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HUGE BALLOON SOARS 74,187 FEET, RECORD Army Bag Climbs High Into Stratosphere on Third Attempt. OLD MARK WAS 61,237 Two Pilots Report Weather Conditions on Daring Trip Into Skies. Rtj I nilril Pr< ss RAPID CITY, S. D„ Nov. 11.— The stratosphere balloon, Explorer 11, appearing over the north Nebraska plains as a tiny speck, set a new world's record in altitude today Shortly before noon Capt. Albert W. Stevens, flight commander and technical observer, reported that the Giant balloon had reached an altitude of 67,000 feet. The official world's record is 61,237 feet, although a Russian balloon in 1034 ascended 72.000 feet. The crew was killed, however, in a crash. At 11:55 a. m the Explorer II had leached an altitude of 72,000 feet, almost equaling the unofficial mark of the Soviet balloonists. Drifts Into Nebraska The huge helium-inflated bag drifted leisurely into Nebraska at 11 a. m. Observers on the ground at Valentine, Neb., reported it was moving very slowly in a southeasterly direction. Capt. Stevens and Capt. Orval A. Anderson, the pilot, had started the aseent at 8:01 a. m. from the sheltered cliff-faced bowl in the Black Hills region southwest of here. It was their third assault on the altitude record. The first attempt last year ended in a crash near Holdredge, Neb., and about 200 miles southeast of the point where the new record was set today. Earlier j this autumn the second attempt j ended when the canvas ripped at j the takeoff, deflating the bag. 76 Below Zero Outside Capt. Stevens reported to Wash- j ington by radio to sponsors of the flight, the National Geographic Society and the Army, that when the official world's record was bettered the temperature inside the metal gondola w r as 21 degrees Fahrenheit above zero. Outside the gondola the mercury had dropped to 76 degrees below zero. ‘The windows of the gondola are frosty and we have to wipe them off," Capt. Stevens radioed. "The bag is now' 85 per cent full and w'e are going up.” This report was made at 11:27 a. m. At 12:10. Explorer 'I had attained a height of 73.000 eet. Capt. Ste- j vens reported, almost 15 miles. Rag Scarcely Visible Capt. Stevens, congratulated over his short wave radio set, on setting the new record, replied: “Yep. that's right." Inside the metal gondola the airmen were kept alive by oxygen tanks. Outside the void was blue black. From the ground, the ballon scarcely was visible. Shortly after noon the balloon seemed to change its direction. The drift at that time appeared to be in a westward direction. Weather observers at Valentine predicted it would land southwest of Valentine, perhaps in the western Nebraska panhandle, eastern Wyoming or northeastern Colorado. Still Going Up At 12:20 Capt. Stevens reported the altitude as 73.800 feet. The sky was a dark purple overhead and blade at one horizon and dark blue toward the other. While the record-breaking ascension progressed Capt. Stevens calmly read recordings from a cosmic ray instrument to Dr. W. F. G. Swann, director of the Bjrtol Research Foundation of Franklin Institute. Dr. Swann was in New York broadcasting to the balloon by short wave radio. The airmen showed no disposition to check their ascension and at 12:25 Explorer II had reached 74 187 feet.

PASSENGERS AND CREW ESCAPE WRECKED SHIP British Freighter Breaks in Two off Coast of Luzon. fl'i f'tilted Fret* MANILA, P. 1.. Nov. ll. —Four passengers and the crew of the S. S. Silver Hazel Escaped without injury when they abandoned the British freighter off the coast of Luzon today. The first report on the fate of the occupants of the grounded freighter, which broke in two. came from Capt. W. R. Brust of the S. S. New York, rescue ship standing by for an attempt to remove the passengers from a barren rock at daylight. In a radio message. Capt. Brust said. ‘lnformed by Morse lamp all crew and passengers okeh. Left ship and now on rock. Part of ship sunk.” Rob Collcge-Av Tavern •John S Sanders, operator of the Uptown Tavern. 4186 College-av. reported today to police that burglars obtained S3O in cash and whisky valued at SBS from his tavern some time during the week-end.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 210

Glinting Bayonets Bring Memories of 1918 to City

VanOrman Not Wed, He Avers; Spikes Rumor

(Photo on Page 3) F. Harold Van Orman, millionaire hotel owner and former Indiana Lieutenant Governor, is not married to Miss Harriett Hodgini. Chicago, member of a famous circus family, he said today. He’s not engaged to her, she’s not engaged to him, he says, and he says she has said the same thing. He says he thinks it might have been a publicity stunt. Mr. Van Orman w'as pleasant when he denied the report of his marriage published yesterday in Chicago newspapers. He said, by phone, from Evansville, that the papers had promised to correct the story. Miss Hodgini is a performer with Cole Brothers and Clyde Beatty Circus. Mr. Van Orman said he had met her three or four times.

5 OF 6 RECAPTURED AFTER FARM BREAK State Prisoners Seized on Road Near Greencastle. By United Press GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Nov. 11.— Five prisoners who escaped from the state penal farm last night were recaptured walking along a road south of here today and returned to the institution. A sixth. Alfred Blevins. Fayette County, serving a 30-day term on a liquor charge, remained at. large. The men escaped through a manhole in the dairy. Those recaptured were: Robert. Dearing, Marion County, serving a year for burglary; Herbert Coss, Marion County, serving six months ror burglary; Cecil Scott, Marion County, serving a year for robbery; Frank Johnson, Vanderburgh County, serving a year for burglary; and Sam Cosby. Vanderburgh County, serving six months for contributing to delinquency of a minor. ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES Miss Zelpha MafTey. Indianapolis, Was Injured Oct. 5. Times Special NOBL ESVILLE. Ind., Nov. 11.— Miss Zelpha Massey, 48. 2158 N. Tal-bot-st, Indianapolis, died at the Hamilton County Hospital last night of injuries received in an automobile accident west of here Oct. 5. Miss Massey was occupant of a :ar driven by E. L. Pedlow, 3028 Central-av, Indianapolis, when it struck a truck parked in State Road 32. Mr. Pedlow and the other passengers escaped serious injury. Times Index Amusements ... 4 Auto Show Section 17-28 Bridge 11 Broun 7 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 6 Financial 26 Junior Aviation 2 Pegler . 7 Radio 4 Serial Story 5 Sports 12-13 Want Ads 14 Woman's Pages 10-11

Armistice Day, 1935—Bayonets, men, well and maimed, at the Cross on the Circle.

PFAFF-HUOHEL TRIAL OPENED Defunct Investment Firm Charged by U. S. With Gigantic Fraud. Pfaff & Hughel, defunct investment firm, devised schemes to defraud investors, Val Nolan, district attorney, charged today as the trial of three former officers of the firm opened in Federal Court. “We are about to draw aside the curtain on as tragic and sordid a misuse of other peoples’ money as ever was unfolded in the annals of this court. The evidence is to show fraud, larceny, deception and betrayal of trust, the like of which never berore has come under my personal observation,” Mr. Nolan charged. The defense opening statement was to be made later. Case of Mrs. Crosley Mr. Nolan dwelt at length on the case of Mrs. Georgia Crosley. Indianapolis widow who lost, according to Mr. Nolan. SBOO,OOO as the result of the firm’s operations. Mr. Hughel cultivated Mrs. Crosley socially, frequently sending her flowers and visiting at her home with Mrs. Hughel, Mr. Nolan said, charging this was done after the firm had won Mrs. Crosley's confidence and had been given power of attorney over her funds. On trial in what Mr. Nolan has termed a “million-dollar" fraud are Walter P. Pfaff, Myron M. Hughel and Robert B. Robinson. Former Senator James T. Watson heads the legal defense of eight attorneys. The jury, consisting of eight farmers, a retired farmer, a farm management representative and two realtors, was selected at opening of court this morning. Personnel of Jury The jury; John Bunnell. Hagerstown, Wayne County, farmer. Walter Chappie, retired Fortville farmer, now living in Indianapolis. James I. Clem. Mooresviile, Morgan County, farmer. John T. Dixon, Martinsville, farmer. Walter J. Haney, Crawfordsville, real estate and farm management. Ray Hornaday, Montgomery, Daviess County, farmer. Albert E. Howe, Burney, Decatur County, farmer. Earl Long, Gosport, Owen County, farmer. Altus H. Newsom. Azalia, Bartholomew County, farmer. Russell Rothrock. White Cloud, Harrison County, lumber business. Dennis Royer, Patricksburg, Owen County, farmer. Chester Thomas, Anderson, real estate and insurance.

Poor Deer —This Excitement Was Just Too Much

AN unidentified deer, weighing 300 and wearing snappy twofoot antlers, observed the opening of the hunting season so riotously on the South Side today that it destroyed itself. It died at 10:23 this morning in the back yard of the home of Eugene F. Kennerknecht. 1619 Leon-ard-st. apparently of exhaustion and fright. For two hours it had displayed an unreasonable fear of police and housewives, running through back yards and jumping fences. It seemed to have a good deal

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1935

British Planes Sent in Wake of Lost Fliers

!'•[) United Press SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, Nov. 11.—Royal Air Force bombing planes received new orders today to make a last thorough search of the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and J. T. Pethybridge, his co-pilot, missing since Friday on a flight from England to Australia. The planes will fly low over all islands, hoping Kingsford-Smith's Lady Southern Cross may have drifted ashore. C. J. Melrose, who saw Kings-ford-Smith fighting to keep his plane aloft over the bay, suggested he might have been able to gain height and reach an uninhabited island.

AUTO SHOW SETS ATTENDANCE MARK Inclement Weather Fails to Dampen Interest. (A 11-Pagf Auto Section Is Included in This Edition) Bad weather failed to prevent the setting of new attendance records yesterday w'hen 7000 persons thronged the Manufacturers Building at the State Fairground to see the Indianapolis Silver Jubilee Auto Show-. A colorful array of 1936 automotive creations is on display daily from 11 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. each day and night until and including Saturday. A display attracting unusual attention is that featuring the new' Linoln Zephyr, a V-motored. 12cylindered creation. Other lines of cars include Chrysler, Graham. De Soto, Lincoln. Pierce-Arrow', Reo, Hupmobile, Studebaker, Willys, Buick, Ca ullac, Chevrolet. Dodge, Ford, Hudson, Lafayette, La Salle, Nash. Oldsmobile. Packard, Plymouth, Pontiac and Terraplane. HUNTER IS WOUNDED Huntington Man Victim of First Day of Shooting. B;/ United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., Nov. 11.— Wilfred Finley, 30. shot and seriously wounded himself in a hunting accident near here today. Andy Rousch and Fred Ziegler, hunting with Finley, carried him a half-mile to a farmhouse, w'here he received emergency treatment. Later he was removed to a hospital here.

of trouble with grape vines, too, and tore up several arbors before it went to a happier hunting ground. It was brown, with a white stomach, and police have no idea where it came from. The deer ran into tough luck first thing it got in town. Detective Martin Kruse saw it at Leonard and Sanders-sts and called the station. a a a I'VE just seen a deer." he said. "Oh. you've seen a steer,” said the police radio operator. "No.” stormed Detective Kruse.

NAB 2 IN CASE OF LOST BRIDE Maryland Police See Clew in Paper Fingerprinted in Crimson. 3)f Uni led Press MT. RAINIER, Md.. Nov. 11.—A scrap of crumpled paper went under police miscroscopes today as a tantalizing clew in “the case of the missing bride,” a story of mystery, murder and jealousy within sight of the national Capitol dome. Fingerprints were smudged in crimson on the paper, pressed there at night and in the black shadow of a tree along a country lane. They may tell how and why bright-eyed Corinna Loring died in agony with a cord twisting deep into her throat as she sprawled in the lane a few hours before her wedding day. Jealousy was the motive, police believe. They held red-eyed, haggard Richard Tear, who was to have married Corinna, and Aubrey Hampton, a government clerk, and former suitor of Corinrr for questioning. Clews aplenty v ere spread out on the desk of Police Chief Eugene Plummer. Among them were a few strands of hair, a gray glove with one finger less worn than others, a peculiar knot in the cord taken from Corinna’s throat, toothmarks on her hand and—how' could a mystery be complete w'ithout it?—her w'rist watch, broken and stopped at 9:05. Last Monday, Corinna happily u'ent shopping for furniture. Monday night at 8 p. m. her mother w'ent out. leaving Corinna alone in the house, aw-aiting the arrival of Tear. Police believe there may have been a telephone call to the house about 8:15 p. m. At 8:40 p. m„ according to Tear's story, he arrived at the Loring home and rang the doorbell. Nobody answered. Tear said he waited on the doorstep until 9:15 p. m. Then he wrote a note; “Sweet, it's 9:15, so I'll have to get to work. I’ll see you after work tomorrow. Love, DICK.” At almost the hour and minute sera weld in Tear’s note—9:ls—Corinna Loring was battling for her life, and losing. As the hands of her wrist watch touched 9:05, the w'atch was smashed by a powerful blow'. Quake Rocks Greek Area By United Press ATHENS, Nov. 11. A severe earthquake shock was felt today, centering in the Philiataes region of Epirus on the east coast. Several houses were reported destroyed and the inhabitants were panic sticken.

"I've seen a deer, and I'm not balmy.” After necessary mental adjustments. the dispatcher called for car No. 40, with Patrolmen B. F. Patterson and J. J. Alkire. "There’s a deer loose at Leonard and Weghorst-sts.” he told them. Patrolmen Patterson and Alkire laughed and laughed. When it. was repeated several times, however, they began to look for a set of stray antlers. nun EVERY time they would get to where the deer was last re-

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ROOSEVELT PLEDGES U. S. TO NEW PEACE EFFORTS IN ARMISTICE ADDRESS

Bristling World Pays Lip Service to Ideal of Peace. FAR EAST IN TURMOIL Lloyds Bets Conflict Will Come to Europe in Two Years. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— The seventeenth Armistice Day since that which saw Germany lay down her arms at Rethondes, in 1918, finds the world face to face with a major crisis. The Italo-Ethiopian war in Africa is marching toward a climax which may involve Europe. Great Britain and Italy confront each other in the Mediterranean. A week from today League economic penalties are to take effect against Italy with results which nobody today can foresee. Nazi Germany is arming, day and night. Scrapping the Treaty of Versailles, which grew out of the first Armistice Day, she is building an army stronger than the one she had in 1914. Tory Victory Certain Great Britain, whose capital is within an hour’s flight of Nazi bombing squadrons, will hold a general election Thursday on a platform of rearmament. A Tory victory is virtually certain. Thoroughly frightened, their aim is to make Britain invincible. In the Far East. Japan is steadily tightening her coils about China. Yesterday 2000 Japanese marines landed and took possession of a section of Shanghai after the slaying of one of their number allegedly by a Chinese. Japan, Russia Squirm In North China, Gen. Kenji Doihara, one of the secret creators of Manchukuo, is demanding that an independent regime be set up with Peiping as its capital. That is the method used to annex Manchuria, Jehol and part of Inner Mongolia. In Tokyo the Japanese War Office —whose word is now law, so far as Nippon's Asiatic policy is concerned —has issued a statement bristling with opposition to China’s monetary policy. It refers to reports that Britain is lending China some $50.000,000 to aid stabilization, adding that "Japan can not overlook such an attempt by Great Britain to reduce China to a semi-colonial status.”

Bigger Navies Inevitable Relations between Japan and Russia also add to the general anxiety prevailing in the Western Pacific. Stronger by far than she has ever been, and more war-like, Nippon is reaching out into Outer Mongolia, seeking a foothold w'ithin striking distance of the TransSiberian, the Soviet Union's lifeline to the Orient. Clash after clash betw'een armed patrols along the frontier leads to the belief that a showdow'n is merely a question of time. Against this same troublous background also a w'orld naval conference is scheduled to meet at London three weeks from Thursday. It was called by Great Britain largely because existing naval limitation treaties stipulteed such a parley. But nobody expects it to get anywhere. Bigger navies, not smaller, are deemed inevitable—thanks to the existing w'orld uncertainty. But Lloyds Bets on War Seventeen years ago today, on various battlefields of Europe, there lay a lot of dead too shattered to be identifiable. From an American sector one of these was picked up. In time it W'as brought across the ocean to be buried at Arlington nuder the name of the “Unknown Soldier.” Britain picked up one of her unrecognizables and made him her “unknown.” So did France and Italy, Germany, Poland. Czechoslovakia and many other nations. Todry, at these various shrines, statesmen are rededicating themselves to world peace. But matter-of-fact Lloyd's is betting that within two years or less new “unknowns” aplenty will be scattered over new European battlefields.

ported, the deer already was somewhere else. Then it wasn’t long before police got the call that the deer was in the Kennerknecht back yard. Although none of the police had seen a deer who recently died, they decided nevertheless it was dead and Sergt. Frank Gallagher took a truck out to bring it in. They called an animal coroner to see whether the carcass —as good to eat. and when they find that out they will know more details about services. They probably will be simple.

ITALY'S ARMY DRIVES DEEPER INTO ETHIOPIA Mussolini, Meanwhile. Roars His Defiance for Rome Crowds. By United Press ROME, Nov. 11.—Italy's army is ready to defend the country's interests in Europe. Africa or anywhere. Premier Benito Mussolini shouted today to crowds massed in the Piazza Venezia on the occasion of King Victo Emmanuel's sixty-sixth birthday. As he spoke two Italian flying colums, moving with amazing speed, pushed into the heart of eastern Ethiopia. For two hours, Mussolini, in militia uniform, sat on a big charger to review a parade of 35,000 men of the armed forces, representing all branches of the service, in the king's honor. All public buildings were decorat ed and the national tri-color was flown (Turn to Page Three) EX-FOES JOIN WAR HEROES March Side by Side With Local Veterans in Parade on Armistice Day. (Other Armistice Day Stories on Pages 3 and 7.) Marching in a gray mist reminiscent of marches to the front lines, soldiers of 1917-1918 of Marion County today celebrated the seventeenth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. While governmental offices in the city closed for the day and employes of business firms honored the day with silence periods, aged uniforms fresh from moth balls swung shoulder to shoulder in "squad right” formations as the parade began at 10:15. The olive-drab met the German gray in the parade as veterans who left the Fatherland after the world conflict marched as one of the divisions of the parade. It was the city s first Armistice parade that let down the bars to foes of other years. The German veterans, four of them, were in the affable and goodnatured custody of Otto Ferger, ser-geant-at-arms of the Order of Purple Heart. Riding in an auto instead of marching, they shouted goodnaturedly that next year they'd walk “75 strong and really make a parade showing.” The veterans, who were the cynosure of the eyes of crowded sidewalks. were: Richard Koetteretz. 226 Hen(Turn to Page Three)

SHARP COLD WAVE IS TO FOLLOW RAIN Mercury Expected to Drop Below Freezing Tonight. With rain forecast today and tonight, temperatures are scheduled to drop to freezing or below by tomorrow. weather bureau forecasters said today. The mercury had dropped from 54 at 6 this morning to 50 at 9 under a drizzle that followed rain Saturday night and overcast skies yesterday. The temperature reading at noon was 52. RUSSELL F. HADDATH DIES AFTER ILLNESS Accountant Succumbs at Home at Age of 68. Russell Frcars Haddath. certified public accountant, died today at his home. 2007 N. Talbot-st.. He had been ill tor more than a year. Services for Mr. Haddath. who was 68. are to be in Tyner's Mortuary, 328 W. 30th-st. at 2:30 tomorrow. The body will be cremated. Mr. Haddath was born in Cumberland, England, in 1867 and was married to Miss Elizabeth Harding. Leicestershire, in 1890. They came to America in 1907 and lived in Cincinnati until 1911. In that year they moved to Indianapolis. Mrs. Haddath died in 1922. Three children of that union survive Mr. Haddath. They are Mrs. Doris Charles, Leicester. England. Mrs. Edna Mary Wiles and Bernard Haddath, Indianapolis. In 1925 Mr. Haddath married Miss Daisy Phillips. She and a daughter. Jane, also survive him.

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President Delivers Speech at Tomb of Nation's Unknown Soldier. THOUSANDS HEAR TALK Chief Executive Lashes Out at Would-Be War Profiteers. BY FREDERICK A. STORM Enited Press Staff Correspond?nt WASIIINGTON, Nov. 11 On the seventeenth anniversary of the Armistice, President Roosevelt stood at the tomb of the l nknown Soldier today and pledged America to new efforts for peace in a world plagued hy threats of war. Speaking before thousands in the white marble amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery, the President redeciicat.ed the nation to an everlasting struggle to prevent new tragedies of war. A November sun drenehed the [solemn gathering with its bright rays, as the President in quiet words served notice upon a world once more filled with talk of war that: "America will ever seek the w-ays of peace and by her example at home and abroad speed the return of good will among men." Calls Aggression Unthinkable “If w'e as a nation.” said Mr. Roosevelt, “by our good example can contribute to the peaceful well-being !of the fellowship of nations, our i course through the years will not I have been in vain." Any aggression by the United [States, leading toward or contributing toward war, said Mr. Roosevelt, is unthinkable. He promised that i the United States would never enter | into any race of armaments nor see*. ; to arm herself w'ith weapons other J than those needed for her own dej sense. The primary purpose of this nation, said Mr. Roosevelt, is to avoid being drawm into war and to seek in every practicable way to promote peace and discourage w'ar. However, he warned, “America must and will protect herself.” Hits at Profiteers The President struck hard at those who sought*to profit from the tragedy of war. "Except for those few' who have placed or who place temporary selfish gain ahead of national or world peace," he said, “The overwhelming mass of American citizens are in hearty accord W'ith these basic policies of government, as they are also entirely sympathetic with the efforts of other nations to end war.” He took a realistic view of international conditions and commented upon that fact that "most serious t)f all, international confidence in the sacredness of international contracts is on the wane.” As an offset to the threats and jealousies of world powers, Mr. Roosevelt announced that he and Premier William Mackenzie King of Canada had agreed upon first principles of a trade treaty between the two nations, expected to increase further the unbroken amuy and good will of the neighbor countries. Defends America's Record Mr. Roosevelt defended America's record as a leader in the cause of peace. “We have striven with great concistencv," he said, "to approve steps to remove the causes of war and to disapprove steps taken by others to commit acts of aggression. “We have either led or performed our full part in every important attempt to limit and to reduce armaments. We have sought by definite act and .solemn commitment to establish the United Slates as a good neighbor among nations. “We are acting to simplify definitions and facts by calling war war* when armed invasion and a resulting killing of human beings take place.”

War ‘Glories' a Delusion The "glories” of war. said Mr. Roosevelt, are a delusion. "Fortunately,” he said, "there is evidence on every hand that the youth of America, as a whole, is not trapped bv that delusion. "They know that elation and prosperity which may come from anew war must lead—for those who survive it—to economic and social collapse more sweeping than any wt have experienced in thp past. "While, therefore, we can not and must not hide our concern for grave world dangers and while, at the ame time, we can not build walls around ourselves and hide out heads in the sand, w -p must go forward with all our strength to stress and to strive for international peace.” The President characterized an art of aggression by the United States under his administration as "an impossibility.”