ETHIOPIA OZ—J; S', IfSS-. £.1 - S Wlitat Italy said yesterday, Italy dramatized today -- at Geneva. Yesterday, the Italian delegates presented a bitterly worded document to support their argument that Ethiopia is not a civilized country, has no right to belong to the League of Nation*, and should not be treated as an equal by civilized governments. Today the debate at the League meeting continued. The spokesman for Ethiopia arose to present Haile Selassi^s^ As he took the floor and started to speak the Italian delegates arose and walked out of the hall. Baron Pompeo Moisi, chief of the Italy delegation said the walkout was to dramatize Italy* s stand that Ethiopia is an outlaw among the nations end. is not to be treated as an equal. Yes, that’s acting on what was said yesterday. And here!3 the gist of that Italian indictment of Ethiopia as the full report comes to us today. Mussolini1s document declares that Italy has for years tried to live in Peace with Ethiopia, but that the Ethiopians have violated all treaties and agreements, wi th a persistent hostility. The indictment relates that the greater part of the weapons and munitions the Ethiopians have procured in the years past were sold ETHIOPIA -3- to them by Italy and that -- Ethiopia still owes most of the purchase 1 rice. in return the Black Kingdom has committed innumerable offenses against Italy -- so the document says, Maitreatment of Italians in Ethiopia and raids across the border into the Italian colonies, Mussolini’s ”1 accuse" goes on to state that the realm of the King of Kings was admitted to the League of Nations supported by Italy, on the promise to abolish slavery and conform to the usages of civilized nations. These mmm promises the Italians say have all been broken. They claim, that Halle Selassie's edicts against slavery had been a meaningless matter of form, just lip service, and that slavery flourishes unchecked in Ethiopia, The document specified some atrocious sorts of slavery. It also mentions the Gebbar System, anft 'Ethiopian form, of service, claimed to be just another kind of slavery. The charges go on by enumerating barbarous punishments, prlsdliers chained so that they are bent double for years, a woman burled up to bar necU for three days before being killed, an offender wrapped In Mrn paraffin and burned as a XkgtaS cannibalism is charged. living torch. And even ETHIOPIA - 3 - So these are the accusations on which Italy bases its deiuand that Ethiopia shall be smelled from the League of Nations — accusations that were put into action when the Italians walked out on the Ethiopian speech of defense today. SEA The main theme tonight is - the seaf lotfe—ec****, and the adyentures of the folk sail on the sea, With the Dixie^the big headline of the day, the news brings us a whole series of tales of the briny deep. The Dixie news is so good, it’s almost no news. Just plain, unexciting, but the more interesting for all that. No thrills, no drama. Everything okay, with a sprained ankle or two the nearest thing to tragic . A A Last night, of course, there was suspense and peril • as a hundred and ten passengers and fifty-four members of the crew were taken off the Dixie by surrounding ships. All the elements of heroic rescue. The sea «c* running wild, and each lifeboat trip wmm an adventure of wind and waves - until finally the sea rose so high, with blasts of wind and a drenching downpour, that the rescue work had to be stopped. No more people could be taken off the Dixie. When day came there was a swift change. The weather calmed down, the sky was sullen and threatening, but the sea mmm aptain Sundstroic called for volunteers to man the first lifeboat. The boat put out and had no trouble at all. Other lifeboats followed. And it all turned into a commonplace bit of routing work. The remaining passengers aboard the Dixie were taken off and transferred to the rescue ships with ease. It took a mere two hours and fifty minutes* Captain Bund strom remain © aboard with sixty-seven of his crew to loc ter the grounded vessel. There's all the look of a Oracle in these two main facts;- First - a crowded passenger ship caught in the lash of a dreadful Vast Indian hurricane and hurled on a reef. Second - tWt not a life lost, only minor injuries, the passengers taken to Miami in excellent shape. The Captain seems to have been hurt as badly as any, and he has only a banged up leg. And the ship itself seems not to be so seriously damaged. And they say t*B» ^£7^ hold, wedged on the reef and battered for two days by hurricane seas, is tight and almost free of water. The upper part of the ship was deluged by the towering waves that broke over her, but the hold remains comparatively dry. The human side of this story of shipwreck sums itself SEA - 3 up In one word - courage. Courage of the officers, of the crew, of the passengers. There’s praise all around. The officers and crew were calm and matter of fact, and went about their business in a skillful matter of fact way •» encouraging the passengers, feeding them, preparing them for the rescue. The passengers themselves were cool and brave, singing songs, A priest led a prayer. Yet they passed through one night of unmitigated horror - a nightmare of hardship, when they believed that they were surely doomed. And that's the only dramatic thing to be told today, the stories were related by the rescued passengers of how they huddled on the deck in a hurricane l>last of wind that nearly blew them overboard - and in the drenching sweep of waves and rain. The cabins were flooded as the towering combers engulfed the ship. No sleeping in the drenched bunks as the water poured in and flooded the staterooms. They tell how the ship was struggling through the hurricane, beaten and battered • and then the sudden shivering shock. Then they realized the engines had stopped. And the Dixie was aground on a reef in one of those wild West Indian teTipe3ts tha4- are *he terror of the waters of this hemisphere. One of the heroes of the epic of the Dixie was Henry Treger, an N. B. C , radio engineer. He came in mighty handy when the hurricane hle-v away the radio antenna and a new cne had to be rigged up. The N. B. 0. engineer tells how for a while they couldn’t get to the radio room, because it was impossible to stand on the deck against the blasting hurricane. "The wind ,,, he says, was driving a hundred and thirty miles an hour, and the rain was hitting*like a barrage of bullets." Then, in the win'’ and storm, they managed to climb the outside smoke stack ladder and fasten the end of the antenna to the whistle. That’s how they managed to flash the distress signals, the signals that brought rescue. A rescue so well done that it ends with hardly a thrill. DORIC FOLLOW SEA You’d think that one rescue at sea would he enough for any day, hut here's another. It happened off the coast of Portugal. The British liner Doric, with seven hundred and thirty-six passengers aboard, was steaming along, returning from a Mediterranean cruise. Smack, hang, and she collided with a French etearner9 the FormYgny, The Doric was rammed just below the waterline, her number three hold crashed and flooded. There was plenty of excitement aboard, because a number of the Doric's passengers had been In another crash and collieicn about three weeks ago. They were aboard the Laurentic, when that liner had a collision with a freight ship and was badly banged up, the lives of several of her crew. Two collisions at sea within a brief time are rather severe on the nerves of any passenger* But nothing tragic happened today, unless you'd call the expense to the Cunard Line tragic. Distress signals brought rescue ships swiftly to the scene, and the transfer of the passengers immediately began. Not that there was any grave danger. The Doric was not sinking,She might have limped safely into port with DORIC FOLLOW SEA - 2 all her passenger® aboard, but the Captain decided not to take any chances, not to fool around. So the seven hundred and thirty- six passengers piled into lifeboats and were put aboard the British Oriental liner irwx Viceroy of India and the British steamship Orion. Right now the Doric, with her full crew aboard, is steaming for port, crawling along under her own steam. AST OR FOLLOW DORIC Next we have a yacht, and the legendary millionaire name of As tor. It turns out today that the John J&cofc Astora and their guests narrowly escaped death X stt explosion.At first it looked more like a rather comic misadrenture, hut indicate that it mtghf reports Two boiler tubes blew up on the Placidia, as she was srwat cruising in Narraganset Bay. The Asters and guests were just finishing when the explosion A passing y\ A. A ■fV, '■ A power boat came rushing to the rescue and took the party off the disabled craft. So it wasn't so placid for the Plaoidia. In fact that tranquilly named pleasure barge hasn't been having such a tranquil for some time now. She's a thirty-eight year old steam yacht and used to be called the Laurinn. She was bought this summer by John Jacob Astor. He paid a thousand dollars for the then named Laurion, which is cheap for an Astor yacht. The bearer of the fabulous multi-millionaire Astor name must have thought he was getting a UPPMBMHI ASTOH FOLLOW DORIC - 2 t*/U4L4fdt' bargain, Maybe^ti»r4JB£^^^a«=»a?«3*4^=WB^^«^ wlien he got through reconditioning the ancient vessel, with changes and repairs, to make the Laurion worthy of the Astor name. When that was all dUnjZ done, a drea&fw* blow descended. The Steamboat Inspection ^ A Service refused to grant sailing papers. The inspectors said the Laurion, for all the fixing up, was unseaworthy. So John Jacob Astor had to do some more fixing up, and finally got the Laurion in such shape that the steamboat inspection said okay. Then he changed her name, and reehristened her the Placid la expecting now that all would be placid. But all was tyiZfJUt f**?!!* not placid, when with a yachting party^aboard, the boiler tubes blew up and narrowly missed blowing up the whole party LIGHTSHIP follow Astor Our l*st sea story concern^ theANantucket Lightship It*s an old story, the lonely lives led by those lighthouse and lightship keepers, isolated from everything. This time itfs the case of a lightship man who got a radio message that his father had died, what could he do? Well, in this case, James Domain hitch-hiked by sea. whether he could take a couple of days off and go to the funeral in Melrose, Massachusetts. The reply said: "Okay, if you can find a way to get there.” No way for the lighttr se service to send a boat for him. along the road who waves to a car for a ride. He climbed to the turret of the g±:k: light-ship and started to hitch-hike passing vessels. He did it with a megaphone. Lots of boats go by the Nantucket Lightship and he hollered his lungs out. The bellow over the sea stopped a freighter bound from Porto Pico to Boston. boat came over and fetched him and took him on to Boston. He radioed to the superintendent in Boston asking So Demain followed the example of the hitch-hiker A Hitch-hiking on the deep blue. LIGHTSHIP - 2 - That*s the end of our sea the thing that started us off on this stories. So let’s go to oceanic theme — the hurridane# HUBRICANS President Roosevelt took action this afternoon and has ordered an inquiry. He has sent word to general Frank Hines and Harry Hopkins, head of the F.E.R.A* to name a hoard of investigation. Of course, there*s no use to have a probe or an inquest into the whys and wherefores of a hurricane. The President wants to know the reason for the loss of4those veterans on the Florida Keys, Why wasn’t something done in advance? The Hurricane didn’t hit by surprise. A hurricane never does in these days of MK&mx meteorological service. The Weather bureau did its work and gave advance word of the terrible storm. So vtiy v/eren’t the veterans taken from those exposed camps on the Florida coast before the wind came smashingj and why weren’t preparations made in advance, preparations of safetyf That’s what the inquiry is to find out ADD HURr IC Ai*K The hurricane dead are ?till unnumbered, Estimated figures run from two hundred to five hundred - but the Red Cross puts it three hundred. But the scenes of terror are only too clearly described, bodies strewn along the coast, even hang­ ing in trees. Improvised morgues. Survivors injured, survivors stunned by the terror of the wild storm. The disastrous wind after sweeping up the west coast of Florida Vept on into Georgia. That state today was getting its dose of hurricane. But the velocity was diminishing. Georgia gets only a hint of what they got farther South, yet, it's a vivid hint. Towns in South Georgia plunged into darkness and isolated as the storm broke down electric lines. Streets strewn with fallen trees. Automobiles blown into ditches. Rain in d renching torrents, floods. And heavy damage to the cotton gOKKKR Remember the name of Polcker during the World War, when the Germane were scouring the eky in those^Tokker planest Well, we*re going to have that same name in the Washington headlines* Anthony Fokker has been in the airplane business over here for some years past. Senator Rye, Chairman of the Munitions Inquiry, has been trying to get the airplane designer to do a bit of testifying about some war plane deals* The Senator was informed today that his agents finally had been able to slap a subpoena on the man whose name was a sky terror during the World War* AUTOMOBILE In California a mining prospector walked into a police station to report that somebody had stolen his car. The cops asked him - what was in it? "Well, nothing much of any value," replied the prospector. "Ju st A of dynamite." So the police are out hunting cautiously, worrying about what may happen with crooks dashing about and maybe getting /? An . . ./-> into some gun play in that come to an end quicker than I could say - high explosive bomb on wheels. SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.