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LOUIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 193518 PAGES. PRICE 3 CENTS. POST DS PATCH iky BODIES OF ROGERS Jailed Mayor Allowed to Visit Office H. J. KATTLEMAN UNDER ARREST AS EMBEZZLER Sergeant's Graphic Story Of Crash of Post and Rogers And Removal of Their Bodies By th Associated Presa.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. THE STORY of how Wilt Rogers and Wiley Post met death in an airplane accident near Point Barrow, Alaska, was wirelessed to the War Department today by Staff Sergeant Stanley Morgan, in charge of the Army's radio station at that outpost of civilization. It follows: EAST ST. LOUIS TROLLEY LINE IS PLANNjNGTO QUIT Notifies Authorities It Will Ask Illinois Commission to Allow Bus Service to Replace It.

LAVAL MAKES NEW OFFER TO MUSSOLINI ON ETHIOPIA Italy Would Be Aided in Floating Loans for Colonial Development Eden Queries British Cabinet on This Provision. took nearly three hours to reach destination. "Dense fog with semidark-ness gave upturned rlane most ghostly appearance and our hearts chilled at thought of what we might find there. "As we approached nearer plane we soon realized no human could possibly survive the terrific crash. The plane was but a huge mass of twisted and broken wood and metal.

"The natives by this time had managed to cut into the cabin and extricated the body of Rogers, who had apparently-been well back in the cabin when the plane struck and more or less protected by the baggage carried therein. "We soon learned we would have a difficult job freeing Post from the wreckage as the plane had struck with sucn terrific speed it had forced the engine well back into the cabin pinning the body of Post se-curely. Bodies Placed in Boat. "With some little difficulty we managed to tear the plane apart and eventually released the body of Post. Both bodies were then carefully laid and wrapped with eiderdown sleeps ing bags found in the wreckage, and then carefully placed in the boat.

"It is believed the natives felt the loss of these two great men as keenly as we and as we started our slow trip back to Barrow one of the Eskimo boys began to sing a hymn in Eskimo and soon all the voices joined in this singing and continued until our arrival at Barrow when we silently bore the bodies from the beach to the hospital, where they were turned over to Dr. Greist, who with the kindly help of Mr. Brower prepared and dressed the bodies. "It is doubtful if a person in this littleUagjsJejrjt.Jthat: night. All sat around the hospital with bowed heads with little or no talking." ROME ASKED TO CLARIFY DEMANDS Haile Selassie Withholds Word as to Maximum Concessions but Is Certain Not to Accept Armed Occupation.

By the Associated Presa. PARIS, Aug. 17. Premier Laval tonight submitted to Italy a rough outline of a proposed solution of the Italian-Ethiopian difficulty. It was handed to the delegata to the three-power negotiations here, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, who waa expected to telephone its content! to Premier Mussolini in Rome.

The plan provides: 1. French and British renunciation of further Ethiopian economi privileges in favor of Italy. 2. Italy to be aided in floating loans for colonial development in Ethiopia. 3.

Italy to obtain political rights in the appointment of technical advisers to Ethiopia and department heads of the customs. Anthony Eden, British conferee, agreed to the first provision but awaited the Cabinet's "reply on th second and third. Request to Mussolini. Previously, the British and French had asked the Italians to clarify Mussolini's demands, and had awaited Mussolini's reply. Italian quarters said Mussolini's position was clear: He intends to dominate Ethiopia and is preparing to do so by force; it is up to France and Great Britain to sug CLARE W.

H. BANGS QF Huntington, back in City Hall after three months in jail. He was ordered confined by Special Judge David E. Smith on a contempt citation for violation of a court order against extension of the municipal electric light plant service to homes. Yesterday he was temporarily released so he could attend a court session at which the injunction against the city was made permanent.

Al FAIR BANKS, 'ALASKA, BY PLANE Joe Crosson Lands After Journey From Point Barrow Near Scene pf Death of Humorist and Flyer in Crash Thursday. SMALL GROUP SEES TAKE-OFF Dozen White Settlers and Lrowd or tLskimos Gather Natives Sal vaging Bits of Shattered Aircraft for Own Use. (Copyright. 1935. by the A.sociated Press.) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug.

17. 3 pilot Joe Crosson arrived in his plane with the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post at 7:35 a. m. today from Barrow, Alaska. Crosfon landed pontoon-equipped piane on the Chena Riv er, fronting the city.

He had left Point Barrow, a barren Arctic out post four hours and a half earlier, A crowd lining the banks of the river watched as Crosson taxied to a landing. Members of a Fairbanks mortuary staff took the bodies from uic inane, 10 nieir Aj Crosson said: "I expect to fly the bodies to Juneau, and later to Cal ifornia." tha Ansoclated Press. i'OINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug 17. The bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post were started for home today in a plane piloted by Joe Crosson, veteran Northland pilot. Crosson took off for Fairbanks, five hours southward, at 3 a.

m. (5 a. m. St. Louis time).

Carefully laid away in the cabin er the bodies of the two international figures, who were crushed to death Thursday when their airplane nosed over shortly after a takeoff from Refuge Bay, 15 miles south of here. Watching: the Start. A dozen white settlers and a trowd of Eskimos gathered on the isolate Arctic shore while the bodies were placed in the plane. Fifteen miles south on the tundra, other Eskimos salvaged for their own utse the scattered fragments of Post's red monoplane in which the actor and the aviator plunged to death in a fog on their way here from Fairbanks. Dr.

Henry W. Greist, surgeon it the Presbyterian Mission Hospital, who saw the Eskimos at work, aid that soon there would be little Heft save the torn tundra to mark the spot where Rogers and Post died on their pleasure jaunt through Alaska, Fairbanks was the first stop on the way to Seattle, Wash. The exact time of arrival in Seattle was not announced. Flying to Get Bodies. Crosson, Alaskan friend of Post, nd Robert Gleason, a radio operator, flew over the Endicott Mountains and through fog across the tundra yesterday to take the bodies Wk to The bodies of Post and Rogers ky last night in a warehouse behind the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Barrow, after Dr.

Henry Greist, the mission surgeon, and Charlne I 1 A am i rr( 'Mug ui me Ait- prepared them for the journey home. Brower was the man whom grs said he was flying to Bar-'w to visit. B'or 51 years, Brower hM operated a whaling station and trding post on the lonely, north-rnmost tip of Alaska. 1'lane Badly Smashed. Post plane was so badly smashed hen it struck that it seemed doubt-Jul the exact cause of the crash will be determined.

Eskimos uhnm TVf tollioH landing to get directions to 'i oarrow, said the ship lifted or 60 fiut iv, motor misfired. The ldra- A wing struck the ground tipped off, the pontoons tore 'o the earth and the heavy motor ok from its supports and med back upon the fiver and 64 companion. a Eskimo runner brought the word of the wreck to Barrow, tat from tne scene of the acci" lead' P'anc blow two men S'a i th Eskimo told Staff Sergt. Ly R- Morgan, United States dI wiieless operator. Recovering the Bodie.

t.ly mastering a party, Mor-mt raotorboat and set gathering darkness for Rfuee a nat've bment at Inlet, where the tragedy oc- "tinned on Page 3, Column 2. AND POST ARRIV gest an alternative if they object -to his methods. Federal Securities Commission Also Charges Him With Operation of a Bucket Shop. RECEIVER SEEKS CONTEMPT ACTION Asks Court to Cite Broker, Who He Alleges, Conceals Assets and Refuses to Produce Records. Harold J.

Kattelman, owner of the H. J. Kattelman was arrested this afternoon on warrants charging embezzlement and operation of a bucket shop. St. Louis policemen and county deputy sheriffs took Kattelman into custody at his home, 8101 Florissant road, Normandy.

He was booked at the Sheriffs offices as a "fugitive from St. Louis," and departed for Police Headquarters in St. Louis. At Police Headquarters Kattelman was greeted by three of his attorneys, former Assistant United States District Attorney C. J.

Statt-ler, Patrick H. Cullen and John B. Edwards. Stattler said his client would make no statement. He said bond would be arranged with professional The warrants were issued by the Circuit Attorney at the request of agents of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who said they had information Kattelman intended to leave the country.

Assistant Circuit Attorney Herman D. Olian said bond would be fixed at $25,000 on each charge. Kattelman was charged with embezzling stocks valued at which had been deposited with his firm as collateral by a customer, George J. Rippley, a salesman, of 351 Fairlawn avenue, Webster fCroves. The bucket shop charge was based also on his dealings with Rippley.

The maximum penalty under each charge is five years in the penitentiary. Tells of Stock Purchases. Rippley said that last May 16 a salesman for Kattelman, who used the name Bill Matthews, telephoned him and persuaded him to buy 50 shares of Radio Corporation of America stock. On the following day he agreed to buy 100 shares of Anaconda Copper stock, and on May 18 he contracted to buy 200 shares of Anaconda. As collateral totsecure his account, Rippley said, he deposited with the Kattelman firm 10 shares of Kennecott Copper stock, 10 shares of Bethlehem Steel, 25 shares of Joseph T.

Ryerson Son, and 40 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana. Rippley is employed by the Ryerson company. John E. Gregory, an investigator for the Securities and Exchange Commission, informed Olian that the stocks Rippley posted as collateral had been sold by the Kat telman firm through A. G.

Edwards Son within a few days after they were deposited. Investigator's Report Gregory said, too, that his investigation showed Kattelman did not have possession of the stocks he agreed to sell to Rippley and that he did not purchase them in his behalf. This is the essence of the "bucket shop" charge. Bucket shops are defined in Missouri statutes as places which engage in the pretended buying and selling of securities or commodities. Rippley became suspicious when he was unable to get back his Standard Oil stock certificates Which the Standard Oil Co.

had requested him to send in to be exchanged for other certificates. He said the office manager of the Kattelman firm, Jack Chimes, put him off with a statement that the matter need not be handled for several months and that the Kattelman Co. would look after it for him. Receiver Asks Contempt Order. A request that Kattelman be ordered to show cause why he should not be punished lor contempt of court was filed in Fed eral Court today by the receiver for Kattelman's firm, William Stone Madden.

Madden alleged that Kattelman had concealed assets and records of the company and had refused to deliver them to the receiver as ordered by the court. Specifically, Madden requested that Kattelman be required to ac count for the disposition of in cash and Government bonds; in customers' accounts re ceivable, $137,000 in real estate and in stocks held as collateral which Kattelman listed as among his assets last Nov. 15 in a report filed with the State Securities Com missioner. Although these assets were not Continued on Page 3, Column 4. "At 10 p.

m. last night (Thursday), attracted by group of excited native on beach. Walking down, discovered one native all out of breath gasping out in pidgin English a strange tale of 'airplane she blew "After repeated questioning learned this native witnessed crash of an airplane at his sealing camp some 15 miles south of Barrow and had run the entire distance tt summon aid. "Native claimed plane flying very low suddenly appeared from' the south apparently sight'-'- tents. Plane then circled several times and finally settled down or small river near camp, two men climbed out, one wearing 'rag on sore eye' and other 'big man with Asked for Directions.

The big man then called native to water's edge and asked direction and distance to Point Barrow. Direction given, men then climbed back into plane and taxied off to far side of river for take-off into wind. "After short run plane slowly lifted from water to height about 50 feet, banking slightly to right when evidently motor stalled, plane slipped off on right wing and nosed down into water, turning completely over and native claimed dull explosion occurred and most or right wing dropped off and a film of gasoline and oil soon covered the water. "Native frightened by explosion turned and ran but soon controlled fright and returned, calling loudly to men in plane. Receiving no answer, native then made decisic- to come to Barrow for help.

"With completion of story we knew plane to be that of Post and Rogers and quickly assembled a crew of 14 Eskimos and departed in -open whale boat powered with small gas motor. Hampered by recent ice floes and strong adverse current, PERMIT FOR FUNERAL PLANE TO CROSS CANADA SOUGHT U. S. State Department Makes Bequest to Facilitate Return of Bodies of Post and Rogers. By the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The State Department today requested permission of the Canadian Government for an American plane to fly over Canada to return the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post from Alaska to the United States. Wilbur J. Carr, assistant Secretary of State, made the request by telephone through Norman Armour, the American Minister at Ottawa.

He acted for Pan-American Airways. At the request of Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Post, Pan-American Airways is arranging for a transport plane to take the bodies from Fairbanks. It will be piloted by Joe Crosson, who left Point Barrow today for Fairbanks with the bodies.

The plane was expected to fly from Fairbanks via Burwash Landing, Whitehorse, Telegraph Creek and Prince George. AMUSEMENT PARK LISTS $33 CASH, $58,160 DEBTS West lake Park Co in Bankruptcy, Cites Kain and High Water and Poor Season Last Year. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in Federal Court today by the Westlake Park operators of Westlake amusement park on St. Charles road. Schedules listed definite assets of only $33.70 cash and an und termined amount due on open accounts.

total $58,160, of which $3000 represented taxes and the remainder unsecured claims. The amusement park had a poor season last year, and this year was handicapped by rain and high water from the Missouri River. The petition was signed by Frank Guyton, president, and Joseph Botts, secretary of the company. WATERMELONS NET $619,000, FREIGHT COST IS $2,084,000 ATLANTA. Aug.

17. W. L. Stone, director of the State Bureau of Markets, reported today that Georgia watermelon growers received $619,372 for their 1935 crop, while railroads gbt $2,084,425 for hauling the melons. The announcement brought a criticism of the railroads from Jud P.

Wilhoit, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, who recently took the lead in a fight to reduce freight rates in the South. "This is one proof that railroad rates should be cut in half," Wilhoit said. LOSING MONEY FOR SIX YEARS Proposes to Remove Tracks and Give Way to New Company Financed by Chicago Concern. Early abandonment of street cars in East St. Louis and installation of a new bus system is contemplated under proposals submitted to Mayor James P.

Crow, Corporation Counsel Dan McGlynn and the City Council. McGlynn said today the East St. Louis Railway Co. had notified the city that next week it would apply to the Illinois Commerce Commis sion for authority to discontinue its street car and bus service, and that a new company controlled by the Rex Finance Co. of Chicago would seek authority to operate a bus system.

The railway company proposes to remove its tracks and wires and the new company informed the city it would be ready to provide service wherever it is now provided without any interruption, and would sell two rides for 15 cents as compared with the present straight 10-cent fare, and would make a special rate of 10 rides for 50 cents for Children of school age. Explained to Council. E. Roy Fitzgerald, president of the Rex Finance explained his proposal before the city council in a meeting in the Mayor's office, at which G. W.

Welch, general manager of the railway company, told why his company wished to quit. Welch said the railway company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Electric Light Power had been losing money for the last six years, the loss recently amounting to $2000 a month. He estimated the accumulated deficit at about $1,800,000. He thought the only way to check the con tinued loss of riders was to install busses, but said his company does not wish to invest the $400,000 $500,000 that would be required for new vehicles. The company proposing the new bus service was in no way connect ed with the street railway, Welch said, but had promised to take over as many as.

it can of the 125 em ployes of the railways. The gen eral manager of the bus company would be Sam Davis, an officer of the railway company. Other Proposals Possible. McGlynn said it was possible oth er companies might submit propo sals for bus service, and that it would be for the State Commerce Commission to decide to which one of them a certificate of convenience and necessity should be issued in case the railways company is al lowed to quit. The railway company operates 35 miles of track and owns 67 street cars and 20 busses.

It collected 5, 474,133 fares in 1934, compared with 9,976,631 in 1929. In the last year or two the com pany has lost considerable business to the taxicabs which cruise along the car lines and carry passengers to any point in the city for 10 cents. STRIKE HALTS STREET CARS IN TWO INDIANA CITIES Interurban Bus Service Out of South Bend and Mishawaka Also Stopped. By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Aug.

17. A strike of employes of the North ern Indiana Railways, caused a suspension of street car service in South Bend nd Mishawaka today and tied up bus service between these cities and the neighboring cities of Elkhart, Niles, Mich. R. R. Smith, receiver for the railway company, said only 50 of the 200 car and bus operators in the company's employ went on strike but that all service was suspended to prevent possible vio lence.

The strike was called following an unsuccessful arbitration conference held yesterday. Representatives of the Carmen's Union say the company violated an agreement which ended a similar strike in June. 1S34. The union representatives contend Leo Scheler, a street car operator, was dismissed because of his union affiliation. Company officials say he was discharged for inefficiency.

5000 UNEMPLOYED MARCH TO. NEW YORK WPA OFFICE Johnson Called "Strikebreaker" by Speakers Who Harangue Crowd Before Demonstration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.

Several thousand unemployed workers marched from Union Square to headquarters of the WPA today to demand work and relief. Inspector Charles L. Neidig of the police estimated there were 5000 in the crowd. For more than an hour before the parade the crowd was ha-j by speakers who called Hugh S. Johnson, Works Progress Administrator for New York, a "strikebreaker" and predicted the WPA strike, which collapsed, would be "Johnson's Waterloo." The route of the parade, described as the first of a series of demon strations in an attempt to stop work on WPA projects because of wage controversies, lcf to the WPA offices at the Port Authority Building in Eighth avenue and back to Union Square.

A police detail flanked the marchers. Telegrams embodying the march ers demands were dispatched to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Harry L. Hopkins, FERA head. Ac cording to the leaders, the marchers included both Socialists and Communists. THUNDERSHOWERS, PROBABLE, TOMORROW TO BE COOLER THE TEMPERATURES.

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6 a. 7 a. 8 a. m. 78 9 m.

77 10 m. 76 11 m. 75 12 m. 74 1 m. 75 2 m.

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86 88 91 92 91 82 '91 '91 m. low Indicates street readiog. Yesterday's high, 89 (3:30 p. 74 (5 a. m.j.

Relative humidity at coon today. 62 per cent; noon yesterday, 69 per cent. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably thun-dershowers tomorrow; somewhat cooler tomorrow. Missouri: Partly cloudy, thun-dershowers i northwesl portion tonight, and in SlKGKO.HUn FOR OUR HUMMING BIRDS west and north portions tomorrow; somewhat cooler late tonight and tomorrow in northwest portion.

Illinois: Gen POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO or. erally fair in extreme south portion, thundershowers probable in central and north portions tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer in central portion tomorrow Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow) tl.lt.. Weather Outlook for Week. By the Associatea Press. CHICAGO, Aug.

17. The westh-er outlook for the period Aug. 19 to 24: For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys Frequent showers most of week; tempera tures mostly near or below normal- GRAIN OPERATOR T. M. Howell, Chicago, Found Guilty by Commission of Violating Futures Act.

By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The grain futures commission today barred Thomas M. Howell, member of the Chicago Board of Trade, from trading privileges in all contract markets in the United States beginning Sept.

15. Howell was found guilty of having violated the grain futures act by attempting to manipulate the price of grain and by concealing his transactions in the market by making false reports an by failing to report. He was accused of attempting to manipulate the price of corn in violation of the law in the summer of 1931. Government attorneys, in a hearing before the commission in June, charged that through the purchase of almost 9,000,000 bushels of July futures in 1931, Howell caused an increase in price of 14 cents a bushel. It was alleged he cornered the market.

The law requires that a trader must report to. the Grain Futures Administration the purchase of 500,000 or more bushels of corn in any one future. WEALTHY COSTA RICAN KILLED IN OFFICE BY ROBBERS Shot When He Refuses to Give Up Money; Murderers Wounded and Captured. By the Associated Presa. SAN JOSE.

Costa Rica, Aug. 17. Alberto Gonzalez Lahmann, wealthy rancher, was shot to death by masked robbers in his office in the center of the city today when he refused to give them a large sum of money. For half an hour the robbers" ex changed shots with police before they were wounded and captured, Dr. Ricardo Jimenez Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica, visited the scene and congratulated the police.

BILL OFFERED TO CHECK PHILIPPINE SHOE IMPORTS Measure Aimed at Rubber-Soled Products Made by Japanese Firms. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Bills were introduced in both House and Senate yesterday to check the importation of Japanese-made rubber- soled shoes from the Philippine islands. The bills would limit duty-free Philippine shoe importation to 200.0(H) pair? annually, effective Jan.

1, Senator Walsh-(Dem-), Massachu setts, said American ehoe manufac turers were fearful lest companies the Philippines, recently organ izer' with Japanese capital and with Japanese experts in charge, make inroads Into the American industry. BARRED FROM TRADING Eden particularly was insistent on pinning Italy down to a clear- cut statement of what Mussolini means by "general political influence" over Ethiopia. Ethiopia's Economic Offer. The French and British had from Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethio pia an offer of economic concessions coupled with a firm stand against military occupation. But spokesmen for the conferees said he was withholding his maximum concessions until he hears Mussolini's minimum demands.

Through his Minister to Paris, the Ethiopian ruler laid the fol lowing proposals before the three powers as their conversations wer opened formally yesterday: 1. Guarantees of security for. Italy's two colonies bordering on Ethiopia and for Italians living in Ethiopia. 2. Grant of economic facilities to Italy for mining, road building and railway operations in 3.

Possibly even more extensive agricultural concessions. But, he emphasized, he wants no military control by Mussolini. Study of Treaties. The ground was cleared for nego tiations on a formula acceptable to both sides by yesterday's study of the treaties involved, particularly that of 1906 among France, Great Britain and Italy. It was understood the French and British would let Aloisi know they "never interpreted it as a thieves' agreement to grab political control of Ethiopia." Italy's political design on Ethio pia, French quarters said, met their first obstacle in the treaty's stipulation that in no case would th three Powers "intervene in any.

manner or degree except after agreement with the other two." If Italy states "real claims against Ethiopia," a British spokesman said, "we feel it will be found a very large part of them will be met freely by Ethiopia. "In fact," he added, "Italy probably can attain a large part of what she wants while retaining the friendship of Ethiopia, avoiding a breach with the French and British Governments and the League of Nations and without embarking oa a very doubtful adventure." The Italian-Ethiopian Conciliation Commission, revived by tho League of Nations, decided to meet Monday, when it was expected Nicholas Polii is of Greece would be named as the fifth arbitrator. WILL ROGERS' ESTATE AT Had $1,050,000 Insurance and Land Estimated as Worth Nearly $1,000,000. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Aug.

17. The value of Will Rogers' estate was estimated unofficially from various sources at $2,500,000, at least. He carried life insurance totaling $1,050,000. His wife and children are beneficiaries of $1,000,000. The other $50,000 is payable to the Actors' Equity Fund.

Provisions for double indemnity for accidental death were waived by Rogers because of his constant flying. The value of Rogers' Southern California real estate was estimated at nearly $1,000,000. He is reported to have had considerable cash and securities also. Under his contract at Twentieth Century-Fox Movie Studio, Rogers was receiving $125,000 for each picture and making three or four pictures a year. No one in the film colony here was more profoundly shocked than Fred Stone, the stage and screen actor.

He and Rogers were a sort of Damon-and-Pythias combination of the entertainment world. "Rogers' death is a national calamity," Stone said. "He was a man who calmed fears or raised hopes with a word." Two new pictures featuring Rogers are completed, but their disposition awaits the decision of Joseph Schenck, chairman of the board of directors, and Sidney R. Kent, president, of the Twentieth Century-Fox studios in New York. They are 'In Old Kentucky" and "Steamboat 'Round the Bend," representing an investment of about $1,000,000.

Studio officials said the precedent in such a case is to delay the release. ELECTRIC FIRM RAISES PAY Westinghouse Announces 5 Pet. Increase for 25,000 Workers. PITTSBURGH, Pa Aug. 17.

The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. announces a wage increase of 5 cents an hour for 25,000 emplo3es. The announcement, affecting workers in 14 plants, came in conjunction with a modification of the 40-hour work week, making that the basic schedule but permitting increases during rush periods. VALUED $2,500,000 5 Rainy Season Slackening; May Hasten War in Ethiopia. By the Associated Presa.

ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 17. Th rainy season gave indications today Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Si.