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GENEVA AWAITS PRECISE CLAIMS BY ITALY AGAINST ABYSSINIA

WILL ROGERS

STREICHER OUTBURST

FOREIGN

PRESS AGAIN

ATTACKED

Political Significance Of "Unfounded Lies"

TALE OF COMPROMISING LETTERS FROM HITLER

· CHINA, MAIL: " SPECIAL

Berlin, To-day. Herr Julins Streicher, the

AMERICA SHOCKED BY PLANE TRAGEDY

GLOWING TRIBUTES TO

POST AND ROGERS REMARKABLE SCENES IN SENATE

Seattle, To-day.

WILEY POST.

Wiley Post, the well-known American aviator, and the comedian, Will Rogers, have been killed in an aircraft accident. The news FILM COMPANY of the disaster was received from an United States Signal Corps plane flying from Fair- banks to Point Barrow, the northermost settle ment în America.

Only yesterday morning the "New York Times" printed a telegram from Will Rogers giving a humorous account of visit.)

Post and Rogers crashed 15 miles to the south of Point Barrow. The Signal Corps operator there advised headquar ters He has recovered the bodies from the wreckage of their machine and has taken them to Point Barrow. Aviation in- spectors of the Commerce Department were despatched im-1 mediately to the scene.

prostrate

ENGINE MISFIRES

INVOLVED IN

CINEMA DISPUTE

Trouble Over Fees For Censorship

PARAMOUNT OBJECTS TO PAYMENTS IN CANTON

POSITION REMAINS

UNALTERED

BARON ALOISI FAILS TO "DELIVER THE GOODS” ETHIOPIA PREPARED FOR VERY

LIMIT OF CONCILIATION

Rome, To-day.

The primary aim of the British and French delegates to the three-Power conference is to discover Italy's precise and minirnum claims on Ethiopia; otherwise no real progress can be made, and the Negus cannot be expected to state the maximum he is ready to offer.

The British and French Governments have been trying vainly since May to obtain this information. Baron. Aloist. despite a long telephone conversation with Rome after lun-

Hubert Julian (above), “Black

Eagle of Harlem, har answered in Abyssinis against Italy. He

the call for volunteers for service-

has joined the Emperor's air force as an officer.

cheon yesterday. did not "deliver the goods? at the afternoon WIGHTMAN

meeting, and the conversations will be resumed to-day with the gap slightly narrowed but far from bridged.

....:

The British and French delegations are convinced that Abyssinia is prepared to go to the very limit of conciliation. and if Italy frankly states her demands they will to a great-ex- tent be met by the Negus, who contemplates guarantees for the protection of Italian colonists in Abyssinia and econo-| struction and agricultural development. mic facilities, including the rights of mining, rail and road con-}

CUP

BRITAIN

SECURES

2-1 LEAD

Miss Stammers Beats Helen Jacobs

Great Britain established a 2-1

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Post was not using his famous "Winnie Mae" machine.

Canton. To-day. but a new Lockhead Orian machine fitted with pontoons for the Because the Paramount Cor- flight from Seattle to Alaska and thence across the Behringporation refuses to pay fees Sea..

A message from Chicago states that ex-President Hoovertures, the Motion Picture Cen- for the censorship of their pic- interviewed, said: "The news is a terrible shock. I have long sorship Committee. is notį. known both, and they were great souls."

issing any more permits to this A message from Paris states delegations were entertained to A Showhegan, Maine, mes- Maysville,

American company, whose pic-that the tripartite talks on luncheon by the French Premier Oklahoma, Post's

Itures are sage says that Mary, the 19-home town, is prostrated at the here.

no longer screened Abyssinia continued until 7:45 At the resumed meeting yester- year-old only daughter of 'Wil news. Friends have been des

pim. yesterday, when M. Laval day evening what is understood to

DOROTHY ROUND-WINS-EN Rogers was rehearsing in a patched to break the news to Post's The Pearl Theatre on the Bunderged from the conference have been a fairly general dis nowned exponent of the Nation-theatre when she was informed parents, who live on a little farm was the exhibitor of their pictures Seckoned to the crowd of wait-detail statement imgard to droom at the Qual d'Orsar and cussion directed at staining in

HAL AN HOUR al Socialist anti-Jewish doc-jof her father's death

2 couple of miles from the town, but further booking has been cau- ing journalists, and, while Mr. the Italian grievances, and aspir A Ponca City, Oklahoma, mes and are without a telephone. trine. made his first public

celled Paramount alone declines Anthony Eden and Baron Aloisi ations was continne

Forest Hills. To day. speech in Berlin on Thursday in sage states that Mrs. Fost, who

Claremore, Oklahoma, of which to pay fees

to the Censorship stood beside him. hursday originally planned to join her hus Rogers was the first citizen to be Committee, while the other foreign agreed statement saying that versations have not progressed tennis seres here yesterday, when read an It would spear that the co-lead in the Wightman Cup lawn the Sports Palace. mous hall holding 20.000 people, band's flight, is

with made famous, suspended business companies are paying this levy they had examined the diploma-sufficiently far as yet to give was packed to suffocation, and grief. Rogers said that he want-when the news came.

"So far we have paid the feastic documents concerning the grounds either for pessimism or Miss Katherine Starmers (Gt. thousands who arrived at the ed to go to Barrow to visit Charles

for the Paramount Corporation, relations of their three house before eight o'clock, when Brower, known throughout Alaska

Isaid an official of the Pearl Thea-tries with Ethiopia and in a sub-continue, and the problem with gest upsets of the year by de coun optimism The discussions will Britain) caused one of the big- A New York message states tre last might "When we look to sequent meeting would seek to which the speech was timed to begin, as the King of the Arctic owthat it is learned from a native were unable to gain admittance. to his 51 years' residence there.

Paramount for

they are concerned is reimbursement-gether the means of settling without doubt extremely diffent, feating the Wimbledon finalist. Public, address equipment cars The accident occurred. at the eye-witness that

as Post and they refuse to deduct the fees from peacefully the Italo-Ethiopian were rushed by the broadcasting height of the brief Arctic summer. Rogers were taking off from the same due them for showing dispute

Miss Helen Jacobs, in three sets. company to the street where the The United States cutter North-small river the engine misfired, the films. As no permits will be

But in the British view, shared, Miss Dorothy Round (Gt. Sports Palace is situated and land is waiting in an icepack only while the banking plane got out of issued for screening pictures amplified the speech for the bene a few miles from Barrow on its control. 50 feet above the water without paying the fee, we simply that Signor Mussolini's on in it is still possible by dispassion- don champion, accounted for A message from Rome states it is believed, also by the French, Britain), the former Wimble fit of the thousands who had been annual visit to the settlement and 'crashed, carrying of the right cannot show Paramount pictures in law, Count Ciano, has been ate examination of all the ele-|

Mrs. Arnold (US) in straight wing and toppling over and forcing Canton turned away but were still waiting

transferred to an air squadronments in the situation to evolve sets, the match being over in outside.

half an hour of ne All the

A message from New York the engine back through the body surrounding streets were cordoned off by a states that great black streamers of the plane. Both were killed for censoring each picture is about August 24, but will retain his can be removed and legitimate a Scores, as cabled by Reuter.

The official added that the fee for service in East Africa from means whereby the grievances

(Continued on Page 9) Both bodies werel double file of Storm Troopers and across the extra editions of the instantly. ~

$35 and that the Pearl Theatre had post of Minister for Press and pirations and susceptibilities re Post's wrist-watch a great number of police.

papers proclaim the news of the bruised, and death of the one-eyed here of was broken, having stopped at about ten Paramount pictures.

paid the fees for the censorship of Propaganda Reuter-

conciled, which at least offer an SINGLES FOREIGN PRESS ATTACKED

alternative preferable on every Miss Katherine Stammers" (G2 2-HOUR MEETING Herr Streicher commenced his United States aviation and Ameri-18.18 p.

STATEMENT SHORTLY

London, To-day.

count to resort to war.

wwwBritain) beat Mins Helen Hull Jacobe speech by an attack on the foreign ca's star humorist.

SCENES IN SENATE

Enquries at the Paramount of The three-Power conversations

. Certain constructive sugges | (US) 5–7, 6–1, 37 press, many of whose reports he The newspapers were grabbed A message from Washington fees in Hong Kong this morning began at the Quai d'Orsay yester- tions dealing, for instance, with best Mrs. Arnold (U.S.),

Miss Dorothy Round (Gt. Britain) characterised as unfounded lies from the hands of newsboys by states that there were remarkable revealed that the matter is now day morning with a meeting at economic concessions and mea DOUBLES In this connection the speaker people standing in the street, read-acenes in the Senate when Senator under investigation and that a which M. Laval, Mr. Eden and sures to remove the Italian com- mentioned an interview which, ing and scarcely believing the Robinson paid a tribute to Rogers. statement would be issued short- Baron Aloisi were alone present. plaint that their East African according to foreign press re-news. The newspaper offices. buz-

This lasted for nearly two hours, colonies are liable to incursions -ports, was supposed to have taken zed with telephone calls for

after which the members of the from Abyssinia, remain to be ex place between him and Dr. Goebfirmation by those hearing the

amined--British Wireless Ser bels and the Minister of War. news by wireless.

vice. General von Blomberg, in the course of which General 'von Blom-

berg was stated to have upbraided

Herr Streicher.

Herr Streicher offered 100,000

marks to anybody who could prove

where this interview occurred; and

(Continued on Page 12) ·

A

WEATHER REPORT

UNBELIEVABLE NEWS

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con-

TAX BILL IN US.

Senate Amendments

Not Favoured

(Continued on Page 9)

“CAVALCADE” MISSING

Local Film Executive Puzzled

TALE OF FORECLOSING

ly.

WESTCHESTER CUP

British Polo Challenge To America

COUNT CIANO FOR AFRICA

GARETH JONES MURDERED

CONFIRMATION RECEIVED

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION AWAITED IN LONDON

HOPE STILL ENTRETAINED AUT

were:-

Miss Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Surah Palfrey Fibyan (U.8.) beat Miss Kathleen Stammers and Miss Freda James (Gt. Britain) 6-3, 6-2

BRITAIN EXPECTED TO WIN To-day Dorothy. Round is er-" pected to beat Helen Jacobs, while Katherine Stammers should best Mrs. Arnold to give Britain the trophy after four, successive de

SIEDLE REPORTS FIT feats Today's order of play

Bell Excluded From

Test Eleven

London To-day.

{as follows:

New York, To-day:

Singles: Mrs. Sarah," Palfrey The United States Polo Asso-

Fabyan (US) v. Mrs. King (GL. [ciation have received an official

Britain), Miss Helen Jacobs Washington, To-day..

[challenge from the Hurlingham | "Cavalcade," Fox Film's bril- Club Committee for the West-

(US.) v. Miss Dorothy Round The House of Representatives liant production starring Diana chester Cup, the contest to be

LJ. Siedle has reported fit for hardt Arnold (U.S.) v. Miss (GŁ. Britain), Mrs. Ethel Burk disagreed with the Senate's Wynyard and Clive Brook, is al held at Hurlingham in June of

the final Test between England Katherine Stammers (Gt. Bri- moderate anti-cyclone is amendments to the Tax Bill leged to have been stolen from next year. situated to the North of Japan and which will therefore go

and South Africa, which com fain). to con- the distributors by an agent in -pressure is moderately high over ference for adjustment of the dif- Kwangsi, whose creditors fore-an acceptance. Beuter

There is every expectation of

Peiping, To-day mences at the Oval to-day, and the Pacific to the East of the ferences.

Captain Millar, of the Military Wade has decided to drop However, the House closed on him and took the ***. Philippines. A trough of rela- shouted down, a motion to

Attache's ofice, phones from Kal-Bell, a fast bowler, in order to tively low pressure extends across struct its members of conference learned yesterday.

infilm as part payment, it was INTERNATIONAL SPORT RIFT zan that the provincial authorities include the opening batsman South China. The local forecast to accept the Senate amendment When interviewed this morning,

have received a telegram from the South African eleven, which for today, as issued by the Royal to repeal the sections of the Sil-Mr. A. L. Caplan, Manager of Fox meetings between Austria and that the body of a foreigner shot

Vienna, to day All sports Facentai, in the Panchang area, is as follows:-- Observatory this morning,, was ver Purchase Act providing a 50 Film Corpa, admitted the theft,

EF Wade, HB moderate south-westerly winds,per cent. tax

Germany on silver profits, although he could not say whether authorising the nationalisation of the picture was being "bocflegged silver, and requiring licences for all over the Province, silver imports and exports:

The film, together with several PITTMAN RESOLUTION SOUND others, was hired out to a certain London, To-day. The total The Senate approved the Chinese dealer in Kwangst amount applied for in tenders for Pittman resolution authorising:

other flans Were £40,000,000 Treasury Bills was investigation of the Silver Pur £56,110,000. The average rate chase Act Senat per cent. for bills at thi

fair.

TREASURY BILLS ISSUE

was "11/1944, as agains

nounced that the hea

immediately

ment Renter:

will

Doubles: Miss Carolin Babcock and Mrs. Dorothy Andrus (US) Miss Nancy Lyle and Miss Evelyn Dearman (Gt. Britain)

FLYING CLIPPER TAKES OFF

New York To-day

Clipper Island at 521 pm

Beuter

be broken dead has been found 30 miles Mitchell, E. J. Crisp, A.

ton, EL-Daltong AD: No off immediately, south-east of Paochang.

[A, ́-Rowan,“ KäP” Viljoen, L. Ing. by orders of the This position is right in the ares Siedle and C. L. Vincent Sports "leader, where the bandits have been mov. The twelfth man is B. Williamsterday Prince

ing Mr. Gareth Jones)

-The England eleven will be se-

ted from the following 15]

as it is known that, there

white man in that

forme com

the fact that

CLUES Wyatt (Warwick) (exp- tein), R. W. V. Robins (Middleman - Victim EET. Holmes (Surrey),

Leyland (Yorkshire); theshire), Bower (Yarks

(Yorkshire), Hammond Bakewell

I (Easer), and

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bas, been-

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