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WALMSLEY FLAYS
DESERTING AIDES
New Orleans Mayor to Be
Ousted When Majority
Signs, Says Long.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, July 13.—Mayor
T. Semmes Walmsley, his political
back to the wall, today denounced his
former associates for deserting him for
"Dictator” Huey P. Long and reiter
ated his refusal to resign.
As the sound of strife between Sen
ator Long and the mayor echoed
throughout the State, with anti-Long
men rallying to Walmsley as a last re
sort, Norman Thomas, national So
cialist leader, threatened to come into
Louisiana and campaign against his
"share-the-wealth program."
Most of Walmsley’s city political
lieutenants deserted him for Long's
ranks on the plea the step had to be
taken to save New Orleans from finan
cial ruin.
Three of four city commissioners re
quested Walmsley to quit, and 13 of
his 17 ward leaders made the same
request.
As Walmsley was lambasting the
commissioners and Long's “dictator
ship," Thomas threw down a new
threat to Long by announcing he
would stump Louisiana, and stump
with a sound-truck caravan against
the “demagoguery of Huey Long’s
share-the-wealth program.”
Long, visibly irritated over Thomas'
plan, charged that President Roose
velt. with whom he has broken polit
ically, was sending Thomas to Louis
iana. “Anyway, Thomas won’t get
three people in Louisiana to listen to
him.” the Senator said.
Meanwhile, the “old regulars,”
Walmsley's political organization, went
forward with plans for a series of
citywide mass meetings next week to
circulate petitions demanding the
mayor's resignation.
Senator Long has promised the “old
regulars” to call a special session of
the Legislature to address Walmsley
out of office “within 24 hours” after
the signatures of a majority of the
voters of the city are attached to the
ouster petitions.
Denouncing his former associates
for deserting him. and refusing to re
sign, Walmsley shouted to the city
commissioners:
“You wouldn’t want to deal with
A1 Capone. You can't deal with men
who have been called thieves and
crooks by each and every one of you
and then uphold your honor.”
Rome
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the dangers which lie behind hos
tilities in East Africa. There were
even indications that the British
hoped the United States would be
willing to join in a “united front’’
against a war between Italy and
Ethiopia.
Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the
Liberal opposition in the House of
Commons, declared in a speech at
Pencrebar. Cornwall, “if the primitive
troops of Ethiopia are mowed down by
Italian machine guns, there will be
b spontaneous outburst of indignation
end resentment among the British
people."
Britain Watches Massing.
ADEN, Arabia, July 12 (A3).—From I
this Persian Gulf port, on the his
toric route to India. Great Britain
is anxiously watching Premier Mus
solini's massing of troops in Italy's
East African colonies of Somaliland
and Eritrea.
Observers said today they consid
ered the Italian army the most scien- I
tifically equipped, as well as the
largest ever sent Into Africa. The
preparations now under way indicate
to military experts that an earlv as
sault on the 5.000-year-old independ
ent stronghold of Ethiopia is con
templated.
The military preparations at Mas
saua, Eritrea, across the gulf from
here, are the most easily observed.
That city now is a town of stevedores
and newly arrived troops, working J
without rest to unload the ships and
clear the wharves already piled high
with supplies.
Four or five Italian ships constantly
are standing in the harbor waiting to
disgorge their caroges. Cranes creak
and clatter throughout the day, as
tanks, armored cars, airplanes, horses,
mules, artillery pieces and the rest
of the paraphernalia of war are swung
overboard to start the journey into
Africa.
The heat, frequently reaching 120 !
degrees in the shade, adds to the
fatigue of the laboring men. The
single railroad line to Asmara. 120
miles inland, at the edge of the
Eritrean plateau, is a jumble of con
fusion as engineers try to move the
troops and material away from the
burning seacoast.
On account of the scarcity of water,
the troops at Massaua are allowed
only two pints a day for each man.
With this amount he must do his
drinking and washing.
Machinery now is being installed
for distilling sea water, but thus far
it has been impossible for the engi
neers with their equipment to keep
pace w'ith the demand of the thirsty
men. Meanwhile boats travel as far
as the Sudan to buy water.
On top of the plateau, the main
activity is road building, with the
new highways pushing toward the
Ethiopian frontier across ravines and
mountains as fast as is humanly pos
sibly for the workmen brought from
Ethiopia to labor.
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As Long Foes Ran Up White Flag
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Hoisting the white flag of surrender, members of " old regular*” organization of Mayor T. Semmes Walms
ley went over to the camp of Huey Long with a plea for the Kingflsh’s help. In the above picture Ulic Burke,
spokesman for the "old regulars." Is shown reading a petition to Long, asking his help and the resignation of
Mayor Walmsley. Long replied by saying if a majority of New Orleans voters would request Walmsley's removal
from office a special session of the Legislature to accomplish that would be called immediately. —A. P. Photo.
This Changing World
England May Drop Peace Effort for Ethiopian
Protectorate Proposal.
BT CONSTANTINE BROWN.
HAILIE SELASSIE may have to
pay with his throne and
Abyssinia with its indepen
dence for the sacred cause of
i peace.
Mussolini is so determined to give
j Italy a place in the sun that nothing
will deter him from making war sn
Abyssinia if that country refuses to
accept the civilizing effects of the
Italian protectorate.
Great Britain has made an honest
effort to preserve Abyssinia's independ
ence. But having to choose between
an inevitable war with unfathomable
consequences for the rest of the world
and Mussolini's will to occupy Ethiopia
she is now inclined to yield to II Duce
—especially when Mussolini Indicates
that there may be something for
Great Britain in this affair, too.
The proposal of the Italian
government—through the devious
channel of Vienna—that France,
Great Britain and Italy should be
entrusted icith a mandate over
Abyssinia in order to put an end
to the slai>e traffic and the frequent
incursions in the French, British
and the Italian Somaliland is likely
to appeal to the foreign office.
This proposal really means a con
dominium over Ethiopia, with the
British controlling the western part
of the country, which includes the
much coveted Tsana Lake, and the
Italians taking the rest.
May Be Puppet King.
If Selassie wants to submit to this
he can maintain his throne in the
same manner the Sultan of Morocco
is still nominally the ruler of that
empire. If he refuses it will be just
too bad. The Italians, supported in
directly by the British and the French,
will take over whatever they want,
leaving the rest to the other two
powers.
The British are realists. They have
fought all they could for the preser
vation of the independence of the
ancient Ethiopian empire. But if it
must disappear they might just as
well get something out of it.
Those in touch with Addis Ababa
say that Selassie is determined to
fight. If he accepts the protectorate
he will be killed by his own people.
If he doesn’t he hopes that a vigorous
resistance may embarrass Italy and
he may obtain better terms.
Americans May Fight.
There is in Paris a group of Ameri
cans who suffer from the nostalgies
of war. They have fought in the
World War under the French and the
American flag.
When the war was over they re
mained in France and offered their
services to whatever nation needed
them.
As soon as the news of conflict
between Italy and Ethiopia came
out they became restless and now
under the leadership of Maj. Gran
ville Pollock they are ready to
fight for Emperor Selassie.
The moving spirit of this group of
fighters. Col. Charles Sweeney, is not
with them at present. He is gold
mining in Idaho, but will rush to
Paris soon.
Sweeney is one of the last soldiers
of fortune. He holds the rank of
colonel in the American, the
French and the Moroccan armies.
He served in the Foreign Legion
during the World War. Previous to
that he fought in Caranza's army,
in Nicaragua and in Venezuela.
After the World War he fought
in Poland against the Bolshevists,
and attempted to fight in Mustapha
Kemal’s army, but was stopped in
Constantinople by the British.
When the war between the French
and the Riffians broke out he organ
ized a Lafayette squadron, enlisting
American flyers who had fought Ger
many, most of them being former
members of the original Lafayette
squadron. Pollock was his first lieu
tenant.
Now the same bunch, thirsting for
new adventures, is ready to hop oft to
Abyssinia. Money and honors don’t
interest them particularly. All they
want is to fight.
They are a continual worry for the
State Department. The American
musketeers simply laugh when the
embassy in Paris threatens to con
fiscate their passports.
Lost Diplomacy.
Old-timers lament the passing of
the old-fashioned American shirt
sleeve diplomacy. It may not have
been elegant, our diplomats may have
spoken frequently out of turn, but at
least they did not mince their words
when they had to say something.
With the changing of times, this
has been changed into a suave,
frock-coated, be-spatted diplomacy.
You have to exercise a lot of imagi
nation and read between the lines
a good deal before you can gather
the meaning of the diplomatic
moves of the State Department.
A typical example of this new
diplomatic method was last week's
reply to Emperor Selassie's appeal to
the American Government to apply
the Kellogg pact.
After due consideration and con
Uiltatlon, the State Department sent
a reply, which was Interpreted here
and especially abroad that the Ameri
can Government was washing its
hands of the whole thing.
When the reports started pouring
in from the diplomatic missions
abroad Secretary Hull was pained.
• He certainly did not mean to imply
i that this country was no longer in
■ terested in the Kellogg pact. This
was too realistic a viewpoint.
Convinced of Error.
He talked to the French and
British Ambassadors, who were reluc
tantly forced to admit that their gov
ernments, despite the long practice of
reading between the lines, had come
to the conclusion that America had
given up the Kellogg pact.
To Mr. Hull, his reply to Selassie's
appeal of July 4 had been clear.
America was Interested In a peaceful
settlement of all disputes—he had
I said it in the note—and that could
be interpreted only in one way; that
we stand unflinchingly by the Kellogg
! pact.
It was just too bad the general
public and the foreigners could not
understand the Secretary's clear
language. The meaning of the
note was only too evident to the
State Department officials who had
help draft Mr. Hull’s answer.
When the Secretary' of State real
ized the lack of perspicacity of those
who should have understood the plain
language of his reply to Selassie, he
decided to reiterate officially the fact
that we still believe and will continue
to believe in the Kellogg pact as the
principal instrument for averting wars
in the future.
This might, of course, cause new in
terpretations and comments abroad.
In such an eventuality many well
wishers and admirers of Mr. Hull
hope that he will revert to the old
fashioned way of American diplomacy,
which was to call a spade a spade.
COMMUNISTlwiCE
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Herbert Benjamin. Ousted by
House Group Four Months Ago,
Milder in Testimony.
By the Associated Press.
A Communist who was almost
bodily carried out of a House Ways
and Means Committee hearing four
months ago testified before the same
group yesterday—and all was peace
ful and quiet.
He was Herbert Benjamin, repre
senting the "National Joint Action
Committee for Genuine Social In
surance.” Four months ago he
criticized the social security bill.
Then, he shouted so loudly and per
sistently that two policemen helped
him out of the committee room.
Yesterday his voice was so low that
committeemen had to ask him to raise
it. He described the President’s
wealth tax plan as "unsatisfactory”
because, among other things, it
wouldn’t pay unemployment insur
ance, the bonus and "adequate relief
to fanners.”
“The plan amounts to only a polite
little nibble at the great fortunes
in the hands of a few,” he said,
advocating a 100 per cent tax on all
Inheritances.
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Police Seek Former Bur
lesque Dancer and Her
Chinese Lover.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 13.—Authorities
pressed tonight lor an "iron-clad”
case against all suspects in this city's
latest melodrama of murder—the bru
tal "swamp slaying” of Ervin Lang.
Charles S. Dougherty, ace assistant
to Prosecutor Thomas Courtney, as
sumed charge of the investigation as j
police continued their questioning of ;
the alleged buyer of the murder,
Lang's 43-year-old mother-in-law, 1
Mrs. Blanche Dunkel.
On the basis of her story to prose
, cutors that she paid Mrs. Evelyn
I Smith. 35-year-old former burlesque
dancer. $100 on a $500 pledge for the
slaying, secret raids were made on I
Chinatown in an attempt to apprehend
the one-time show girl and her!
Chinese laundryman lover, Harry
Jung. They were also sought in other
cities.
Thousand Hiding Places.
"It's Uke looking for a needle in a
haystack.” said Detective Chief John j
L. Sullivan, "with Jung's connections
they have a thousand possible hiding I
places in Chinatowns all over the
United States."
New traces of the pair were found
here. In a rooming house on On
tario street where the couple allegedly
stopped for 24 hours after the slay
ing, police discovered a shopping bag
they said the Smith woman owned.
Assistant Prosecutor Francis Mc
Currie said this and other evidence
and the purported story of Mrs. Dun
kel that Mrs. Smith strangled Lang
in her apartment after he had been
made drunk and drugged would be
sufficient to send the trio to the
electric chair. Mrs. Dunkel told police
they said that Mrs. Smith sawed off
Lang's legs before his body was
dumped in a swamp near Hammond,
Ind.
Find Pattern for Crime.
The possibility that a crime which
shocked New York 26 years ago pro
vided a pattern for the "swamp mur
der” was studied by Chicago police.
In a room occupied overnight by
Mrs. Smith and Jung, the police found
a magazine account of the murder
in 1909 of Elsie Sigel, in New York's
Chinatown.
They found the two cases parallel
in many respects. Elsie, grand
daughter of Gen. Franz Sigel, was
drugged and then strangled.
Elsie’s body was stuffed Into a
trunk. Police believe a trunk was
used in the Lang case to conceal
Lang’s body, with the legs cut off,
until it could be thrown into the
swamp.
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Schuschnigg
(Continued From First Page.)
Linz Hospital advised him to give up
the responsibilities of office for a
while.
The cabient met immediately and
concurred in the medical opinion,
and it was regarded as likely that the
ministers would suggest to the head
of the government that he take an
extended vacation. Prince von Star
hemberg, as vice chancellor, would
take his place.
Prince von Starhemberg notified the
cabinet that he would return tonight
by airplane from Italy, where he has
been on vacation. Because of his
noble blood and his vast military fol
lowing. Von Starhemberg has been
recognized for the last two years as
one of the most powerful men In Aus
trian policies.
Chancellor's Wife Beloved.
Frau von Schuschnigg was beloved
by the people for her numerous char
itable and social services. She was
the chief inspiration of Austria’s na
tion-wide Winter health movement,
which substantially aided thousands of
the poor.
At Rome Pope Pius instructed Car
dinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state,
to transmit to th# Austrian govern
ment his profound, condolences. Pre
mier Mussolini sent a similar mes
sage. _
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Titulescu Says Armies to
Mobilize if Otto Re
gains Throne.
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, July 13.—The Haps
burg family was warned today by a
powerful combination of Austria’*
neighbors to stay away from the non
existent throne of Austria.
Nicholas Titulescu, foreign minis
ter of Rumania, announced that if
the Hapsburg dynasty, which once
ruled parts of Rumania, Yugoslavia
and Czechoslovakia, were restored,
those three nations, now comprising
the Little Entente, would be forced to
mobilize their armies.
The hand of Czechoslovakia was
not apparent In the announcement,
but it was considered to carry the full
weight not only of Rumania but of
Yugoslavia, for it was made after
Titulescu had conferred with Prince
Paul, regent of Yugoslavia.
Mobilisation Certain.
Said Titulescu: “The Little En
tente policies with respect to a Haps
burg restoration have Deen settled on
a positive basis, and mobilization
would follow as a matter of course If
the dynasty is re-established in
Vienna.”
(Two contemporary events give
grave importance to Titulescu's an
nouncement. They are:
(1. The Archduke Otto, pretender to
the Austrian throne, has been report
ed on his way from his exile in Bel
gium to Austria, which recently voted
to return the sequestered properties of
the Hapsburgs to the royal family.
Prince Ready lor Power.
(2. The automobile accident today
near Linz, Austria, in which Chan
cellor Kurt Schuschnigg of that na
tion was so seriously injured that he
may retire as chancellor in favor of
Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Aus
tria's most militant Fascist. The
prince previously has been reported as
believing he should be called to form
a regency preparatory to the re
enthronement of the Hapsburgs.)
Titulescu, who has possibly a greater
grasp of international affairs than any
other statesman in Europe, fears that
a general European war is inevitable
within one or two years unless the
great powers, with the moral support
of the United States, align themselves
against the nation threatening to be
gin such a conflict.
In an interview with the Associated
Press, Titulescu declared that a mere
gesture of the great powers to use
all their forces against any nation
which threatened to attack another
without just cause, would soon make
war impossible.
Titulescu said that in the absence
of such a declaration by the powers,
the nations of Europe would have to
depend for continued peace and se
curity upon an extension of the pres
ent series of pacts of mutual assist
ance and non-aggression.
Soviet Relations Closer.
The Roumanian foreign minister
declared that following the conclusion
of the recent Franco-Soviet military
pact. Roumania was in closer relations
with Soviet Russia. He indicated Rou
mania was prepared to sign a pact
of non-aggression with the Soviet
Union. He believed that the bol
sheviks would drop their claim to Bes
sarabia.
Titulescu also said that Roumania
was fully prepared to join the pro
posed Danubian pact, which would
embrace, besides. Roumania, Italy.
Austria. Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czecho
slovakia and perhaps also Germany.
Such a pact, he felt, not only would
prevent war in Southeastern Europe,
but would have enormous political
and economic value. It would facili
tate the exchange of commodities
among the various States represented
within the pact, and would result in
the breaking down of the present pro
hibitive tariff barriers.
I na fraid of Turkey.
Asked what Rumania’s attitude Is
on Turkey’s desire to rearm the Dar
danelles, the Rumanian foreign min
ister said: “As Rumania is now on
good terms with Soviet Russia, and
as Rumania's safety is assured by all
the existing pacts of security and non
aggression, I see no danger to Ru
mania from Turkey's rearming the
straits. Besides, both Rumania and
Turkey are members of the Balkan
pact, which guarantees us from at
tack by Turkey.’’
The correspondent asked Titulescu
whether the proposed German-Ru
manian commercial agreement meant
that Rumania intended to modify her
well-known orientation with Prance
and the allied powers. "It would be
monumental folly for Rumania to
abandon her known and tried friend.
Prance,’’ said the foreign minister,
“but we have to become friends with
Germany, too.”
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The New Hospital
And the
Sick Little Girl at Gallinger
After many years of persistent agitation and demands
for a tuberculosis sanitarium for the treatment of children
in the District afflicted with this disease Congress finally ap
propriated funds for the hospital at Glenn Dale, Md., and it
was opened, after considerable delay in construction, Sep
tember 14 last.
But last night a 12-year-old girl, suffering from recently
diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis and in a condition which
the doctors say demands careful treatment, lay in a crowded
ward at Gallinger—unable to obtain admittance to Glenn Dale.
At Glenn Dale there are 150 beds and 121 patients.
At Glenn Dale special attention has been given to con
struction of the hospital, permitting sunshine and fresh air
and treatment and pleasant recreation for child patients.
At Gallinger the ward in use is crowded. There is little
opportunity for sunshine or fresh air for the patients. There
are rows of cots and blank walls to look at during stifling
hot days.
The little girl who lies at Gallinger cannot gain admit
tance to Glenn Dale—built by local taxpayers’ money for just
such cases as her own—because Congress has declined to ap
propriate funds for a sufficient number of nurses.
There are 10 nurses at Glenn Dale, now taking care of 121
patients, day and night. That means a nurse for every 12.10
patients, although the desirable standard for an adult hos
pital is a nurse to every 8 patients, and Dr. Daniel Finu
cane, the superintendent, says the average for children should
be below that. “Many children,” he said, “require almost in
dividual care. They cannot bathe or feed themselves. We
should have at least one nurse for every seven patients.”
In January a new wing will be completed and 150 more
beds and nine more nurses will be available.
But in the meantime—
The sick little girl at Gallinger, denied admittance to
Washington’s brand-new hospital for children at Glenn Dale,
is only one of a waiting list of sick children, which is growing
longer all the time.
“But we cannot very well take in any more children.
There are not enough nurses,” says Dr. Finucane.
Health
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of the supplementary estimates sub
mitted by the health officer are worth
discussing.
“The first concerns the apparent
inability ot existing machinery to
function in an expeditious fashion for
special needs. The estimate appears
to be stymied not on its merits, but
because it cames up 'out of turn,’ so
to speak.
Fears “Agonizing Delay."
“It seems to make little difference
that the present health officer took
office March 1, 1935. after the 1935-36
appropriations had already been
ground through the mill. The Health
Department must suffer 16 months’
agonizing delay in its effort to look
toward a proper rehabilitation of its
functions—because 'that's the way
things are done here.’ Nearly every
one Involved in the machinery of ap
propriation concedes the imperative
need for the estimate, but it must come
up in ‘regular order.’
“The other factor concerns the
qualifications of our health officer.
The technique employed here in find
ing a suitable health officer was as
follows: The Commissioners appointed
an Advisory Committee, consisting of
representatives from local medical
schools, the Medical Society and others
prominent in health work. This com
mittee was non-political and non
partisan, and was stimulated by the
common desire to see that Washington
was provided with the best available
health officer in the United States.
The committee drew up a long list of
minimum qualifications which the new
health officer must possess.
“Questionnaires embodying these
qualifications were sent to a large
number of public health officials and
deans of schools of public health, in
cluding Harvard. Yale, Johns Hopkins
and others. When the replies were re
ceived the astounding fact was re
vealed that every one replying, without
a dissenting voice, had named Dr.
Ruhland as his first choice for the
standards of qualification set up by
the committee.
Big Job Admitted.
“Following the advice of the com
mittee, the Commissioners appointed
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“Dr. Ruhland took a cut in salary
| to come here at the earnest solicita
! tion of local leaders to do a big job
| which sorely needed doing. In my
| opinion it must be keenly humiliating
j to Dr. Ruhland. a man with a na
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j in his field, to come here and find
j that he must put up with petty bicker
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the importance of which every one
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Herald have the profound appreciation
of the public-spirited citizens of
Washington for the forthright pub
licity they are giving this matter in
the interest of the public good.”
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pian Crisis.
By the Associated Press.
After clarifying the United States’
policy with regard to the threatening
war clouds in Africa by emphasizing
American Interest In the world-wide
preservation of peace. Secretary Hull
left yesterday for a brief vacation In
nearby Virginia.
While no immediate developments
affecting the United States were ex
pected In the Italo-Ethiopian dispute,
It was made plain at the State De
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times for decision on any subject of
Interest to this Government.
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some time at Hot Springs, officials
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William Phillips, Undersecetary,
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Italian or Ethiopian armies.
Dispatches from Rome Addis Ababa
and Paris recently had reported that
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ned to join the armies of those tw»
nations.
American law, officials said, pro
hibits American citizens in this coun
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forces of any other nation.
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