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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 154
ROOSEVELT DECLARES WAR AGAINST WANT
GARNER IS NAMED
BY ACCLAMATION
OF WILD ASSEMBLY
TEXAS GOVERNOR MAKES
NOMINATING SPEECH;
LONG DEMONSTRATION
1 _____
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP)-
The Democratic party completed its
1936 ticket today.
John Nance Garner of Texas was
nominated for vice president. The
nominating session was an anti-cli
max, after the uproar which greet
ed the renomination of President
Roosevelt yesterday. Only a handful
of delegates were present when Gar
ner’s fellow Texan, Gov. James Allred
made his nominating speech. What
the delegates lacked in numbers, how
ever, they made up for in the volume
of their wild cheers —punctuated with
roof-raising Texas whoops. The dem
onstration lasted 20 minutes.
Garner was nominated by acclama
tion in the last act of a convention
which had been in session five days.
The ticket of Roosevelt and Gar
ner will beat the Republican ticket
of Landon and Knox to the post for
the race into the campaign.
The president and vice president
are to accept the nominations in a
giant open-air rally tonight before
a crowd expected to exceed 100,000.
Landon will make his acceptance
speech late in July.
Governor Allred and the state dele
gates who seconded Gamer's nomina
tion praised the vice • president as
“rugged, honest, leevl-headed and
human.’’
"He has made himself President
Roosevelt’s strong right arm,” Allred
said, “in the great struggle against
the adversities of the depression.”
The Texas governor called the 12
years of the previous Republican rule
the “F. F. F. administration.”
“And by F. F. F.,” Allred shouted,
”1 meaft folly, futility and failure.”
The Garner and Roosevelt acceptance
speeches will be delivered at the sta
dium of the University of Pennsyl
vania. The ceremonies will start with
entertainment at 5 o'clock. Mr. Roose
velt is expected to appear on the plat
form at 9 p.m., an dto Mart JO*
minute speech an hour later. ■ ! fi
Chairman Robinson banged out fi
nal adjournment of the Democratic
convention at 2:18 p.m.
The delegates made a last rush for
the exits, worn out by repeated dem
onstrations of enthusiasm. A band
clipped off the dying notes of “Happy
Days.”
The Democratic convention had
parsed into history.
GARNER ACCEPTS
Vice-President Garner accepted re
nomination tonight with a pledge to
follow President Roosevelt’s leader
ship in a struggle to carry out the
aims of the New Deal. He said:
“Vam a soldier, and my duty is to
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FOUR DROWNED
IN PLANE CRASH
GOOD-WILL CRAFT DIVES
INTO LAKE CHAM
PLAIN
ES6EX, N. Y„ June 27 (TP).—A
larg.e cabin biplane flying to Mont
real from New York plunged into
Lake Champlain this afternoon,
drowning all of its four occupants.
The plane was owned and piloted
by Frank Saglimbene, a young
Brooklyn flier. His passengers were
Miss Katherine Zarling, Steve Kay
and George W. Erickson all of Long
Island. The four were carried to the
bottom of the 300-foot lake in the
cabin of the ship. The flight was
Miss Zarllng’s first time in the air.
The plane started out to take part
in a mass good will flight to Canada.
Later the mass flight was cancelled
because of dangerous weather, sag
limbene. however, was one of the
pilots who had taken off before the
sudden turn in air conditions.
LANDON WORKING
UPON HIS SPEECH
ESTES PARK, Colo., June 27 (TP)
Governor Landon is hard at work on
his nomination acceptance speech to
night.
The Republican presidential nomi
nee has finished his message to the
special session cf the Kansas legisla
ture which convenes on July 7. He
announced tonight,—"From now on.
the issues of the national campaign
will get all the attention they need.”
The governor’s message to the leg
islature approves laws for social wel
fare. Although confirming the fact
that he favors such legislation, Lan
don refused to state Just what speci
fic measures he would apo.ove.
STATE SENATOR DIES
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 27 (TP).
A leading figure in Alabama politics,
State Senator Shelby Fletcher, died
today from a heart attack. He was
67 years old.
Savannah Daily Times
She Won’t Talk
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Avonne Taylor (above), once a
front-line ornament of the “Fol
lies”, refused to tell why or where
fore of her divorce from Carlyle
Blackwell, former movie star. Miss
Taylor was formerly married to
. Tommy Manville, Jr., playboy as
bestos heir.
/'Central Press)
PARCHED SECTION
IS PROMISED AID
BY GOVERNMENT
DROUGHT AREA IS BEING
LAID TO WASTE BY
SCORCHING HEAT
CHICAGO, June 27 (TP).—The
federal government took steps today
through four of its agencies to com
bat drought conditions in the north
central states. The drought condi
tions there threaten to be worse
than those of the famous drought of
1934.
Resettlement, works orogress. the
ahd the interstate commerce
' iMftfnissioh stepped in to- aid the be
leaguered 'farmers whose property
and livelihood are threatened with
destruction by the alarming lack of
rain.
Works Progress Administrator Hop
kins ordered his officials from the
Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Minne
sota and other affected states to con
fer with him at St. Paul next Tues
day so that an immediate relief pro
gram can be mapped out.
AAA officials said a crop insurance
plan would be offered to the farm
ers to enable them to use benefit pay
ment checks for living expenses.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion authorized emergency freight
bates for the transfer to greener pas
tures of starving livestock.
Resettlement officials already are
taking stock of conditions in the
drought-stricken area and announced
they will be ready to co-operate with
the WPA in seeing that the farmers
can get work which will provide liv
ing expenses during the drought sea
son at least.
A relentless sun is cracking down
on the wheat fields today from the
Canadian line to Kansas. Experts
say this year's harvest will be so
small that prices will soar. They es
timate a spring wheat crop of 150,-
000,000 bushels and a 500,000.000
bushel yield for winter -wheat. That,
they explain, is Just about enough to
meet acreage requirements on the
now illegal control program—of the
AAA.
Corn.., peaches, flax and garden
produce are suffering from the dry
weather. In Nebraska, Missouri and
Kansas, billions of grasshoppers,
chinch bugs and bag worms are add
ing to the damage.
The drought area extends roughly
from the eastern Rockies to the Alle
gheny mountains. Portions east of
the Mississippi have escaped the most
severe weather.
Most estimates say it will cost be
tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 to
dam streams and launch a program
for the control of insect pests.
The federal government is sending
its men to confer with heads of suf
fering states next week at St. Paul.
WORLD ANXIETY
FOR EXPLORER
SIR HUBERT WILKINS MIS
SING FOR EIGHT
DAYS
NEW YORK. June 27 (TP)—Great
anxiety was felt throughout the sci
entific world tonight for the safety
of the explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins.
The arctic explorer has been miss
ing for eight days on his ice-break
ing vesle, the Wyatt Earp. On June
17, Sir Hubert sailed from New York
to deliver the Wyatt Earp at Nor
way. The vessel carried a crew of
10 and a wireless operator. No radio
message has crackled through the air
from the vessel although many wire
less stations and shps have made
strenuous efforts to contact her.
PHONE 6183
TROPICAL STORM HITS TEXAS
INCREASING IN FORCE AS IT MOVES INLAND BETWEEN
MATAGORDA AND CORPUS CHRISTI; DAMAGE GREAT.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 27 C?iP)
—The tropical storm tnat struck Cor
pus Christi today is reported motring
inland between Matagorda and Cor
pus Christi.
Reports reaching San Antonio said
the storm is increasing in force. Tele
phone and telegraph lines have been
seriously damaged. The only means
of communication is by moans of
radio.
The storm apparently is moving
toward San Antonio. The wind is
reported to have a velocity of nearly
70 miles an hour, and serious dam
age has been reported along the path
of the gale.
ATTEMPT IS MADE
TO SWAY JURY IN
DRUCKMAN TRIAL
PRESIDING JUDGE DISKEJ
GARDS TAMPERING
HOWEVER
NEW YORK, June 27 (TP)—A new
scandal broke out today as a Brook
lyn jury convicted three prominent
men of conspiracy to block Justice in
the Samuel Druckman case. The Jury
disagreed as to the guilt of two of
the five conspiracy defendants.
The new scandal grew out of an
unsuccessful attempt to tamper with
the jury. Judge Rogers ordered an
immediate investigation. The Justice
said, though, that he didn’t believe
the tampering attempt had any effect
on the conspiracy verdict.
The attempt to influence the jury
was made through a note sent one
of the jurymen. The man had sent
a suit to be cleaned. When it retjutn
ed, the note, was in the pocket. The
juror tore up the note in a fit of
anger. Then he gathered the pieces
and turned them over to the jury
foreman, who informed Judge Rogers.
Special Prosecutor Todd said the note
expres'-'-d an opinion as
or innocence of one of the deferidanfc.
The men convicted were: former
Assistant U. S. Attorney Henry Sing
er: James J. Kleinman, step-tfather
of Assistant District Attorney Klein
man: and Jacob Silverman, a broker.
The jury was discharged -when it re
ported that it could not agree on the
guilt or innocence of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Kleinman and Detec
tive Giuseppe Dardis. The maximum
penalty for those convicted is one
year in jail and a SSOO fine. Sentence
will be imposed next Tuesday.
The Drukman conspiracy grew out
of a racketeer murder. The conspira
tors succeeded in blocking indictment
of the slayers by one grand jury.
Later the slayers were indicted by a
special panel and sent to Sing Sing
Prison. - - ■
SOCIALITE BATTLES TO
SAVE SIGHT OF EYE
STAMFORD, Conn., June 27 (TP)
—Stamford Hospital surgeons battled
today to save the sight of the New
York social registrite, Barclay War
burton.
Warburton is threatened with loss
of the sight of his left eye from burns
suffered when some fireworks, sud
denly exploded in his face. The ac
cident occured on the summer estate
of Harold Ross,
Here And There As Convention Comes To End )
A REPUBLICAN TOO!
PHILADELPHIA. June 27 (TP).—
A woman—and a Republcan, at that
—was the first person to reach
Franklin Field to hear President
Roosevelt’s acceptance speech to
night.
She is Mrs. Grace Wood, the wife
of a Philadelphia policeman, ,
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FARLEY RE-ELECTED
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).—
The Democratic national committee
stamped its “ok” on the party man
agement of “Big Jim” Farley late to
day. He was unanimously re elected
as the committee chairman.
The committee met two hours after
final adjournment of the Democratic
national convention. Chairman Far
ley rose and gave an accounting of
his work as its chief during the past
four years.
He said the party owed half a mil
lion dollars in 1932.
"That debt is wiped out now," Far
ley said.
The chairman added that the re
ceipts from tonight’s “Nominator”
parties throughout the United States
would be “clear money” to carry on
the coming campaign. The so-called
nominators pay $1 each to attend
parties at which President Roosevelts
speech wil Ibe heard by radio.
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WOMEN MAKING GOOD
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP). —
Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas
inised her voice to a note of pride
today as she pointed to the women
making good with the Roosevelt re
gime. The woman senator from the
Ozarks called these women “trail
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1936
A San Antonio radio station is at
tempting to contact amateur radio
operators in the affected area, in ord
er to set up an emergency’ communica
tions system.
A driving rain and abnormally high
tides accompany the hurricane-like
winds and fear is felt for the safety
of some of the coastal towns and
cities which are cut off from com
munication.
Warnings have been issued in San
.Antonio. Residents are taking all pos
sible steps to prepare for the on
slaught of the storm there sometime
tonight.
NAZI PARTY HAS
MILLION MEMBERS
GERMAN POLITICAL OR
DER CLOSES DOORS TO
NEW MEMBERS
BERLIN, June 27 (TP).—The Nazi
party in Germany now has an en
rollment of 1,000,000 members and
has closed its doors to new members.
The minister of propaganda,' Paul
Goebbels announced that the dictat
ing party in Germany has stopped
taking in new members. The party
membership of 1,000,000 picked, men
includes less than 10 per cent of the
citizens of the Third Reich.
Goebbels said that the present
membership in the governing party
can only be replenished through can
didates from the new "Hitler youth”
organization. These youths must be
of age before they can join the Nazi
ranks.
While Hitler’s Nazi fololwers are
limited, the party claims that the
whole nation is enrolled under the
leader’s banner through various sub
sidiary organizations.
LEHMAN CONFERS
WITH ROOSEVELT
POLITICAL FUTURE OP
GOVERNOR PROBABLY
DECIDED
WASHINGTON, June 27 (TP)—
President Roosevelt and New York’s
Governor Lehman will have a private
talk tonight on the president’s train
(after the acceptance speech cere
monies are completed in Philadelphia.
The president s aides expect the
governor to travel from Philadelphia
to New York city on Mr. Roosevelt’s
special. The talk probably will bring
the final decision regarding Lehman’s
political future. When asked yesterday
if he might reconsider his decision
to retire from public life, Lehman
evaded a direct answer, saying he
would see the president tonight.
i Mr. Roosevelt has redrafted his
2,000-word acceptance speech. His spe
cial train will leave Washington to
night in time to reach Franklin field
about 10 minutes before Vice presi
dent Garner begins his address. Only
the vice president, Postmaster Gen
eral Farley, and the president’s son,
James, will greet Mr. Roosevelt before
he goes to the platform.
After the speech the presidential
party will entrain for the Roosevelt
estate at Hyde Park, N. Y-
blazers.” She named Labor Secre
tary Frances Perkins; Mrs. Nellie
Tayloe Roes, Miss Jane Hoey of the
Social Security board and Miss Jo
sephine Roche of the treasury depart
ment. She named Ambassador Ruth
Bryan Owen to Denmafk.
Said Senator Hattie Caraway:—“l
don’t want to draw invidious compari
sons between men and women in gov
eminent posts. Men have had long
years of training, long years of com
peting with each other. Women have
only recently been forced out of
their homes by economic difficulties
into the wage-earning class. Natur
ally, they have become interested po
litically. “Now,” said Senator Car
away, “men and women must work
together on an intellectual plane—
with mutual respect and mutual in
terest—to safeguard the country and
its citizens.”
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TIRED STENOGRAPHER
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP)—
The official stenographer for the
Democratic Convention, Mrs. Fanny
Sweeney, relaxed her fingers this
afternoon after five hard day’s work.
Then she fell to reminiscing. She
said that she found President Roose
velt and the late Woodrow Wilson
the easiest speakers to understand.
Mrs. Sweeney has taken down the
speeches at 1,156 convention meetings
during the past 22 years. She has
copied the words of seven Presidents
or former Presidents. She said the
late evangelist Billy Sunday was the
hardest speaker to understand be
cause he leaped constantly from one
part of the platform to another. Mrs.
Sweeney finds women speakers hard
DEMOCRATS STANDARD BEARERS AGAIN
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Vice President John Nance Garner President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vice president John Nance Garner, having nothing else to do (so he said) visits President
Roosevelt at the White House, presumably to complete plans for attending the Democratic na
tional convention in Philadelphia. Both the President and Garner acknowledged their renomi
natios by the Democrats with acceptance speeches in Philadelphia’s Franklin Field last night.
—Central Press
ASSAULT WARRANT
ORDERED SERVED
UPON ZIONCHECKS
OLD TROUBLE WITH LAND;.
LADY CROPS UP
ANEW
WASHINGTON. June 27 (TP)—An
assault warrant today was ordered
served on the young wife of Marion.
Zioncheck, the Washington state con
gressman now undergoing mental
treatment in a Maryland sanitorium.
The warrant is several weeks old, but
it has been held up pending disposi
tion of lunacy charges against. the
representative. United States District
Attorney Leslie Garnett ordered it
served this afternoon. .
The warrant was sworn out for the
Zionchecks at the insistence of Mrs.
Pamela Schuyler Young from whom
the Zionchecks sublet their apartment
in Washington, Mrs. Young, an au
thor, maintained that she was in
jured in a stuffle wdth the Zion
checks before the representative was
arrested on lunacy charges..
The warrant against the represen
tative cannot be served now, how
ever, since he is outside the jurisdic
tion of District of Columbia authori
ties.
Mrs. Zioncheck is expected to seek
a continuance of the case on the
grounds that her husband is a neces
sary witness.
• to follow; she said women usually talk
! too fast in public because of stage
5 fright.
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WOMEN ON COMMITTEE
1 PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP)
. Eight women were listed as vice
chairwomen of the Democratic Na
tional Committee today in an effort
’ to prevent a row between two. flemin
‘ ine factions.
The women expected that only Miss
i Mary W. Dewson of New York and
. i Emma Guffey Miller of Pennsylvania
would be appointed vice-chairmen.
Pennsylvania women favored putting
Mrs. Miller at the head of the list.
i A strong faction, including commit
teewoman C. G. Ryan of Nebraska,
favored Miss Dewson.
A compromise was effected. The
final arrangement was to put Miss
Dewson at the top of the list with
committeewoman Harriman of Wash
ington, D. C., in second place and
Mrs. Miller fourth. Mrs. Harriman,
who had been the official convention
hostess said the appointments of the
eight women didn't mean much. Said
Mrs. Harriman: “Miss Dewson will
really be the chief. The rest of us
will be merely window-dressing.”
GARNER LISTENS IN
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).—
Vice President Garner was seated in
his room at the official Democratic
headquarters hotel today—listening
to the radio broadcast from conven
tion hall—when he was renominated.
Gamer was decked out in a white
linen suit. When persons making
nominating speeches rose to great
heights in his praise he simply puffed
PHONE 6183
LEAGUE OF NATIONS TOTTERS
DIPLOMATS ALARMED BY DEFECTIONS IN UNITED
FRONT AS WITHDRAWALS CONTINUE.
GENEVA June-27 (TPj—Diplomats
were alarmed tonight by the defec
tions in the united front of the Lea
gue of Nations.
A hard blow was dealt the league
when the little Central American Re
public, of Nicaragua announced she
POISON THEORY
STARTLES POLICE
NEW ANGLES ARISE IN
ALLEGED MURDER
RACKET
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 27
(TP) —An expert’s report that a man
supposedly killed by an automobile,
actually had died of poison, started
detectives to work on the Springfield
Insurance murder racket with new
enthusiasm today.
The report was made by state
toxicologist Boos after an autopsy on
the body of Frank Krol.
The toxicologist’s findings will be
presented in full next week in the
court of Judge Haas of Ludlow. Judge
Haas started the inquiry by charging
that at least 35 deaths in his dis
trict needed investigation to deter
mine whether the victims had not
been murdered for their insurance.
a little harder at his cigar.
Garner is returning to Washington
on Sunday, then will go to Texas to
be present at the opening of a new
highway. J
Every time the vice president shows
his face on the street, Texans congre-.
gate and burst into applause. His
hotel room is guarded by Policeman
Tom Clifford, who was once British
middleweight boxing champ.
The former Texas cow hand was
asked to comment on the rousing ac
clamation which made him Presi-,
dent Roosevelt’s running mate.
“I never talk politics,” he said.
INDIAN PRINCESS SINGS
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).—
A girl introduced as “the only real
American at the Democratic conven
tion, sang at Franklin Field tonight
before President Roosevelt delivered
his acceptance speech.
She is Miss Lushanya Moble, a
beautiful Chickasaw Indian princess
from Oklahoma. Miss Mobley's In
dian songs have made a hit all dur
ing the convention. One delegate
said her voice convinced him that
the whites ought to give the country
back to the Indians.
The Indian princess was introduced
to the convention under the auspices
of Senator Robert R. Reynolds of
North Carolina. Reynolds heard her
sing in Germany and decided that
her voice entitled her to encourage
ment in the United States. Conven
tion officials say Miss Mobley’s audi
ence tonight was the largest ever as
sembled in one spot. Franklin Field
seats 125,000. More than 200,000
tickets are said to have been distrib
uted.
would quit the organization. Nicara
gua, with Honduras and Guatamala
makes three withdrawals from the
league in a month. To top it off,
Chile has insisted that the league
be reformed so that members could
not be drawn into local disputes.
Chile and other South American coun
tries have indicated that they will
make a hard fight to ease their Europ
ean responsibilties.
Another jolt was given to the lea
gue by Poland which issued an order
Poland indicated that the economic
seige would be raised even before the
expected abandonment of sanctions
by the league.
The league council of 14 nations
has referred the question of- sanctions
to the league assembly.
So far the council has also stud
iously avoided discussion of annexa
tion of Ethiopia. , • . . ,
PENSION QUESTION
IN FINAL STAGES
MANY RAILWAY EM
PLOYES TO BE AFFECT
ED BY DECISION
WASHINGTON, June 27 (TP).—
Thousands of aged railway workers
are anxiously waiting tonight for the
I final outcome of the long legal bat
tle over rail retirement legislation.
The railroad retirement board is
holding up about 1,000 check? already
addressed to rail workers following
the district Supreme court’s decision
holding the act unconstitutional. The
board would have made the first
pension payments July 1 to employes
over 65 years of age.
It was expected the case would be
carried to the United States Supreme
court. But justice department offi
cials refused to make .an announce
ment until the return of Attorney
General Cummings. The high trib-,
unal held the previous retirement act'
unconstitutional. Congress passed a
substitute. It is now making its way
slowly through the courts.
SEA FRUSTRATES
RESCUE ATTEMPTS
THIRTY-FOUR AMERICAN $
SEAMEN ON GROUND
ED TANKER
MANILA, June 27 (TP)—Thirty
four American seamen are marooned
tonight aboard a surf-pounded oil
tanker which is aground on an island
off the Japanese colony of Korea.
High wind is reported blocking ef
forts of three Japanese steamers to
rescue the Americans.
The tanker is the Magnolia. It ran <
ashore on Mappi Island while enroute I
from San Pedro to Darien, Man
choukuo with a cargo of gasoline. 1
Radio advices said the gasoline tanks
have begun to leak, causing a serious
fire menace.
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President
Accepts His
Nomination
COMPARES PRESENT DAYS
TO THOSE OF REVOLU
TION IN RINGING SPEECH
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27
(TP).—A clarion call to war—
what he called war not only
against want and destitution
and economic demoralization—
but a war for the survival of
democracy itself —was sounded
by President Roosevelt tonight.
His ringing speech was deliv
ered to the Democratic conven
tion in Philadelphia as he ac
cepted his party’s renomination
for the presidency.
“In this world of ours, in
other lands,” the President de
clared, “there are some people
who in times past have lived
and fought for freedom, and
seem to have grown too weary
to carry on the fight. They have
sold their heritage of freedom
for the illusion of a living.
They have yielded their dem
ocracy.
“I believe in my heart,” he assert
ed, “that only our success can stir
their ancient hope. They ought to
know that here in America we are
waging a great war. It is not alone
a war against want and destitution
and economic demoralization. It is
a war for the suiwival of democarcy.
We are fighting to save a great and
precious form of government for our
selves and for the world.”
Comparing present conditions to
those which led to the American
revolution President Roosevelt said!
"That victor ygave the business of
governing Into the hftndfijlf tbe.»ver-.
age man, who won the right with his
neighbors to make and order his own
destiny through his own government."
New Forces In Land
“Since that struggle, however,” the
President continued, “man's inventive
genius released new forces in our land
which re-ordered the lives of our
people. The age of machinery, mass
production, mass distribution —com-
bined to bring forward a new civiliza
tion, and with it a new problem for
those who would remain free.
“For out of this modern civiliza
tion,” he said, “economic royalists
carved new destinies. New kingdoms
were built upon concentration of con
trol over material things. Through
new uses of corporations, banks and
securities, new machinery of industry
and agriculture, of labor and capital
—all undreamed of by the fathers—
the whole structure of modern life
was impressed into this royal service.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
ITALY TO CLAIM
WHOLE CONTROL
TOTAL CONQUEST OF ETHI
< OPIA IS PROMISED
BY IL DUCE
ADDIS ABABA. June 27 (TP)—
iltaly claimed tonight to have extend
ed her control over western Ethiopia
where Haile Selassie’s retreating chief
tains are reported to have set up a
government.
Italy’s claim of sovereignity over
all Ethiopia may completely frustrate
Haile Selassie's personal appeal to
the league next week. Unless Selassie
can prove that some Ethiopian gov
ernment still exists the league will
refuse to recognize him as emperor.
With the establishment of the new
Italian garrisons in western Ethiopia
Italian government spokesman to
night announced the complete occupa
tion of Ethiopia. He challenged Haile
Selassie to prove he now rules a sin
gle inch' of Ethiopian territory.
PWA TEST SUIT
MARKED CLOSED
UTILITIES COMPANY WITH
DRAWS COURT
ACTION
WASHINGTON June 27 (TP)—
The PWA reported today that the
Oklahoma Utilities Company has
withdrawn its long-pending suit to
test the constitutionality of the PWA
Municipal Powef Program.
The suit sought to prevent the
PWA from granting $150,000 to Hom
iny, Oklahoma, for the construction
of a municipal power plant. Because
of the suit the allotment to the Okla
homa city has been held up, along
with half a hundred other similar
PWA projects for two years.
PWA officials said that construction
of the Hominy power plant would be
started soon as a result.