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COLORED BAPTIST
5,000 Delegates Expected,
With 4,000 Already
in Capital.
The National Baptist Convention
Of America officially opened its flfty
flfth annual session today with regis
tration of delegates and appointment
of committees at the MetroP°'ltan
Baptist Church, colored, Thirteenth
and R streets.
More than 4,000 delegates already
are here, it was said, and a total of
5,000 is expected before the close
of the convention Monday. Rev.
E. J. Bradshaw of Tabernacle Bap
tist Church and Rev. E. C. Smith of
the Metropolitan Baptist Church are
hosts to the convention.
The Woman’s Auxiliary, headed by
Mrs. M. A. B. Fuller of Austin, Tex.,
also began activities today at Shiloh
Baptist Church, Ninth and P streets.
E. A. Miller, assistant director of
cotton, A. A. A., will be guest speaker
at tonight's meeting. His talk be
gins at 8 o’clock. Other speakers
scheduled are: President Greene L.
Prince of Galveston, Tex., now serv
ing his third term, to speak at 3
p.m., and J. P. Davis and J. A. Jack
son, to speak about noon. Davis is
president of the National Federation
of Colored Farmers.
Scheduled to greet the delegates
this morning were: Rev. A. B. Fisher,
Rev. w. D. Jarvis, Dr. G. O. Bullock,
Attorney Nelson H. Nichols, jr.;
Miss Beatrice Suydah, G. W. Offutt,
Dr. J. S. S. Holloman, MrS. Olive
English, Mrs. Daisy Hemphill, Mrs.
Mildred Mourirte, Dr. E. L. Harrison,
Miss Freddie Lee Kirby and Rev. E.
W. White of Baltimore.
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W. P. A.
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$212,000,000, rejected by Hopkins; 1,
300 pending.
The Work Relief Allotment Com
mittee has taken up 477, of which
387, involving $75,000,000, have been
recommended. All but $5,000,000 of
the latter have been approved by the
President.
To Handle 4.000 Daily.
To handle the tremendous rush of
applications being filed daily with the
Works Progress Administration, the
project control division has geared its
organization to pass upon 4,000 appli
cations a day between now and the
September 12 deadline.
Lights blazed all last night in the
block-square auditorium basement.
Which houses the division. Tabula
tors who check the calculations of
those submitting projects worked
around the clock, in shifts, and Cot
ton said his State programs section
likewise was ready to work 24 hours
a day if necessary.
Applications Rush In.
Cotton, who formerly was city man
ager at St. Petersburg, Fla., said
$667,654,000 of W. P. A. applications
had been received from August 27—
the day after the President fixed the
time limit—through September 2.
To date, he reported, the control
division has passed upon $3,420,
000,000 of projects of all kinds. He
figured about $1,195,000,000 of the
work-relief fund remains unallocated
by the President and that projects
which could use about $750,000,000 of
this are “in process.”
Under the President’s plan his Ad
visory Allotment Board is to take final
action on aUocation of funds Septem
ber 17
As to whether the administration
goal of putting 3.500,000 to work by
November 1 can be attained. Cotton
said he was confident sufficient proj
ects would be approved in time.
BRITISH VESSEL STRIKES
SHOALS OFF AUSTRALIA
Steel Freighter Loaded With
Mining Timber From Canada in
Distress in Antipodes.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 4.—
The British motor ship King Lud, en
route from New Westminster, British
Columbia, to Port Erie, Australia,
has gone aground on shoals east of
Port Pirie, South Australia, the marine
department of the Chamber of Com
merce here learned by radio today.
No additional details were received.
Capt. R. Evans is listed as the ves
sel's master and her agent in British
Columbia is the Canadian Trading
Co., Ltd., Vancouver. The King Lud,
a 400-foot steel freighter, of 5,224
gross tons, is owned by the King Line,
Ltd., and was built by Harland &
Wolff. Ltd., in Belfast, in 1928, marine
registers showed.
Her cargo of mining timber was
Completed at the Vancouver Island
ports, Port Alberni and Chemalnus,
a dispatch from New Westminster
said.
FLOOD SWEEPS TOWNS
IN TEXAS, NEW MEXICO
Baging Bio Grande Topples
Houses, Cotton Gin and Baces
On Toward £1 Paso,
Br the Associated Press.
EL PASO, Tex., September 4.—Flood
waters damaged a half-dozen Texas
and New Mexico towns yesterday as a
new crest on the Rio Grande flowed
toward this city.
Six houses and a cotton gin were
destroyed at Hatch, N. Mcx., and
heavy damage was done to the fertile
farm lands near Alamo Gordo. 84
miles north of El Paso, reports indi
cated. There was no loss of life.
Water from the Rio Grande broke
through a levee at Fort Hancock, lower
El Paso Valley, and near Gabens and
Tomlllo, Tex. There were heavy rains
at Ruldoso and Cloudcroft, N. Mex.
Overflow waters of Brady Creek
swept into Brady, Tex., and damaged
a few stores.
F. E. R. A. MAN ON JOB
Charles Forbes Investigates Aid
Possibilities in Florida.
F. E. R. A. headquarters today
sent Charles Forbes, one of its staff
members, to Jacksonville, Fla., to
help in handling details of relief and
rehabilitation.
Lacking definite information, Harry
L. Hopkins instructed relief officials
in Florida to give whatever aid possible
to veterans and other storm sufferers.
The Washington office was not advised
of the exact veterans’ camp where
fatalities were reposed.
Court Clerk
JUDGE GIVEN’S SON
SWORN IN.
RALPH GIVEN, JR. •
Young Given was sworn in yes
terday as a clerk at Police Court,
succeeding James S. Addison. He
is the son of Judge Given, who
has Just concluded years of serv
ice on the Police Court bench,
and is a law student at George
Washington University.
—Star Staff Photo.
Plane
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to make a thorough investigation on
the ground and report to the Relief
Administration.
Meanwhile, relief officials in Flor
ida were co-operating with the Red
Cross and the Pan-American Airways
base at Miami in an effort to bring
quick relief to the stricken construc
tion camps, Milford said.
Waves Cover Tracks.
The relief official said that the
hurricane was first expacted to miss
the Southern Keys and pass through
the Florida Straits, but that a relief
train was dispatched on the Florida
Relief Coast Railway between Miami
and Key West to evacuate the con
struction camps strung along the keys.
The relief train set out from Miami
Monday night, Milford said, but en
countered high winds and waves which
swept all the way across the tracks
in places. The trainmen expected to
get to the southernmost camp and
remove all the men on the return trip.
The relief train, Milford was in
formed, was halted near Upper Mate
cumbe Key when all the cars were
swept by the waves into the water,
leaving only the engine standing on
the track. Milford had not learned
at a late hour today whether there
was loss of life among the train crew.
Headquarters at Jacksonville estab
lished communication today with a
short-wave radio operator on Lower
Matecumbe Key and additional in
formation from the storm area was
coming in hourly.
Milford said that the eflort to
evacuate the keys was thwarted by the
sudden manner in which the storm
changed its course and swept across
the low-lying keys.
Diplomacy
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with associates in New York, the As
sociated Press says, and then in
formed Secretary Hull that they had
decided to accept his advice. , The
Ethiopian government will be inform
ed of their decision, they said.
Walden Explains Move.
Walden said his company, a for
eign subsidiary Jointly owned by the
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and the
j Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, had
been engaged in the petroleum busi
ness in Ethiopia for more than 20
years. When Rlckett suggested ob
taining the concession at issue, the
African Exploration and Development
Corp. was incorporated to acquire it,
Walden explained.
“On Friday,” Walden continued, "I
was informed that an agreement had
been signed with the kingdom of
Ethiopia, though I have not seen a
copy of it as executed. The agree
ment which Mr. Rlckett was author
ized to negotiate relates to the de
velopment of crude petroleum pro
duction and provides for no payment
or loan of money nor has any been
made.”
Would Receive Royalty.
Walden said Ethiopia would receive
a royalty on all commercial petroleum
produced under the agreement.
“This matter was handled in the
regular course of business as a pri
vate transaction with Ethiopia, but
without consultation with any other
government,” the statement added.
“In view of the misleading nature
of the news comments in Saturday
morning papers, I felt it necessary to
give all the facts to our State De
partment before issuing any public
statement. Today I have done this,
and after confereace with the Secre
tary of State, have decided to ad
vise the Ethiopian government of our
intention to abandon the concession.”
Firm Explains Action.
NEW YORK. September 4 <JP).—
George S. Walden, chairman of the
board of the Standard Vacuum Oil Co.,
said today that the Washington con
ference resulting in its abandonment
of the vast Ethiopian concession was
"on our own initiative.”
He said that "we felt it was our
duty in a matter of this kind to con
sult the Department of State as soon
as we received confirmation that the
concession had been granted.” He
added the concession was negotiated
and had been granted in a "routine
manner.”
"I told Secretary Hull that we
wished to be guided by the advice and
wishes of the State Department,” said
the oil man in a statement explaining
the company’s position.
“If retention of the concession were
to become in any way an embarrass
ment, we stated that we were ready to
terminate It.”
He said the negotiations were begun
long before the present Ethiopian
question became acute.
London Is Relieved.
LONDON, September 4 Wor
ried British officials relaxed today as
they read the announcement that
American oU interests had agreed to
withdraw from their huge Ethiopian
concessions.
Responsible spokesmen Mid they
considered the “Rickett affair” closed,
as a report from Minister Barton, at
Addis Ababa, said that Emperor Haile
Selassie had advised him the company
was purely American, without any
British capital being Involved.
Road Deaths Decline.
Road death* in England are fewer
than in 1934, Fj
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