McAllen Daily Monitor (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 241, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 11, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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STOCK MARKET
IN IRREGULAR
PRICES TODAY
Silver-Minded Is Key-,
note At Opening;
Grains And Cotton
t Unable To Progress i
NEW YORK. Dec. li —(*)_The
•toek nmi kft waa at 111 «ilvar-m4nd-
•4 today arwl irregular price trend*
prevailed in quiet trading.
; Horn* of the mining kaues stead-
ied. w.hlle «rther* in thin group ■
continued to} hang back ax the world j
silver situation nmainfd extreme-
Ijr cloudy, A number of Industrial
specialties -Recovered but the u4#L
Itle*. steel* And many recent favor-
ite* held t(j a narrow mgr., ;
Groin* and cotton were unable
to progress und bonu were mixed,
Italian (ddigatlo ns exhibited
strength In response to the. move-
ment.' to bring about' .peace m
Ethiopia, Iforeigrt exchangee were
quiet.
Rhare gqlnere of fraction* to
around a point or more included
Chrysler. John-Manville, Westing-
house -Montgomery Ward, Du Pont,
Motor Products, Harrison-W*xjker
Refractorieit Schertley, Geheral
Motore, Santa Ke, Delaware &
Hudson. International Nickel,
American Smelting and Kennecott.
Among the- loser* Coca-Cola was
off 2, and If. S. Smelting, Cerro de
Pn.ieo. Wool worth and American
Tehae o It yielded fractionally to
around a point
After a delay of several hours
tn London the price of bar silver
was set at (he equivalent of 60)94
cents an ounce, off nearly 3 cents
from Monday's quotation. The
metal did rart open in the British
-center yesterday. It was under-
stood that i*ma!l buying ofdore
from the If. S. treasury enabled
British drillers to ertablsh .a rate
today. The; New York quotation
far Imported silver was subse-
quently reduced .from 63% cents
an-ounce to) 62%. a new low since
pamApril.
While treasury officials indicat-
ed there was no change contem-
plated in thp government's silv'er
buying polkjy, Wall street' circles
appeared to l»e nomew hat appre-
hensive over the lack of sizeable
bids for t h<- White metal in London.
Monetary ex|H*rt* in the financial
district, generally, thought that the
latest silver move may be only a
■ transitory phase-of an intrl ate in-
ternational political situation in-
volving. prtncliMilly. China and
G*reat Britain and the efforts of
the Oriental nation to tie up Its
currency with th,> |M>upd sterling.
;Wedne8da^_Dec^berirpIW5.
McALLEN DAILY MONITOR
tti.' Shipment* 452; dull,
pile* moderate, demand and
ing «Jow; sacked per cat.
io UuiMtet iiurisinke U. 8. No.
fary. few sales 1.75-80; 1 5 Jfc.
2.19 cwt; UlU. No. 2. prac-
ply free of’cuts, few sales 1.45;
on sin round wnltes Ut». No. 1,
quality small to medium, 1.95-
comercial L05-o7Vx; Color-
MgCiuroa Us*. No. 1, 1-45-55;
kly 1.59-55.
Poultry
jfrilCAGO, Dec. 11——Poultry
24 trucks, steady, to firm; *
leas than 4 Vi lbs 18 Vi; 4Vi
up 19 V4; leghorn hens 15;
springs 19-21*4; colored i 8
; leghorn chickens 18; rooat-
14; hen turkeys 25, young
23, old 21; No. 2 turkeys 14;
vy white, ducks 18V4, small 16-
heavy colored dupk.s 18, small
3! northern grm* 17, southern
capons 6-7 list 25.
hessr-ii turkeys steady to; firm,
[ex uh hanged.
Piodwv
HI<;aCO, Dec. it—VP\— Butter
4, -steady, prices unchanged.
* 3,279, weak.; extra firsts 29-
fresh graded firsts 2 8*4; cur-
receipts 26-27; refrigerator
as 21 Vi, standards 21, firsts
IRDER—
SILVER POUCY
IS IALTED<BY
SOME BUTTONS
Collapse Of London
Market Blamed On
Financiers—U. S.
Program Continued
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — (JfV-
While the treasury passed the
word today that It was carrylrng
out the silver-buying policy laid
down by congress, one Democrat-
ic senator hinted that British fin-
anciers are trying to halt that poli-
cy.
Both statements were prompted by
yesterday's collapse of the London
silver market. Dispatches from fi-
nancial centres said it was para-
lyzed by huge quantities of silver
from the far east and by the
treasury's apparent refusal to buy.
thumbs down on "iliac usslon of
was fulfilling the policy", turned
thumbs down on "dsicussion of
day to day developments.”
From time to time, some critics
have accused the treasury of
abandoning the policy, which calls
for purchases until 25 per cent of
School Choral
Club To Present
| Pmgram Sunda
rt
Shipments Ached
Of Ud Year
Vegetable an& *fru#
over the Missouri Pacific 111
ot the Valley are 718 oaa
of the same date last year,
William*. executive general «gt«$
at Harlingen, announced today.
Up to Dec. 7, 1736 cars of draft
and vegetable® hod been. aMpisstl,
j'an compared to 1018 cars teat year.
Of the total thl» year, 14<84 cara
were fruit. 248 vegetable® U)4 4
mixed curs.
Mctcedeo la leading In the
The McAllen high school senior
choral club will present a special
program at the Methodist church
Sunday.
Members are Virginia Adam,
Dotrcthy Jo Baker, Ethel Bremer, ___
Marian Brown. Oretchen Campbell, j ^0? ehfp^ebtT wTth' V total Of
Aletha Forgy, Doris Germane, Cor- car®
nelia Grasso, Lois Hawkins. .Mar-
garet llersh, Mary Holden, Marian
Jones, Maynette Kreldler, Char-
lotte Mahone, Margaret Nordmey-
er, Mary Catherine Norris, Vivian
Peterson, Marjorie Ralston. Dixie
Lee ltice, Myra Rich, Betty Ann
Black amt Bloc Featured
The midseason show in as of the
Paris couturiers all indicated a
decided trend toward Mack and
j blue for winter and spring fash-
.shine, Edith Smith Lucille Smith- 1<>as* Bl«** * Important lor
am, Arlene Snowden, Frances Tis-|bfth. daytime and evening in roost
dale, Lucy Jo Thompson, Coylie,
Wheelbtrger, Charlotte Wisehan.
Edna Mae Wit*sehan, Dorothy
Young, and .Betty Lee Edwards.
Refined Oil To Be
Shipped From Port
N
Cotton
NEW ORLEANS. Dec-. 11— oP>V
A relatively steady opening today
failed to hold *>n the cotton market
here ami hy the end of the first
half hour of trading pri es had
(dipped off from 4 to* 7r|H*int*.
advance by March at the open-
in the market at the first call,
hut after thix support was out of
the way an easier tone developed.
Di e. opened a point higher at
11.74. hut almost immediately re-
acted to 11.66 while a one i»oint
advaiice by March at the open-
ing was quickly changed into a 4-
point decline as this position sold
at 11.36. May sold at ^1.27; and
Oct at 10.92
Prices held front 5. to 15 points
lower during the morning with
pppurenijy little buying interest
In the market.
Liquidation by wire houses and
speculators due- to the silver sit-
uation abroad was the most ifo-'
portant development influencing
the market.
Dec. dropped to 11.65 on thd
decline. March Was 7 points low-
er at 11.33. July was down 9 points
at 11.13 ami Oct wa8 off 7 5 cents
a bale 10.84. 1 f
•if
ati
Continued From rage One)
under the weight of the trage-
entered- the show-up rborn her-
to face the men.
to face the seven mn.
me* Mullen, captain of deteee'ithe government’s monetary stock
a, announced shortly after the composed of silver of until the
price reaches $1.29 an ounce.
However. Senator Pittman (D-
Nev.), prominent in the silver bloc,
said in Iteno last night that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had never consid-
ered changing the program and
that all efforts to force its aban-
donment will fail.
Economic and financial control
in Great Britain,” he said, "is \'i-‘
olently opposed to the United States
silver policy.
"These interests have continually
le- - Minnesota Law and Order | attempted, through vast newspaper
jguc’s Minneapolis branch was [ ProPag&n<la, to convince the Chi-
nese that the policy was going to
j uin them and that their only hope
was to demonetize silver and go on
a managed currency tied for sta-
bilization purposes to the pound
sterling.
: 1_ . , ’ Court*** March of Ttm*
•ail BOOM — A remarkable exists as a result of the Japa- Manchukuo. Here the foremen
picture taken in the Japanese- nese activities in North China, are Japanese, while the labor-
operated giant Showa steel The plant is working day and ors are Chinese. Completed rails
works at Anshan, near Mukden, night to turn out steel for thr ire in the background
Manchukuo, Where a rail boom railway Japan is throwing ac
of the collections, and usually has
some contrasting color for trim-
ming or a> ces*ario*. Sometime® it
is a white touen at the neek, more
frequently.a brilliant color mich at
j sapphire blue, cardinal or green.
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POUT ISABEL, Dec. li—(SpL) vice In the upper Valiev.
-—The E. J. Nickels, steamship op- | 1 b r 1 -
erated by the Continental Steam-1 The K:-ee-Mee Ice-cream plant
rup, however, that Blumen-
I's alibi witnesses have been
skill and statements from them
jeck up pretty well with his all-
ieanwhile, Governor Floyd B.
m, who with County Attorney
Goff, waa Jimong those fre-
|ntly attacked in Liggett’s pa-
said he would sign a bill, if
8ed by the legislature, offering
?ward for the capture of the
llisher’s slayers,
record demanding action
leizing "indifference” of
titles.
and
au-
.LACE—
IContinued From X’age Onei
lie the agrj ultuml adjustment
jini.stration for crop limitation.”
IctuaJly^ the original cause is
country's .refusal to allow agri-
^.we to regain its foreign mar-
he said. "We fail to import
|s enough to enable foreignens
Juy our agricultural products,
lere were few buying orders
Let, afid it is unreasonable and
|.ir to blame the effects of crop
iation on the crop-contpoi nta-
Vry $ather than on the tariff
for an Ethiopian access to the Red
sfa, yielding of Ethiopia's uotth-
t rn Tigre province to Italy except
for the sacred city of AKsuni,
transfer of the southeastern Ogad-
en and Danakil territories to Italy,
establishment of an Italian colo-
nization zone in the southwest, and
adoption of a treaty between Ehi-
opia and the league of nations for
linancial ajwl administrative as-
sistance. -
The disagreement between France
Xi
SI)
nt
si!
y which makes the limitation and Great Britain over the peace
ksary;” formula, hinged it was understood,
on the extent of 'i:gre province ced-
LV A I. t,ll lo Paly and Halle Selassie's con-
“ Xrol over the colonization zone in
the south. Much of the British i;iabf-
net's objection was reported fur-
ther to have been over future pro-
cedure.
Anthony I-^den, Britain’s minister
for league affairs, departed for
[UonUi.ued y-rorn Fage One)
lift'd authoritatively to provide
an. Ethiopian. access to the
Sea. yielding of ^Ethiopia's
tern Tigre province to Italy
|»t for the Sacred City of Ak-
ti'ani+fer of the southeastern
Jen and Itanikil teiritories to
presented a signed statement to
Cornelius Van H. Engert, United J
States charge d'affaires, today,
protesting the Italian bombard- j
ment of Dessye.
"There was never a more delib- J
erate insult to the American flag |
than Italy’s bombardment of the
American mission hospital prop-
erty at Dessye and the consequent
endangering of American lives,”
the statement said.
Dr.'T. A. Lambie, head of the Su-
dan interior mission and secre- j Consolidated Oil
tary-general of the Ethiopian Red Continental
Cross; John Crcmer, head of the I Gulf Oil of !*■:.
American United Presbyterian nils- J Humble
Oil Stocks
* •
New York Stock and Curb
Exchanges
Courtesy Banks L. Miller
Brokerage Office
Atlantic Rfg.
Barnxdall
Cities Service
sion, and Bergman Nicola of the
Adventist mission were among the
signers.
The statement, concerning the
air raids last weekend on Emper-
or Haile Selassie’s field headquart-
ers, said:
"American and other witnesses
testified that the first bombs were
dropped on American property ad-
joining the Red Cross encampment;
forty struck the compound and five
the hospital, marked by a large
Amefican flag and red cross.
"This wholesale bombardment
of an area which is far removed
from the main town of Dessye ob-
viously could not have been acci-
dental.
"Through all the years of Sino-
Japanese conflict, no parallel case
can be cited although there* are
many more American missions in
that affected area.
“The Italian consulate situated
at Dessye is fully informed con-
cerning American-owned property
near there and its uses.
“For years the Italian authori-
Mid-Oontincnt
Phillips
Pure Oil
Shell Union
Soc-Vacuum
Std. Oil of Ind.
Ktd. Oil of N. .J.
Texas Corp.
Xpon
24?„
1 3 %
2%
10%
30
69%
60
I 7 %
36%
15%
1 5 %
14%
29 %
4 S %
25%
______ Geneva to meet Premier Pierre La- j tit‘S have known the exact locatiem
establishment of an Italian I Va:1 ut F'raHce tonight The B. itish j and other particulars of this prop-
* civilization zone in the southwest, I l,u^^c i^8 greatly concerned over | t rty.
iijilRI iiitjuit i,>n ,,f .1 t11- haitro—n i the outcome of
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adoption of a treaty between i .1,1,5 outcome oi tomorrow's nu-et-
>pia and the League for fin- inK in (leneva, called to odnsider
1 and administrative assist-1an uil-coal-iron-steel embargo on
Italy. It was arranged before the
peace formula was drawn up.
On offshoot of the Ethiopian cri
Wheat:
, High
Low
Close
D*'c.
9.5-,
95
»8'«
May
\ 8 >> %
9 4%
9d*n
July
Corn;
8X 7,
88 %
88 Ji
Deo.
56%
56 >,
56 % 1
May
59 %
59 %
' 59 v
July
Oats;
60 ■„
6(1
< -
60 %
D*w.
25 \
25%
25%
May v
26%
26 %
26 \
July
2 7 >,
27%
27 *4
('ll ICACfG,
Dec. 11-
-A*)-
Wheat
prices turned .easier
in C
hicayo
[is final program .was agreed
by Franice and Britain after
|-ks on the origifial formula ;n
Itritish House of Commons and
Irts of «li>ai»l»iov6l even by
|»h Cabinet members brought
lions. i -
je two modlficatibns asked by
tin and accepted by France
reported by usually reliable
ces to involve:
J-duction in the extent of Tigre
|ince ceiled to Italy, with Kthi-
maijitaining a snap of land
Ing this northern area to the
ire proper.
|ghtest control by Emperor
i Selassie over the colonization
in : he south.
"Claims that munitions are stored
there are ridiculous.
"We, the undersigned, hope this
brutal and insulting act will open
the eyes of the few remaining
. Americans at home who may 6till
Sis was a government crisis in Cal-j be defendinf; Ualv in its present
ro today Premier Tewtik j atUm,)t to conquer Ethiopia.”
1 asha offered the resignation, ofj _____________
his cabinet, a high authority re* j DDCCinCMT_
ported, and its was accepted by W KC*OUL/C<IN 1
King Fuad. (Continiicu iru... : age Orel
Renewed agitation against Great net striving to settle affairs of
Britain has dated from the time, state until the provisional govern-
London started rushing warships! ment could lie supplanted by offi-
to Alexandria as tension in the jeers elected next month. Unite.)
Mediterranean incident to the, At- I States Ambassador Jefferson Caf-
riean war heightened. jfory said in A statement:
The premier's government has' Afi American ambassador,
i been under the pressure of nation-Iof course, 1 have no desire to in-
terfere with Cuba's domestic poli-
eaily today Liverpool ami Buencn
Aii«*ei wheat jiuotations displayed
aomparatlve stoodim au, and it was
asaterted Csniitlfaw wheat was on a
flaj export basis.
Opening H,-% lower, May 95%,
Ohk'afTw Wheat futures underwent
p»on a further sag. Coro started
unchanged tb % oft. May 59%^%.
and then showed a general decline.
By the Associated Press
program of Great Britain
France for peace in east Af-
encountered an early obstacle
|y, Ethiopian officials asserting
[>0^/ Haile* Selassie would lose
Hhrone if he dared to accept the
posal.
to Addis Ababa government au-
[ities said northern Tigre prov-
niust be kept by Ethiopia
native chieftains, ordered to
?kt, rise In revolt on grounds
they could have defended the
flcyce successfully.
officials described the
pe plan and its reported pro-
j»ns for exchange of land he-
lm Italy and Ethiopia as a "re-
alists who demanded an end to Bri-
tish influence in the affairs of the
Car Dives Through
Bridge; Man Killed
PAULS VALLEY, Okla., Dec. 11
—<JP)—A car of gasoline ignit 'd in
a freight train derailment started
a blaze that destroyed three freight
cars and tied up th>- main !in
of the Santa Fe railroad at Gull
Junction two miles south of h -re
early today.
No one was injured, railroad of-
ficials said. The line was expect-
ed to be blocked until noon. A
Fugitive Oil Must
Produce A Tender
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 11—hP) —
The! third court of civil appeals
held today that fugitive oil was
entitled to a tender upon showing
it wjis lawfully captured.
It affirmed a trial coiirt ruling
holding tile railroad commission
acted arbitrarily in denying T. E.
Patton three tenders on 39,101 bar-
rels of oil trapped in Gregg county.
Commission agents refused ten-
ders on the grounds it wjas “fugi-
tive oii,” and in another case the
sou re i was unknown.
After a trial, the lower court
found Patton was entitled to ten-
der upon showing of the apparent'
source before the oil Went into
pick up traps. It would be obvious-
ly impossible, the high court held,
to sjiow the well source.
Probe Begun In *
Agents Slaying
OKLAHOMA (TTY, Dec. Hi—
UPi—Fe.lei a! tnvestimation of tM
slaying of Louis l.’ap)>an, revenue
agent, in a Tulsa night <fluh laot
Wednesday, was launched ilmro to-
day by Dwight E. Avis, chief en-
forcement officer of the] federal
alcohol p'x unit |.
Avl,-. v.*no carne^nere froijn Wash-
ington. was being aid >>4 in the
ship company is to take on a car-
go of refined oil from the Coastal
Retintry here about Jan. 1, Gil-
bert Philen, steamship agent, rt-
portecj today.
Philen said the steamship com-
pany would make Port Isabel a
legulat* port of call every 20 days
dining 1936. The tanker has a ca-
pacity of approximately 70,000 bar-
rels. The oil is to lie shipped to a
New Jersey market.
Fan Datttvr Dies
CHICAGO, Dec. 11—i/p)—Miss
Lillian Mann. 32. a ‘fan dancer
night clubs and-taverns, and Will-
iam B. Weir, 40. were found shot
to death last night in an automobile
in suburban Blue Island.
Monitor Classifieds get Instant
Results .Sell those things that are
*f value Ut others. Phone 440.
Want to buy? Want to sell? Try
he Classifieds.
is one of the lutst (quipped In
Texas and 1* Operated bv experts.
Too late to classify1
FOIt SALE — Good young Joney
milch cow. L. H. De Vries, 817
Kennedy. 241-ltp
GENERAL INSURANCE
Fire, Windstorm. Hail, Plate
Glass, Automobile, Liability.
Property Damage, Cargo, Life,
Health, Accident, Compensation.
We Write All Kinds of Insurance
We Finance Premiums
GUNN INSURANCE AGENCY
Room 221 Wool worth Bldg.
McAllen, Texas
if
A
wreOkimT tfrevr from Gain.
Tex., worked to clear the liue.
lie, probe by Ralph E. Herrick, of
. TONIGHT AND . ,
AU This Week'
Fear More Dead
I
Kansas City, assistant district sup
(.-visor in charge of alcohol tax
enforcement in Oklahoma,. MissouE,
| Katwis and Arkansas.
In Houston’s Flood I and Geo,"° kewart,
__ | fo.rnier Tulsa detective Icau aln, '
HOUSTON. Texas." llec. 11-^-- '? ^ kU,ed % }H(* She”‘ j
Fear was felt today tlpit the dead, | 1,Un night C‘Ub' ,U;.lr Tu,4
list in llouirton’s flood: nr -a w vi’d j « » , _ , . ,X<1
increase ag officers 5 and rcli-f Murder 1 rial Of
wirkers sought persons reported xxr * l 1 i
missing. j Woman is Delayed
The bodies, of five nrigro child*-;i | ------ j i
had been recovered. Another known SlOitl TN. Texas. Dec. 11—UP",—1 j
victim was Arnold Holus of Rav i Examining trial for Mrs. Erna f
* If lilt It .-...,*.1 .. d
t away t»v thf
AMERICAft LEGION ,
Carnival
Greater United Shows
City who wasjTswf
flood which 1 raged through the
city Sunday.
even hundred flood refugee
ilies wete cared for by i ■’
agencies, 'and W. A. Pad do
chat*man of the Harris countv Rt \ I be6o*e cT'tice
chapter, .'ippcalcd for' *20,- | j„s „ khiir'’two tu
S'1
000 to rehaliilitate thy refugees.
t urth charged a king with i|i negro.
| for the .'■layjng of her husband,
j Reinhcjd C.urt'h, must wa|t until ;
j .‘•'hr has recovered from an opera- I
n she undf i'v. ent Tuesday, Slier- j
iff Albert VV. Saegert said today.!
"We expect to take Mr-?.l Uurth f
tlie I’ea; e George |
ur weeks, or
—
just as soon as her doctor** will
let us,” he said.
tical processes. My only hope at
this juncture is to see a continued
Car Of Gasoline
\ Starts Big Fire
Banker
nominal independent kingdom^of j \eveL,,um'nt 1„
in Addis Ababa the heads of all! ’^he stronl MenoOalista Party, led
three American missions in Kthi- h <Jen> Mario G. Men,cal. twice
up,a and other members of the pre.kfent of Cuim, waH one which
American colony presented a sign- refused lo ,wl:t;cipatc in elections
ed statement to Cornelius Van H. unless Mendieta resigned.
Engert, United States charge d’af- j The Oentrirtas. headed by former
faires, protesting the Italian bom- j President Carlos Manuel De Ces-
ba id merits Dessye, Haile Selassie’s pedes, joined in this stand,
field headquarters. |
War activity apparently subsided
at the front. An official Italian
government communique recited
there was nothing to report, of
note,* on the entire front.
FLOOD
AUSTIN, Tex.. Dec. 11— (/P -
Travb' county’s precinct three,
terming a semi-circle around the
north of Austin, today stood near-
ly four to one against the sale of
liquor.
Recently the Austin pro inct vot-
ed three to two for prohibition re-
peal. Precinct three embracing
five communities, voted 1S6 against i
liquor salt1* ,o 4x for.
LAREDO. Tex. Dec. Ilj—UP)
D. C. Sort man. 70 prominent Jim
Hcgg com.ty banker and ran h
man, died at his Hebbronvill, *
home ;early ’today. lie ha|l bee,
f.on several days’.
Copyright 1935, By The
Associated Press
'aDI)IS ABABA, Dec. 11—High
for Italy, for "breaking cov-VgOV€rnment asserted to-
its, and another device to delay! ‘,ay Km per or HaHe Selassie would
bet sanctions.”
l.bcMlK'k
FORT WORTH. Tex. Dec. 11—
(Ah—<(JJJ).4.1-L-Hdf* 1.166;. t^ick"
sab's to, small killer* 5c lower
packer market 10-15c lower; crood
to choice 1*5-320 lb r.Bl and
truck hogs 9.35-50: good -under-
wektbts averaging 160-185 lbs 8.90-
6.39t |»acking aowa steady. S.T'S
down.
Cattle 8.600*. calve* 1.700; beet
steer a j weak. yearlings unevenly
\ act beef twwx weak, others strong
to 15c higher; bulla 1»-I6c up;
calves fhm; common and medium
grade slaughter steers and yearl-
, Inga 5.00-7.56 beef cows 3.75-5.01;
bolls 3.50.4.35; slaughter ealvee
4.00-6.00.
8he«\p 1.000; around steady on
all clas-c*; (fhoice led lani|>s held
above 9.75: orher fat lambs 9.50
down: wool ad fat yearlings 7.50
shorn ag*d wethers 4.50-5.00; feed-
er Jamba. 7.60-50.
Potatoes
CHICAGO. Dec. 11—tAh—(USD.
A)—Potatoea. 56 on track 810,
pile Selassies Paris minister,
le Mariam, conferred .with
nier Pierre Laval on the terms,
lid Premier Mussolini's ainbas-
[r. Vittorio Cerruti. 1.11 Puce
prally wag expected to accept
proposals.
»ndon and Paris left nothing
Italy to guess at in drafting the
ram to end. ib* hostilities,
^•ed upon a formula for peace,
prepared to postpone a ’oague
gtiirg scheduled for tomon sw to
> a i d e r additional penalties
[list Italy.
a final gesture, they intended
the league commitee of five
tke over the negotiations and
jjy them to completion.
»e rest waa up to II Duce and
Selassie.
>nie was alien*. Whether Mus-
il, whose recent utterances
been more concITOttpry than
gtofpre, would discuss the pro-
fcd basis for eventual peace ne-
lations or drop an explosive
I!" into JNe European diplo-
lic* ranks remained a question,
te final, revised formula was
lose his throne if he dared to ac-
cept the proposed Franco-British
peace plan.
The proposals, reported authori-
tatively to be based on an exchange
of territories between Italy and
Ethiopia, were described by the
officials as “d reward for Italy,
for breaking covenants and anoth-
er device to delay further sanc-
tions.”
Commenting on each point of
the plan as it was outlined by An-
thony • Eden, British minister for
league of nation., affairs, to the
house of commons yesterday, of-
ficials said:
1. Ethiopia does not want an out-
let to the sea unless it is free from
Italian taxation.
2. Not one Inch of northern Ti-
gre province can be surrendered
because it is of great political im-
portance and chieftains who obeyed
any imperial orders, by retreating
from most of Tigre province, would
rise In revolt, contending they
could have defended their lapds.
(Continued. From race One)
big deeding job i's in prospect when
the floods subside, as Buffalo
bayou has spilled a mass of silt in-
to the ship waterway leading from
Houston to the gulf.
Pilots said the channel current! tll(, laying of \V.
was surging downstream at a rate
of six or seven miles an hour. The
average flow Is about three miles.
Opp Murder Trial
To Start Thursday
BURNETT, Texas, Dee. 11—6P)
Trial of H. B. Opp.;cliarged with
R. Tomlinson.
was postponed until tomorrow
morning when,Dan Moody, former,
.. , .. . . Texas governor and chief of the
The pilots said no vessels would be . , . ,. , -
. , . ... ... . , ■ defense counsel, suddenly became
towed out until the current slack-
ened to normal. No ships have left
poyt since the City of Philadelphia
sailed Monday.
ill today.
The jury was selected, however,
and testimony will start at tomor-
row’s session.
Four McHi Entrant*
Winners In Contest
ADDljjt ABABA. Dec. 11—(*■*—
The heads of all three American
mission,, It* Ethiopia and other
ted authoritatively to provide members of the American colony
Four entries from McAllen high ,
school wop recognition'1n the an-I
nual national contents’ of the Quill
and Scroll, two .students placing
fourth, one second and one receiv- i
ing honorable mention, according
to the results published in the De- j
cember-January issue of the Quill
and Scroll journal.
The contests were devided Into
seven sections. All of the entries !
from McAllen placed in the south i
central section.
George Taylor won fourth place J
in the copyreading contest, Earl
Trantham received honorable men-
tion in the newspaper terms con-
gest, Marjorie Rose placed fourth
in the editorial contest, and ’’Willis
Gray won second place in the news
judgment contest.
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