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The Washington times., 1935-12-19
B0NUS0.K. DUE.
SAYS BYRNS
international News Service

Passage of a bill for payment
of the soldiers bonus by Febru-
airy /, 1896, was predicted today
by Speaker Joseph Byrns Of the
House of Representatives.
He declined, however, to say
whether a bonus bill would pass
over a presidential veto.
Speaker Byrns said there is a
possibility that Congress will re-
ject the Patman initiation method
of paying the bonus and choose
the Vinson bill backed by the
American Legion.
The Speaker returned to the
Capital today with the congress
Sional group, headed by Vice
President Garner, which attended
the Inauguration of the new
Philippine commonwealth.
Will See President
Both Vice President Garner and
Speaker Byrns planned early
calls on President Roosevelt to
discuss legislation to be consid-
cred in the session which opens
January g.
Speaker Byrns, surveying posi-
bilities for the session, said:
/. The Senate may act on the
bonus before the House votes.
2. Unless the House h
changed it's attitude. the Town
send old-age pension plan will not
be passed.
3. Whether or not the Frazier
Lemke three-bilion-dollar farm
mortgage initiation bill IS voted
upon is questionable.
Speaker ByrnS said Senate
leaders are pledged to bring up
the bonus question within 10
days after the session conveneS.
A petition to discharge the rules
committee and bring the Patman
bill before the House can be
called up January Is. He said;
"As long as the bonus is
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DEFENDS HIS
ACTION IN
SPEECH
Ex-Foreign Minister
Gives Parliament
Explanation
BY H. X. REYNOLDS

LONDON, Dec. 10 G.N.S0.
Fear of IAN isolated war between
Britain and Italy" and of a
european conflagration" in
fluenced his actions as Foreign
Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare told
a tense House of Commons to-
day as he arose to defend his
widely-attacked proposals for
peace between Italy ana Ethiopia.
This blunt admission startled
the crowded house, gathered to
vote later in the day on the
question of confidence in the
Baldwin government. Sir Samuel,
who resigned from his govern
ment position last night, spoke
from a third row bench as an
ordinary M. P.
Proposals Dead
While Sir Samuel was speaking,
ViScount Halifax, minister for
war. speaking for the government
in the House of Lords on the
Hoare-Laval peace proposals. said
These efforts toward peace
are, rightly or wrongly, dead"
Thus Sir SamuePs address was
concerned solely with explaining
how he came to agree to the
peace terms. Sir Samuel said:
Ever since / have been in
the foreign office 1 have been
ObSeSsed with anxiety for doing
everything possible to prevent
a European cOnflagratiOn.
Il also have been ObSesSed
with the urgent duty of doing
everything in my power to pre-
vent an isolated war between
Britain and Italy"
Sir Samuel, a sick man called
back from a rest cure in Switzer-
land purposely to defend his plan,
said there had been so much crit
icism due to Misrepresentation
that it was difficult for him to
put up a defense, but he said he
proposed to deal fully with the
reasons leading to his resignation.
FeaFeu FOF AcdS uc
Conversations leading to the
peace proposals, under which
Ethiopia would have coded half
her territory to Italy, began in an
atmosphere of threatened war"
he said, then continued:
"The government received re-
ports from all sides that Italy
would regard an oil embargo as
a military sanction and an act
involving war.
1--WE had no fear as a nation
of any Italian threat. If the
italians attacked, we would re-
taliate, and, judging from past
history, would retaliate with
full success.
"What was in our minds was
that an isolated attack launched
on one power without full sup
port of other powers would al
most inevitably lead to diSsOlu-
ton of the League of Nations"
Sir Samuel said that he and
Premier Laval of France. in dis
cussing a basis of settlement Of
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The Washington times., 1935-12-19
3-Day Battle
In Ethiopia
Described
BY EDWARD HUNTER
Copyright. 1888. International News
SerViCe)

SefNlceD
ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec. 10
QNS). - The great three-day
battle north of the Takkaze River,
details of which were described
for the first time today at Italian
army headquarters here, was du-
plicated on a smaller scale in the
Abb region on the eastern flank
of the front.
There quick airplane action,
with the support of machine-gun
attachments on the ground, dis
persed several groups of Ethi-
opianS who advanced from the
Makale district.
This movement was believed to
have been in concert with the
attempted thanking action in the
west, where a force of 5000 ETH
opians was SlaShed to ribbons
after they drove the Italians back
IL miles.
Change Tactics
In the first big pitched battle
of the war so far, the Ethiopians
attacked Italian advance posts at
the ford of Mai Timehet on the
Takkaze River.
The AbySSinian offensive marked
a complete reversal of tactics on
both sides, the EthiopianS openly
attacking, and the Italians at
tempting ambuSheS.
AirplaneS, constantly scouting
over the mountain region, had in
formed the ground forces that the
Philippians were ON the move. The
Italians retired to the north,
away from the river, and tried to
lure the Philippians inside a trap
along a mountain pass Is miles
from the original line.
The EthiopianS, however, more
used to mountain fighting, d.
vided their forces, moved west
ward along the river, divided into
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TODD DEATH
MYSTERY
DEEPENS
Probe BY Grand Jury
Ordered; Dark Man.
Seen With Star

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 G.N.SO.
An actress changed her story.
The coroner's jury said Death
was probably accidental, but we
recommend further investigation" "
The district attorney ordered a
grand jury probe.
AS mystery piled upon mystery
today, whispers increased in the
Hollywood movie colony
But the strange death of Thelma
Todd, beautiful blonde film come
dienne, whose ermine-clad body
with jewel-bespangled fingers, was
found. bleeding from the mouth,
in her $4,000 automobile in a ga
rage at the home of Roland West.
movie producer, remained I'M
solved!
Newest development in Holly
woods most sensational mystery
since the unSolved tragedy of
William Desmond Taylor's death
a decade ago, was an unexplained
change of a statement to police
by Jewel Carmen, star of silent
pictures, and eStranged wife of
West, whose productions for the
screen included The Monster"
The Bat" The Dove" and
"Alibi."
Saw Thelma Sunday Night
When first questioned by
police Tuesday night following
the finding of Miss Todd's body
at 1920 a. m. Monday, Miss
Carmen said she had not seen
Miss Todd for several weeks.
Early today, however, she
summoned Police Capt. B. r.
Steed and Detective Thad Brown
to her home and told them
that
She had seen Thelma Todd in
the latter's chocolate colored
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The Washington times., 1935-12-19
Sdyre Speaker

One of the principal speak
ers was Francis B. Sayre, AS
sistant Secretary of State, who
spoke in behalf of further
trade relations with foreign
nations.
Another was Frederick j.
Libby, executive secretary of
the National Council for the
Prevention of War. Libby de-
nounced Newton D. Baker,
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The Washington times., 1935-12-19
TANKER AFIRE,
SHIPS NEARBY

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 G.N.S0.
Rescue craft today sped to the
aid of burning oil tanker
two miles off Fire Island.
Ten Coast Guard life boats
and two steamers were standing
by the burning craft which was
not Immediately identified.
The crew apparently was en-
deavoring to extinguish the blaze
unaided. There was no SO S
from the tanker nor, apparently,
was there any immediate inten-
ton of abandoning the ship.
The Washington times., 1935-12-19
HAUPTMANN
EVIDENCE TO
HIT MAID
Name of Violet Sharpe
to Figure in Plea
to Pardon Court

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 U.N.S).
Bruno Richard Hauptmann and
his lawyers today will start COM
posing the appeal to the Court Of
Pardons that, in all probability,
will mean life or death for the
Bronx carpenter. awaiting execu-
ton for the murder of the Lind
bergh baby.
The one-time machine gamers
attorneys will visit him in his
Trenton death cell and piece by
piece they will go over the points
upon which the appeal will be
based In the meantime reports
that the defense was busy gath
ering new evidence were heard on
all sides.
c. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann'S
chief of defense, was reported to
have obtained an affidavit from
Roscoe La Rue, 81, a travelling
salesman of Teaneck. N. j.. re-
involving Violet Sharpe. maid in
the Morrow home, who died by
her own hand.
Secret Evidence
La Rue, it is said. contends
that he saw the maid in car
with a man between IL a. m. and
l D. M, on March /, 1882, several
hours before the kidnapping. he
said he came upon the car four
times on Route 81, near Prince
ton. I j., and that the car was
packed with blankets and long
object which might have been a
ladder.
The New York Evening Journal
SAYS it learned from high New
Jersey political figure that secret
evidence supposedly packed with
dynamite and suppressed by the
State" at Hauptmann'S trial will
be barred by the Court OF Pardons
on the express orders of Governor
Hoffman
Seeks "WhOIe Truth"
The newspaper declares the
Governor places considerable ere
dence in this new evidence and
quotes the unnamed political fig
ure as follows:
"He Governor Hoffman, is
determined that every bit OF
truth, either for or against
Hauptmann, must be told. 1t
is for this reason that he has
welcomed to his office all those
who bring tangible evidence.
"He does not know whether
this evidence already in his
possession and other facts
which may come along will
prove fruitful. But he will GER
tainly lay his information be.
fore the court of pardOnS and
insist that the prosecution pro
duce witnesses they avoided
calling at the trial"
To this, officials Of the prose
cution replied calmly that any
Investigation of their methods OF
presenting evidence would be well
coined.
Would Hear Condor
They pointed out that the case
had been successfully prosecuted,
and insisted that all necessary wit
nesses had testified.
Governor Hoffman said the
court probably would not meet
until after Christmas.
Yesterday he expressed desire
to hear DR.. John F.. (JafSie) Con-
don's story of the ransom nego-
tiations, and said there would be
no official objection to Condor
taking a lie detector test, to which
he has been challenged by Haupt-
mann.
The Washington times., 1935-12-19
Townsendite Seeks
Ohio Congress Seat

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 19
G.N.sD.-Representative Brooks
Fletcher, of Marion, will be OPP
posed for the Democratic nomi-
nation from the Eighth Ohio Dis
trict next year by Townsend
pension plan candidate, former
State Representative George J.
Kehrer, of Bucyrus. Kehrer took
out nominating petitions yeSter-
daY.
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Mrs. Jessie |. Chase
Ends Life by Gas

Mrs. Jessie I. Chase, 81, of the
1900 block in Fourteenth st. N.
W., was dead today, the victim of
asphyxiation by gas.
The death was termed suicide
b. Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid.
The fire rescue squad tried in
vain to revive the woman. She
was found in the gas-filled kitchen
of her home.
The Washington times., 1935-12-19
CHASE LAGS
WHILE HEIR
FIGHTS FOR
HIS LIFE
Mother Near Collapse
at Bedside; G-Men
Surround House
By KENNETH T. DOWNS


DOYLESTOWN, Pa, Dec. 10
G.N.SO .-Cruel torture inflicted
by kidnapers on 24-year-old Caleb
Jones Milne, 4th, today was serv.
ing to balk Department of Justice
agents and give the fleeing crimi-
mails valuable additional time to
make good their escape.
The youth, first major snatch
victim in America since the
Weyerhaeuser kidnapping last sum-
mer, was in such condition that
doctors at DoyleStown Hospital
would not permit waiting G-Men
to question him.
Just before noon, Harold o.
Nathan, in charge of the Federal
agents, told reporters:
"The boys condition is so Seri-
Gus that moving him will be out
of the question for hours. No
body can talk to him. We
haven't been able to talk to him
yet ourselves.
HE is still in Semi-cOmatOse
condition"
Paralyzed With Drugs
Half paralyzed with drugs ad-
ministered by his kidnapers, and
the suffering from exhaustion, ex-
poSure and malnutrition from
five days of captivity, Milne was
kept asleep with sedatives said a
hospital attache:
"Mr. Mines condition is not
critical, but he must have rest.
Rest is imperative"
Only once during the morning
was anyone outside the hospital
staff permitted to go to the sui.
fering youths bedside. That was
when his mother, Mrs. Frederick
Milne, of Woodstock, N. Y, ar
rived.
He smiled wanly in recognition
as tears coursed down Mrs. Mines
cheeks.
She was permitted to remain
only a few minutes.
G-Men Wait
And the squad of G-Men, there
were at least seven of them in
the hospital, were told they would
not be able to ask Milne for a
description of his kidnapers "for
at least several hours"
Milne, actor, social registrite and
scion of a wealthy old Philadel-
phia family, was abducted in New
York city last Saturday morning.
After the reported payment of
between $4,000 and $4,000 he
was dumped from a speeding car
in ditch along the Old York
Road, seven miles from here, late
last night.
Editors Note: J. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the Federal operatives, de-
MED at Washington that a ran.
som payment had been madeO
The kidnap gang brazenly Sc
lected a place only Is miles from
the New Jersay State Prison,
where Bruno Richard Hauptmann
awaits execution for the murder
of baby Lindbergh, to free their
captive.
| Lay HI DlGCn
Roped up in his battered, camelS-
hair overcoat, and with his eyes
and mouth tapped, Milne lay in the
ditch in the bitter cold for half
an hour before he was found by
a motoriSt.
State Trooper Edward Strick-
land, the first policeman to see
Milne, identified him, saying:
"He seemed about half para
lived, as though from dope. He
had about 20 punctureS in his
arm from hypOdermic needles"
Throughout the night at the
hospital Milne was reported as
crying out:
Don't. Don't give me the
needless"
DoyleStown Swarmed with Fed
eral and State police within few
hours of Mines discovery. The
G-Men had begun their vigil in
the hospital, while troopers were
securing all highways for suspects.
Harold o. Nathan, a middle
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AII-East Team Leaves

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-The ALI
East football team, comprising %
of the outstanding players in the
East and Midwest left here today
for San Francisco, where they
will meet the All-West squad New
Year Day
The Washington times., 1935-12-19
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Snow fIurries tonight, fOlIoIOed BY gen.
orally fair tomorrow; COLDER Lowest tenn
psrature tonight about rs.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1935-12-19
SeditiOn Bill Hit

In the three-day secret con-
vention which closed today,
the members also voted to
press vigilantly to abolish the
Army and Navy sedition bill.
This would let go unpun-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28
PACIFIC COAST
LEAGUE GAMES
BY United Press

It's the race for third place that's
providing the action in the Pacific
Coast league season, as the two
teams in the higher spots look
down as though from Mt McKin-
ley on the rest of the pack.
San Francisco Seals, Hollywood,
Portland, Seattle and Sacramento
definitely are in the contest for the
third rung. And the Mission Reds
showed signs of joining the chase
by winning three out of four from
Portland last week.
AS the teams began a new week
of the campaign today, the Seals
and Hollywood were tied for the
position. with "a victories each in
49 games. Two games behind
them were Buddy Ryan's Portland
Beavers. Half a game to the rear of
Portland were found Seattle's In
dians. One game further down were
the Sacramentos. The Missions rest
in the cellar two games behind the
seventh placers.
With that setup any one OF the
teams can dig itself deeply into the
third position in the series this
week, which begins with the Seals
playing the pace-setting Oakland
team. the Missions battling at Seat
tie. Hollywood visiting Portland,
and Sacramento clashing with the
second place Los Angeles array.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28

80 rounds with Ross already, and
has yet to tag him with that right
Too. he hasn't lifted a glove for
year while Ross has kept his weap-
ons sharpened with two tough
fights.
Why am I picking him then?
For two reasons, the first being, as
I explained earlier, that in the past
I've had no luck with favorites. The
second is a little talk I had with
McLarnin yesterday as he sat in
his dressing room at the close of
his last workout
He was alone when I walked in,
and was sitting quietly on the edge
Of the rubbing table. Jimmy spoke
first.
Who you picking?' he asked.
Ross. like all the other guys?"
Il don't know I said. 1T looks
like a powerful tough one to call, to
me-
1T is" he answered. IT'S gonna
be a good fight. Barney is a smart,
tough guy. But do one thing for
me. Willya?"
Get a little dough down on me.
I promise you won't be sorry. I'm
gonna win this fight"
And he said it as if he meant it.
Copyright, 1885, by United Press)
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28
TIGERS FALL
INTO SLUMP

NEW YORK, May %. WR)-The
Detroit Tig er S began looking
around today for a soft spot on
which to land as one of the most
climbs of the American
league season went into reverse at
top speed.
After a sluggish start the Tigers
suddenly found themselves and
breezed out of the cellar into the
first division, looking the part of
the circuits champions in every
stride. But now they've run afoul
of New York Yankee pitching.
In the two games of the current
series the Tigers have scored a
grand total of one run and have
lost twice. Today they were back
in sixth place behind the Washing
ton Senators, who won yesterday
and climbed into fourth place tie.
In beating the Tigers 3 to l yes
terday, the Yanks moved within a
half game of the league-leading
Chicago White Sox, who lost to the
Philadelphia Athletics, 6 to l, on
an American league program that
saw every first division team ex-
cept the YankS whipped.
The Senators made their climb
by trimming the Indians for the
second straight, 6 to 5, as White
hill, credited with the win, Russell
and Petit collaborated to beat
down Pearson, the loser, and Lloyd
Brown.
The Boston Red Sox dropped in
to the tie with the Senators by
losing to the st. Louis Browns, 5
to 3.
All first division clubs in the
National league were rained out
The Philadelphia Phils and the
Cincinnati Reds took advantage oil
the situation to star for a day with
| victories. Philes geat the Pirates
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28
FAVORED
To WIN BOUT.

NEW YORK, May %. UP)-Bar-
ney Ross, with youth, condition and
speed on his side. will go into the
ring with Jimmy McLarnin at the
polo grounds tonight, almost a 2
to l favorite to lick the Irishman
and regain the worlds welterweight
championship.
This third and rubber match be-
tween two of the finest fighters the
147-pound division has produced
will be witnessed by a crowd Of
some $4,000 paying between $780,
and 100000.
Biggest question mark of the day
was the weather. Showers were
forecast for this afternoon or to-
night, and too much rain would
call for a 24-hour postponement.
Ross, in addition to an appar-
ent superiority in condition and
fighting equipment, will have ring
precedent strongly on his side. No
welterweight champion since 1929
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28
STEINKE SAID
To Be TOPS"
IN NAT CAME

Considered by those in the know
as the "uncrowned worlds cham
pion. Hans Steinke, six foot five
inch German giant. who tips the
beam at 235 pounds. meets Karl
Davis. Cleveland. Ohioan of Sean
dinavian descent, in the prelimin-
airy bout of the exceptional card
offered by Promoter John A. Con-
tos, Friday night at the local are
ma.
Dan Parker. sports editor and
columniSt Of the New York Daily
Mirror. is authority for the state
ment that if Steinke could be
aroused. no living wrestler could
stand up against him in the same
ring. Jesse Linthicum. who is sports
editor of the Baltimore Morning
Sun. and a wrestling authority in
the east, is Of the opinion that
Steinke is the only man today who
might possibly be able TO beat Jim
LondoS. but fortunately, or unfor-
unately-whicheve may be your
individual vieWpoint-these two
have never met in the ring for the
reason that they are both under
contract to the same manager, Ed
White of Chicago.
Karl Davis, just fresh from a vic
torious tour of the middle west has
Just reached the coast and wei
coined an opportunity to engage
the German giant. probably figur-
ing that a loss to Steinke is no dis
grace and if-by any chance of
luck-he could down him, his stock
in the wrestling market would go
as high as an El Centre thermome-
ter in July. The main bout of this
card, however. is the one that
draws most of the interest. Christy
is out to ayenge the time he spent
in the local county hoosegow and
seems TO feel that Lopez is solely
responsible for his predicament last
Friday night. Suffice it to say that
both men were anxious to sign for
this weeks bout and demanded
from the promoter that the referee
be instructed to permit them free
rein and not to bar any holds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-28
HIGH SCHOOL
AND LEGION
TEAMS WIN

Returns from last nights night
ball games indicate that there are
three leagues in the field this sea-
son. The pol victory scored by
the CUHS players over the New
Cal outfit last night and their two
other clear cut victories so far this
season stamp the high school team
as practically forming a league of
their own with the other teams as
sociated with them trailing along
behind.
The only other team which has
shown exceptional power this year
in the "B" league is the Junior
Chamber of Commerce nine, which
on paper at least, is right up with
the high school, having two vic
tories and no defeats to its credit
However, the season is still young
and anything can develop in the
remaining weeks.
In the second game of last
nights double header, the Ameri-
can Legion took the Elks into camp
by an 81 count. This game was
nip and tuck affair throughout,
and errors on the part of the ant
Tered herd figured heavily in the
scoring by the Legionnaires. Home
runs by Lee. Miller and ScrivenS
for the Flks failed to turn the tide
of victory in favor of their team
as the Legion, once on the way to
a triumph, was not to be denied.
Tonight the "a" league swings
into action with the Valley Steam
Laundry and Cramer's Bakery
teams furnishing the competition.
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