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...sheet. It was thus that, as from the end of January 1936, soldiers, women, children, cattle, rivers, lakes and pastures were drenched continually with this deadly rain. In order to kill off systematically all living creatures and in order more surely to poison the waters and pastures, the Italian command made its aircraft pass over & over again. . . . "These fearful tactics succeeded. Men and animals succumbed...
...Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...
...opinion of his closest associates, lively little Publisher Howard relinquished the Scripps-Howard high command not that he might further indulge his instinct for finding and timing news, but rather to permit him to concentrate more attention on the World-Telegram...
...question of profit-sharing arrangements with theatre operators, departed for Labrador, where he owns a salmon river. Whether Joe Kennedy has any suggestions for resignations will not be known until his final report is published. More comforting to the directors would be suggestions of likely candidates for the Paramount command in the meantime...
...against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor Haile Selassie's redoubtable General Ras Desta Demtu, according to Dr. Hooper, who declared: "We were making a hurried retreat. Ras Desta Demtu commandeered a Red Cross truck and loaded it with ammunition. The truck fell...