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Evening star., 1940-07-12
Britain 10 Recognize
SeIassie as Lawful
Ruler Of Ethiopia
Assured Of independence
When War Is Won, Butler
Informs Commons

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 12-Great Britain,
has decided to recognize the govern
ment of Emperor Halle Selassie "as
the lawful government of Ethiopia, -
r. A. Butler, undersecretary for for
eign affairs, informed the House of
Commons today.
This would be direct reversal of
Britain's action on November 16,
1888. in formally recognizing Italian
sovereignty over conquered Ethi-
opia. The deposed Emperor has
lived in England as a private citi-
zen ever since.
Independence Promised.
Mr.. Butler informed Commons
that contact had now been made
between the British government and
Halle Selassie. whom he referred to
as the Emperor of Ethiopia" and
that the Selassie government will
be recognized as the lawful govern
ment of Ethiopia and admitted to
the full status of ally in the present
war, with assurances that Ethiopia S
independence will be assured when
the war is Won"
Furthermore. Mr.. Butler said,
British and Ethiopian" forces are
to coordinate "all activities likely
to damage the enemy's effort in
North and East Africa and in Abys-
sinia Ethiopia)."
G. w. Martin, Ethiopian Minister
IN London at the time of the Italian
conquest, said at least 100000 to
100000 Ethiopians were ready to
fight Italy if they had sufficient
ms. He said some had been fight
r.. With guns taken from the Ital-
ians, but needed many more, par
ticularly artillery.
Commander to Be Contacted.
The British enemy in Africa is
Italy, conqueror of Ethiopia in the
war of 1885 and ruler of Eritrea
and italian Somaliland, colonies ly-
ing just east of Ethiopia on the At
rican East Coast
Mr.. Butler said contact would be
made with Gen. Abeba Aragui.
who is commanding Ethiopian forces
in the field. and with Ras Birru,
formerly War Minister of Ethiopia,
who recently flew from Jerusalem
to the Sudan to join the Ethiopian
forces on the Emperor's behalf, in
order that British and Ethiopian
forces may coordinate their activ-
tiles against the Italians in Ethi-
opia."
Mr.. Butler, whose statement was
made in a written reply to a ques-
tion put by Laborite Col Josiah
c. Wedgewood. said it was impos-
sible to give further details.
Evening star., 1940-07-12

sibilities, Senator Wheeler said
there is no question of a third
party" He said he thought the
biggest battle before the nomina-
tions would be on a war plank.
American armament spending, he
said, probably would mean TEN
porary def1ation" in the United
States because, regardless of who
wins the European war, standards
OF living there will be greatly low
cred and, in turn, affect economic
conditions in this country.
The committees began to grind out
the routine convention formula to-
day., The National Committee was
all set to work out a temporary
roll OF convention delegates, ham
pered somewhat by the fractional
votes many States had worked out
so they could get more sightseeing
delegates on the floor.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
WASHINGTON, c. FRIDAY JULY T. 1e4o
Movement Leaders
Shape PEI PIanks
For Democrats
Resolutions Committee
Hopes to Stort Public
Hearings Late Today
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 12.-Peace ad.
vocates, c. I. o. union heads, farm
leaders, and spokesmen for a varied
assortment of organized move
ments" were ready today to urge
their pet planks at the opening
session Of the Democratic Conven-
ton Resolutions Committee.
Senator Wagner of New York,
committee chairman, called the first
meeting for midafternoon. He told
reporters he hoped to complete
organization preliminaries in time to
start public hearings before night
fall.
I'VE want to clean up these public
sessions quickly so we can get down
to the serious business of platform
writing before the convention meets
Monday" the stocky New Yorker
said. "We want to avoid these all
night sessions after the convention
gets under way"
Evidently hoping to capitalize on
President Roosevelt's pledge not to
send any American soldiers to fight
on foreign soil. three persons are on
hand to advocate strong anti-war
planks.
They are Walter w. Van Kirk of
the national peace conference:
Frederick J. Libby, National Council
for Prevention of War, and Repre-
sentative Louis Ludlow, Democrat,
OF Indiana, war referendum ad-
vocate.
John L. Lewis, head of the C. 10,
who appeared before the Repub-
hcan Convention at Philadelphia,
was not listed among those making
early appearances, but Thomas j.
Kennedy, Secretary-treasurer of
Lewis United Mine Workers, and
Philip Murray, head of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee, also
G. I. O., were ready to appear.
So we're Edward A. O'Neal. presi-
dent Of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. and dozen others, in
Guiding Miss Josephine Roche, for
mer Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. now representing the Ma
tional Consumers League; Paul
Wolman, Veterans of Foreign Wars;
Neville Miller. National Broadcast
ing Co.; Conita Pollitzer National
Womans Party, and Gerritt Wander
Honning. National Retail Grocers.
Several State leaders already here
for the convention have predicted
an anti-war plank couched in more
explicit terms than that approved
by the Republicans, who advocated
no involvement in foreign wars, but
turned aside commitment against
spilling American blood on foreign
battlefields.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Impartial Straits Rule
Demanded by Russia
BY tie Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 12.-An informed
neutral source said today that So
Wet Russia had told Turkey her
control of the Dardanelles must be
impartial and free from suspicion
OF manipulation by any other pow
erS.
The Russian position on the Oar.
danelles question was described au-
thoritatively as being that misuse
OF control of the straits would con-
stitute a danger TO Russian security
which the Soviet state could not
countenance."
This source said there had been
no Russian ultimatum to Turkey.
and both countries were alert to any
belligerent moves to embroil them
in the war.
A Soviet source declared that Rus
sla's foreign policy was aimed
solely at peace and security for
Russia"
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Washington Delegates
Leaving for Chicago

Most of Washington's IL delegates
to the Democratic National Conven-
ton today were reported either on
their way to Chicago or preparing
to depart soon for the scene.
Some of the delegates had left or
were ready to leave from the Capt.
tai, while others planned to 60 di-
rect to the convention city from
spots where they are vacationing.
The local delegates are Malcolm
S. McConihe, Melvin D. Hildreth,
Russell Balderson, Walter F. Bram-
hall, Brig. Gen. Albert l.. Cox, Hugh
V. Keiser, Mrs. Arthur D. Condor,
John Walsh, John Wattawa, Leslie
C. Garnett, William Jett Lauck and
Robert w. Woolley. The only alter
nate is Mrs. Eunice Blake Thomas.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Virginia Birth Rate Up;
Deaths Show Decline

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. July 12.-Final
figures for 1899, released yesterday
by the State Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics, disclosed that births in
creased sharply last year and the
number of deaths declined.
There were rotal of So, ,785 births
in Virginia. 37,780 white and 15,0O5
colored. as compared with $3.50
births in 1888, 51,791 in 1887 and
SLIT in 1886.
There were 28.6l7 deaths, 1867
white and $3.50 colored, reported in
the State last year, as compared
with 23,560 in 1898, 1902 in 1897
80, 1869 in 1886 and 30, 1854 in 1885.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
| Mrs. Dill Accused
|Of Mistreoting
Animals
BY the Associated Press.

HUNTINGTON, N. Y, July 12-
Rosalie Jones. Dill, divorced wife of
former Senator Dill of Washington,
was charged with cruelty to animals
yesterday after officers said they
discovered dead goat tethered in
her abandoned cottage at Lloyd's
Harbor.
Police Sergt. Benjamin Smith Of
Lloyd's Harbor told the Suffolk
County district attorneys Office and
investigators for the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
that a number of thin and under
fed goats roamed the abandoned
estate which Mrs. Dill often visited
He said he found the dead goat
hanging from a window by a chain
and that the animal apparently was
hanged when it jumped from the
cottage.
Mrs. Dill was ordered to appear
before Justice Of the Peace Richard
Cotter tomorrow.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Col. Joseph Heller
Gains After Illness

Col. Joseph M. Heller. Medical
Corps, U. S. A, secretary of the
Military Order of the Carabao, is
recuperating from an illness in
Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, it was
learned today.
DR.. Heller became i'll while on va
cation with Mrs. Heller at Atlantic
City just before the Republican Ma
tional Convention assembled in Phil
adelphia. Too i'll to come to Wash
ington, he was rushed to the Naval
Hospital in Philadelphia
In letter to her relatives today,
Mrs. Heller said the doctor sis i'm
proving nicely, gaining strength and
is more comfortable in every way"
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Street Work Starts Soon
In Chevy Chase View

Street improvement work in Chevy
Chase View, Md, will start within
the next two weeks under plans
made last night at a meeting of the
Citizens Committee, governing body
of the village, held at the home of
the secretarye w. w. Meyer.
The program, in charge of John
Mcdonald, engineer, includes grad,
ing, drainage and oiling work on
Summit avenue, and grading and
drainage work on parts of Glenrose.
East Franklin. East Everett and
Dresden streets, and Saul road
Gartrell place and County road.
The work Is to cost approximately
$3.50.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Vichy
Continued From First Page.)

conquering Germany. Marshal Pc
tain showed his intention to extend
at least his civil power over that
region by his desire to move the
capital from this famed health re-
sort to Versailles.
What Marshal Petain and his tri-
umverate of advisers-Pierre Laval,
Gen. Maxine Weygand and Adrien
Marquet-can make of their new
France appeared to depend on how
much support Berlin was willing to
give.
They seemed particularly anxious
to convince Germany and Italy that
the new government is not just the
old democracy temporarily mas
queradlng under totalitarian
front"
Marshal Petain drew the outlines
of the new French system in a
broadcast Yesterday.
international capitalism and in
ternational socialism are things Of
the past" he said. The base of
our new state must be work, the
family and the fatherland."
Returns to Province System.
The state will return to the prov
incial system of pre-republican
France, he announced. The 33
former provinces will be re-estab-
lished. with governors to WELD the
local power which, under the Third
Republic, was vested in projects of
80 departments.
Marshal Petains government will
include II ministers. Some of them
will function in Paris if the Ger
mans approve.
(Among Frenchmen in SWitz-
erland. it was reported, the i'm
preston was growing that under
the new system, with Gen. Wey-
gand regarded as a Royalist
sympathizer, France was closer
to return of monarchy than
any time since 1875. The Duke
of Guise, as head of the House of
Orleans, and his son. the Count
of Paris, are the active pretend
'ers to the throne. They now are
in Spanish MoroccoD
Paul Baudoin, Foreign Minister in
the last cabinet of the republic, told
an Associated Press correspondent
that a family vote" was being
considered.
Each head of a family would have
one vote for himself, one for his
wife and one for each child, whereas
bachelor would have a single vote
Baudoin declared the coming
governmental changes tend more
toward "the American system" than
any other and that there will be no
Nazi or Fascist salute, no brown or
black shirts
Text of Three Acts.
The text of the three "constitu-
tional acts" almost royal in tone,
which marked the end of the repub-
lie, follows:
The First Act.
Eve. Philippe Petain, marshal of
France, in view of the constltu-
tional law of July 10, 1910, assume
the functions of chief of the French
state. In consequence, we declare
that Article of the constitutional
law of February 25, 1875, is abro-
gated"
The Second Act.
Article /: The chief of the
French state has full governmental
power to name and revoke ministers
and secretaries of the state who
are responsible only to him.
First, he exercises legislative
power in the cabinet until forma-
ton of new assemblies and, second,
after formation, in cases in foreign
tension and of serious internal
crisis. under his decision alone and
in the same form. Under the same
circumstances he can decree meas
ures of budgetary and fiscal order.
Third he promllgates laws and
assures their execution.
Fourth, he names persons to all
civil and military posts for which
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Nozi Claims Declared
q Times British Total

LONDON, July IL (R.-An au-
thoritative British source declared
that the figure of 4,329,213 tons of
shipping Germany today claimed she
had sunk since the beginning of the
war actually was more than four
times the total British losses up to
July l..
This source said Germany had
lost about 877,0OO tons of merchant
shipping and Italy about 244,00O
tons-captured, scuttled or sunk
more than the total British losses
since the outbreak of the war.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Dies at Wheel Of Car

Richard E. Jope, 68, of 1872 c
street NE, was stricken with a
heart attack while driving in the
1000 block of Tenth street NE. early
today and his automobile mounted
the curb before coming to a stop.
He was pronounced dead by a Casu-
atty Hospital physician. Police say
he apparently applied the brakes
before he became unconscious,
Evening star., 1940-07-12
5-Doy MoyoIe Attack
RepuIsed, British Say

NAIRoBI. Kenya Colony. July 10
P.-British defenders have STAYED
of a three-day assault by heavy
Italian forces on Moyale. strong for
tilted post on the Kenya- Ethiopian
frontier, British headquarters said
today.
Since dawn Wednesday the de-
tenders have been holding out
against small arms and artillery,
and though more than a thousand
shells have dropped into British po-
sitions casualties were reported COM
paratively light. British reinforce
ments are en- route.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Berlin
Continued From First Page. }

dius of bombing and scouting
planes.
Harbor facilities at Plymouth and
Iowestoft were hit in yesterdays
raids on England and bombs started
fires in Portsmouth and in factories
near Burton -on-Trent, the high
command said. Seven German
planes were acknowledged to be
missing.
British plane losses yesterday,
counting planes shot down when
they invaded Western Germany
were put at 13.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Alarm in Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. July IL (4)
An AFRAID alarm of few minutes
duration was sounded today when
Italian reconnaissance planes. flying
very high and possibly checking fleet
movements, were sighted over Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Cabinet Appointments
Expected in 48 Hours

GRENOBLE, France, July IL (P.-
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.
Frances new chief of state, is ex-
pected to name his cabinet of IL
ministers within the next 48 hours.
dispatch from Vichy to LIE Petit
Dauphinois said today.
The newspaper said the new min
listers would include Leon Berard,
one of former Premier Pierre Laval's
close friends: Henri Haye, Senator
and Mayor of Versailles; Fernand
Bouisson, premier of two short Lived
governments; Marcel Deaf, former
air minister. and CASTOR Bergery
independent Deputy known in pre-
war days for his bitter attacks on
the parliamentary system
The newspaper also listed Sena-
tors and Deputies who voted against
giving Marshal Petain authoritarian
powers or who abstained from vot-
ing. 49,. -.-..-.....
Those casting mo- votes included: ::
Senators-the Marquis de Cham
brun. Justin GODDARD and Jean Paul
Boncour; Deputies Leon Blum
chief of the Socialist party and for
mer Premier of the Peoples Front
government; his finance minister
Vincent Auriol. and several other
former Socialist ministers; Auguste
Champetier de Ribes, who was an
undersecretary in the Reynaud gov
ernment. and Jean Hennessey.
Those abstaining from voting in
cluded: Senators-Henri Queuille
and Theodore Steig: Deputies-Ed-
Guard Herriot, many times Premier
and now president of the Chamber;
Jules Julian, often minister: AL
bert Scroll, minister of justice in the
Reynaud cabinet, and Georges Mon
net, blockade minister in M. Rey-
naud's cabinet.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Rome
Continued From First Page. }

Eastern Mediterranean are untrue.
The only damage caused by eigh
italian bombing attacks yesterday
these sources said, was that "one o.
our fighters became unserviceablt
after landing" They declared tina
one Italian fighter was shot down.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Nazi Permission Awaited.

Nazi Permission Awaited.
BERLIN, July II tP).-The Ger
man government has not yet de-
cided on the French government S
request that it be permitted to es-
tablish the seat of the new chief
of state at Versailles, authorized
German sources said today.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-15
SCHOOLS WILL OBSERVE EDU.
CATION WEEK

In a period when America is urg-
ing top-speed preparation to meet
any emergency, the schools of the
nation will demonstrate and discuss
their part in the national defense to
over 100000 visiting parents dur
ing American Education Week, Nov
ember 1915. The schools of Cecil
county are participating in this ma
tional demonstration and, although
open house is the rule of the entire
school year, the local schools are
urging the parents to view the ac-
complishments of the students dur
ing this special week.
Sons and daughters will pursue
their work under the eyes of mil
lions of Mothers and Dads, as schools
in large and small communities
throughout the United States will
entertain parents, using the occas-
sion to interpret their efforts to
teach children an appreciation and
understanding of the ways and aims
of democracy. Based on the theme
Education for the Common Defense,
the goth annual celebration of Amer
lean Educational Week is sponsored
by American Legion, the United
States Office of Education, and the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
There is unusual need for schools
to play their part in providing for
the common defense" stated Pres
ident Roosevelt in a statement on
American Education Week issued
from the White House.
An outgrowth of the fact revealed
in the draft of the first World War
that large portions of America IS
population were illiterate and physi-
cally unfit, American Week was
founded in 1921 to advance the
education and health of the nation.
Open house programs, school enter
tainments, and meetings of civic,
social, and church groups are a part
of the celebration in many locali-
ties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-15

THERE is supposed to be some
i special type of divine protection
for drunkards and fools. Maybe
there is, but there is also another
saying that Heaven helps those
who help themselves" Perhaps in
the field of highway deaths due to
drinking drivers or pedestrians
Heaven is waiting for people to help
themselves.
Safety experts and police officers
throughout the country are doing
their best to cut the tolls by educa-
ton and by statute, but they are
dealing with effects and not with
causes.
Thirty-five states recognize that
it's. much simpler to stop the prac-
tice of drinking drivers at the source
so they have banned curb service of
all alcoholic liquors. Of the remain
ing states only one, Missouri, has
no restrictions on curb service, fig
uratively handing the driver a shot
of alcohol and telling him to wheel
out on the highway and do his best.
Five allow beer and wine to be
served to auto occupants while one
permits beer only.
Cancellation of drivers licenses,
heavy sentences, and other stop
gaps are included in the police S
shocked efforts to reduce the high
way carnage. Practically no state
has taken fundamental action how
ever to prevent any person who has
had an alcoholic drink from get
ting into the drivers seat of a car.
AS far as drunken pedestrians are
concerned, the police forces Simply
throw up their hands. AS long as
liquor may be bought by the drink
or by the bottle, inebriated walkers
will stagger into the path of fast
moving automobiles.
There's no fooling about this bust
ness of drinking and driving. The
National Safety Council has reduced
highway statistics to a routine re-
search affair and its bulletins all
say that alcohol plus gasoline equals
death.
These figures make liquor direct
ly responsible for $3.50 fatal acct
dents in 1899. The same percentage
would make liquor responsible for
at least 1918, 1897, 300 of the $780,
100000 economic loss attributed to
traffic accidents in 1899 by the Coun-
ell.
Summarizing the whole highway
alcohol situation, the National w. c.
T. U. recently wondered:
''Wouldn't it be much simpler to
attack these death totals at the
source? Why not turn off the fau-
Get of the liquor supply?"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-15
PROTECT THEM AGAINST DAM
AGING DISEASES

Keep your children away from
other youngsters who have coughs,
colds, measles, mumps, whooping
cough, or any of the other catch
ing diseases IL you want the children
to stay WE'LL" comes as a bit of seas
onal advice to mothers, from DR.. R..
H. Riley, Director of the State De-
partment Of Health.
Its a mistake" he continued
''to think that the children will have
TO have these diseases at some time,
so they may as we'll have them and
have it over That had to be given up
long ago when 1t was found that
nearly all of these diseases are not
only very hard on young children,
but that they may leave some serious
after-effect.
There is always danger that the
catching Observation-Disclosures due to
some sort of infection--may leave
some permanent damage. 1t may be
to the eyes, weakening the vision;
or to the ears, so that the hearing is
affected; or to the heart, the kid
neys or to some other part of the
system. For all of these reasons, it
is wiser and safer to protect the
children in every way possible
against such diseases.
Very often the damage is not
noticeable at first but shows up in
later life when it becomes very
serious handicap. For example--much
of the heart disease that occurs
among growing girls and boys,
among young people and even in
older ones, can be traced to illnesses
from infectious diseases in child
hood.
"You can protect your children
against such avoidable illnesses and
possible handicaps, in several ways.
Here are some of them.
First: Develop their resistance
to disease by intelligent care, pay
ing special attention to proper food,
fresh air and plenty of rest.
Second: Keep away from all peo-
ple--grown-ups as we'll as children
who have any sort of catching
disease.
Third: Take them to your doctor
regularly, while they are well, for
careful check up and for advice as
to ways by which they can be kept
we'll. Do this for the older children
as we'll as for the younger ones. In
that way unfavorable conditions that
may have developed, can be detected
while they are in the early stages,
and before they become a serious
and permanent handicap.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-15
TECHNOLOGY Is------

The first paragraph of the report
on Technology on the Farm, just
issued by the U. s. Department of
Agriculture, makes an effort to tell
what technology is and what the
book is about. 1t is not offered as a
definition but rather as an aid to
understanding:
Technology, it says, sis science,
art, and invention. 1t Is tractors,
combines, corn pickers. 1t is the
testing and breeding Of animals and
the conquest of diseases. 1t is hy-
brid corn, new kinds of wheat, soy
beans, kudzu and lespedeza. 1t is
ways to feed cows, plants and men.
It is road building and rural cleo
IRRIGATION. It is contour blowing,
conservation Of soil, management Of
frests, protection Of wildlife. 1t is
marketing and distribution. 1t is a
race between insect pests and ways
to kill them. Technology is in the
workshop, in the laboratory, barn,
grove, field and home. 1t is social
and economic force that challenges
thought and ability to plan, because
its many-sided nature combines the
intricate influences of getting and
spending, savings and debt, employ
ed leisure and unemployed relief"