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m THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE VOL. 43. BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935 News Review of Current Events the World Over Hundreds Perish in Hurricane That Hits Florida—Liner Stranded on Reef—Italy Accuses Ethiopia Before League Council. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. IpLOpiDA was the victim of another P lemiifc hurricane that swept up ■ /roin the Caribbean across the keys add thgV'Southern end of the state, theh“' ak)8g the west coast and Into ... OeOrgla.- The total of fatalities was uncertain but-at this writing the num ber-of dead .is e_8timated at more than . pi, these perhaps BOO were war ,Te.tera.ns' In labor camps gn the keys ‘where they were employed in construc tion wotk. All buildings on many of 'the keys were demolished and'a relief '■ train tliat'had been sent to take the ' Veterans away from the danger zone Was smashed to pieces. The survivors • oa‘the-islands were without shelter, •food, and, medical supplies, but relief . ejp.editiong were quickly sent by the ... Ited Cross and other agencies. The'tovvns alonfe the west coast re ported extensive property damage. Responding to assertions that the great loss of life In the veterans’ labor eamps'■Was''due to lack of preparation dgalnst ' such' a disaster, President Roosevelt ordered a thorougli investi gation by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, ■administrator of veterans' affairs. ■ Harry Hopkins, head of the FERA .which.set up the camps, also started an Inquiry, and so did the American Le gion. The affair promised to attain the -bad.eminence of a pational scandal. Caught In the fury of the storm, the Morgan liner Dixie, from New Orlean's for New York, was driven aground-'on French reef, about 60 miles south, of Miami. lifer passengers and crew, •numbering 372, were In great peril for ■three' days,- but various steamers and, gbaat guard cutters rushed to the res cue in response to her SOS call and as soon as. wind and seas , abated enough all ..were taken off the strand ed vessel.and conveyed to land, most ,, of , them to Miami. Passengers on the . Dixie ’ warmly ■ praised' the gallant whrk of the' ship’s officers and crew. Jeze ended with a dramatic remind er that time Is pressing and this Is not the moment for dilatory measures. “The question is whether there is danger of war, and whether there is danger of an early opening of a war of extermination.” he said. “That is the point to which the council ought to direct Its most serious attention.” WL' IIILE the European statesman struggling with the Itaio- Ethtopian question, Secretary of State Cordell Hull qnietl.v took a hand in ■ the game. He did not in any way Involve the . Sec'y H.u.l! O FF ■ th'fe coast ,of For(ugq.l the Cunard-Wlilte’ Star liner Doric was Iir collision with the French steam er Formlgny and so badly disabled that she called for . aid. The British , steamers Orion and Viceroy of India ■ went, .to the rescue and took off the . -Dofic's passengers, numbering 736. The crew remained aboard. The Doric S returning from a cruise to the iteVrane'an.' 'Wireless reports said -the'FOFiUlgSij: ;Was all right B aron POMPF?! ALOISI, com and. r^satdonle, sto)$ up., before the , .^ague of NalJops council, in Geneva .and presented italy’s case against Ethiopia, denouncing ’ that'empire as utterly • linworthy to be.dassfe'd' ? -with-civilized coum. tries. ,Io .addition to his. speech,, he laid' ; before,:1;iie cohnqii a ! long, m’etbpfahflum de- ! tailing • ti'iehlfeged con- ' •^tlohs qf'-stavfery that prevail in- -Ethi-, t.ppla. ahd the ' partlcfc , .., . .••' paliOD of its .goverp> ■B.ron-A]oi.r,, trade. This meraspahcfl/m' 'M-as elab- flrafely documentedi Addressing the“ieonncil, Aioisl'Said' .In part: ' ' ' '• • ! ’ ' “Ethiopia, tal^rig-'advantage of 'her -position as a. member-of the League of Nations, s.belterod'tehind the,treaty- of, friendship contlvuted„wI,th Htaiy in. .1928, has. since that 'date m'ulUplied provocations, hostile defaonstrations, incursions of pillagers, acts of brig andage,' and violence!, aghl.nst the peacefiir populations of-,our frontier. “The EtHlopian' government does nothing to ^ make itself worthy of belonging to' the community jof civil-i •Ized nations. Even v today that coun- ■ try- has to. he represented Euro- • , pqan advisers in order to mak^i,lts y.olce -beard In the League of Natlops. “The Italian government co'nslders. In these circumstances, that a statq such Ethfopla cannot have either equality of right'or equality of duties as compared, with civilized state's. To claim that m^bers of the league are • required to observe- rules -of the eo've- natit in their relations .with members . Who have always.and, constant!y-“been outside those, rules Is contrary to-all the principles of 'right 'and justice.’’ - , ’To the 'press correspondents. ,thp, baron was even'more explicit, “You "have heard the Italian thesis,” .he shld.' “That Is final. Italy has asftd' nothing, not even the. withdrawal of Ethiopia from, the league. From now on Italy'will play, a passive role here. We are, not going t.o disquss anything . . with. Ethiopia, but we will j discuss „Ethlf'pia.''with •tbfe league. “It is up to the members; of, the league council to decide whether they want to expel -Ethiopia or expel. Italy.” ' • Ethiopia's reply to Italy was pre- • sented to the council!,by Prof: Gaston Jeze, a Frenchman. . He. protested in,. . a dignifled way against the brutal word-' Ing of the Italian statement- ^nd'-t6l’a' the council if It considered ^Ite ex.pul- sion of Ethiopia the league | would be setting a precedent of judging mem ber states according -to the inahnfef in which tliey“P0nduct6d'"their Internal affairs. • Some members might find this dangerous, he said. United States in the wrangle, but he put on end to the deal, where by Haille Selassie was giving a great devel opment concession to Americans. Officials of the Standard-Vacuum Oil company went to Mr. -Hull’s office and admitted ownership of the grant. The secre tary admonished, them that the con cession had ,been, “the cause of great einbarrasstneijt not only to this gov ernment, 'but to other governments who are making strentioBs and sincere efforts for Ihe'preserv'atibn of peace.” The oil merr-thereupon announced their intention' of withdrawing from the deal with I-lthlopia; and the big concession sensation was-entirely de flated. The Dritlsh government r was especially pleased with this outcome and felt .deeply grateful to Secretary Hull.,. ONTHLY estimates of private forecasters arfe that, if there are DO serious frosts In September, the corn crop of the country will be 2,231 million bushels. This is 854 million bushels larger than last season’s har- •est when the drought.cut returns to 1,- witir “normal” production this season’ Indicated crop Is moderately deficient. In Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio the crop is In excellent condition and the returns promise to be larger than ap peared likely a month ago. Tho situa tion Is reversed in Kansas, South Da kota, and Nebraska. In Iowa, the big gest producing state, the prospects are slightly less .favorable than a month ago. The spring wheat crop was esti mated at 155 million bushels. Using the government’s last estimate on the win ter crop'of 432 million bushels, total wheat production this year is placed at 587 -million busli^^!. Jerald B. THORNB,' chief of the live StO'd? and feed graIn'S'’divislon of-AXA, sp-ysi that in order to rectify inequities in corn-hog produdti.pn it has..been decided.ta permit moffifica-' tion of the base production quotsfs. The tehtati’ve 'pian Is: .y.'.Each county, .now has an aggregate bas.e • prodaction . of.; corn and hogs which -.Will -b.e .left untouched. % -Wlthia- the. county... bases,. however; .jnadkl.hery.^will .be set up, largely fhfpugh. qguoty^ committees, .by which ,t^e basfes can^fie altered. '''" '■"Thuy.the.fa'm'er' who yiahted less than'normal''^Ora ’iri 1932 and 1033 'and' has a lotv'corn base-can be giv- -en'an'; (nfertasfed bahfe.- In-the.same Way^the farmer who raised-fewer hog? •for one reason or another Hn those •years than ardingry.on-a farm of that size-.may-get., a larger hog base. •' For these increases,..however, there will .have to be .corresponding adjust-, ments downward.for ot^^r farmers. r\ R, CHAIM WEIZMANN, veteran” ^ leader of the Zionists, was elected president of their world organization It the nineteenth congress held in Lucerne. A resolution was adopted aeclaring against “systematic depriva tion of the rlghts'of Jews in Germany, which undermines their moral and ma terial position.” The German delegation to the con gress unanimously voted against the resolution, declaring it did not consti tute a “constructive plan” to meet the situation of Jews in the reich. “Northwest Passage” Awaits Trade CIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL, the ^ English speed demon, satisfied his ambition to run his automobile, the Bluebird, at a rate of 300 miles an hour, on a salt track In Utah. A; matter of fact, he covered the thirteen mile course at an average speed of 301.337 an hour or more than five miles a minute. Over one measured mile he ran at the rate of 304,331. 'D USSIA’S reply in America's protest against the subversive plotting of the Communists in Soviet territory was a rejection and a coldly worded re-assertion of the old and more than dubious position that the Moscow government is not and cannot be held responsible for the doings of the Com munist Internationale. This was con sidered for four days by ollidal Wash ington and then It was decided to let the matter drop with another and rather milder warning. The new note sent to Moscow said: “If the Soviet government pursues a policy of permitting activities on its territory involving interference with the internal affairs of the United States, instead of ‘preventing’ such activities, as its written pledge pro vides, the friendly and official rela tions between the two countries can- not--but- be seriously Impaired.” S .E^ATOR HUEY, LONG crowed a liM about the success of his one- man filibuster which killed the third deficiency appropriation bill, but he didn’t add to his popu larity among the peo ple who looked for ward for help from the agencies that are now hampered by - the fail ure of the measure. Besides that, it Is now admltted that his-fill- buster rescued • the Democratic house lead ers from a tight place in the matter of the cnlton p.'nd wheat loans. Still further, U appears that Huey’s domination of Louisiana is go ing to be investigated by a congres sional committee. That committee prob ably will be headed by Representative William L. Granflelcl of Massachusetts, for be was the author of the elections investigation bill, which was founa to contain a little “joker.” This joker gives the committee such wide powers that it can probe into all the facts con cerning Long’s complete control of elec tion affairs in his state and the meth ods by which he has attained to the position of a dictator thera W. L. Granfleld M rs. ANNA WILMARTH ICKES, wife of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, was killed when an au tomobile in which she and three friends were riding was overturned in a ditch at Velarde, N. M. Mrs. Gene vieve Forbes Herrick, well-known newspaper writer; Ibrahim Seyfullah, secretary of the Turkish embassy in ■Washington, and Frank Allen of Gal- Icp,. N. M., the driver, were severely Injqyed. Allen died later. E-', ARLY court tests of,.the Wagnef'' labor disputfe'Tacf'may'.bfe obtained, tor already complaints have been flled^ with the new labor relations-board against tw'o subsidiarie'S of" General Motbfs and the Portsmouth, Ohio, plant of the Wheeling- Steci-corporatloh.-flie -compialnaotS: are the United Aut-Smo:- bile,-workers and the Amalgamated.-A'b: Boclatiopt.of.Ironi Steel and Tin'VVork- qrs. T\iey.are rep.resented ^y Ciiarlton’ .Ogburn,. counsel'for the A. P. df L., who, says Ihe. ujii'ont charge that the comp'anle's violated the act’s fair la- "bor practice provisions.- ' r JNITI'ID CONFEDER.ATB AJET- ERANS’'ln annual session at Am arillo, Texas, havWg been-assured that the' stars - and bars would hot' be banned, accepted the invitation to hold a joint. rennion on Gettysburg battle field with the Grand Army of the Re public In 1938. Paul Roy, who extended tlie invitation on behalf of Governor Earls, of Pennsylvania, told the con federates they would be free to carry the 'flag' of the' south 'wherever and whenever they pleased. N oteworthy among recent . deaths Vre' .those of Right Rev. Walter T. Sumner, bishop of the Epls- 'copal diocfese of Oregon, who won fame long' ago- as a-' chisader -hgainst. organ ized vice in Chicago; George G. Han son, veteran American diplomat, who shot himself to death on a- steamer j when returning ftouL Greece;' and Charles J. Vopicka.o.f Chicago, who! was American minister to several Bal- [ kan countries during the World war. C E'NATOR GEORGE NORRIS of Nfehraska and Arthur F. Mullen, former; 'Democratic national conimlt- teema-a fer that state, are engaged In a warni dispute that may cause con siderable, embarrassment for President Roosevelt, friend of both men. Mullen carried to the White House a hot pro test against a $20,000,000 power proj ect .which Is sponsored by Norris. Re is attorney for two $7,000,000 power plants which 'already have 6feen ap proved by the PWA; and he assarts there is no field for the enormous .amount of electrical energy that would be developed by the three projects, and probably not enough water for all of them. - - • The first project approved by PWA was at'-Columbus, Neb.;_80 miles west of Omaha, and situated on the Loupe river. The second was on the Platte .river, 150 miles farther west, at 'Sfith- eria'nd, Nfeh. Both were' approved in the fall of 1933. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY F or centuries men have strug gled, frozen, drowned and lost themselves in attempts to find a Northwest Passage—an all water route througli the American continent that would permit European ships to reach the Orient without sailing around Cape Horn. Much of the e.xiiloraiion and settle ment of North America has been di rectly attributable to the long-endiirios search. What is probably the, nearest thing to a practical N^^west Passage that will ever exist is the Hudson Bay route, now undergoing development by the Ca nadian government. By this route, ships from European ports would sail through Hudson Straits, coming far inland across Hudson bay to the old, but newly improved :«jrt of Cliurchill. far up the hay on the west side. A Hudson Bay railway, which joins the Canadian National at Le I’as in Manitoba, bas been built with its north ern terminus in Churchill. This will now allow ships tinloading at Churchill to transfer their cargoes to railway cars there, which will carry them across western Canada to Vancouver, where they may be placed aboard-ship again and sent to se.'i on the final lap of its journey to Japan. China. India or other Oriental markets. Such a route has several distinct advantages over the recognized routes of today. It is claimed. The distance of travel from Fhnrclilll lo Liverpool is about the snrt c as th.at from Mont- hn and Po.rtland, .New York, yet farther into the heart of Canada and North America. To wheat farmers of Manitoba and western Canada it could be made vastly important, for its supporters claim that it could lower the price of Canadian wheat four cents a bushel. This, of course, would be of vital im portance to wheat farmers in Minnesota and the Dakotas, for it would make Canadian wheat a much moi-e serious competitor, although it is possible that some American farmers would also find it cheaper to Ship their wheat though Hudson Ray than througli Du luth and tlie Great Lakes ns so ni.'in> of them now do. Needs Oriental Trade. real, Quebec, and loss tf Chorchili is Shown here Is a graphic cross-section of life at the new port of Churchill. 1. A ship at one of the wharves in winter. 2. Native Eskimos fishing along the flat, barren coast, 3. The new 2,500,OOO-bushel grain elevator. 4. An Eskimo dog-team, principal mode of travel, with the exception of the new Hudson Bay railway. But to make it profitable for ship ping companies to pick up cargoes of wheat at Churchill, bound for Liver pool and European ports, their ships must be able to bring pay loads into Chiircliill as well as take them out. It would hardly he worth wliile for many ships to eqter Hudson Bay only under bal.ance to pick up a cargo for the return trip. The answer seems to be for the ship ping companies to develop the Orien tal trade, so that ships con bring Eu ropean manufactured goods to he transferred‘‘to rail for Vancouver and the Orient, and pick up wheat at Churchill for the return trip. Thai fin's development will eventually come about is not at all iinprohable, for the Canadian government has spent more than -$57,000,000 in developing the Hud son Bay route in the past few jp^rs and it is doubtful that such an outlay of capital will he satisfied with the handful of ships which have cleared’ Churchiil harbor since the compierion of the Hudson Ray railway five years B owed down by deep grief. theBeL giaa,people laid to rest their be loved queen, Astrld, who was killed near Lucerne, Switzerlan'd, when' the automobile driven by King 'IvGopold swerved from ’ the road and dashed against .a tree. Astrid’s skull was crushed and she died almost immedi ately in the arms of her husband, who was cut palfifully by the smashed windshield. The queen’s body, taken back to Brussels, was taken to the cathedral of St. Gudnle for the funeral. ceremony and then was Interred in the royal crypt at Laeken, where lie the remains of the late King Albert. 'The services were simple, in.accord with the char acters of Astrld and Leopold. DECAUSB of the possibility of a ^ continued Increase in the importa tion of live stock and- its products, an appeal in the name of more .than 300,- 000 farmers and ranchmen, members and patrons of the National Live Stock Marketing association, was sent to President Roosevelt urging that present tariffs and sanitary restric tions on animals, meats, l.ard, and similar, products be maintained. Tlie history of this development Is fascinating because it is heroic. Al though . He was really not the first adventurer to poke the nose of his ship into Hudson straits, it is Hendrik Hiid.son to whom goes the honor of actually discovering tlie bay which now hears his name. He found it In 'Iflii) and wintered in the part of it known as .Tames bay. With a few sick sail ors he was cast adrift in an open boat and that was the last ever heard of him I'he first real occupation of tlie site of tlie present Churchill occurred nine years later and was Incidental to the .=e:ircli of Jens'Munck, a Danish nohle- miin.'for the Northwest Passage. There were two ships in his company, but ilurlng the winter he was forced to spend at Chnrehill, all but Munek and two sailors perished. When the lee .cleared in 1620—the same year the P.flgrim's handed'on' Plymouth Rock— the 'tiiree of them sailed back to Eu rope. leaving at Churchill as evidence of their visit a brass cannon, stamped with the Danish royal mark. In 1031, ; more tlian 31)0 years later, a cairn, j built of beach stones, was erected to j Miinck’s honor in Rattorv p.ark. I riiiirchill. ; Two I-'renchmen. Uadlsson and Gro- ' seilliers, spent tlie years from 10.‘8 to 1062 in tho ncunt'-.v about Churchill and retiirnea home with rales of the wealth in furs that existed there. Fail ing to interest iliolr countrymen, they told their stories to Prince Rupert of Great Britain, and under his direc tion, the Hudson Ray company was formed. Most of the subsequent ex ploration was the result of this com pany's successful efforts to build up the fur trade. History of Exploration. Cant. .Tames Young, under the aus pices of till! Hudson Bay company, established a po.st at Ehiirchlll It^ 1689, but it burned down shortly afterward. In the following two decades, Hudson Bay developments suffered from the wars between England and France, but in 1717 another post was built at Cliurchill. Over a period of years fol lowing, the stronghold, Fort Prince of Wales w.as constructed, and the ruins of the fort are still a Churchill land mark. An Irishman, Sir Arthur Dobbs, sailed from Churchill In 1735 in an- otlier of the many efforts to find the Northwest Passage which are linked with the poet’s history, but after sev eral attempts he. too, was disappointed. On the rock near the port may still be seen the names of his two ships. Furnace and Discovery, carved there by the sailors. .Another name hewn from Cliurchill rock is that of Samuel Hearne who. operating from Churcliili as a base in the years from 1769 to 1772, uncovered much of theivast min eral wealtli of the Hudson Bay country. Further development of tlie terri tory under the leadership of Mathew Cocking and I.ord Selkirk followed, but the next really important historic-.il character in Churchill annals other seeker for the elusive Northwest Passage. He was Sir John Franklin, who spent the better part of three decades exploring the Arctic and Hud son Bay. On his tliird expedition, which left Churchill in the ships Erebus and Terror in 1845, he found it—to his sorrow, The log of the Terror re vealed tliat a .Northwest Passage had been found to exist at last, but Frank lin and ail of his crew perished in Che Arctic cold. ^ With .the growth of population in ’Western Canada and the increasing Im portance of the territory's agriculture, need began to be felt for larger mar kets. The best market, of course, was Europe, but it was hard of access be cause of the l.ack of railroads connect ing tlie western farm lands with a port. Ill 1908 the depai’tnienC of railways and canals began surveying the right of way for the railway, deciding to ex tend it from Le Pas to Port Nelson, rather than to Churchill, because the cost of a line to Port Nelson was estimated at $4,000,000 less than one to Churchill. While the line was started from the south end, activity was begun to complete port facilities at Port Nelson, but during the World war the project was abandoned Port Nelson le Abandoned. It was not taken up again until 1926. During the eight years of inac tivity the line had deteriorated beyond use. It was decided that before be ginning again, another survey should be made of the relative merits of the Churchill and Port Nelson terminals, tills time by an impartial engineer. The Churchill terminus won out. It had been thought earlier, on incomplete data available, that the line to Chiirchii! was virtually impossible of construction. It would have to be longer than the line to Port Nelson, and 75 miles of it would be thrqugh the frozen muskegs, which if was be lieved would thaw out during the sum mer. thus damaging the roadbed be yond repair. But in 1927 It was discov ered that a gravel fill over the muskeg would act as a heat insulator and pre- Harbor possibilities were much bet ter at Churchill. Port Nelson could be entered only at high tide, and then would not admit ships of more than 26 feet draft, while at Churchill pro vision for 30-foot could be made at any tide. The cost of completing the work at Churchill was estimated to be less rhan at Port Nelson, and the engi neers estimated that it could be ac complished ill tLv-ee years less time A permanent wharf was built, moor ing buoys installed, the channel deep ened and the harbor otherwise im proved. With the completion of the railway, great freight sheds were com structed and cattle pens set up. Today the one outstanding landmark of Churchiil from any approach is the giant grain elevator. It Is a towering white skyscraper that seems oddly out of place along the flat and barren shore, which is frozen the year round It holds 2,500,000 bushels, and pro visions have been made for enlarging tills capacity to 10,000,000 bushels. Wheat stored there will “keep" almost indefinitely because of the year-round low temperatures that produce natural refrigeration. I thai Patrol Ice Areas. Another imposing building is the power house, with its three generators capable of carrying a load df 3,600 kilowatts. It takes power to operate tlie four grain car unloaders at the elevator, each capable of emptying eight cars, a total of 10,000 bushels, every hour. After the grain has been elevated it can be delivered to tho deep-water wharf by a four-belt con veyor system which runs in a gallery. The shipping gallery in its 1,462 feet of length, provides berths at the wharf for three ships at one time under the gallery spouts. Twenty-three boat spouts make it possible to deliver four streams into Ships at the rate of 20,- 000 bushels an hour for each stream. All of the port facilities are com piete for present use. - Tlie next step in the development of the Hudson ^Bay route Is the improvement of navi gation in the bay itself and in Hudson strait. The waters are patrolled by a sea-going, ice-breaking tug, the Ocean Eagle, which makes scouting trips each year at the time flie ice breaks up. It must be remembered that it Is very cold in this part of the bay terri tory; the mean yearly temperature Is about 17 degrees, and the strait and bay are navigable without ice-break ers only about six weeks of the year. The. ice In Churchill harbor usually breaks up about tlie middle of June and closes up again during the last two weeks of October. The Canadian government operates an ice-breaker, the Stanley, to keep the strait and bay open as long as possible and maintains an aerial scouting pa trol to keep navlgafors posted on the Ice conditions with which they are likely to meet. About tlie only thing this new North west Passage route needs to become an Important factor in world commerce is shipping. In 1931 two ships cleared Churchill harbor; in 1932; 10 ships; in 1933, 10 ships; In 1934, 15 ships. At the time of this writing only two ships had cleared ChtirchlH harbor in the entire summer of 1935. Should European Interests see fit to build up Churchill as a shipping point for manufactured goods bound for the Orient, the shipping should multiply many times. The facilities— rail, harbor and return pay-loads—are there. The Canadians who built the Hudson Bay Route are confident that eventuall.v the new Northwest Passage will be a busy one. HULL CALLS OFF AMERICAN OIL DEAL Yank Concerns Cancel Pact With Ethiopia. Washington.—Reiterating American determination to avoid foreign com plications, Secretary of State Hull announced that the Standard-Vacuum Oil company will withdraw Immedi ately from participation in all oil and mineral concessions recently secured in Ethiopia by F. W, Rlckett, the Brit ish promoter. The concessions, said to have been worth $60,000,000, were haled as a wedge that might have forced Amer ica into the African mess. Hull said he conferred with George S. Walden, chairman of the board, and S. Dundas, vice president of the com pany, telling them that it would be “highly desirable” for the company to withdraw from the concession. Hull disclosed he had had two con ferences with Walden and Dundas. In his first conference he said he ad vised them that the oil concession had proved “most embarrassing” to this government and suggested its ter mination. Walden and Dundas, he said, con ferred at once with associates In New York and later returned to advise the State department that they would withdraw from the concession and would so notify the Ethiopian emperor. Company Jointly Owned. The Standard-Vacuum Oil company is owned jointly by the Socony-Vacuum Oil company and the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. Hull's statement follows; “Mr. George S. Walden and Mr. Dun das, chairman of the board and vice president, respectively, of the Standard Vacuum Oil company, called on Sep tember 3, 1935, to make known to the department that their company Is the owner of an extensive oil concession granted by the emperor of Ethiopia on August 29, last, to the African Ex ploration and Development company, a subsidiary of the Standard-Vacuum Oil company, and to seek the depart ment’s advice on the situation created by the grant. Told of Embarrassment. “The officials of the above men tioned company were Informed that the granting of this concession had been the cause of great embarrass ment, not only to this government but to other governments who are making strenuous and sincere efforts for the preservation of peace. "In the circumstances, the company officials were informed of the views of this government that it was highly desirable that the necessary steps should be taken at the earliest possi ble moment to terminate the present concessions. The secretary of state was later informed by the above offi cials of the company that the com pany has decided to withdraw from the concession and is notifying the emperor to that effect.” The TJnited States government will continue to keep "hands off” in the Italo-EtLioplan controversy. Hull said, bluntly remluding other nations of their pledges to keep peace. He indicated emphatically that this country would not be stampeded into the impending African war by oil con cessions. Bayonets Bring Peace After Mill Riot Killing Pelzer, S. C.—Bayonets of National Guard troops brought peace to the embattled sectors of tlie strike-har assed Pelzer Alanufacturing company, where a mother was killed and a score wounded In a gunfire barrage, to\tlie accompaniment of reverberating dyna mite. The two plants, closed after the rioting, opened as usual without unto ward incident and with what Super intendent J. F. Blackmon said was a full force of 700 men. The mills, he said, noraaliy employ 1,400, working two 'shiSs. 'There was no picketing. Injured Dog Is Flown 600 Miles to Doctor Seward, Alaska.—An Injured pet dog, “Whisky,” which had tackled two husky sled dogs with a reckless disre gard for his own safety, took a 000- mile airplane ride to a veterinary, but the “mercy flight” was in vain. “Whisky” died. nis owner, John J. Crowd.v, per suaded Pilot John Llttley to fly the fuzzy little pet from the Miiskowim mining region to Seward. Urges City Market to Cut High Meat Cost Milwaukee. Wls.—Mll-n-fiukee will go Into the retail meat business if a res olution offered by Alderman Carl P. Dietz is approved. “The high prices of meat are de priving thousands of citizens of a sta ple diet,” he said. The resolution provides for devel oping a municipal meat market. British Troops Off for Malta Southampton, England.—The British liner Neuralis sailed for Malta witn 1,300 troops, 300 sailors and Royal Air Force men. Most of the soldiers were members of anti-aircraft detach ments of the royal artillery. More Bremer Suspects St. Paul.—Myrtle Eaton and William eaver, among 22 persons indicted for the $200,000 Edward G. Bremer ab duction, arrested near Allendale, Fla., were brought here by plan*.
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