Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1935 — Page 3

OCT. 8, 1035

ETHIOPIANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF ITALIAN TOWN; ‘NATIVES DESERTING’ IL DUCE, REPORT 60,000 Black Troops in Motion to Meet Invaders on Aduwa Front; Emperor’s Son-in-Law Leads Attack. • Continued From Page One)

of the Italians into Eritrea. There had been no indication of an official plan for an operation by a force numbered in thousands. Behind the Eritrean frontier, in the hills of the plateau awaiting the next, move of the Italian invaders, is a big Ethiopian force numbering into the hundreds of thousands. C hallenge the Eagles The announcement that Has Seyyoum s warriors had crossed the frontier to challenge the eagles of the Fascist legion was calculated to be of great moral stimulus to the Ethiopian army. Yet the very success of the daring operation was a cause of anxiety to Emperor Haille Selassie and his advisers here. The meager reports of the dash into the enemy's territory indicated that there was no real Italian resistance. This despite the fact that it is known Italian forces are placed at intervals all along the northern frontier to the frontier of the Anglo-Eglyptian Sudan on the west, and that Italian bombing planes have been active in Ethiopian points all along the frontier. Hence there was some fear that the k i ">' of ’lalian resistance was a matt. ‘>*ategy and that Has Seyyoum s ... ght be permitted to penetrate Erin, a and then to be attacked by a force which would seek to cut them off and annihilate them. Natives Have Advantage But the attackers were oj*erating with some advantage in that, to them the country is familiar and that their very existence is one that makes up the ideal soldier. They can move with almost incredible agility through the broken country; they can carry rations for days; they can subsist with little water; they can take advantage of bits of cover which would be of no use to most trained soldiers, and they can disappear like wraiths into the hilly fastnesses w r hen they like, to return and snipe and raid in darkness. Whatever its outcome Ras Seymour's daring exploit was a challenge to Italy which Fascism was not likely to forget. 7 , was timed perfectly, both from the military and political standpo. its. I torn the military standpoint it wa; effected while all the world wa; awaiting the fall of Aduwa, whi.e people were reading the reports of the irresistible movement forward of a great Italian army on 'he two little towns of Aduwa and Adigrat. whose capture meant to Mussolini removal of the “stain’’ r a defeat 30 years ago, while the Italian authorities in Rome were waiting io announce Aduwa's fall as | the signal for a national celebration.: Italy Becomes Aggressor I From the political standpoint Ras j Seyyoum’s thrust was not started until two full days after Italy pro- | claimed to the world that it was moving Its army across the Ethi- . opian frontier, thus to start an "un- . declared war’’ which has caused the i League of Nations to declare it an J aggressor and a violator of the i League covenant. As the Italian strategy is being j developed, officials here are inclin- i ing to the belief that the Italians j will concentrate almost exclusively j in the north in any real operations, j Despite knowledge of activity on j several fronts, all the way around j the country from the Sudan in the j northwest to the Kenya frontier in the southeast, officials suggested j that the real Italian advance will I be in the rich northern provinces. It was announced at the same j time that Italian native forces on j the northern front were beginning | to desert to the Ethiopian army, j The communique said that 50 Eri- i tleans had arrived at Makalle, be- j hind Aduwa and 200 on the Agame j front in the northeast. Since the outset of the crisis, Ethiopians had asserted that such desertions were : inevitable. Italians Drive South fin I nih il l‘n vc ROME. Oct. B—The Italian forces havr resumed their advance south- j ward from Adigrat and occupied j Edaga-Hamus. nine miles from Adigrat. a message from Asmara to the I newspaper La Tribuna said today. ! The message said strong Italian forces advanced southwest from Aduwa toward Axum with the intention of flanking it on the north and south. The message did not ; mention the capture of Axum. and j officials here said they had not yet j received any such news. Today’s move, La Tribuna said, is in accordance with a plan to strengthen the major positions and prepare for the next jump-off. Italian airplanes sighted strong contingents of Ethiopians marching northward with the apparent plan of attempting to recapture positions on the Aduwa-Adigrat front. Natives Attack Hagar • Copyright. 1935. bv United Press! ROME, Oct. B.—Ethiopian warriors have attacked Hagar, on me 1 Eritrean edge of the frontier near the Sudan frontier, and have been j repulsed, an official communique said today. The attack was repulsed by Askaris, the Eritrean native troops, the communique asserted. The first communique dealing with gams other than territory said today that “hundreds of prisoners and quantities of war materials had been captured so far during the Ethiopian campaign. Aksum Not Yet Taken fin i Hina Pm,, LONDON, Oct. B.—The report of the fall of Aksum is premature, but the Italian army staff planned to entpr the “Holy City" of Ethiopia tomorrow morning, the Exchange Telegraph correspondent with the northern army reported today. Two attacks were planned, from the North and East, converging on the level ground surrounding the town, the dispatch said. The troops from the East will be lightly armed

and provisioned, for a direct advance. The northern wing, taking a more circuitous route from Aduwa. will be more heavily armed and eqnipped.

LEAGUE READY TO CRACK DOWN Specific Penalties to Come Next Week, Geneva Officials Say. (fontinued From Page One) land, France and Spain—according |o plans. On them will hinge the failure, or i success of the League's first effort to penalize a warring nation, for if Laly can not be cut off from land, it can not be successfully penalized. Even as delegates gathered today, | the Greek government telegraphed its chief delegate, Foreign Minister Demetriot Maximos, that Greece, mindful of its obligations, will participate unhesitatingly in penalties. It was predicted that by early next week the penalties decided upon actually will be in force. Dare Wrath of Mussolini Men who have made a study of penalties in preparation for just such a crisis as this, went to work today to devise a scheme which would be at once practicable and effective. They are experts of the big delegations and their recommendations will be available for the official assembly penalties committee. Enforcement of the penalties will be a matter of choice for members of the League. Their willingness to dare the wrath of Benito Mussolini, will be the final test of the League’s strength and the statesmen's own courage. But the atmosphere today was one of firmness. There is no obstacle in the path of those who seek enforcement of penalties. The League for the first time in its history, due to the declai ation by the League Council that Italy is an aggressor nation, is operating under Article XVI whose force kept the United States out of the league of which Woodrow Wilson was the father. Peace First Objectives Any nation which resorts to war in violation of the covenant, this article says, shall be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the League. League members by the article undertake to subject the aggressor nation immediately to severance of all trade or financial relations, to prohibit all intercourse by their nations with nations of the aggressor, to prevent ail financial, commercial or personal intercourse not only between their own nations and those of the aggressor, but between the covenant breaking state and nationals of any other state. Hence, it will be a matter for the assmbly committee not to seek how far it may go under the covnant. but to restrain any recommendations to initial penalties which may seem practicable, in hope that peace may be effected. May to Buy Goods For all the time that the League is proceeding with its penalties, as it piomises to do now*, the greatpowers will be seeking means of persuading Benito Mussolini to call off his soldiers. Delegations of leaders and experts of nations which are members of the council held a series of conferences today in preparation i for the assembly tomorrow, discussing the best means of starting off their isolation at Italy. Envoy to Be Expelled fill l iiitcd l'ress GENEVA, Oct. B.—Tecla Hawa- i riat, Ethiopia's spokesman before the League of Nations, today notified the secretariat that Count Luigi V inci-Gigliucci. Italian minister to Ethiopia, and all other Italian officials in t.he country, had been asked to leave Ethiopia. Italy to follow Suit ’ nitt it fin s, ROME. Oct. B.—ls the Italian minister has been expelled from Ethiopia, the Ethiopian minister probably will be expelled by Italy, a foreign office spokesman said today.

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RILEY HOSPITAL POOL DEDICATED AS PART OF BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

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Several hundred persons attended the dedication of the new hvdrotherapeutic pool at the Riley Hospital for Children late yesterday, the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley. Left—Part of the assembly of visitors is shown here. Right—Hugh McK. Landon is pictured delivering an address to the audience. On the platform with Mr. Landon are Gov. McNutt and other notables who attended the ceremony.

LAY POISON GAS USE TO ITALIANS Precedes Southern Invasion With Aerial Bombs, Ethiopians Report. IGontinued From Page One) makes us realize the tremendous | size of our task of repelling the inhuman invader.” A few of the Ethiopian regulars holding the front lines on the southI ern front have gas masks. Most of i (he irregulars in the region of Gorrahei and Gerlogubi, however, are defenseless against gas. The defenders of the Ogaden front, exultant at the prospect of - battle moved out of this strategic i city today in secret to meet the invaders. Movements of Haile Selassie’s warriors from Harar, from Jijiga and in ! the vicinity of Gorrahei are, for obvious strategic reasons, being kept from the knowledge of all foreigners in accordance with strict imperial I orders. Distribute Ammunition As Italian columns commanded by Gen. Rotiolpho Graziani were reported advancing to meet the troops of Dedjazmatch Nassibu in what promises to be one of the bloodiest battles of this undeclared war, 2.000,000 rounds of ammunition were distributed among the | soldiers charged with defending Ogaden. The insistence upon military secrecy has created a delicate situation for 22 Maltese nuns and a Priest stationed in Jijiga, Harar and adjacent villages. They have been accused of spying solely on the grounds that, as Catholics, they are co-religionists of the Italian foe. The British consul here has advised them to leave, but they have decided to remain, regardless of peril, to care for Ethiopian children studying in their missions. Nassibu, whose field headquarters are somewhere north of Jijiga, informed me that his troops are undaunted by intensive Italian air raids. The Ethiopians adopted guerilla tactics, determined to minimize their own losses and to use every device of bush warfare to slow the march of the Italians. Duce Lauds Young Soldiers tip I nilnl fins, ROME Oct. B.—“ Make of these souls well sharpened daggers! At the opportune moment someone will test them!” Premier Benito Mussolini said today to 10.000 Young Fascist officers detailed to train 1.200.000 members of the “Young Fascists” organization. Mussolini reviewed 4.5.000 of the boys, and then received their offleers, gathered for the fifth celebra- j tion of the founding of the YoungFascists. He spoke briefly, in emphasizing the importance of the task of officers in preparing the nation’s youth for whatever might come. Oicffials, asked whether Italian steamship lines would cancel sailings to the United States because ox President Roosevelt's warning to I Americans that they woud use ■ Italian ships at their own risk, ex- j pressed surprise at the idea and asked why they should. START NEW ROADWAY "PA Project One of Three That Will Give Work to 252. The Works Progress Administration today began work on the 50foot roadway on Lyndhurst-dr from W. 10th to W. 16t.h-sts as one of three projects begun in the state to employ 252 more workers. The state total now is 7389.

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ROBINSON POST PLANS TWO OCTOBER EVENTS Golf Tourney Sunday; Wiener Roast to Be Oct. 13. . A golf tourney on Sunday and a wiener coast scheduled for Oct. 13 I are two events planned by the Bruce P. Robinson Post, No. 133, American Legion. Two Knightstown posts will be entertained at the roast. At a meeting last night, the post was presented with a trophy for having the largest delegation in the | state convention parade. The i auxiliary was awarded a cup for its Americanism work last year.

FEDERAL HOMESTEAD SOUGHT FOR COUNTY Larrabee for Beech Grove as Project Site. Pledging his efforts to obtain an allocation of Federal funds for the establishment of a homestead project in Beech Grove Rep. William H. Larrabee. spoke last night at a meeting in Beech Grove. Bert Wilhelm, president of a homestead organization, said 600 families had been organized and that their applications are on file for homesteads. Twelve hundred acres of ground have been offered for the settlement project. Merritt Harrison, architect, told of plans for construction of the homestead. A letter was read trom Clarence E. Manion, head of the National Emergency Council ot Indiana. declaring he favored the project. The Rev. Peter Killian, paster of the Holy Name Catholic Church. Beech Grove, urged all citizens to support the project. ORDER OF FORESTERS HOLD JOINT SESSION Installation of Officers Will Be Held Tonight. Officers of the three local courts of the Catholic Order of Foresters will be installed jointly tonight in St. Philip Neri auditorium, Easternav and North-st. John A. Kustad. state secretary, and Theodore A. Prosch, drill team director, will have charge of the ceremonies. Addresses will be madt bv the Rev. William Davis, a curate at St. John's Church, and the Rev Albert H. Busald, St. Philip Neri Church pastor. CORN PEST INCREASES. VIRGIL SIMMONS SAYS State Conservation Commissioner Warns Against Borer. Rapid increase of the corn borer, with infestation of 8 per cent of the corn in Steuben, De Kalb and Allen Counties, was reported today by Virgil M. Simmons, state conservation commissioner. Mr. Simmons warned growers not to be lulled into security because little has been said about the pest. In years of normal or heavy rainfall the increase is more rapid, he pointed out. Borer population increased 100 per cent in 1935 over 1934. he estimated. L. T. Evans Speaks at Meeting Leonard T. Evans, president of the Hoosier Waste Renovating Cos.. and W. H. Boetcher spoke at a meeting of 50 members of the Indianapolis Interchange and Car Inspectors Association in the Severin yesterday

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REBEKAHS NAME STATE OFFICERS Hymera Woman Is Elected President at Annual Convention Here. Mrs. Violet Gibbens, Hymera, today was elected president of the Rebekahs at the annual convention at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall. Other officers named were Miss Anna Belle Gaynor, Indianapolis, vice-president; Mrs. Grace Child. Indianapolis, secretary; Mrs. Margaret Harris, Muncie, treasurer; Mrs. Grace Becker, Tell City, trustee, and Mrs. Mary S. Wilson, New Albany, delegate to the Association of Rebekah Assemblies. 3 PETITIONS GRANTED BY PLAN COMMISSION Conditional Approval Given Plans for Filling Station. The City Plan Commission yesterday granted three ironing petitions and gave conditional indorsement to plans of the Ohio Oil Cos., to erect a filling station at Raymond and Shelby-sts. The company must get final approval from the City Engineer. The Hook Holding Cos., has granted permission to install three gasoline tanks and pumps on the site of the Park Theater at Washingtonst and Capitol-av. after the proposed razing of the building is completed. Nicholas Staab. 810 War-ren-av, was permitted to install a 280-gallon gasoline tank and pump for private use, and petition of Lee R. Stafford. 5540 College-av. to permit remodeling of present structure into a double house, was granted. HACKER TO SERVE ON RED CROSS COMMITTEE School Official to Aid Sullivan in Safety Campaign. William A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of schools, will serve as vice chairman of the Indianapolis Red Cross Safety Committee, according to Reginald H. Sullivan, former mayor, who yesterday accepted the chairmanship of the committee. "Mr. Hacker has a long and successful experience in phases of the safety movement dealing with the public schools. The committee has a good start in having his acceptance as vice chairman,” Mr. Sullivan said. The American Red Cross will conduct the safety campaign on a national scale. MURDER TRIAL JURY SELECTION TO BEGIN Thomas Wclshans Charged With Slaying Girl Walkathon Partner. Selection of a jury to try Thomas Welshans. 22-year-old cab driver, charged with the murder of his walkathon partner, Mary Ferguson Hembcrg, 20, of 4960 W. 15th-st, will begin this afternoon in Criminal Court. Welshans Is alleged to have shot through a window and killed Miss Hamberg at her home in Speedway City. June 3. Following the killing, Welshans fled to Ohio, but later returned and surrendered to Sheriff Ray. The defense will contend that when Welshans fired the shot he had no intention of hitting Miss Hamberg.

SICK CHILDREN AID IS UPHELD BY GOVERNOR Declares Present Method to Continue in Address at Riley Hospital. Despite opposition from certain individuals, Indiana will continue to give aid to sick children through : state institutions such as the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. Gov. McNutt made this pledge yesterday, in a speech at the dedication of the hvdrotherapeutic pool at the hospital, which he charac- ! terized as a "perfect memorial to James Whitcomb Riley” on the poet's birthday. “I am unhappy to say that there are those in the state who feel that the erection and maintenance of such institutions is unfair competition to private enterprise.” the Governor said. "However, the policy in Indiana has been determined, and it must not be changed.” Dr. Bryan Speaks Accepting the pool for the Indiana University Hospital center. Dr. William Lowe Bryan. Indiana Uni- | versity president recalled his ac- ! ceptance of the hospital on Riley's birthday, in 1924. j “I can not do better than say again, as I said 11 years ago today, that my greatest satisfaction lies in the fact that officers and members of the Riley Memorial Association are to go on through the years working with official representatives of the state in this hospital to make Indiana what Riley would have loved it to be—"the land of healthy, happy children’ ” Dr. Bryan said. Pride Expressed Other speakers were Hugh McK. Landon, Riley Memorial Association president, and William Book, executive committee chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Unem- : ployment Relief. Mr. Book said the GCUR was prouder of the therapeutic pool than of any other achieve- | ment. A Riley day program was given at a freshman convocation at Washington High School. A feature of i the program was a pantomime reI production of a photograph taken at one of the poet's birthday celebrations. with Riley surrounded by I school children who had called to !honor him. 4 CCC MEN HELD ON JAIL DELIVERY COUNT Charged With Aiding 4 Prisoners to Escape at Winslow. Bi) United firm, PETERSBURG. Ind., Oct. 8 Four members of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp were held here today in connection with the delivery of four prisoners from the Winslow jail last week. The men. Oscar Watson. Ernest Ross, Opard Hicks, and Ties Guffey, j were charged with jail breaking. Sheriff William Weathers said the j men were ringleaders in a crowd j of CCC enrollees who battered down J the jail doors and released the prisI oners, who were recaptured a short I time later. THURSDAY MIDNIGHT IS TAX APPEAL DEADLINE State Board to Get Adjustment Hearing Dates Friday. Appeals from actions of Boards of Tax Adjustment on 1936 rates must be filed by midnight Thursday with the State Tax Board. Board members have summoned field men to Indianapolis Friday to ; aid in fixing dates for hearing ap- j peals now pending. Board members will attend a national tax conference in Oklahoma City, okla., Oct. 14 to 17. APPEAL BOND LACKING, HITCH REMAINS IN JAIL Court Refuses One Surety Offered by Former Deputy Sheriff. Ralph Hitch, former chief deputy j sheriff, remained in the Marion County jail today while his attorneys j sought sufficient surety for a $17,500 appeal bond. Hitch was found guilty by a ! Criminal Court jury last week of j embezzling SBOOO of public funds. Special Judge E. E. McFerren yesterday afternoon refused to accept the surety offered by Thomas Dillon and Othniel Hitch, attorney and Mr. Hitch's uncle.

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Batting .985 Business today returned to its normal trend after staggering with indifference for the duration of the World Series. During the hours that the series games were broadcast, business practically was suspended in the downtown district. Employes in the Courthouse. Statehouse and City Hall frankly left their tasks to hear the Cubs and the Tigers battle it out in Chicago or Detroit. Statistically speaking, business slumped 15 per cent during the rime of the broadcasts according to the dispatchers for two local taxicab companies. The dispatchers report that the usual afternoon business fell off 15 per cent while all ears were listening for the count of the umpire.

RADIO SYSTEM IS EXPLAINED New Communication Method Expected to Reduce Major Crimes. Anew system of police radio communication, basic principles of which already have been approved by the International Association cf Chiefs of Police, will cut major ciimes in the United States at least 30 per cent, it is claimed. The system, as outlined by E. K. Jett of the Federal Communication Commission, for delegates to the annual convention of the Associated Police Communication Officers at the Severin, will be a radio-tele-graph system, instead of the radio telephone system now in existence. Two codes will be used in it, Sergt. Everett H. Fisher. St. Louis! association president, explained today. One will be a secret code, to be decoded only by police officials, and the other will be for the use of radio supervisors. Lieut. C. J. Scavarda, head of the Michigan state police, where pioneer work in radio communication was done, set the standard for the nation's crime detectors today, in figures which he cited from Michigan's crime annals for 1934*. lie quoted statistics which showed a decrease of 31 per cent in major crimes for 1934. The convention will close Thursday following election of officers. LAWYERS HEAR JUDGE Treanor Speaks at Meeting of Association at Noon. Judge Walter E. Treanor of the Indiana Supreme Court spoke at a meeting of the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis in the Washington today. Henry A. Quigley, a member of the Indiana Catholic Beverages Commission; John L. Niblack and Edwin C. Berryhill also spoke.

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1936 ELECTION BALLOTS WILL BE PLENTIFUL State Will Have Three in Addition to County and City Tickets. Indiana voters will have three ballots to cast besides their county and city tickets at the 1936 presidental election. State Board of Election Commissioners has ruled that the names of presidential electors shall be placed on one ballot, state office candidates on a second ballot, and third ballot will be used for a proposed consti--1 tutional amendment to decide whether Negroes shall be admitted j to the state militia. Conflict of laws passed by the 1935 General Assembly necessitated the ; election board ruling on a split of the state ballot into one carrying the electors and another state candidates. Absentees Will Vote Two million of each of the three ballots will be printed, according to Parke Beadle, secretary of the State Printing Board. Another factor which must be considered in the printing of ballots jis the new absentee voter ballot. The law requires that 20 days before | election that county clerks shall cer- | tify to the election board the number of absentee voter ballots required. The ballots are delivered | to the clerk's office 18 days before | election. The state board is given but two days to make up the number of absentee ballots. Bidding Set for Nov. 21 Bids on state printing for a twoi year period will be received by the state board on Nov. 21. The bids will run from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, ! according to estimates ofi specifica- | tions no wbeing prepared. Holders of state printing contracts during 1935 were William B Burford Company. Indianapolis; Haywood Printing Company. Lafayette; Stewart's Inc.. Indianapolis; C. E Paulpy Printing Company. Indianapolis; Book waiter-Great house. Indianap- ! olis, court records and reports. PROSPERITY SIGN: MORE ARCHITECTS REGISTERED State Board Secretary Credits Gain to More Building Activity. Decided increase in the registration of architects with the State Board of Registration of Architects for 1935 was cited today by Leighton : Bowers, board secretary, as a concrete evidence of a return of pros- ; perity in the building trades. During the depression, architects dropped their state registration, but i increased construction activity re- ; suited in 157 registrations of archi- ! tects up to today with 139 registraI tions for 1934. *

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