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Evening star., 1935-12-26
Benedict arnold Letter Tells
Resentment Before DesertiOn

years ago, less than two months after
q second acquittal from charges Of
Pennsylvania State authorities that he
had used his high position to make
illegal purchases and courted British
loyalists at the expense Of American
patriots.
The president of the council pre-
fering these and minor charges was
Joseph Reid and it is against Reid that
Arnoldis resentment takes its sharpest
course in the communication, dated
March 20, 1850.
''The president Of the Council Of
the State of Pennsylvania having pub
lished and officially transmitted to the
different States" it reads, "Sundry
resolutions Of theirs, dated Philadel-
phia. February 3, 1779, containing
heavy charge ending to prejudice the
minds of my fellow citizens against me,
previous to trial. which with much
difficulty, have at last obtained the
justice due to my own character (and
to the public who have been so greatly
deceived) will, I trust excuse the lib
erty have taken In transmitting to
lsee LETTER. Page %
Evening star., 1935-12-26
POISONING ATTEMPT
CHARGE is PROBED
u. S. Prosecutor in China Looks
Into Accusation Doctor Tried
to Kill Wife.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, December 26.-United
States District Attorney Felthan Wat
son Of st. Louis announced today he
would proceed to Tientsin Friday to
investigate charges against DR.. John
Colbert, accused of attempting to
poison his wife.
DR.. Colbert, so, former student
at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons Of st. Louis and past COM
mander of the Tientsin Post Of the
American Legion, was arrested yester-
day by British police at the request
of United States consular officials.
He was released under $25 1000 bail
and bound over to the United States
court.
Mrs. Colbert, the doctors third wife
and q leading member Of Tientsin
society, has been q hospital patient
for some time, being treated for q
heart ailment.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, December 26.-
Strengthened evidence Of Benedict
Arnold's resentment that my charac-
ter has been most cruelty and unjustly
aspersed," which eliminated in the
Revolutionary War generals deser-
ton to the British cause, was believed
uncovered today.
1t was in the form of an original
letter to Gov. Greene of Rhode Island,
secured by Western Reserve Uniyer-
sity from the late william Ellsworth
Tuttle, Warren (Ohio) lawyer, through
his sister, Mrs. Mary T. Fillius, also
of Warren.
Purchased from Warren book
seller, it came from Maggs Bros,
London collectors.
The writing of the letter, said DR..
Ebert j. Benton, dean of Reserves
Graduate School, is in two hands, but
the portion which Arnold did not
write was evidently dictated by him.
DR.. Benton expressed the belief that
similar letters were written by the
famous American traitor to Govern
ors Of the other II States.
The latter was written nearly 166
Evening star., 1935-12-26
Corn Planter Machine Builds
Cheaper Roads Upside Do,rn'

In addition to predicting the slicing
of roadbuilding costs, F v. Reagel,
engineer for the State Highway De-
partment, said results OF experiments
on this type of road were decidedly
favorable"
The roadway is graded and shaped:
the scarrifying machines loosen the
soil at least six inches down and stimuli
taneously inject the bituminous mate
rials at the bottom of the loosened
earth. Traffic is allowed to pack the
soil and the oil soaks tc the surface.
In three weeks, the roadway is re-
shaped and completed.
With about $4,000 gallons Of as
phaltic oil used per mile of roadway,
engineers estimates on the cost ranged
from 5000 to $500 per mile. 1t was
stated some 100000 miles Of dirt
roads in the United States could be
converted TO this type Of road.
Evening star., 1935-12-26

She was to have gone to New York
to deliver a scientific paper before
the American Society of Bacteriolo-
gists, meeting there. When her ILL
ness prevented the trip it was de-
cided to have the paper read.
Miss PabSt is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Edward E. Pabst of this city, and
three sisters, Miss Bertha E. Pabst
and Mrs. John MacNab, both of this
city, and Mrs. Sherwood Jeter, jr., OF
Hartford, Conn.
Miss Pabst was a member of the
American Society Of Bacteriologists
and of the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church.
Funeral arrangements are to be an
nounced later.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
Quake Races Whole Villages;
Chinese Mountains Split Open
Thousands Believed Dead as Huts on
Peaks Are Hurled Into Valleys.
Landslides Dam RiUers Into Lakes.

swept down mountainsides, carrying
all their inhabitants to death.
Details of the quake, which occurred
December 18, remained fragmentary.
however
Authorities said 1t was impossible
to determine yet the exact extent Of
the disaster because of shattered COM
munications and the remoteness of
the afflicted area, but expressed belief
the number of deaths probably would
mount to the thousands.
Villages Hurled Of Peaks.
The Chinese advices said villages
and forts of the primitive Lolo tribes
people, perched near mountain tops
for protection from attack, were pre-
cipitated into the valleys. Communi-
ties of 100 families and more were
destroyed.
The upheaval, which centered in
the Mapien district of Southern
Szechuan Province, also wrought
strange changes in the landscape, the
skeleton advices saying a mountain
was split open by a 1-mile cash in
one place, while landslides damned
(See QUAKE, Page %
Evening star., 1935-12-26
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
China. land Of famine, food and
peStilence, also has suffered great
est of recorded earthquakes.
Foremost among these iUds that
Of December, 1920, tUhen 100000
lines and Dirtually all property in
300 0-squdre-mile section of KdnSu
Province, in North Central China,
tUere t0iped out by sudden contor-
tions of the earth. NetCs of KdnSu'S
tragedy did not reach rest OF tDorId
for tCeekS.
In region OF light, trind- -blorn
soil, inhabitants of Kdnsu lfued in
trail huts or cliff dt0ellings; had no
opportunity for escape as noun
tdins moued, rivers spilled and
earth beneath them broke open.
SzechuGn Province is contiguous
to Kansu, directly south; land for
motions similar.
BY the Associated Press.
CHENGTU, Szechuan Province
China, December 26.-New reports o
an earthquake in Southern Szechual
told today of whole villages beinl
Evening star., 1935-12-26
Pilot Is Beheaded
When Ethiopia,,s
Shoot Plane DOlUrl
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Adds ABBABA, December 26.-
The Ethiopian government reported
today that the soldiers had shot down
an Italian airplane at Daggah Bur-
The airplane was flying in a re-
connoitering expedition, in company
with another.
1t was brought to earth, according
to the government, at 9 am. today.
Oficials reported from Harar that
the pilot-not Immediately identified
was beheaded.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
Ship Wrecked, Crew Missing.

LORIENT, France, December 26
R.-The wreck of a fishing schooner
was found on the rocks of the coast
here today. The crew Of seven was
missing, probably drowned in the
Christmas storm.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
EARNINGS ARE SHARED

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, December
26 R).-A Christmas present of 10
per cent of his years earnings was
given to each employe Of the Sample
Durick Co.. manufacturing paper
boxes. 1t was announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
TRAIN KILLS THREE.
w. r. A. Workers Lose Lives When
Truck Is Demolished.

Truck Is Demolished.
PARIS, Tenn, December 26 (R.-
Three w. P. A. workers were instantly
killed today when the truck carrying
them to farm-to-market road prof.
ect was struck by Louisville & Nash
vile passenger train here.
Three other men were riding on the
truck. They were injured, one seri-
ously.
The dead: Jim Snyder, go; Doris
Owen, %; Carl Collier, 40.
The most seriously injured was YER
gil Dowdy, 46. who suffered two brok-
en- legs, an arm fracture and internal
injuries.
Evening star., 1935-12-26

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 26.-Premier
Pierre Laval told his cabinet today
it was reported, in the Chamber OF
Deputies lobbies, that France would
refrain from making any military OF
naval move toward Italy unless Italy
gave provocation.
Details of the premier's future policy
to keep out of war and to settle the
Italo- Ethiopian conflict were not yet
decided upon, however, Informed
sources said after Laval met his min
listers to draft his defense for tomor-
rows Chamber of Deputies interpella-
ton on foreign policy.
Laval was reported anxious, never
theless, to continue his role of peace
maker at Geneva.
Still Opposed to Sanctions.
France is still firmly opposed to
application of military sanctions, po-
litical sources said, with Laval con-
sidering that only some desperate
Italian action, such as an attack on
British ships, would require open
military precautions, like mobilization
Of the French feet or army.
Edouard Herriot, influential minis
ter of state, kept silent at the cabinet
meeting after Laval assured him Of
maintenance of a policy Of fulfilling
obligations under the League of Ma
tions covenant, including mutual as
sistance.
Herriot's friends said he was leav-
ing the question of confidence in
Lavaps pursuance of his policy for
the Chamber to decide tomorrow in
O possible vote, with the life of the
cabinet at stake, after the foreign
policy debate.
Against Political Troops.
In addition to the critical debate on
Frances activities in the Italo-Ethi-
opian conflict, Laval was expected to
pose a question of confidence also in
q Chamber vote on suppression of
semi-military political leagues.
A vote on the budget Laval has drawn
up for defense of the franc will COM
plete Parliaments work until its new
session January IA.
The premier met with his ministers
today especially to prepare his re-
sponse to attacks on the discarded
plan for East African peace Laval drew
up with the resigned British foreign
secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, in view
Of British reputation of the proposals
for granting to Italy Of concessions in
Ethiopia.
The Leftist opposition criticized the
discredited peace suggestions as re-
ward for Italian aggression in Ethio-
pia and a betrayal of the League Of
Nations.
The Rightist press, however, rang
with warnings that any additional
league sanctions against Italy, in an
(See WAR. Page A.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
ON FINAL LAP
Philippine Clipper Left Honolulu
Yesterday Afternoon.

HONOLULU, December 26 R.-
The Philippine Clipper rode a strong
tailwind over the Pacific toward Ala
media, Calf, today on the last lap Of
her first round trip to Manila.
Radio reports from the giant air.
mail carrier said everything was going
along nicely"
The flying boat left here yesterday
at 5:37 pm. Q1:07 pm. Eastern
standard time) after being forced to
return from a previous start because
Of spark-plug trouble.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
INDIAN POTENTATE DIES
Mir of Khairpur Was Advocate
of British Control.

KARACHI, India, December rs
R.-Mir Ali Nawaz Khan, ruler of
Khairpur State, died yesterday.
The Mir somewhat past middle age,
was the leader of the Shia sect of
Mohammedans, estimated in 1880 to
comprise some 100000 persons.
He controlled a state of 5000 square
miles on the Indus River.
Evening star., 1935-12-26
LAVAL HOLDS HOPE
EFFORT FOR PEACE
WILL AVERT WAR
Premier Tells Cabinet Posi-
ton Will Depend on ltal-
ian Provocation.
CONFIDENCE AT STAKE
AT SESSION TOMORROW
Mussolini and Selassie Battle
Spies-Troops in skirmishes
Over Christmas Day.

BACKGROUND
Indications OF dn-Ethiopidn
trouble 1Dere epident on Christmas,
1884. On Christmas, 1885, nearly
three months OF actual warfare had
been concluded; t,po italian armies
had advanced into Ethiopia from
both north and south. Making slo1o
progress, italian forces met little
opposition at first, but haze en-
countered heaUier fighting in re-
cent iDeeks.
Meanwhile, League OF Nations de-
cided upon course OF economic pres
sure against aggressor Italy. Fail
nre OF BritiSh-Frencfl peace efforts
ledue League members 1Oith no re-
course but to continue policy. Brit
ain, prepared for tDar if necessary.
is reported strengthening dssur-
dnces OF military cooperation from
Mediterranean nations.
Evening star., 1935-12-26

(See WAR, Page A.
Evening star., 1935-12-26

tSee LETTER. Page %
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
LETTERS FROM READERS :

Last Wednesday flew members
working with Mrs. Lydia Son.
merville from Aberdeen went on
this cannery job at noon hour
and sold several copies of the
Voice of Action, besides secur-
ing three subscriptions. This in
face of the fact that a representa-
tive of the Pr was allowed to
contact the men while working
the day before and only sold one
subscription.
March we sponsored a sue
cessful card party and took in
around $40 net, six prizes given
away, and free lunch of sand
witches and coffee. All prizes and
lunches were furnished by the
business men of the city.
We would like to hear just
what other continuance commit
tees are doing throughout the
state toward organizing the I'M
employed into one mighty mass
organization to fight for the i'm
mediate needs of the workers
and force the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance
Bill, HB 1913, to be enacted into a
law.
State Unemployment Council
Press Committee of Montesano
by Bob Young.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Fascist Fights Fascist

These are glorious days of exposes.
.Pro-fascSt fights pro-fasciSt. David Law
renee, reactionary financial writer for the
daily press who openly sides with the pro-
fascist forces of business in time of strikes
and other labor struggles, is another one
of the demagogueS who is becoming fright
ened at another brand of demagogy-that
of pro-fascist Huey Long.
Lawrence admits that Huey is the
'HbiggeSet single thorn in the side of the
New Deal" "Mr. Long is candidate for
the presidency in 1886" "Huey Long is
Skillful enough to seek to draw business
men to his banner His idol is Hitler. He
knows that Hitler never would have as
cended to power without the support of
business and industry in Germany"
Thus the pro-faSciSt Lawrence, in
fighting the pro-faSciSt Long, admits what
the writers of the daily press have seldom
before admitted-that faScism and big
business are bedfellowS.
Lawrence urges Roosevelt to seize
the Scepter of dictatorial power before the
rival dictator Long beats him to it. He
urges Roosevelt to be a second Ramsay
Macdonald, for "Great Britain in the past
two years has made considerable progress"
Cat driving down living standards of the
masSeS). "Maybe Mr.. Roosevelt will see
the handwriting on the wall and throw
overheard those who would Scuttle the
economic ship and sail uncharted seas
those who feel that demagogy in pretenSe
of "social services must be kept up. "The
man who is watching him most closely
and who would profit by Mr.. RooSevelps
mistakes is Huey Long"
In the same vein General Johnson
is making heated talks against the "dema-
gogy" of Huey Long and Father Coughlin,
and Huey heatedly answers him back.
Demagogues are fighting dema-
gogues. The workers are always the only
true losers until they can present strong
united front. Support the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Fight criminal
syndicalism laws and all other laws pre-
pairing the way for fascism and war!
r. K. Van D
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
HEARST
By r. X. VAN DORM

Since our last article on Hearst
went to press, many interesting
facts have been disclosed. We
have already told how Hearst
news, directly Or indirectly,
reaches one-fOurth of the reading
public of the entire United
States. In addition to this, mil
lions of other American workers
are prOpagandiZed by the pro-
fascist publisher through his
militarist news reels and his ra-
do stations.
Hearst owns mines and other
property in New York, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,
Montana, South Dakota, Mexico,
Colombia, etc. In one year
Hearst's business enterprises
have Melted him a profit of $780,
100000.
Hearst's lies about the Soviet
Union, let us never forget, will
not slacken. They have only be-
gun. In 1880, when there was a
shortage of food in many sections
of the USSR, Hearst publicly ex-
pressed his admiration for the
marvellous construction that was
being achieved by the workers
state.
Acting upon orders from Hearst
all his editors are being forced
to dig out of their back files pic
lures of 1918 battle fields, in all
their horror and desolation, and
to label them as fields of Soviet
repression. The eyewitness ar
ticles written by his personal in
vestigatOr Thomas Walker" turn
out to be a complete fake, for Of
fetal records show that no such
person has ever entered the So
Wet Union.
Own Bureau Denies SANDER
But this is not all to the story.
Hearst's own press bureau head
in the Soviet Union Lindsay Par
rOtt, head of Hearst's Intena-
tional News Service bureau in
Moscow has vigorously denied all
the statements that Hearst's pa
pers have printed about the
Ukraine and other famine strick-
en-" sections of Russia. Parrott
reveals that in the pay and serv-
ice of Hearst himself, he recently
travelled over the area that
Hearst has lin the grip of famine"
and found the region very pros
porous.
Hearst has been spreading the
propaganda of various foreign So
cieties which claim to be religious
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Workers Bill Gains
Press Recognition
The Workers' Unemployment anC

The Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill is gaining prestige
rapidly. 1t must be strongly supported. At
ter conspiracy of silence from the very
first, the daily press was finally forced
last week to take notice of the bill. In their
daily Syndicated column going to papers
all over the country, Pearson and Allen
felt obliged to report: cleft wing farmer,
labor and white collar groups who want
to junk the administrations program en-
tirely and substitute for it the Lundeen
bilp' are mentioned. Little or nothing has
appeared in the press about this last pro-
gram" they admit, "nor the fact that the
House Labor committee has reported it
favorably and will move to substitute it
for the administrations BILL
On the day before these writers wrote
one of their few other columns that was of
real significance They admitted all the
facts that were predicted and exposed
from the first by the Voice of Action-but
never before admitted in the daily press
They admit: The MIRA Research Di-
vision has published figures showing
that although payrolls in December, 1884,
were only about 90 per cent of the total
in 1926, dividends and interest were $50
per cent of their total in 1926. In other
words there has been no redistribution of
wealth Gas Roosevelt Solemnly promised).
On the contrary-and to use blunt Ian
guage-the rich have been getting richer
and the poor have been getting poorer.
The middle class has begun to diSintegrate.
During the same period the net income of
corporations increased by IS per cent,
while the income from wages and salaries
Shrank by per cent. Only one explana-
ton for this prosperous condition of indus
try alongside widespread unemployment
is possible greater use of machine
methods (read: intense Speed-up) and a
greater concentration of profits
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Branded Vile, Corrupt by
Americas Foremost Historian

organizations working for the re-
lief of the famine sufferers" in
Russia. Upon investigation these
groups prove to be international
Nazi groups working for inter-
ventiOn in the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Parrot found, on his re-
cent tour through the famine
stricken areas" that the inhab-
itants were so prosperous they
were sending relief to foreign
groups who are the victims of
German fascism.
These facts reach very few Deo-
pie in America because the rest
OF the press supports Harst in
his conspiracy of silence regard
ing his own corruption; and very
few people abroad learn the full
truth because, in accordance
with his agreement with Hitler,
Hearst's vile news" appears 81
multaneously in the foreign and
domestic press. In this way
Hearst's acts are intended to
serve two purposes: To arouse
sentiment for the Nazi regime in
America and at the same time
stir up antagOnism in Germany
against the Soviet Union. The
Hearst-Hitler-Hull campaign fits
in completely with the campaign
of various Wall Street groups
for an American war against the
Soviet Union. The same faxed
news, the same faxed pictures,
appear in the German and Amer
lean press for tn same purpose
to aid war and fascism and de-
feat the Soviet Union.
Fights Communist Party
In America, Hearst has order
ed all his editors to bar all news
about the Roosevelt hunger and
war program against the masses
and to play up all news about
the moves of the ruling class to
outlaw the Communist Party and
all militant labor organizations.
That Secretary Hull had a fully
worked out plan, with a we'll
planned excuse, for ending trade
discussions with the Soviet I'm
ion as a preliminary to hostile
preparations against that cOun-
try, is shown by Hearst's New
York American, which cynically
points out that when the Soviet
ambassador entered the hall to
meet Hull, Hull happily felt an
attack of splendid isolation COM
ing on him that day, and in four
minutes and two words he sent
the Tovarish on his borrowing
round and stripped our embassy
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15

tertained by the most terrific
mumbo-jumbo of Biblical proph.
esy, prophecies from the Great
Pyramid, and inaccurate and dis
torted history and economics that
it was ever my fortune to hear.
However, beneath the yelling
nonsense, the direct fascist pro-
paganda thrust out like a cloven
hoof. For instance, the anglo
Saxon" appeal, la Hitler's Nor
die; approval of European fas-
cist dictators as having prevent
ed chaos; the picture of similar
Statesmen" waiting in the Unit
ed States until the mass of peo-
pie become educated" by such
speakers as this and their own
miseries to accept Gods stat
utes" as interpreted by these
Huey Longs. Attacks upon The
Jews, of course, as responsible
for most of our miseries; revival
of the Protocols of Zion" myth;
denial of the fitness of the people
for self-government, and the
soothing syrup of radical phrase
ology-all the Mussolini-Hitler
technique.
Now such q man has the right
to speak, the people have a right
listen, and one can only trust in
the common sense of the COM
mon man. What ] question is the
right of Mayor Smiley to place
by implication the approval of his
office behind such a speaker by
appearing on the platform with
him, welcoming him in the name
of the people of Tacoma, and in
PRODUCING him in glowing terms
all of which Mayor Smiley did.
Robert J. Pearsall.