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...absence of Editor Ted Scott, vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type...
...Near Ravenna, Italian recruits mutinously objected to being shipped off to Ethiopia, according to a Rome dispatch followed by a Rome denial...
United Pressman Ralph Heinzen, chief of the Paris Bureau, staked his reputation last week on a dispatch opening with this flat statement, "Leopold III, tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear...
...having the Italian Press omit all portions of the speech fitting his Dictatorship, but Pope Pius XI, accustomed to having his slippered foot kissed by dignitaries, supplied the full text to Italians by displaying it verbatim in the Papal news-organ, Osservatore Romano. The official Italian news agency dispatch from Washington, printed by most Italian news-organs, unemotionally recorded: "Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the world's desire for peace is blocked by only 10 or 15% of the total population of the world and did not hide his pessimism over the outlook in Europe and Asia, where...
These names, and millions more, are for sale by Boyd's City Dispatch, which last week, in the 105th year of its existence, decided to incorporate. Said President Edgar J. Williams, 72, who has been Boyd's owner & manager since 1900, "It's a dangerous thing nowadays not to be incorporated." Boyd's City Dispatch was founded in Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within...