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Evening star., 1936-10-03
ROME CELEBRATES
WAR ANNIVERSARY
Festival of Triumph Held
for Ethiopian Conquest.
Speech Rebroadcast.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, October 3.-The Italian
Empire celebrated today the first an
niversary of the beginning Of the
Italo- Ethiopian War.
Flags and bunting few from houses
and public buildings. Band concerts
were given In the parks. Newspapers
published lengthy accounts OF the in
vasion of Ethiopia, which resulted in
victory for the black-shirted troops
and annexation Of the East African
Kingdom Of Italy.
The festival Of triumph started last
night, when Premier Mussolini's speech
q year ago was rebroadcast over all
Italian radio stations.
Then, II Duce declared Italy had
been patient for 40 years with Ethi-
opia" and that Is enough. A sol-
emn hour Of history u about to strike
in the history Of the fatherland." he
shouted.
Dvce's War Address.
At "a gigantic "adunata"-mAssm meet
ing throughout the nation-he told
B0UlEl l0SS III 1000 So&AAss~A&s>~s'
Not only our army marches toward
its goal, but 100000 Italians are
marching with the army"
Discussing sanctions threatened by
the League of Nations, he said:
ITO sanctions Of an economic char
acter, We shall respond with the spirit
Of discipline, with sobriety snd with
sacrifice. To measures Of . military
order, we shall respond with measures
of q military order. To acts OF war.
we shall respond with acts Of war"
In Ethiopia itself strong motorized
column of Eritrean troops with white
officers was working westward to
occupy territory In the name Of
Emperor Victor Emmanuel.
Pushes Ethiopian Conquest.
With the rainy season now over,
Viceroy Rodolfo Graziant declared he
intended to place every square mile OF
Ethiopian territory under italian juris-
diction as soon as possible.
Thousands of the total Of $4,000
Italian workmen in Ethiopia were
laboTtng on roads, especially one be-
Evening star., 1936-10-03
MISS PERKINS CITES
JERSEY JOB GAINS
Labor Secretary Outlines Increase
in Business and Industry
in Talk to Women.

Ey the Associated RreSS.
ASBURY PARK, N. j., October 3.
Secretary Of Labor Perkins told a
regional conference Of Democratic
women here today that the volume
of business and employment in New
Jersey has increased markedly since
President Roosevelt was inaugurated.
Employment, pay rolls, farm income,
production, profits to industry and
dividends to investors have shared in
gains since March, 1888, she asserted
in a speech prepared for delivery.
Here in New Jersey employment
in all industries was 80 per cent
greater In the second quarter this
year than during the fiscal year end
ing June. 1885," Secretary Perkins
said, "and manufacturing employment
increased by 47 per cent between these
two periods"
The Secretary also cited statistics
on farm income and building construc-
ton as evidence of returning pros
perity. She reported that workers
employed On construction projects
financed by the Public Works Ad-
ministration received approximately
500, ,000, 900 from July. 1888. to July.
1896.
This disbursement Of cash, she said,
resulted in increased spending and
reacted favorably ON industry and
commerce.
Evening star., 1936-10-03

tween Dessye and Adds Ababa, and
on new buildings which Italians say
will make Adds Ababa the eternal
city Of Africa"
The Ethiopian war cost italy. up to
the present, slightly more than 5000
white soldiers killed in action or in
policing and TOO woEkmen, of1cials
reported. In money, it has cost her
13, ,000. .000, 900 hre f$I, ,ei4. .000, ,00O.
In return Italy won IN empire IN
seven month& To-Day, on the wars
first anniversary, tens Of tlnousands Of
workmen hb0red to bring the first
fruits from the new territory.
Banks and credit institutions poured
money int the venture. IN Italy tens
Of Thousands Of prospective settlers.
who have received Fascist authorities'
permission, prepared 20 sail soon fer
the new land.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Leading Dustman" Proposed.

City councilmen Of Westminster,
England, propose to establish the
grade of leading dustman," with ex-
ira pay Of $2.50 a week, only SO men
to hold this rank at any one time.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
CLIPPER IS READY
|. FOR PACIFIC HOP
First Passenger Flight of
Pan.American to Total
21,4O0 Miles.
~ the Associated Press.

tAC aooSSAosSA ASso-
NEW YORK, October 3.-America's
bio for transoceanic commercial air
supremacy, q flying boat of 26 tons,
was ready today for the preliminary
passenger flight of Pan-American
Airways across the Pacific Ocean.
A group Of newspaper men, includ-
ing Charles Z. Harner, Associated
Press, william w. Chaplin of Uni
versal Service and c. b. Allen of the
New York Herald Tribune will make
the voyage.
They will fly across the continent to
San Francisco, leaving Newark, N. j.,
by United Air Lines tomorrow night,
then embark on the flying boat Octo-
ber for Manila.
The flight will end October 20 when
the big clipper ship" returns to its
California base at Alameda. The
distance flown over water-16,420
miles: total round trip back to New
York-71, 400 miles.
The clipper will make one hop of
2,4t0 miles longer than the trans
Atlantic route between Newfoundland
and Ireland.
Despite the fact that this will be
the first time passengers ever have
flown across the Pacific, Pan-Amer-
lean Anyways officials regard the
journey as q routine development
leading up to the Inauguration of
regular passenger service with Q flight
leaving Alameda, October 81.
The Clipper ships to be used on
the passenger runs were constructed
by the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Balti-
more.
Nearly nine years of the develop
ment of Pan-American Airways lies
behind them.
The Martins are so efficient they
can carry 1921 per cent of their
dead weight.
The wing span is 100 feet. The
Evening star., 1936-10-03
DICTATOR SPEAKS

Gen. Metaxas Says Liberal insti-
tutions of Greece Are Buried.
ATHENS, Greece, October 8 R.-
Gen. John Metaxas, in his first public
appearance here since he assumed
dictatorial powers two months ago,
yesterday formally proclaimed the lib
eral institutions Of Greece were buried.
He spoke to huge crowd in Con-
stitution Square.
Gen. Metaxas reiterated Greece was
faced with Communist danger and de-
elared:
I'VE shall never return to the par
tamentary system. II Is our intention
to strengthen the monarchy, the pres
ent regime and. the church"
Evening star., 1936-10-03

double-tracked line for 20 hours.
Railroad officials said the damage
totaled 100000. No one was injured.
The prosecutor said the boy told
him he put spike on the tracks tust
before a passenger train was TO pass.
the locomotive waS running slow and
only its front wheels LEFT the rails.
Anderson said the boy then put
spike on the adjoining tracks. That
spike derailed q freight locomotive
and II cars.
Anderson said the youth will be
held for juvenile authorities.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

Snow Village Sketches" one Of
radios oldest dramatic series, will re-
turn to WRC at o. Arthur Allen and
Parker FenneIly will continue to play
the leading roles.
The N. B. c. Home Symphony will
make its debut on wMAL at 6:35- Or.
Leopold Stokowski will be the guest
speaker.
Evening star., 1936-10-03

for broadcasting over the Mutual
network These include Pittsburgh
vs.. Ohio State, Notre Dame vs.. Pitt,
Pitt vs.. Fordham, Army vs.. Notre
Dame, Harvard VS.. Yale and Army
VS.. Navy.
GRANTLAND RICE, nationally
known sports writer and foot ball
authority, has returned to radio for
his fourth successive season to fore
cast and analyze leading gridiron
contests during the Service Hour on
N. B. c.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
SOVIET SHORE LINE
HELD IMPROBABLE
Open Boat Follows Maneuvers
and Is Seen as Warning
to Japan.

By the Assocfated Press.
MOSCOW, October 3.-Soviet Rus
sia openly boasted today that her Pa
cif1c shore line is impregnable.
The boast came at the conclusion
of Vladivostok naval and air maneu-
vers, which gave that eastern sector
the most realistic taste of war since
the Reds drove out the Whites in 1920.
There can be no doubt that any
military force which might attempt to
land on the Soviet coast, no matter
how well prepared 1t might be, would
be hurled into the sea =" said
Pravda, the Communist party organ.
The statement was regarded as .
warning to Japan, just as pointed and
direct as the recent speech OF War
Commissar K1ementi Voroshilo6, At
Kiev, which was interpreted as
warning to Germany against aggres-
sion from the west.
The sea games followed simulated
air attack on Vladivostok, with the
populace scurrying to gas chambers,
while ground batteries boomed to fight
of the invading" planes.
Simultaneous Baltic Sea naneuveHS
were concluded with a mock attack On
the Kronstadt base.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Citizens Lack Quorum.

Lacking q quorum due to o mishap
in publication of its meeting date, the
Burroughs Citizens Association failed
TO hold It's scheduled session last
night. II was decided by the six
attending members that the meeting
be held October 10. David n. Babp,
president of the association, explained
that announcement Of the FIRST meet
ing did not get to the printer In time.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
CURTIS SYMPHONY
RETURNS OCT. A
Former Convicts Submit
Stories for Phil Lords
New Radio Series.

THE Curtis Institute Symphony
l. Orchestra will return to Colum-
bia on October IA for its eighth con-
secutive season. Fritz Reiner, head
of the orchestra department of the
Curtis Institute of Music in Phila-
delphia, will again direct the orches-
ira.
Reiner, who recently returned to
the United States after o successful
season as guest conductor OF opera
at Convent Garden In London, Is now
directing a series Of f1ve Sunday
Evening Hour" programs over Co
lumbia.
The Curtis Institute concerts will
be broadcast every Wednesday after
noon throughout the current season.
The broadcasts also will feature
chamber music groups under DR..
Louis Bailly, woodwtnd groups under
Marcel Tabuteau, and q series of
programs featuring individual vocal
and instrumental artists from the
institute.
"HoME, SWEET HOME" popular
N. B. c. dramatic serial, is to
have a new name. Sponsors of the
program have offered 81 600 in cash
prizes to listeners who submit votes
in favor of three prospective titles.
Three titles, Lucy Kent's Home"
Lucy Kent's Family" and Life Of
Lucy Kent" have been selected as
possible titles.
DILL LORD in the last two weeks
has received "a letters from
former convicts, but not in connection
with his Gang Busters" series. These
reformed criminals, one of whom is
q reprieved "lifer," submitted their
stories to Lord for his new 1--WE, the
People" programs to begin on N. B. c.
tomorrow at pm.
VOL is arranging to carry des-
w criptions Of some of the out
standing foot ball games scheduled
Evening star., 1936-10-03

FLOYD Gibbons will begin his new
radio series on WJSV at 9, assisted
by Crete Stueckgold, soprano, and
Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, veteran
radio entertainers.
Bob and Emil Meusel, famous broth
ers of base ball, and Edward Everett
Horton, comedian, will be the guests
of Smith Ballew during his Chateau
program on WRC at $3.50.
Evening star., 1936-10-03

The Foot Ball Revue, featuring Kay
Kyser's Orchestra, and Ed Thorgersen
will make its debut on WJSV at $50.
Another new program, the "Satur-
day Night Serenaders," featuring Mary
Eastman, soprano, will have its pre-
miere on WJSV at $50. Bill Perry,
tenor; Gus Haenschen's Orchestra and
a 14-voice chorus also viii contribute
to the program.
Evening star., 1936-10-03

length Is 90 feet. Four supercharged
wasp engines, developing a total of
5000 horsepower, can speed the ship
at 179 miles an hour. The cruising
speed is rated at l57 miles an hour.
1t carries accommodations for a
crew Of seven and 43 passengers, but
this full load can be carried only on
flights of about 1,2o6 miles. For
the long jumps over the Pacific, the
number Of persons aboard is de-
creased to make room for the gaso-
line load.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
TRAIN WRECKS HELD
CONFESSED BY BOY
West Virginia Prosecutor Reports
Youth Liked to See Engines
Run Over Spikes"

Bv the Associated Press.
WEIGH, w. Va, October 3.-Pros-
ecutor Wilson Anderson said yester-
day Q l4-year-old junior high school
boy confessed wrecking two Norfolk
& Western Railroad trains near here
Saturday because I liked to see the
engines run over the spikes"
The wrecks tied up traffic on the
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Canadian Oil O1Iicial Dies.

PETROLIA, Ontario, October R}.
Floyd A. Hale, superintendent Of the
refneries of the Canadian Oh Co.
in Petrolia for the past IS yeaHs,
dropped deal last night from heart
seizure. He was born and educated at
Findlay. Ohio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26
Comes to a Showdown

The charges brought by Mayor Thomas J. SpeIlacy of Hartford against WPA dis elimination in flood relief work un- doubtedly will bring to head long-slum- bering resentment against this federal government arm. For some weeks now there's been sort of undercurrent of feeling, which just needed some such in- cident as the present one to cause a rumpus. While the facts that are made public don't allow one to jump to nasty conclusion, we can only believe that something is radically wrong with the picture or we would not find Mayor Spell lacy acting as he did in moment of great stress.
 There no doubt will be more facts made public, but we regret that it was a disaster such as has struck the Connecti- cut River valley which had to bring the WPA into any public disrepute. At such time as this it's worth should really be tried Whether or not it could measure up to expectations we probably will never know now, for Hartford seems destined to go it on it's own in this crisis. Present plans call for the city paying all it's own bills and not becoming indebted to the federal government at all.
 In way this will give the city and the county feeling of more independence, but there is, of course, the danger of im- posing too heavy a burden on citizens and taxpayers. If public subscriptions to the amount of $3 900 000 as various business men claimed could be done, are raised, the city will be getting out of it's difficulties very nicely But the city has started something and we feel that until it has been seen through the entire state will not be satisfied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26
Good News

Last week news from Washington stated that several of Connecticut's CCC camps were to be discontinued shortly. It was good news, therefore, to pick up the papers this week and find that Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt himself had ordered that the present number of camps be maintained throughout 1886. We think everyone in this state will be glad of that, for in the few years that we have had the eco camps they have more than proved their value to us. In that statement we know public officials, ac- quainted with the true facts, will agree
 In his order calling off dissolution of 700 camps President Roosevelt said, "I have determined that the present num- Der of civilian conservation corps camps shall be maintained unless such camps are reduced as result of the completion of the work now being performed by the enrollees of any such camp or the reduc- tion through discharge, separations or other causes in the number of enrollees to approximately 163 in any one camp. :" Tn addition the President stated that the membership of the corps would be main- tained at $50, ,000 through March 3l, 1887.
 We feel sure that Connecticut's camps will not be discontinued as result of this new order of the President. While we would like to see conditions that would not necessitate our young men unable to find gainful employment, still worse jobs than those in the CCC camps could be found It may be that in years to come we shall find some compulsory training, over period of months, of the CCC type being ordained. It is fine med- icine for any boy and at the same time provides the stats with the necessary rnanpower to complete so many projects that for years have been regarded as beautiful dreams.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26
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WRECKED BY A BEE
Bridgeport Telegraph

We add our voice to others Salut- ing Judge Edward J. Finn of the court of common pleas, Waterbury, who had before him liability suit in which the driver of Q car was accused of negligence because he had taken his hand from the wheel to brush off a bee which was sting ing him. The judge ruled, with good common sense, that such 8 reaction to the sting of a bee is instinctive and automatic and that a driver cannot be blamed or held negligent because he responds to 1t.
 The ruling is an interesting one because the season of wrecked by-bees is approaching again. It used to be 6 good newspaper story: "Driver Swats Bee, Wrecks Car" But 1t has now become no common place that newspapers pay little at- tcntion to 1t.
 Few of us are built like the Spar tan youth who permitted the fox beneath his cloak to gnaw out his vitals without betraying any emo- ton. To most drivers the mere presence of a bee in the drivers compartment is Q source of great distraction. Not one driver out of Q thousand or perhaps Q million is heroic enough to stick calmly to the task of piloting his car while bee stings him. If the bee IS hornet. m much tho U0rGa We RligDect that most of tho bees which figure in accident cases ARE hornet, for the latter are much more belligerent than bees and their sting is more painful.
 But must we continue to be stung and wreck our cars? The fact IS that the air-scoops or ventilators on the tops of motor car hoods are bee traps. It ought to be a simple matter to screen them and end the insect menace for once and all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26

Lester J. Dickinson, of Iowa, and Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan. Split Beans
 But in the very middle of these undercover negotiations the gos- sipy old doctor spilled the beans.
 Dr. Townsend loves to talk. A newspaperman knowing his weakness and having 2 tip about the secret third party scheme, adroltIy pumped him.
 Townsend announced that his organization would put a third party ticket into the race. Clem- ents hastily-and not very effec- tively--tried to cover up the faux pas. BUT THE. FAT WAS IN THE FIRE.
 Prominent state and local lead- CTS in the movement sent in hot protests against getting mixed up in the presidential cat-and-dog fight. They asserted that Town send and Clements had no man. date to launch third party, i1- sisted that the organization stick strictly to its own objective, con- centrate It's efforts on electing congressman and senators who would vote for the $200 @ month pension plan.
 SheIved
 Under this powerful internal pressure, Clements dropped his po- pitical ambitions-for the time.
 His latest strategy is to build himself as presidential white hope for 1940. using the Town send movement aS the spring. board.
 Playing a decisive role in every thing Clements does is his beau. teous, 28-year old wife, Thelnla, a one-time stenographer whom he married in 1884. Mrs. Clements keeps out of the limelight, but she has @ very important voice in her husbands affairs and ar1- bitions.
 BETWEEN HER AND THE TOWNSENDs NO LOVE IS LOST.
 Merry.G0.R
 Not many members of congress know 1t, but the Official Report CTS who walk around on the floor taking shorthand notes use the old fashioned dip pens, and carry their inkwells around with them. The well is specially designed to fit In the closed left hand. The moot question of the constitutoin- ality of the Social Security Act will be publicly discussed by the boards chairman, John G. Win ant, in @ radio address May IF. Since coming to Washington, Winant, former governor of New Hampshire, has dropped into corn- parative obscurity. Nobody ever hears of him F. The University of Pittsburgh has invited a Bo- livlan to teach 8 summer school course in International Law. He is youthful Enrique de Lozada, secretary of the Bolivian Legation in Washington.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26

The first large-scale planting of trees in the western treebelt that is to extend from North Dakota to the Texas Pan- handle is about ready to start. There will be forty million seedlings planted this spring. Now we always had the idea that seeding tree was pretty small and insignificant. But we must be mistaken, for, according to Dr. Raphael Zon, direc- tor of the Lakes State Forest Experi- ment Station of the U. s. Forest Service, inside of five years these trees will be high enough to afford some protection in retarding surface winds and preventing snow and soil movement. That's good news, indeed! In ten years this 100-mile belt of trees crossing the prairie states should have proved itself. We sincerely trust that nothing will interfere with it's completion, for it seems like the answer to an old prayer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26
Modern City Helpless

Whatever else the recent floods have done, they at least have shown how the modern city leaves the lives of it's habit ants forever at the mercy of mechanical accident. What hurt Pittsburg the worst, for instance, was not the fact that great torrent of water went sloshing through the streets and basements of the downtown district. It was the fact that electric power was cut off, that heat was not available, that the city water supply was menaced.
 The flood itself took comparatively few lives in Pittsburgh. The monkey wrench which the flood dropped in the city's utilities threatened to take a great many. It left Pittsburgh, for day or so, facing the most dreadful fate imaginable for modern city Of course, the danger passed The flood waters subsided, peo- pie got their basements shoveled out and mopped up, the power plants began to hum again, and life was going forward on the usual basis before so very long.
 But the threat had been just real enough to show what slim thread 1t IS that holds up the lives and the happiness of the millions in our cities. We do great deal of talking about the horrible things that could happen in a modern war, with airplanes raining explosives and incendi- ary bombs on a densely populated city. The picture is frightful, but it is too elab- crate. An invader bent on destroying city would not need to lay down any in- tensive bombardment
 All he would need to do would be to drop few bombs on the power plants and the pumping stations Then, if his aim had been good, he could fly serenely away and leave the city to Writhe help lessly through it's death agony. dozen bombs, properly placed, would do the trick. A modern city is essentially an unnatural thing It groups together some hundreds of thousands of people and strips them all of the ability to fend for themselves in case of need. The water that they drink, the fire that warns their houses, the power that gives them light, preserves their food, enables them to move from place to place, and permits them to keep in touch with one another - all these things are as much out of the individual citizens control as they are out of the control of his pet spaniel.
 For the city dweler depends on cooper ative effort for all these things. Produce an accident or hostile blow which dis rupts that effort and he is as helpless as a shipWrecked sailor on a raft in mido- cean. He can do absolutely nothing to- ward supplying these wants for himself. He can only wait until the services on which he depends are restored. Postpone their restoration for only few days, and you would let loose in the modern city horror of darkness, cold, hunger, and panic such as the world has not seen before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-26

The first homestead given to Civil War veteran back in 1863 is just about to be bought back by Uncle Sam. It's out in Nebraska and will soon become a national park. The land in question is still fertile farm. It was granted to Daniel Freeman for his services to the Union. The act granting these home steads was signed by Abraham Lincoln and went into effect January 1, 1863. Freeman with others gathered in the land office at Brownsville, Nebraska, on New Years eve and at 12:05 a. m. Free man, on army furlough, was allowed to file his ownership papers.