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Show 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. Fr.OUIDA was tlie victim of another an-other tcrrilic hurricane that wept up from the Caribbean across the keys and the southern cud of the male, then alori;; the west coast and Into Georgia. The total of fatalities was uncertain, but at this writing the number of dead Is estimated at more than fX). Of these perhaps 300 were war veterans vet-erans in labor camps on the keys where they were employed In construction con-struction .k. All buildings on inuny of the keys were demolished and a relief train that had been sent to take the veterans away from the danger zone was smashed to pieces. The survivors on the Islands Is-lands were without shelter, food and medical supplies, but relief expeditions ex-peditions were quickly sent by the Itod Cross and other agencies. The towns along the west coast reported extensive property damage dam-age but few casualties. Responding to assertions that the fjreat loss of life In the veterans' labor camps was due to lack of preparation against such a disaster, disas-ter, President Roosevelt ordered a thorough Investigation by I'.rig. Gen. Frank T. Illnes, administrator of veterans' affairs. Harry Hopkins, head of the 1'T.ItA which set up the camps, also started an inquiry, and so did the American Legion. The affair promised to attain the bad eminence of a national scandal. Caught in the fury of the storm, the Morgan liner Dixie, from New Orleans for New York, was driven aground on French reef, about GO miles south of Miami. Her passengers passen-gers and crew, numbering 372, were In great peril for three (lays, but various steamers and coast guard cutters rushed to the rescue in response re-sponse to her SOS call and as soon as wind and seas abated enough all were taken off the stranded vessel and conveyed to land, most of them to Miami. Passengers Pas-sengers on the Dixie warmly praised the gallant work of the ship's oflicers and crew. OFF the coast of Portugal the Cunard-W'hlte Star liner Doric was In collision with the French steamer Formlgny and so badly disabled dis-abled that she called for aid. The British steamers Orion and Viceroy Vice-roy of India went to the rescue and took off the Doric's passengers, numbering 73G. The crew remained aboard. The Doric was returning from a cruise to the Mediterranean. Mediterra-nean. Wireless reports said the Formigny was all right. BVKON TOMPEI ALOISI, cold and sardonic, stood up before the League of Nations and presented present-ed Italy's case against Ethiopia, v,,,., . denouncing that - empire as utterly x, unworthy to be classed with civ-terS'S civ-terS'S 5 ; 1 llized countries. In addition to his V C ; ; ?-ICsof speech he laid be-KffStC be-KffStC fore the council a I ' long memorandum I CkiiV detailing the els' el-s' ; ' i leged conditions of L osfiSS slavery that still prevail In Ethiopia Baron Alois, and t,)e participa. tlon of Its government In the slave trade. This memorandum was elaborately elab-orately documented. Addressing the council, Aloisl said In part : "Ethiopia, taking advantage of her position as a member of the League of Nations, sheltered behind the treaty of friendship concluded with Italy In 192S, has since that time multiplied provocations, hostile 'demonstrations, incursions of pillagers, pil-lagers, acts of brigandage, and violence vio-lence against the peaceful populations popula-tions of our frontier. "The Ethiopian government does nothing to make itself worthy of belonging to Ihe community of civilized civ-ilized nations. Even today that country coun-try has to be represented by European Euro-pean advisers in order to make its voice heard in the League of Nations. Na-tions. "The Italian government considers, consid-ers, in these circumstances, that a state such as Ethiopia cannot have either equality of right or equality of duties as compared with civilized civ-ilized states. To claim that members mem-bers of the league are required to observe rules of the covenant In their relations with members who have always and constantly been outside those rules is contrary to all the principles of right and jus-, jus-, tice." To the press correspondents the baron was even more explicit. "Yon have heard the Italian thesis," he said. "That Is final. Italy has asked nothing, not even the withdrawal of Ethiopia from the league. From now on Italy will play a passive rule here. We are not going to discuss anything with Ethiopia, but we will discuss Ethiopia with the league. "It Is up to the members of the league council to decide whether they want to expel Ethiopia or expel ex-pel Italy." Ethiopia's reply to Italy was presented pre-sented to the council by Prof. (Jus-ton (Jus-ton Jeze, a Frenchman. He protested protest-ed In a dignified way against the brutal wording of the Italian statement state-ment and told the council If it considered con-sidered the expulsion of Etltiopia the league would be setting a precedent prece-dent of Judging member states according ac-cording to the manner In which they conducted their Internal affairs. Some members might find this dangerous, dan-gerous, he said. Jeze ended with a dramatic reminder re-minder that time Is pressing and tills 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 se-rious attention." The council adjourned to study the Italian memorandum. VXTEHLE the European statesmen were struggling with the Italo-Ethioplan Italo-Ethioplan question, Secretary of State Cordell Hull quietly took a gfmwsccreowyM hand in the game. " lle ditl not iu nnJ' way Involve the United States in W tlle wrangle, but he , s. put an end to the H f " " i deal w hereby Haile i V i Selassie was giv- J !nS a great devel- J opment concession ..A"- w to Americans. Offi- j'A el cials of the Stand- o , u i, ard-Vacuum Oil Sec'y Hul t . company went to Mr. Hull's office and admitted ownership own-ership of the grant. The secretary admonished them that the concession conces-sion bad been "the cause of great embarrassment not only to this government, but to other governments govern-ments -who are making strenuous and sincere efforts for the preservation preserva-tion of peace." The oil men thereupon announced their intention of withdrawing from the deal with Ethiopia, and the big concession sensation was entirely deflated. The British government was especially pleased with this outcome and felt deeply grateful to Secretary Hull. jVf ONTHLY estimates of private forecasters are that, If there are no 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 harvest when the drouth cut returns to 1,377 million bushels. bush-els. When compared with "normal" production this season's Indicated crop is moderately deficient In Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio the crop is in excellent condition and the returns promise to be larger than appeared likely a month ago. The situation Is reversed in Kansas, Kan-sas, South Dakota, and Nebraska. In Iowa, the biggest producing state, the prospects are slightly less favorable than a month ago. The spring wheat crop was estimated esti-mated at 155 million bushels. Using Us-ing the government's last estimate on the winter crop of 432 million bushels, total wheat production this year Is placed at 5S7 million bushels, bush-els, about 40 million bushels under average annual consumption iu the United States. GERALD B. THORN'E, chief of live stock and feed grains division di-vision of AAA, says that in order to rectify inequities in corn-hog production it has been decided to permit modification of the base production quotas. The tentative plan is: Each county now has an aggregate aggre-gate base production of corn and hogs which will be left untouched. Within the county bases, however, how-ever, machinery will be set up, largely through county committees, by which the bases can be altered. Thus the farmer who planted less than normal corn In 1932 and 1933 and has a low corn base can be given giv-en an increased base. In the same way tlie farmer who raised fewer bogs for one reason or another In those years than ordinary on a farm of that size may get a larger hog base. For these Increases, however, there will have to be corresponding adjustments downward for other farmers. 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. As a matter of fact, he covered the thirteen mile course at an average aver-age siieed of "01 :337 an hour, or more than five miles a minute. Over one measured mile he ran at the rate of 301.331. IT'ARLY court tests of the Wagner ' labor disputes act may be obtained, ob-tained, for already complaints have been filed with the new labor relations rela-tions board against two subsidiaries of General Motors and the Portsmouth Ports-mouth (Ohio) plant of the Wheeling Wheel-ing Steel corporation. The complainants com-plainants are the United Automobile Automo-bile workers and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. They are represented by Charlton Ogburn, counsel for the A. F. of L., who says the unions charge that the companies violated the acts fair labor practice provisions. pro-visions. T TNITED CONFEDERATE VET- ERANS, In annual session at Amarillo, Texas, having been assured as-sured that the stars and bars would not be banned, accepted the invitation invita-tion to hold a joint reunion on Gettysburg Get-tysburg battlefield with the Grand Army of the Republic in 1938. Paul Roy, who extended the Invitation on behalf of Governor Earls of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, told the confederates they would be free to carry the flag of the South wherever and whenever they pleased. rR. CIIAIM WEIZMANN, vet-eran vet-eran leader of the Zionists, was elected president of their world organization at the nineteenth congress con-gress held In Lucerne. A resolution resolu-tion was adopted declaring against "systematic deprivation of the rights of Jews in Germany, which undermines their moral and material mate-rial position." The German delegation to the congress unanimously voted against the resolution, declaring it did not constitute a "constructive plan" to meet the situation of Jews in the third reich. XJOTEWORTHY among recent deaths are those of Right Rev. Walter T. Sumner, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon, who won fame long ago ns a crusader against organized vice In Chicago; George C. Hanson, veteran American Ameri-can diplomat, who shot himself to death on a steamer when returning from Greece; and Charles J. Vop-icka Vop-icka of Chicago, who was American Ameri-can minister in several Balkan countries during the World war. RUSSIA'S reply in America's protest pro-test against the subversive plotting plot-ting 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 Communist Internationale. Inter-nationale. This was considered for four days by official Washington 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 pur-sues a policy of permitting activities activi-ties on its territory involving interference inter-ference with the internal affairs of the United States, instead of 'preventing' 'pre-venting' such activities, as its written writ-ten pledge provides, the friendly and official relations between the two countries cannot but be seriously serious-ly impaired.'.' SENATOR HUEY LONG crowed a Tot about the success of his one-man filibuster which killed the third deficiency appropriation bill, but he didn't add mxa j to his popularity- 'JLfe, among the people r who looked forward for help from the - agencies that are Z?$XB now hampered by the failure of the ; jf J measure. Besides M that, it is now ad-initted ad-initted that his fill- R $ buster rescued the sL O Democratic house . , ' , . leaders from a Granfield tight place in the matter of the cotton and wheat loans. Still further, fur-ther, it appears that Huey's domination dom-ination of Louisiana is going to be investigated by a congressional committee. That committee probably prob-ably will be headed by Representative Representa-tive William L. Granfield of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, for. he was the author of the elections investigation bill, which was found to contain a little "joker." This joker gives the committee com-mittee such wide powers that it can probe into all the facts concerning con-cerning Long's complete control of election affairs in his state and the methods by which he has attained to the position of a dictator there. MRS. ANNA WILMARTH Ickes. wife of the Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, was killed when an automobile in which she and three friends were riding was overturned in a ditch at Velarde, Vel-arde, N. M. Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Ierrick. well-known newspaper writer; Ibrahim Seyfullah, secretary of the Turkish embassy in Washington, Wash-ington, and Frank Allen of Gallup, N. M., the driver, were severely injured. in-jured. Allen died later. Mrs. Ickes, who for years was deeply Interested in the Indians of the Southwest, had been inspecting an Indian settlement at Tans and was returning to Santa Fe. Before she went to Washington with her husband In 1933 she was a leader in club work in Chicago, and she served three terms in tlie Illinois legislature. Among the many notable nota-ble persons who attended the funeral fu-neral in Winnetka. suburb of Chicago, Chi-cago, was Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President. |