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The Washington times., 1936-03-03
Il DUCE SET
TO SPURN
PEACE
Reject Proposals
Of League in Form
of UItinatum
By LINDSAY PARROTT

ROME, March 3 G.N.SD.
Premier Benito Mussolini today re-
jected any peace proposals sub
mitted to italy in the form of
an ultimatum."
Speaking through Virginia
Gayda, editor of the Giornale
D'Italia, and his mouthpiece, II
Duce commented at length on the
proposals discussed at Geneva
yesterday involving a demand for
peace with the threat of an en-
barge in the background.
Editors note: The League of
Nations addressed an appeal to
Italy to negotiate for peace at an
important meeting today. but
specifically tried to avoid giving
it appearance of an utimatuln,
No time limit was set.
Regarded as Threat
In a two-column front-page edi-
torial obviously inspired by II
Duce himself, Gayda wrote that
any scheme for a peace proposal
to Italy in the form of an ulti-
matum is grotesque and fantaS-
tic"
Such a proposal would be "in
substance in the nature of a
threat added to a threat already
realized by the presence of the
British fleet in the Mediterra-
nean," he said.
With all Ethiopia opening before
her armed assault. and with
enough oil on hand to continue
fighting for a full year, Italy
scorned suggestions that q
truce be called on the basis of
the present positions of her
armies in Ethiopia, and Scoffed
at Geneva threats of an oil en-
barge. Today's communique said:
"Our troops are continuing
without pause to mop up the
vast. intricate battlefieldS in
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Adds ABABA, March 8
0.N.SO Emperor Halle SelasSie
drew a cloak of deep secrecy over
his plans today. presumably try
ing to prevent information of his
whereabouts reaching Italian
spies.
Nothing has been heard of the
Emperor'S whereabouts for two
days in the wake of reported
smashing Italian victories on the
northern front.
Editors note: In Rome yester-
day it was reported that the
Negus Imperial Guards were
among those routed by Italian
forces which defeated the men
of Ras KaSSa, and that the
Negus may have been with them
at the timeO
The Washington times., 1936-03-03
$500 for Sdmp|ing
Whisky Is Refused
For Alcohol Board

The Budget Bureau may ap-
prove, if it will, but the House Ap-
preparations Committee will not
lay out the taxpayers hard-earned
dollars for samples of Maryland
rye, Pennsylvania specials, and
Kentucky quarts.
In reporting the District of Co.
lumbia appropriations bill to the
House today, the committee struck
out a Budget Bureau item Of $500
for samples for the Alcohol Bever-
age Board.
The committee report offered no
comment on this diSallowed item.
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Man Captured d Here.
sAWOL' - Years

at Catholic University, where
Moran said he intended to attend
mass. Lambert said Moran had
Masonic card in his wallet
since proved false-and was there
to "cry" some money out of a
priest. Moran is held for investi-
cation.
Taken to Observation-Disclosures,
Moran was fingerprinted and
photographed as is every head
quarters prisoner. In the routine
manner the prints were sent to
the Bureau of Identification of
the Department of Justice. That
bureau notified Washington de-
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Twenty-Five years of stolen lib
erty ended yesterday for Joseph F.
Moran, alias Manning, whose
fingerprintS proved him to be an
escaped convict from Joliet IllO
Penitentiary and deserter from
the United States Army in France
in 1918.
His downfall here came through
overplaying a plea for funds to
aid a sick wife or daughter that
he made to a number of congress
men, senator's, priests and minis
ters. Detective-Sergeant Eugene D.
Lambert, the arresting officer,
said.
Lambert arrested him yesterday
The Washington times., 1936-03-03
First Lady COnfesses
Nedding Fun Nearly
Cost Her Black Eye

MrS Roosevelt revealed today
thaf she almsot suffered q black
80 q week or so ago in a sled
eng accident at Hyde Park.
N Y.
M FIrSt Lady said she was
casting with her daughter, Mrs.
guhn BOettiEer. and that they
fen off their sled head first"
n the bOttOm Of a hill.
The results Of the accident. she
nd. we're q Scraped forehead and
80 which she was informed
wuuld GrvelOp into a black eye,
~ the injuries healed rapidly.
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Gov. Earle AbOIishes
Corporal Punishment

HARRISBURG. Pa. March 3
uNSl.-Aroused by State police
resorts Of rubber-hoSe floggingS
e. tire Pennsylvania Industrial
School a. MOrEanZa. Gov. George
n Earle today ordered corporal
pzEnsshmeni abolished by all State
pwnAl and reform institutions.
The Washington times., 1936-03-03
Heads Republicans

KEYSER, w. Va, March 3.-N.
Howard Rogers was elected chair
man of the Young Republican
Club of KeySer at meeting held
last night. Other officers elected
were Miss Madeline Bazzel, vice
chairman; A. V. Gallon. secretary,
and Miss Pauline Duling, treas
urer
The Washington times., 1936-03-03
Countess Barbara S
Condition Unbalanced

LONDON, March 3 GN.SD.
Countess Barbara Won Haugwitz-
Reventlow'S condition was UNI
changed today.
Physicians yesterday said she
was out of danger following birth
of her son and a subsequent
operation.
The Washington times., 1936-03-03
f. A. Guggenheim
Sued by His Wife

RENO, New, March 3 UN.S).
Marion Price Guggenheim has
filed suit to divorce Edmond A.
Guggenheim, of New York city,
where they were married June II,
1910. She charged cruelty. and
asked restoration of her maiden
name of Price.
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Man, Wife,and Second
Woman Die in Flames

KENORA, Ontario, March 3 Il.
N.SO Jack Smith and his wife,
Bessie, and Mrs. T. Don, were
burned to death in an apartment
fire here today.
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WASHINGTON FORECAST
FaiF With lowest temperature about 3S to-
mixha: tsmoFrOw mostly cloudy and warmer,
fuIiswed by light rain and colder at night.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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CHURCH SERIES
ANNOUNCED

Atonement Evangelical Luth-
eran Church has announced a
series of services beginning next
Tuesday evening and closing Fri
day, in connection with Mission
Week in all Lutheran churches
here.
Services, beginning at 8 p. m,
are:
Tuesday, the Rev. Ralph Tabor
of Zion Lutheran Church, Middle
town, Md, THE Allies of Our
Faith; Wednesday, the Rev.
Lloyd M. Keller, st. Johns Luth-
eran Church. Baltimore, Launch
OUT; Thursday, the Rev. R. c..
Sorrick, Messiah Lutheran
Church, Baltimore; Friday. the
Rev. Paul E. Huffman, Calvary
Lutheran Church, B altimore e.,
1.-THE Kingdom of Our Lord in
Washington"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
NAVAJ0S RIVAL
WEATHERMAN

The Weather Bureau versus the
Navajo Indian Tribe.
According to a report Of the
Interior Department today, a con-
test in weather prediction has
arisen between these two factions
in the Southwest, and farmers are
uncertain which to follow.
The Navajos at the Canyon de
Chiefly National Monument in Ari-
iona are predicting the most
severe winter in years, while at
the same time the Weather Bureau
is telling farmers to look forward
to another warm winter in the
area, With little rain.
Regardless of which prediction
is correct, however, officials of the
National Park Service said today
that the usual heavy tourist season
Is expected in the parks, and they
have made plans for cautioning
auto travellers in mountain terri
tory should the Navajo prediction
prove correct.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
Girl Cyc|ist Ends
6,0OO-MiIe Travel

NEW YORK-Polly Forbes
Johnson, a 19-year-old college
girl, has returned after making a
6,000-mile motorcycle tour through
Mexico and Guatemala. She
brought back two motorcycles, the
second one having been presented
to her by President George Ubico
of Guatemala, who is a cycle en-
thusiast, she said.
Miss Forbes-Johnson said that
she knew nothing about motor
cycles before last April when
she bought one, and still knows
nothing about repairing one. She
had to rely on friendly Indians
she met on the trails in the in
terror of Guatemala when her
machine broke down. Once a
village smithy repaired the cycles
crank case when it cracked.
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GIRL, MOTHER
DIE IN BLAZE

DAYTON. Ohio, Nov. 81 (EN.sO
Flames which swept through q
large rooming house here yester-
day took two lives and burned four
other persons, three Of whom may
not recover.
Virginia Waltz, Is, died before
she could be removed to a hos
pital. Unconscious when found on
the second floor, the girl fell from
a fireman's arms while he was
taking her down a ladder. Burns
and not the fall caused her death,
physicians said.
soon afterward the girls
mother, Mrs. John Waltz, SO, died
in a hospital from burns. She had
leaped from the second story of
the blazing building.
One of the four injured was
identified in a hospital as Charles
Small, of Detroit. Doctors said
his burns were so severe recovery
was not expected.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
ESCAPES
SHOT IN BED

The short time of two minutes
separated 6-year-old Joseph Pot
ter from injury and possible
death yesterday and gave him
much to be thankful for.
AS the boy arose from bed at
his home, 1917 H st. N. E., and
walked across the bedroom, a bull
let came whizzing through the
window pane, embedding itself in
the mattress. It was extracted
from the mattress at the spot
where he had been just two min
utes before the shot.
The boys mother. Mrs. Joseph
Potter, summoned police. An in
vestigation revealed that the
mystery bullet probably was fired
from a nearby roof top, or second
story window. Mrs. Potter said
she knew of no one who might
wish to harm her son.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
A. F. |. MOVES
TO CURB RED
PROPOSALS
Special to The Washington Times

Special to The Washington Times
TAMPA, Fla, Nov. 27.-With
the purpose of limiting the in
PRODUCTION of red" resolutions in
future conventions of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, David
j. Tobin, chairman of the COM
mittee on laws, is scheduled to
present an amendment to the
constitution today, prohibiting
delegates from central labor
unions, State declarations, and To-
cal federal unions from present
ing resolutions not actually passed
by their organizations.
AS tentatively drafted, it will
require that all resolutions ap-
proved by local bodies must be
submitted to the executive coun-
Gil 80 days in advance Of con-
VentionS for reference to commit
tees.
Hitherto any delegate to a con-
vention could present as many
resolutions on as many subjects as
he or she might wish. Under ex-
listing federation rules these, re-
gardless of content or merit, have
to be referred to committees, hear
inP5 held, and reports made to
the convention for final disposal.
No resolution may be killed or
Shelved in committee.
Explaining the proposed change,
a member Of the law committee
explained:
''Under the present system
Communists or crackpOtS, Secur-
ing election from these local
bodies on the ground Of good
fellowship by promising to pay
their own expenses, come here
and, with no prospect of sue
cess, use the convention as a
sounding board for issues their
unions would not approve If pre-
scented to them.
Here this type went further.
Organizing caucus, they for
mulated a more or less definite
program under the direction of
a leader Of one of the COmmU-
mist factions who sat on the
Side-lines."
The committee expects opposi.
ton, but hardly enough votes to
count.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27

hind the Balkan-Greek War OF
1912 and the war between Turkey
and Greece in 1920, but it was
the role he played in the entrance
of Greece into the World War
which first drew the attention of
the world upon this Smartly
bearded War Lord"
Upon the outbreak Of the war
his affairs were approximately as
follows:
In England he controlled the
arms manufactures of kerS
Armstrong and Beardmore. In
France he controlled the French
Whitehead affiliate. In Russia
he was an associate Of the Cart
zine in Reval, and in Germany he
was a partner of Krupp and Lud-
wig LoeWe.
Fiscal experts have calculated
that when peace was declared;
Sir Basil Zaharoff had made a
profit of more than one billion
two hundred million dollars. and
had become the richest and most
influential man in Europe, if not
in the world.
Expanded Activities
After the war he expanded his
activities. Newspapers, shipping,
oil, hotels, theaters and gambling
Establishments attracted his in.
terest and his capital. At one
time he was said to have owned
all of Monte Carlo, although he
never gambled a penny himself.
In 1924 he married, taking for
his wife the Spanish beauty with
whom he had fallen in love some
years before. Her husband had
died. Tragically, she died two
years after marrying Zaharoff.
He spent his last years alone.
He lived in Paris with no more
than a handful of friends.
He always was silent on his Ca
reer. While the world attacked,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
50-YEAR WAIT
IN zAHAR0FF
ROMANCE

MONTE CARLO, Nov. ~
U.N.S.3-A love story almost with
out parallel was linked with the
life Of Sir Basil zaharoff, multi
millionaire munitions king who
died here today.
For so years he loved and
waited for a Spanish beauty,
daughter of grandee, who was
married to another man. Some
time after the latter's death, Sir
Basil married her, but she lived
for only two years in the union
he had awaited during most of his
lifetime.
The woman was Maria Del Pillar
Antonio Angela Patronocinio ST.
mona De Muqueira y Beruete,
Duches of Marchena and Princess
of Bourbon. They met when she
was but II and he man in early
youth.
The meeting took place in Lon
don, when Zarahoff was just be-
ginning to be well-launched on his
career as munitions salesman. She
married the Spanish Duke De
Villafranca De Los Caballeros, but
reciprocated Zarahoff'S admira-
ton at least to the extent Of WELD
ing her influence in his behalf at
the Spanish court.
After the dukes death, the al
ready aging zarahoff and the still
beautiful princess became even
closer friends. On September %,
1924, in the town hall Of Arron-
vile, France, they were married.
Zarahoff was then almost IS and
his lady-love past so.
Two years later Lady Zarahoff
died, and the munitions king re-
treated to a st. Helena of his
own-a lonely mansion in Paris,
adopting a hermit-like mode of eX-
istence broken only by a month
long visit to Monte Carlo each
year.
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although admiring many Of his
great qualities, he stood mute. He
spoke only to his diary, a book in
which was written a wealth Of
secrets and light on court in
trigues, a book regarded as i'm
portant in the history Of the mod
ern world.
Any hope Of historians, how
ever, that this diary might aid
them after Sir Basil's death was
smashed when, in 1927, he ordered
his voluminouS documents burned,
a procedure which took two days.
A Partisan publisher had at
tempted to bride one of Sir BaSipS
employees to be allowed to read
the diary. Sir Basil was alarmed
lest the would should know his
secrets. He decided it never
would.
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los Caballeros. They were decid-
edly in love, and the girl pledged
her influence at the Spanish court
for whatever it might be worth to
Zaharoff.
This proved to be important.
The Nordenfelt Company had been
absorbed by the great VickerS
organization, and Zaharoff was
promised a partnership in the firm
if he could get orders from the
King of Spain for more than a
million pounds sterling worth OF
arms. He went Immediately to
Madrid and sold an amount even
greater than this. He became sales
director of the worlds greatest
arms manufacturing concern.
Partner of Maxim
In 1888 he succeeded in becom-
ing a partner of Hiram Maxim,
American inventor of the modern
machine-gun, forming the firm of
Maxim Nordenfelt Gun and Am
munition Company. In 1890 Nor
denfelt retired, leaving Maxim
and Zaharoff in full control.
Zaharoff knew the inside ropes
in every capital in Europe. 1t
meant money to him to have
countries at war with each other,
and he has been accused of hav-
ing used all of his great powers
and abilities to foment trouble
between nations. He has been &C
cused of knowing more than a
little about numerous border in
cidents." He has been linked
with the causes of the World
War.
He was the financial genius be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
A. F. OF |. MAPS
LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
Continued from Page ~

treal were the three cities seeking
the A. F. Of L. 1887 convention,
with delegates apparently favor
ing Montreal.
Beyond doubt, President Green,
who took over federation leader
ship when the immortal Sam
Gompers died, will be reelected to
the presidency. However, this cleo
ton may provide mild fireworks
because some of the Lewis SYM
pathizers here planned to ask
Green some embarrassing ques-
tons.
President Green is a member of
the suspended United Mine Work
ers' Union, which John Lewis
heads, and which is the spearhead
of the Lewis industrial union rebel
lion. Moreover, John Lewis has
called Green before the United
Mine Workers executives to lex
plain" what Lewis termed Green's
association and friendliness"
with the forces opposing the
United Mine Workers.
Next years main objective of the
federation will be shorter working
hours and minimum wages for
organized labor.
The convention was expected to
indorSe 30-hour week bills before
both houses of Congress providing
for a six-hour five-day week for
workers.
On the vital Supreme Court
question, the Federation will take
a middle course to await action of
the Supreme Court on Roosevelt
legislation in the light of the over
whelming support which Mr.
Roosevelt received at the polls
November 3. Major George L.
Berry, President Roosevelt's Fed
eral Industrial coordinator, has
predicted the mandate of the peo-
Pile" would be obeyed by the court
in a new liberal attitude toward
legislation of the type it has con-
Sistently invalidated in the last
four years.
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NOOSASAASe3NSA
and when the uncle refused to
share profits, Zaharoff departed
for London.
From this humble beginning of
life in England, zaharoff rose to
be knighted by King George.
Returned To Greece
Success did not crown his first
efforts in London, however, and
soon he was forced to return to
Greece. Here he secured an ap-
pointment, on Oct. IA, 1877,
through a friend, to succeed a
retiring representative of the
Anglo-SweediSh firm of Nordenfelt
and Co., munitions manufacture
erS.
It was only a part-time job, and
paid but $25 a. week.
Plus a little luck, however, the
job made" Zaharoff, for just at
this time Russia and the Balkans
became involved in a war against
their old-time enemy, Turkey.
Greece stood by, having only a
small army, and that virtually un-
equipped, with which to protect her
borders.
Zaharoff stepped in here, sold
great orders of arms and ammuni-
lions, collected a commission in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and was definitely off on a remark
able career.
He was called to London soon az
terward. Still in luck, he met IT.
year-old Maria del Pillar de MI
quiro, who was married to the
much older Duke de Villefranca de
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
Boy Football Star
Dying From Shot

CHARLESTON. w. Va, Nov. 81.
Ray Carroll, 15-year-old Charleston
Junior High School football star,
was dying in the local hospital
here today after he was acct
IDENTIFY shot in the stomach.
State Police investigating the
case, declared the youth was shot
by Charles Honaker, jr., while the
latter was cleaning one Of his
fathers guns.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27

Heavy food, heavy mind y. heavy whis-
keys as unkind." That's why the modern
tendency is towards lighter foods. and
lighter whiskey. OLD DRUM Brand Blended
Whiskey . . whiskey without weight or
head. full 90 proof, yet kinder, eentler,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27

mellower. Naturally. OLD DRUM is distilled
from premium grain-as used in the dis
tillation of the costliest WHISTLES. 1t puts
less strain on you, less drain on your pocket
book. Try OLD DRUM tonight In its price
class, you can't beat it!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
First Snow Falls
On Eastern Shore

CRTSFIEID, Md, November 81.
Thanksgiving Day was ushered in
On Maryland's Eastern Shore to-
day with the first snowfall of the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-16

P. Nedegaard, county chairman of
the Holiday Association. who presided
at the meeting, spoke on the third
party movement and how it has swept
the nation. Mr.. Nedegaard told of the
trip Howard Y. Williams made out
through the western states and what
some of the results have been. In
Labor mayor and they are striving
for practically the same program that
is before our legislature at the pres
ent time.
Mr. Nedegaard stated that they are
stressing a statewide corporate ex-
cess tax which on utilities alone in
this state, would produce revenues
of from five to six million dollars, or
enough to cover the cost of the ole
age pension. Old age pensions to be
financed by federal and state govern
ments with no contributions from the
counties are also being stressed
Three other issues before the people
in that section, similar to those being
forwarded here are unemployment in
surance, production corporations to
open up factories for unemployed to
produce their own goods i'm order to
raise their standard of living and cut
down the burden of taxation; and a
commission to survey and investigate
conditions of youth and to promote
employment of youth on useful pub
lie enterprises. Mr.. Neoegaard spoke
of these issues all being worthwhile
and worth working for
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-16
VIII Give Information at Meeting.

A. Henriksen, newly installed may
or of the village, jumped right into the
harness to get some definite informa-
ton on the proposed village sewer and
water works. He went to Pine City
Tuesday and took M. B. Hurley, attor-
ney for the village, along to st. Paul
an6. Minneapolis to consult with Svend
Norling, engineer for the project.
They also called on Mr.. Radford, the
acting state director of WPA projects;
and also got some information from
the state attorney generals office.
The village council is sponsoring a
public meeting set for January "a,
to which everyone is invited. There
is a notice elsewhere in this issue
calling attention to this meeting. 1t
is planned to have both Mr.. Hurley,
the villages attorney from Pine City,
and Svend Norling, engineer for the
project, from Minneapolis, at this
meeting to explain all matters in de-
tail and, to answer possible questions.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-16
MARSHALL MAN is
FARM BUREAU HEAD

Frank w. White of Marshall, was
elected president of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation at its 18th
annual convention which was con-
cluded in st. Paul January 9. Mr.
White succeeds A. J. Olson of Rem
vile, who has been president of the
Federation since 1928. Mr.. White is
also a representative to the legisla-
ture from his district, being elected
in 1929 and reelected for the three
terms since. He is also a director
of the Land OLakes Creameries, rep
resenting District No. r.
The convention was the largest ever
held by the Farm Bureau with So
counties being officially represented
with the four days attendance being
estimated at 1900.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-16

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