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-HE President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will give the annual state re-
ception IN honor of members
j of the Senate and Lower

-HE President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will give the annual state re-
ception IN honor of members
i of the Senate and Lower
House at the Executive Man
sion this evening. -,
President and Mrs. Roosevelt had
with them at dinner last evening TO
celebrate the Chief Executives blrth-
day anniversary, the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
lr.: Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano,
uncle and aunt of the President; ms
secretary, Mr.. Louis McHenry Howe;
Mrs John Boettiger, daughter OF the
hosts; Mrs. Malvina Thompson
Schneider, secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt;
Miss Marguerite LIE Hand, secretary
to the President, and Miss Grace
Tully. Following a custom in the
Roosevelt family, only 81 candles were
on the cake.
Mrs. Roosevelt was the honor guest
at luncheon today of Mrs. Harold L.
Ickes, wife of the Secretary OF the
Interior, who entertained in her nome
on Glenbrook road. The other guests
were Mrs. John Nance Garner, Mrs
Cordeu Hull, Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes, the Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury Miss Josephine Roche, Mrs.
Michael L. Igoe, Miss Sophy G. stan
ton. Mrs. Frank A. West, Mrs. Edwin
Burling, Mrs. AdOlph Caspar Mlller'
Mrs. B. F. Langwcsthy of Illinois, Mrs.
Charles D. Wa!cott, Miss Mabel
Boardman and Mrs. Francis Biddle.
The table had an effective CENTER
niece of roses and sweetpeas.
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. Wlfe OF
the Secretary of the Navy, entertained
at luncheon today at the Sulgrave
Club in honor of Nine. Peter, Wlfe
of the Minister of Switzerland. Ihe
company included the Secretary OF
Labor Miss Frances Perkins, Nine.
Wadsted. Nine. Prochnik, Nine. de
With. Sonora de Alfaro, wife OF the
Minister of Panama; Mrs. Marx
Bristol, Mrs. Patrick DreWry, MRS
Lawrence Groner, Mrs. Harry McL'
Huse, Mrs. C. j. Peoples. Mrs. FRED
erick Horne, Mrs. Emory S. Land, Mrs.
Joseph r. Defrees, Miss Jennie Moore,
Mrs. Edwin T. Merrith, Mrs. Albert
Niblach, Mrs. Loren johnson, Mrs.
Frank Ridgeley, Mrs. Cary Magruder'
Mrs. B. F. Hutchison, Mrs. Wade
Hampton Ellis, Mrs. B. B. Jones, Mrs,
Kenna Elkins, Miss Josephine Patten,
Miss Helen Patten, Mrs. James /,
Morris. Mrs. A. E. Phillips, Mrs. James
D. Folk, Mrs. James Helm, Mrs. Perry
Heath and Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman.
Ambassador of Italy
Guest at Senator's Home.
The Ambassador of Italy, Signor
Augusta Rosso, was the guest IN whose
honor Senator and Mrs. James Cou-
zens entertained at dinner last eve
ming at their residence on Woodland
drive.
The Ambassador of France and
Nine. de Laboulaye will be the guests
of honor at dinner this evening OF
the Chinese Minister and Nine. SEE.
Nine. SEE will not be at home to-
morrow afternoon.
At the warm, colorfully furnished
Spanish Embassy the Ambassador OF
Spain and Sonora de Calderon were
hosts to smart company of Capital
society at large reception yesterday
afternoon.
Sonora de Calderon received in
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versary ball last evening and will ac-
company her parents to the reception
to the Congress which the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt will give this eve
ming.
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BRITISH TROOPS
REPORTED MOVING
War News Stirs England.
Soldiers Believed Embark.
ing for Alden.

LONDON, October 4-The British
public today was concerned with two
matters-the news OF The Italian ad-
vance into Ethiopia and rumors that
British troops we're on the move in
the trouble zone.
Unconfirmed reports current for
several days that the troops in India
were ready to embark for Aden. on the
southern end of the Red Sea. we're
revived again and went undenied in
official circles.
The British feet now appears to be
almost completely mohilized in the
Mediterranean and Rec Seas. while
all indications point 10 heavy British
airplane reinforcements in that sec
tor, particularly around the Suez Ca
nal.
Lake Tana Watched.
The outbreak of the conflict on the
Ethiopian frontier led 10 a. revival OF
reports that Great Britain stands
ready to move in Immediately to pro-
tect the Lake Tana district in case it
is invaded by the Italians.
The lake. which is the headwater
of the Nile, is about the only material
point of interest for the British in
Ethiopia and Premier Mussolini re-
peatedly has said he did not inteJ6
to encroach there.
Ambassador Dino Grandi Of italy
called on Sir Samuel Hoare. foreign
secretary, and they conversed for 40
,,1;ortae uyI1ap cran6; dapo ad he
refused to make statement.
simultaneously. Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin arranged to speak
at the conservative party conference
at Bournemouth this evening.
The Prime Minister had telephone
conversation with the foreign secretary
before leaving Downing street yester-
day and as the conservative confer
ence was expected generally to raise
the question of sanctions against Italy
as matter of urgency, Baldwin's pro-
nouncement was awaited with keen
interest.
League Maneuvers Studied.
Great importance was attached in
British circles to the conversation be-
tween Anthony Eden. minister for
League of Nations affairs and Pre-
mier Pierre Laval at Paris. before the
French cabinet meeting. to consider
the questions of sanctions and Franco
British naval cooperation.
Their conference lent support to
suggestions that the first proposal for
sanctions to halt the Italo-E Ethiopian
warfare would come from a joint
Anglo-French memorandum to the
League of Nations council tomorrow.
Romes explanation that Italian
aviators bombarded Aduwa because
Ethiopian forts fired on their planes
came as a distinct surprise. Authori-
tative British quarters had no in
formation that Aduwa was anything
other than a civilian center.
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Southern Ethiopian Warriors
Mass to Defend North Border
Throng of Families and Friends Ac.
company Kuolo Tribesmen Leaving
for Front in Freight Cars.

means. among other things. prin-
cipally stacked arms sentries, tears
and quartermasters aware that all
troops. on the eve of battle. are
amiable and mutual thieves.
One refuses to accept the discipline
of Ethiopians as such. There seems
to be no baggage, no impedimenta
Somewhere, it seems. word is given
much as a note is sounded when bees
swarm. 1t is a fearsome, natural
thing, this vast Swarming toward
rail line, when woods and wales dis
gorge such shouting mobs of people,
the soldiers among them determined
only by the number which remains
aboard at train departure.
When men poured upon the tracks
at train departure their friends and
women folk clung to them until the
last moment. Yet these women folk
were not the Gallas or Amharics of
the region, but lean. black plateau
folk from down Kenya way. The
women had followed their men to this
swarming rendezvous. followed them,
in the pitch of@the rainy season. over
vast mountain chains and arduous
trails. They seemed to appear out of
nowhere by sheer African necromancy
Gathering Spontaneous.
There was something spontaneous
about this black gathering. 1t was
hardly leave-taking. but a jubilee
a chorus of hallelujah, with con-
tinual coming and going of riflemen
from box cars in the frenzied activity
of beehive. There was neither de-
pertinent nor reason. to a Western
eye, in this scurrying from car to car
In wild passion of eave-taking
1t was impossible to discover the
number of rounds of ammunition sup
piled each Kuolo soldier upon leaving
the capital area. A rife cartridge, OF
course, is wealth in hunters country
and in a kingdom of warriors it is
coin of the realm. To issue live car
tridges to soldiers in the capital area
here, expecting these to remain in a
cartridge belt-particularly in the belt
of warrior whose natural weapon is
the lance-would be comparable to the
issuance. to Western troops. of money
belts packed with golden sovereigns.
with corresponding injunction from
the supply sergeant to keep them for
use near the front.
Thus the rumor was passed that the
Kuolos would be issued 220 rounds OF
ammunition. for Mauser rifles, imme-
diately upon the hour of departure.
This issue was to occur upon the Ras
Terterte plain; or in the huts before
the war department; or in vast
sheep meadow (the place was vile with
mud some miles from the radio
station, which in turn 6 nearly
impossible miles away. Finally, the
ammunition was to be issued at
Akhaki, some 18 miles, negotiable only
by rail, from the capital.
Corner on Mules.
There was Immediately at the cspi-
tai . corner on saddle mules, many
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for correspondents who counted on
both hands the years since in the
saddle. and who now prepared. in the
frantic search for newsy tidbits mere.
to scour unbroken country drenched
in four months of equatorial rains
5000 feet above the sea.
One correspondent. threading through
two halts of the train Gt moved at
corresponding pace), saw exactly two
cases of fabulous small-arms ammuni-
tion, that golconda lode of the Gallas.
These two were escorted by head
man as they were placed upon the
gay-caparisoned saddle of fine rid
ing mule. The donor of the ammuni-
ton led this mulc by bride, himself
armed in red velvet-covered scimitar
German-made, cheap-bedizened dag
ger. Mannllcher rife and a scarlet
leather set of bandolierS exhibiting
his own cleaning. personal wealth in
cartridges.
A man must carry with ease if he
IS hardy. some 220 cartridges in time
of war. The headman wore lightly.
as personal adornment of his manli-
ness, double that number with COM
fort. Leading his premium riding
mule, on whose back rested the Two
oblong cases of ammunition, he was
f1anked and outridden by followers to
the number of so. half of whom car
ried rifles new in Kipling's hey-day.
the other half with lance hats from
which the points, for city wear, had
been temporarily removed.
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tone Eews.)
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BY LAURENCE STAIIINGs

Adds ABABA. October 4 tN.A.
MAJ The Southern tribes are pour
ing their fighting power into the vast
Ethiopian reserves along the Northern
border, and the citizens of Adds
Ababa remain in frenzy of expec-
fancy. playing the game of hare and
hounds to watch the troops depart.
Now the last of $4,000 Kuolos have
departed, and at every hamlet. as
troops entrain, by African magic the
thickets and Tukuls emit soldiers,
half-uniformed but full-armed These
are followed by hordes of we'll wisherS
and friends, who fight their way into
the freight cars as if fully confident
of being taken to the fighting zones
As all bear rifles wear a warlike look
and are possessed of complete trucu-
lency, it is impossible to estimate the
draft which each train conveys.
They are full of fight. these Kuolos,
though they count not on gas or the
concentrated fire of modern arms.
Scenes around the cars hardly count
back to the days of Forty Men or
Eight Horses" though there are GER
tain phenomena not unknown to the
shipping of soldiers in freight cars
for there are loud and strident claim
ants to favored positions by the grilles.
Just as there are shouts of men and
tears of women.
Estimate Is Impossible.
Watching more than thousand Of
the Kuolo infantry depart-they are
really Hoplites, or rural militia-I
found it impossible to estimate either
the number or equipment of this horde
of eager fighters. Because every
citizen of Ethiopia who boasts a
lineage also arms his followers with
rifles. and because every free man
wears a cartridge belt. a white
chamma and at least one vestige of
khaki in the barefoot ensemble, all
men look to be light-armed infantry.
Thus when friends climb aboard
train it is impossible to determine
whether a squad or a single simple
soldier is embarking. Only when
three -fourths of box cars belligerent
humanity comes tumbling from the
doors as the train rattles out may one
count the denizens who actually are
embarked upon the Emperor's service.
In an effort to arrive at the just
complement of a troop train three OF
us were stationed with cameras along
the route for a distance of 18 miles.
reaching positions in this well-nigh
trackless country after rainy night
of bitter recriminations among mules
and men in a welter of half-fordable
streams and morasses. Even then.
with the most careful counting. esti-
mates of three observers varied, the
tally being 500 to 1,500 soldiers of all
ranks on two trains.
Discipline Is Strange.
It Is not, I am sure, lack Of dis
cipline among these troops which be-
wilders the Western eye, but q dis
cipline to which such eyes are not
accustomed. Surely . troop train
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sELASSIE LOOKS TO LEAGUE.
Telegraphs League Of Invasion, Hint
ing Sanctions in Order.
BY WADE WERNER.

tCopyrisht. 1885. by the Associated Press.l
GENEVA, october 4.-Italy is car
rying out its openly proclaimed threat
to conquer an unarmed Ethiopia. En-
peror Halle Selassie telegraphed to
the League of Nations today through
his foreign minister.
Asserting that Italy admitted an in
vasion of the Agame district and bonn
bardment of two towns with massacre
of women and children. Halle Selassie
announced that he was determined.
nevertheless, to cooperate with the
League.
The Emperor was considered by
League officials to be making bid for
sanctions against Italy as being juSti-
fed under article Is Of the League
covenant, and to be indicating his
willingness to bow to any decision
under the covenant.
Eden in Conference.
An urgent demand for both sides
to cease fighting Immediately will be
the League Councils first act tomor-
row toward ending the East African
warfare, South American sources
said.
In British quarters. however. II was
regarded as not yet certain that this
procedure-which was followed in the
Chaco War-would be adopted in the
present emergency.
Anthony Eden, British minister for
League affairs, who arrived this fore
noon from Paris. conferred with Sal
vador de Madariaga of Spain, chair
man of the Council. and Joseph A. c.
Avenol. League secretary-general. OH
this and other details of procedure.
A spokesman for the Italian dele
CATION reiterated to the Associated
Press that Italy did not intend to
Withdraw from the League unless the
Council definitely voted measures"
striking Italy.
Ethiopia Pledges Cooperation.
I'VE have received a corAmunics-
tion from the Italian government"
the Ethiopian note to the League said.
THE Ethiopian government notes
admission by the Italians of respon-
sibility for the invasion of the prov
ince of Agame, bombardment of two
open towns, massacre of women and
children and destroying a hospital
bearing the visible insignia of the
Red Cross, describing these attacks as
necessary measures of defense and in
terpreting the withdrawal of our
troops from the frontier as a strategic
move.
In reply to reiterated Ethiopian
demands for observations and pa
cific settlement since December. 1884,
Italy, who had begun to dispatch
troops and ornaments in August, 1884.
has only intensified her warlike prep
arstions throughout the entire. pro-
cedure before the Council.
She rejected all proposals for pa
cific settlement and is today begin
ming to carry out her only proclaimed
threat to conquer unarmed Ethiopia.
Despite the definiteness and bru-
tality of the Italian aggression. which
obliges the Ethiopian Army to defend
its territory against the invader. the
imperial government hereby reiterates
its firm resolve to cooperate fully
with the Council within the frame
work of the covenant of the League
of Nations"
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Pope. but it is believed that If Italy
continues its attack. the Ethiopian
government may intern them.
In view of the present situation. the
government requested Luigi Vinci-
Gjgliucci. the Italian Minister. to seal
up the legation wireless station. 1t
was said that if he did not comply the
him his passports.
Dispatches to Be Censored.
Beginning tomorrow. the government
will impose a censorship on all dis
patches. Two Belgian officers. who
understand foreign languages, may be
appointed as censors.
The Fascist forces also occupied
Mount Rama, overriding Ethiopian
resistance, the government said. No
further details we're disclosed. Brit
ish admiralty maps place Rama"
deep into Ethiopia beyond Mount
Mussa Ali where the first Italian
penetration was reportedD
The third line development came at
Deridawa. on the railroad line be-
tween Adds Ababa and Djibuti
French Somaliland-the Ethiopian
capitals only modern contact with
the outside world.
French police ordered evacuation
OF Americans and other foreigners in
the city. in fear of an immediate air
raid, which might come from Italian
Somaliland on the east.
Residents Terror Stricken.
Residents of the capital itself we're
in terror of an early air attack. but
tire Italian Minister. Luigi Vinci-
Gigluicci, stuck to his post.
The government. amid the reports
Of continuing bombings and battles.
was without details as to the strength
of the opposing forces or the number
of casualties.
The Ethiopian government sent an
other note to the League of Nations,
declaring that despite Italy's original
bombing of Aduwa yesterday. in which
1t said a hospital was hit and wom-
en- and children killed, Emperor Halle
Selassie still hoped for peaceful set
tlement to the conflict.
Italy Denies Report.
Utaly also sent note to the
League, denying Ethiopian reports
that Italian detachments crossed the
frontier yesterday south of Mount
Mussa Ali The League Council
meets tomorrow for action in the
case, with France and Britain re-
ported already agreed on a program
for economic sanctions against italy,
The Ethiopian government reported
that today's battle area was within
the neutral, 30-kilometer line (about
l8 miles, behind which Emperor
Halle Selassie said he had withdrawn
his forces.
Imperial guards surrounded the
italian legation, where angry Ethi-
opians made sinister gestures.
Sentries challenged all visitors to
the legation. but the Minister was
allowed full freedom.
Overwhelmed by mountains Of
urgent press dispatches. the radio
station warned correspondents that
in the future only 200 words daily
would be accepted from each.
When general mobilization was pro-
claimed simultaneously with the
bombing of Aduwa yesterday 500 dis
patches containing 10000 words were
filed. making it impossible for the
radio stations two transmitters to
handle them.
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j. D. c. IN VIRGINIA
SELECTS OFFICERS
Mrs. W. M. Forrest of Char.
IotteSviIIe Named PreSi-
dent of Division.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE. Va, October 4.-The
Virginia Division, United Daughters
of the Confederacy. prepared for ad-
journment this morning as officers for
1885, elected yesterday afternoon,
we're installed. Final items on the
program we're the reports of several
special committees and the transac-
ton of routine business.
Members from cities and towns
throughout the State attended the
convention which opened Tuesday
evening. The meeting reached its
peak point with historical program
last night at which DR.. Matthew Page
Andrews, Baltimore historian, and
Stuart Campbell, Wytheville attorney,
delivered addresses.
Mrs. w. NJ. Forrest Elected.
Election of Mrs. w. NJ Forrest of
Charlottesville as president and pres
entation of crosses to four veterans of
three wars we're high lights of yes
terday's program.
In addition to Mrs Forrest, who
succeeds Mrs. Severn Nottingham of
Orange, other State officers chosen
we're:
Mrs. ]. G. Osborne of Radford. first
vice president; Mrs. Harry Quisen-
berry Of Lexington, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. w. A. Coleman of Rich
mond, third vice president; Mrs. w. o.
Bickle of Staunton, treasurer; Mrs.
B. c. Baldwin of Lynchburg, record
ing secretary; Mrs. James S. Fitz-
hugh of Charlottesville. correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. James B. Morgan
of Roanoke, registrar; Mrs. E. H.
Hibbs of Manassas, historian; Mrs.
c. C. Linkenhoker of Pearisburg. re-
corder of crosses; Mrs. H. G. Robin
son of Wytheville, custodian.
Delegates Named.
TIE delegates named Mrs. William
Ellis of Elliston, oldest surviving child
Of former President John Tyler an
honorary president of the Virginia
organization. and appointed Mrs.
Caoell Flonnoy of Lexington. custo-
dian of the Lee Chapel there.
TIE crosses. highest award of the
U. D c.. we're given to Rev. Richard
Henry Les of Lynchburg and E. G.
Baldwin of Roanoke, World War vet
erars. and w. o. Trenor and Thomas
w. Spindle of Roanoke, veterans of
the Philippine Insurrection and
Spanish American War.
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League Of Nations affairs, agreed on
the program. but that Frances pre-
mier was anxious to keep the sane
tions within limits to preserve Euro
pean peace.
Limitation of the hostilities to East
Africa-with an end to them there as
soon as possible-was described by
authorities as Lavals chief aim.
He and Eden were reported au-
thoritatively to have agreed to avoid
any blockade of Italy which might
lead to a European war.
The sanctions. when and if applied,
probably will begin with a refusal of
loans to Italy and lifting of the en-
barge on arms to Ethiopia. officials
said.
These steps would be followed by a
ban on expectation of raw materials
to Italy, with prohibition of purchases
from Italy as the last resort.
Eden stopped here between trains
yesterday before proceeding to Geneva.
Laval intended to follow Immediately
after the cabinet session today, the
two pledging "close collaboration" at
the League Council session tomorrow.
The ranks Of French opponents to
sanctions were Joined by Senator
Henry de Jouvenel, who. when he was
q French delegate to the League, sup
ported Ethiopia's admission to the
international body.
Economic sanctions are imprac-
ticable. he said in statement, from
the mere fact of the existence of pow
erful economic entities outside the
League"
Application Of military sanctions
would throw Italy into union with Ger
many. he insisted, and create In the
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Guards Stationed at Embassies.

BUENOS AIRES, October 4 tP).-
Police guards were placed at the en-
baSsies and consulates of Italy and
Great Britain yesterday to guard
against any possibility Of incidents in
connection with the Italo- Ethiopian
situation. 1t was expected the guards
would be maintained throughout the
conflict.