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y'-r itmt-iT fpPW Death List Rises in Gale-Swept Florida TWO Los Angeles Evening PosMtecord MHT EDITION she 3a ioi oo rry the th CENTS -LOS ANGELES THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5 193S- In Two Sections Section On No 1266 6- -Phone: TUcker 1121- iU de- ced ITALIANS QUIT AS ETHIOPIA LEAGUE MEET MAKES PLEA! GALE DEATHS RISE ALL SHIPWRECK VICTIMS SAVED A Gets $51000000 PWA Cash from FDR THREE-POWER RULE TO PREVENT WAR PROPOSED GENEVA Sept 5 (UP) The Italian delegation-walked out of the league council room tonight and presumably out of the jurisdiction in the Ethiopian dispute after Gaston Jeze representing Ethiopia had asked the council to unmask emphasized that Italy It was Aid Dad II Duce MIAMI Sept Relief workers picked their MIAMI Sept 5 (UP) way today through highways The last remaining passen-piled with debris into the Sers aboard the grounder hurricane-stricken Florida lined Dixie were removed to- to day according to radio ad- 0 Big has not withdrawn from the council An Italian spokesman said the delegation would return adding: delegation withdrew because for the first time la the history of the league insulting language has been used at the council table Italy could not permit such insults to pass unchallenged" THREE-POWER PARLEY The latest news indicated Italy had refused to participate in i league action to settle the dispute under article 15 of the covenant and that Baron Pompeo Alois! had said he merely was willing to resume a three-power conference with britaln and France outside Geneva The failure of the league to control the dispute which has been heralded as a blow to civilization appeared actually to have occurred tonight although several weeks of maneuvering had hitherto been expected Great Britain and France prepared today to renew their offer for a compromise on the Ethiopian dispute which Premier Benito Mussolini rejected when it was By EDWARD BEATTIE OrrMoandmi) (lopjrixbt 1S3S by United Preu) ADDIS ABABA Sept (UP) A nonedescript Ethiopian of 600 men including greybeards and boys armed with 20 different types of weapons entrained today for Ogaden and possible death from Italian machine guns and poison gas Grinning and salaaming the warriors piled themselves and their arms into waiting box cars Fathers and sons husbands and first offered at the three-power asbeUeTtLTlrowere conference in Pan last month doirig in Italy as they leftfor The offer it Sum Projects WASHINGTON Sept 5 (UE) Presidential approval of 184 public works construction projects in' 31 states totalling $88833098 was announced today under the $4000000000 works-relief program The grants amounted to $49-977768 covering 45 per cent of the cost Fifty-three of the 148 projects were lent $38835300 from the PWA revolving fund at 4 per cent interest to finance the work The other applicants provided the 55 per cent balance from private capital Los Angeles received $51087-814 Buffalo Was allocated $16085000 President action in releasing the largest PWA allotment made so far under the new program brought to $125000000 the total given PWA applicants so far 2000 TURNED DOWN Work relief officials to date have turned down almost 2000 projects amounting to $350000000 Included in approvals were: Los Angeles $12393000 loan and $10139727 grant for reconstructing 4152 earthquake-proof school buildings $7680000 loan and $6238636 grant for constructing harbor improvements $4450000 loan and $3714545 grant to Los Angeles county for municipal buildings $6480000 grant for improving water system Beverly Hills $56906 grant for water works OTHER PROJECTS The balance of the projects were in Colorado Kansas Nebraska New Jersey South Dakota Ohio (Continued on Page 5 Col 2) Murky Weather in A Tonight Tomorrow Keys'in an attempt get an accurate check of casualties and property damage Fifty bodies had been recovered but rescue parties were unable to penetrate beyond Snake creek Mooty Dade county criminal court clerk who surveyed the keys by boat telegraphed Gov Dave Sholtz that "fatalities may reach 1000" The Red Cross however stood on its earlier estimate that total loss of life would approximate 300 Private estimates were that the death toll might be between 500 and 150 "I found dead scattered all up and down the Mooty re-lated of the areas were completely wiped out When I saw bodies floating a good way out in the ocean and other bodies tangled in matted and uprooted underbrush I knew the loss would be terrific will be weekB before bodies buried in the mud and forced into underbrush can be dug out And winds and tides that forced houses out into the water must have been so terrific that they tossed many persons into the sea to drown" GOVERNOR ACTS Governor Sholtz announced that he was leaving by automobile for Miami to take personal charge of the storm relief work He will be joined at St Augustine by Adj Gen Vivian Collins find there has been little (Continued on Page 5 Col 1) Casualty List In Florida MIAMI Fla Sept 5 (UPJ Identified dead in the hurricane-ravaged Florida Keys included: Harry Slckler 44 Saugerties Mrs Russell Pinder A Tyre 68 Tavernier Fla Mr and Mrs John Roe Harry Wroten 38 Traver-nler Fla Mrs Betty Wroten 30 Trav-ernler Fla Mr and Mrs Watts William Clark 42 Newark Mrs Aubrey Eubanks and child James Murray 43 Camp No 1 Mrs Vester and baby Ed Kettner West Palm Beach killed when wind overturned bus Rev and Mrs Carlson George Sherman Mrs Spitz and one son George Henderson Negro (Continued on Page 5 Col 5) I vices Rescue ships last night removed 110 of the 232 passengers and 54 members of the crew leaving 122 passengers and 97 crew aboard the vessel overnight A motor launch of the salvage tug Warbler came alongside the Dixie shortly after dawn today and removed 20 passengers Then two coast guard launches carried off 34 more passengers At 8:30 a the Morgan liner El Occidente joined in the task of transferring the- remaining passengers The last passenger was taken from the Dixie at 9:50 a (EDT) Capt Elnar Sundstrom reported The message said: passengers and crew that were to leave off 8:50 (EST)" This was interpreted to mean that all of the 286 passengers had been taken off but a part of the crew was kept aboard the Dixie for maintenance Fifty-four- weary passengers stepped ashore here today from the coast guard tug Saukee to join 77 other passengers and 54 members of the crew who were landed here before dawn Three other rescue vessels El Occidente and the coast guard boats Carabassett and Pandora were nearing Miami with the last of the passengers TyRN TO SALVAGING Examination of the hull resting high On French reef about 15 miles off the Florida coast was to be made shortly to determine the best method of salvaging the vessel The Merritt-Chapman-Scott Salvage company tug Warbler which aided in the rescue is equipped for that work The Dixie was blown aground (Continued on Page 5 Col 3) Motion in Mooney Case Postponed SAN FRANCISCO Sept UB Davis attorney for Tom Mooney today had been unable to hurry the state supreme court Davis had planned to make a motion for an order authorizing referee A Shaw to rule at once on the admissability of evidence and on the validity of objections made during the taking of deposition from John McDonald Mooney case key witness McDonald is critically ill in an eastern hospital The court told Davis it would hear his motion September 17 which is the same day Mooney is to appear before Referee Shaw was certain to be alive I sailed on the Dixie from New am thankful Set to With Italy pouring troops and members of the Italian air force Naples recently for the territory II Duce while the third was his General Valle one of daughter of the Italian Jeader Legion Drops Auto Racing At Ascot By GENE COUGHLIN (Powt-Rrcord Sport Editor) Unless the plant is taken over by a new promotion group Ascot speedway may! be closed as an automobile racing plant at the end of September the Post-Record was informed today "Landlord a scarcity of and a consequent re- duction in attendance combined to make the present promoters Glen-1 dale post of the American Legion dissatisfied with the proposition The question of discontinuing operation of the plant is to be settled definitely at meeting of (Continued on Page 12 Coi 8i Official Forced to Release Pickets and Franco-British was understood would be made the basis for efforts of an Italian-Ethiopian conciliation commission which it was decided to establish under League auspices The offer provides for "collaboration" of the three powers with the consent of Ethiopia to guide that country's national life in almost every field including the economic The special interests of Italy in Ethiopia would be taken into account NEGOTIATIONS OPEN Premier Pierre Laval of France conferred first with Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy and then with Anthony Eden of Britain on the prospective powers and composition of the conciliation commission Meantime significance was attached to the list of guests at Ethiopia SETTLES DIFFERENCES Before the troop trains moved out of the station here the warrior chief Dajamatch Habte Mikael a veteran of Adowa where Ethiopians slaughtered an Italian army 40 years ago held Impromptu court to settle differences among his men Sitting on the station steps he listened to voluble testimony from townsmen and soldiers involved in a hundred petty disputes Haile Selassie die if I lie" was the oft-repeated oath taken by disputants As harassed railway officials finally got the train away 150 warriors were forced to remain standing in the cars so tightly luncheon given by Eden It was were they packed and some had to supplies into East Africa relatives of Premier Mussolini who are decided to see what It was ail about In Ethiopia so they sailed from now darkened by war clouds Two of those who sailed were sons of son-in-law Pictured at the dock at sailing time left to right are: right-hand men Bruno and Vittorio Mussolini Countess Edda Ciano her husband Count Ciano Acme photo 1 reported without confirmation that Britain and France would like to see the commission composed of 1 the powers represented at the (uncheon The guests were Lavsl and Alexis Leger of France Joseph Beck of Poland Rushdi Aras of Turkey Stanley Bruce of Australia Dr Nerlque Ruiz Guinzau of Argentina Joseph Avenol secretary-general of the League and Gn De Azca-rate under-secretary MUST MAKE DECISION Italy stated its case with a firmness which left delegates no doubt that sooner or later they must make a decision in the crisis and hazard the League's life and the peace of Europe A forceful attack on Ethiopia by Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy left the council with the option only (Continued on Page 3 Col 1) House Group Sees Isle Defense Need keep their bundles of clothes and equipment on their heads Many women accompanied their husbands bearing tools and utensils One had a revolver strapped at her waist Nothing was seen of Mikael's reported 12 anti-aircraft guns Many spears and large quantities of cartridges many of them bear- (Continued on Page 5 Col 7) Mother Tells Story Of Her Life 7 on know almost everything there is to know about the Dionne quintuplets except the story of their mother Now for the first time Mrs Elztre Dionne has written her life story and of the motherhood that made her famous throughout the world Mrs Dionne's own story will appear exclusively in the POSTRECORD beginning next Monday 636 Rescued As Liners Collide LISBON Sept Rescue vessels today removed 636 passengers safely from the Cunard White Star liner Doric after the ship collided in deep fog with the French steamship Formigny 40 miles west northwest of Oporto The crew of 400 remained aboard The Doric and the Formigny collided at 3:15 a (9:15 Wednesday CST) as the Doric was proceeding homeward from a Mediterranean cruise and the Formigny was proceeding to Oran Algeria Captain Grelg of the Doric sent an SOS giving his position as 41:19 north latitude 9:34 west longitude The Peninsular and Oriental liner Viceroy of India and the steamship Orton proceeded to the rescue Between them they got off the passengers and proceeded to London where they are due Saturday The safety of her passengers assured the Doric proceeded UDder hr own steam The bow was damaged Reports indicated the Formigny was not seriously damaged Included in the passen- were a Embezzlement Trial Set for Ex-Auditor Slot Machine Loser Tries New System Edward Borden 21-year-old jockey was in the county jail today on suspicion of burglary because he tried according to his story to get back from a night club machine $450 he had lost in it last night Borden according to police was found in the basement of the Club Continental on Riverside Drive by the night watchman John Roland and police He had taken a slot machine from the bar and carried It to the basement intending to break It open and recover his money He said he had worked for four days In the elub and received $450 pay which he lost in the machine Last night he said he concealed himself In the orchestra pit until the place was deserted i bezxled $700 In tax Murky weather especially during the early morning and evening when low-hanging clouds will prevail was the forecast for tonight and tomorrow by Dainger-field government meteorologist There yvill be little change in the temperature and humidity with 1 1 moderate southeast to to southwest winds At 10:30 a the mercury was recorded at 72 degrees having risen from a minimum of 63 grees shortly before dawn Yesterday at the same hour the tem- LA Woman Saved from Dixie Describes Wreck peratiire registered 67 Needles led the temperature readings in California yesterday with a high mark of 108 degrees Fresno sweltered as the mercury climbed to 102 degrees and in Sacramento it was 98 Phoenix I Ariz registered an even 100 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at New York postponed wet grounds Double-headers tomorrow and Saturday St Louis at Washington both games postponed rain Double-headers tomorrow and Saturday Detroit at Philadelphia post- Mrs Scott of Los Angeles a middle-aged matron describes In the following dispatch her experiences aboard the wrecked liner Dixie Mrs Scott Is the wife of the Southern Pacific general freight agent in Los Angeles Mrs Scott was and still is on her way to New York for the musical debut of her son Morton Scott Her home Is at 3715 West 27th street Los Angeles By MRS SCOTT lCiyribt 1S35 by ('tilted Crew) MIAMI Sept 5 (UR I was landed at Miami today after 36 horror -filled hours aboard the urs HONOLULU Sept I After a 10-day survey ot Hawaiian fortifications a house military affairs sub-committee was enroute oack to the mainland today convinced that insular de- fenses here should be strengthened immediately Impregnable island defenses are essential to safeguard the Pacific coast from attack they declared 14th district was back in Los An-emphatically geles today Members of the committee were Ford Tiltnan Parks Oregon Dockweiler Watch for and read this graphic intimate autobiography And subscribe now for the POST- RECORD by calling TU 1121 CONGRESSMAN RETURNS Congressman Thomas Ford Harry Pearson former auditor for the sales tax division of the state board of equalization here Htoday pleaded not guilty before GIRARDVILLE Pa Sept Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron (UR) A mob of 500men and worn- t0 charge of embezzling $700 in en today forced Chief Burgess D1 tax A Jones to order the release of two meat strike pickets who had Hls trial was set for October 2 been jailed for disorderly conduct before Superior Judge Charles threatened to lynch me i Fricke unless the men were Pearson was charged in a grand Jones told state police jury indictment with having Orleans last Saturday Monday I morning when we entered the 1 Florida Keys the wind was blowing up and as the day progressed it was screaming over the ship tossing it about like a cork LISTEN TO STORM Those of the passengers who were good sailors and did not mind the rough weather were gathered in the lounge listening to the hurricane scream around us and if the others felt as I did feeling badly frightened But we thought the ship I (Continued OtT Page 5 Col 5) A chief poned rain Two games tomor- Cj.