933-34 state amateur cham
pions. These teams have played
several games and all have result
ed in very close scores. This game
is the first of a series of playoffs
for the championship of the Big4
League. The winners will compete
with the j. J. Kohns, the league
leaders. This should prove to be a
dandy offering and some snappy
baseball may be expected.
The exhibit feature Of the fair
will be the flower show, which has
been added as a regular event. A
large number of entries and sever
al beautiful displays, and a rock
garden will enhance this show. This
display will be placed in the AID
ministration building and will take
up the space formerly allotted to
the fish and game exhibit.
A program Of All specialties and
high-type vaudeville acts will fea-
ture Saturdays offering, which
will be closed with an Indian pa
geant and a candle light pageant.
The old-time auction will follow the
livestock judging which will take
place Saturday morning. At this
auction exhibitors may dispose OF
livestock which has been exhibited
at the fair. Educational features
will be a part Of Saturdays pro-
gram, which has been filled to
capacity with good numbers.
Athletic contests by the rural
school children will be interspers-
ed with other numbers on Saturday
and in some instances several num-
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15
National Scout
Camp Cancelled
Local Scouts, Who Were Ready to
Leave Friday, Disappointed
Infantile Paralysis Cause

Two Boy Scouts from this city,
Vernon Weeks and Richard But
Ter, along with Scouts from every
State of the Union, met with dis
appointment last week when James
E. West, Chief Scout Executive,
announced over the radio that the
National Jamboree, commemorate
ing the twenty-fifth year of Scout
ing, to be held in Washington, D..
c., had been cancelled. This an
nouncement came after Scout
heads in charge had conferred with
President Roosevelt. Several cas-
es of infantile paralysis had been
reported within a hundred miles OF
the planned camp. and the Presi-
dent deemed it wise and safer to
call off the Jamboree.
Scouts Weeks and Butler were
in readiness to go, and would have
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15
Golf Auxiliary
Elects Officers
Plan Monthly Bridge LuncheOns
To Garry On Work of Golf
Organization

The lady members and wives of
the Sank Centre Country Club met
at the home of Mrs. d. B. Caugh-
rem on Monday, August 9Th, for the
purpose Of recognizing a perman-
ent auxiliary for the club. The
group Is to meet once month dur
ing the entire year. Election of Of
ficers included the following as Or
ganization heads: Mrs. F. w.
Mossman, President; Mrs. L. j.
Dolson, Vice President; Mrs. H. j.
Woodbridge, Secretary; and Mrs.
c. c. Sundell, Treasurer. Golf fees
have been reduced for the remain
der of the season to $3.50 for wo-
men and $500 for men.
Monthly bridge luncheons at pri-
vate homes are planned to raise
the necessary money to carry on
the work of the organization. Fur
Their plans for the fall and winter
activities will be discussed at a
business meeting to be held next
Monday afternoon, August 10th, in
the Library basement. The meeting
Is called for $3.50 o'clock. All ladies
interested and who are eligible to
belong to the Auxiliary are urged
to attend this meeting.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15
Application
Made For
Park w ork
Plan Completion Of Projects
Under Works Progress
Administration
SURVEY MADE FRIDAY
Will End Direct Relief-Add
Campsite and Grand
stand to Project

AS stated in the Herald of last
week cessation of the SIERRA work
relief administration stopped work
on the city park project. To con-
tinue the work it was necessary to
make application for a new pro-
ject to the Works Progress Ad-
ministration at Washington, D. c.,
and this has been done by the
committee in charge Of parks and
Fairgrounds.
To make application for this pro-
ject 1t was first necessary to make
complete survey of the work to
be completed. This request was
made to c. ]. Knutson, area engin-
eer, for District No. 6, with offices
at st. Cloud.
On Friday, Math. Cleveland,
county surveyor, and an assistant
from St Cloud, met with the local
committee and made a survey of
the necessary work to complete the
park. Listed in the project is the
erection Of grandstand, the COM
pletion Of the ball diamond and
football field, preparation Of a
camp site and additional fill on that
part Of the park, extending from
the small park near the bay, west
along the Northern Pacific railroad
track, to the west shore Of the
lake.
Estimates on this work will be
made soon and the project must be
entered with the Works Progress
Administration by August 18th.
This request, together with scores
of others from all parts Of the
state poured into state headquar-
tiers of the WPA, as word came
from Washington of the first auth
orization Of funds to provide jobs
and permanently end direct relief
for all employable persons.
The fifty-six projects for which a
total of $1,645,105 was allocated
will get under way without delay,
Administrator Christgau stated. He
qualified his statement, how
ever, in saying that "of course, no
projects will be launched in rural
areas where farmers need all
available labor for harvesting"
To date, state headquarters has
submitted to Washington 1873 pro-
jects which will cost approximate
ly $12,512,O72. OF these, 118 to cost
81, 915, 593.4 were given Christgau's
endorsement and rushed to Wash
ington by air mail during the last
week.
For purposes Of expediting the
works projects, Minnesota has
been divided into nine districts
with district directors in general
charge and district engineers sup
cruising the work plans. Sank Gen.
tire Is in the Sixth district G. j.
Knutson, of st. Cloud, is area en-
gineer for this community.
Seven conservation projects, one
each for Pine, Blue Earth, Big
Stone, Stevens, Pope, Lyons and
Jackson counties, were among the
last batch to be sent to the ma
tion's capital.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15
Rural School
Library Service
Will Have Display Box At Stearns
County Fair To Show Patrons
Splendid Work

Eleven rural schools both in
Stearns and Todd Counties have
signed for the rural library service
offered by the local Bryant Library,
it was announced early this week
by the librarian, Miss Mynette
Lindeloff.
This is a most important feature
of the Library work. Most rural
schools do not have the means to
purchase as complete a list Of
books as this service will offer
them. Throughout the year each
school will receive for one months
use a box of books, especially ar
ranged for all ages of rural stud
ents. Each box contains upwards
from thirty-five to forty books, and
each school will receive nine box
es. A circulation list Of the books
will be kept in each school to de-
termine which type of books are
the most popular. This circulation
list will serve as guide in pre-
pairing the book lists for the next
year.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-15

Local Folk Receive
Alaskan Newspapers
Refer To Navy As The Long Arm
Of ity-Interesting
News Of Immigrants

Joe Frank received this week
several copies Of an Alaskan news
paper, Seward Gateway" from
Norbert Nathe. Seward is sea-
coast town, and Is about two hum
dred miles from Palmer, where
Norb Is working. The Gateway is
a six column sheet published three
times a week, and carries world
and Alaskan news. It's first year Of
publication was 1904.
Along with news Of the MAINTAIN
uska Valley, where so many Min
nesota immigrants are settled, the
Gateway played up the visit Of
the United States Navy, which
event occurred the latter part Of
July. The three ships which visited
Seward were the Flagship Chica-
go, on which Kenneth Mickey, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. e. Mickey, is
stationed; and the Northampton.
and the San Francisco. In Alaska
the Navy is their pride as is evil
denced in an editorial from the
Gateway" in which they refer to
the Navy as "the long arm of Sc
curity," and well they might as the
northermost outpost of the United
States possessions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mickey were also
in receipt Of paper from our
northern possession. Their son,
Kenneth, sent them a copy Of the
Daily Alaska Empire" published
daily in Juneau. In this issue the
Empire" announced the depart
ure of the Chicago and the rest Of
the Navy ships.