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17,000 IN CITY FOR TEACHERS’ STATE PARLEYj Holt Defends Liberalism of New Deal, Scores ‘Big Business.’ BACKS TENURE LAWS 42 Sectional Sessions Open Convention; Election Is Tomorrow. Branding the cry of “Save the Constitution,” a smoke screen for greedy industrialists, Ru; ;i D. Holt, We: t Virginia, youngest member of the United States Senate, today defended the progress of liberal-r-m under the Roosevelt Administration. Speaking b lore the Social Studies section of i no Indiana State Teachers Association at Roberts Park M. E Church, the youthful Senator told a large group of the 17,000 teachers attending the convention that they must be prepared to teach the tenets of liberalism in the coming years, j The 30-year-old lawmaker, him- j self a former teacher, charged that big business interests, particularly the public utilities, are “boring from within" in the field of education, and teachers must recognize their propaganda if they are to retain j their intellectual honesty. He admitted that intellectual in- ; t egrit.v is difficult to keep “because ! of politics played by school boards.” : Urges Tenure Laws “I hope the day will come,” he said, “when school teachers will be protected by civil service and tenure laws which will give them the intellectual freedom most of them de- ! sire.” Senator Holt ripped vigorously into the Liberty League and its condemnation of liberal legislation with the reiterated charge of “unconstitutional.” “What they, with their corporate tieups, mean is saving their inter- j prefation of the Constitution,” j Senator Holt declared. “It is their j interpretation of the Constitution | and not the Constitution, itself, they! see endangered,” he repeated. “And their interpretation is re- j tent ion of control of the many by J the few.” Scores ‘Breathing Spell’ The “breathing spell” promised American business by President Roosevelt is “the kind of breathing spell the cat gives the mouse just before she strangles and chokes it to death,” Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. said today in an interview before he spoke at a luncheon of Indianapolis grade school teachers at the Columbia Club. “I believe that the Republican Party will carry New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and probably Indiana, in the 1936 election.” Mr. Fish said. “The real j test of the New Deal was its answer , to the unemployment situation.” Its I answer, according to Mr. Fish, was j to add 1.000,000 men to the unemployed lists since June, 1933. Electioneering for next year's president —a feminine executive ! seems assured—began as the teach- ! ers attended departmental meet-! ings. Miss Maehling in Race Miss Hilda Maehling, Terre Haute, i president of the State Federation of Public School Teachers, is supported by central and southern dis- j tricts of the state as well as her own federation for the post. Ft. Wayne has two candidates, j Miss Bertha Nelson and Miss Elizabeth Murphy. Dr. W. W. Wright, Indiana University, was mentioned as a possible i compromise candidate in case the | women teachers deadlocked over a ! feminine candidate. At 4:30 p. m. today the teachers (Turn to Page Three) WOMAN IN RED LOSES DEPORTATION BATTLE U. S. Judge Dismisses Petition for Habeas Corpus Writ. Byl nitc<i Press CHICAGO, Oct. 17—Mrs. Anna Sage, the "woman in red,” who led John Dillinger into a police trap, today lost her fight against deportation. Federal Judge John T. Barnes dismissed her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, after announcing that the case would be considered “entirely upon the merits" of whether Mrs. Sage received a fair hearing before the Board of Review of the United States Labor Department. Six Hurt as Plane Crashes By l iiitnl Press COLUMBUS. O. Oct. 17—Six men were injured today when an Army airplane crashed into a battalion of Ft. Hayes troops during maneuvers six miles south of Shadeville. near here. Times Index Amusements 24, 23 j Books 17 Births. Deaths 21 Bridge ■ 14 Broun 17 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 27 Curious World 27 Editorial 18 Financial 20 Junior Aviation 13 Pegler 17 Radio 25 Serial Btory 12 Sports 22, 23 Stamps 13 Woman's Pages 14, 15

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VIENNA DISTURBED BY REVOLT RUMOR Heimwehr Guards Reported Marching on Capital. By United Press VIENNA. Oct. 17.—The cabinet met today w’hen rumors were circulated that the lower Austrian Heimwehr, or home guard, was marching against Vienna. Machine guns were set up in the radio station building. The chancellory was heavily guarded. Measures under consideration were believed connected with plans to eliminate Agriculture Minister Reithe*- Commerce Minister Beursch ana Interior Minister Emil Fey, Heimwehr chief.

2ENGE CASE AIDED BY LOEB ALIENIST Slayer Temporarily Insane, He Tells Jury. By l nited Press CHICAGO. Oct. 17.—Counsel for Mandeville W. Zenge resorted today to the tactics used in the LoebLeopold case in their efforts to win an acquittal by reason of temporary insanity for their client charged with the murder of Dr. Walter J. Bauer. Dr Harold S. Hulbert. who played a major role in the Loeb-Leopold case a decade ago, told the jury that Zenge is a victim of a form of "circular (recurring) depression.”

Bread Price Increase Would Boost Bakers , Retailers Profits $60,000,000 Yearly, Wallace Claims; Denies Ingredients to Blame

BV NED BROOKS Timrs Special Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.—The threatened nation-wide increase of 1 cent in the price of a pound of bread would increase bakers' and retailers' profits by more than $60.000.000 a year compared with a year ago. studies prepared for Henry A. Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture, disclosed today. The annual bill to the nation's housewives would be about double that sum, according to statistics

seventeen tncusand Indiana teachers today invaded hotels, assembly places, shops and theaters as Indianapolis became their for the two days of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association sessions. Upper Left—Taxis were in demand to take the visiting “schoolmarms” to departmental meetings and hotels. Left to right, Miss Ann Grecnwalt. Topeka Ind., and Mrs. Howard Obenehain, New Augusta, checking in lor the annual session. L ; Upper Right—A real “mum” and a real “marm” is Miss Sara Smart, New Bethel, fourth-grade pedagog, as she poses here with a fall floral decoration. Lower Left—Four-of-a-kind and all from Clinton with but a single thought of “wnere snail we park our baggage.” Left to right. Misses' Madeline Metz, Gersilda Geller, Marjorie Tompkins and Hannah Lee Tibbetts.

Shot Through Door, Says Welshans During Trial FirecLWhen Girl Refused Him Admittance; Didn’t Believe He Killed Her, Suspect Testifies. Thomas Welshans, 22-year-old taxi driver, on trial in Criminal Court charged with the murder June 3 of his sweetheart. Mrs. Mary Ferguson Hamberg. today testified that he fired through the door w’hen the girl reused him admittance. ..

The youthful defendant said he did not believe the bullet struck the girl and said he thought he heard her run upstairs after the shot was fired. He told of . his flight to Louisville and his surrender to Sheriff Ray. The slaip girl's parents W’ept as Welshans gave his version of the shooting. The case is expected to reach the | jury Monday. Welshans described his boyhood and his relatio/is with Mrs. Hamberg yesterday.. The misfortune and ! poverty that dogged the lives of the Welshans family were related *'y Mrs. Lillian Welshans, his mother. Mrs. Vj&lshans charged that her son was in the home at 325 S. Mis- | souri-st when Sheriff Ray and Deputy Ernest Medcalfe searched j the house for him a few hours after j the shooting. Sheriff Ray today denied the charge.

compiled by consumer representatives of the AAA. Mr. Wallace has called on bakers to explain recent increases of 1 and 2 cents a loaf in some cities in view of department figures showing that the cost of the ingredients in a pound of bread has risen only .52 cent in the past year. Approximately 200.000.000 of the 500.000.000 bushels of wheat consumed annually goes into flour for bakers' bread, according to estimates given the secretary. Since a bushel of wheat produces enough flour for 62 pound loaves of bread, a 1-cent

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While Welshans was hiding In another room. Sheriff Ray told her he was wanted for the murder of Mrs. Hamberg, Mrs. Welshans said. "When they left I asked Tommy what he had done, and he told me, 'Mother. I didn't know I hit her. He asked me to help him pack his suitcase and that’s the last I saw of him until he returned Lhree days I later,” she testified. After being hunted throughout southern Indiana and Kentucky, Welshans returned early the morning of June 6. | “I told him to give up and face I things like a man.” Mrs. Welshans ! sobbed fro_m the witness stand. A surpfise defense witness was j Mrs. Mildred Brockman, mother of Mrs. Hamberg, who testified that Welshans and her daughter fre- , quently came to visit her.

increase would add $124,000,000 to the consumers’ annual bill.' If, as Mr. Wallace contends, only a halfcent increase is justified by higher costs of ingredients, the other half would be “Velvet” for bakers and dealers, the consumer spokesmen argue. The farmer is not benefiting since today's farm price on wheat is lower than a year ago. Mr. Wallace said. The cost of flour in a loaf of bread is up .35 cents, shortening .13. and other ingredients .05. he said. "The takers owe the public some

CHEAPER BEER "HELD UNLIKELY New Port of Entry Dealers Expected to Pass Permit Costs to Public. The state may gain $150,000 annually in revenue starting Nov. 15 w’hen the ten state beer importers and their estimated $225,000 annual | revenue fade from the liquor pic- ! ture, but the consuming public, it : was revealed today, will not be benefited. End of the importers’ regime is to witness licensing of from 10 to 100 port of entry dealers who will pay an estimated $150,000 into the state treasury each year if the maximum number are licensed. But wdth the port of entry men expected to pass the permfY costs on too' the public, as the importers passed on their handling charges, a | cheaper beer is held unlikely. Since the start of Indiana’s beer sales. April 7, 1933, the importers, it is estimated, have received between $450,000 and $550,000 in handling charges. The two Indianapolis importers, ! the Hoosier Wine and Beer Cos., I Inc., and the State Beverage Cos., Inc., in that time have received revenues of between $150,000 and $200,000, Importers handled 398.768 barrels of beer from April 7, 1933, to Sept. 15, 1935, paid $617,311.78 in taxes, and collected an estimated $450,000 for themselves. Indiana brewers as w r ell as outside companies fear that under the port of entry system competition wall result in unscrupulous practices. SHOWERS AND COOLER IS WEATHER FORECAST Temperature Drop for Indianapolis Aria Is Predicted. Cooler weather and showers tonight were forecast today. Occasional showers are also predicted for many parts of the state tomorrow. By Science Sere ice WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.—Dry weather for the past w?eek has worked both good and ill to the farmers. It has enabled the corn-picking season to get off to a good start in some localities, notably in the Northwest and the northern prairie areas. But it has intensified the autumn drought that had already handicaped next year’s crops severely by delaying fall plowing and by preventing the sprouting of seed grain already in the ground. There w r as a marked reaction from the previous week’s cold wave, sunny weather prevailing over most of the country. Chapman to Die Early Saturday The hour of execution for Richard Chapman, 21-year-old Lake County farm youth, today was set for a few minutes after midnight Friday.

explanation for the prospective increases,” Mr. Wallace commented. Bakers could easily stay within a half-cent increase, he said, by offering two loaves for an odd number of cents, or by changing the weight of their loaf to meet the fractional rise in their costs. Raise Forecast Here Increase of 1 cent a pound in the retail price of bread for Indianapolis and vicinity was forecast today by Charles Elilers, Indiana Bakers Association secretary.

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Cabinet Decides to Prepare Public's Mind for Possible Conflict. LINK NATION TO LEAGUE Policy Toward Mussolini Hardens: Parliament to Meet Tuesday. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL (Copyright. 1935. by United Press! LONDON, Oct. 17. The cabinet has decided to tell the country that though it does not contemplate any military j penalties against Italy, there is no absolute certainty that application of economic penalties will not lead to fighting. I well informed quarters said j today. Great Britain's attitude toward J Italy's war on Ethiopia has hard- | ened. It is hinted, first, that any 1 peace agreement reached now must j be less generous to Italy than those offered before her attack; secondly ; that any agreement reached must be accepted in advance by the | League of Nations Council and by Ethiopia An historic three-day debate on foreign policy is expected to follow immediately upon the reassembly of parliament next Tuesday. Baldwin, Hoare to Speak Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, whose quiet way of revealing matters of urgent gravity has often startled Europe, and Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign minister, are to be the principal speakers for the government. Political opinion is that they will have almost a united House of Commons in their policy of sticking wath the League. It is indicated that Baldwin, who probably will open the debate, will say first that Great Britain is acting with the League of Nations and will continue to act only with the League in dealing with the Italian crisis. He is expected to emphasize that Britain will act only with the other nations collectively. Nation May Be Warned But the present grave state of affairs, it is said, will make it necessary also for the cabinet to warn the nation that collective action in imposing economic penalties against Italy may bring a clash—one which I would not be started by Britain. In refusing curtly to consider withdrawal of the British home fleet from the Mediterranean as a (Turn to Page Three)

112 REPORTED DEAD IN RUSSIAN TEMBLOR Tadjikstan Province Shaken Second Time in Week. By United Press MOSCOW. Oct. 17.—One hundred and twelve persons w’ere killed and 407 injured in an earthquake in the Tovil-Dora district of Tadjikstan. a dispatch from Stalinabad said today. It was the second quake within a week. Airplanes from Stalinabad are taking food and clothing. BEATEN BY POLIGE, STATE OFFICERS SAY Slugged by Muncie Cops, Two Report. Two state police detectives reported to Capt. Matt Leach today they w’ere beaten and abused by Muncie city police yesterday as suspects ir. an SBOO robbery of a Muncie loan company office. Capt. Leach asked the men for a formal report and said he would request a similar report from Muncie authorities. Those beaten were E. R. (Abe) Taylor, Clinton, and Paul Armstrong, Indianapolis, j Taken to Muncie police headquarters, Taylor and Armstrong said they were held more than an hour and that Taylor was slugged with a pistol butt when he attempted to walk around the station. He displayed a severe gash in his head.

Commenting on a statement by Henry A. Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture, criticising nation-wide increases, Mr. Ehlers said that increased costs, principally of shortening and flour, would compel Indiana bakers to follow suit. “Ninety per cent of the industry has lived up to code requirements since the death of NRA and if present hours and wages are to be maintained we have no alternative but to raise prices. Indiana's weight law prevents manufacture of odd sizes so that higher costs could otherwise be absorbed,” Mr. Ehlers added.

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Bv United Press PARlS—British demand yes or no reply from France in event of clash with Italy. LONDON —Cabinet to warn country of danger of war. DJIBOUTI. FRENCH SOMALILAND—Reported Italians killed “a number” of British nationals on Ethiopia-British Somaliland frontier. GENEVA—League of Nations subcommittee agree to embargo selected war materials from Italy to cripple its industries. ROME—Dispatch from Asmara reports Italian column moving northward along British Somaliland Border. ALEXANDRIA Egyptian infantry and planes moving toward Italian Libya. LONDON—ltalian-made munitions leave Addis Ababa for use against Italian army. ROME —Italy to hasten drive for Addis Ababa-D.jibouti railway in order to halt flow of arms. ADDIS ABABA “Horrible” bombardment of town near Northern front reported. ATTACK ORDER GIVEN ITALIANS Southern Army Instructed to Move Promptly Toward Harar. (Copyright, 1935. by United Press! ROME, Oct. 17.—Italy today consolidated its position in northern Ethiopia with appointment of the deserter, Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa, as governor of Tigre province, and ordered its army in the south to drives northward with all possible speed to cut off Ethiopian supplies. The Italian forces, seeking to push northward from Somaliland 250 miles to Jijiga and Harar, are being hampered by renewed rains, the government said. Military circles, however, reported that Italian airplanes had successfully bombed an Ethiopian base at Warroh, 75 miles southeast of Harar on the southern front. Foreign military experts predicted that the heaviest fighting of the war impended in the Jijiga-Harar sector, where they said the Ethiopians have concentrated about 125,000 of their fiercest fighting tribesmen. 40.000 Troops Move Up (Copyright. 1935, by United Press! ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 17.—Forty thousand savage warriors, howling and brandishing weapons, surged past Emperor Haile Selassie today, shouting defiance at Italy as they received orders sending them to fight the invading Italian legions. The Ethiopian fighting men waved swords, spears and guns as they pledged themselves to fight in defense of their homeland. “Keep your shammas dirty” was an arresting phrase in the detailed instructions the emperor gave his troops as to how to conduct themselves in the battle field. (The shamma, traditional white dress of Ethiopia, affords a conspicuous target for an enemy.) Attack Is Reported By Utiled Pros DJIBOUTI. French Somaliland. Oct. 17.—Reports of a raid into British Somaliland, in which native British subjects w r ere killed and their herds of cattle and goats gassed, were brought here today from Zeila, on the British Somaliland coast. The reports, which said “Italians” were the aggressors, were received here w’ith reserve. They were brought to E. C. Lowe. British viceconsul. He cautioned that they should be treated circumspectly, as the affair might easily develop into the importance of the Ualual incident, involving Britain. He pointed out the possibility that a band of marauders, exploiting the warfare, merely had plundered the region. Frontier Is Fortified By United Press ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 17. Egyptian infantry is moving steadily toward the frontier of Italian Libya, where the Italians are reported to be massing tanks and airplanes. The desert behind the coast of Libya was reported today to be teeming with Italian armored cars. The Italian cars are said to be equipped with poison gas bombs. Ten Egyptian air force airplanes were sent last night to Mersa Matruh on the coast nearer Libya, reinforcing a squadron sent there several days ago. TEACHERS GIVEN THRILL Lincoln Lift Slides Slowly From Ninth Floor to Basement. Visiting teachers experienced an unexpected thrill this morning, when an elevator at the Lincoln slipped slowly, two inches at a time, from the ninth floor to the basement. None was hjurt.

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Break Is Threatened by London, High Paris Sources Say. SITUATION GROWS GRAVE English Reported Demanding Flat ’Yes' or ‘No* Answer. By l nih 7 Press PARIS, Oct. 17. Great Britain has issued a virtual ultimatum to France, demanding - that she co-operate with. Britain in the Mediterranean jr lose British support on the continent, highly reliable quarters said today. The British indicated to the French, these sources said, that if Paris does not reply favorably to the | latest British questions about the Mediterranean. Britain will consider Franco-British co-operation ended. Britain has called for a “yes” or no” answer on whether France will co-operate with the British fleet in the event of an unprovoked at- : tack by Italy. British official sources here, when I questioned, refused to confirm or deny the British demand, but admitted that such an attitude corresponds to that of the British govj eminent. It is understood from the highest I source that after Britain had ap- | plied strong pressure to Premier Pierre Laval, the latter declared fie will reply definitely on Monday, after Sunday's senatorial elections have been held. France Lifts Embargo By United Press GENEVA. Oct. 17.—France noti- ! fied the League of Nations today j that she is raising the embargo on j shipment of arms to Ethiopia and applying it against Italy. This makes the fifth nation to apply the first sanctions recommendation of the League. Approach U. S. Slowly By I iiitnl Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.—Indications that the League of Nations powers will go slow in making any formal approach to the United States to join them in applying a general embargo against Italy were | strengthened today after the French ambassador called at the State Department. Ford Bans Shipments l!y I iiitnl Press DETROIT. Oct. 17.—Ford Motor Cos. officials disclosed today that : they had advised the Senate Munitions Committee at Washington : that all shipments of Ford trucks to Africa had ceased with the outbreak of hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia. Election May Be Nov. 14 By I nitnl Press LONDON. Oct. 17.—The British general election will be held Nov. 14, the Evening Standard said today. Without qualification, the paper headed its story, “Polling dav Nov. 14.” saying that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had accepted the advice of political experts to hold a speedy election. GOLD STOCKS DECLINE IN IRREGULAR TRADING Silver Issues Also Drop; Leading Industrials Unchanged. By Unlit. (I Press NEW YORK. Oct. 17 —Gold mining stocks and some silvers declined on the Stock Exchange today while the main list fluctuated irregularly in a narrow’ range in dull turnover. Alaska Juneau made anew low for the year and Dome Mines lost a point. United States Smelting led ; a decline in the silvers, touching 94, off It. American Smelting eased fractionally. Leading industrials practically were unchanged and rails also were around the previous close. KILLER GETS LIFE TERM Delphi Grocer Pleads Guilty to Murder of Salesman. By Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Oct. 17.—Herman Wohl, 46-year-old Delphi grocer, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Carroll Circuit Court today when he pleaded guilty to a charge of i first degree murder in connection with the death of Luther Wells, Frankfort salesman.

Out of Bounds Carl Rhodes, 39. Negro. 2106 W. lOth-st, was awakened this morning by the sound of his front porch being torn off the house. He investigated and found Leland Clifton. 27. of 1104 S. Richland-st. sitting in an automobile parked where the porch had been. Mr. Clifton told police he had trouble keeping his car between the curbs. He was slated on a charge of drunken driving