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Evening star., 1935-09-01
POLICE CAR KILLS
MANDUR|NG CHASE
CoIored Pedestrian Is Hurt
Fatally by officers Pur-
suing Speeder.

A ponce car pursuing Speeoer NJ
q 55-mile-an- hour rate along Nichols
avenue southeast late last night struck
and killed Oscar A. Ryce, 50, colored,
26l2 Wade road southeast. 1t was
the fifth fatality since Police Supt.
Ernest w. Browns traffic safety cam
paign was begun more than six weeks
ago.
Private G. A. Wood. eleventh pre-
cinct, the driver. said Ryce stepped
from the curb directly in front of
his car, although the siren was 60
ing full blast He swerved. but was
unable to avoid striking the man, the
officer added.
Wood and Private G. P. Ripperger.
a fellow officer riding in the police
car, took Ryce to Casualty Hospital,
but he was dead on arrival.
Picking up the speeding car IN
Congress Heights, the two officers gave
chase, travelling at high speed to-
ward the center of the city. The acci-
dent occurred in the 2600 block of
Nichols avenue. The speeder escaped.
Policeman Suspended.
Inspector l.. ]. H. Edwards was
called to the eleventh precinct and
after an investigation. ordered Wood
suspended and held pending action
by the coroner. He later was re-
leased in custody of the precinct
captain.
Several other persons we're injured
last night and late yesterday, and a
hit-and-run driver was captured by
q bystander.
Worker Chases Car.
Solomon Butt, %, Of 1863 Twenty
eighth street, grocery store worker,
saw a car, allegedly driven by William
Splitter, 81, 1900 block of Fourth
street southwest, sideswipe another
machine near Sixth and E streets
southwest. When the car failed to
stop. Butt jumped into truck and
overlook it after a chase OF about
six blocks, but not before it had
struck a second automobile.
When Butt grabbed Splitter, the man
is said to have struck him on the arm
with q hammer, but Splitter held on
until police arrived. NO one was
hurt In either collision.
Those injured during the afternoon
and night included Coleman Young,
%, colored, 1000 block of Claggett
street northeast, who suffered head
injuries when struck by street car
at Fiftieth street and Dean avenue
northeast; Camille c. Robinson, s,
1343 Clifton street, knocked down BY
an automobile near his home and cut
and bruised: Melvin Parrish, 8, col
ored, 900 block of E street southwest,
struck by an automobile in front Of
his home, sustaining brain con-
cussion, and william Cannon, 50, and
Edith Hubbard, 46, both of 1855
Massachusetts avenue southeast, both
severely cut when their car collided
with another machine on the Marl-
boro pike near Meadows, Md.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
OFFICIALS MOURN
WITH SECRETARY
Ickes, Stunned by News, to
Start to Chicago
Early Today.

Official Washington, headed by
President Roosevelt. stened to offer
condolences to Secretary Ickes last
night after receiving word of the
tragic death of Mrs. Ickes in a New
Mexico automobile accident
The President telephoned the In
terror Department chief to express his
and Mrs. Roosevelt'S sympathy Just
before leaving for Hyde Park N. Y.
Later it was learned Mr.. Roosevelt
had suggested cancelling his trip
home, but Secretary Ickes urged him
to continue with his plans.
Mrs. Roosevelt. who had preceded
the President to Hyde Park. tele-
phoned the White House and said
she would attend the funeral services,
to be held Tuesday at Winnetka, the
Chicago suburb which has been the
family home for many years.
News of the accident, in which Mrs.
Genevieve Forbes Herrick, noted
newspaper writer, suffered a fractured
pelvis. was told to Secretary Ickes by
Fred L. Marx, his secretary.
Stunned by News.
For moment, the Interior chief
sat in his chair as though stunned.
Then he said, You are sure? There
couldn't be a mistaken"
A telephone call to Santa Fe oon-
firmed the story. Meanwhile, mes
sages began to pour in from wash
ington friends offering sympathy and
help.
Within an hour the Secretary's Of
flee was filled with members Of his
staff who hastened to his side. There
is nothing any one can do" was his
answer to each caller.
Mr.. Ickes personally sent kilograms
to members of his family out of town.
Late in the evening, he was still at
his desk, quietly waiting. He will
leave for Chicago this morning.
Herrick Telephones Wife.
John Herrick, husband of Mrs.
Herrick, got in telephone comm lni-
cation with his wife as she lay in
st. Vincent's Hospital, Santa Fe, be-
fore leaving his Alexandria home ior
New Mexico on a midnight plane.
Il feel alright; my leg n"rts
though" she said.
She could hardly talk and it was
plain she was hurt more than she
imagined" Mr.. Herrick added. He
said Mrs. Herrick did not know at
that time that Mrs. Ickes had been
Killed.
He identified man who was In the
automobile with Mrs. Ickes and Mrs.
Herrick at the time of the accident as
Ibrahim Seyfullah, secretary of the
Turkish Embassy here. Mrs. Herrick
had written him several days ago, he
said, that Seyfullah's car had broken
Lc~. Ox,1zIEsII E0aE ~ q -
Evening star., 1935-09-01
London Tells Ethiopia to Shun
Concessions to English and
American Companies.
ITALY IS ANCERED BY DEAL:
CHARGES TREATY VIOLATION
Mussolini Warns "Miserable Politics.
Will Not Halt Fascist Progress.
Adds Ababa Hopeful.
The Ethiopian Situation.


concessions Halle Selass
Emperor that London withhold
Adds ABABA-An
English corporation
the editor considered reflect Muonis
RACED newspaper article He said the would violate three
TRENTo. speech of
maneuve said Those who the wheel of
destiny IN historic moments perhaps will it. Any who at
miserable will disusned
He disclosed plans to call 200 900
Roosevelt
would maintain
GENEVAReps the Nations
sentiment to apply sanctions Italy she Ethiopia
Is
World Copyright 1885, Associated Press)
Adds ABABA August 3The swift stroke Halle SaSse
economic
prepared a Italian
Ihe British foreign Office Minister Adds Ababa
Evening star., 1935-09-01
GOEBBELS ORDER
DEF|ED BY .SCHACH1
ReichSbank Head Rein.
states Man Nazi Sent to
Prison Camp.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. August 3l.-Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht, Germany's economic dicta-
tor" threw down the gantlet to Paul
Joseph GoebbelS, minister Of propa-
ganda. today by reinstating a Reichs-
bank official who had been sent to a
concentration camp.
DR.. Schacht. president Of the
Reichsbank and minister of finance,
insisted that the honor of the man,
Emil Koeppen. be fully restored.
CDR. Schacht in an address two
weeks ago denounced ''unregulated in
dividual acts" against Jews and "other
state enemies" warning "Jew-baiters'
they we're causing serious damage to
Germany's business
Eviction Basis Of Ban.
In addition to being a Reichsbank
official Koeppen managed several
apartment houses. He evicted man
named Riecker for non-payment OF
rent in November. 1884. and Goebbels'
Berlin newspaper. Der Angrif.
launched bitter attack. saying Keep
pen acted contrary to social principles
of Nazi Germany.
Arounsed, an angry crowd stormed
Koeppen's home. broke windows and
forced his arrest and suspension from
the Reichsbank.
Goebbels later said in a speech to
Berlin Nazis that Koeppen had been
sent to q concentration camp tor
three months. National Socialism
stands not for the letter of the law
but for Justice" he said.
Blow at Schacht Seen.
There were rumors in financial
circles Goebbels picked on Koeppen
in order really to strike at Schacht
for not giving him as much foreign
exchange as he wanted for propa-
ganda abroad.
Schacht significantly addressed his
demand for restoration of Koeppen's
honor not to Goebbels as propa-
ganda minister and party leader for
Berlin, but to Gen. Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, a third Nazi power, as Prus-
sian premier and chief of the secret
police Schacht wrote Goering he mad
ordered an investigation into the
Koeppen case and found there was
no occasion for disciplinary proceed
ings.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 31.-A chill
dren's quarrel had tragic sequel
tonight in the death Of 4-year-old
Elizabeth Vonderhosen, whose body.
head crushed from repeated blows by
q stone, was found in a marshy gully
in the Classon's Point section OF the
Bronx
Shortly after police stumbled on
the body of the child, who had been
hunted for hours by her frantic par
ents, they picked up 9-year- r-old boy
playmate of the girl and obtained the
story Of her death.
Assistant District Attorney william
Smith said the boy confessed to beat
ing Elizabeth over the head with a
piece Of rock In At Of anger when
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Boy, 9, Admits Killing Girl, 4,
During Argument Ouer Peaches

she would not concede the merits Of
his argument that peaches are the
best Of all fruit. He then ran home,
frightened.
The boys identity was learned when
police questioned girl playmate, who
overheard the argument. The boy was
remanded to the Children's Society
while authorities considered what
measures to take in the case.
The body was found in wooded
and isolated gully. >
Save for a pair of red ankle socks,
the child's clothing had been torn
away. She last was seen shortly after
noon with playmates near her home
The spot where she was found was
only q short distance away.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
GALE WHIPS OCEAN
NEAR BAHAMAS
Second Disturbance Of Hurricane
Season Is 500 Miles From
Miami.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 81.
Winds possibly Of gale force" were
believed bowling at the center Of a
tropical disturbance near Long Island
in the Bahamas late today.
An advisory issued by the Weather
Bureau saGd the storm apparently was
moving west-northwestward. Its po-
sition, roughly, was about 500 miles
southeast of Miami. Fla, at $3.50 pm.
Caution was advised Bahama Islands
and ships in the vicinity.
Walter ]. Bennett, senior meteorol-
ogist in charge of the Weather Bureau
Office here, said 1t was impossible as
yet to determine what course the
disturbance would take. 1t was first
discovered as a suspicious low pressure
area north Of Turks Island yesterday
morning.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Hit-Run Accident
Fatal to Wife of
Secretary.
MRS. HERRICK AND
ATTACHE ARE HURT
Party Was Oh Way to
Indian Festival in
New Mexico.
nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated fTeSS'
SANTA FE, N. Mex. August 81
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, 81, wife Of the
Secretary of the Interior and
politician in her own right, was killed
tonight in a motor car collision which
State police charged to hit-and-run
driver.
With three companions in taxicab
she was plunged into ditch 80 miles
north of Santa Fe while en- route here
for fiesta, opening tomorrow, from
her Summer home at Coolidge.
N Mex.
Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, well
known Washington newspaper cor
respondent and a house guest OF Mrs
Ickes, was injured critically.
Also injured was Ibrahim Seyfullah,
attache of the Turkish Embassy in
Washington, and Frank Allen, Gallup.
N. Mex, taxicab driver.
State police. under Capt. E. j..
House. first identified Seyfullah as
John Herrick, husband of the writer.
but a later check of effects diSpelled
the confusion and Herrick was located
in Washington
J. r, Modrall, assistant State at
torney general, who rushed to the
scene, said none of the survivors was
able to give a coherent account OF the
accident.
Hunt Hit Run Driver.
The "hit-run" car, he reported,
was described only as dark sedan
The victims said they did not see the
license plate. State police launched
a hunt for a sedan bearing the marks
Of a collision.
The Ickes party was just emerging
from the steep-walled Rio Grande
Canon, through which the Taos
Santa Fe Highway winds. when the
crash occurred.
The injured were rushed to
Espanola, a tiny adobe settlement in
the canon, for first aid treatment.
Mrs. Ickes' body was taken to
Espanola and later removed to
Santa Fe.
FRIENDS said Allen, the taxi driver,
frequently drove Mrs. Ickes on her
tours of mountain lands around
Coolidge, in the northwestern part o!
the State.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ickes will be
held Tuesday in Winnetka, ILL.,, Chi
cago suburb, which has been the
family home for many years.
Studying Indian Culture.
The death of Mrs Ickes came after
she had spent a month in the South
west studying the culture and ritual
of Indian tribesmen. Indian cele-
brations are incorporated in the San
ia Fe fiesta which she planned to
attend.
A keen student of Indian life, she
wrote of them under the name OF
Mrs Anna Ickes. Mesa Land is one
OF her best known books.
Last Saturday she prepared spe-
cial story on the snake dance of the
Hopis in Arizona at the Walpi Reser-
walton for the Associated Press.
When one becomes a snake dance
fan" she said, lone finds each one
more interesting than the last. No
matter how often one sees them, no
two dances are quite the same"
DR.. Sophie Aberle, superintendent
of the United Pueblo Agency. said
Mrs. Ickes and her companion visited
the Isleta Indian Pueblo yesterday
en- route to Santa Fe.
Mrs. Ickes, a Progressive Republi-
can, served three terms in the Illinois
Legislature as the Representative Of a
suburban Chicago district.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
London Communique Says Signers
Of 1906 Treaty Must Approve Deal

article 2 of the tri-partite treaty Of
1906"
Adds Ababa Effect Unknown.
The wireless station to Adds Ababa
was closed for the night and it was
impossible to learn what effect Brit
aims action would have upon Halle
Selassie.
Observers, however, pointed out that
since London is the chief hope Of the
"conquering lion of Judah" to prevent
an expected Italian invasion, he is GER
tain to listen closely to any suggestions
from here.
The political correspondent Of the
Sunday Express said it can be stated
categorically that despite what inter-
ests are involved or whatever con-
cessions may be threatened should
Italy 60 to war with Ethiopia, the Brit
ish will not plunge the country into
war to defend them"
The United States Government
takes the same line" the writer con-
tinued. I'm other words, If con-
cession' was a shrewd move on the
(see LONDON, Page a.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Mr.. Bergman
Returns

The Star announces with
pleasure today the return to
active duty, made possible by
his full recovery from serious
illness, OF its cartoonist, Cliff
ford <. Bergman.
During Mr.. Berryman's illness,
which took him from work May
30, the cartoons were prepared
by his son, James T. Bergman.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Official u. S. Steps
Avoided, Neutrality
Resolution Signed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
"Hands-off" policy toward American
oil concessions granted in Ethiopia
became evident yesterday as President
Roosevelt signed a war-avoiding neu-
trality resolution.
Despite Great Britain's advice to
Emperor Halle Selassie to withhold
the concessions for explorations
granted to English and American in
terests. State Department officials in
dicated the United States would take
no official steps.
Secretary Hull. after receiving dis
patches notifying him of the startling
deal, told importunate newsmen the
American commercial venture pre-
sented no question of involving this
Nation in the Italo-E Ethiopian dispute
Mr.. Roosevelt, while calling the pur-
pose of the neutrality resolution
wholly excellent" indicated some
dissatisfaction with the provision for
a mandatory embargo on munitions
shipments to belligerent nations which
expires next February 29.
Might DcIcdt ONn Eui pOots
This section" he said, requires
further and more complete considera-
ton between now and that date.
Here again the objective is wholly
good. 1t is the policy of this Nation
to avoid being drawn into wars be-
tween other nations, but it is a fact
that no Congress and no Executive can
foresee all possible future situations.
History is filled with unforeseeaole
situations that call for some f1exibility
of action. 1t is conceivable that situ-
ations may arise in which the wholly
inflexible provisions might
have exactly the opposite effect from
that which was intended. In other
words. the inflexible provisions might
drag us into war instead OF keeping
us out.
The policy of the Government is
definitely committed to the mainte-
nance of peace and the avoidance OF
any entanglements which would leao
lis into conflict. At the same time
it is the policy of the Government by
every peaceful means and without en-
tanglement to cooperate with other
similarly minded governments to pro-
mote peace"
Proposes Expansion Of Act.
Emphasizing that further careful
consideration of neutrality needs is
most desirable" Mr.. Roosevelt pro-
posed an expansion to include provi-
sions dealing with other important
aspects of our neutrality policy which
have not been dealt with in this tenn
porary measure"
Coincident with the signing OF the
resolution, Senators Borah, Repub-
lican, of Idaho and johnson, Repub-
lSee NEUTRALITY, Page -
Evening star., 1935-09-01

to inform Emperor Halle Selassie
Britain advises him to withhold the
concessions. The announcement said
the concessions would neceSSitate con-
situations among signatories of the
1906 treaty pledging the independence
OF Ethiopia and dividing spheres Of
economic influence there-namely,
Britain, France and Italy)
Italian Aims Held Blocked.
The agreement was seen in some
quarters as blow to Italian economic
aims in the hinterland of Italian
Somaliland and the only oil-bearing
portion of interior Eritrea, also an
Italian colonial possession.
The communique explained an oil
concession was granted to the African
Development Exploration Co., incor-
porated in Delaware, for development
of oil resources.
was chartered at Dover. Del. July /,
1885, with a capital stock of 5000
shares at 500 a share par value.
Alfred w. Britten, Edward S. Williams
and Vincent w. Westrup were the in
corporators)
At the same time another conceS-
sion vas granted separate English in
t-rests, a corporation known as the
Lake Tana Conservancy Syndicate.
giving it the right in perpetuity TO
build dam and pu' lping stations at
Lake Tana, headquarters of the Blue
Nile. The lake is vital TO Egyptian
Sudan's water supply.
Standard Oil Control Claimed.
The British promoter who negoti-
ated the vast concession. Francis M.
:kett, said the exploration company
is controlled by "the Standard Oil
Co." but did not designate which one.
Speculation had been keen here
over the effect of the concession upon
the o-Franco-Ii IN treaty Of
1906. Registration If the company
in the United States, and its backing
by American capital, some sources
believed, would prevent any interven-
tion by the three powers. They
pointed out the door is not closed to
investors Of other countries.
4Ac III cat QucSIlOn W ElLuOpldllS 10
what will Mussolini say and do. Most
Ethiopians believed the Emperor's sur
prise maneuver in opening the coun-
try to Americans provided a kind Of
insurance against wa.
Details of the vast concessions were
disclosed today in the official text of
tie convention signed yesterday. Ex-
elusive rights are given the corpo-
ration to explore. prospect, drill and
extract for trade petroleum, naptha,
natural gases and other bituminous
substances, along with iodine from
salt aters of any wells drilled.
Rights Expire After IS Years.
These rights will expire at the end
Of rs years, and buildings Of the COM
,pany. its land and other property be-
come the property of the government.
An authoritative source said the
company would pay the Ethiopian
government annually f25,000 about
(See ETHIOPIA, Page -
Evening star., 1935-09-01
CONDITION OF COUZENS
CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
Senator'S Diabetes in Ailment
Necessitating four Operations
Believed Under Control.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, Mimi, August 81
A distinct improvement" in Senator
James Couzens' condition was noted
by his Mayo Clinic physicians to-
day.
They planned to have him sit up
In bed for brief time.
The Michigan Senator's diabetes, q
complicating factor in the ailment
which necessitated four operations and
two blood transfusions, Is under con-
troll, physicians said after making
new tests.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Readers Guide
PART ONE.

Main News Section.
General News-Pages Alb.
Changing World-A-3.
Washington Wayside-A-5.
Death Notices-A-9.
Lost and Found-A-9.
Vital StatiSticS-A-9.
Sports Section-Pages A-11-l5.
Boating and Fishing NewS-A-15.
PART TWO.
Editorial and Finance.
Editorial Articles-Pages D-1-3.
Financial News and Comment,
Stock, Bond and Curb Sum-
marieS-PageS DAT.
ReSortS-D-8.
PART THREE.
Society, Classified.
Society News and Comment
Pages E-1-6.
Stamps-E-6.
CLASSIFIED Advertising - Pages
E-7-12.
FAhI FOUn.
Feature Section.
News Features-Pages F-1-4.
John Clagett Proctor's Article
on Old WaShington-F-2.
Those Were the Happy Days"
by Dick Mansfield-F-3.
Books-F-4.
Stage and Screen-F-5.
MuSic-F-6.
Radio-F-7.
AutomobileS-F-8.
Aviation-F-8.
Crossword PuzZle-F-8.
Serial Story-F-8.
Children's Page-F-9.
High Lights Of History-F-9.
Civic News and Comn1ent-F-lo.
OrganizationS-T.1l-12.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
ACTIVE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
Mrs. Ickes Was Legislator and Active
Campaigner.


Mrs. Ickes was known to the Capt.
tai as q woman of varied interests
who almost matched her husband in
the number of her activities Some
time after coming to Washington late
in 1888 she continued in threefold
career-wife of a cabinet member,
Illinois Republican legislator and stu
dent and writer on the Indians of the
Southwest. T,aally she decided to
relinquish her seat in the Illinois Leg
islature, but only after serving three
terms.
Before her marriage Mrs. Ickes was
Anna Wilmrath Thompson. Born In
1873 of an old and distinguished Chi
cago family, she was educated in a
private school in Boston and gradu-
ated from the University of Illinois
She was first married to Prof. James
Westphal of the University of Chi
cago. They were divorced in 1909
Two years later she was married to
1ckes.
She we. an active collaboration with
her husband when he helped to or
ganize the progressive wing Of the
Republican party In Illinois. Her in
terests were broad.
Was University Trustee.
She had been president of the i'm
portant Chicago Women's Club and
was one of the first women to serve
rs trustee of the University of uli-
nois. Long interested in educational
matters, civic activities and political
reform. she soon rose to prominence
rs q progressive Republican.
When her children, Mrs. Requa
Bryant, Wilmarth, Raymond and
Robert Ickes, were small Mrs. Ickes
limited her activities to club and edu-
cational work, but when they married
or entered college she launched into
her political career.
Her interest In politics dated back to
her husbands campaigns and his
efforts to elect Hiram johnson and
Charles Evans Hughes to the presi-
dency.
She was vitality interested in, and a
stanch supporter of, national pro-
hibition.
Mrs. Ickes devoted much Of her
(see MRS. ICKEs, Page 80
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Wife Held in Stabbing.

ST. PAUL, August 81 R.-John A.
Jackson, who was found with a six
inch hunting knife blade in his skull
Thursday, died in a hospital today.
Police held his wife, who said she was
absent from the house when jackson
was wounded.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
No Late Editions
Tomorrow

Because Of the holiday
there will be no 5 80 or
Sports Final Editions Of
The Star TOT zorro W.
Night Final subscribers
will receive the Regular
Edition.
Evening star., 1935-09-01

(See OFFICIALDOM, Page. 80
Evening star., 1935-09-01

(See NEUTRALITY, Page A.
Evening star., 1935-09-01

(See ROOSEVELT. Page 81
Evening star., 1935-09-01

(See SOVIET, Page Sd
Evening star., 1935-09-01
WEATHER.

%. Q. weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair today and probably tomorrow; not
much change in temperature; gentle vari-
able winds. Temperatures rs,
at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 81, at am.
yesterday
Full report on page AT
Evening star., 1935-09-01

(see LONDON. Page T..