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PFAFF, HUGHEL ENTER PLEAS OF NOT GUILTY Investment Brokers Deny Fraud Charges in Federal Court. STERN FAILS TO APPEAR Arraignment Deferred to Oct. 19 Because of Illness. Myron M. Hughel, Walter P. PfafT and Robert B. Robinson, officers of PfafT fc Hughel, defunct, investment firm, today pleaded not guilty to mail fraua charges before Federal .fudge Robert C Baltzell. Their trial was set for Nov, 11. Louis Stern, official of Louis Stern A- Cos, another defunct investment firm in the city, was excused from arraignment on Federal charges until Oct. 19 because of illness. Attractive Miss Opal Belle Brown pleaded guilty 1o violation of the national banking act in connection with an alleged embezzlement from the Fletcher Trust Cos., and sentencing was deferred until Oct. 19. Miss Brown showed no emotion as she stood before the bar. Pleading guilty to counterfeiting, Charles W. Starling and Condon W. Myers w'ere sentenced to 10 years each in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Val Nolan, District Attorney, said the men had passed counterfeit $lO bills representing value of more than S2OOO in Indiana and Ohio. A 10-year sentence in Atlanta was given to Freeman E. Wright, described by Mr. Nolan as a kingpin narcotic operator in Indianapolis. Dr. Harold C. Rininger. Winchester physician, pleaded guilty to having written more than 200 narcotic prescriptions for two addicts. Sentencing was deferred. James Morgan, who admitted he was an addict, pleaded guilty to forging narcotic prescriptions and was sentenced to 18 months at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. * William .T. Zehner, former Tipton find.) postmaster, pleaded guilty to violating postal laws and was sentenced a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary. Mrs. Zulu B. Houston. Arlington postmistress, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of Federal funds, was sentenced to a year and a day. She collapsed in the courtroom and was carried out unconscious. SESSION DECISION TO BE MADE IN JANUARY Contingent on Action of Federal Security Board. McNutt Says. Decision on a special session of the legislature will be made in January, Gov. McNutt indicated in a press conference today. Assured that funds for administering the Social Security Act win be one of the first acts of Congress early that month. Gov. McNutt said his decision will be contingent upon the attitude taken by Federal Social Security Board on the state's old-age pension act. The board will not organize until funds are appropriated, the Governor has been advised. 2 SUITS ASK $45,000 FROM CITY CREAMERY Injuries Said to Have Been Received Near Spencer. Suits asking $45,000 from the Sugar Creek Creamery Cos., for alleged Injuries received by Pierson Jones and George B Alexander in a truck wreck, were on file today in Circuit Court. Mr. Alexander was blinded and Mr Jones burned severely, the suits allege, when the truck on which they were riding struck a utility pole near Spencer. HATES TO GO HOME, GOES TO JAIL INSTEAD Police Halt Argument of Bottles Against Fists. It was 1 this morning and George Bradley, 29. Flint, Mich., didn't want to go home. Sam Koby. owner, and Bert Harman. entertainer in Palm Gardens, tavern at 145 N. Illinois-st, wanted him to go. George threw bottles, police said, and Sam and Dert threw fists. All were arrested. 300 SHIRT FACTORY WORKERS G 0 0N STRIKE Jeffersonville Employes Say Action Was Taken to Get Wage Raise. By Special JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Oct. 11. —The M. Fine & Sons shirt factory was closed here today because 300 workers walked out. Factory officials declined to comment while workers said their action was prompted by a wage reduction.

False Alarm By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 The police teletype system summarized the situation in this manner: "William Churchill. 601 Marion-st, reports loss of pants and $39 99. This is a larceny.” Several hours later came this development: ■'Churchill larceny O K. No larceny. His wife took pants and money to keep him from going out."

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Unsettled tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and somewhat warmer.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 184

Business Is Better, So Another City Industry Prepares for Expansion

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One-Man Firm Decides to Hire Some Men, and Install a Telephone, Perhaps: This Publicity Is Just What He Needs, Too. Clyde Everett Crouse, West Side business man, took time off from his interests to issue a considered statement on the trend of the times. “Business,” he said, “is better. In fact, I’m going to expand and take on some men.” He paused and scratched his curly hair. “I think I’ll install a telephone,” he decided.

BURNS'HEIRS TO SHARE ESTATE Judge Chambers Decides Wife Was First to Succumb. Mrs. Minine Burns died before her husband, Jerome, and close relatives of the latter therefore are sole heirs to his 80-acre estate. This was the ruling today of Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers. Reginald H. Sullivan, former mayor, was named commissioner to carry out the ruling. Mr. Burns was found shot and badly beaten in his home. 3926 W. Morris-st, May 22. He died in Methodist Hospital, May 27, without being able to furnish clews to his assailant’s identity or the, whereabouts of Mrs. Burns, Her body was found in a ditch near the home June 11. She had been shot through the breast. A small caliber revolver was found under her body. An “unqualified” verdict was given by the coroner, indicating inability to fix responsibility for the deaths. SELLING OF HAILS ENDS STOCKS' RISE Union Pacific Leads With 2 1 , 4 -Point Drop. By I uited Press NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Selling of railroad shares lowered the stock market today after an early advance. Union Pacifi clipped 2U points and other leading carriers were down fractions to a point. Uncertainty over the future caused the unloading. Rail bonds also turned down. Chrysler held 1 ■" t points of an early rise of 2 r, s points. Other motors were fractionally higher, but below their tops. Several oils slipped to small losses. Steels lost part, or all, of early advances. Utilities also eased. Chemicals held better than most groups with Du Pont up 3 points at 134. EIGHT GULF PORTS ARE TIED UP BY WALKOUT Dock Strike Extends From Florida to Texas. By United Press HOUSTON. Tex.. Oct. 11—Eight ports in the Western Gulf Coast district were tied up by a dock strike today, completing a walkout extending from Pensacola, Fla., to Corpus Cristi, Tex. Approximately 5000 men at Lake Charles. La., and throughout the Texas coastline walked off the docks today. These included longshoremen. wharf clerks, checkers and cotton headers. UNSETTLED WEATHER TO STAY TOMORROW Temperatures Will Rise for Day or Two, City Bureau Predicts. The unsettled feature of today’s weather is to continue tomorrow, but temperatures will rise, the Weather Bureau predicted today. There is a considerable area of unsettled weather west of Indianapolis. Warmer temperatures will prevail for a day or two when they arrive, the bureau predicts. CLIPPER AT MIDWAY Air I.iner Makes Flight From Honolulu in Nine Hours. By United I'ress MIDWAY ISLANDS. Oct. 11. The Pan-American Airways clipper plane was anchored in the Midway lagoon today in a stop-over of a 6480-mile flight to Guam. The clipper landed here late vesterdav after a flight of 8 hours and 8 minutes from Honolulu. New guaranteed tires 15c wk. Save SI.OO up. Hoosier Pete.—Adv.

Clyde E. Crouse . , , , Business Is Better

For the C. E. Crouse, Dependable Errand Service, 16-year-old Clyde is president, assorted vice president, secretary and treasurer. Also he is the dependable errand service. In his spare time he carries a newspaper route, and attends Washington High School where he is a sophomore and is carrying, with some success, a heavy academic load. That Uniform Helps Not income of the service is between $5 and $6.50 weekly. When the service is expanded the income will be more, Clyde hopes. Os course, hiring a “man” or two will create an overhead, a business hazard he has avoided until now. Clyde has a bicycle which he won in a newspaper carrier contest. On this, dressed in a uniform he picked out for himself, he rides every day after school past the front doom of his 200 or more customers. If one of them wants him to (lx pay a bill. (2) go to the grocery, (3) mind the baby, (4) make a telephone call, (5) get some ice, (6) call the doctor, (7) or make a trip downtown for them, she hangs a card in the window. “Just like an ice card,” he describes it, “Only it has my name on it. Then I stop, ask what it is, and do it. I wear a uniform because it’s neater, and—well, it attracts attention, sort of, and people call at you. It’s good business.” All errands on the Wes, Side come at 5 cents a copy; all uptown come at 10 cents, and each additional errand is 5 cents more. August Not So Good “Business has been good ever since I started, July 5. Os course, it wasn't in August, because that was such a nice month that people wanted to get out of doors and they did their own errands. “What I’m trying to do is to make people believe that it’s an awful thing to have to go downtown to do an errand. Then I’ll get the business. All I have to do is make the trip once or twice for them and they think it’s too much trouble for them.” Clyde lives at 132 S. Neal-av. now. He and his family are going to move soon, but not far away. His two brothers work at the Link Beit Cos. and his mother keeps house for them. When business increases, and he has to take between 10 and 30 water bills downtown at once when they come due. he's going to get himself bonded. There might, be a holdup, you know 7 . “It’s good business,” he says. He had an afterthought. “Gee, this publicity is going to do me an awful lot of good!” SCHOOL LEADER DEAD Washington Superintendent for 25 Years Passes. By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., Oct. 11 William Franklin Axtell, 79. for more than 25 years principal and superintendent of Washington schools, died yesterday at Daviess County Hospital. Alaskan Storm Abates By United Press NOME. Alaska, Oct. 11.—A storm that had lashed western Alaska for two days passed out to sea today, leaving widespread destruction in Nome, Bethel and the Kuckokwim Valley. Floods which followed the heavy rains washed out a native village. Dorothy Gish Wins Divorce By United Press BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Oct. 11.— Dorothy Gish, former stage and screen star, was awarded a divorce today from James M. Rennie. New York actor, whom she charged with cruelty.

The fierce clash in the hills of Ethiopia between the troops of Renito Mussolini and those of Haile Selassie lends extreme importance to this graphic storv of what lies behind the conflict. The Times today presents the second installment of -Black Shirt. Black Skin." ETHIOPIA! A land of mountains, deserts, rivers and contrasts—of medieval kingdoms, savages, sorcerers and slaves—a of appalling:

BLACK SHIRT, BLACK SKIN —By Boake Carter

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935

WELSHANS RAN FROM SCENE, JURY IS TOLD Fled in Auto After Shot Was Heard, Garage Man Asserts. FRIEND TAKES STAND Declares Taxi Driver Said 1 Just Killed Bess — I’ll Beat It.’ Flifht of Thomas Welshans, taxidriver lover of murdered Mrs. Mary Ferguson Hamberg, walkathon queen, after she was shot to death in her Spetdway City apartment, was described today at his Criminal Court murder trial. Clyde Glendenin. 217 1 i N. Illinoisst, said he was an attendant in a downtown parking lot the day of the killing, June 3, and that Welshans, a friend of his, rushed up to him and said: “I just killed Bess. I'm going to get a car here and beat it. She did me dirty.” Earl Lawhead, proprietor of a garage, testified he saw Welshans flee in an auto after the shooting, and Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Humphreys, neighbors of the slain girl, testified they heard a shot, then saw Welshans run from the house. Yesterday neighbors told of finding the attractive girl's body on the froor of the apartment. “I saw Mary lying there and I screamed that she was dead. I stood in the middle of the floor and it seemed I could not move,” Mrs. Juliette Akins told the jury. Mrs. Akins, who lived in the same building at the time, said she heard a pistol shot. Finding the door locked, she crawled from the window of her apartment into Mrs. Hamberg's rooms. One state witness, Mrs. Mary Gaskins, 646 Russell-av, collapsed on the stand and was given medical aid. Sobbing, Mrs. Gaskins reluctantly admitted talking’to Welshans in the jail after his arrest.

DEFENSE ATTEMPTS TO CLEAR ROBINSONS Wife Denies Knowledge of Abduction Plot. By United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., Oct. 11.-The trial of T. H. Robinson, Sr. and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frances Robinson, for complicity in the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll by their son and husband, Thomas H Robinson, Jr., who is still at large, moved into the fifth day in Federal Court today with the defense introducing additional evidence to prove their innocence. Both defendants testified yesterday. Mrs. Robinson told of the difficulties of her married life and related the whole story of her part in Mrs. Stoll’s release. Vigorous cross-examination by government attorneys failed to shake her contention that she had no knowledge of her husband’s intention to abduct the wealthy Louisville woman. She related that she drove from Chicago to Indianapolis with her husband, where they rented the apartment which was to be Mrs. Stoll’s prison for six days. STEPHENSON RULING EXPECTED OCT. 17 La Porte Judge to Rule on Freedom Plea. Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Oct. 11.—Circuit Judge Wirt Worden will rule next week on the latest court effort of D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan, to win his release from the Indiana State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence. The ruling, on a state’s motion to quash petition for a writ of habeas corpus, had been expected this week.Jjut Judge Worden today indicated it would not be handed down until next Thursday. Stephenson, who is'Jailed for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis, has made nine other attempts to win freedom, kix of them through writs of habeas corpus. Marriage Bureau to Be Open. The marriage license department in the Marion County Courthouse will be open until noon tomorrow, County Clerk Glenn Ralston announced. South door of the Courthouse will be open.

wastes, raging floods—of beautiful highlands and an earth filled with oil, copper, silver and gold. It lies tucked away in the northeast comer of Africa. To get into it, one passes through that famous gateway to the Orient, the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea and into the Gulf of Aden, the gulf that gradually widens until its roving waters are swallowed up by the

Pendulum In the Balance Hangs a Man’s Life —That of ‘Tommy.’

BY ARCH STEINEL ' Times Staff Writer ELECTRIC chair, prison, or freedom—these swing in a Criminal Court pendulum today over the head of Thomas Welshans. He is charged with killing his sweetheart, Mrs. Mary Eliza- . beth Hamberg. “He deserves the electric chair,” cries her father, Paul Ferguson, a punch-press operator at Speedway City, ‘•'He should be punished, but it's awfully hard to say how much when he was so close to the girl we loved,” weeps her mother, Mrs. Mildred June Brockman, a laundry seamstress. “Mercy! He didn’t mean to do it,” pleads Mrs. Lillian Welshans, the 22-year-old youth's mother. “He killed in a jealous rage,” charges the state in the person of Deputy Prosecutor Henry Goett. “No,” answers the defense attorney, Roy L. Volstad, seeking a l-to-10-year sentence of involuntary manslaughter. “He killed accidently. He was a braggart and was trying to frighten.” an n EIGHT women and four men, jurors, watch the swing of testimony describing Welshans—now jealously, now a braggart, now r threats that Welshans made, now his youthful love for her, now the slap in the face he gave her. Fear of sympathy and its possible weight with the jury also swings between relatives both of the man on trial and of his dead sweetheart. A witness sobs. Mrs. Brockman muffles her face. She remembers the clandestine meetings at her home between her daughter and the man on trial—they call him “Tommy.” She is divorced from Mr. Ferguson, but sits beside him at the trial. He breaks down. She consoles him. The pendulum swings on. IN the witness chair a friend of the dead girl and “Tommy” bends her head crying. “I don't know nothing.” Women jurors fidget. One with flour-rolling arms rubs an eye. “He threw her on the bed and slapped her,” mutters the weakvoiced witness. Feminine jurors lean forward. The white-faced Welshans stares at the wdtness, then shifts his gaze to the jury. “Now take your time,” says James Watson, deputy prosecutor, as he presses the witness for the story of Welshans’ alleged abuse and jealousy. The pendulum swings again. Court recesses. a a OUT in the Courthouse corridor the girl’s father is talking: "He is mean. He had no right to be jealous of her. He wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.” “He is a good boy. He didn’t mean to do it,” says Welshans’ mother. Court reopens. Another witness testifies: “They called her ‘Bicycle Bess.’ She was in walk-a-shows. One night she and Tommy came down to Columbus, Ind, to see me. They just hung around the carnival shows where I was working.” So the pendulum swings back 'and forth for "Tommy,” who loved “Bicycle Bess.”

Proves Whooping Cough Is Brought on bg Germ World’s Strangest Phonograph Record to Be Used as Evidence by Doctor. BA' DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor will E^fvH N t D ' IL ~ The ,. world ' s strangest phonograph record rii‘vp^oH la l ed^ tCmßh c ™ % meetmg of the experimental section of the Se m ?i A th dmy c os ( MedlClne - The record was made by a chimpanzee in the throes of whooping cough.

It constitutes part of the proof' that Dr. Gerald S. Shibley of Lakeside Hospital and the Western Reserve University Medical School has established the germ which causes whooping cough. For more than 20 years the medical profession has argued about the cause of whooping cough. Some authorities said it was a germ or bacillus first isolated in 1906 by two European scientists, Bordet and Gengou, and known as the Bordet bacillus. Others said it was an invisible filterable virus; that is, an unknown germ so small that it would pass through the finest filter. Still others said it was a combination of the tw'o. By a series of experiments with chimpanzees, over a series of years. Dr. Shibley has established conclusively that the Bordet bacil-

restless, rolling swells of the mighty Indian Ocean. The heat hits you in the face like the blast from a Pittsburgh steel furnace. Even the coastline is an ally of the heat. For it mentally stifles you to look at the dreary, desert country on both sides of the sea. You put in at Djibouti, the port of French Somaliland. The town (Turn to Page One, Second Section)

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LEAGUE PENALIZES ITALY; NEW ATTACK LAUNCHED; ADUWA FOUND UNHARMED

American Writer Reaches Scene, Reports No Sign of Bombing. NO GAS USED, HE SAYS Amazing Tanks Lead Push Into African Nation, Miller Cables. After four days of silence from the Italian front. Webb Miller has been able to deliver the following picture of what is happening in the Aduwa region, sent to the cable-head from the interior by native runner. BY WEBB MILLER (Copyright, 1935, by United Press) ADUWA, Ethiopia, Oct. 11, (By Courier to Asmara, Eritrea) —The Italians are in control on the northern Aduwa front, massing their forces for a steady drive into ; the interior via Aksum on the west and toward Makale on the east. I was surprised to hear in a Berlin Trans-Ocean news broadcast a story datelined Addis Ababa purporting to give Italian casualties as 2000. Everything I have seen here indicates that the figure probably would not reach 100 dead and wounded, of whom only a few are dead. I would be surprised if the casualties exceed 27 Italians and their native Askari troops, with the Askaris predominating. I visited several hospitals. The largest number I saw anywhere in them was from 15 to 100, mostly under treatment for illness. Likewise I was surprised to hear of a “desperate battle” for Aduwa, which it was not. Aduwa Avas captured with virtually no resistance and the town itself was not visibly damaged by bombs, most of which w r ere dropped in the surrounding hills. Gen. Pietro Maravigna is delaying the capture of Aksum pending improvement in his line of communications. The Italian preparations are methodical and thorough. In this incredibly difficult country, what pass for makeshift “roads” must be built for the line of advance. Biggest Feature of Drive Besides infantry, machine gunners and airplanes, one of the most valuable arms of the service is the “flea” tank, which can scurry along where wheeled vehicles can not go. The speedy midget tanks are so small they may be driven under a man’s outstretched arms, carrying an operator and a machine-gunner. They are an amazing and important feature of Mussolini’s ordnances in this war. The bounding little tanks with sturdy steel hides are capable of a speed of 25 miles an hour on flat ground and their ability to negotiate the craggy mountains has made them invaluable from a military standpoint. With apparently little difficulty (Turn to Page Three)

lus is responsible. It is hoped that his discovery will lead to improved methods of combating the disease and establishing immunity from it. Experiments looking in that direction are now under way by Dr. Shibley and other experimenters at Western Reserve University and Lakeside Hospital. The chief difficulty in the past has been that when the Bordet bacillus was obtained from a whooping cough patient auKF grown in the laboratory it changed from a spherical germ to an elongated type and at the same time lost its virulence. This was believed due to the effect of the artificial medium. Dr. Shibley developed a medium which consists of 25 per cent human blood. Grown on this medium, the bacillus retains it original form and virulence. By growing strains over long periods he was able to show conclusively that there was no filterable virus associated with the bacillus. First Dr. Shibley infected a chimpanzee with a strain which had been grown for eight months. This was done by spraying the germs into the air and permitting the animal to breathe them in. The chimpanzee came down with a whoopin gcough. Next, germs removed from this animal were growm in the labor for 16 months and then used to infect the second chimpanzee. The record of the second animal’s "whoops” will be played tonight. The cough of the disease is so plainly a diagnostic sign that any physician could recognize the disease from the record.

War Today

Rv United Pres* GENEVA—League drafts drastic penalties against Italy, including world-wide arms embargo, boycott of Italian goods and refusal to extend credit or loans. MILLER. WAR FRONT—ltalians control northern front, massing for steady drive southward. Correspondent visits Aduwa, finds few casualties occurred. ROME—ltalian detachments reported penetrating deeper in north, preparatory to general advance. Addis Ababa—Ethiopians claim to have shot down Italian plane. No other confirmation is available. Report that Ethiopians have recaptured Aduwa discredited even here. DUGE PREPARES SCORCHING NOTE Italy’s Answer to League May Shock World, Is Report. J Fltf United Press ROME, Oct. 11. —Italian troops, flanked by heavy detachments of Askaris (native soldiers), are pushi ing their lines deeper into Ethiopia along the Aduwa front preparatory to a concerted advance. Italian newspaper bulletins said today. BY STEWART BROWN (Copyright, 1935, by United Press) ROME. Oct. 11.—Italy’s answer to the League of Nations may startle the world, it was said by an unimpeachable source today. Premier Benito Mussolini is working on the answer. As this statement was made, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, and Alessandro Lessona, Undersecretary of Colonies, were steaming toward East Africa Badoglio’s departure fium Naples late last night, was believed to fore - shadow a big scale offensive in Ethiopia. What developments were pending here, the informant would not say. Secrecy Screens Official Moves Official moves in the crisis confronting Mussolini as the result of Italy’s formal condemnation by the I League Assembly are being kept street. There were indications, however, that Mussolini did not intend to remain passive under the blow of penalties inflicted by League members. The government is said to be considering secret plans under which the penalties would speed a solution of the crisis along unexpected lines. Has Considered Counter Moves The government for many months ! has been planning counter moves Ito possible League penalties. Mus- | solini had counted on the refusal of Austria and Hungary to join in them. Many here forsee that the work of the League penalties committee will prove difficult when it comes to concrete boycotts because i of the penalization of foreign imI porters and exporters by any stop- : page of trade. With Badoglio and Lessona w ? ent Sir Aldo Castellani. Italy’s specialist in tropical diseases, and Filippo Marinetti, poet and pioneer in futurism. Indirectly emphasizing Italy’s mood in face of League penalties, the Conte Biancamano, on which Badoglio embarked, took 83 officers and 1354 men of the Fascist i militia "February 3” Division, and | will pick up 2000 men of the "Sils” j division at Messina, Sicily. | The foreign office contends “the Italian people” are not impressed by the League’s attitude. BOONE COUNTY” WOMAN WILL BE 102 OCT. 20 Looks Forward to Quiet Observance at Home in Lebanon. ! By Times Special LEBANON. Ind., Oct. 11.—Be- ! lieved to be the oldest Boone County ; resident, Mrs. Emaline Wolf is looking forward to a quiet observance of her 102nd anniversary Oct. 20. She resides with her daughter, Mrs. Emma Baker. BAKER DIES IN SHOP Otto Walters Drops Dead at Work at 2230 E. 10th-st. Otto Walters, of 2311 E. llth-st„ proprietor of the Vienna Bakery 2230 E. lOth-st. dropped dead today in his shop. He was 58. Indians Join Hunt for Boy By United Press RIVERSIDE. Cal., Oct. 11.—Chuilla Indian trackers today joined army airplanes in a hunt for 3-year-old Proctor Baker, last two days in the San Jacinto mountains near here. Bingham Visits Foreign Office By United Press LONDON. Oct. 11. —United States Ambassador Robert W. Bingham visited the foreign office again to- ‘ day. V

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Geneva Lifts Arms Ban on Ethiopia: Boycott of Fascists Voted. BRITAIN LEADiNG DRIVE English Authorities Cancel Baron Aloisi’s Speech to America. BULLETIN By suited Press GENEVA, Oct. 11.—A subcommittee resolution providing for an arms embargo against Italy and lifting of the embargo against Ethiopia was approved tonight hy the League's sanctions committee of 50. By I uited Press GENEVA, Oct. 11. The powers, led by Great Britain, launched a drastic three-fold program of sanctions (penalties) against Italy today, designed to halt her war against Ethiopia. Moving swiftly and decisively, the subcommittee of 16 prepared the following plan for approval of the main sanctions committee of 50: 1. A world-wide arms embargo against Italy, while Britain, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Sweden lift their embargo against Ethiopia. 2. A world-wide boycott of Italian goods. 3. World-wide refusal to extend loans or credit to Italy. The arms embargo is expected to go into effect tomorrow, although some League members may find it necessary to delay because of legislative difficulties. The three-fold measures may be supplemented by others, such as withdrawal of the heads of embassies and legations from Rome, designed to impress the Italian people with their moral isolation. Roosevelt Test Used On suggestion of Capt. Anthony Eden of Great Britain, the subcommittee agreed to President Roosevelt’s list of what constitute material as a guide in the embargo on Italy. The committee then recommended the preparation of a supplement to the RooseVelt list, to include materials not listed therein. The supplement would be drawn up bv a separate military committee. The sub-committee also recommended appointment of a committee of financial experts to devise economic measures against Italy. Answers Aloisi’s Charges In a brief speech to the assembly President Benes answered Aloisi’s charges of yesterday when he defended Italy's course and attacked the League as unfair. Answering specific points of Aloisi’s speech, Benes said that Italy’s complaints against Ethiopia, had been considered adequately not only by individual members of the League Council, but by the appropriate council committee. Then Benes announced that 50 members of the League, by refraining from objection, had accepted the League decision that Italy was the aggressor. He added: "Before we finish we have one duty to fulfill—namely, to urge the necessity for rapidly arriving at conciliation and peace. “I am bound to tell the two parties how ardently we desire the resoration of peace.” Radio Speech Barred The first penalty was, in fact, exacted at 15 minutes after midnight. Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy, whose eloquent defense of Italy yesterday was regarded as a master's effort, was just about to leave his hotel to make an internationally broadcast wireless speech. Word came that British postal authorities refused to permit his speech to be relayed to the United States, and it was cancelled. The speech was to be a question-and-answer one between Baron Aloisi and Edgar Scott Mowrer, correspok / dent for the Chicago Daily News, r covered the same ground as his speech yesterday. The Columbia Broadcasting Cos. of America, which was to have broadcast the speech, informed of the British refusal to relay it, or any other speech by an Italian, intimated that it might try today to have it relayed via Berlin if Baron Aloisi was still here. The sanctions committee, comprised of all the nations that are against Italy, is, as President Edouard Benes of the assembly explained, an instrument neither of the assembly nor the council, but a League conference to apply Article XVI. the penal article of the covenant, never used before. The League Assembly, in which (Turn to Page Three)

30 Killed By United Press ROME. Oct. 11 —Thirty Italians have been killed and 70 wounded so far during the Ethiopian campaign which started Oct. 3. it was announced officially today.