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Evening star., 1935-07-26
Ethiopia To Refuse.

Adds ABABA, July 26 R.-Au-
thoritative sources said today that
Ethiopia would refuse to accept a re-
vival of the Cancellation Commission
in its controversy with Italy.
This stand was made known upon
receipt Of a new note from Italy, ex-
pressing willingness to have a fifth
neutral member appointed to the COM
mission which collapsed at Scheven-
ingen, The Netherlands, in disagree
ment over issues to be discussed.
The contents of the italian note
were not divulged. but the minister of
foreign affairs announced that the
Ethiopian delegation to the League Of
Nations has received the necessary in
structions TO deal with any proposal
for reconvening the commission.
Although the nature Of these in
Structions were not disclosed, informed
sources insisted that Ethiopia was not
willing to accept any recalling of the
body.
Ethiopian government officials, ex-
pressing disappointment at the Brit
ish governments ban on the export
OF arms to both Italy and Ethiopia,
charged today that the British action
favored Italy.
The empire officials said the ban re-
suited in 4 definite disadvantage to
Ethiopia because there are no arms
factories here, while Italy is well
equipped to meet the requirements for
munitions manufacture.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
THREE ARE SHOT
IN PAY ROLL FIGHT
Woman Shopper, Bandit and
Guard Wounded-Part Of
$4,000 Taken.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEORIA, H., July 26.-Three per-
sons, including a woman shopper,
were shot and wounded today when
three paw roll robbers battled police
in a downtown gun fight.
Ore robber, who gave the name OF
Ed Mace OF Kansas City, was cap
tured after he had been wounded by
pursuing police. He was hit in the
right leg.
His two companions escaped with
an undetermined amount of money.
Nearly s25,O00 was in a bag wrested
from a pay roll guard, the police said.
but much of the money was scattered
over the streets as the robbers fed.
Joseph Backus. so, guard for a
tavern, was probably fatally wounded
by blast from a 12-gauge shotgun.
Mrs. John Edinburgh Of Peoria.
shopping on the third floor of a de-
partment store, was struck in the
forehead by a stray bullet.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
DEPORT|NG Of 1871
CRIMINAL ALIENS
SETS NEW RECORD
President Issues Orders
Clearing Federal Prisons
of Many Offenders.
NAMES OF DEP0RTEES
WITHHELD BY OFFICIALS
Group 0usted Will Be Sent to 90
Countries-0ne Woman
on List.

Orders for the deportation Of ISL
criminal aliens now serving sentences
of from one year to life in Federal
prisons-the largest single deportation
order in the countrys history-were
signed today by President Roosevelt,
it was announced by the Department
of Justice.
The names of the deportees were
not made public with the announce
ment, but it was explained that they
all are individual criminals and are
not members of gangs or groups, and
it was not believed any are nationally
known figures in crime.
OF those ordered deported so were
serving sentences for counterfeiting.
64 for violation Of the narcotics act
and 81 for miscellaneous offenses, in
cluding violations Of the postal laws,
immigration offenses, murder, viola
ton of the Mann act, bankruptcy law
violations, theft, violation of the Dyer
act and other crimes.
None From Nearby Areas.
None of those deported will 60 to
countries contiguous to the United
States, it was explained. Offenses
committed by aliens from contiguous
countries, it was pointed out, are
mostly unlawful entry, and deporta-
ton in these cases is relatively use
less, since they can readily make their
way back. 1t was thought desirable to
let these aliens serve out their terms.
The deportationS are to be made to
more than a score of nations in all
parts of the world. The method of
deportation. whether in groups or
singly, is in the hands of the Immi-
grafton Bureau, it was explained.
Orders Set Record.
The orders signed today represent
the largest single deportation of alien
criminals in history, it was said. There
were five such orders signed Novem-
ber S, 1884. One woman is in the
list OF deportees. She is q native OF
Ireland and is serving a sentence for
violation of the postal laws.
The deportation move was agreed
upon. it was explained, as a means of
reducing the Federal prison population
and of freeing the United States OF
the expense of keeping criminals sub
ject to deportation.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
LEAGUES SESSION
JULY 81 IS SPUR TO
PEACE IN AF RIGA
Rome Prefers Revival of
Cancellation Unit, but
Ethiopia Objects.
WISH TO AVOID BREAK
WITH GENEVA is SEEN
Settlement of Frontier Dispute
Held Essential, but Duce Will
Not Permit Its Discussion.

BY the Associated Press.
The League of Nations Council is
expected to meet July 81 to deal
with the controversy between Italy
and Ethiopia.
With the proposed session recognized
as unpopular with Italy. authori-
tative sources in Rome indicated the
Mussolini government preferred a
revival of the Italo- Ethiopian Con-
ciliation Commission.
The Ethiopian government, however,
was represented as opposed to such
revival, largely on the grounds
that the dispute with Italy could be
placed on the path of conciliation
only through the deliniations Of the
frontiers between Ethiopia and the
Italian colonies Of Eritrea and
Somaliland, a matter which Italy
contends cannot be undertaken by
the Cancellation Commission.
The British government is understood
to have ordered 100 soldiers from
British posts to guard the British
Legation at Adds Ababa.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
.NYE CENTRAL BANK
PROPOSAL BEATEN
Senate's Vote Scores
Second Victory for Com
promise Bill.
By the Associated Press.

by INC hSSOClhLcu EEcoS
The Senate overwhelmingly reject
ed the Nye proposal for a Govern
ment-owned central bank, offered as
a substitute for the main section of
the banking bill placing control of
the Nations credit in seven Reserve
Board members and five representa-
tives of the regional reserve banks.
Proposed by Senator Nye, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota after consulta-
ton with Father Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit priest. the substitute would
have set up q Bank of the United
States of America. with full powers
over issuance of money and reguia-
ton of its value as an agency Of Con-
gress. ...
Second Victory Scored.
It's rejection represented the second
victory of supporters of the COM
promise bank bill, which Democratic
leaders hoped to put through before
nightfall without major change after
only two full days of debate.
me NOle against tIlC GC1lLEa DdIlk
substitute was SO to 10.
Those voting for it were Gore, Cara
way. Holt, Nicely, Thomas (Oklahoma)
and Wheeler. Democrats; Frazier, Nye,
Schall, Republicans, and ShipStead,
Farmer-Labor.
The Senate hoped to pass the bill
within a few hours, although Senator
Glass, Democrat, Of Virginia, and his
subcommittee have made changes not
welcome to Mariner S. Eccles, New
Deal governor of the Federal Reserve
Board. In order to push the bill
the Senate met an hour early.
There were signs that if the ad-
ministration plans to push for any
counter alterations it will stake its
hopes not on the Senate but on a
conference between representatives Of
Senate and House. The latter cham
Der already has passd bill more in
line with the views of Eccles. an ad-
vocate of more centralized control Of
money and credit.
Nye Argues Point.
DAY after day." Nye said in sup
porting his amendment late yesterday,
comes increased evidence that the
present banking system is not meas
uring up to needs, that it is not CIV
ing the response the people might
expect"
Under Government central bank
he argued, criminal speculation"
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Italy Fears Council Session.

ROME. July 26 LR.-Italy persisted
today in the hope that its gesture in
consenting to revive the Italo-E -Ethio-
plan Cancellation Commission would
make unnecessary action by the
League of Nations Council in the East
African dispute.
Government sources, asserting they
have received no official confirmation
Of reports that the League Council
would be convoked July 81, said Italy
would not welcome a Council meeting
because of danger Of rupture between
Italy and the League.
Informed quarters explained that
the Italian people, under Premier
Mussolini's leadership, have their
minds set on an occupation Of Ethiopia
as demonstrated by the wave OF
monster Fascist demonstrations sweep
ing the nation.
The widespread manifestations have
been organized by Fascist Black Shirt
authorities, but to the Italian mind,
this In no way lessened their impor-
tance.
"Abyssinia for u.s." was the common
cry in demonstrations last night by
ICao rTHTOpTA pace a.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
NAVY is BLAMED
FOR MACON CRASH
Refused to Strengthen Ship When
Told of Weakness, Says
Investigator.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated freSS.
AKRON, Ohio. July 26.-Prof. A. v.
Deforest, a member of the eight-man
commission appointed by Secretary of
the Navy Claude A. Swanson to inves-
tigate the cause of the loss of the
dirigible Macon. said today the United
States Navy was responsible for the
crash.
"The Navy's refusal to permit REIN
forcement of the Macon's ship struc-
ture at the vital point at which it gave
way, was responsible for the crash" :"
said Prof. Deforest.
"Dr. Karl ArnStein, vice president
of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp, re-
peatedly begged the Navy to allow him
to strengthen the structure OF that
ship when he was building it," Prof.
Deforest continued.
"The Navy refused to allow 1t to be
built right. The Navy refused to per-
nit the fatal weakness to be rectif1ed
even after 1t was notified about 1t. ne
asserted.
The Macon crashed in the Pacific
Ocean last February and two men met
death.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
INDICTMENT FACED
BY BONDHOLDERS
SABBATH Threatens Action
in Fraudulent Realty
Transactions.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

Wholesale indictment of persons
guilty of fraudulent real estate bond
transactions in a number of large
cities throughout the country. includ-
ing Washington, was predicted today
by Representative SABBATH of Illinois,
chairman of the House committee to
investigate real estate bondholders' re-
organization.
SABBATH made his prediction at the
White House today after conference
with President Roosevelt during which
he discussed some of the frauds he
said his committee had discovered, and
the bill his committee has recon-
mended to set up permanent body
to protect real estate bondholderS.
Further Probe to Be Made.
SABBATH said that during the next
week his committee will investigate
further charges of fraud in connec-
ton with an attempt to prevent re-
organization by bondholders of the
National Press Club, at Fourteenth
and streets.
He said there is evidence that an
effort has been made by unscrupulous
outsiders to buy bonds of this valuable
property at low figures to prevent
honest reorganization and with a view
to creating a condition which would
make it possible to get control of the
property at ridiculously low price.
SABBATH said this practice is wide
fhrnar0hnurf he and
has developed into racket" He
declared his committee has produced
a quantity of evidence of fraud and
that It proposes to proceed with a
view to bringing these crooks" as he
described them, to justice. and at the
same time protect the interest of the
bondholders.
THE people of this country generally
have no conception of the racket that
has developed in this business" SABBATH
declared. THE people have no idea
what these so-called bank mortgage
company and lawyer sharks have
done"
According to SABBATH some little fric-
tion has developed among several ex-
isting agencies Of the Government
which have a direct interest in the
provisions of the committees pending
bill
The agencies in question are the
Securities Exchange Commission, the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, and
the Controller of the Currency.
Because of this, SABBATH plans to
have the wording of the bill changed
so as to leave to the Presidents dis
cretion the selection of the proper ad-
ministrative agency. He added that
the President and ne opposed setting
up an independent agency.
I'VE are bucked up against some OF
the biggest and most astute lawyers
and financial men of the country" he
declared. I'VE have only the really
meager fund at our disposal to carry
on our work, but we are going ahead
lust the same"
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Aid Pledged by Communists
For 'Bourgeois" Democracies

clared: "a defensive war by the ma
tional bourgeoisie of those countries
will be a fair war In which Com
munists must take part"
He stated that in those democratic
countries proletariat have the free
dom to organize and defend their in
terests, while under Fascism, they
have none whatsoever"
Two American Communist leaders.
Earl Browder and william z. Foster.
took their places today in the con-
greSs.
About 400 delegates from so coun-
treis met In the red-decked hall of
columns.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
PATTON REVEALS
BOND PURCHASES
TO LOBBY PROBE
DiscIoses $1,000 Deals
Over Period When He
Drew $500 Pay.
SURPRISE WITNESS
TELLS OF MYSTERY BOX
z. v. Sellers of N. R. A. Claims
He Carried 1t Away From
Utility Presidents Room.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Members of the Senate Lobby Com
mittee expressed surprise today at
testimony by Representative Patton,
Democrat, of Texas that he had
bought $4,000 worth of bonds during
a period this Spring when his salary
was only $3,l00.
This followed testimony by sur
prise witness that he had seen Pat
ton carry small box away from the
hotel room OF John w. Carpenter,
president of the Texas Power & Light
Co. the day before Patton voted
against the provision in the utility
bill for compulsory abolition OF "un-
necessary holding companies.
The witness, E. v. Sellers, an
N. R. A. employe, expressed doubt
that the package was cigars and
quoted Patton's nephew, who was with
them, as saying later:
Hell, that wasn't cigars"
There had been previous testimony
that he took a box of cigars from
Carpenters room.
FattOn CIteS CucCkS.
It have never been so shaken and
chagrined in all my life" Patton tes-
tified when recalled to the stand. My
bank account is open. and the can
celed checks are there.
I've told you the straight. honest
to-God truth about the situation"
Patton obviously was nervous and
shaken when recalled.
Il never was so profoundly fooled
in my life as am at the testimony
you have Just heard" he began slowly,
standing at the witness table.
He added that he had met Sellers
at his hotel and they had become in
innate friends.
MY bank account is open and the
Cancelled checks are there" he con-
tinued. IT have never heard tell of
the little box Mr.. Sellers tells about"
A couple of days after the box Incl
dent, Sellers had testified Patton
just bought.
On Patton's first appearance on the
stand today the committee questioned
him about his investments and he
testified he had bought four Gov
ernment bonds OF $1,000 each face
value since he came to Washington,
in January.
Chairman Black then obtained state
ments several times from Sellers that
he went with Patton to Carpenters
hotel and the Representative left 80
or 40 minutes later with "a light box"
The box wasn't as large as that
one" Sellers said, pointing to the box
Patton had brought into The COM
mittee room.
Sellers, a gray-haired man, testi-
fed in a low voice that the box car
ried out of the hotel by Patton did
not seem to be a cigar box, which the
Representative said it was, but 1T may
have been"
Nephew Is Quoted.
He then told of conversations later
with Patton's nephew, Norris Shook,
in which the latter expressed doubt
that the package was box of cigars.
Sellers said the nephew asked him
(See TnRRY Page a.
Evening star., 1935-07-26

ly. it appeared improbable that any
Jew would participate on that team.
T. Hans Hinkel was appointed die
tator of non -Aryan art with the spe-
cific duty of eliminating Jewish influ-
ences from German art.
Chief Heinrich Himmler of the
secret police issued a decree making
it illegal for confessional church youth
(See GERMANY, Page s.
Evening star., 1935-07-26


cuts" divided business and pay
offs
In all the dealings Silverman was
characterized by Speicher as a power.
full influence in getting Army con-
tracts awarded to suit his wishes, ano
Silverman, the witness asserted, ever
claimed he could get in touch with
"the little White House at Warm
Springs, Ga"
Tells Of Loan to Williams.
Speicher also told the committee
he lent $4,000 to Col. Alexander E
Williams, then assistant quartermaster
general of the Army, and that it was
because of fear he would hurt Will
hams if this became known that he
absented himself from Washington
on the eve of grand jury investiga-
tion more than year ago
Previous witnesses have testified
that Silverman sent envelopes OF
money to Speicher to keep him away
from Washington" at the time the
Department of Justice was conduct
ing a wide search for Speicher. Will
liams recently was convicted by a
court-martial of accepting a $4,000
loan from Speicher.
Tells of Meeting Haig.
Speicher outlined numerous nego-
tiations he had with War Department
officers in 1888 and 1884 in an effort
to sell his automobile tubes to the
War Department.
In the course of these negotiations
he said, he was introduced to Norman
K. Haig. an executive of a General
Motors Corp. subsidiary. Haig was
interested in selling the Army Chew
rolet trucks for the National Guard
and he and Haig, he said, worked to-
gether to get Speicher's tire tubes used
on the trucks bought by the Govern
ment.
Silverman then entered the picture,
Speicher declared, by claiming he had
used his influence to get the War De-
partment to insert in truck specifica-
tions clause regarding force speed
fabrication barring Chevrolet from
bidding. He said Silverman made a
proposition to have the restriction
lifted so that Chevrolet, instead of
Chrysler, could get the contract.
O'Neil and Weodring Linked.
Gen. Williams, the witness asserted,
told him that Silverman had been do
ing business in Washington for Is
years, that he knew his way around
and hadn't gotten hurt yet" and that
Silverman and Speicher better get
together"
The witness said Silverman intro
duced him to Ralph T. O'Neil, former
national commander of the American
Legion, representing O,Neil to be "the
closest man to Assistant Secretary of
War Woodring in the United States"
and declaring O'Neil was ION my pay
(See SILVERMAN, Page So
Evening star., 1935-07-26
ay the Assoeiated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GUNNISON, Colo. July 26.-Meals
still are free at the old La Veta Hotel
here on sunless days, but the cooks
never have been overworked for that
reason.
For only l6 times in the past %
years has the hotel found 1t necessary
to serve free meals to uphold q 1912
promise.
J. II. Rowland, first manager Of the
hotel, started the custom to popularize
Gunnison as "the sunshine city" re-
serving only the right to be the final
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Gen. Liggett Improving.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 R.-
After an operation Lieut.. Gen.
Hunter Liggett's condition was de-
scribed today by attending physicians
at the Letterman General Hospital as
satisfactory" Gen. Liggett has been
in the hospital since last January.
His wife. who also has been confined
to the hospital, was reported doing
nicely"
Evening star., 1935-07-26
FINNS VOLUNTEERING

HELSINGFORS. Finland. July 26
R.-The italian and Ethiopian con-
sulates said today that 1,400 Firms
have volunteered for service in the
event of an ethiopian conflict.
One thousand have volunteered for
service in the Italian Army and 400
for the Ethiopian Army, but no appli-
cations thus far have been accepted.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
NATIONALS LEAD
new YORK, 2 TO 0
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

NEW YORK, July 26.-Washington
was leading the Yankees here this aft
ernoon, 2 to 0, at the end of the Sec
ond inning.
Ed Linke and Johny Broaca started
on the hill.
Jake Powell tripled in the first In
ming. after Buddy Myer had walked,
for the first run of the game.
Linke was injured by a liner from
Hills bat and was carried of the field
in the second.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Free Meals on Sunless Days
Cost Hotel Little in % Years

Judge of whether the sun actually hid
its face throughout a day.
The first day the free steak dinner
was served was December 4, 1918. and
the latest January 2, 1885.
I'VE have received letters from all
parts of the world asking about that
agreement" commented L. B. Sitter.
present manager.
What happens when the sun fails
to shine?
"The cooks throw a couple of extra
logs on the fire, slice a lot of steaks
and peel an extra tub Of potatoes" !"
said Sitter.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, July 26.-The Com
munist party today jumped the hurdle
of class differences to pledge its
definite support of a bourgeois"
democracy, the existence of which the
party declared threatened by Fascists.
wilhelm Pieck, the German red
leader, sounded the keynote of this
new policy in the opening address to
the Seventh Communist international
In session here.
Accusing the German Nazis of pre-
pairing war against the small demo-
cratic countries of Europe, he de-
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Prefers Death to "Life. "

CHICAGO, July 26 @.-Frank
Bankes, 20, hanged himself in the
county Jail rather than be sentenced
today to life imprisonment for killing
q policeman in an attempted hold
I'D. Bankes, who had confessed he
shot Policeman Thomas Kelma, 80.
In q tavern last May 81, was to have
been sentenced today.
Evening star., 1935-07-26

NORTHPORT, N. Y, July 26 (R.-
Made i'll apparently by tainted food,
about 100 World War veterans were
believed to be recovering today at the
United States Veterans Facility here,
with one death recorded.
Evening star., 1935-07-26
1884 Blood Purge Mood Grips
Berlin Ane,v, Diplomats Feel
Var Veterans Organization Dissolred.
Je,cs Eliminated From Olympic Team,
''Cleansing" Driue Pursued.
BY the Associated Press


members of diplomatic
atmosphere Germany
party.
Of important
developments which took place today:
Helmet the veterans organization
Evening star., 1935-07-26

spending to the American Legion in
the United States. was dissolved
throughout East Prussia, which lies
between Poland and Russia.
2. The Nazi party continued in its
uncompromising stand opposed to
political Catholicism"
3. The official German Olympic
Committee Office disclosed that there
are no Jews among the athletes al
ready chosen to compete for the Ger
man Olympic team. and, consequent
Evening star., 1935-07-26
Siluermon's Lobbying Po,cer
Barred by Speicher at Probe
army Goods Dealer Boosted of InfIu.
ence With Var Department and White
House, Witness Testifies.
"A. P. Photo.
BY REX COLLIER.

the congressional in
vegaon of lobbying at the War Department made his first public
appearance Military Affairs Committee
tured Joseph Sman surplus Army goods dealer the who
claimed Office
pocket" and could change truck will
Specher startling negota-
$000O0 truck order,