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Kl Weather Oakland and Vicinity Fair tonight, Saturday and Sunday, but overcast and cool night and early, moraine; moderate westerly winds. Exclusive I I PA TEMPERATURES Unitcft Pre Maximum Mlnimam VOL. CXXIII-THREE CENTS-SUNDAY TEN CENTS OAKLAlsfo, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1935 44 PAGES NO. 68 mn Put Up to Committee of Five Powers to Block Hostilities By A.

Exclusive to TheTribune 1 DOLLAR LIKE YACHT BANDIT, Ethiop Controversy WIREPHOTO NEWS mum DELEGATES REFUSE 1 ROM Italians May Insist Britain Withdraw From Egypt TO VOTE OH LHBUE'OEW Ohe-Day Walkout on Two Mail Ships Ended by Vote of Sea Unions McNahb and Bagley Drop To Death Together as Clemency Plea Fails Mussolini's Envo Reiterates Decision to Avoid Participating in Discussions With of Haile Selassie LAID TO SPEECH BY JEZE IRE By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY GENEVA, Sept, 6. (P) The League of Nations Council tdday appointed a sub-committee of five countries to deal with the Italo-Ethiopian dispute and French delegates said this' action implied there would be no hostilities while4he sub-committee was at work. The council voted unanimously to create the committee, with Italy abstaining. BaronfJmeo Aloisi, the chief Italian delegate, walked out of the pubac session of the Council when the question came up And his vote was counted as One of 1 t' The Italian representative made it clear both to thd press and to the members of The Council the last 24 hours that he would not participate in Council discussions with the Ethiopians but that he would do so with other members of the Council.

He applied this statement by'walking out of the public sessions both yesterday and today. The sub-committee will comprise France, Great Britain, Spain, Turkey and Poland. Italian and Ethiopian Delegatet MIAMI, Sept. 6. These war veterans, survivors of the hurricane which took the lives of hundreds of their fellows' on the Florida Keys, are shown as they hoarded a train here for a temporary camp at, Yukon, FU.

Among the group are three injured, shown with bandaged heads (left to right), Gus Worcester, L. D. Griff in, Washington, and. Scotty Linen, New York City. Are Prtient in Inner Chamber Apparently the Agreement indicated the withdrawal of the Italians from a reported position that Italy should be included in such an important body, in view of the fact that she, like Great Britain and France, is a signatory of the 1906 Ethiopian treaty.

The Council approved the project of a sub-committee in a despite unsubstantiated rumors private session. Baron Aloisi, to the contrary, was present in was Tecle Hawariate, the Ethiopian chief delegate. llslllilill i sr i I The private session lasted only 28 minutes, then the delegates changed rooms to open a public session. Salvador de Madariaga of Spain was elected chairman of the sub-committee when Tevfik Rustu Aras of Tunkey. pre viously agreed upon, withdrew Just before the session opened, an Italian spokesman said the inner room.

Also present in favor pflhe Spaniard. tb speak at Councl meetings, that Italy's objections to the Ethiopian activities in the League had been largely overcome by a decision- on the part of Ethiopia definitely to make Ha wariatelts official delegate. Ire Bated Principally on Attack By Frenchman Representing Africans New Deal's Basic Program Complete, Unemployment Shrinks, Says Executive Industry 'Breathing Spell' Due; Regime Defended in Reply to Roy Howard HYDE PARK, N. Sept. -President Roosevelt today declared the New Deal's "basic program" had reached "substantial completion" and a "breathing spell" for industry ''is here very decidedly" He asserted farther "that at this, moment eonditlons are such as to offer substantial and widespread recovery." The President gave his views in t' letter to Roy Howard, publisher of the Scripps-Hpward.

who reported fears of business men and asserted, is need to undo the damage that has been done by misinterpreted of the New Deal." PUBLIC CONFIDENCE BACK, SAYS F. R. In perhaps his mostj complete exposition of his Administration and his ideas for the future, the President said he claimed no "magician's wand" but "we do claim that we have helped to restore that public confidence which now offers so substantial a foundation for our recovery." BOSTON, Sept. .) Business needs more than a breathing spell, Roger W. Babson, noted bnsiness statistician, said today in commenting on President Roosevelt's announcement that the basic program of the New Deal had been substantially completed.

Suggesting that the budget should be balanced, taxation reduced and living costs kept down, Babson sold the President's actions, rather than his word, would decide his political fate In 036. "I am highly pleased," he said, "if the President's, statement means a lifting of some of the uncertainties as well aa the burdens which a good part of the New Deal program has placed on business. "Business does need a 'breathing spell' from the New Deal. But it needs more than that It needs the constructive and sympathetic help of the White House in facing the problems which not only the depression but also the New Deal, itself, has placed squarely on the shoulders of American business men." "I take it," he wrote, "that we are not ill merely seeking but getting the recovery of confidence, not merely the confidence of a small group, but that basic confidence- on the part of the mass of our population, in the soundness of our economic life and in the honesty and Justice of the. purposes of its, economic rules and WEALTH TAX BILL HELD REVENGL ON BUSINESS Howard discarded hostility from "financial racketeers, public exploiters, and the sinister forces spawned by special privilege' but asserted that many business men of "patriotism and sense of public service" believed the wealth tax bill "revenge on business" and expected a "recess from further experimentation until the country can recover its losses." Roosevelt replied that he would.

disregard "skeptics" and "those partisanship," but he believed it "a duty to clarify our purposes" to "critics, who are honest and non-nartisan and who are willing to dis cuss and io HOWARD TALKS IN S. f. ON EVE 01 WORLD VOYAGE In San Francisco today, ready to tail on, a world voyage, Howard aid: "Business now has the answer to the question it has been asking for months. "I think the statement speaks for The Presidents states very (Continued on Page 10, Col. Today'sTribune Subject Page Amusements .30 Classified Ads 4 1 Comics .24 Cross Word Puzzle .26 Editorials .44 Editorial .25 Fiction 26 Financial i 36 Geraldine ttttt 2 7 High Schools 1 4 Knave 39 Marine News 38 Martha Lee .27 National 39 A.

and 20 Radio 40 Society, Women's Events 20 Snorts ..33 Healers 30 Vital Statistics .43 The Italian added that Italy was especially incensed because yesterday's attack in the Council on Italy had been delivered by a non-Ethiopian, Professor Gaston Jeze, a French lawyer He said that if an Ethiopian had made the same statement, it would not have the same importance. It was indicated that ROME, Sept. t-iP) The semi official journal Azione Coloniale (Colonial Action) stated today that Italy will demand the exclusion of Great Britain from Egypt if Great Britain poses the question of Italy being a to the British Empire by going into, Ethiopia. ti itaiy presence in Airica is recognized as damaging to the imperial interests of England," said zione Coloniale, the same thing PARIS, Sept. (PH-French officials today expressed confidence that a war between' Italy and Ethiopia would not spread beyond Ethiopia' and that the Leagne, although It would be shaken, would emerge safely from such a war.

Responsible officials said Premier Mussolini's "punitive expedition" would be "a certainty." The said they saw no prospect of stopping him but hoped his "police measures" would be short and less damaging to international relations than many statesmen fear. France, they reiterated, was "strictly neutral." must be admitted for Britain's presence on the seas and coasts in bases within the imperial Italian sphere. "England at Alexandria, Egypt, Is as. dangerous as Italy in Addis Ababa. "Adenj Malta, and Gibraltar are a menace for our Mediterranean.

Cyprus and, Haifa are a danger, for Rhodes. 1 "For our security, 'we can very well demand Great exclusion from Egypt." The journal asked that it be recognized that Italy was. not pursuing any anti-British or anti-imperial ends, saying "otherwise we must pose the problem of our imperial N. Y. Magistrate Flays Naxi Regime in Releasing All But One in Ship Incident NEW YORK, Sept.

() Denouncing the Hitler-regime and describing the German liner Bremen as a "pirate ship with the black flag of piracy proudly flying aloft," Magistrate Louis B. Brodcky today dismissed charges against five de-fendtnta who participated In the Bremen riot July 26- Magistrate Brodsky held a sixth defendant for assault and violation of the Sullfvan gun-carrying With regard to four of the defendants Arthur Blair, William Bailej, William Howe and George Hlackwell the magistrate ruled their prerence aboard the German linnr did not constitute unlawful assembly. DOUBT AS TO FIFTH DEFENDANT'S GUILT As to the fifth defendant Vincent McCormack the court held there was a variance of testimony which caused doubt that McCormack struck Detective Matthew Solomon. The sixth defendant, charged with assault, was Edward Drolette. "There is not one word of evidence connecting the defendants, other than Drolette and McCormack, with any act in violation of the law," the court.

held, adding: "These men were' part of a group of persons who were there ton the Bremen) protesting the flountlng of the German emblem which they had a right to do so long as they did not disturb the peace. FLAUNTING OF NAZI EMBLEM FLAYED "It may well be that the fly-Ini of thls'embjem (the Nazi Swastika on board the Bremen) in New York harbor was, rightly or wrongly, regarded by these defendants and others of our citizenry as a gratuitously brazen flaunting of an emblem which symbolizes all that Is apothetieal to American, ideals of the God-given and inalienable rights oi an people, to life, liberty, and the pursuit' of happiness: that in their minds; this emblem cy the Nazi regime stands for andepre-sents war on religion, the disen- iranchlsement of nationals solely on religious or theological grounds, the debasement of learned professions in brief, if I may borrow a bio-logical concept, an atavistic throw? back to pre-medieval if not barbaric social and political conditions." McDonald May Be Next Housing Chief HYDE PARK. N. S4. An engagement of Stewart McDonald, acting Federal Housing Administrator, for luncheon today with President increased speculation over his appointment as administrator.

McDonald was invited with James A Moffett, retired administrator, and Mrs. Moffett IT Both Men Spend Last Hours tWith Spiritual Advisers First Refusing Aid SAN QUENTIN, Sept. 6. Ethan McNabb, notoriou; Oakland "yacht" bandit, and his' accomplice in a des perate escape attempt, William Bag- 1 San Francisc robber, went to their deaths i 1- i rnun today on 1 en tin Prison, ine traps were sprung at 10:02 a. and both were pronounced dead 13 minutes later.

"Toughest" to the end, the two n- M1KB EVOVICH walked' the 13 steps side by side, and shortly afterward the nooses were placed around their necks. Two persons, including Wil-liam Southwell, McNabb's attorney in his fight to beat the death sentence, fainted as the bodies dropped through the traps. The other person was unidentified. As the hood was over McNabb's head he looked at his attorney and said, "Good-by, South The attorney replied, "So long, Mac Bagley remained silent. BOTH MEN ACCEPT SPIRITUAL ADVICE Bath men had spiritual assistance as vthey were led on their "last mile" to their deaths.

Father Wil liam Mead of San Rafael talked with Bagley, and Rev. Herbert Doran, a Methodist minister, prayed and talked with McNabb. After the hanging, the Reverend Doran said that McNabb told him on the way to the gallows that "he had not gotten a square deal legally." He added that "he was ready to go." As the march neared its end, the Reverend Doran said McNabb quoted a passage from Belloc's "Mercy of Allah," referring to the death sentence as the "procedure of the court of sweetmeats." Revived, Attorney Southwell referred to 'the hanging of the convicts as" "judicial murder." He referred to the men's appeal which is. still pending before the Justices of the S. Supreme Court, to whom they looked for last-minute intervention.

The lawyer also reveals that McNabb, in his last days in prison, had written a book, long-hand, The title of the book, he said, will be "Pyloons of Sundakan." He adjjed tliat he now has the manuscript and is having "it typed. The book impurely fictional, Southwell said. LAWYER PRESENT AT McNABB'S REQUEST Southwell came to the crlsnn to day in response tb ft last wish of McNabb. Yesterday the convict sent him a letter and a telegram, asking him to be present at the execution. Southwell's request' to talk to the "yacht bandit" was denied by prison authorities.

The death was the largest to attend an execution at San Quentin for several years. The largest was present when a River side murderer was hanged three" years ago. Bagley was known as the "No. 1 Bad Man" of the prison. He and McNabb, disclaimed member of a-Back Bay Boston family, had long crime records.

-The pair attempted to scale San Quentin's walls on March 12, 1934. They "were unsuccessful, but John H. Arbucklei- another convict, was killed in: 4 cross-fire between, the fleeing felons and prison guards when he blundered into tjie line of fir. CONVICTS ARMED WITH CRUDE GUNS McNabb, and Bagley, along with two other convicts, were armed with prison-made guns. Two of the convicts given additional terms for their part in the plot.

McNabb and Bagley, however, were under life terms and in California a lifer who uses a gun against prison guards, is liable to the death penalty. A jury in San Rafael, decreed the gallows for the "yacht" bandit and his accomplice, Bagley. i As their hours on earth shortened, Mike Evovich, 1906 89th Avenue, Oakland, whom Bagley shot the back after robbing a wall safe in the Evovich home, went to the prison to his assailant's execution. i Evovich, at Some when. Bagley stole into the house, attempted to climb out a sidi window and spread an alarm.

noticed him nd fired into his back. The robber obtained $600 firm the safe and fled, Accompanying the convict's to the prison were Luther Michael of Leandro, the physician who attended hin. during his recovery period, and Albert J. (Continued a Page 32, Col. 2.) i I Longshoremen Begin Loading of Vessels, Which Will Sail on Late Schedule SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

Crews of the Dollar liners President Piprr iinrt Prpsirtpnt PnnliHcrp re turned to work ending a one- day strike wmcn naa naitea loamng of the ships and delayed sailing. Seamen and firemen voted at separate meetings this' morning to return to their posts. Longshoremen, wVin had hltH Innriinff nrratinil on the plea that there was no steam operate the winches, also re. turned to work. Cnmnnnv nfficials annnunrff) that the President Pierce would be ready to sail noon tomorrow, in nours late, and the President Coolidge would clear at 4 p.

m. tomorrow, delayed 24 hours. At the same time it was an-nniinrH that the freighter Tacoma. tied up at the Howard Terminal in Oakland since August 13, Dy a walkout in protest against employment of Chinese stewards, had been released and would sail tonight. Officials of the Tacoma-Oriental Line, operators of the vessel, said an agreement had been made that no Chinese would- be employed except as cooks.

COMPLAINTS OF BAD FOOD ARE OFFERED The action came as Federal In. tervention loomed. Both vessels carry mail and 40 loads of postal matter were piled oh the It' was reported that the shipping company had not acceded to demands of the striking workers; Crew members abandoning the President Coolidge alleged that, the ship's ventilating system was faulty. The walkout on tha President Pierce was based on complaints that George Keenan, chief steward, had permitted his assistants to serve improperly prepared food; Licensed deck and engine room officers were "not involved in the strike and the steward's crew of the President Pierce stood by Keenan and refused to join the walkout. STRIKE HEASONS CALLED 'PRETEXTS' Employers had characterized the assertions of the striking crew members as "flimsy pretexts." R.

Stanley Dollar, president of the rinllni. tfamhin Lines, issued a formal statement in which he said, "These walkouts, Which wantonly disrupt our schedules, delay the movement of United States mail and seriously, shipping and the traveling public, are a direct violation of the Government arbitration awards, which provide there shall be no strikes or lockouts for any cause. DECLARES" MEN LACK. RESPONSIBILITY "These men by their action prove conclusively that they do not intend to comply with their agreements and that they have no responsibility when it comes to the sanctity of a contract." The demand from the Labor Relations Board was dispatched to the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers, and Marine Cooks and Stewards. It said: "Members of your respective unions have struck 'on the steamships President Coolidge and President Pierce now in San Francisco and due to sail carrying United States malls within 24 hours.

These strikes are in direct violation of the arbitratiom-award of April 10, 1935. To date you nave made no demands upon the company nor referred any grievances to Jhe Labor Relations Board as prescribed by the award. DEMAND MEN BE- ORDERED TO RETURN "We demand that you order these men back to work. immediately, re leasing these two ships; and re quest that members of the Labor Relations Board representing your unions meet, with us to explain to us these actions of your members in violation of the award. this connection we call your attention to the fact that when the crew struck on the President Pierce only seven men out of a crew of about 230 were left thus placing life and property in danger.

"The strike against these two ships is comparable to strikes, against seven other American vessel! now tied up in Pacific Coast ports in direct violation of the same provision of the award. "These ships are the Golden State. West Mahwah, Point Ancha, lowan, Manukai, Tacoma and Point Clear. "As soon' as we dispose of the vio lations-against the President Pierce and the President Coolidge we wish to proceed. immediately to consideration of the violations against these other seven ships." The demand brought E.

F. Burke of the Cooks and Stewards; Earl King of the, firemen, and S. A. Sil-vei, of the Sailors' Union into con-ference. They said the walkout on the Coolidge represented "individual protests against condir that the grievances were considered 'too minor" to warrant the attention of the Labor Relations Board and that the men left their jobs of their own volition and on their owa responsibility.

Jeze probably would continue 4 0 mmg A Ioihhiiii MIAMI. Sept. I i i III 1 i I but always as a substitute for Hawariate. A locked door caused momentary confusion when the private Council session began. Hawariate had been talking outside with Premier Laval of France and Anthony Eden of Great Britain.

The trio, summoned to the inner chamber, was llfMftff Weatherby whose honeymoon trip was i interrupted by the wreck of the liner Dixie, shown here following their arrival on the rescue were married only a week ago. vol. 1 ft1 6. Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Coast Guard Tug Saukee. They disclosures made here by, Maurice actio against her. ft mm-.

I. I unable to enter until an attendant arrived with a key. When the dqor finally was swung opehTthere was an elaborate exchange of bows, Laval finally insisting on the Ethiopian preceding him and Eden into the room where the Italian and other official delegates awaited them, Public Settion Immediately Approves Project; Aloisi Doet Not Vote The public session immediately approved the project passed in the private, meeting although Baron Aloisi refrained from voting. He was not present at the Council table when the vote was taken, but the president of, the body announced his vote should be considered as one of abstention. After the vote was taken on the sub-committee, Baron Aloisi returned to the Council chamber and occupied his usual seat as the'Council took up the question of mandates, another subject on the agenda of the meeting.

Simultaneously, Hawariate and Jeze left the Council table because' they are entitled sit there during discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian situation. (Although Ethiopia is a 4 memberof the League of Nations, its place is in the assembly and it has been admitted temporarily to the Council only for discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian problem.) At the opening of the public session, Dr. Ruiz Guinazu cf Argentina, president of the Council, announced the Italo-Ethiopian dispute had been added to the agenda. Mexican Envoy Calls Attention To Doctrine of World Peace Dr. R.

Marte-Gomez of Mexico recalled to the assembled delegations the doctrine of American nations that there shall be no recognition of international settlements which are not obtained by pacific means and that territorial acquisitions shall be deemed invalid when they are made by force of arms. The Mexican delegate said that his Nation was bound to Italy by solid ties and that it hoped the dispute would be settled in conformity with the principles of the League of Nations. He praised the efforts of Great Britain and France to settle it by conciliation. Earlier in the day Baron Aloisi called on Joseph A. C.

Avenol, secretary-general of the League, to complain about the tenor of the speech Professor Jeze made in the Councl answering Italy's indictment of Ethiopia.7 "League off icials received news that Professor Jeze had received numerous letters from Italian refugees offering to pl-v at his disposal "photographs of Italian atrocities." follows distribution here by the Italian cf on Tan 32, Col, 1.) llllllp iff pis siiiillvAii HHP" HWH Illlillllf mKm- i (Story on Page 3) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. Jayne Manners, ac- claims to "know plenty" about the mysterious in 1930 'of Justice Crater, of the New York Supreme according to KuielL dance director, in divorce.