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Evening star., 1935-08-25
RHODE ISLAND BUS
PLAN To BE STUDIED
Utilities Body to Consider Rerout.
ing to Relieve Congestion
on Monroe Street.

Rerouting of westbound buses of
the Rhode Island avenue line from
Monroe street northeast to some other
crosstown street will be considered to-
morrow by the Public Utilities Com
nnissino, Richmond B. Keech, vice
chairman, announced yesterday.
Decision is to be delayed until in
terested groups have been given op-
portunity to voice their views. Peo-
pies Counsel William A. Roberts has
asked for study of proposals.
The purpose is to relieve congestion
and traffic hazards along Monroe
street, particularly in the section near
Twelfth street northeast. One group
Of residents of the neighborhood has
proposed that busses be operated on
Monroe street only one way, east
bound, and that another street be
used for westbound buses.
Roberts has asked Traffic Director
Van Duzer to submit recommendations
concerning traffic conditions that
would be affected by such a change.
Evening star., 1935-08-25
LEGION EXPECTED
TO CALL FOR CASH
Maryland Convention Due
to Adopt Resolution for
Bonus Payment.
BY the Associated Press.

5y the Associated Press.
OCEAN CITY, Md, August "a
The Maryland Department of the
American Legion probably will adopt
a resolution, at its annual conven-
ton, beginning here September 4,
calling for immediate payment Of the
bonus. The convention concludes
September 7.
Informed sources in Legion circles
said tours Of the State indicated that
sentiment was overwhelming for adop-
ton of such a resolution. Several
such resolutions adopted by individ-
ual posts already have been sent to
State headquarters for submission at
the convention.
It also is known that resolutions
favoring liberalization of Federal laws
and rulings affecting veterans will be
presented to the convention.
Three Seek Post.
The race for the post of State COM
mander has three entries and it ap-
pears that there will not be any other
candidates The men seeking to sue
ceed John T. McNulty as State COM
mander are:
Paul M. Higginbotham, Baltimore;
Roy L. Pyle, Phoenix, and Charles
Houck, jr, Walkersville.
Pyle now is vice commander of the
Western Maryland district and is q
member of the Department Executive
Committee. He is past commander
OF the Joseph L. Davis Post.
Higginbotham, well-known Balti-
more attorney, is commander of the
German H. H. Emory Post of Balti-
more. Houck is past commander of
the Francis Scott Key Post of Fred
erick and is past vice commander
Of the Western Maryland district.
Program Completed.
A well-fllled program for the four
day convention has been arranged by
Alex T. Grier. Included will be the
annual parade of posts, Drum Corps
contests, crab feasts. outfit reunions
and dancing Business sessions will
be held during the mornings only.
leaving the afternoons and nights free
for amuSements.
Gov. Harry w. Nice will speak at
the opening session Wednesday night.
Other speakers scheduled for the
Wednesday night session include
Mayor Howard w. Jackson of Balti-
more and Attorney General Herbert
r. O'Conor.
Officers for the coming year and
delegates to the National Convention
will be elected Saturday.
and 40 and the Sons of the Legion
will hold their conventions during
the same four days.
Evening star., 1935-08-25

the National Capital Park Service,
with Mr. Marshall Finnan as super
intendent Of the Dupont units.
In addition to the splendid creative
work done by these proud young civ
ilianS they are learning trades and
professions that will stand them in
good stead when their three six-month
periods (the laws allowance) are
completed and they leave camp.
Another group of workers is engaged
in building stone fireplaces all about
the picnic grounds Here and there
young chaps in slacks and heavy boots
or shoes are making long, narrow pic
mic tables, with benches to match,
fashioned from halves OF tree trunks.
All over Dupont Park these advan-
tages are being placed, together with
graded reads, quaint trails, bird sane
tuaries, shelters and all that goes to
make a grade A family picnic and
pleasure park.
Work, during the hours from to
10, except for small domestic duties,
is not compulsory-but a swimming
pool is. SO the boys have dug and
cemented pool 10 feet deep, with
diving boards and everything" The
water is changed every day and that
pool is seldom empty of splashers.
Then there Is large recreation hall,
with a post exchange at one end.
Attend Night School.
Everything around and about sug-
gests activity in the higher things of
life. Many of the young worker-stu-
dents attend night classes at McKin-
ley High or Abbot Vocational Schools
twice week.
AL classes in both schools are we'll
attended, the scholars being trans
ported to and from by camp trucks.
On Sunday the same trucks are used
for the large number of young men
desiring to attend religious services in
Washington.
Regular courses offered within the
camp itself consist of ground school
in aviation, forestry, citizenship, cur
rent events, motor mechanics, read
ing and writing, or how to secure
job. The required courses given in
camp are few, but embrace Red Cross
instruction, park service safety meas
ures, given once a week by an Army
staff instructor; hygiene series, by
camp physician, and vocational guild
ance talks. presented by the Kiwanis
Club of Washington. The ground
school of aviation is by way of two
planes from the Navy field, this city.
Evening star., 1935-08-25
POLICE TO BE TRAINED
FOR WEEK IN METHODS
Martinsburg, W. Va, Selected as
Site for New State En-.
forcement School.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DpcCldI DlspaICn 10 Inc oLaI.
Z MARTINSBURG, w. Va, August
24.-This city is to be the scene of
week-long training school for police
men at an undetermined date this Fall
as the result Of action taken at meet
ing Of the State Association of Police
Chiefs held at Morgantown this week.
The local meeting will be one Of a
series Of such schools to be held at
Morgantown, Charleston, Parkersburg
and Bluef1eld.
Instructors for the classes are to be
furnished by the State Department Of
Public Safety and the United States
Department of Justice, it was dis
closed. The program Is sponsored by
the West Virginia League Of Munich
palities.
Evening star., 1935-08-25
BIZ JOSEPHINE TIGHE WILLIAMS.

By JOSEPHINE TIGHE WILLIAMS.
A LMOST third of the entire
~ area Of the District of Colum-
~ bia lies east of the Anacostia
N River. a rugged, high section
having high ridge overlooking main
Washington on the west and Prince
Georges County. Md. on the east.
1t was as long ago as 1918 that
Congress appropriated money for the
purchase of 367 acres within that area
in order to preserve the sites of Fort
Dupont and Fort Davis and with the
ultimate project of creating the land
into beautiful pleasure park and ex-
tensive picnic grounds.
AS planned, there is finally to be a
play meadow, outdoor theater. four
picnic areas, golf courses, club house,
swimming pools, trails, fine roads and
shelters, all enhanced with an historic
sentiment and atmosphere.
But until 18 months ago the 367
acres remained forest primeval, ex-
cept for a number of municipal and
government reservations. Then a Ci-
villain Conservation Camp. known in
alphabet soup as the &C. C. C.s," was
established at Fort Dupont, and its
quota of 206 young men became as
busy as the proverbial bee and are at
this moment Transforming a wooded
wilderness into something fast taking
on scheme. color, beauty. comfort and
all the pleasures and advantages orig
inally intended by the Federal and
city government.
Situated Near Benning.
Fort Dupont is situated begin
ming in about the 5000 block of
e street southeast, not far from Ben
ming, and 1t Is within its confines that
the only c. C. c. camps within the
District of Columbia are located.
Seemingly few persons except those
of the southeast are at all familiar
with this local c. c. c., its upbuilding
or the splendid work 1t is accomplish
ing. But to those who have followed
an industry Of the young the result
is amazing and pleasing.
A year and half ago, when the
first contingent arrived at Fort Dupont,
they proceeded to first clear out
enough land on which to establish the
company camp. Trees and stumps
were removed, grading accomplished.
water and sewage provided, water shed
arranged for, barracks built. All this
before step could be made toward
creation of the proposed pleasure park.
Just as Washingtonians have visited
Evening star., 1935-08-25

o member of the Republican State
Central Committee for Montgomery
County, Harry w. Nice Clubs were
organized among colored voters Of the
county at Norbeck, Kensington and
Germantown during the week, in
creasing to II the number Of such
Evening star., 1935-08-25
C0L0RED VOTERS FORM
HARRY W. NICE CLUBS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, August a.
Under direction of Simon o. Smith,
Evening star., 1935-08-25
RIFLE CLUB CHARTERED
cissel-saxon Legion Group Gets
National Certificate.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, August "a.
--Cissel-Saxon Rifle Club, sponsored
by the local post of the American
Legion, has been granted charter
by the National Rifle Association.
The club has a charter membership
Of A.
Oficers of the new club are Thur
man c. Metcalf, president; Sidney
Walter, vice president; Harold Giusta,
secretary; Charles j. Clifford, treas
urer, and Lewis v. Kreh, executive
cfncer.
Evening star., 1935-08-25

clubs to be formed In the county with
In the last few weeks.
The Norbeck club starts with 81
members. that at Kensington with
% members and the Germantown
club with lat members. Similar clubs
will, Smith stated today, be organized
Evening star., 1935-08-25
VIRGINIA PARALYSIS
TOTAL 50 FOR WEEK
Lowest Number Since July 20 Is
Reported-six New Cases
Yesterday.
By this Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, August "a
With the report of six cases today,
the total of infantile paralysis cases
in Virginia this week reached So, the
lowest number since the week ended
July 20. The total recorded thus far
In August is 247.
The reports received by the State
Board Of Health today came from:
Roanoke City, 2; Princess Anne
County, 2; Botetourt County, /, and
Richmond City, /.
Evening star., 1935-08-25

High, Fillmore. Langdon. Hardy.
Brookland and Barnard Fairgrounds.
Walker Stadium playground will be
the scene of hobby show Friday and
Congress Heights playground will have
handwork show Saturday.
Evening star., 1935-08-25
An Unique Modern
Bed Room Group

To those who want to create modern il
terror and yet hold the charm of design equ
in simplicity to the 18th Century school-th
group will appeal. A wonderful combinatio
of zebrawood and burl elm.
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Evening star., 1935-08-25

Pantomime has regained Its popu-
larity IN London, II theaters producing
these entertainments this Winter.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
BRITISH FLEET
SHIFT LIKELY

PARIS, Oct. 18 G.N.SJ.-While
France was being pushed toward
a showdown on the question OF
supporting Great Britain or Italy
in the East African crisis, it was
understood in high political quar-.
ters today that Britain might
withdraw certain units of her
great fleet massed in the Medi.
terranean on two conditions.
These were:
l. That France give a pledge
of unqualified support of Britain
and the League of Nations cove
nant, including pledge of naval
aid in the Mediterranean, and
2. That Italy withdraw her
heavy troop reinforcements from
Libya.
The French reply to the British
poser probably will be affirmative
according to foreign office circles
but it was understood no answer
would be made until after the
French cabinet meeting Monday
and also, significantly, after the
senatorial elections of Sunday, in
which Premier Pierre Laval will
go before his constituents.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
MUSEUM SITES
COAL OF TOUR

Following an executive meeting
this morning of the National Capt.
tai Parks and Planning CommiS'
sion, at which proposed sites for
the new $1O,O0O,OoO Mellon art
gallery were to have been dis
cusSed, the members announced
at noon that they were embarking
on "site-seeing" trip which would
last we'll into the afternoon.
A site on Constitution Avenue.
next to the National Museum, was
believed to be one Of their OBJ
jectives.
Other matters discussed at the
closed meeting we're the proposed
site for the Benning Road housing
project, the proposed site for the
Bureau of Engraving's proposed
annex, and the sites for new swim
ming pools.
1t was learned that recommends
tions had been made for the con-
struction of pools in East Potomac
Park and in AnacoStia Park.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
Lutherans 10 Plan
For Mems SoCiety

Lutheran men Of Washington
will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at
the Atonement Lutheran Church,
North Capitol Street and Rhode
Island Avenue, to discuss plans
for an organized Lutheran Mems
Society in the District of Colum.
bia.
Among ministers who will speak
are DR.. Carl C. Rasmussen, Of
Luther Place Memorial Church,
and the Rev. j. Frederick Wen
chel, of Christ Lutheran Church,
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
Virginia Alcohol
Income $21,842,398

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 18.-Vir,
ginians consumed 9,648, ,636 gal
Ions of alcoholic beverages of a
retail value of $21, ,S42 ,39S.94 dur
ing the fiscal year, according to
statistical tables of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Boards annual
report being distributed this week.
The per capita expediture was
figured at $9.02. as compared to
a per capita of $19.28 in 1914.
Consumption per capita was 3.9S
gallons, as compared to a 1914
figure of 22.66. The beverages
included 1929 .69s gallons of beer,
2,053,973 gallons of distilled
spirits and 164,964 gallons of
wine. The distilled spirits in.
cluded 1,675, ,799 gallons of whisky.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
ITALIANS BOMB
AREAS NORTH
OF MAKALE
ProjectiIes Fail to Go
off,; Ethiopians Take
Prisoners
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1888,

ny international News SeFvice)
Adds ABABA, Oct. 18 G.N.S.)
italians today launched a new
wave Of bombing of Ethiopian ter
ritory, killing many women and
children, according to an official
Ethiopian communique.
The bombing attacks were espe
cialy violent south Of the impor
tant northern town of Makale.
In this region, the official
statement said:
"War planes were bombing
and flying low, raking the
ground with m chine guns
without regard for women and
children, many Of whom were
killed"
FAILED TO EXPLODE
A great number of the italian
bombs failed to explode, Ethio.
plans reported, and the popula.
ton collects them and dumps
them into rivers and streams
&"AOPL1h was kllISQ QOlnR
this, the statement said.
The northern front was re.
ported quiet except in a few
localities where Ethiopians at.
tackled Italian advanced posts
and captured a few prisoners.
The Ethiopians reported they
mad observed no signs of an Ital-
ian advance.
A new international complication
in the Italo- Ethiopian conflict
loomed today as the Belgian off.
GERS here desired Emperor Halle
SelasSie to break off relations with
Belgium as q protest against
Belgium's attempt to force them
to quit their Ethiopian EMPLOY.
ment.
Hired Six Months Ago
The Belgian officers declare that
the Ethiopian cause is so popular
In Belgium that If the Emperor
made q public gesture, calling at.
tention to the pro-Italian etsi-
tude Of the Belgian Minister of
War, the present Belgian Ministry
would fall.
BelgianS involved number II,
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
BRITAIN HALTS
ITALIAN BOAT,
ROME SAYS
Newspaper Declares
WarshiP Did Not
Search Hold

ROME, Oct. 18 IN.SO.-Label-
ling the incident "unqualifiedly
arbitrary English action-proof Of
the provocative spirit of England
against Italy" the weekly Azione
Coloniale today reported that
British destroyer had stopped an
Italian merchant vessel.
The incident occurred outside
Port Sudan Harbor, said the
papers correspondent, when the
warship halted the steamer Mar.
tina, which was on its way to
Nassau, the base port for Italian
military operations in Eritrea,
from Tarantera.
In reply to the italian captains
remonstrances, said Azione Coloni-
ale, the British commander ex-
planned that he thought the ship
was sailing under a false flag.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
Fertilizer Convention
Now Set for Nov. 1870

Representatives Of fertilizer
companies throughout the coun-
try will assemble at the Biltmore
Hotel, Atlanta, Ga, for the
eleventh annual Southern conven-
ton of the National Fertilizer AS
sociation November 18, 19 and 20,
announces Charles J. Brand, ex-
ecutive secretary and treasurer Of
the association.
The convention was originally
scheduled for November IL. IL and
13, but the dates were changed
to give more time for the develop
ment of an industry program
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
Roger Williams
To Be HOnOred

Roger Williams, the Baptist
clergyman who founded Rhode
Island, was to be honored in
Washington today.
Specifically, the Punishment of
the English clergyman from the
State of MASSACHUSETTS 300 years
ago will be the subject of today'S
memorial services which will in
clude placing a wreath on the
statue of the pioneer in Statuary
Hall at the Capitol. The services
will be held at p. m.
Norman S. Case, former Cover
nor of Rhode Island, will officiate
at the ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
ITALIANS FACE
DESERT TRAP
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a base. the Italians marched out
and were almost Immediately
confronted by a strong Ethiopian
force.
They failed to reach their OBJ
jective and were forced to fight
their way back to Italian terri
tory,
The Ethiopians still were hold
ing on grimly to the region about
Mount Mussa Ali, in the eastern
part of the country.
The Ethiopian Danakil tribes,
men of this part of the country
were reported poisoning the wells
in the desert to defeat the invad
ing Italians.
The French continued to take
precautionary measures. Two YES
sells patrolled the coastline and
airplanes constantly conducted a
frontier patrol.
Lidj Yassou, the dispossesSed
and imprisoned Ethiopian pre-
tender. was closely watched at
Tadjouba, in eastern Ethiopia.
Renewed attempts at kidnapping
were feared.
ROME, Oct. 18 0.N.sO While
strong Ethiopian forces menaced
Italian communications in the
eastern desert, massed Italian
troops today we're ready in the far
south to march straight up from
the Somaliland frontier through
the river valleys and mountains
to their rescue, striking at the
Adds Ababa railway en- route.
News of the forthcoming major
push from the south was carried
in press dispatches from the front,
while it was learned in Rome that
Premier MuSsolini has scored his
first victory over League of Ma
tionS sanctions with an informal
agreement to procure supplies of
coal from Germany.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18

headed by Col. Leopold Reul, who
is the Emperor'S technical chief
OF staff. These officers are now
the only foreign military advisors
the Emperor has.
They compose an unofficial
mission" 1t replaced the former
official Belgian mission" which
has the approval of the Belgian
government, but which was re.
called when the war began.
The Belgians were employed by
the Emperor six months ago.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
CLARIFICATI0N
! OF SITUATION
SOUGHT
Anti-London Feelings
In Italy Laid to
Paris Mischief
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IE0" 0kG
ain ever contemplate a naval
blockade, or closing of the Suez
Canal or the Red Sea.
It was denied the British de.
fense activities in the Mediter-
ranean, where a Great British
naval and air fleet is maSSed, had
q provocative significance.
Britain's chief interests, 1t was
reiterated, is the maintenance of
collective security and collective
action under the League Of Ma
tions covenant.
Premier Benito MuSsolini, it was
said had been poisoned by hi:
own food" meaning the violently
anti-British Italian press, govern
ment-controlled.
Must Be Clarified
An official high in government
circles said:
"These dangerous ideas have
been strengthened with and fOS-
tered by the French press, which
has proceeded deliberately to Al
lege Captain Eden (AnthOny
Eden, British Minister for
League Affairs) has taken the
initiative at Geneva, and that
Britain has been intent on drag
ing Italy into a choice between
humiliation and war.
THAT is why it is the authOri-
tative view in this country that
these absurd conceptions should
be cleared up, and that the
doubts which the attitude Of the
French press has created in the
minds of the people Of this
country definitely removed"
The italian press for weeks
has been informing the italian
public that Britain, and not the
League, stands in the way Of at
tainment of italian aims in East
Africa.
Called Fascist Foe
Britain has been pictured as
leading q world front against
Fascism, acting for her own in
tereSts rather than . in those OF
the League.
These are the "misconceptions"
which the British government
now is anxious to clear up before
war comes bounding upon Eng
land with such momentum it can,
not be halted.
The Times in officially inspired
comment today blamed mischief
makers on the continent" for the
Anglo-Italian war crisis.
The Times denounced as "baSe-
less falsehod" the suggestion that
Britain was seeking in its own in
terests to attack Italy, adding !:
"It is safe to say that no sane
person in this country has even
so much as dreamed Of an
AnglO-I Italian war such as some
foreigners enviSage."
The Times admitted the posi-
bility of war, however, in the fol-
lowing words:
'1t is the risk of some spas
mOdic and perhaps unpremedi.
tated war like incident that
necesSitated precautions against
a breach of the peace"
A special meeting of British
ministers was called for tonight
to debate the crisis.
The reply to the naval inquiry
was expected from France on
Monday after the French cabinet
session on that day. The British
anticipate an unqualified yes
they asked for a flat yes or q
flat no-thus allowing Foreign
Minister Sir Samuel Hoare to in.
clude the situation when he
makes his important declaration
on British polic.' before Parlia.
ment at its opening session Tues.
day.
The Washington times., 1935-10-18
Unions Will Boycott
Italian Goods, Ships

COLOMBO, Oct. 1s QNS).-A
resolution to boycott Italian goods
and ships was adopted today by
the all-Ceylon Trade Union Cong
ress and the National Executive
Council of the Ceylon labor party.
The boycott will be effective next
week.
Evening star., 1935-01-25
PRISONER SAYS FISCH
GAVE, HIM TELL-TALE
BILLS IN BOX TO KEEP
Hauptmann Testimony

@. Now, did Fisch visit your home?
A. Yes.
O. What business was he in?
A. Fur trading.
Hauptman said he went into the
fur business with him half and half" >"
Il gave him $500" he said.
@. Did you ever receive any money
from the fur business?
A Oh yes. small sums and large
sums.
Says $1,000 Largest
Sum Received Any Year.
Q. What was the largest sum you
received in one year from the fur
business?
A. guess over $1,000.
@. Was this business carried on
under a trade name or partnership?
A. 1t was entirely under the name
of Isador Fisch.
@. Did he have any invoices made
out?
A I think he did.
@. BY young woman in the neigh
borhood?
A. Yes.
@. Did you ever meet a Miss Hal
pert in connection with Fisch's fur
business?
A. Yes, at Mr.. and Mrs. Henckel's
house.
Q. How did you come to meet
Henckel?
A. At Hunters Island. Fisch lived
with the Henckels.
@. Do you remember when Fisch
went to Europe.
A. December, 1888
@. Who was at your house that
night?
A. Mrs. Fredricksen.
@. And he never returned?
A. No
Tells OF Receiving
Little Box From Fisch.
@. When was the last time he
called at your house?
A. The night before he sailed.
@. Did Fisch have anything with
him that night, a bundle, package?
A. No, sir.
@. Before he sailed did he leave
anything with you?
A. Two suit cases, 400 skins, two
boxes.
@. The skins, what were they?
A. Hudson seal
@. Did you have those skins in
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