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Vol. 104. No. 5.
T i T A AP, A S S et
By DAN MAGILL .
When Georgians assemble in
mass meetings or around hot
stoves in country stores these
days to protest the Supreme
Court’s decision that the federal
government has no power to regu
late agriculture in the interest of)
the farmers, they are echoing their
ancestors of a century ago.
The chief -difference in the pro
tests made by Georgians in 1832
when the Supreme Court decided
against this state in the Cherokee
Nation case and the reception of
its ruling against the AAA lieg
more in the language used to
express their protests rather than
in the depth of their resentment
later. : .
When the Supreme Court’s rul
ing against Geergia in the histor
ically famous Cherokee Nation
suit was made public, President
Andrew Jackson himself, idol of
the masses of the country, partic
ularly in the south, is said to have
exclaimed;: 1
“John Marshali (the chief |
justice) has made his decision;
now let him enforce it.”
The decision was never enforced,
due to “Old Hickory's” refusal to
lend it the.support of the execu
tive, as well as the fact that Geor-J
gians, led by Governor ‘Wilson |
Lumpkin, bitterly denounced tho‘
court’s aetion, going so far as to‘
offer their military services to the
state if it should be found neces
sary to safeguard what they con
sidered their liberties as freemen.
The Constitution at the time of
the court’s ruling against Georgia
in the Cherokee case, was only
fifty-five years old, but even then
Chief Justice Marshall, despite
the efforts of Thomas Jefferson,
had already established that trib
unal's authority to decide the
constitutionality of legislation and
laid the broad foundation of the
nationalism with which his name
is associated in the nation’s his
tory.
Intense Feeling
So intense was the resentment
aroused by the court's decision
against Georgia, that mass meet
ings of irate citizens were held
throughout the state. The court
had hetd that Georgia had no au
thority over the Cherokee (In
dian) Nation, and its laws were of
no effect in controlling the Indians
who had set up a nation of their
own within the boundaries of
Georgia. '
At the time the decision was
made, the south was already‘
aroused' over the tariff of 1828
and in CGeorgia a statewide mass!
meeting was held at Lexington’
Oglethorpe county, to I)rotesl|
against the tariff which was called
an “abomination” and “unconstl‘i
tutional” and the eastern manu
facturers were Dbitterly assailed [
for riding “rough-shod” over the
southern farming sections. N()w!
hardly more than a century after
the east was denounced in Gem'-l
gia for its tariff, the southern cot- |
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
OCILA—G.- W. Willis, chairman[
of a farmers mass meeting here.!
said today a telegram had been|
sent President Roosevelt, and to,
Georgians in congress, urging cre-l
ation of a new federal farm con-|
trol program to take the place of!
the now dead AAA. Willig said|
the farmers voted 400 to ¢ for im-l
mediate action on new farm legis-/
lation “to protect our interests.” l
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MILLEDGEVILLE — A book by:
Mrs. Kathleen Wilkinson W‘ooten,‘
head of the department of health
and physical education at Georgxa.’
State College for Women, has just
been published. It is called “Healtn
Education Workbook,” and is
dedicated to “the 10,000 Georgral
girls who have participated” in:
health work at the college from
1917 to 1935. 4‘
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WARM SPRINGS—The . annual
meeting of the Greenville Produc
{tion Credit association, which ser
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
PTMANN IS REPREVED
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“HH]- MUNEY” PA!H
Declares Two Men Were
Trying to Dispose of
Lindbergh Ransom
AMOUNT IS $22,000
Stephen Spitz May Tell
Story to Governor of
| New Jersey
ICHICAGO — (&) -—- A Chicago
Bridewell prisoner’s story that an
“Adolph Blaustein” and a “Fred
Menk” whom he met in 1934
claimed they had $22,000 of the
Lindbergh bdby ransom money
was investigated today by repre
sentatives of Gov. Horner who
indicated the quastioning was
asked by New Jersey officials.
Attorney Bernard Finnigan, rep-i
resenting the prisoner, Stephen |
}Spitz, then announced he would
communicate immediately with
Gov. Hoffman of New Jersey, ask-‘
ing him to have Gov. Horner freel
Spitz to go to Trenton, N. J. i
Spitz, 52 years old, was ser\‘-l
enced for obtaining money under |
false pretenses and hi term ex- |
pires at 11 a. m- tomorrow. '
by Met Two Men ’
. Questioned by T. P. Sullivan,
state bureau of identification chief, |
John Landesco, state pardon and |
parole board member, and assist
ant Attorney General Emel"_\'l
' Smith, Spitz said that in August, |
11934, he met “Blaustein” andl
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Tri-Motored Plane Falls m‘
South American Jungle;|
Two More Hurt }
BOGOTA, Colombia.—(#)—Nine |
persons, including two women,
were reported dead today as the%
result of the jungle crash of a
tri-motored plane in the Caqueta
department of southern Colombia.
Two othens were believed seri
cusly injured and seven were un-I
hurt. I
A military transport plane ]eft|
at 7:00 af{ m. from ’l‘rnsesquinasl
on the Caqueta river toward” the
Mecayva to transport the vietims|
of Bogota. l
Ahead of. it, Colombian arm‘vz
motorboats raced up the Mecaya |
river to rescue the survivors. !
The big army Dplane, missingl
for many hours after taking offi
Tuesday morning for Bogota, wasl
reported found destroyed between |
Puerto Boy and Tesesquinas, in;
the Caqueta department of (‘nlom-!
bia. i
The nine reliably reported kill
ed included the pilot. co-pilot, ra-l
dio man, the chief of the Leticin%
army garrison, one of the two|
Charity sisters aboard the plane|
and twop other unidentified por-i
sons. |
The Puerto Boy garrison com- |
mandr reported to the war min- |
istry by radio that one motor boati
searching for the lost plane found |
asurvivor who _ said the airship |
crashed in the jungle near tlwa
Micava River soon after Lavin2|
Puerto Boy. |
]ves Meriwether, Talbot, Harris,
’Coweta, Troup, Muscogee and Chat
| tahoochee ecounties, will be held
lat Greenville, Ga., Saturday.
l WIARM SPRINGS—RaIph Sher
’rill has returned to the executive
| staff of the Warm Springs Founda
-Ition. He has been assoclated re
| cently with the Pine Mountain
|Valley farm project near here,
! DAWSONVlLLE—Representative
iR' B. Whitmire of Dawson county
says he has not decided definitely
| whether to seek re-election to the
legislature this fall. He gsaid if he
did ndt run, there was a probab
| ility “the county. will be represent
ted by a Republican this next term.”
| CANTON—Former Congressman
John Wood, a Canton attorney, is
mentioned as a possible candidate
| for congress this year against Con
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' Sale of C T
'Dale of Cotton lax
I 4
l Certificates Resumed
By All County Agents
B oy
" Georgia county agents were to
| day notified to resume sale of
| cotton tax certificates and to ar
range for transfers and accept
surplus certificates for the nation
-1 al pool. Accepting and kelling
'| certificates from the pool was
stopped January 7, after the Su
preme Court declared the AAA
‘ unconstitutional. : |
The order was sent out by Harry
]L. Brown, - director of the state
| Aricultural Extension Service, up
on receipt of a wire from the AAA |
! in Washington. 1
Those are the ceytificates al
l lotted to the farmers and used to
pay the required tax on cotton
| under the Bankhead Cottorn Con
.! trol Act. Farmers who have sur
plus certificates may surrender
them to the pool not later than
midnight Friday, January 17.
| Cotton assistant agents were let
off in the counties, after the AAA
| ruling, and plans have been made
{ for the county agents to cooper
ate in handling the tax certificates
until further notice.
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15 MEN ARE SAFE
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Group Has Narrow Escape
As Steel Coach of Train Is[
' Crushed
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COLFAX, Calif. —(#— Fifteen
men, injured bu. safe, told today
iof escape from beneath an ava
| lanche of snow which ecrushed a
‘steel coach of a transcontinental
train near Donner Summit in the
High Sierfa mountains. . . o
Tons of sanow, sodden with re«
cent rains, plunged down a precip
tious mountaingide through snow
sheds protecting Southern Pacific |
IYtracks:. and engulfed the third car.
| from the rear of the train, the Pa
| cific Limited. ;
The car had been chartered by
a Salt Lake City group en route
| to an automobile dealers’ conven
tion at Oakland, Calif.
Three men suffered serious chest
injuries. They were J. C. Stev
enson, H. R, Welter and A. G.
iHayden. Salt Lake City.
i “There was no warning of the
fslide," said W. A, Sheppard, one
of the passengers,
“It hit like a bullet. There was
a tremendous crash, then pitch
darkness. We were all knocked
out.
| “I have no idea how long it was |
lbefore I recovered consciousness.|
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'Flat Predictions Made thati
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} By FRANK I. WELLER |
| Associated Press Staff Writer |
| WASHINGTON.—(&P)—FIat m‘e';
!di('tions that the national agricul-(
| tural conference would “blow up")
iwere heard among men high inj
its councils today as the fiva]
!majnr farm groups composing it!
‘mot to discuss a substitute f()ri
| AAA. ;
| These organizations, which lead- |
ers say represent 3,000,000 Ameri-|
lcan farmers, originally planned to!
Imvet here for unified action to]
offset the Supreme Court’s invali-!
dation of AAA. Their session was’i
superseded by Secretary Wallace's|
| conference of 100 invited am‘ir‘ubl
| turists who last week unanimous- |
il,v adopted principles for rewrit-;
lin;r crop control on the basis of|
| subsidized soil conservation. {
| Since then a majority .of the |
| senate 'agricultural committee, fol-|
I‘lowing the lead of Senator Norris |
‘(R.-Neb.) have expressed fear{
{ that proposed readoption of AAA,
| principles might fall in a consti
| tutional test. |
| The National Grange immedi-|
| ately seized the opportunity to de-|
i‘clare publicly for a “permanent|
' and constitutional” national tarml
!program. It drafted a 10-point!
| platform emphasizing export sub- |
isidies and tariffs to exclude the;
{vompetition of foreign farm prod-!
{ uets in American markets. .
| The National Cooperative Coun-i
| ¢il. another extremely individual-i
!istic member of the national ag-|
| ricultural conference, declared fort
!the strengthening of marketing |
}agreements as the foundation of a
new farm economy.
i The American farm bureau fed
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The terrible strain of hev uunendiny.ight to save Brune.iiauptmann
from the eléctric chair {5 evident in every feature of Mrs. Auua Haupt
mann as she wearily plods down the stone steps of the New Jersay
penitentiary at Trenton after ‘a visit with her husband in the death
house. g She announced that Hauptmann, in a desperate attempt to
stave off his doom, told her he would answer any question asked him,
Enactment of Baby Bond Bonus
Bill Conceded by Its Opponents
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON. —(#)— Enact
ment of the Harrison bill to pay
the soldiers’ bonus in blocks of
SSO cashable bonds was conceded
today by a prominent opponent of
the measure despite Secretary
Morgenthau's testimony about the
financial task the treasury faces.
A southern senator not wishing
to be quoted by name said he
himself would vote against the
measure unless it provided for
payment out of existing appropri
ations. ¢
But he said the Morgenthau tes
timony before the senate finance
committee would haye little or no
effect on final passage, even over
a weto, Morgenthau said in effect
that enactment of the bill now
would increase to $11,300,000,000
the new treasury financing neces
sary for the neéxt 17 1-2 months.
The Harrison bill would pay the
full face value of the 3,500,000 ad
justed service certificates in spec-!
jal bonds equivalent to demand
notes. .
The bonds would be redeemable
at local postoffices beginning next
June. If redeemed the first year,
no interest would be paid. Three)
per cent interest would be vaid to
those holding them as ap jnvest
ment. They would mature in nine|
years, |
Chairman Harrison (D.-Misn)
of the finance committee, whose
name is attached to the coalition
bill along with those of senators
Byrnes (D.-8.C.); Steiwer (R.-
Ore.) and Clark (D.-Mo.), wanted
to start senate debate today. Bus
New Residents of Athens &
To Be Welcomed at Dinner
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Athens’ mnew residents will be
formally welcomed at a Chamber
of Commerce dinner which will
be held January 23, at 7 p. m.
at the Holman hotel, Joel A. Wier.
secretary, announced today.
A program of entertainment is
being arranged for the event
Secretary Wier said, and one of |
the largest crowds ever to attend
a civic meeting here is expected.
Tickets will sell for SI.OO each.
Neighbors of new residents who|
expect to attend the dinnmer will
be ask!ed to bring one or more
new citizens as their guests:
A feature of the meeting will
be election of seven new direc
tors of the Chamber of Commerce.
Tate Wright is the present pres
jdent of the organization.
_ Visiting Chamber of Commerce
' Republican Leader McNary of
’Oregon said -he would ask a day's
~delay so senators could study the
bill more thoroughly.
No one professed to know def
initely what President Roosevelt
would do once the bill is plumped
on the White House doorstep.
Some senatons up for re-electlonl
were fretting, leading observers to‘
believe gthey were not very hope
ful of presidential approval,
Snator Thomas, (D.-Okla.) has
served notice that he will offer an
amendment to pay the bonus in
new currency. Senator King (D-
Utah) also has announced he will
propose 'a substitute to ‘“‘save
about one billion dollars” by pay
ing only the ecash surrender or
present value of the twenty-year
certificates, instead of the 1945
maturity value, as provided in the
coalition proposal. y
Administration leaders said nei
ther-of these plans had a chance
of adoption.
NO NEW TAXES
WASHINGTON— (#) —Despite
the gaping holeg torn in the Roo-‘
sevelt budget there was little dis
position on Capitol Hill today tn‘
provide ne wtaxes at this session
provide new taxes as this session
them. i
Within ten days, developments‘l
have arisen that threaten to knock
the Roosevelt fiscal program from
$2,500,000,000 to $3,500,000,000 out
of kilter. The AAA decision by
the supreme court left huge gaps
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officials from Elberton, Macon,}
Atlanta, Washington and Augusta|
will-attend the meeting. The pro-}
lgram is being arranged in order|
| that the entertainment features
| may be outstanding with only a
!few short talks. /
i The Chamber of Commerce here
is mere active today, perhaps
than at any time in its history.
It has been instrumental in bring
{ ilng to Athens several of the fed
i eral agencies set up under the
New Deal whose employes have|
helped swell the Athens payroll
and thereby aided in the stimulat
ing the volume of business.
i The meeting next week will be
the regular annual meeting of
{ the Chamber of Commerce mem
bership. a i
IPAHI][}N OR PAROLE
FOR CONVIGTED MAN
Verdict of Cuilty Returned
In O'Callaghan Case by
Clarke Jury Today }
TO SUPPORT PLEA
Charged With Involuntary
Manslaughter in Death
Of Negro Woman
A jury in Clarke Superior court
today found D. D. O’Callaghan,
University of Georgia student
guilty of involuntary manslaughter
in connection with the death of
Emma Kendriks, a Negro woman
and, at the same time, filed with
the court an agreement that they
would be willing to sign a petition
to obtain a pardon or parole for
the youthful defendant.
The jury fixed the sentence of
O’Callaghan at from 1 to 3 years
imprisonment and Judge Blanton‘
Fortson imposed the sentence
shortly after the wverdict was re-l
turned. ‘
Counsgel for the defense, Abit
Nix and Lamar C, Rucker said
they are considering taking ac
tion in regard to seeking a par
don or parole for O'Callaghan
which the jury suggested in its
agreement to support a request
for such a course.
Unique In History
The jury’'s action in returning a
}suggestion that a pardon or parole
be asked for the youth, along with
the wverdict, was declared by sev
eral lawyers as unique 'in the his~
Y tory ar Cdbrgia eourts, -
The jury's agreement, signed
unanimously, follows:
“We, the members of the jury
who returned a verdict on Count
| No. 8 of the indictment in the
above stated case, agreed unani
mously to sign a petition for pa
role or pardon in said matter.
This 16th day of January, 1936.
S. H. Butler, foreman.
| T. A. C. McMahan
i J. G. Weatherford 1
| J. B. Jackson
W. K. Eidson
‘ W. L. Watkins
R. E. Foster, sr.
Walter Burpee
B, Harold Yearwood
Ben T. Epps
Homer Lewallen
Paul F. Woodall.
Defense attorneys filed motion
‘for a new trial with Judge Fort
i son. The motion was based on
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'Senators Argue They Have,
| Proved U-Boat ‘Outrages l
l Not the Cause ‘
e
i BY PRESTON L. GROVER
| WASHINGTON— (#) —Sena.tors'
delving into World Whar documestsi
argued today they had proved to'
the hilt one of their principlel
jlh(’h‘l‘.\‘: that economic links with |
lthe allies, not u-boat "outrages"i
vare the primary cause of Ameri- |
'ca’s entry into the war.
‘ The argument of Senator Clark,
| Democrat, Missouri, and some oth
lers on the senate munitions com
| mittee is that trade with the Allies!
so involved the United States tha.tl
|it ecould not escape joining them
jas belligerents regardless of any
| efforts Germany made to render
isubmarine wareware “humane.”
i Clark read documents to show'
ithat while President Wilson grew
{angry at British blockade tactics,
{which interfered with American
| commerce, he never pressed re
imliawry trade measuses to stop
{these tactics. The reascn, Clarkl
| said, was the United States’ deep
{involvement in irade \with the Al-i
| les.
{ The result was, he contended.i
ithat Germany, which consideredl
|itself a victim of American favorit
| ism toward the Allies, had no al
iternative but to use her submarine
{power to attempt a blockade of her
jown.
| Chairman Nye, Republican, North
{Dakota. stirred a sensation in yes- |
| terday’s hearing when he charged |
|that President Wilson “falsified” |
lin declaring before a senate com
| mittee that until after the war he
iknew nothing of secret treaties in
jwhich the Allies had agreed to par
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Bruno Given 30-D
Reprieve Late Todyay
NEW JERSEY EXECUTIVE PROMISES NOT TO
CRANT ANY FURTHER EXECUTION STAY
WHEN THIS TIME EXPIRES
TRENTON, N. J.—(AP) — Governor Hoffman to
day announced a reprieve for thirty days for Bruno
Richard Hauptmann.
The Governor’s announcement read:
“The attorney general and | have been in confer
ence on this matter and | have decided to announce a
repricve of 30 days.
“We have agreed that this will not be challenged.
“It is my intention to grant only this one reprive.
There will be no further reprieve.”
The Governor pointed to 14 previous reprieves as
ample precedent for his decision.
The Governor added he was giving the reprieve “for
diverse reasons known to me.”
He said he considered it an action of “‘executive
clemency’” and that there would be no extension of
the reprieve “unless the evidence warranted it.”
‘lndicator Jammed at 180‘
Miles Per Hour at Time|
Of Tragedy :
T BY ED L. CAMPBELL - -
(Associated Press Staff Wiriter)
GOODWIN, Ark. —(#)— A speed
lindicator jammed at 180 miles an
{ hour—nearly three times the.plane’s
landing speed-—was both clue andl
enigma today a 8 investigators
sought to learn why a luxury alr’
liner plunged 17 to death near here
Turesday night. i
None who was aboard the South
erner when it ripped down into’
a wooded swamp was alive to aid |
in assigning a reason for the na-|
tion's worst plane travel disaster. |
The pitifully torn bodies of the |
four women, 12 men and one child |
were being returned to their fam
itles today.
The jammed air speed indicator !
was dug from the mud today. Also |
found were the ignition switches,
which were on, and the switch
controlling the landing lights. It
was off,
Eugene I. Vidal, dispatched by
Secretary of Commerce Roped to
head the official inquiry, will act
with five others in effortg to flx‘
the cause.
Roughly the unofficial theorles]
on the tragedy resolved themselves
thus:
I.—Shortly after the ship's “all
well” sent from 2,000 feet at 7:18
o’clock Tuesday night some mech
anical trouble developed swiftly. |
Pilot Jerry Marshall came down{
and was heading for an open, water)
covered rice field some 200 yards |
from the crash spot when the ship|
was dragged down by the trees.
. 2~After trouble developed low
lying ground fog blinded the pilot!
as he gought for an emergency!
landing spot. !
‘ 3.—Through some unexplained;
failure of mechanical aids he was
unaware that he was so close (o:
the ground and tore into the trees |
TIpNS— !
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Italian Planes Bomb Red Cross
Unit Headed By British Officer
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE |
PARIS. — (AP) — Premier ;
Laval of France was granted |
a vote of confidence, 315 to !
252, by his chamber of depu- |
ties today. [
-BY ROY P. PORTER !
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
Three Italias bombing planes
destroyed a Red Cross unit headea
by a British officer at Waldia on|
the northerm XEthiopian front, ané
official communique from Addis|
Ababa reported today. P
Seven women and seven old men |
died in the aerial assault Tuesday |
morning, the government said, and |
35 others were injured. Major Ger-|
ald Burgoyne, the hospital director|.
we reported unhurt. |
Along the entire southern frontll
more than 100,000 warriors rushed
into fierce engagements in what |
was described at Rome as the
“most important” battle of the
Italo-Ethiopiann war, i
H =8
By JAMES W. DOUTHAT
Associated Press Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON.—(AP)—The
Supreme Court refused today
to save Bruyno Richard
Hauptmann from the electric
chair tomorrow night.
Apparently the only hope of
the convicted kidnap-murderer
', of the Lindbergh baby was in
~a possible reprieve by Gover
nor Harold G. Hoffman of
New Jersey. e U
Hauptmann’s petition for a
writ of habeas corpus and a
stay of execution had been
filed shortly after noon by his
attorneys.
The decision to deny the
| petition was agreed upon
| while the justices ate their
" lunch from 2to 2:30 p. m.
3 Chief Justice Oughes an
nounced the verdict to a hush
ed audience as soon as the
court convened at 2:33 p. m—
three minutes late.
Apparently the discussion had
extended overtime. ;
The chief justice said merely
that the petition for a writ of ha
beas corpus was denied. Cour’
observers said that action in ef
fect included the petition for a
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.
3 Men Mentioned as
State Roosevelt Head
ATLANTA . —(#P)—~The names of
three prominent Georgians are
mentioned in curreént political dise
cussions here as being under con=
sideration by Democratic . party
leaders who shortly will select a
state manager for President Roose«
velt's re-election campaign.
They are Erle Cocke of Atlanta,
Georgia director of the -national
emergency council; Marion H. Ale
len, well known Milledgeville ate
torney, and David N, Atkinson, of
Savannah, chairman of the Chat=
ham county democratic executiv_o
committee, 1
Reports to the Atlanta ConsN
tion from Washington indicate
Postmaster General James A,
Farley, chairman of the Democrae
tic national committee, will ape
point one of these men within te®
days.
| At Paris, radical socialists dee
| manded resignations of party meme
!bers holding cabinet positions, fore
! casting downfall of Premier Pierre
| Laval's government and elimina
tion of the peace advocate in ap
| proaching League of Nations war
| pa rlies.
The air raid on the hospital, mid
!W:ly between Dessye, Emperior
' Haile Selassie’s field headquarters
‘and Makale, spearhead of the Ital
ian drive in the north, resulted in
destruction of half of the ‘town
by fire, the Ethiopian report said.
“Three caproni planes made the
raid,” the communique reported.
“Six big bombs, of 300 pounds each,
were dropped in the court-of the
Red Cross unit which was plainly
marked with the Red Cross insige
nia. PSR
" “Tents and surgical instruments
were destroyed.” g N
The Red Cross unit was estabe
S e
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