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THE DE CATXJR REVIEW: DAILY FIFTY -EIGHTH YEAR NO. 154. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1936. 12 PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. Mayor Barber's Resignation Britain Ready To Apply Oil Ban-If Others Do; Italian Forces Push On Council Signed; City Meeting This Afternoon DOUBLE TIME STANDARD Haile'sArmy Alone Remains ToHaltEnemy Warriors of Ras Kassa, Ras Siyoum in Rout, Italians Claim; 10,000 Casualties.

(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) ITALIAN GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Northern Ethiopia (UP) Marshal Pietro Badoglio, II, Berwyn residents, such as lima Crisorio, stenographer, who work in the Chicago loop, seven miles away, were operating- today on a double time standard. Chicago is on Eastern Standard time now and Berwyn is on Central Standard time. Crisorio starts to the office at 8 a. drives IS minutes and arrives at work, at 9:15. She quits work at 5 p.

and arrives home at 4:15. Chicago At Work An Hour Early City Becomes "Island of Eastern Livestock Exchange, Railroads Remain on Old Time. City Employes Man Elevators In N. Y. Strike LaGuardia Declares "State of Emergency;" Apartments, Office Buildings Affected.

NEW YORK (UP) Mayor Fiorel-lo H. La Guardia today declared a "state of emergency" because of the elevator strike which disrupted service in much of Manhattan and ordered city employes to operate elevators in residential, buildings more than six stories high. The mayor's decree held that stoppage of elevator and other services in tall buildings that house countless thousands of New Yorkers was a menace to safety. "The emergency measures taken by the city are for the protection of life and of the public health," he said. Violence Flares.

Scattered violence was reported as Strike Leader James J. Barn-brick declared 70,000 men in 6,000 buildings would be out by nightfall, including many in the Wall Street district. A brawl broke out in offices of the American Confidential agency, where nearly 100 men sought jobs as strikebreakers. Six were arrested by police on charges of disorderly conduct. The disturbance started when the strikebreakers objected to being fingerprinted and photographed as demanded by the realty advisory board.

Deputizes Police The entire police force of 19,000 men, and additional thousands of fire, sanitation, health, tenement, and building department employes were ordered by the mayor to be deputized to provide essential services in buildings in which the owners were unable to replace strikers. Mayor La Guardia acted after the strike, which started yesterday, spread over most of Manhattan north of Fifty-ninth street. This is the main residential area of the metropolis' most crowded borough, an area of mile after mile of apartment buildings. Walk Up 20 Flights In many of these, residents unaccustomed. to walking had to make their way laboriously up and down 20 or more flights of stairs.

Bambrick, president of the building service employes union, said at noon that 25,000 men were out in more than 2,000 buildings. He said that workers-in the midtown business area from Fourteenth to Forty-second streets, an area including the 102-story Empire State building and many other skyscrapers, would walk out during the day, and those in Brooklyn and Queens boroughs tomorrow. He also ordered a strike in 100 key buildings in Wall Street. Win One Victory Will D. Rawlins, secretary of the realty board on labor relations, asserted however, that only six buildings were really tied up by the walkout.

Other buildings were operating at least 50 per cent efficiency, he said. The union scored one victory when the Metropolitan Association of Building Owners, representing more than 100 apartment structures, signed an agreement said to embrace the union demands for an average wage increase of $2 a week and other benefits. Union Demands Listed The strikers ask a $3 a month wage increase, reduction of a 54-hour week to 48 hours, and a closed shop in apartment buildings. In office and loft buildings they want a $2 wage increase, a 48-hour week, and a closed shop. Bambrick said elevator operators in some buildings were receiving $9 a week, that chambermaids worked for $6, bellhops receive no pay whatever, being dependent on tips, and that many building superintendents and watchmen work 80 hours a week.

The union won a recent strike in the, fur and garment district for the same standards. Vandalia Bus Line Drivers Go on Strike ST. LOUIS (AP) Fifteen driv ers of the Vandalia Bus Lines, which operates between Vandalia and St. Louis and between Col-linsville and St. Louis, went on strike for higher pay today.

K. M. Stout, general manager of the company, said a -demand was made for an increase of 10hi cents over the present hourly wage of 52 cents. Such an increase would require the company to raise its fares, he asserted. SeVen Killed Under Engine DOWNIE.

B. C. (UP) Seven men were killed and seven were injured a few miles east of here today when the locomotive and, tender of Canadian Pacific railway train rolled off the tracks onto a group of laborers who were clearing away snow and a mudslide. Only meager details were available. The laborers, employes of the railway, were removing mud and debris which had been carried onto the track by recent snowslides.

Apparently they had stepped aside to let the locomotive pass. Suddenly the locomotive and tender wobbled on uneven tracks, then crashed over on the workmen. to Act Expects Action Will Bring End To Indictments Rugh to Serve As Acting Official Pending Selection of Successor; Six Mentioned. Mayor Harry Barber, under indictment for embezzlement and malfeasance, signed his resignation from office this morning. The city council, advised at its regular session this morning that the resignation was being prepared, adjourned until 3 p.

m. today when the mayoi personally will announce his retirement. Upon acceptance of the resignation. Finance Commissioner Walter E. Rugh automatically will become head of the city government until a successor to Mayor Barber is appointed.

Indication this morning was that the commissioners are not in agreement on the appointment. They have 30 days in which to make the selection. Expert End of Charges Mayor Barber quits office 10 months after he became mayor last May. His resignation Is expected to-be followed by dismissal of four indictments in circuit court in which he is charged with embezzlement of township funds while he was township supervisor; with failure to give an accurate account, of campiign contributions to his mayoralty campaign, and with malfeasance as mayor through failing to act upon knowledge of gambling and commercialized vice in the city. Carrying his signed resignation in his pocket, Mayor Barber left the office of his attorneys shortly before noon.

He avoided public statement in advance of his appearance before the council. He is expected to make a short statement to the council of his reasons for retirine. Follows Cooper Lend Belief that he will not be re quired to face trial under the indictments is based entirely upon the fact that when Jack Cooper re signed as chief of police recently an indictment against him was promptly nolled by Judge C. Y. Miller.

The motion was made by Charles F. Evans, special state's at torney who conducted the grand jury investigation which resulted in indictment of the mayor, chief of police, and State's Atty. Arthur O. Frazier. Attorneys for Mayor Barber said the resignation is being presented (Please Turn 1o Page Twelve) Second Stay Is Seen for Bruno TRENTON, N.

J. (AP) A high state official said today "every indication" points to a second re prieve for Bruno Richard Haupt-mann, under sentence to die the week of March 30 for the kidnap- murder of the Lindbergh baby. The officials said the continued investigation of the crime by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, the governor's expressed belief the case has not been completely solved, his criticism of the state police and the threat of a break between him and Col.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf all indicate a new stay of execution for Hauptmann. Civil Liberties Union Attacks Dobbins Bill Charge "Joker" in Measure Against Obscenitv In Mails WASHINGTON (AP) The American Civil Liberties union today attacked the Dobbins bill which provides that persons transmitting obscene matter through the mails may be tried at the point of delivery as well as at the mailing place. The union said the legislation, introduced by Rep. D.

C. Dobbins (D-Ill) contains a "vicious joker which imperils the integrity of the It said this "joker" includes among indecent matter any mail which tends "to entice arson, murder or The bill's provisions, the union said, would "reduce the reading matter of the nation to the level of the community having the lowest common denominator of morals and The measure, now in the House judiciary committee, was attacked "as sending a federal policeman into the field of moral regulation hitherto reserved to the states and as likely to be used as a threat against publishers able to hire counsel in one community but not to meet the expenses of a trial a thousand miles In Roosevelt Signs Farm Bill; Rush Program Setup Parity in Income Is Goal, Says President; Plan Series of Conferences. WASHINGTON (UP) The White House flashed the "go" signal to the department of agriculture today on the New Deal's broad new soil conservation-farm relief program, successor to the AAA. Eight weeks to the day from the supreme court's invalidation of the AAA, President Roosevelt's signature enacted the soil conservation and domestic allotment act to carry on essential features of crop control. The goal of the new law, Mr.

Roosevelt said in announcing his signature, is parity, not of farm prices, but of farm income. He said the New Deal has not "abandoned and will not abandon" the principle of equality for agriculture. Plans Conferences. More than 5,000 employes of the agricultural adjustment administration, who have been marking time since Jan. 6, sprang into action under urgent orders of Administrator Chester Davis for speed in placing the new program into effect.

Davis planned, as the first move, a' series of four conferences with agricultural leaders in Memphis, Chicago, New York and Salt Lake City within the next 10 days to formulate plans to take .30 million acres out of commercial production this year and place them in legumes and other soil conserving crops. Safeguard Interests. President Roosevelt in announcing his signing of the bill passed last week by Congress, said it "helps to safeguard vital public interests, not only for today, but for generations to come." The President, in a formal statement, stressed three major objectives" of the program which he said are "inseparably and of necessity linked with the national They were: 1. "The conservation of the soil itself through wise and proper land use. 2.

"The re-establishment and maintenance of farm income at fair levels so that the great gains made by" agriculture in the last three years can. be preserved and national recovery continue. Consumer Protection. 3. "The protection of consumers by assuring adequate supplies of food and fiber now and in the future." He said annual expenditure limited to 500 million dollars by Congress is "far less than the actual yearly waste of fertility by erosion." The act, he said, will "help to bring about and maintain a healthy supply and demand situation for farm commodities, which will have a beneficial effect upon a-m prices and farm income." "This legislation," he said, "represents an attempt to develop, out of the far-reaching and partly emergency efforts under the agricultural adjustment administration act, a long-time program for American agriculture." Provides Benefits.

The new law provides benefit payments to farmers who co-operate in federal suggestions for conservation of soil fertility in 1936 and 1937. It provides, also for federal subsidies to states setting up permanent state programs in 1938 and thereafter. Davis predicted a delay of six weeks or more in promulgation of rules and regulations for adminis-1 tration of the new act and appealed to farmers, meanwhile, to anticipate benefit payments by removing 30 million acres from intensive cultivation. The first meeting of land-grant college heads and soil conservation experts is planned tentatively for Memphis and Chicago, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. The New York and Salt Lake City meetings probably will be held Monday, and Wednesday of next week.

Concentrate on Cotton Program. Department of agriculture interest is centered in the Memphis meeting because of the necessity for speedy formulation of a program affecting the 1936 cotton crop, which is now being planted in extreme Southern sections. The Chicago meeting will formulate regulations for the corn-hog area." The New York meeting will discuss programs for New England and Northeastern states. Regulations for most of the nation west of the Mississippi river will be drawn at the Salt Lake City gathering. The new law gives the secretary of agriculture broad powers to determine what would constitute efforts by farmers to preserve soil fertility.

League Group To Study New Peace Efforts "Committee of 13" to Be Convoked Tuesday At Behest of French Foreign Leader. ROME (TJP) Italy expects Emperor Haile Selassie to abdicate shortly in favor of the young crown prince, who will make peace with Italy, unofficial but usually reliable tources said today. GENEVA Great Britain offered today to place an embargo against further oil shipments to Italy provided all other members of the League do the same, and the League of Nations council "committee of 13" was ordered to discus! the possibility of conciliating the Italc-Ethiopian war. The "committee of 13" is really tht entire League council with Italy excluded. It will be convoked tomorrow.

Anthony Eden, British foreign tecretary. made the British offer of an embargo at a meeting of the "committee of 18" entrusted with the application of sanctions against Italy for her war with Ethiopia. Sole Reservation The sole reservation attached to the offer was that members of the League which produce oil take similar action to the British. Pierre-Etienne Flandin, foreign minister of France, called for the quick meeting of the committee of 13. He read the resolution which created the committee of 13 and defined its conciliation functions.

Eden answered that he had no objection to such a meeting or to new efforts at conciliation, but he wished to make it clear that Great Britain was ready to proceed with lanctions. The committee of 13, holding the oil embargo threat over Italy's head, probably will telegraph to Italy and Ethiopia, urging them to accept the League's mediation. If satisfactory replies are not received within 48 hours, Captain Eden is expected to take the lead in urging adoption of the embargo. Delegates expect the peace overtures to fail and believe the embargo will be voted before the weekend, because it is understood the French will not oppose it if the Italians reject the overtures. IT.

S. Stand No Factor Edin indicated that Britain Is ready to apply an oil embargo regardless of the attitude of the United States. The British foreign secretary also indi-cat to the committee of 18 that Britain favors a prohibition on transportation of oil to Italy, as well as an embargo on exports of the vital commodity. Eden was only lukewarm in his support of Flandiri's proposal for the committee of 13 to discuss the possibility of conciliation. The move of the French leader appeared to be an effort to launch a new peace move before new penalties are applied against Italy.

Italy Will Talk Peace Terms, if "Adequate" ROME Premier Benito Mussolini, brought his threats to leave the League of Nations and denounce the Locarno treaty into the open today as League leaders met at Geneva to consider new penalties against Italy for its war on Ethiopia. This time Mussolini used, as his medium of expression his own newspaper, Popolo D'ltalia of Milan. An editorial which many people believed came from Mussolini himself warned directly that a League Policy of "super-sanctionism" might lead to denunciation of the Locarno pact and to Italy's resignation from the League. Guarantee Frontiers. Under the Locarno treaty Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany guarantee the present German-Belgian-French frontiers.

1' is considered perhaps the most important single treaty in Europe. A spokesman for informed quarters said today that Italy was ready to entertain proposals of peace, but that the reception accorded them would depend upon their adequacy." a "We shall never refuse to confer an initiative toward peace, from whatever direction it comes. fiut it must take into account our necessities for defense and security, lready amply stated, our unre-lounceable right to expansion, sanctioned by treaties and authoritatively recognized, and our the spokesman said. Expects Reward. Informed sources interpreted this tatement to mean Premier Mus-olini expected something more toan the territorial status quo as a 'ward for th current Italian COP FOR PRESIDENT Howard M.

Oyerstreet, member of the Washington police force for five "years, has resigned to wage his campaign to wrest the Democratic nomination for President from. Roosevelt. He will seek to have his name placed on the Democrat primary ballots in Pennsylvania. Gets Writ To Halt Action Of Lobby Probers Former C. of C.

Head Prevents Seizure of Firm's Telegrams By Senate Committee. WASHINGTON (AP) A court order temporarily restraining the Western Union Telegraph Co. from supplying the Senate lobby commit tee with messages sent by his law firm was issued today after Silas H. Strawn charged the investigators with "illegal and unconstitutional methods." The Chicago attorney is a former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and a member of the Republican finance committee. He said a blanket order for his firm's telegrams amounted to a "fishing expedition." Justice Jesse C.

Adkins of the District of Columbia supreme court granted the temporary injunction sought and set the rase for hearing Thursday. The enjoining order will expire Monday. Chairman Black (D-Ala) of the lobby committee commented "to nv the lenst it's rather well timed" but refused to state the nature of evidence sought from Strawn firm. "It mav be that there is a fear other telegrams similar to those we have had today will come up, the senator added, referring to tele grams sent by a subsidiary of the Cities Service Co. Strawn acted as the committee reonmert it investieation of activ ities directed last session against passage of the New utility holding company law.

Strawn said in a statement the firm had nnthins- to conceal but that he objected "to having our private affairs and the affairs of our clients subjected to such an unreasonable and unconstitutional search and seizure." Demanded Telegrams. The rnmniaint said the Senate committee issued a subpena on Feb. 18 directed to T. B. Kingsbury, superintendent of Western TTninn in Washington, demanding copies of all telegrams sent and re ceived by Strawn firm from jeD.

1, 1935, to Dec. 1, 1935. It is said both the subpena and the resolution setting up the committee were unconstitutional because they constituted an attempt "to make a general inquisitorial investigation and fishing expedition into the private affairs and business of persons, firms and corporations in the United States." Former Bar Chief. Strawn also is a former president of the American Bar association. He was represented today by Frank J.

Hogan. The complaint further alleged the subpena "required the divulging of privileged communications between lawyer and client." Upon reopening his investigation, Chairman Black (D-Ala) of the lobby committee read a memorandum from the Western Union company which said the Dominion Natural Gas an Ontario corporation, spent $2,164 on telegrams directed against the utility bill. S. B. Severson, vice-president and general manager of the company, was on the stand.

Italian commander-in-chief in East Africa, has smashed all but one of the Ethiopian armies that face him the force under the personal command of Emperor Haile Selas sie in the Dessye region, some 160 miles south of the present front line. Warriors of Ras Kassa, called the strongest military leader in Ethio pia, fled for their lives today, abandoning equipment and leaving on the battlefield in the Tembien re gion an estimated 10,000 killed and wounded. Ras Kassa Escapes Ras Kassa himself was believed to have escaped with but 50 per sonal bodyguards. Ras1 Siyoum, his subchief who long harassed the Italian lines of communication, was believed to be hiding in the caves of his Tembien mountain fastness es near Abbi Addi, 25 miles west of Makale. Five thousand men, remnants of Ras Siyoum's force, are surrounded there.

Aside from the army of the there remains organized in the north only a small Ethiopian force under Ras Iriru in the northwest corner of the country near the Sudan frontier; 1,000 Italians Killed Badoglio climaxed his capture of the strategic mountain of Amba Alagi by smashing through Ras Kassa's men in the Tembien country, to the west and northwest. It was asserted that, as opposed to the estimated 10,000 casualties among the Ethiopians, of whom 3,000 were said to be killed, the Italians lost about 1,000 wounded or killed. Capture Golden Mountain In smashing Ras Kassa's men an Italian force of 25,000 men captured Golden mountain, an Ethiopian stronghold since the failure to break through the Italian lines of communication near Hauzien, be tween Makale and Adigrat. They captured the twin peaks of the glittering mass of encircled a big Ethiopian stronghold and occupied Amba Tzellero, which dominates the fertile Andino country. Picked mountain climbers of the new Alpine regiments, regulars and fascist militiamen attacked Golden mountain in the early hours of the morning.

There was hand-to-hand fighting even before dawn; as day broke airplanes went to the support of the Italians. The warriors broke and fled. Reserves counterattacked in vain. Report Selassie on Way to Front Line DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland (AP) Emperor Haile Selassie, moving secretly by night along the. only road to the north from his imperial headquarters at Dessye, is advancing to the northern front to take command of his armies.

Censorship at Addis Ababa pre vented distribution of reports of the emperor's movements, but authoritative sources disclosed here that he left Dessye Feb. 20. He already has occupied the royal palace at Waldie, 100 miles north of Dessye, more than halfway along his route to the actual scene of warfare with the Italians. The highway is heavily guarded and is difficult to detect from the air. Elaborate shelters have been built en route to the emperor's destination.

Eventually, he will go to the Quoram palace, 30 miles south of Amba Alaji, at the terminus of the north road. Italians Advancing On Southern Front ADDIS ABABA (UP) Italians are advancing rapidly in Southern Ethiopia, resisted by the army of Ras Desta Demtu, and warriors are speeding from all over Southern Ethiopia in hope of keeping them from a main road to Addis Ababa, advices from the South said today. Building Razed, Finds Penny He Put in Mortar CHAMPAIGN (AP). When he heard the city building was to be razed, John G. Strafile remembered he had tossed a penny into the mortar of the cornerstone when it was laid in 1889.

The wreckers tapped loose the mortar and found Strahle's memory was good. Out dropped an 1888 copper. of working in early-morning semi-darkness. But these were exceptions. The rest of Chicago lost an hour in the early hours Sunday morning.

The change became official at- 2 a. m. Sunday, and most of the citizens made up for the loss by sleeping an hour later if not an hour longer. Confusion over the change was lessened considerably by a spirited debate between the "old time" and "new time" factions. Those who opposed the change said it would disrupt business dealings with other middlewestern points, and scoffed at the idea of saving an hour of daylight.

Proponents visioned fewer traffic accidents and lower electric light bills. Before the change went into effect there was hardly a newspaper reader who hadn't heard about it. The fight hasn't finished. The Chicago Federation of Labor and other groups are trying to initiate a popular referendum, claiming that the majority of the populace is opposed to making "daylight saving time" permanent in Chicago. Roosevelt Spends Day Drafting Tax Measure WASHINGTON (AP) President Roosevelt today set aside the afternoon for completing a special message to Congress on taxes.

Stephen T. Early, a White House secretary, said the President would not deliver the message in person. It is expected to go to Capitol hill tomorrow. Warmer Decatur and Vicinity: Fair I and Tuesday; rising late tonight; warmer Tuesday, DECATUR WEATHER. Compiled by The Review: 7 a.

m. Sun. Precip. Noon Sun 7 p. m.

High Sun Low Sun 7 a. m. Noon Mon Low Prec- Mon. trace Sun rose sets 5:52. Degree days Sun 32 Mon.

26 Since Aug. 28 4.962 Same period year ago 3,877 Lake level at dam: Sun. noon 2.8 ft. above. Mon.

2.1 ft, above. Barometer Sun, noon 29.54 Today 29.29 (Additional Weather on Page 9). CHICAGO (UP) At least a million workers sat down to their jobs an hour early today. Chicago and most of its suburbs became a middlewestern island of Eastern standard time over the weekend. What was 7 o'clock and breakfast time for most of the Middle "West, became 8 o'clock for the million residents in Chicago and neighboring communities which agreed to follow suit and abandon central standard time.

The change was official only for Chicago's municipal employes, but most others conformed. The livestock exchange remained on "old time," and so did a few "standpat" citizens who found it more convenient to get home from work an hour earlier. Some Do, Some Don't One railroad went along just as if Chicago still" was on central time. Others operated suburban trains on "fast time" and interstate trains on central time. Carpenters remained on central standard time to avoid the hazards RFC Wins Tilt In High Court Fight to Reduce Reorganization Fees Under Bankruptcy Act.

WASHINGTON (UP) The Reconstruction Finance corporation today won an important test case in the supreme court involving its fight to keep down reorganization fees in companies in which it has an interest Two test cases- decided by the court involved the right of attorneys and others, in reorganization proceedings under section 77B of the bankruptcy act to receive more for their services than is specified in straight bankruptcy proceedings. The Supreme court approved the Hawes-Cooper act, designed to permit states to bar prison made goods, in a test case involving an Ohio state law; The opinion was in a test case against Asa H. Whitfield in Cleveland, sales agent for prison goods made in the factories of Alabama. The court refused to reconsider its recent TV A decision. 46 Reported Killed In Quake in China SHANGHAI (UP) Forty-six persons were reported killed today and scores injured in an earthquake at Kanglo, in Kansu province.

More than 1,000 houses were reported destroyed. if..