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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16

weiss attended a meeting in the
DeSoto Hotel in New Orleans in
which Longs assassination assert
edly was plotted.
Family Puzzled
The witnesses, Odom said, will
testify that DR.. Weiss was in Lake
Charles on the first day Of the
New Orleans meeting and could
not have been present when voices
allegedly plotting Longs death
were recorded on a dictaphone,
planted in the meeting room by
Christenberry's brother, Herbert.
Members of DR.. Weiss family
have been unable to shed any
light on the affair. Weiss, they
said, spent a happy Sunday with
his family. Shortly before 9
o'clock he left home saying he
was going to call on a patient. He
had arranged an operation the
next day. He habitually carried a
pistol, they said, after a marauder
was found seated one night in his
automobile. DR.. Weiss father-in-
law, District Judge Benjamin H.
Pavy, of Opelousas, however,
faced custer under a bill being
put through the special session OF
the legislature Long was steering
when he was shot. Judge Pavy
was being removed because he was
politically opposed to Long.
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the House, I followed him to
talk to him.
Gust at the time I reached
the large circle outside of the
governors office in the corridor,
Huey came out.
"Huey made some remark
about getting all the men there
for tomorrow. There were sew
eral bureau Of Identification
men there.
"AbOut that time, without
another word said, a man of
small build approached, pulled
a gun and shot Senator Long.
1 grabbed at the mans arm and
tried to defect the bullet from
Senator Long. There was no
cessation of movement or fire.
Murphy Roden grabbed Weiss
but was showed to the floor.
"The shooting kept going. 1
was right next to Senator Long.
He said he was shot and we
took him to the hospital"
Mr.. Odum asked:
"Could you say that DIR.
Weiss was trying to shoot
AGAIN."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16

ments to participate in the local
Constitution Day parade, its orig
inal schedule calling for appear
ance in Washington about three
weeks hence.
In a letter sent to the members
of the Washington Board of Trade
today by A. j. DriScoll, chairman
of the American Ideals Committee,
all are requested to display the
American flag on their places of
business as well as their homes.
He said:
"There is no need to empha-
size the importance of the Con-
stitutiOn as the foundation of
Amtrican freedom of Govern
ment. The need of everyone,
particularly the younger genera
ton, to study and know the pro-
visions of this document, upon
which his liberty and rights as
citizen are based, is most ap-
parent"
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WOMEN BACK
CONSTITUTION
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national committee
woman for Illinois, declared:
"In every crisis confronting
this country the people have al
ways turned to the Republican
party. In the present crisis. our
constitutional form of govern
ment is in peril"
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow
of the late President, was Sched'
uled to make one of her rare pub
lie appearances at the conference
later today and to give a keynote
address, on the Constitution.
Mrs. George II. Lorimer, presi'
dent of the Republican women OF
Pennsylvania, will also speak later
in the day.
Strength to Win
Mrs. Caraway saw in the Re-
publican party the strength to
win. She told the women as
sembled from several States:
1--WE know that with bitter
ness and indignant accusation
the opposition are compelled to
admit that the financial and
productive power of the nation
is controlled by Republicans. If
that is true, if the men and
women of our party have had
the brains and the ability to
create this force, surely they
must have the patriotism and
brains to preserve and protect
it.
eve may be sure Of one thing
and that is if the Republican
party cannot save the country
and bring sanity and prosperity
to the people, it is futile to ex-
pect it of any other political or
ganiZation."
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HULL TO SHIFT
DIPLOMATIC,
LINEUP
Long List Of Changes
Already Approved
By President
International News Service


Important changes in Americas
diplomatic foreign service were an
nounced today by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull.
Mr.. Hull said that President
Roosevelt had approved a long
list Of promotions, salary increases
and appointments which will re-
store the American foreign service
to normal conditions.
Approximately $50 promotions
will be made in all classifications
in the foreign service with salary
increases ranging from $100 to
5000.
About 40 embryo diplomats who
have passed the foreign service
examinations and have been wait
ing for three years to obtain ap-
pointmentS will receive them.
Exams May 4
In addition, two examinations
will be held commencing May 4,
for further appointments. The
new examinations will be held at
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincin-
natl, Denver, New Orleans, New
York, Philadelphia, st. Louis, st.
Paul, San Francisco, Seattle and
Washington.
In announcing the step, secre.
tary Hull said:
This marks the return of the
foreign service to normal condi-
tons after q long and trying
period during which officers
have cheerfully faced reduced
salaries and increasingly heavy
responsibilities.
HULL CONFIDENT
ITO those who have received
well-deServed promotions I ex-
tend my heartieSt cOngratula.
tons, and to the entire service
1 express my confidence that a
renewed and strengthened serv.
Ice will even more efficiently
than before carry out the in
creasingIy important duties
which may be assigned to
them.'
He explained that while promo
tons have been made in the lower
grades, this is the first time since
July, 1881, in which they have
been made in the upper grades
Of the foreign service.
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Classes in First Aid
To Start Thursday

Standard courses in first aid,
conducted by the District of Co
lumbia Chapter, American Red
Cross, will begin Thursday at 8
p. M, according to Mrs. John A.
Johnston, director of the Roll Call.
The class will meet once a week
at the Chapter House, 1880 E st.
N. w., from 8 to $50, for ten
weeks. Those wishing to join are
to notify Mr.. Gammage, director
of instruction, at National $500.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16

JUDGE MATTINGLY
HIS MANY well wishers
are congratulating Judge
Robert e. Mattingly of the
District Municipal Court on
his birthday anniversary to-
day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16
LaGuardia Fights
noisy Ash Collectors

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Mayor
F.. H. LaGuardia has d.
rected Thomas w. Hammond,
commissioner of sanitation, to
curb the needless clamor created
by the crews gathering ashes and
garbage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16
Joseph Wd|dmdn New
Sorority Shop Head

Joseph Waldman, former man
ager of Cunningham'S, has as
sumed a similar position with the
recently opened Sorority Shop,
women'S ready-to-wear store at
81 Pennsylvania Ave.
Mr.. Waldman has become well
known in the ladies' apparel bust
ness here in the past few years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-16
Turkeys Kitten

HANSON, Mass. G.N.S0.-Be-
meath the warm feathers of a tur-
key in its barrel nest, a farm hand
at the South Hanson County Hos
pital found a newly born kitten.
Where the kitten came from is
still a mystery.
Evening star., 1935-10-20

dismal spot would bring from the
burning sands ripe cases of malaria.
That's what laid him low-heart fall
ure due 10 toxamia combined with
infected kidneys and malaria.
WHEN the news Of young BARRIERS
w death came through the regular
channels. his father at Nyack, N. j.,
was called upon to write his own sons
obituary-which followed the main
story. When that bit of writing
reached the wires it contained this
note to the editors: Debating my
sons obituary has crucified me, but
there is nobody else here to do it. F.
C. B."
On the front page Of the Chicago
Tribune, preceding the news story
of Barber, was this editorial note:
ga newspaper man is not often
news. But when he is the son, the
grandson, the great-grandson, and the
great-great-grandson of soldier war
correspondents; when he Is first on an
Ethiopian battle front; when he
plunges into a pestilential desert to
be first with the news; when he dies
of malignant fever; when a fellow
war correspondent cables the report OF
his death, and when his father writes
his obituary. the rules are suspended)"
Such deeds as this bring about a
close comeraderie among war corre-
spondents. They have been places
Evening star., 1935-10-20
This Is the Day of the Ne70
WAr Correspondent, as Ne1v
and Faster Methods in Gather
ing and Transmission of Nezus
Haze CAangedhe OMOrdwof
Reporting.

and seen things-together. So, when
they sit around a luncheon table, as
they did on Thursday, and begin to
recall the old days, there are stories
for the books.
Naturally, Steve Bonsal can tell the
longest line. AS he remarks in open
ing a yarn, "They caught me young" "
He went to his first war-that conflict
between Bulgaria and Serbia, in 1885
when he was only 20 years OF age.
And he has been at it ever since. Not
war in any part of the globe. or a
battle, or a skirmish, but there you
found the redoubtable Stephen Bon
sal, clad in the khaki of the war cor
respondent.
Read off the names of the wars,
some one said.
Hitting only the nigh spots. here
they are-the wars recorded by
Stephen Bonsal from 1885:
Bulgarian -Servian, 1885; Morocco,
1889; Macedonian Uprising, 1890;
Chino-Japanese War, 1895; Cuban In
surrection, 1897; Spanish-American
War, 1898; Samar, Batangas and Min
danao, Philippine Island. campaign,
1901: Venezuelan Revolution, 1908;
Russo-Japanese War. 1904: Madero
Revolution, 1910-11, and the World
War.
In 1915 Bonsal was with Hinden-
burg's army on the eastern 'front.'
and he remained with the German
Army until America entered the war,
when he came to America and Joined
forces with the American Army as
major of Infantry. In 1918 he was
with the A. E. F. in France and saw
active service. So here, in truth, is
soldier war correspondent. After the
war he was attached to the American
mission to the Peace Conference.
When not engaged as an active war
correspondent Mr.. Bonsal finds time
to travel as special correspondent.
For instance, he Travelled 10000 miles
through Soviet Russia in 1881 and
now has completed a journey all
through Germany, itching to get into
the next big war as a correspondent.
While Stephen Bonsal was the CEN
ter of al. the glory at the Press Club
on Thursday, at his feet sat many
men who could recount similar ad-
ventures with the armies of the world
men like Kirke Simpson of the ASso-
ciated Press, who won the Pulitzer
Prize for his remarkable story on 'The
Unknown Soldier" Kirke Simpson
went with the American Navy at the
time of the capture Of Vera Cruz
and II you back him into a corner
and get him in q good mood he can
tell fantastic tale Of that adventure.
TT WAS back in 1914. Huerta, Presi-
dent Of Mexico, has come to grips
with the United States Government
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French Somaliland, which takes their
dispatches either to France or Eng
land, with press rates established at 26
cents word-a sum that has rated
100000 each month since the Italo-
Ethiopian campaign began.
II not this method, the correspond
ents must resort to another difficult
and expensive way of getting their
stories to the American people. There
is one radio station in Adds Ababa
1t operates under the supervision of
Frenchmen, with natives who are ia
miliar only with their own language
Amharic.
In other words, the boys on the
Ethiopian front are having time Of
it. Stephen Bonsal, who has been in
Abyssinia many times, says the main
thing they must fear is tick typhus.
Tick typhus? What's that?" he
was asked.
"A tick, like you get If you were
shooting in Virginia. Only it's poi
sonous tick-and it gives you typhus."
Already one war correspondent mas
fallen before the onslaught of this dis
ease.
Will Barber, Chicago Tribune cor
respondent in Adds Ababa, was the
first American newspaper man to lose
his life covering the Italo- Ethiopian
conflict. He died october 6. only 80
years old.
Son of Frederick Courtney Barber,
veteran New York newspaper man,
Wilfred Courtney Barber was the first
correspondent to reach Ethiopia
June %, 1885. He scooped the world,
going into the yellow hell of the Oga-
den desert to get the first story Of
Ethiopia's front lines-and his dis
patches carried the warning that any
white men who ventured into that
Evening star., 1935-10-20
Here's the Story of the Men
.WHo Mach Newspaper W1Hs
.WHh Military NILES, Often
Phmggmg Into the Thick Of Bat
tile TO C0Uer the Var Front and
Be First With the NezvS.

GREATER, by far, than them all,
however. was MacGahan, 1.-The
Great MacGahan," who died at the age
of "a years, leaving behind him a
record as a war correspondent that
will be revered for all time by the
men who write for the papers. g.
MacGahan, an Ohio boy, and cousin
of Gen. Phil Sheridan, became famous
for his ride into the desert of Gen.
trail Asia in 1873. According to sEu-
gene Schuyler, American secretary of
the legation at old st. Petersburg,
this was spoken of everywhere . . .
as by far the most wonderful thing
that ever had been done there"
This young Ame rican, MacGahan,
defied the Russian embargo on news
paper men to find the expedition sent
out under Gen. Kaufman to reduce
the Khanate of Khiva. Cossacks pur-
sued him for a thousand miles. He
evaded them, and after 20 days-with
two attendants who could not under
stand his language-he reached the
camp, after encounters with death,
one time lost in the desert, buried
to his hips in sand. AS an American
he was permitted to stay. As a
molodyetz-a hero-he instantly be-
came popular. With the army, he
went through the campaign against
Khiva and the war with the Turko-
mans, but the greatest exploit Of Mac
Gahan was the liberation of Bulgaria
and while Washingtonians are gen.
orally unaware of the fact, Bulgarian
ENJOYS from this city make regular
ceremonial pilgrimages to pay him
honor at the monument marking his
grave near New Lexington, Ohio.
Though Stephen Bonsal, on whose
shoulders fell the toga of MacGahan,
never saw this great war correspond
ent, the man all war correspondents
now claim as their dean recalls the
Bulgarian exploits of his hero:
"MacGahan brought to light the
atrocities in Bulgaria, first directed
attention to terrific state Of affairs,
and in this way fermented war be-
tween Russia and Turkey, which re-
suited in the liberation of Bulgaria.
Back in London, after the Carlist
campaign in the Pyrenees, in 1874,
and then the expedition to the Arctic
of the bark Pandora, in 1874, pro-
NOTED by the younger James Gordon
Bennett, on whose newspaper he
worked, MacGahan heard rumors of
the bashi bazouk maSsacres in Bull
garia. He got his greatest oppor-
tunity when the Daily News sent him
to make special investigation. His
facility as descriptive writer with an
eye for drama displayed itself in his
letters Of July and August, 1875. They
wrought q great change in British
sentiment and did much to produce
the political reaction which made war
inevitable between Russia and Turkey.
He followed the campaign, much of
the time as 0 comrade Of Gen. Sko-
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the Ethiopian government which put
into force strict military censorship
limiting dispatches out Of Adds Ababa
to 100 words each.
On the Italian side, the censorship
is no less strict. All communications
from American newspaper correspond
ents must go over the regular military
wireless route-with a double censor
ship-first at Asmara and again at
Rome. AS the regular military dis
patches from the regular Italian Army
chiefs to their headquarters at Rome
get the right Of way there is time
element attached to censorship. News
dispatches come through when they
can get through.
60 FAR no war correspondents are
authorized to operate on the Ethi-
opian frontiers. The King of Kings
was first afraid that one of his war
riors might mistake an American
newspaper man for an Italian. Since
the Italian Army has the benefit of all
news services, moving the correspond
ents to position several miles to the
rear of the fighting forces, Mussolini's
outfit naturally gets better play in
the newspapers.
Under the ministry Of foreign af-
fairs, the Italian government estab-
nshed an official press bureau. It
amounts to little, since the men in
charge Of it have other duties to per-
form. So the entire load falls upon
what is virtually an Office boy who can
do nothing until he gets orders from
his superiors, and he can seldom find
his superiors. These are the COM
plants trickling back from the war
correspondents.
What the correspondents try to de-
pend on is the land line to Djibouti, in
Evening star., 1935-10-20

Over wires such those shown the top of this
PAGE being from poles in Adds Ababa streets,
news is humming its way to cable and radio
station At the left are reminiscent of World
War days-Brtsh howitzers in action and Italys
soldiers mobzing the Austrian front in 1915 At
the right in the present conhict-Premier
Mussolini firing the opening shot in rifle training match
in Rome and torpedo boats of the Italian fleet in Med
teranean maneuvers Above: A crack detachment
of Ethiopian cavalry passing in review before Emperor
Halle Selassie. photos by A. p, Wide World and
Underwood & Underwood.)
Evening star., 1935-10-20
By John Jay DAILY.

. ELDOM fair weather, when war
. correspondents get together
for, usually, they are out in the
- muck and the rain, men behind
the men behind the lines, rushing to
telegraph and cable wires, trying to
file their dispatches to waiting
world.
On Thursday, however, a bunch of
the boys gathered round the round
table in the National Press Club, all
members of the Overseas Writers, to
honor the dean of the American War
Correspondents, Stephen Bonsal, cele-
brating his fiftieth year in the
profession.
Just returned from Germany. where
he made thorough study of the cur
rent situation, Mr.. Bonsal told his
coofreres-men who covered the wars
on all fronts-that he has his bags
packed, ready to jump into the next
campaign.
Seated around BonSal, at the head
of the table. were men who had seen
service in the Russo-Japanese War,
the Philippine Insurrection, the
Spanish-American campaigns, the
Chinese-Japanese skirmishes, and the
World War.
All of them now have their eyes on
the Abyssinian frontiers where the
armies of Premier Benito Mussolini
and Emperor Halle Selassie are
squared off-while the world watches.
Down there in that hell hole called
Adds Ababa, there are 80 American
newspapermen, with scattering of
German, English and French CORE
spondents, dangling at the end of
wires, houing to get through messages
which mean something to readers in
the United States.
The old-time war correspondents
here in Washington know what these
boys are up against-rigid censorship
and the matching Of newspaper wits
against military wits in the game Of
repression against expression. Most
Of the men in Adds Ababa are just
sprouting their wings as war corre-
spondents. Only two men who COW
cred the World War and later ex-
ploits in the field of military tactics
are out in the front lines.
This, then. is the day of the new
war correspondent. New methods in
the gathering and transmission of
news are in vogue. Gone are the olden,
golden days of the war correspond
ent-the days that produced such men
as Henry M. Stanley, Archibald
Forbes. Richard Harding Davis, Alloy
sius Januarius MacGahan and Ste
phen Bonsal.
It was Stephen Bonsal who started
Richard Harding Davis on his merry
way as q war correspondent, labelling
him "the greatest Of the present, CEN
tlry."
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belev, whom he had met at Khiva.
They became affectionate friends.
MacGahan rendered distinguished
service even when almost fully dis
abled. After the fall Of Plevna he
went to Constantinople to nurse a
stricken comrade, only himself to fall
a victim of typhus. That was the
end of THE Great MacGahan." They
buried him at Pera, with Gen. Sko-
belev as a mourner. On the initiative
of the General Assembly of Ohio Mac
Gahans body was brought to America
on United States cruiser-and SO
the Buckeye State clutches to her
bosom all the mortal remains of Amer
ica's greatest war correspondent.
CTEPHEN BONSAL wakes eloquent
when he talks of MacGahan, and
Forbes, and Davis, and all the rest
of that gallant crew who covered the
wars in all parts Of the world. Many
of them are gone: Arthur Ruhl, who
died last year; Richard Harding Davis,
Henry Morton Stanley.
Into their places now step the
youngsters, and men who are not so
young-war correspondents who saw
service as soldiers in the World War,
men like Lawrence Stallings, in Eth
iopia for the North American News
paper Alliance He was a captain Of
Marines and lost a leg in the late
conflict.
Now. Stallings and all the rest of
them are on or near the firing lines
trying to do the best they can under
adverse conditions. Whereas the old
line war correspondent could take his
time, write glowing descriptive dis
patch that had the flavor Of literature,
and post his product in a leisurely way,
getting it in print perhaps month
later, the preSent-day crew Is up on
its collective toes like reporters at
five-alarm fire, flashing bulletins.
Because Of the greatly improved
facilities Of news Transmission, the
various armies at war must be rather
cagey about the correspondents who
follow the news Of the day. II only
for this reason: sThe King Of Kings
has q radio at his headquarters. A
news dispatch telling secrets Of the
Italian Army would find itself 'howled
over the radio q few minutes after 1t
was flashed on the wire. So says
Stephen Bonsal, and he knows. That is
one reason why the dispatches out Of
Adds Ababa have yet to bring the
complete story. Not because there are
insufficient numbers Of war corre-
spondents on the job.
Hundreds of conflicting reports must,
by the very nature Of the situation,
find their way out of Adds Ababa.
The main problem Is the rearrange-
ment of these stories in New York
for American consumption. Aside from
the barriers imposed by censorship,
the correspondents In Ethiopia are
confronted with travel and commune
cation difficulties. Their object is to
get stories back to desks in city rooms
5000 miles away-and from . land
where the American language q q
rarity. .-..-
First pronunciamento Asme from
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orderly at Tampico. Uncle Sam de-
manded an apology-that Huerta sa-
lutte the American flag.
Anyway, the Atlantic feet was sent
down into Mexico waters to back up
the demand-and with it went Kike
Simpson, Archie Jameson, Charley
Michaelson. now publicity director for
the Democrats; Dudley Harmon and
host of Washington correspondents,
including Stephen Bonsal, Richard
Harding Davis. Jimmy Hare, the old
photographer for Golfers. and Fred
erick Remington, the artist.
That was the first time Kirke Snmp-
son ran afoul of naval censorship. On
the way down to Mexico, he saw the
sailor boys throwing boxes over the
side Of the ship. stripping the deck
for action, and getting out the ma
chine guns for target practice. 1t was
beautiful sight, and it looked like
preparation for war - but they
wouldn't let him send a word of it.
Naturally, when they hit Vera Cruz
they were going to go ashore-and
they were going to do some fighting.
AS the white sailor pants and the
white jackets and the white caps
would be conspicuous targets, the cap
tain ordered that all the clothes be
dyed-but the ships had left so hur-
riedly there was no dye. So, the old
man ordered that all hands boil their
clothes in coffee. That is, the ship
mates of Kirke Simpson boiled their
clothes in coffee-and so got ashore
with very beautiful array of cloth
ing, something the color Of a mud
cake. The other ships used different
brands and methods of dying. so that
the American force, when it landed
at Vera Cruz looked like a belated
edition of the Aurora Borealis.
The sniping began soon as the boys
left their ships-and Simpson and his
comrades got their first baptism Of
fire. It was about 2 o'clock in the