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Last week Hearstman Karl von Wiegand, Universal Service's roving correspondent, resoundingly "scooped"' his colleagues with the astonishing assertion that Rickett had sold, subject to Haile Selassie's agreement, his Ethiopian concession to its most logical purchaser: Benito Mussolini. If this were true, Haile Selassie had a face-saving opportunity to reject Italy's military demands while selling the invaders two-thirds of Ethiopia on a business basis and thus ending the war. Wrote Correspondent von Wiegand...
...Moscow and in Rome last week a Russian and an Italian thanked their stars that they work for William Randolph Hearst. The Red Dictatorship and the Black had each clapped into jail a native Hearstman: in Russia, faithful Translator and Legman Zachary Levovich Mikhailov; in Rome, longtime Bureau Chief Guglielmo Emanuel. The Russian was convicted of espionage, sentenced to be shot. The Italian was kept incommunicado in a cell for 52 days while his journalist friends thought he, too, had been jugged...
...Department which ordered "inquiries" in Moscow, the most that could be done since the man sentenced to be shot was no U. S. citizen. The moment this degree of U. S. interest was evinced. Russia's sensitive Dictatorship ordered a stay of execution and a brisk retrial of Hearstman Mikhailov by the Court of Appeals which altered his sentence from Death to eight years imprisonment...
...Lawrence she met Hearstman Joe O'Brien, found he felt the same way she did, married him later the same year. But she admits few such personal facts into her narrative; from then on her story is of an impersonal crusade, carried on over ten years and three continents, to help children. "Indeed, my book is the record of a woman who in early life got angry because many children lived miserably and died needlessly...
Birthdays, Harvard University's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 78; Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75; Hearstman Arthur Brisbane, 70; New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 52; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...