Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1935 — Page 3

OCT 11.1935

ADUWA TAKEN WITHOUT FIGHT, MILLER SAYS Town Undamaged, Writes Star Correspondent From War Zone. (Continued From Pago On**) they clamor up tortuous mountain .sides where no horse or mule has gone- -only the sure-footed goats of the Ethiopian tribesmen. Tanks Are Amazing En route to Aduwa I saw there baby tanks accomplish such tasks as clambering, tumbling and sliding over the spiny rock formations, heavy tropical shrubs and through river-, nil the while clinging tenaciously to the steep slopes. Italian leaders regard these new-type tanks as important implements of war for the protection of advancing flanks and columns. The men who run these tanks have the hardest and most trying job of all in II Duces Ethiopian campaign. They wear padded helmets, similar to those of football players, and must wear heavy clothing to ease the vibration and jostling. Their sufferings are aggravated by the terrific African heat. The hard-set and strained faces of the men who man the tanks provide evidence of the strenuousness of their task. Another innovation of mechanized War introduced by the Italian invaders are small, four-wheel-drive trucks with hard rubber tires. Narrow and set high off the ground, they climb over jagged, rocky trails where one who has not witnessed their performance would not believe any motor vehicle could travel. Life of Hardship The life of a driver of one of these bucking bronchos of motordom is another military job of dire hardship. Nowhere in my travels along the battlefront have I seen or heard of the use of gas or liquid fire by the Italians. (Ethiopian commanders on the southeastern front charged early this week that Italian planes were dropping poisonous gas bombs on troops and inhabitants.) Aviation is playing an important part m the Italian advance, particularly in reconnaissance work over the wide and difficult territory. The planes also are used to carry messages to various field headquarters. Censorship Not Severe The censorship is much like that in torce in any war zone except that frequently correspondents are not allowed to see their messages after they have been sent, the deletions sometimes resulting in garbling of the message. From an occasional checking of the number of words received at the destination I think the censorship is not unusually severe. When the history of this war is written it should pay high tribute to the staunch physical endurance of Mussolini's soldiers. In none of the military campaigns I have witnessed during the last 20 years in Mexico, France and Morocco have men endured such vicious conditions of terrain, heat and altitude, had so few ordinary comforts, so little food and advanced so rapidly despite all. It is impossible for me to withhold my admiration for the way the Italian soldiers have withstood unprecedented hardships, which to my knowledge have been exceeded only by those of the British in Flanders mud during the battle of Passchcndaels. I.oses Track As an example of our complete isolation from the civilized world, I have lost count of the days and find that it is difficult, to find any one who knew the date or time in order that I may time my dispatches. Every one among the troops is asking: "What is happening in Europe?" Nobody knows. I received two bundles of telegrams from the United Press, each containing a dozen messages and all from three to six days old. After seeing the Aduwa trail I am strongly impressed with the magnitude of the Italians' task in making further advances into the interior, an ddriving through the same kind of country—or worse. And Addis Ababa is 400 miles away. And Such Blisters! B;i United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 11.—After walking with Italian soldiers for 14 hours over rocky mountain passes, Webb Miller. United Press staff correspondent with the advancing Italian army, reached Aduwa this week and received a sheaf of congratulatory messages on the outstanding news beats he had scored. Today the New York cable desk of the United Press received Miller's acknowledgment as follows: "Johnson—Must count upon slowest transmission henceforth Stop Can scarcely walk Stop Blisters big as pre-depreciation dollars Stop Your congratulations grealty stimulating.” Miller was the first newspaper man to reach Aduwa. ARRANGE FALL MEETING Indiana Manufacturers to Hold Fall Gathering Here Nov. 20 and 21. The Indiana Manufacturers’ Association is to hold a fall meeting in Indianapolis Nov. 20 and 21, directors decided yesterday.

Lost ‘Lowers’ From secretary to the Lieutenant Governor to head of the state fair “lost and found department” is a somewhat startling transition, but Dick Heller has undergone it. Lieut. Gov. Townsend’s aid is in receipt of a plaintive note from one of his constituents, in which Mr. Heller’s aid is sought in recovering on- 1 set of lower false teeth. They are believed to have been lost during the state fair last month. Mr. Heller doesn't know just what to do about it. He wonders, though, if the loss just has been discovered.

Hull Repeats Warning for U. S. Traders - - />V T'hitr'l WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Again declaring that the Administration's 1 neutrality moves are designed to keep this country out of war, Secrctary Cordell Hull today threw practically the full power of the government behind his program to discourage trade with Italy. Like President Roosevelt, Hull applied his declaration equally to Italy and Ethiopia. In the absence practically of any trade with Ethiopia, however, the principal force of his action was thrown against Italy, which normally conduct- approximately $3,000,000 worth of trade every month with the United States. Hull said it would be a shortsighted policy for our foreign traders to attempt to carry on a “risky and temporary trade" with the bel- , ligeronts when by so doing they ; would b" contributing to a continu- j ation of the war. The restoration j and stabilization of business in all i parts of the world is infinitely more important, he asserted, than trade with the belligerents. HITCH MUST GO TO PRISON IN FIVE DAYS Former Deputy Surrendered by Bondsmen. Ralph Hitch, former chief deputy j sheriff, under sentence of from two to 21 years in the Indiana State I Prison for embezzlement, today was surrendered by his lyondsmen to Criminal Court and returned to the county jail. New commitment papers were made out and he must be taken to prison within five days. Harry Klein, one of the signers to a $17,500 appeal bond, brought Hitch to court before Special Judge E. E. McFerren. Hitch was released on a $17,000 appeal bond Wednesday and a few hours later remanded to jail. He j was to have had a habeas corpus hearing today before Circuit Judge Elati Cox, but the action this morning obviated that. Judge McFcrren explained that he had not ordered Hitch rearrested Wednesday but had discovered a fault in the bond and had ordered that anew one be posted by 10 yesterday. He said Hitch must have gone to jail voluntarily. TOASTMASTER GROUP NAMES CHAPTER HEADS William 11. Kortpeter Elected President at Dinner Meeting. William H. Kortpeter was elected president of the Indianapolis Chapter 17. Toastmasters International, at a dinner meeting at the Y. M. C. A. last night. Lisle Tinsman was elected vice president; Frank M. Yarbrough, secretary; Ray Lindsay, treasurer, and Harry Steinmetz, sergeant-at-arms. The new officers expect to organize new chapters in Indianapolis and the state.

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LEAGUE LIFTS ARMS EMBARGO ON ETHIOPIA First Penalty Is Imposed on Italy by British Authorities. (Continued From Page One) all member nations are represented, will remain in emergency session during the crisis. It met today to finish debate on the penalization and will be adjourned until another meeting is desirable. As the sanctions committee met word was received that Maxim Litvinov of Russia had just left Moscow and would arrive here tomorrow with economic experts. He intends to make an important statement before the sanctions committee. Claim Plane Shot Down BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE (Copyright, 1935, by United Press) ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 11.—One of two Italian planes which flew' over the Wabeno region in the province of Issa, on the eastern frontier of Eihiopia. was brought down by rifle fire from Issa tribesmen, the government claimed today. Its crew and two dogs carried as mascots by the Italian fliers were killed, it was said, adding that the second plane escaped the first of the defending tribesmen. The government said the plane was brought down Wednesday, but that the news reached the capital only today. There was no private verification of the communique. It was explained that the Issa tribesmen delayed informing the government that they had shot down an Italian plane because they previously had been severely punished for killing foreigners. Reports that Aduwa been recaptured were discredited in official circles here in the absence of any confirmation from commanders in the north. They also said there was no confirmation of the fall of Gorrahel yesterday as reported to them by the Italian legation. ROAD WORKERS TO MEET State Highway Employes to Give Banquet at Brazil. By Titnrs Special BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 11.—Approximately 300 State Highway Commission employes of the Greencastle and Crawfordsville districts will hold their second annual banquet here tonight. Lowell Hurst, Greencastle superintendent, is in charge. Coal Commission Aid Named fill l nited Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 11—Thomas S. Woodward of Pennsylvania, has been appointed consumers’ counsel on the National Bituminous Coal commission, the White House announced today. Noblesville Veteran Dead By Uniti and Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 11 George M. Smiley, U. S. Army veteran, is dead at his home here today. Stationed in Wyoming and Montana during the eighties, he participated in many skirmishes with the Apache and Black Feet Indians during the Indian wars.

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West Side Papa Wants to Play —But He Needs Some Real Co-Operation

Father*to-Arms Call Is Sounded by Rhodius Park Leader. West Side papa wants to play one ole cat! Also, he wants to play volleyball, ping pong, indoor baseball, checkers, pinochle and maybe two ole cats. Anyway, he wants to play, after the kids are in bed —or at the movie —and there, winds up by being a rub. There are not enough papas in he Rhodius Park district who have turned out to make the thing go. It’s like this. The Fathers Club of Rhodius Park, organized in 1931. appears to have lost membership to an alarming extent. This year leaders are trying to reorganize. “They're Old Softies” Ralph Brouse, 1745 W. Morris-st. secretary of the club, has sounded a sort of papa-to-arms call, asking all the male parents in the district to enroll and enjoy, free of all charge, the use of the park community hall. “You see," he says, “some of the men in the neighborhood think they can’t do anything but plop into an easy chair and stay there when they come home from work. “There’s many a man in this neighborhood who's been riding those cushions so long he’s soft—he’s got papa muscles. Well, in 1931 we had.them out on that gym floor, and no matter how much they protested they couldn't play basketball, they did—and they came back for more. “Are We Mice—or Athletes?” “Now the City Recreation Department has said we ought to have at least 30 on that floor on our nights. Last year we had an average of only 15. If we don’t get 30 we don't play, it seems. “What we need in this community is papa play. And that’s what were's going to get. Gentlemen of the Rhodius Park district, are we mice or are we athletes? ” Unfortunately, at this moment Mr. Brouse was called away, to make more plans for the opening of the season tonight. He said, as he left, that he hoped enough men would respond to give the club the facilities of the hall. Incidentally, Mr. Brouse is a papa.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Woodrow Spencer. Cloverdale. Ind.. Essex coach, from alley near Tenth and Newman-sts. Lux Laundry. 5301 Winthrop-av. Chevrolet, sedan, 33-853 from 28th and New Jersey-sts. Red Cab Cos.. Red Cab 235. from Churchman and Emerson-avs.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Eva Maholm. 502 N. Drexel-av. Buick sedan, found at Walnut-st and Park-av. Albert Neff. 2143 N. Jefferson-av. Ford dump truck, found in rear of 2953 McPherson-st. P. TV. Simpson. 4519 N. Meridian-st, LaSalle sedan, found at Tipton. Ind.

Ralph Brouse . . . Wants to Play

COUNTY TAX RATE HEARINGS OCT. 28 State Board Sets Dates for Appeals. Appeals of Marion County tax rates will be heard by the State Tax Board Oct. 28 and 29. Board members were unable to set earlier dates because Philip Zoercher, chairman, and other members will attend the National Tax Association convention in Oklahoma City next week. Mr. Zoercher, now vice president of the organization, is slated to be named president. The Marion County hearing schedule is: Cot. 28 —9 a. m., county; 10:30, civil city; 11:30, Center Township; 2 p. m.. school city; 3:30, Perry Township. civil and school. Oct. 29—9 a. m., Warren Township, and 10:30. Washington. W. C. T. U. TO CONVENE State Union to Hear Chaillaux at Session Tonight. By United Press FRANKFORT. Ind., Oct. 11.— Homer Chaillaux, chairman of the National Americanism Committee of the American Legion, will speak at the ’ opening session of tffe annual convention of the Indiana Women's Christian Temperance Union here tonight. CITY MAN IS ELECTED J. K. Johnston Named SecretaryTreasurer of Telephone Association. J. K. Johnston, 1914 Bellefontainest, telephone engineer, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Independent Pioneer Telephone Association today in Chicago.

WEALTHY YOUTH ADMITS KILLING OF SWEETHEART Calmly Confesses Choking Her in Fit of Anger Over Jilting. By United Press MONTICELLO. N. Y. Oct. 11.— Glenn Brasser, handsome 22-year-old son of a wealthy Rochester dairyman, confessed tedav that he choked to death his 18-year-old sweetheart, Muriel Hall, because she jilted him. He admitted, without a trace of emotion on his quiet, intelligent face, that in a rage over the "position” the girl put him in before his friends, he struck her with his fist, wrestled with her through several rooms of her home with his fingers biting into her throat, and threw her, dead, on the floor. "I was mad," he said dully. "She shouldn't have done it.” The youth was apprehended late yesterday as he attempted to drive away from a Liberty (N. Y.) filling station without paying for his gasoline. He was arrested and a few minutes later admitted his identity and confessed to slaying Miss Hall. Confession of a Poor Loser The confession the youth gave to State Police was a story of more than ordinarily passionate young love, unrequited, and of an emotional nature that made him a poor loser. Monday night Brasser asked Miss Hall, pretty brunet high school senior, to marry him. He had asked her many times before and found her evasive. Monday he was determined to obtain an answer. "I pressed her until she had to say yes or no,” he said. "She said no. We had a terrible quarrel because she always had acted as though she were quite a bit interested in me.” Kin Told of Quarrel Miss Hall had told her foster father, Leonard I. Hall, a sales executive, of the quarrel. "I thought I would have to order him out of the house,” she told him. Wednesday the girl probably arrived at her home about 4:30. When Mr. Hall arrived at 5:30 he found her dead on the library floor, a bleeding fingernail scratch on her throat and her disheveled dress the only clews to the mode of death. An autopsy established that she had been strangled. Mr. Hall told police of the quarrel between the girl and Brasser. Before the police reached his home he had fled with his father’s truck. Held Her for 10 Minutes The youth picked up the story for local authorities. "I went to see Muriel to ask her one last time to change her mind,” he said. "She wouldn't even listen to me. I lost my temper in a sudden flash. I couldn’t see anything in front of me but I hit her and grabbed her. I held on perhaps 10 minutes. "When I calmed clown she was dead on the library floor.” The youth was perfectly calm while he recounted the scene. "She shouldn't have done it,” he repeated several times.

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The Official Weather

Sunrise 5:51 a. m. Sunset 5:12 p m TEMPERATURE —Oct. ti. mi—- ” a. m 5T 1 p m 35 —Today—- *? a. m .50 to a. m. 50 5 a. m 51 11a.m . 50 0 a. m 50 12 (noon) .. . 5t 9 a. m. 50 1 p. m 51 BAROMETER 5 a. m. 30.23 1 p. m 30.21 Precipitation. 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m 05 Total precipitation since Jan 1 . 3150 Deficiency since Jan. 1 044 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp Amarillo. Tex Char 3032 54 D.stnark. N. D Ch ar 30 18 18 Boston C ouriv 30 16 .58 Chicago Cioudv 30 24 43 Cincinnati Cloudy 30 22 .52 Denver Clear 30 00 50 Dodge City. Kas. ... Clear 30 02 50 Helena. Mont Cloudy 29.88 44 Jackson\ille. Fla ... Rain 30 16 70 Kansas City. Mo. ... Rain 30.16 52 Little Rock. Ark. Clear 30 16 62 Los Angeles PtCldv 30.08 62 Miami. Fla Cioudv 30.06 80 Minneapolis Cioudv 30 20 36 Mobile. Ala Cloudy 30.18 64 New Orleans Cioudv 30 16 70 New York Cioudv 30.18 56 Okla. Citv. Okla Cioudv 30 1 4 58 Omaha. Neb PtC’.dv 30 16 42 Pittsburg Cioudv 30 16 56 Portland. Ore. .... Cioudv 29.88 52 San Antonio. Tex. .. PtCldy 30 12 68 San Francisco Rain 29 92 58 Sr. Louis Cioudv 3(1 20 52 Tampa. Fia Cloudy 30 in 72 Washington. D C . • Clear 30 22 54

RECLUSE, 70, DiES AFTER SHACX FIRE # Aged Man Found 24 Hours Following Blaze. The life that brought Alfred Hindman, 70-year-old recluse, little joy and much suffering the last few years, left him last night in City Hospital. Mr. Hindman lay in his shack at 3228 Ralston-av for almost 24 hours suffering from bums and hunger before his condition was discovered by Sergt. William Dever, Indianapolis Humane Society investigator. An old kerosene lamp exploded Wednesday night, igniting Mr. Hindman’s cot and burning him severely. Alone, the elderly man fought and extinguished the fire. He lay weak with pain on the cot until Sergt. Dever appeared. Neighbors complained this week to the Center Township Trustee that Mr. Hindman was unemployed and destitute. CONFESSES SLAYER ENDSJJFE IN CELL Farmer Who Drowned Girls Hangs Self. By United Press PONTIAC. Mich.. Oct. 11.—Fcrrin Rowland, 36-year-old farmer-car-penter, hanged himself in the county jail today twenty minutes after he told Prosecutor David C. Pence that he would plead guilty to the murder of his two baby stepdaughters. The body was discovered by Lewis Burt, turnkey, who had gone to Rowland’s cell to take him to justice court, where he was to appear on charges of murdering Katherln Woodin, 6, and her sister, Virginia.

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PRICE FIXING IS NOT PRACTICAL, DAIRYMEN TOLD Elimination Is Foreseen by Former AAA Chief at Convention. Fixing of con.-umer milk pricegs eventually will be eliminated. A. H. Lauterbach, former dairy chief of the AAA. told delegates to National Co-Operative Milk Producers Fed- . eration convention today. "It is not practical and it may not be constitutional,” Mr. Lauterbach said. "It eventually would put milk on the basis of a public utility ” "Should price-fixing be eliminated, there still will boa place for some ! regulatory body. Where interstate ; milk enters the market, a joint Fed- : eral-state control is advisable." he j said. Townsend Praises Co-Operation Co-operative associations, which | control 75 to 85 per cent of the milk ! market, are foundation stones of a stabilization program. Lieut.-Gov. M. Clifford Townsend said today. "No control agency should at- : tempt a program in a market where : the existing co-operatives are weak, i or where there is no organization ! among the producers, except in an ( emergency,” Mr. Townsend said. I "Since we are living under a democratic form of government, and the J people wish to be self-governed, the | state and Federal acts should throw ! as much of the responsibility cn | local control as possible.” Officers are to be elected and resolutions adopted at the closing session tomorrow. Milk Strike Tightens i By Unitt and Press CHICAGO, Oct. 11—Chicago’s 1 milk strike deadlock tightened today with the city receiving about 60 per \ cent of its normal supply. A battle between 400 striking farmers and 200 member of the Pure Milk Association, farmers’ co- | operative opposed to the strike, was j averted at Harvard. 111., when coun- | ty deputies and highway police ar- ! rived. The first concession came from strikers when they offered to call a 30-dav truce if promised a fiat price of $1.75 a hundred-weight for milk. They have been asking $2.50 a hundred pounds. The offer was rejected by dealers who pointed out they have contracts with the Pure Milk Association. The PMA refused to deal with the strikers. Most of whom are dissenting members of the organization. OUTLINE W. R. C. MEET Past Presidents Luncheon Is to Be Held Monday at Ft. Friendly. Luncheon meeting is to be held at noon Monday at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois-st, for the Past Presidents League of the. Maj. Robert Anderson Women's Relief Corps 44. The committee in charge includes Mrs. Nell Pfeffer, Mrs. Edith Blume, Mrs. Claudio Erther. Mrs. Lillian Stephens, Mrs. Edna E. Pauley and Mrs. Anna Starr.