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F iGHT PICKETS ARE WOUNDED IN MINE RIOT Machine Guns Spatter 1000 Union Men With Bullets in Kentucky. RUSH GUARDS T 0 SCENE Troops Augmented After Bloody Outbreak; Three Reported Dying. By I'll it rd Press MANNINGTON, Ky., Oct. 30. j Machine guns which spattered bul- j ]pts into a crowd of more than 1000 | union pickets were manned by additional National Guardsmen today at the riot-torn Williams Coal Cos. mine. least eight men were wounded, three critically, when the Guardsmen opened fire on advancing pickets late yesterday. Sheriff R. D. Crafton received reports that two j men were killed but said they were not substantiated. The outbreak was the latest violence in the attempt of the United Mine Workers of America to organize the west Kentucky fields. The Williams company and other independent mine operators have refused to deal with the union. Tear Gas Barage Fails Pickets, most of them from Hop- ; kins County, converged on the Williams diggings late yesterday. Maj. Oren Coin, in charge of the troops,! ordered them to halt * .it, they j swarmed toward the tripples, announcing they were going to close the mine. Special deputies and guards fired pistols into the air and loosed a tear gas barrage, but the detemined pickets came closer. Then Guardsman opened fire with machine guns. Pickets scattered and eight or more dropped wounded before they could reach the shelter of ditches or transport trucks. The most seriously injured were Eneas Martin, 37, Crofton, with a machine gun bullet in the lung; Henry Hollins, 65, Muhlenburg, wounded in the chest, and Ishmael Brown, Hartwick. Five others who refused to give their names were treated here for bullet wounds by Dr. E. B. Oates. Promise to Return A cavalry and machine gun unit of the National Guard rushed here from HonkinsflUle- to reinforce the Guardsmen, deputies and mine guards on duty and took up positions behind ste.fi breastworks at the mine tipples today. Pickets announced they would return "when the soldiers leave.” Refusal of operators to deal with the union brought a series of strikes last month until 4500 men were out by Sept. 22. Most of the mines continued to operate with nonunion miners. Officials of the Williams mine said they would continue to operate night and day. Armed Men on Way IS ii I nil < it I’ll MADISONVILLE, Ky.. Oct. 30. Three truckloads of men. reported to be heavily armed, passed through here today apparently on route to Mannington. where approximately 1000 pickets were repulsed by National Guardsmen last night. M. K. Gordon, attorney for the Williams Coal Cos., said he had received telegrams from other western Kentucky communities warning that other groups were mobilizing. BOY SALUTES FLAG. RETURNS TO SCHOOL Massachusetts School Authorities Term Refusal Mere Prank. Ity I nitnl I’n xs WEYMOUTH. Mass.. Oct. 30 Fourteen-year-old Charles Newcomb, self-styled descendant of Betsy Foss, went back to school today. saluted the flag, and apologized to authorities for his previous refusal. His defiance of the new state law requiring all pupils to salute the flag was set down bv school officials as just a boyish prank. Mrs. Celia M. Newcomb, widow with six children, denied that any of the family were members of Jehovah's witnesses, a sect which opposes patiioiism. $1,852,000 APPROVED FOR ROADS. CROSSINGS State Highway Commission to Handle Contracts for Projects. Time* Syreial WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Highway and grade crossing projects amounting to 51.852.000 have been approved for Federal financing in Indiana, it was announced today by the Bureau of Roads. AH contracts are being handled by the Indiana State Highway Commission. Highway projects amount to $1,233,000 and grade crossings to $619,000. WOMAN IS SENTENCED FOR ROMANCE FRAUD Mail Order Suitors Mulcted of $lO to SBOO. V, S. Charges. Bft t Hitt it Vn s* SOUTH BEND Dee. 30- Mrs. Lutie Fredenburg. 30. Marion, today was under a two-year sentence after a pica of guilty in Federal district court In connection with a mail order romance fraud. Mrs. Fredenburg built up a “sucker list” of more than 100 suitors contacted through matrimonial agencies and mulcted $lO to SBOO from each during five rears of operations, Federal authorities charged.

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GEORGE COFFIN SERIOUSLY ILL Colorful Republican Has Recurrence of Old Stomach Ailment. George V. YCap) Coffin, central figure in Marion County Republican politics since 1913, is in Methodist Hospital today in a serious condition with a recurrence of a stomach ailment that has impaired his health several years. He became seriously ill Friday, was taken to the hospital yesterday and today physicians report his condition as serious but not critical. Former chief of police, and a colorful figure in politics, Mr. Coffin twice was G. O. P. county chairman. He was elected county sheriff twice, both times the leading Republican candidate. He was was county clerk one term. Mr. Coffiin lives at 3330 Collegeav. He was born in southern Indiana of Quaker parents and spent the early years of his life in Jay and Hamilton Counties. DRIVE LEADERS ASK FOR MORE PLEDGES Individual Gifts Division Has Quota Filled. Community Fund leaders this afternoon reported new pledges amounting to $64,502.95, bringing the total pledged to date to $643,971.42, or 88.9 per cent of the goal. Fearing that the Indianapolis Community Fund will fall short of its $724,360 goal, campaign leaders appealed today for additional pledges. A total of $579,468. or 80 prr cent of the mark, has been obtained oy volunteer workers to date. The drive will close at a final report meeting Friday night in the Claypo, 1. The seventh report meeting was to be held this noon at the Claypool. The individual gifts division, with 87.6 p°r cent of its quota raised, is leading other divisions. In a statement today. Arthur R. Baxter, general campaign chairman, stated that an analysis of subscriptions reported thus far indicates that the drive will lack $40,000 of its goal Statehouse employes have pledged $2598 to the fund which is an increase of more than 10 per cent over last year's contributions which totaled $2361.50. The pledges to date do not include the gift, of Gov. McNutt or employes of the Governor's Unemployment Relief Commission. APPROVES BILLION FOR WORK RELIEF TO DATE Comptroller-General Sanctions New Projects in Eight States. Bn In itnl Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.—Comp-troller-General John R. McCarl today pushed past the $1,000,000,000 mark in the amount of money authorized for small, quick, employment work under the $4,000,000,000 work relief program. He approved 5134.829.397 in projects for eight states, allowing sectional Works Progress Administrators to spend $20,049,000 on work they could start without delay. McCarl's action put his approvals for actual spending at $1,014,947,649. the money to finance projects from his $2,450,293,894 approved project total.

Both Barrels Joseph Allen, 63. of 5160 N. Arsenal-av. is under arrest today charged with shooting with intent to kill, even though he said he fired to protect his cider. He is alleged to have shot at Miss Francilla Izor. 4641 Manlove-av. and her companions. Warren Smith and Albert Scott, when they were crossing a field near his home late last night. Smith, who is 16 and lives at 4938 Manlove-av. was struck by two buckshot. The others escaped injury. Allen said that on the night before some one overturned two barrels of his cider.

FORECAST; Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight and tomorrow

NEW DEAL TO FACE TEST IN STATE VOTING Major Parties to Watch Trend in 432 Town Elections. BALLOTING IS TUESDAY Corn-Hog Poll Results Are Cheering to Hoosier Democrats. A test of New Deal strength in Indiana is to be staged Tuesday when voters in approximately 400 towns go to the polls to elect clerktreasurers and town board members. Both major political parties, however, are watching the elections as an indication of their respective strength at the general elections next year. Democrats were given added confidence with the vote returns on the corn-hog control program taken throughout the state this week. The leferendum showed an overwhelming vote to continue one of the New Deal’s outstanding programs. Indication of Farm Trend Republicans, while taking cognizance of the corn-hog voting as an indication of the farm trend, were optimistic as to their chances on the basis of returns in city elections held last year. Their strength was demonstrated materially when 56 cities, many of them the largest in the state, went Republican. Thirty-six cities retained Democratic mayors. Election of clerk-treasurers ir> 432 towns are authorized by the 1*35 Legislature which abolished the separate offices and provided for an election Nov. 5. The act also provided their terms be increased from two to four years. A state survey shows that not all of the towns will hold elections. While the act provides that elections be held, the State Board of Election Commissioners has held that if town boards do not choose to hold them, present officers will hold over until their successors are named. Offices Are Combined Under terms of the act, the duties of town treasurer are transferred to the clerk-treasurer except for collection of Barrett law assessments where the amount exceeds $1,000,000 annually. In that case the assessments are to be collected by the county treasurer. Where county treasurers collect the assessments, they must give bond, the premium for execution of the bond being paid by the respective towns where assessments exceed $1,000,000. General election laws will be in force at the polls, which open at 6 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. The clerk-treasurer election law bill was introduced in the 1935 Legislature by Reps. H. H. Evans. Newcastle. now a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket, and William Black. Anderson Democrat. The bill had the backing of the state administration despite the fart it was sponsored by Evans, one of the state administration's bitterest enemies. The Democrat support was given the bill on the grounds it would save taxpayers approximately $150,000 annually. RILEY. SCHRINER ARE CALLED IN TRUCK QUIZ Works Board President, Garage Chief Summoned by Council. Hubert S. Riley, Works Board president, and Fred Schriner, garage foreman, were asked today to appear before the City Council and explain their position on the recent purchase by the board of two trucks at SI3OO above the low bid. The request was made by Dr. Theodore Cable, chairman of the council investigating committee, and with the request he said he had finished his investigation. The trucks were bought at a closed board meeting about two weeks ago. Dr. Cable said that ■ “when the report is made I'm afraid someone's toes will be stepped on.” MARION FUND IS SHORT Opening Day Total Falls Short of East Year by SIOOO. / imr.9 special MARION. Ind., Oct. 30.—Community Fund workers today redoubled their efforts after an opening day solicitation netted only 57484. This was approximately SIOOO short of the first-dav figure for ! 1934.

Vast Increase in Arms Is Vital Issue of Britain’s Strangest Election Campaign in Years; Pacifists to Vote for Huge Navy

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Hoard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.—One of the strangest election campaigns in the long history of Great Britain is now in full swing. Its effect on the United States will be considerable. The issue: Armaments. The date: Two weeks from tomorrow —three days after Armistice Day. the seventeenth since the close of the war to end war. Not since the Wilson-Harding campaign of 1920. revolving around the League of Nations, has a great political issue been so plain, yet so muddled in the minds of the masses. The Conservatives, now in the saddle, are running on a peace platform. La v rites, the opposi-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30,1935

Army Officer Killed, 4 Others Saved as Giant ‘Flying Fortress’ Crashes on Takeoff, Bursts Into Flames

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The 15-lon “Flying Fortress,” built for the United States Army, which crashed at Wright Field, Dayton, today, bringing death to Maj. Ployer Hill of the Army Air Corps. The giant Boeing bomber, shown here in a recent flight, burst into flames. It was reported to have cost about $500,000 to build.

POSIPONE CIVIL LEVY HEARING State Tax Board to Take Up School City Tax This Afternoon. The State Tax Board this afternoon was to hear appeals from the school city tax levy, having postponed hearing this morning on the civil city levy due to the illness of Walter Boetcher, City Controller. Tax board members announced action on the various local appeals will be withheld until after Monday, last day for paying the fall installment of taxes. The question of whether tax-mak-ing officials underestimated the tax collections is one to be considered today. Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers Association, principal objector, contends the rates were arrived at after too small an allowance was made for collections. Tentative approval of the Warren Township rate was given yesterday by the board when no objectors appeared. The appeal from the Washington Township rate was heard with Mr. Miesse asking a 7-cent reduction. ‘GIF! OF GOD' BABY STUB COURT SCENE Disputed Infant Ordered to Hospital. P>!! United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 30.—An exceptional court scene was enacted here today when Rush Limbaugh, special commissioner, hearing the famous St. Louis baby mystery case, ordered the tiny central baby figure taken from Mrs. Nelle Tipton Muench, who claims it as a “gift cf God,” born to her in August. Mrs. Muench. charged by unwed Anna Ware of Pennsylvania with having obtained Miss Ware's baby to “palm off on the world as her own,” screamed and cried out in tearful protest at the court’s command. She was ejected from the courtroom. Purpose of the order was to place the child in the children's hospital for an examination to determine its rightful mother. AETNA DEPOSITORS TO GET FIFTH DIVIDEND Authorize JL, Per Cent Payment to be Made Friday. Depositors of the Aetna Trust and Savings Cos. are to receive a 7’ 2 per cent dividend Friday. The dividend, the fifth to be paid since the company closed its doors in July. 1933. amounts to $49,284.61 and brings the total paid thus far to 1300 depositors to more than $750,000. Carl A. Ploch. special representative of the state department of financial institutions, authorized payments. EDISON’S WIDOW WEDS Close Friends, Relatives Attend Marriage Ceremony. By Unit) <i Pri xs CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.. Oct. 30. In a simple ceremony attended only by relatives and a few close friends, Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, 70, widow of Thomas A. Edison, was married today to Edward E. Hughes. 73, a Franklin (Pa.) lawyer.

tion. in effect are running on a war platform. Pacifists by the million are reported ready to vote for bigger armaments. Former Premier Ramsay MacDonald, once “the most nated man in England" for his pacifist views, the leader whose own Socialist followers hissed and disowned him because of his peace stand, today is one of the principal contenders for more British guns—on land, sea and in the air. The Conservatives, headed by Premier Stanley Baldwin, are making a play for liberal, labor and pacifist votes by defending the League. Baluwin is making votes out of the Italo-Ethiopian war. His argument runs this way: The League Is imperative if the world is not to return to the old

15-Ton Craft Plunges to Earth From Height of 200 Feet. By United Preen DAYTON, 0., Oct. 30. Maj. Ployer P. Hill of the Army Air Corps died at 12:50 this afternoon : of injuries received when the giant I Boeing bomber, described as the j largest and fastest aircraft of its j type ever built, crashed on a. takeoff and caught fire at Wright Field here today. The 70-foot bomber, with a wing spread of 100 feet, roared majestically down the runway during government tests at the Army field, arose falteringl.v to an altitude of 200 feet, and then plunged to earth. Flames leaped from the craft a few seconds after it crashed. Standing nearby were several of- | ficers. Two of them, Lieutenants j Leonard Harman and R. K. Giovan- | noli, ran to the burning wreckage ■ and dragged two of the imprisoned ; men to safety. The flames burned | their clothing and singed their arms and faces. Maj. Hill was pulled from the j wreckage, injured critically. His j skull was fractured and he was j burned severely. Probe Beard Ordered Leslie Tower, Seattle, Wash., chief 1 test pilot of the Boeing Cos., which ! built the great fighting plane, also 1 was helped from the wreckage by j the officers. He also was seroiusly i | hurt. The others, Lieut. Donald L. Putt i of Wright Field; John Cutting. I i Wright Field civilian observer, and j ! Mark H. Coogler, mechanic, were ! able to crawl from the bomber. All were taken to the hospital, where it I was said their injuries were not serious. Gen. A. W. Robins, chief of the material division of the air corps, immediately appointed a board to i investigate the cause of the crash. The plane was estimated to be i worth close to $500,000. It. was mostly of metal and had a maxi- ! mum speed of 275 miles an hour. In addition to places for several machine guns, it could carry 15 1000-pound bombs. Its four motors were of 700-horse power each, and it weighed about 15 tons. GUFFEY ACT MOVES TOWARD HIGH COURT Early Test Foreseen for ‘Little NRA’ Bill. : By United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.—The The controversial Guffey Coal Act, ! setting up a “Little NRA” in the bituminous industry, advanced toward an early United States Su- : preme Court test today when Justice Jesse Adkins, District Supreme ; Court, assumed jurisdiction in a test I case. Judge Adkins marked the pre- ! liminary skirmish between the government and James W. Carter, head i of the Carter Coal Cos., by overruling assistant Atty. Gen. John Dickinson’s plea for dismissal of Mr. Carter's suit contesting constitu- 1 tionality of the act. He directed that arguments in! the case continue for decision on application for a permanent injunction against enforcement of the act and on constitutionality of the act itself. Judge Adkins threw out Mr. Carter’s petition for an order to restrain the government from imposing penalties on the company for non-compliance, but granted a temporary injunction restraining the company stockholders from voluntarily complying with the code.

balances of power and inevitable f war. To save the League Italy must be stopped in Ethiopia. To do that the League must have miltary power —and it is up to Britain to provide it by increasing her armaments. Some months ago a nation-wide poll was taken in Britain to find j out how voters stood on sanctions.i Ten to one favored economic sanctions against an aggressor, while three to one favored the use of force. Baldwin's position is designed to win a large proportion of these votes. On the other hand, by a simple twist of the oratorical tap. he captures the nationalists by pointing out the .danger the British fleet is running in the Mediterranean. i

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GOLFERS L OSE ROAD PROTEST Pleasant Run Players Say New Boulevard Will Ruin Course. Irvington golfers who tee off regularly at Pleasant Run golf course today appeared to have lost their fight to prevent tearing up of the course for extension of Pleasant Run-blvd. A delegation of golfers appealed to A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, asking that the boulevard extension either be halted or revised so that various holes on the course will not be disturbed. Today, Mr. Sallee and Dr. Silas Carr, City Councilman, indicated that the improvement will be carried out. Both of them said they believed it was “poor sportsmanship” for golfers to protest a civic improvement. Golfers claim that holes 8. 9. 10, 12 and 13 will be impaired by the improvement. Work is to start within a month. The thoroughfare, which is to be financed with Works Progress Administration money, probably will run from Arlington-av and Pleasant Run-blvd to 56th-st and Shade-land-dr, then east to Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Links to Woollen's Gardens and the Boy Scout reservation also are to be made. TWO CITY AIRPORTS REGEIVE PWA F'iNDS Municipal and Stout Field Will Be Improved. Two Indianapolis airports Municipal and Stout Field—are to be improved with Public Works Administration money, it was announced today by the Department of Commeice in Washington. At Municipal Airport an eastwest runway is to be built and the northwest-southeast runway will be lengthened. At Stout field open ditches will be closed around the field, buildings wili be completed and grounds landscaped. DIONNE QUINTUPLETS SIGN MOVIE CONTRACT Guardian Says Babies Are Babbling in French and English. By United Prefix BOSTON, Oct. 30.—The Dionne quintuplets are going to become movie actresses, according to David Arnold Croll of the Province of Ontario cabinet, a guardian of the 17-month-old sisters. Croll said the contract already had been signed for the “quints’ ” appearance in a full-length film, but refused to reveal the name of the company which has the contract. The Dionnes already are babbling in both French and English, Croll said. Times Index Pag°. Amusements 15 Births, Deaths 21 Bridge 11 Comics 23 Editorial 14 Financial 16 Junior Aviation 4 Pegler 13 Radio 24 Serial Story 9 Sports 20-21 Stamps 24 Woman’s Pages 10-11

The British fleet, he would have his hearers believe, is now only a hollow shell. Once its proud flag was hailed and respected on all the seven seas. Today it is so weak that even Italy threatens it in the Mediterranean. The “life line” to Australasia, India and the Far East could be cut any time. Baldwin, however, is not havinc everything his own way. At lea.,: not to the extent of the last general elections, in 1930. The opposition Laborities are likewise basing their campaign on the League, but from a slightly different approach. The League, they declare, is vital. But it is a peace organization, not a war-maker. If Britain and other members would support it strongly enough, they say, it would not have to resort to force.

‘FORCED PEACE’ LATEST HOPE OF BRITAIN, FRANCE The TT^nr?• Today GENEVA—Britain and France planning “peace offensive” to fore* Mussolini to accept severe terms or. by rejecting them, assume full responsibility for outlawed war. ROME—War brings further drain of gold from Italy, gold coverage of currency dropping to eight per cent. Populace begins counter-boycott of foreign goods. LONDON—ltalian army repulsed Ethiopians in skirmishes on northern front. ADDIS ABABA—Capital hears unconfirmed rumors of big "battle” in south.

Ethiopian Smash at North Border Forces Fails, Dispatch Says. By l nitrd Pri xx LONDON, Oct. 30. lians on the northern front have repulsed anew Ethiopian attempt to cross the Setit River and invade Eritrea, the Exchange Telegraph correspondent with the northern army reported today. The raiders lost a number of prisoners, the correspondent reported. They were said to be of a force of 10,000 men detailed to attack the right flank of the Italian army. Farther east the correspondent reported, Italian scouting parties and advanced troops hao reached a position halfway between Aduwa and Makale, next Italian objective. Makale is 60 miles southwest of Aduwa. On the southern front, the Exchange Telegraph reported. Gen. Rodolfo Graziani's men are advancing and the fall of Gorrahei, on the Fa fan River west of Gerlogubi, is expected soon. Battle Reported On By United Press: ADDIS ABABA. Oct. 30.—A major battle between Ethiopian and Italian forces was in progress today on the Ogaden front, according to wholly unconfirmed reports circulating in Addis Ababa. Advices from the northern front indicated Ethiopian commanders there have not much hope of retaking towns now in the hands of the Italian invaders, especially where the Italians have had time to consolidate their positions. Although the advance guard of the Italians is reported to have penetrated within 35 miles of Makale, the northward movements of Ethiopian troops counted upon to ch;ck the southward drive of the trrops comanded by Gen. Emilio De F-.ono has not been completed. Italians Ready for Push By United Press ROM.E Oct. 30. Organization of all army services up to the front line in northern Ethiopia has been completed, dispatches from Adigrat said today, and the army is ready to advance at a moment’s notice. * A Moslem caravan chief arriving in the Italian lines, the dispatches said, informed the Italians of the plans of Ras Kassa and Ras Burru, Ethiopian commanders, and said that Ras Siyoum. commander-in-chief on the northern front, was in aggressive mood. The chief was reported to assert that the population were hostile to Ethiopian commanders and sought to prevent requisitioning of supplies. Ethiopians May Attack B’J United Press HARAR. Ethiopia, Oct. 30 Ethiopians on the southern front afe believed today to have made a sortie from the strongholds of Gorrahei and Daggah Bur to start an offensive which may either indefinitely delay the ITaftan advance or endanger the Ethiopians’ own positions immediately southward of Harar and Jijiga. Expect Flank Attack By United-Press ROME, Oct. 30. respondents at the front reported today that Ethiopian troops are concentrating on the flanks of the northern Italian army, hoping to launch counter-attacks which will win back some of their lost territory.

But they are fighting uphill. The Labor Party is split, and over the use of military sanctions. At a recent convention it went on record in favor of war if required to defeat 11 Duce’s campaign in Africa. Some of its leaders resigned because of this decision, but there it stands an ever-present aid to the Tories. Desipte handicaps. Labor is expected to score a considerable gain. In 1930. the Conservatives won 472 seats in the House of Commons, as against 52 for Labor and 72 for the vaiious shades of Liberals—those of Lloyd George, Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel. The popular vote, however, showed no such terrific disparity in party strength. A comparatively small switch in votes, therefore, might bring big surprises.

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London, Paris United Firmly in Moves to Bring War to End. By United Pres, GENEVA, Oct. 30.—Final negotiations with Italy for settlement of the Ethiopian war without application of the more stringent provisions of the covenant, such as a blockade, were believed in League of Nations circles today to be scheduled for this week-end. The League will set a date tomorrow for appliaction of a complete boycott on Italian goods by approximately 50 nations. Such action. League leaders believe, will convince Italy that the League means business and will go the whole route toward halting the

By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Secretary of State Cordell Hull again today called upon American citizens to desist from trading with either Italy or Ethiopia, declaring that such trade is conducted "at the expense of human lives and human misery.”

1 war by international collaboration. Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Italian negotiator is due here Friday. Sir Samuel Hoare. Birtish foreign sec- | retary, and Premier Pierre Laval I of France also will come. It is believed that the three will confer before Monday on the final terms to Italy as drafted by Birtish and French experts in Paris, giving Italy the choice of accepting them or exposing herself to further dras- | tic international action. Britain’s Hopes Waning | Hi/ I nilnl I‘rcK* LONDON, Oct. 30.—Great Britain has no hope that a basis for real peace negotiations with Italy can be found before the League of.Nations imposes a strangling economic boycott on Italy, it was understood today. But Britain and France together may inaugurate a "peace offensive” at Geneva which would be calculated either to make Italy accept what are called reasonable terms or to assume even greater responsibility for its war on Ethiopia, it was learned. Britain and France are agreed completely at last on League penalties and naval co-operation. It is believed that Sir Eric Drummond. British ambassador at Rome, informed Premier Benito Mussolini last night of this in hope of impressing him with the fact of his present isolation. There are indications that the Anglo-French accord, revealed almost each day as more securely cemented. may have wide '•epcrcussions on all European diplomacy. Open Counter Boycott BiJ I iiitrd Prrxx ROME. Oct. 30—Fascism rallied its forces, led by the women, in an official drive today to boycott th® goods of nations who join in applying sanctions against Italy at Geneva. An official announcement said: "The Fascist national party has entrusted to provincial groups of Fascist women, comprising the mothers and widows of soldiers killed in the World War, the task of organizing a house-to-house defense and reprisals against sanctions.” The movement already was spreading rapidly. Housewives refused to buy goods and food supplies from other European countries. especially Britain. Tea and textiles were especially hard hit. MEMORIAL DEDICATION HINGES ON ROOSEVELT Vincennes City Officials Await Word From Washington. I'y Lnitnl I'n kk VINCENNES, Oct. 30—City officials today anxiously awaited word from President Roosevelt as to whether he will attend the dedicatory program at the George Roger® Clark Memorial Nov. 19. An invitation to attend the ceremonies has been extended the Pre** and on a recent trip through here, he indicated that the invitation would be accepted. Although the actual memorial building has been completed one of the main statutes has ndt yet arrived. G. A. R. Chief of Staff Die®. Ry i ttitrd Prrm CHICAGO. Oct. 30—Col. James H. Campbell, 88. national chief of staff of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at his home here last night.