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Evening star., 1935-12-21
.SCHALL IMPROVING,
DOCTORS REVEAL
Senator Believed Regaining
ConsciousnesS-Many
MESSAGES Received.

A slight improvement was noted to-
day in the condition of Thomas D.
Schall, blind Minnesota Senator. who
is in a critical condition at Casualty
Hospital after being run down by an
automobile Thursday night.
The 58-year -old Senator. who suf-
fered fractured skull and left leg in
the accident at Cottage City, Md,
showed signs for the first time of re-
gaining consciousness.
A bulletin issued shortly before noon
by DIR. George w. Calver, Capitol
physician. said:
Senator Schall's condition is re-
garded as slightly improved. While
unconscious most Of the time. he
rouses occasionally. His condition is
still considered very critical, but
somewhat more favorable"
Messages of sympathy and encour-
agement continued to pour in today
on the Schall family from many
sources.
The Senator's wife, Mrs. Margaret
Huntley Schall, still waited at the
hospital for him to regain full con-
sciousneSs. She felt that when the time
arrived he would call for her, and
she wanted to be there.
II won't worry if he regains con-
sciousness," Mrs. Schall said. tom
is a fighter. you know"
Helen Keller Calls.
Among messages of encouragement
received by Mrs. Schall was a tele-
phone call last night from Helen
Keller. an old friend of the family.
Miss Keller and the Senator under
stood each other because both were
blind. and both had refused to ne
defeated by the handicap.
Senator Borah and others tele-
phoned to inquire as to Mr.. Schalls
condition. Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit's radio priest, notified Mrs.
Schall he had said a special mass for
her husband.
The small, gray-haired woman, who
was decorated for valor during the
World War. has spent most of the
time since the accident sitting beside
her husbands bed, holding his hand.
Last night she retired to the Schall
lCao SCuATJ pooo a.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
ETHIOPIA REPORTS
VILLAGES RETAKEN
Ten Tanks Declared Seized
as italians Retreat
in North.

Copyright, 1895 by the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, December 2l.-An
Ethiopian government communique
reported today the vanguard of Ded-
jaZmatch Ayele's troops on the north
ern front recaptured Enda Silasi. 80
miles west of Aksum, and Dega Shah
from the Italians.
THE Italian losses were consider
able" the communique said. Our
troops captured 10 tanks"
Government officials said the action
occurred December Is.
The two villages reported recaptured
by the Ethiopians lie about 35 miles
northwest of the Takkaze River site
where bitter three day battle was
waged early this week.
The Ethiopian officials set the time
of the action near Aksum, holy city,
which submitted early in the Italian
invasion, at almost the same time that
warriors under Ras Imeru, cousin of
Emperor Halle Selassie, charged
across the Takkaze at Mai Timchet.
The italian government reported the
Ethiopians were drawn back into am
bush in the Dembe Guina Pass by
retreating Fascist outposts in the
Takkaze sector combat and were
routed.
Dedjazmatch Ayele named as leader
of the troops near Aksum, Is another
of Halle Selassie's principal aides in
the north. He had reported to Adds
Ababa Thursday that his army had
defeated the Italians in another
major engagement near Aksum."
The communique added: "Our
forces also captured 28 machine guns,
two trucks, two automobiles and seven
white Italian prisoners"
Three foreigners were expelled from
Ethiopia today on charges of espionage
and pro-Italian activities.
They are Josef Hinterzatz, the cor
respondent for the Frankfurter Tage-
zeitung; his wife and Ladislas Phar-
ago, the Hungarian director of an
Adds Ababa bank.
Five soldiers escorted the three for
eigners on the train to the frontier,
at am.
The Hinterzatz automobile, equipped
with radio transmitting set, was con-
fiscated by the government.
AREA 0CIFANED JIP0
Evening star., 1935-12-21
Escaped Chimponsees Wreck
Classroom in Spree at Hopkins

chimpanzees, nicknamed Mae West,
swung a lusty punch at an unnamed
instructor in anthropology as he at
tempted to lure her with food. The
instructor ducked, just in time, and
fed.
Another of the skylarking apes,
accepting an apple extended as a
gift, flung it violently at the giver.
The third wrested a movie camera
from the hands of a would-be photog-
rapher of her antics and hurled it to
the ground.
All the while Propinquus Dayton
Pan, male head of the family Of four
anthropoids kept at the Medical
School, was raging in his cage-in
a fury because he could not slip
through the bars and join the antics
of his cavorting mates.
Finally, the havoc-making trio was
coaxed back into the cage with food
and the excitement ended.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
Oldest u. s. Club Will Serve
plymouth Succotdsh' Tonight

First boiled and then stewed, the
succotash is set outdoors and allowed
to freeze the night before the banquet.
A few hours before serving, it is
warmed over"
The forefathers' day observances,
with traditions Is generations old,
opened with prayers-just as the band
of Pilgrims prayed ut Plymouth Rock
on December n, 1920. on completing
their hazardous voyage in the tiny
Mayfiower.
Nearly . fourth Of the .city's $4,000
residents trace their ancestry to that
group.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
CRASH AT SEA LAID
TO STEERING GEAR JAM
Federal Officials Place Attach
ment Against British Freighter
Claiming $4,000 Damages.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 21.-A bit of
metal jammed in the steering mechan-
ism of the British freighter Seven
Seas Spray was given unoffcially to-
day as the cause of a collision be-
tween the cargo carrier and the
Boston lightship.
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles w. Bartlett said the informa
ton was given him by member OF the
Lighthouse Service.
The Seven Seas Spray was laden
with scrap iron consigned to Spain,
when it struck the lightship yesterday
Federal officials later placed an at
tachment against the British vessel,
claiming $40 900 damages to the light
ship.
I'VE believe" Bartlett said, ''the ac-
cident was caused by negligence aboard
the vessel (Seven Seas Spray)."
Evening star., 1935-12-21
BY tn, Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, December 21.-Three
huge female chimpanzees escaped from
their quarters at the Johns Hopkins
Medical School today and during
period of liberty spread havoc on the
campus.
Swinging along with the ease and
grace of jungle days, they first entered
a classroom in the Anatomy Building
by a window. Test tubes few in all
directions as the chimpanzees listened
merrily to the tinkling Of breaking
glass.
One Of the chattering trio was try
ing to find out what made an electric
clock tick when a small posse OF in
structors descended upon the class
room. The chimpanzees slipped
quietly out through the window as the
instructors entered.
The chase led to the courtyard OF
the Medical Library. One OF the
Evening star., 1935-12-21
MEXICAN REVOLT
REPORTED BALKED
Arms Seized, Six Arrested
in Raid on Home of
Gales Follower.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Return OF Gen. Plutarco Gales
to Merico last 1Geek started polit-
ical pot boiling. One-time Presi-
dent and dictator, Gales broke
tUith President Cdrdenas last June,
,0ent to Los Angeles. Leader of
Labor party ,CKen he first reached
presidency in 1924, Gales became
more conservative Nth time,
finally Uas repudiated fully by
radical political elements. AsSo-
ciate during his days Of po,cer ,oas
Luis Morones, still loyal to old
leader.
(copyright, 1885. by the Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, December 2l.--The
Mexican government announced to-
day that it learned a rebellion was
scheduled to start in Orizaba, indus
trial center of the state of Vera Cruz
where the Laborista party has its
greatest strength.
The movement already has been
frustrated. the department of interior
asserted, by seizure of arms and am
munition and arrest of six persons in
raids here on a house Of Luis Mo-
rones, labor leader and associate OF
Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales.
Revolution Plans Denied.
The announcement Of the proposed
rebellion followed denials by both
Morones and former President Gales
who returned here last week from Los
Angeles, Calf, that they planned
any revolutionary movement.
Insisting 1t had discovered rebel
lious activity, the interior depart
ment announced, However, the move
ment lacked Importance"
Local Laborista leaders at Orizaba
added another blow to those already
directed at Morones and Gales, notify
ing the government that the Vera Cruz
branch of the party decided to sepa-
rate from the Mexican Laborista party,
which Morones controlled through the
regional Confederation Of Mexican
Workers.
Demonstration Tomorrow.
Leaders of other labor organizations
completed plans for monster anti
Gales demonstration here tomorrow,
announcing more than $4,000 persons
would participate.
President Lazaro Cardenas, with
whom the one-time strong man"
Gales split over economic policies be-
fore going into the voluntary exile
from which he returned, ordered gov
ernment employees not to join in the
parade Of protest against Gales ar
rival back in Mexico.
A left wing group Of the Chamber
of Deputies voted to invite labor
unions to declare general strike
January l, If Gales still remained in
Mexico.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
MERCURY PLUNGES
TO 4 DEGREES
Drop to IS Forecast To-
night-White YuIe Pros
poets Good.

Winter weather moved into Wash
ington bag and baggage today, with
the mercury nose-diving to IA degrees
at am.
Tomorrow marks the official begin
ming of Misunderstanding at 1877 pm.
and it also will be the shortest day
of the year
Predictions for today and tonight
were for fair skies, with the tempera-
ture going to Is degrees tonight.
Freezing Before Dark.
Preceded by light snowfall early
yesterday, chill winds last night
started showing the mercury down into
the 20's before dark. Before 10 o'clock
the temperature stood at 20 degrees
and at midnight had slipped to 19.
The l4-degree low this morning broke
the former seasonal record of % de-
grees set on December S.
Weather Bureau officials were reti-
cent today about predicting snow for
Christmas. but indicated prospects for
white Christmas" are excellent.
The low temperature this morning
marks the ninth time in 20 years that
the mercury fell as low as IA degrees
in December. The last time was on
December 80, 1888.
Down to in February.
Today was the coldest since last
February when the mercury dropped
to degrees.
Elsewhere in the country Winter
was reported on a rampage and the
Associated Press listed II deaths indi-
rectly due to the weather
In South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota the mercury slid below
zero and from Illinois almost to the
Eastern Coast roads were ice-coated
From the Rocky Mountains east and
from the Canadian border to below
the Mason-Dixon line. minimumS for
the year were chalked up generally.
Warmer weather was east-bound
from the Western plains, where the
mercury was up in Nebraska, Mon
tana and Wyoming.
Firemen here were on the jump sew
eral times during the night as fur
IldC6S were luIIltu OIl 1ull D1dSL 1OI ILlC
first time this Winter. Most of the
alarms were for chimney fires.
Police Inspector william E. Holmes
issued orders for policemen to work
in sections" one section being kept
warm in the precinct stations while
the other is doing patrol duty.
Police records showed several re-
ports of suffering from the cold. One
couple was reported freezing and
Capt. Paul Kelly Of the Volunteers of
America mems shelter set out with a
basket of groceries and made provi-
sions to get coal for them.
Capt. Kelly said all available space
at the Volunteers shelter was taken
up by men and women seeking to
keep warm.
The Central Union Mission was
Crowded to the DOORS" officials said.
The record books showed ITO persons
sought shelter there, but it was es-
timated that the unofficial" total
would be nearer 200.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
SIX KILLED, 3 HURT
IN SHIP EXPLOSION
Nitrate.Laden Vessel Sinks in
Santos Harbor Follow.
ing Blast.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTOS, Brazil, December 21.-Si1
persons were known today to have
been killed and three injured in an
explosion on the Swedish ship Britt
Marie, carrying nitrate, in the harbor
here yesterday.
Earlier estimates by authorities had
placed the number of dead much
higher.
Damages to the 3,019-ton freightee
were estimated unoficially at between
1000 and 5000 contos fbetween $780,
900 and $180,000).
The mast of the ship, which sank
almost Immediately after the blast,
was still visible, protruding from tbs
water.
Jon Anderson, captain of the ship,
expressed the opinion the explosion
was caused by the bursting of a boiler.
One of the dead was identified as q
fireman who had been aboard ship
visiting friends, while two others were
known to be quay vendors.
Bags of nitrate were hurled on to
the docks by the force of the explo.
sion and some persons were hurt By
flying fragments.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
BRIDGE is YULE GIFT

BULAWAYO, Rhodesia, December
81 R.-The worlds third largest
single span bridge was presented to
the people of Southern Rhodesia yes
terday as a Christmas present.
The steel span, built over the Sabi
River, is 1000 feet long and cost
$500,000. 1t was a gift to the colony
from the estate of the late Alfred
Belt, philanthropist.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
japanese Authorities Protest Student
Demonstrations.

HANKOW, December 81 CP.-
japanese consular authorities tonight
demanded the immediate suppression
of student demonstrations here fol-
lowing an alleged attack on japanese
spectator.
In a stiff1y-worded note to the mayor.
the Japanese consulate also demanded
the arrest of the attackers and the
payment of compensation to the man
who was beaten up.
The consulate alleged that the
assault occurred when a Japanese ats
tempted to photograph the demon
strators. The note said the mob beat
him and smashed his camera.
At Wuchang, across the Yangtze
River, students stampeded the wharf
demanding the resumption of the ferry
service to Hankow, which was stopped
with the hope Of suppressing the
student demonstrations against North
China autonomy.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
MARYLAND SESSION
LIKELY IN FEBRUARY
Nice Plans to Call Assembly
Then to Act on Relief Meas.
ures and Taxes.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 21.-Gov
Harry w. Nice today said he had
decided to call the special session of
the Legislature the first week in
February to act on relief measures.
II have practically made up my
mind to call a special session the first
week in February. That, of course. is
subject to change if things should
develop" the chief executive said.
The legislators will be asked to
provide aid for needy families in the
State, enact legislation for unemploy-
ment insurance and revise the old
age pension law to conform with the
national social security act.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, December 21.-
The Nations Oldest dish-succotash-
will be served tonight at a banquet in
the Nations oldest club to commemo-
rate the 315th anniversary of the land
ing Of the Pilgrims.
Housewives began preparing early
yesterday for the plymouth succo-
tash" dinner in the Old Colony Club,
founded long before the Revolutionary
War.
Served but once year, the dish re-
quires two days Of preparation. Into
it go chicken, corned beef, potatoes,
turnips and hulled corn.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
VENEZUELA TO ELECT

Congress to Name President in
December 26 Session.
CARACAS, Venezuela, December 21
R.-Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contreras,
provisional President of Venezuela, to-
day convoked a special session Of
Congress for December 26 to elect
President to complete the unexpired
term of the late President Juan Vicente
Gomez.
The term will expire April 10, 1895.
General Lopez arrived in the capital
last night to be received by an enthu-
siastic demonstration. He addressed
the assembled crowd from the balcony
of the foreign office.
Evening star., 1935-12-21
RECEIVED BY KING

LONDON, December 81 (R.-Kmg
George granted an audience in Buck
ingham Palace today to Sir Samuel
Hoare, who resigned as foreign secre-
tary after the collapse of the plan he
drew up with French Premier Pierre
Laval for Italo- Ethiopian peace.
Evening star., 1935-12-21

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 21.-Po-
lice dropped investigation of the ques-
unmarked death of Thelma Todd to-
day on the theory the film beauty was
the victim Of an accident-not "a per-
feet crime" or suicide.
However, the county grand jury
gathered up the strange loose ends of
the bizarre mystery, with the foreman,
George Rochester. expressing belief
the actress was slain in murder by
monoxide."
Decision Of the Los Angeles Police
Department to agree with the county
autopsy surgeons report and the cor
oner's jury verdict that the actress
died apparently accidentally" was an
nounced by Capt. Bert Wallis of the
homicide squad and Chief of Detec-
tives Joe Taylor.
The officers said evidence so far un-
covered showed the actress died acci-
dentally of carbon monoxide poison
ing.
Possibility of Suicide.
1cOISc JoIiuSOH, ucputy uSGilCt AZ
torney, discounted the theory of muir
der and pointed to the possibility of
suicide.
More than 80 witnesses, including
FINLAND celebrities, were summoned
for the grand jurys first hearing next
Monday in an effort to check every
known action of the comedienne from
the moment she left the night club
party until her body was found.
The grand jury foreman's cryptic
statement he had found evidence in
dicative of murder was supported ap-
parently by the report of Tom Cavett,
district attorneys investigator. who
disclosed he found blood stains on the
(Cao TOM paoa 0l
Evening star., 1935-12-21

OKLAHOMA CITY, December 81
R.-City Auditor F. G. Baker esti-
mated today Oklahoma City's annual
revenue from downtown parking
meters would approximate s55,000.
The city now owns 525 of the nickel
slot devices for timing automobile
parking. Fifty-three are yet to be
placed In operation,
Evening star., 1935-12-21
TAKKAZE AREA "CLEANED UP

Italians Pursue Natives From Air and
on Ground.
ROME, December 81 (R.-Italy's
northern army concentrated today on
cleaning up trouble spots" after the
three-day battle in the Takkaze sec
tor, from which the Ethiopians were
reported withdrawing.
Aerial bombing squadrons and
ground scouting parties co-operated
in pursuing the natives.
Italian correspondents reported that
scouts sought also to determine
whether an Ethiopian force reported
defeated south of Abbi Addi yester-
day constituted the remnants of Ras
(See WAR, Page 2.)
Evening star., 1935-12-21
Federal Operatives Accompanying
Kidnap Victim on Trip.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DOYLESTOWN, Pa, December 81
Federal agents took young Caleb j.
Milne from the Doylestown Emergency
Hospital. placed the kidnap victim in
an automobile and sped away.
Accompanying the big sedan carry
ing the 24-year-old actor writer was a
second sedan bearing Government
operatives.
Pale and weak. Milne was helped
into the car, the agents climbed in, his
mother and brother joined them and
the two cars sped away Milne was
hatless. but wore trench coat with a
fur collar. .,-s,--........ ..---.. -----r
Previously the Government agents
had refused to reveal when Milne
would be taken from the hospital, but
1t was expected that when he was re-
moved he would be taken to his
grandfather's home in Philadelphia.
1t was pointed out the agents
might have decided to take Milne
back over the route he said his kid
napers followed to Doylestown after
Turing him from his New York apart
ment last Saturday.
He was found trussed and gagged
along a road near Doylestown We'd
nesday night.
Harold o. Nathan, assistant chief
Of the Bureau of Investigation in
Washington. who came to Doylestown
to take charge Of the case, remained
at the hospital.
"Doylestown is out now," Nathan
said later as he left for Philadelphia.
Asked by reporters the reason for the
trip North with Milne, his only answer
was: We're merely protecting him."
Says No Money Paid.
He said last night he would direct
the inquiry from Philadelphia. He
refused then to comment on most
queries put him by reporters. but did
say Mines abductors demanded
$4,000. No money was paid, he
added.
Government operatives clashed last
(See MILNE, Page 81
Evening star., 1935-12-21
JAPAN MAY FIGHT
MONGOL|AN REDS
/. TO GUARD BORDER
ManChukuo Survey Parties
Reported Harassed
by Natives.
SOVIET DOMINATION
OF AREA Is CLAIMED
Outlook for Peace in Northeastern
Section Is Gloomy, News
paper Declares.
BACKGROUND

D<1ShOAtOCtD
Principal area Of resistance to
japanese plans for extension OF in
fuence into Asia has been Mon
golid, pro -SoUiet proUince adjoining
MGnchukuo and China proper.
Fearful OF japanese program, Rus
Sid has made rigorous effort to
maintain domination in Mongolia,
use it as buffer state bettUeen pro-
japanese territory and Siberia.
japanese expansion began in 1881;
has resulted in Independence" OF
MGnchurid, Jehol and more re-
Gently Hopeh and Chdh1r Through
out tension has eTiSted betUeen
Japan and Russia.
BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, December 21.-The Japa.
nese Army in Manchuria is most ins
munistic Outer r-Mongolians on the
Manchukuo border and may be COM
PEELED to take adequate measures to
insure the safety of the Manchu-
Mongol frontier" a Hsingking dispatch
to the newspaper Yomiuri said today.
The dispatch said the Manchukuo
government was attempting to define
the frontier through patrols of survey
parties making the necessary investi-
CATION of frontier conditions from the
standpoint of geography and history"
but that the parties were harasSed
and fired on by Mongol groups in Man.
chukuo territory.
Vernacular newspapers disclosed
that War Minister YoShiyuki KaWa.
shima and other army leaders stressed
Soviet Russian domination and in.
creasing penetration of Outer Mon-
golia, adjacent to Manchukuo, as the
most disturing factor in a gloomy
picture of prospects for continued
peace IN Northeastern Asia.
Seek to Justify Arms Cost.
The militarists expressed this view
in a series of recent meetings with
members of Parliament in which they
sought to justify the record army ap-
propriations for the new budget. ap-
proved by the cabinet and to come
before Parliament.
The militaristS also asserted Soviet
completion of a double tracking OF
1855 miles of the trans-Siberian Rail-
way from Karymsk to Khabarovsk,
capital city Of Far Eastern Soviet
Krai, intensified the Russian menace"
to Manchukuo.
Meanwhile Emperor Hirohito sanc-
toned today the elevation of Gen.
Shigeru HOMO, Gen. Sadao AraN
and Admiral Mineo Osumi to baronies
for their outstanding parts in the
1888 Manchurian conquest and the
1882 Shanghai conflict.
Gen. HOMO was commander of the
japanese Army in Manchuria at the
beginning of the conquet and Gen.
Araki and Admiral Osumi were the
ministers of war and navy in the early
stages of the empires military adven-
lures on the continent.
HOMO is now the Emperors chief
military aide de camp, Arah is a
member of the Supreme War Council
and Osumi is minister of the navy.
DEMAND RIOTS BE STOPPED. I
Evening star., 1935-12-21
POLICE END PROBE
OF TODD DEATH
Believe Star Was Victim of
Accident-Jury COL
Iects Data.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Thefmd Todd. blond mouie come
dienne, tDds found dead in front
seat OF automobile in her garage
last Monday.
Autopsy established cause OF
death as carbon monoride poison
ing; surgeon reported death oc-
cured early Sunday morning.
Coroner's jury announced Uerdict
that death tDds apparently Gcci-
dental Friends declared, hotDeper,
they had talked to Miss Todd after
hour set for death: Others told OF
Saturday night party she attended.
County grand jury foreman called
for further investigation.