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TERRE HAUTE PLANT ROCKED BY DYNAMITE Labor Trouble Breaks Out Again at Malleable Factory. ROOF. GUTTERING RIPPED National Guardsmen and Police Open Probe of Blast. By Tune* Special TERRE HAUTE. Oct. 10.—Labor trouble broke out again here early today when a plant roof of the Terre Haute Malleable and Manufacturing Cos., was dynamited. Maj. Earl E. Weimar, seven National Guardsmen and police are investigating the explosion. Sixty feet of guttering and a portion of the roof was ripped by the blast. "Company watchmen,” said Maj. Weimar, "saw tw’o men prowling on a. railroad track near the building shortly before the explosion. A dynamite stick caused the explosion Estimates Damage at S2OO "I believe,’’ he added, "that it was thrown from the railroad track and that labor agitators were responsible lor the blast. We have no clews.” Officials of the plant could not be reached for a statement. Maj. Weimar estimated the explosion's damage at S2OO. He said he would not ask for increased guard personnel in the martial law area unless further trouble ensued. Near Columbian Plant Seventy union employes of the plant went on strike Aug.' 16 demanding union recognition and increased wages. Sporadic picketing followed. At the time of the dynamiting the plant was not picketed. The plant is in the industrial district in which the Columbian Enameling and Stamping Cos. is located. The Columbian plant's strike resulted in a general union strike July 22 and the placing of Terre Haute under martial law'. Troops were withdrawn from the plant after a Federal conciliator negotiated a truce. * The Columbian plant is operating an open shop and employing approximately 500 men. The Terre Haute Malleable has been operating on a reduced force. SHERIFF’S -BAD BOYS’ PROMISE TO BEHAVE Rebels, Released From Solitary, Tear Into Jail Chow. Sheriff Ray’s five bad boys, placed In solitary confinement because of infractions of jail rules, have promised to “be good.” Thirty-six hours In dark cells on a bread and water diet proved ample punishment, according to Ray, who said the penalty had been lifted and the quintet admitted to regular prison fare at noon "The way the boys tore into the fchili was a caution,” the sheriff chortled. The prisoners are Gordon Stacy. Ernest Tait, Jerry Dukes, Hiram Blankenship and Frank Klize. all awaiting trial cn serious charges. STOCKS MOVE AHEAD ON INFLATION GOSSIP Gains for Day Range to More Than Two Points. NEW YORK. Oct. 10.—The stock market gained more than 2 points today. Charles R. Gay. exchange president, warned of inflation dangers in a speech last night and this brought professional buying into the market and all shares were pushed higher. Some "war stocks” were absorbed on new' developments from the Italo-Ethiopian front. Chrysler was one of the active leaders and advanced more than 2 points to anew 1925 high. American Can was 2'- points higher at 141’j. Du Pont gained 2 l * to 129'< and Monsanto Chemical 3U to a new high of 81';. DON MELLETT’S KILLER IS ILL IN PENITENTIARY Ohio Editor's Slayer Not Expected to Live Another Two Years. Ba railed Pres* COLUMBUS, O. Oct. 10.—Pat McDermott, convicted of killing Don R. Mellet, editor of the Canton Daily News on July 16, 1926, is ill with tuberculosis in Ohio Penitentiary Hospital. He is not expected to live two years. For the last year he has suffered hemorrhages. SELECTION OF ZENGE JURY IS COMPLETED Opening Statements Started Immediately in Chicago Murder Trial, i ffy t n ited Prc&t CHICAGO. Oet. 10.—A jury was completed today to try the case of Mandeville W. Zenge on charges of murdering Dr Walt— J. Bauer. Opening statements were started Immediately. STORM HITS ALASKA Houses Swept Away, Army Signal Corps Tells War Department. £y L ailed Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 10—The worst storm in 50 pears is raging on the Alaskan coast near Bethel, the Army Signal Corps told the War Department today. Houses in the town have been Swept away and high tides have< amaged piers.

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All in Chew-sing Sides POSTMASTER ADOLPH SEIDENSTICKER. stuck until today with 5055 stick.' of chewing gum. struck a bright idea and bv this afternoon will have solved the situation. The chewing gum came three sticks to the letter from the William Wrigley Cos.. Chicago, and of the 30,000 letters sent. 1635 were undeliverable. Mr. Seiden.stiekor. who never chews gum in public, wrote the company and asked if they wanted it returned. No the company said, "just give it to some worthwhile charity.” So it will be divided between the Negro and Indianapolis Orphans Homes and Riiev Hospital.

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Dr. Edmund D. Clark STATE DOCTORS ELECT CLARK Indianapolis Physician Is Honored by Colleagues in Convention. IS!/ Times H lire ini GARY, Ind., Oct. 10.—Dr. Edmund D. Clark. Indianapolis, was named president-elect of the Indiana State Medical Society today at the annual convention here. He will take office in 1937. Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher, Indianapolis, was re-elected treasurer and Drs. Don F. Cameron, Ft. Wayne, and F. S. Crockett, Lafayette, were re-elected delegates to the American Medical Association convention. Dr. George Daniels, Marion, and Dr. A. M. Mitchell, Terre Haute, were elected alternates to the con- * vention and South Bend was selected for the 1936 convention. Before the convention today was a resolution which, if passed, would result in the society studying birth control with a view to the medical profession taking over its administration. A proposal for a study of methods to curb the three, principal causes of death—heart disease, cancer and traffic accidents—is pending. # SHOWERS TO BRING TEMPERATURE DIVE Mercury to Be 10 Degrees Lower. Is Forecast. Showers that began early today are to continue through tonight, bringing a decided temperature drop, the weather bureau reported today. Tomorrow the thermometer may read an average of 10 degrees lower than today, it is predicted. Frost’s Seal on U. S. I'll Science Svrrice. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10.—Frost has set the seal of autumn on much of America in the last week. Temperatures well below freezing were reported to the Weather Bureau here from as far south as Asheville. N. C. The owest tempera - j ture was at Devil's Lake, N. D.—l 6 ! above zero. Two inches of snow fell at Scranton, Pa. Temperatures were abnormally high—even up to 100—in the Southwest, the Great Basin and parts of the Pacific Coast area. Frost did some damage to late corn in scattered localities from lowa eastward. U. S.. REICH SEEK TO END TRADE DISPUTE Secret Parleys Held by Hull and German Economic Chief. By United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 10—Secret conversations to break the impasse between Germany and America over trade policies have been held between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Karl Ritter, chief of the . economic section of the Reich Foreign Office. A high source disclosed today that important clarifications of policy had occurred but that the two nations still remain ’far apart. Times Index Amusements 10-11 Books 17 Bridge 15 Broun 17 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 25 Editorial 18 Financial .. 24 Pegler 17 Radio 11 Serial Story 8 Sports 20-21 Woman's Pages 14-15 La Porte Man Killed in Crash By United Press LA PORTE. Ind , Oct, 10. Charles Clark, 57, was killed and his wife. 53. was injured critically when i an automobile in which they were I riding was struck by a tram at a crossing near here yesterday.

BREAKS DOWN DURING TRIAL Woman Witness Collapses on Stand, Delaying Welshans Case. Mrs. Mary Gaskins, 646 Russellav, testifying that she had seen Thomas Welshans, alleged killer, strike his sweetheart before her death, broke down during Welshans’ trial in Criminal Court today. Mrs. Gaskins had asserted that Welshans inflicted physioal cruelties upon Mrs. Mary Ferguson Hamberg, who was later shot to death. Mrs. Gaskins, who testified that she had seen Welshans strike his sweetheart, Mrs. Hamberg, days before she was shot to death June 3 in her Speedway City apartjnent. sobbed, unable to proceed with her testimony. Mrs. Gaskins w'as given medical aid and resumed the stand. Welshans, w'ho had been visited in the county jail by the witness while he w'as aw'aiting trial, stared her out of countenance, never once altering his own facial expression—one of intense interest. She testified that she had been present at the home of Harry Morris, 1212 S. Senate-av, when Welshans attempted to persuade Mrs. Hamberg to leave with him. Pistol Is Identified Mrs. Gaskins ackuawledged on questioning by Deputy Prosecutor James Watson that she had seen Welshans strike the girl. Samuel Miller, stepson of Mr. Morris, identified the automatic pistol with which Welshans is alleged to have shot the girl as one w'hich Welshans showed him two w'eeks before the tragedy. In cross examination of Benjamin Whiteley, 1641 Winton-st, Speedway City marshal, the defense brought out- testimony that he had taken a gun from Paul Ferguson, Mary Hamberg’s father, w'hen he threatened to shoot Welshans. Mr. Whiteley testified that he had been called to the Ferguson home several times, to quiet differences between the girl’s father and her sweetheart. Both men threats against the other, he testified. TAX BOARD TO CHECK LOCAL RATES CLOSELY First Appeal Results in a 6-(’ent Reduction in Levy. Promise that local tax levies which have been appealed to the State Tax Board are to be scrutinized "closely'’ and reduced if possible.” was given by board members today. The board indicated it would carry out its promise by announcing the first appeal—West College Corner town rate—had resulted in a. 6-ceni reduction. Nearly 150 appeals have been filed with the board. Dates of hearings will be set tomorrow. Hearings will be held in the county from w'hich the appeals were taken.

'TRADE' MADE, SAYS WIFE OF KIDNAPER Mrs. Stoll Gave Pledge to Robinson, Is Charge. (Picture on Page 4) Bii United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky„ Oct. 10.—Testimony was given in Federal Court this afternoon that Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, kidnaped by Thomas H. Robinson Jr., now at large, “traded" with Robinson, permitting the kidnaper to escape. The trade, it was said, was that Robinson agreed, in exchange for his liberty, not to force his young wife. Mrs. Frances Robinson, to accompany him. Mrs. Robinson and the kidnaper's father. T. H. Robinson Sr., are on trial charged with,, complicity in the kidnaping. The testimony was given by Mrs. Frances Robinson. Tears welled in the eyes of women spectators as she told of asserted cruelties she suffered during her married life with Robinson.

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The fierce riash in the hills of Ethiopia between the troops of Benito Mussolini and those of Haile Selassie lends extreme importance to this graphic story of what lies behind the conflict. The Times today presents the first installment of "Black Shirt. Black Skin.” FOREWORD IN the autumn of 1914 a young American student was all prepared to sail to Germany for a post-graduate course in a German university. His tickets were bought. His bags were packed. His aunt, a Sunday school teacher, was pleased. She wouldn t have her nephew hanging around all summer, she thought with satisfaction—besides it would do him good.

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CIVIL WAR LAW IS INVOKED HERE Statute Is Called Up by Attorney for Alleged Auto Bandit. John Royce, atorney for Ernest Tait, today invoked a statute enacted before the Civil War in an effort to examine six city detectives on what sort of a case they have against his client. Tait is to go on trial within two weeks in Criminal Court on charges of auto banditry and other felonies, and Mr. Royce has asked Special Judge James D. Ermston to order the detectives to appear for questioning. Judge Ermston has taken the motion under advisement, the issue being whether, if the defense takes the depositions and does not bring them into the trial, the prosecution may introduce them. He is to rule today or tomorrow. The detectives, Louis Fosetti, James Portain. Maurice Corbin. Stewart Coleman. John Romane and Pate White, failed to appear at Mr. Rovse's office when he called for depositions last week. PFAFF-HUGHEL SUED BY LOCAL INVESTOR Suit Charges Stock He Purchased Was Not Delivered. Suit for $504 was filed in Circuit Court today by Ellis Barker. 4421 N. Illinois-st, administrator of the estate of James P. Baker Jr., against the Globe Indemnity Cos., on SSOOO bond for Pfaff & Hughel, bankrupt investment company. The suit charges that on Jan. 22. 1935, Mr. Baker paid $386 for four shares of Du Pont common stock, which Pfaff &: Hughel are alleged to have "purchased fictitiously and fraudulently represented they bought.” The stock was not delivered, the suit charges. Officers of Pfaff and Hughel now are at liberty on bonds, following federal indictments for using the mails to defraud.

One afternoon he walked into the house. "The trip.” he announced disconsolately, “is all off," and flounced, like a disappointed boy, into a chair. The authorities. it seemed, had deemed it advisable that he shouldn't go. The war, you know! Not safe—things all in a hopeless muddle m Europe —not the best place in the world for young students—better wait a while. His aunt exploded with indignation. "A little war in Europe.” she snorted. “What's that got to do with America? Why, that's got nothing to do with us. Why.” and her voice rose shrilly with patriotic ire, "nobody has even heard of the wretched little war. I can’t understand it.”

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Surprise! Mrs. Mary Brandt, 1836 N. Delaware-st, heard a noise in a rear room last night, opened the door and surprised a burglar. The burglar looked at her a moment, opened a window and surprised Mrs. Brandt by jumping out of it.

HITCH GETS HEARING. DELAYS PRISON TRIP Bond Sureties Refused by Judge Baker. Seeking r-elease from the county jail, Ralph Hitch, former chief deputy sheriff, this afternoon was granted a hearing that will block temporarily his removal to the State Prison at Michigan City. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox directed that Hitch appear in his court at 2 tomorrow on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. It appeared earlier that Hitch, facing a 2—21year sentence for embezzlement, might be taken to the prison today, pending appeal perfection. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker had refused to accept the sureties on his $17,500 bond and remanded Hitch to jail yesterday. Hitch alleges his last arrest is without legal basis. Judge Baker said the appeal bond had a name scratched out on it, and another put in its place. DIXIE CAPTAIN ABSOLVED Lnusual Weather Conditions Blamed for Grounding of Liner. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct, 10.—Capt. E. W. Sundstrom and other officers of the Morgan Liner Dixie uvere absolved by the Steamboat Inspection Service today of blame in the ship’s grounding on French Reef in the Florida Straits. Sept. 2. A special inquiry board of the Bureau of Navigation reported the vessel was driven aground by "extreme and unusual weather conditions.”

I have often thought back over the years that have passed since that afternoon and marveled how utterly detached and oblivious and sublimely ignorant that woman was of what was occurring in Europe then, how she knew and cared almost absolutely nothing of what went on in the Old World, nor whether its destinies conveyed any kind of a message to the New World. And yet she was a teacher of children! a a a \ ND sb at the close of almost iV another score of years, we watch another war. One nation, powerful and well-equipped, snarls at another, smaller and ill-trained. Who is there who can foretell

CLINGS TO HOPE SON WILL TALK Mother Interprets Moise as Sign Boy, 4, Will Recover Voice.. By Times Special, SPENCERVILLE. Ind., Oct. 10.— Among the last things Robert Lee Shockley did nine weeks ago before he was struck by an auto in front of his home here was play cowboy in a regular cowboy suit. Yesterday his mother, who has sat with him most of the nine weeks he’s been unconscious and semiconscious, brought the cowboy suit to him. He smiled—tried to laugh—made a. noise! And that, to Mrs. Shockley, is a promise that he will speak again. But to Dr. B. O. Shook, the physician who has been in constant attendance, it means only that he has made a noise. Dr. Shook believes he will never speak again, that nerve centers have been disturbed. Robert is encased in a cast from hips to toes, and his skull is fractured several times at the base. His wounds are healing, the doctor reports, but there is grave question if he will regain the use of his limbs or his vocal chords. Robert was struck by an auto when he started to run across the road from in back of a parked car. ROOSEVELT BROTHERS ESCAPE CRASH DEATH Car Sideswiped by Train After John Drives Through Safety Gale. By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 10. —Harvard classmates of President Roosevelt’s sons anticipated stern parental admonitions for their friends today. John Roosevelt, 19, who with "his brother, Franklin Jr.. 21, comprise the fast drivers of the family, drove his automobile through a safety gate last night into the path of a train. His brother James. 28. was a passenger. The car was sideswiped and wrecked. Witnesses said it seemed a miracle that they were not killed or seriously injured.

what will mushroom from northeast Africa? Will it be just "a little war?” Will it mean something more sinister —the clash between two imperial giants, one the possessor of an empire, the other reaching out to carve one for herself? Will it spread—like the fumes of a poisonous gas and envelop the whole world in one more awful Armageddon? These are questions no man can answer—only Time. But it does not mean that we should move through the humdrum of our immediate daily lives and contacts : without keeping our eyes open, learning all we can learn, recognizing danger when danger is all (Turn to Page One, Second Section)

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By L ailed Press ROME. Oct. 10.—Diplomatic relations between Italy and Ethiopia have b®c?> broken, it was announced officially tonight. By L ailed Pn ss GFNEVA, Oct. 10.- An entirely unconfirmed rumor was nculated among League leaders today that Pope Pi’ i might intervene at the request of Premier Benito y jssolini in behalf of peace. By United Press LONDON. Oct. 10. — Italian forces have killed 2.")00 Ethiopians and taken 600 prisoners since the start of their campaign in Africa, the Exchange Telegraph's correspondent reported today from Eritrea, northern headquarters of the Italian armies. The correspondent said Italian casualties have been light. Only two of II Duce’s officers have been killed and 100 officers and men wounded, he reported. Rv United Tress GENEVA —League of Nations votes Italy an outlaw nation. Financial and economic penalties to be applied within few days. Italy's delegate accuses League members of insincerity, but only Austria and Hungary stand with Italy. ROME—ltalians on northern front prepare mass drive on Makale, important city 50 miles south of Adigrat. ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia formally severs diplomatic relations with Italy by ordering minister and staff from country. Ethiopian minister in Rome to receive his passport today. LONDON—Ethiopian diplomatic officials fear Dedjazmateh Haile Selassie Hugsa, son-in-law of emperor, killed in battle. Dispatches indicate Ethiopian guerrillas harassing Italian forces. ADDIS ABABA—Dispatches from Ogaden front report many Ethioopians killed in extended Italian bombing raids. One bombing plane reported to have crashed on mountain side, killing two occupants, mortally injuring two others. PARlS—Newspapers report Britain planning to blockade Red Sea and isolate Italian troops in Africa. (A Striking Map of the War Zone Is on Page 3)

Haile’s Son-in-Law Slain in Cavalry Attack, London Hears. By United Press ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 10. Many Ethiopians were killed when Italian airplanes bombed posts along - the Ogaden front, a dispatch from Gorrahei said today. The dispatch added that Italian infantry was advancing in the region—an indication that after long delay the Italian drive from the southern front toward Jigjiga, Harar and the vital Addis AbabaDjibouti railway had begun in full force. The bombing was effected along the basin of the Webbe Shibeli River, which runs northwestward up onto the central plateau, and in the Tafara Katama and Jilamo districts, the dispatch said. The planes arrived over the territory at 7 a. m. yesterday. An official telegram from Makale, on the Aduwa front, said that an Italian bombing plane crashed on Cara Alta Mountain yesterday with its four occupants. Two of the four were killed, the dispatch said. The others were reported dying. One thousand native Askaris of the Italian Eritrean army are fleeing with their arms toward Makalle from the southeast, trying to join the Ethiopians while Italian planes pursue them with machine gun fire, the dispatch said. The Ethiopians, the dispatch added. sent forces to meet the deserters. Ethiopians Claim Victories (Copyright. 1035. by United Press) WITH THE ETHIOPIAN ARMIES. HARAR. Ethiopia, Oct. 10 Ethiopian tribesmen, armed with primitive weapons, have staged a series of night raids along the Ogaden front and inflicted heavy casualties on Italian outposts. The headquarters of Dedjazmatch Nassibu claimed today. The reports of stealthy forays inside the Italian lines roused high enthusiasm. Dispatches from the front said guerrilla attacks isolated three Italian outposts and resulted in numerous casualties. Guerrilla warfare was reported to be proving effective along the extreme southern front where II Duce's invasion has been made tortuous and slow t>y vast distances separating water holes. It is around these water holes, dispatches to Nassibu stated, that the fiercest skirmishes are being waged as the Ethiopians harass the invaders with spor . _ fire from ambush. The Italians, it was pointed out at headquarters here, must obtain possession of the water holes before they can storm the escarpments of the southern plateau. The Ethiopian general headquarters regards its efforts to drive the Italians mad from thirst as an important part of its strategy in defense of the plateau. Fear Son-in-Law Slain (Copyright, 1935, by United Press* LONDON, Oct. 10.—Ethiopians fear that Dedjazmatch Haile Selassie Hugsa. son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie I, has been killed in a cavalry drive into Eritrea. "It is learned that Aberas and Haile, two of Ras Siyyoum’s trusted generals, have been killed in battle (Turn to Page Three I New guaranteed tires 15c wk. Save 51.00 up. Hoosier P'-te.—Adv.

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Right to Oppose Steps Reserved by One of Nations: Unnamed. BY' FREDERICK KUH (Copyright. 1935. by United Press) GENEVA, Oct. 10.—Fiftytwo nations representing every continent Italy today as a violator of the League of Nations’ covenant because of its undeclared war on Ethiopia. President Edouard Benes announced that one nation whose name he did not give reserved the right to oppose or make a reservation regarding the condemnation. Severe as was the action, speakers for both France and Great Britain emphasized that they would continue to work for peace, along with the duty of penalizing a nation that iought with them in the World War. By the action of the assembly, League members bound themselves automatically to apply economic and financial penalties against Fascist Italy. Any nation which joined in Italy's condemnation is entitled legally, if it desires, to declare formal war against Italy as a world outlaw. But three nations—ltaly, Austria and Hungary—of the 55 nations represented—declared themselves dissociated from the assembly action. Acts With Firmness It had been proclaimed to th# world by doubters that the League would never act. Benito Mussolini had said defiantly that he would pursue his aims with the League, without the League, or against the League. But the assembly acted with firmness and with a decision and speed that astonished the assemblymen themselves. It was to be the first test for the dreaded Article 16 of the League Covenant, the penal article which was so strong that the United States refused to join the League that Woodrow Wilson inspired. The way was cleared for immediate penalties to be decided upon by a committee of 20-odd nations, including ail members of the council —except Italy—and by all of Italy's neighbor nations but Austria and Albania. Go Into Force Soon The penalties, progressive in character, are expected to be in actual force within a few' days. Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Italy's chief delegate, a veteran diplomat, opened the meeting with a final stand in (Turn to Page Threei

U. S. Policy By ( ail and Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 American exporters were warned by Secretary of State Cordell Hull again today that, if they trade with Italy or Ethiopia during the present war, they do so at their own risk. In answer to statements by New York exporters that they propose to carry on their trade with Italy regardless of Preside n t Roosevelt's warning against, such activities, Hull said, in effect, that American nationals are free to follow their own inclinations and consciences in the matter. If they get into trouble with some foreign government, however, as a result of their action, they can not look to the American government for aid or support.