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WAN SMILE OF BOY, 4, RENEWS HOPE FOR LIFE Mother’s Nine-Week Vigil at Bedside Finally Is Rewarded. LAD STILL UNCONSCIOUS Four Other Children in Family Praying for Brother's Recovery. R>, Time* Special SPENCERVILLE. Ind., Oci. B. Four-year-old -Robert Lee Shockley, unconscious for nine weeks, smiled yesterday and wiggled a toe To Dr. B. O. Shook that meant he may recover and. if he does, he ! may walk. To his mother it meant that, nine long, dreadful weeks of watching at his bed here had been rewarded. Nine weeks ago, Robert started i aero; the road in front of his home, j was struck by an auto, and lay, ap- i patently lifeless, in the road. He was taken to Lutheran Hospital in I Ft Wayne and all the science of j medicine could not bring back that smile. Mother Gives Full Time His left leg was badly broken and his left fool mangled. They put a cast on it. His skull was fractured at the base badly fractured. They, waited for him to die. Two weeks ago he was carried, still j unconscious, to his home and his mother, Mrs. Kathryn Shockley, told the other four children to take rare of themselves—she devoted all her time to Robert. In the hospital she was at his bedside almost all the time, and at i home she was. So it's no wonder ! she saw him smile yesterday, the \ first sign of normal life he had displayed since the accident. N He'll Nevrr Speak Again Even so, I)r. Shook predicts that Robert never will speak again. He may move his now paralyzed arms, and lie may regain his numbed mental powers. Moreover, It may be necessary in four or five weeks to operate on the broken leg. Brain specialists will be called in and asked what they j can do about the cerebral injuries. All because Robert started from in \ back a car across the road in front of his home and was struck by a car driven by Ralph Hurst of Hurstville. Mr. Hrust. believed to be in no way to blame, was not held. ANTI-NEW DEAL TREND SHOWN IN CONNECTICUT G. O, P. Gains 18 Towns From Democrats in Poll. By I ni1,,1 Press N T ’W HAVEN. Conn.. Oct. B.—ReTANARUS” " o' ' ~w in the results of yesterday’s elections in 149 Connec- -*> e),.us a iiuinced drift away from New Deal Democratic policies. Returns showed a net gain of 18* towns from the Democrats and a deep slash into the majorities of two years ago when Rooseveltian sentiment stirred the state. PAY RATE FIXED FOR MERIT BOARD MEMBERS Trio Will Receive SlO a Day During Police, Fiiv Schools. Compensation of the three civilian members of the new police merit commission was fixed today by the Safety Board at SlO a day for duration of the police and fire schools. The salaries wall amount to approximately S3OO a year. Members of the commission are Dr. Murray DeArmond, Dr. Dudley PlatT and W. Roland Allen. The board ordered the retirement of Frank J, Seifert. 3122 N. Capitol - av. because of a disability recommendation by Dr. Frank T. Dowd, police surgeon. He had been a patrolman for 24 years. FINANCES TO MAINTAIN HOSPITAL ARE LACKING Problem Unsolved as New Structure Nears Completion. The Indianapolis Foundation has no funds capable of maintaining ihe new Flower Mission Tuberculosis Hospital for a year. Mayor Kern has been informed by Eugene C. Foster, director. The Mayor admitted today that the problem of financing maintenance and equipment Vtill is unsolved as the structure in the City Hospital area nears completion. THURSTON IS STRICKEN Magician Rerovering After Stroke in West Virginia. By I nit, <1 Pr, ss CH ARLESTON. W. Va . Oct. 8 Howard Thurston, dean of American magicians, was recovering satisfactorily in St. Francis hospital today from a paralytic stroke with which he was stricken in a restaurant here. His attending physicians said he would be confined to the hospital at least a week. His face and left arm were partly paralyzed. Times Index Amusements 6 Bridge 9 Broun 11 Comics 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Radio 6 Serial 8 ! ory 2 Sports 14-15 Woman’s Pages 8-9

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Walking Safef" Bandit suspects should walk, not run. from the nearest exit —that is, if Patrolmen John Haney and Roy Reeves are in the vicinity. They beat a police broadcast by several minutes last night because they saw two men run from the Dickerson restaurant, 4207 College-av. The two men fied in a taxicab, but one leaped out when the police pursued, and pscaped. Patrolmen Haney and Reeves arrested Paul Dotts, 27. of 215 Hanson-av, the remaining passenger. The radio broadcast on the holdup came a few minutes later. Police said Laven Rouck, 30, of 626 Arch-st, night manager of the restaurant, identified DotU as one of the two men w ho robbed the cash register of s2l. Dotts is held on a vagrancy charge.

NEW GAS LEASE SOUGHT BY CITY Directors Will Negotiate for Lower Contract on Mains. Directors of the city utility district, faced with the problem of acquiring a favorable lease on a distributing system for the newly acquired Citizens Gas and Coke Utility, today began negotiations with officials of the Indianapolis Gas Cos. When the city took control of the Citizens Gas Cos. several weeks ago it was discovered that officials of that organization had leased 60 per cent of its mains from the Indianapolis Gas Cos., at an annual cost of $500,000. Holding this price to be unreasonably high, the directors refused to stand by the old lease and asked for anew figure. For a time it appeared that the Indianapolis Gas Cos. would take the matter to court, but yesterday its officials decided to open negotiations. Albert L. Rabb, utility district counsel, explained at the City Council meeting last night that the city cither would buy the Indianapolis Gas Cos. outright or work for more favorable terms. The City Council will formally ratify the utility district’s action in taking over the Citizens Gas Cos. at its next meeting. I). S. PROBES PLANE CRASH FATAL TOl2 Inquiry Fails to Reveal Cause of Wreck. By In it, ,1 Pres* CHEYENNE. Wvo., Oct. B.—Federal investigators of the aeronautics division, Department of Commerce, today pressed an inquiry into the cause of the crash of a United Air Liner near here in which 12 persons died. Several hours of work had thrown no light on the accident, so far as the Federal operatives would reveal. Their only comment was that they would continue the investigation today. The liner went down on rugged terrain 13 miles west of here early yesterday. Bodies of the nine passengers and crew of three, together with the wreckage of the plane, were strewn over an area of a quarter of a mile. Findings of the early investigation indicated that the pilot had no intention of landing, as the plane’s retractable landing gear still was in the position for flying. HUNT BLAST VICTIMS IN RUINS AT CHICAGO Workers Dig Through Debris of Sl.oort.ofto Explosion. By I nit, ,1 Pr, CHICAGO. Oct. 8. —Workers dug through twisted steel, piles of bricks and shattered glass today for additional victims of the terrific explosion which wrecked the soy bean products plant of the Glidden Cos. and took at least six lives. Damage to the five-story plant, which re-opened yesterday after being closed for five weeks, was estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Five employes of the company still were reported missing and it was feared they might be buried in the ruins. Forty-three persons in the p'ant and in their homes nearby were injured.

Lusitania Believed Found BY GD.BERT M ALLISTER (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate.* ABOARD SALVAGE SHIP ORPHIR. Oct. B.—A salvage crew, excited to fever pitch by the prospect of fame and fortune, worked furiously today to prepare the Orphir for raising the Lusitania's treasure. Capt. Henry Russell, determined not to let the hard-won prize slip from his grasp by impulsive haste, vetoed the plan to attempt diving operations today. Instead he methodically completed the charting of the wreck with the echo-sounder, and busied the crew with the vital task of readying four huge mooring-buoys to keep the Orphir in position. As the echo-sounder continued to pile up graphic evidence, the usually cautious Russell permitted himself to say: "I am convinced that we have found the Lusitania.” The captain estimated that seven working days of clear weather would be necessary before the Orphir could salvage the first articles from the vessel. It will take two days to lay the mooring buoys, wi/ich weigh five tons apiece and for which a large number of ropes, cables and chains must be prepared. The wreck, as revealed by the graph, appears to lie quite deeply imbedded in a hard, sandy bottom. Capt. Russell assumed frem this that the vessel's bows had dug deep into the ccean floor when she plunged to her doom while forging ahead under full steam.

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DOCTORS FLAY SOCIALIZATION OF MEDICINE Indiana Committee Urges Fight Be Made on Sickness Insurance. BATTLE ON ALL FRONTS Gary Convention Hears Appeal for Larger District Hospitals. By Timex Special GARY, Ind., Oct. B.—The Indiana State Medical Society, in convention here today, had before it reports of committees conaemning socialized medicine, outlining a fight against sickness insurance and urging the Federal government to stop building veterans’ hospitals. The voluminous committee reports also contained a statement that, after all the legislative howls of last year, organized medicine sees no reason why Indiana high school athletes can not play three tournament basketball games in one day. The society took up at length the general hospital situation, recommending that the ideal situation would be large and well equipped district hospitals, with only a sprinkling of small primary hospitals for first aid. Propaganda Reported The executive committee reported to the convention that advocates of sickness insurance have “now turned their attention to spreading propaganda and creating sentiment through a series of high school debates on the subject.’’ The committee announced that the American Medical Association will distribute a debaters’ manual to the nation’s high schools. It will contain the viewpoint of the medical profession on the matter. The report indicated that the battle against socialized medicine and sickness insurance is being carried along other fronts, and ended with a plea for eternal vigilance by the physicians. Hospitals in Key Posts, Is Warning The committee of hospitals and medical education warned that the hospital is likely “to become the strategic center of any radical program for more or less socialized medicine which may be adopted, whether this take the form of health insurance, group practice, industrial surgery, adequate care for the indigent sick, or state medicine. “Health insurance is certain to come in a deluge just as soon as insurance comnanies shall have accumulated sufficient acturial experience to determine premiums. "Half and two-thuds empty hospitals beckon to the modern ’reformer,’ who sees in both the proper instrument for the exploitation of his theories and the best argument for a change in the present system.” Endowments, Doctors Urged The report urges physicians to seek greater endowments and gifts for hospitals. “Let the doctor and the hospital trustee co-operate,” it s f ates. "and we need fear no scheme of socialized medicine thus far proposed.” The committee on veterans’ hospitalization “steadfastly opposes the extension and enlargement of veterans’ hospitals except for chronic and incurable cases." “This." it continued, “is not in any way because we are opposed to the benefits that the government may see fit to provide for the veterans. See Threat of State Medicine “We believe that if these immense hospitals are built and equipped all over the United States at government expense they never will be abandoned, and that when the present need for veterans is past, the government will take over other classes to maintain the hospitals at a capacity, and that those hospitals will ever b? a serious threat of state medicine.” The committee on mental health reported it believes psychiatry should at all times be under the control of the medical profession, and the report of the committee on expert testimony recommended remedial legislation to “correct the abuse of expert opinion evidence.” Golf, trap-shooting and a tour of Calumet steel mills was on the pleasure program.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1935

At the Bar Busy Beer Dispenser and Waitress Are Wed in Tavern.

ROY MONGOL is bartender in The Point Saloop, Kentuckyav and Washington-st. Yesterday morning at 9 he picked up the phone back of the bar and called Miss Margaret Schoolcraft, a waitress. “Listen, honey,” he cooed, “I had to be at work. Suppose we meet at noon nd gft married?” Miss School' raft apparently said yes. and the house drinkers pricked up their ears. That was that until 2. The phone rang. “Yes. honey,” Roy said into the transmitter. "Yeah. .. . Yeah. . . . Yeah. ... All right, then at 4.” The bar listeners kibitzed. “Why don’t you get married right here?” they asked. Roy permitted himself a slight blush. a a tt CLARENCE BROWN piped up. I’ll be best man,” he offered. “And I’ll be master of ceremonies,” said Capt. Frank E. Miller. “And I’ll be sponsor,” said Jim Clones. Roy listened. He picked up the phone. "Honey, when you get through work come over here.” She did. They got a license to wed. Someone got a justice of the peace. And that’s how it happened that Roy Mongol took Margaret Schoolcraft for his lawfullywedding wife in front of the bar of the Point Saloon at 5:15 last night. They are at home at 814 S. Hoimes-av. And they do say that any one who refused a drink there alter the ceremony would have been cut to ribbons. There were no casualties. EXPECT COTTON CROP TO REACH NEW HIGH Highest Estimate in Six Years Is Anticipated by Board. By I nit, and Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 8.-A 1935 cotton crop exceeding in value any output since 1929 was anticipated today as the government’s Crop Reportin Board prepared to make its mon ly forecast. The crop was estimated at 11.489,COO bales in last month’s report which, at prevailing market prices, was worth over $600,000,000 or $30,000.000 more than last, year's crop. The 1934 crop sold for the highest price since 1929. VERDICT IS HELD OPEN IN DORIS DUGAN DEATH Coroner Orders Witnesses Back for Further Questioning. Still dissatisfied with the evidence. Coroner William R. Arbuckle today held the verdict open in the death of Mrs. Doris Dugan, 23, whose body was found in her apartment, 1304 Broadway, Sept. 28. Dr. Arbuckle yesterday ordered several witnesses, who had testified earlier in the inquest to reappear for questioning. An autopsy revealed that there was poison in her body. MILK STRIKERS RURN BRIDGE; TRUCE NEAR Tracks Blown Up: Farmers Discuss Offer. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. B.—Striking dairyfarmers whose demand for higher prices has resulted in a milk famine coupled with violence and sabotage. met at Elgin this afternoon to draft a definite answer to Gov. Henry Horner's proposal of a 30-day-truce. Tiie vandalism, in which one section of a track on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad was blown up. a 48-foot woeden bridge burned and another trestle set afire, followed closely on the announcement that representatives of the warring factions had agreed tentatively to the terms of the 30-day truce. NEWCASTLE BUSINESS LEADER IS DEAD AT 60 Wiley E, Waggener Rites Today, With Burial at Franklin. By Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., Oct, 8 Services were held here today- for Wiley E. Waggener. prominent business man and church leader, who died Saturday. Burial has at Franklin, his former home. Mr. Waggener, who was 60. had been in business here since 1913. He is survived by the widow and five children, Marc G. Waggener. Indianapolis; Noble B. Waggener. Milton. Pa.; James A. Waggener. Frank l in, and Robert Duncan and Alice Elizabeth Waggener, Newcastle. DEFER TROLLEY HEARING Death of Mrs. Hubert Riley Brings Indefinite Postponement. Public meeting of the Works Board to consider revision of street car and trackless trolley lines in Indianapolis, scheduled for tomorrow. has been postponed indefinitely Reason for the postponement is the death of Mrs. Hubert Riley, wife of the president of the board.

HAILE’S TROOPS WIN BACK ADUWA, ETHIOPIA CLAIMS

THE LAST ONE RESULTED IN NOTHING BUT DEATH AND UNCOLLECTABLE DEBTS

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LAY POISON GAS USE TO ITALIANS Precedes Southern Invasion With Aerial Bombs, Ethiopians Report. BY H. R. EKINS (Copyright. 1935. by United Press) WITH THE ETHIOPIAN ARMY, HARAR, Oct. B.—Dedjazmatch Nassibu, commanding the southern Ethiopian army, charged today that the Italians were using gas in their invasion of Ogaden. Bursting aerial bombs, he told The United Press, had blanketed a wide area with a thick yellow gas “causing soldiers and noncombatants to fall to the ground and suffer painfully.” From the description of the gas reaching him from the front, he said, he believed the gas being used was mustard gas. Gas Use#*Disgusting” “The Italian use of gas,” said the veteran Ethiopian commander, “is incredible and disgusting. “If this were an equal war there would be no doubt of the outcome. But Italians, equipped with airplanes, tanks, armored cars and long range artillery are seeking to enslave us. “Our spirits remain unbroken, but this use of gas on the Ogaden front (Turn to Page Three) TRACTION CAR KILLS CITY TRUCK DRIVER Victim's Vision Obscured by High Weeds. His vision obscured by high weeds, Charles Brady, 27, of 1237 S. Bcl-mcnt-av, truck driver, drove onto interurban tracks near 38ih-st and Ritter-av this morning and was killed instantly by ~ a north - bound TRAFFIC traction car. DEATHS Mr. Brady was a J 934 138 driver for the Polar 19X5 to Ice and Fuel Cos. ort. r H 2 His death was the Oc t 4 g° 99 112th auto fatality in Marion County since Jan. 1. Weeds are so high near the crossing, according, to police, that Mr. Brady had no intimation of the interurban's approach. The truck was demolished and wreckage was carried 500 feet down the track. The interurban, operated by Frank Poor. Anderson, was halted within about 700 feet, according to police. Mr. Brady is survived by the widow and two children. Girl, 12, Killed in Auto Crash By Timet Special LA PORTE, Ind., Oct. B.—Dorothy Davidson. 2. was killed instantly yesterday when an automobile in which she was riding was struck by a truck.

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Utilities Hold, Specials Drop in Light Trade By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. B.—The main list of stocks with the exception of utilities and a few special issues turned lower early this afternoon. Dealings were light. Exceptions included Consolidated Gas at 28 up Vi ; North American, 19?i up %; Monsanto Chemical, 85'2 up 3 4; Standard of New Jersey, 44% up 1 , 4 , and Coca Cola, 246 up V 2. Coppers, motors, steels, rails, farm implement shares, most of the chemicals and electrical equipments declined fractions to more than a point and steadied there. It. S, ASKS ITALIANS TO SPARE LEGATION Cables Rome After Request From Addis Ababa, By I tilted Press WASHINGTON. Oct, B.—The United States has expressed the hope to the Italian government that Italian bombing planes will avoid the bombing of the American legation at Addis Ababa, Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed todfcy. At the cabled request of the American charge d’affaires at Addis Ababa. Cornelius Van H. Engert, the American ambassador in Rome was instructed to inform the Italian foreign office that Mr. Engert had caused the American legation at Addis Ababa to be marked with a large American flag on the roof, and that he had advised other American institutions to have their buildings similarly marked. The ambassador at Rome requested the foreign office to pass this information on to the Italian military commanders operating in Ethiopia so that their forces, if they approach the Ethiopian capital, would be able to distinguish the American properties there. THIEVES GET S2OOO LOOT IN 3 ROBBERIES Take Rings and Shotguns After Smashing Windows. Window smashing thieves obtained loot valued at approximately S2OOO in three downtow-n robberies last night. A SSO ring was obtained at Julius C. Walk & Cos., 52 Monument Circle, and 57 rings were reported stolen from a display window of the H. H. Mayer Jewelry Store. 42 W. Washington-st. Several shotguns were stolen from the display window Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania-st. Flames Damage Apartment Fire thought to have been started by sparks from a defective flue teday caused damage estimated at S4OO at a frame apartment building at 1119-21 N. Alabama-st.

LEAGUE READY | TO CRACK DOWN Specific Penalties to Come Next Week, Geneva Officials Say. BY WALLACE CARROLL (Copyright. 1935. bv United Pressi GENEVA, Oct. 8. —Specific penalties against Italy for waYring on Ethiopia will be put into effect early j next week, League of Nations dele- : gates predicted today. Viewing Italy as already virtually an outlaw among League nations, | statesmen arriving here for tomorrow’s assembly meeting indicated that there was no means left of impeding the imposition of financial and economic penalties. It is the first time the League ever has tried to use the crushing machinery its covenant provides for punishing a nation which attacks a League member. It was but a few weeks ago that League men themselves were discussing the possibility that an effort to penalize Italy would wreck the League. Ready to Apply Penalties Yet the statesmen of 50-odd nations who were arriving on every train today left no doubt that they were ready to apply to Fascist Italy the penalities of the covenant. When the assembly—the congress | of the League at which all mem- | bers are represented—meets tomor- - row it foreshadowed that a big : committee will be named at once to I recommend specific economic and I financial penalties which all members will be asked to apply. On this committee all of Italy’s neighbors will be represented— Greece. Yugoslav], Austria, Switzer(Turn to Page Three) LABOR URGES G. S. CONTROL OF RINKS Federal Ownership Asked in Resolution. j By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. Oct. B.—Revision of the Federal Constitution to permit government regulation of i business and government ownership of banks were recommended in , resolutions presented today to the American Federation of Labor coni vention. A variety of other controversial issues was raised in 94 proposed resolutions poured into the convenI lion’s deliberations. They include demands that the federation shift to an outright industrial union program; that it formulate an independent Labor Party and that it strike forcefully at Fas- : cist tendencies here and abroad. While the resolutions indicated sharp conflicts ahead, it was apparent the conservative ’eaderr of the federation would be able to s ippress all of the more radical of the i insurgent efforts.

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By United Prcsi ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 8. —lt was reported without confirmation today that the Ethiopians had recaptured Aduwa and taken "thousands” of prisoners. It also was reported, without confirmation, that the Ethiopians had posted forces on three sides of Aduwa and that War Minister Ras Mula Getta was proceeding there to assume charge of the sector. ADDIS ABABA— Ethiopian force has invaded Italian Eritrea, government announces officially. Many desertions of Italian natives to Ethiopians claimed. Ras Kassa reported moving near Aduwa with 60.000 men. LONDON Aksum. Ethiopia’s holy city, reported captured. HARAR Ethiopian commander charges Italians are making poison gas attacks. ROME Officials communique announces "heavy casualties” among Ethiopians; declares Ethiopian attack on Eritrean frontier tow-n of Umm Hagar has been repulsed. Officials express contempt for League sanctions. GENEVA Penalties against Italy may be enforced next week, Non-League members such as United States may be asked to send “observers.” LONDON—Britain likely to send further note to France on naval co-operation in Mediterranean. GIBRALTAR—Liner sails for Malta with 2000 British troops. SINGAPORE—Two British submarines ordered to hurry to Mediterranean. Other Victories Reported; Italian Town Taken; Dispatches Say. BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE iCopvrieht. 1935. bv United Pressi ADDIS ABABA, Oct. B. A strong Ethiopian force has invaded Italian Eritrea and penetrated a considerable distance into the country, it was announced officially today, A brilliant operation conceived by Ras Seyyoum, Ethiopia’s great tactician on the northern front, sent a daring flying column across the northern frontier into Eritrea Saturday, it was disclosed, while an overwhelming Italian army was preparing to storm Aduwa—which Ethiopian troops had been ordered not to defend in force. It was said on reliable authority that Seyyoum sent 15,000 men, largely cavalry, under the peronal command of the Dedjazmatch Haile Selassie Hug.sa, son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, across the frontier. There were rumors that this or another Ethiopian force had captured Adi Kaie, 50 miles south of Asmara, the Eritrean capital and chief war base, and 25 miles inside the Italian frontier north of Adigrat. which the Italians cap ured on their way to Aduwa. Rumors of Desertions These rumors were received with every reserve because such a thrust would have taken the Ethiopians along the left flank of the great Italian army operating southward from Asmara. The communique which announced the daring drive into Eritrea said also that Italian native soldiers—the crack Askaris who formed the central column of* the three that took Aduwa —were deserting in mass to the Ethiopians. It was asserted specifically that 50 Askaris arrived at Makale, behind Aduwa, and 200 on the Agame front in the northeast. The men who arrived at Makale, it was said, had with them five machine guns, 12 mule loads of ammunition and cannon whose nature and amount was not specified. It was asserted further that Italians attacking the Dolo District down where Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland and British Kenyah. Somaliland and British Kenyah meet had been forced to withdraw across the border. Operations Veiled There were no details of the daring drive into the northern stronghold of the Italians. Officials were reluctant to discuss the operation, possibly because they had planned, as their chief strategy, no operations of the size or importance indicated by the terse communique. They had planned for a series of drives by guerilla bands, numbering not more than a few hundred, to infiltrate through the rear and flanks (Turn to Page Three) Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 42 10 a. m 59 7a. m 44 11 a. m 62 Ba. m 50 12 Knoon)., 62 9 a.m..54 1 p. m 65 New guaranteed tires 15c wk. Sav* SI.OO up. Hoosier Pete.—Adv.