Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1935 — Page 3

NOV. 12, 1935

LIST SPEAKERS ! FOR TEACHERS' MEETING HERE English Instructors Will Hear Sandburg and Untermeyer. 1 reparations are being completer] today for the silver anni\ersary convention of tne National Council of Teachers of English to he held here Nov. 28 to 30. Teaching English in a changing I curriculum is to be the general ! topic for the convention, Charles I Swain Thomas, Harvard University, j council president, has announced, j Convention arrangements are oe- j ing directed by Miss Mabel Goddard, Technical High School Eng- | li h department head. Paul C. Stet- ! son. school superintendent, and E. | H. Kemper McComb, Manual Train- | ing High School principal, are hon- ; orary chairmen. Speakers will include Carl Sand- ! burg, American poet; Dr. Claude M. Fucss, headmaster, Philips Andover Academy; poet-anthologist, Louis Untermeyer, essayist Frances Lester Warner. Dean Henry W. Holmes, Harvard graduate education school; President William Lowe Bryan, Indiana University, and Miss Mar- j .jorie Gullan. chairman, Speech Fel- ' lowship and Institute of London. Os major importance to the con- j vention is the report of the curric-J ulum commission scheduled for Nov. 30. The report recommends an English curriculum through kindergarten to the graduate schools. Sectional sessions are to be held on creative writing, journalism, speech and dramatics, language problems, college reading, ar, filiation, international relations, departmental organizations, radio research and elementary reading. Convention headquarters are to be at. the Claypool.

CITY LIBRARIAN HEADS STATE HOSPITAL GROUP St. Vincent's Offirial Elected at Session Here, Miss Grace Bartle, chief librarian at St Vincent 's Hospital, was elected president of the Indiana State Association of Medical Record Librarians at the second annual convention in the Columbia Club yesterday. She succeeds Mrs. Ellen Tracy, chief librarian at the Indiana University Hospital, who became councilor. Other new officers are: Mrs. Adaltne Kennedy of Chicago, first vice president; Miss Helen Wagoner, chief librarian at the City Hospital, second viee president, and Miss Mary O Connor, assistant librarian at the Indiana University Hospitals, secre-tary-treasurer. SERGT. YORK DEPLORES WAR OF AGGRESSION Ilero of 1918 Speaks on Armistice Day at Monticello. 3 imes Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Nov. 12. I Sergt. Alvin York, hero of the World j War, never will enlist in another j foreign war, he said in an Armistice i Day meeting last night. "If we were attacked,” Sergt. York 1 raid, "Id be on the shore to meet j them when they came, but I’m not 1 going over and stick myself in ; somebody else’s business again.” Although opposed to war, Sergt. York single-handed broke up a German machine gun nest by killing 32 Germans and capturing 132 others. PERRY TOWNSHIP TAX GROUP CHANGES NAME Levy Reduction Is Explained by Baker and Miessc. Name of the Perry Township Civic School Association was changed to Perry Township Taxpayers’ Association at a meeting last night at which progress in reduction of the township tax levy was outlined by Kenneth Baker and Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers’ Association secretary. Reductions of $73,000 made by the Marion County Tax Adjusti °r/. Board and the State Tax Board in the budget of Leonard Hohlt. township trustee, were studied. IRVINGTON W. C. T. U. TO CONSIDER PROBLEM Liquor Situation in Suburb to Be Discussed at Meeting. The liquor question in Irvington is scheduled to be the topic this afternoon of The Irvington Woman’s Christian Temperance w. C. T. U. meeting at the home of Mrs. Guy O. Carpenter, 28 N. Audubon-pl. Mrs. Louis Bruck and Mrs. Harvey Hartsock are to speak. Devotions are to be conducted by Mr. and Mrs. E A Robertson. Business session is to be conducted by Mrs. Elizabeth Askren. a report on the state convention is to be received.

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A War in 20 Words! —What a 'Job for a Reporter!

Hre i* an historic n*wpip*r dneumrnt, "Note* From the Diarv of a War Correspondent," desrribinr in intimate. Starrato fashion how a war started. It mnsist* of notes Jotted down by Webb Miller, I'nited Press correspondent at the Italian front, from Oct. 2 to Oct. 7. The diary notes were sent by air mail to London and thence by wireless to the Vnited States. BY WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1935. bv United Press) WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES IN EAST AFRICA— Note from a War Correspondent's Diary: ASMARA, 0"t. 2. About 9 p. m. church bells start ringing wilding. Governor’s residence and Fascist club floodlightd with searchlights. Darkened street filled with excited men. Almost no white women here. Every one knows invasion of Ethiopia starts in morning. It's the "national civilian mobilization” which is occurring simultaneously in Italy. Impromptu band marched up street playing “Viovainezza,” Fascist song. Hundreds of men in ferment of emotion follow, singing, chanting, "II Duce,” "II Duce.” Gather in front of Fascist club, which now press headquarters. Call for Count Ciano. i Mussolini’s flying son-in-lawt finally get him out. Tumultuously carry on shoulders. Searchlights criss-cross sky. In press headquarters, we implore officials to let us start for iront. About 11 p. m., we are told we can start for general headquarters at 1 a. m. We rush to pack duffle bags, folding cots, blankets, nettings, water canteens, canned eatab.es, typewriters, paper, carbons, field glasses, dark glasses, tight fitting goggles, etc. a a a OCT. 3., 1 a. m. With Count Di Bosdari and Roman Fajan.s, correspondent of a Warsaw, Poland, newspaper, I start toward what will be the front within a few hours. Strange sensation to be setting out to witness a war which will begin promptly at 5 a. m. Don’t think similar incident occurred in modern times. We hurtle at 60 miles an hour through the night over silent roads. Halted now and then by sentries. GHQ about 60 miles away. We occupied with own thoughts except the Pole, who highly excited. To shut him up I simulate sleep. Apparently he thinks going witness bloody battle within few hours. Finally tell him GHQ in a war is as quiet as a cathedral. As near front, pass long lines roaring motor trucks, hurtling without lights on twisting mountain roads and edges of precipices. Truck driver’s life is more dangerous than soldiers. About 4 a. m. reach GHQ on top of mountain dropping precipitiously 2100 feet to plain of Asamo, lacing Bebelasa River. Unload our gear into bare rooms of stone barrack without stick of furniture. a tt a NO lights. Candles lighted while we stow away equipment. Consul Rafaele Castertino, chief of press section, hastily shaving by candle light. Madame Edith Marie de Boneuil, first woman war correspondent in Europe, representing Paris Journal, offers us each a rose. She carries a tortoise in her pocket as pet. Floyd Gibbons carries ju-ju given him by a witch doctor in West Africa. Every one talks in subdued voice. Some take swigs from cognac bottles. About 4:30 a. m. We mount automobiles for Gen. De Bono's observation point on the brow of Coatit Mountain. Post consists of few low stone huts, field telephones, clicking telegraph instruments and few pieces of artillery rimmed by sandbagged parapet. Big table covered with maps. No lights showing and very dark. We are introduced to half dozen officers and then mill around awaiting dawn. Suppressed tension in air. We know down in plain, half mile below us, are about 35,000 men of the 110 000 who will begin invasion of Ethiopia within half hour. It’s the central one of three columns poised on Mared and Belesa River banks, frontier of Ethiopia. These 110.000 men awaiting word “avanti, after which simple fact of their wading river will constitute act which will send reverberations through the world. tt tt a NOT spark light shows in valley below. But we know thousands of men on move. We light cigaret after cigaret and shiver in chill, thin mountain air. In the east the horizon pales, showing jagged silhoutte of mountains toward the Danakil. “hellhole of creation.” Officers pace up and down, talking in undertones. In the east, a faint rose color. Birds begin to sing. Now a few glimmers of light in the valley 2100 feet below us. We try to synchronize watches. Staff officer agrees to let us send not more than five 20-word bulletins each

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when operations begin. He says military lines are jammed with urgent military business. Sun suddenly rises over chloratecolored mountain rim. Nearly 5 a. m.—zero hour. Gen. De Bono, tiny, spare, white-bearded and mustached, aged 73. drive up. Goes into consultation with staff. Light enough to see maps spread on table out of doors. On mountain terrace below us native shepherd drives his goats. He is unconcerned with world-shaking event and ignorant of it. Five o'clock! I straddle the sandbagged parapet and hastily tap out an urgent rate telegram that will set thousands of presses spinning in 42 countries, spewing out extras. World will wake up to learn the invasion of Ethiopia, last independent kingdom of Africa, has started.

'BRIDE' MURDER ARRESTS NEAR Two to Be Seized After Funeral Tomorrow, Authorities Say. By United Pres* MT. RAINIER, Md„ Nov. 12. Possibility of two arrests in the mystifying murder of Corinna Loring was disclosed today by a prominent investigator in “The Case of the Missing Bride.” The arrests, police indicated, will come after the funeral tomorrow of the gill who died of strangulation last week instead of being married on Thursday to Richard Tear. A woman and a man were involved in the mysterious killing, according to the theory now advanced by most reliable police sources. The latest theory, which appeared to make police more confident of solving the case, is that Corinna was slain on Monday night, but her body was not taken to the country lovers’ lane, where it was found on Saturday, until some time Friday. Some police were convinced Corinna was slain by a woman. They believe that, after the killing, a man entered the case and aided in disposing of the body. It was pointed out no mud was found on the clothing of the girl when her body was discovered in the wooded lane on Saturday. Rain fell heavily between Monday night and Saturday, it also was learned a hunter worked his dogs extensively over the area—probably passing over the exact spot where the body was found—during the week, yet the dogs did not discover the body. YOUTH WHO ESCAPED HOSPITAL IS SOUGHT Forces Family at Point of Knife to Provide Clothes. Police today sought 15-year-old Lawrence Willoughby, who escaped from City Hospital last night and threatened with a butcher knife a family at 625 Maxwell-st until they gave him clothes, and then disappeared. Lawrence, who frequently has been in the Detention Home as an incorrigible, was awaiting transporation there to White’s Institute Saturday when he locked himself in the bathroom and swallowed some j poison. He was taken to City Hospital to j recover. He made a rope by tear- | ing two blankets into strips and ! let himself to the ground from the second floor. Ft. Wayne Robbery Nets 5416 By United Press FT. WAYNE. Nov. 12.—Two bandits raided the offices of the Coca-Cola Bottling Cos. last night, held up four employes and escaped with $416 in money and $35.13 in checks.

Five Questions Can you answer four of these lest questions? Turn to Page 16 for the answers. 1. Name the principal native state of India in extent, population and political importance. 2. How many feet are in a fathom? 3. Name the important river of southern Europe that rises in the Black Forest Mountains and empties into the Black Sea? 4. In which famous battle did the English general Sir Thomas Picton lose his life? 5. Which state is popularly known as the “Bur.keve state?”

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IN the valley below, miles-lor.g curtains of dust hang. Infantry men singing "Giovanezza” and rollicking soldiers’ songs, wade the shallow rivers with rifles held high. Same tning probably happening about 30 miles farther on both our right and left. In our eagle’s nest observation post there is nothing to mark any difference between Ethiopia uninvaded at 4.59 a. m. and Ethiopia invaded at 5:01 a. m. Gen. De Bono paces up and down with Gen. Gabba. Telegraph instrument chatters. We are introduced to De Bono and Gabba. Gabba sketches the compositions of columns and plan of operations. Perched on parapeted edge of a precipice, we hammer 20-word bulletins out (sometimes chiseling in a few extra words). The wind whirls dust eddies in

Man-of-Iron Macfadden Renigs Stratosphere Act Bulging Biceps and Burning Editorial Advocate Says He Has No Presidential Lightning Rods. If the Indianapolis Union Station only provided coat-hangers the citizenry would have been treated to an uplift demonstration today by Bernarr Mcfadden. magazine publisher and physical culturist. He speaks tonight to members of the Columbia Club.

Squat in stature, the man who has made millions in money by inducing millions to practice physical exercises, was willing to hoist Frank Butler, six footer, and one of the welcoming committee, toward the stratosphere for benefit of photographers. The flight proposition ended when no hanger could be found for his topcoat and the committee was diffident about the success of the trip. The man-or-iron noted for biceps and brief, burning editorials also refused to soar into the presidential ozone when asked as to the possibility of his G. O. P. candidacy to succeed President Roosevelt. "I'm putting up no lightning rods at this time,” he said smiling with his sharp, good-natured eyes. President Roosevelt's own political fortunes were likened by Mr. Mcfadden to a Florida hurricane barometer—“up and down.” “He’s gaining now in strength but later he may lose. One day it’s one way and tire next day, another,” he said. As for a best bet on the European strife he sees Italy as a winner all the way. “They can’t help but win,” said Mr. Mcfadden. Mr. Macfadden’s address tonight is the first of a series to be held by members of the club. MAYOR DENIES CAB CODE CITY MEASURE Reveals His Understanding Law Merely License Fee Revision. Mayor Kern denied today that a pending City Council ordinance which would have the effect of reducing the number of taxicabs was an administration measure. He revealed that he had arranged for a conference this afternoon with Dr. Silas J. Carr, council safety committee chairman, w'hen he would study the ordinance. It had been his understanding, he said, that the proposed measure was merely a recodification of the old, with additional sections added providing for closer inspection and revised license fees.

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typewriters and we bat swarms of flies. 6:03 A. M.—First airplane appears;—apparently scouting plane flying very high. Fantastic peaks surrounding Aduwa washed in pale rose light. With glasses can see long serpentine-like columns of dusty men, animals and motor trucks. Gabba says airplanes will drop proclamations to Ethiopian population. At 6 a. m. a heavy drone of Caproni bombers far away on our right in direction of Aduwa. We can not see them. 8:03 A. M —We hear dull, heavy' explosions of air bombs from behind Aduwa Mountains. It sounds like banging of huge iron door. 8:43 A. M.—More thunderous explosions from toward Aduwa. We know' they are bombing the region. Ciano told us last night

OFFICIAL WEATHER —United States Weather Bureau Sunrise 6:27 . Sunset 4:3' TEMPERATURE —Nov. 12, 1934 7 a. m 28 1 p. m 38 —Today—6a. m 40 10 a. m 41 7 a. m 41 11 a. m 41 8 a.m. 41 12 (Noon) .... 41 9 a. m 41 1 p. m .42

BAROMETER 7 a. m 30.06 1 p. m 30.01 Precipitation 24 hrs. end.ng 7 a. m... .36 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 35.42 Excess since Jan. 1 0.59 OIHER CITIES ,1T 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 30.22 30 Bismarck, N. D Cloudy 29.96 26 Boston Rain 30.10 54 Chicago Rain 30.18 40 Cincinnati Cloudy 30.00 46 Denver Cloudy 30.08 38 Dodge City. Kas dear 30.26 18 Helena, Mont Cloudy 30.00 28 Jacksonville, Fla Clear 30 08 68 Kansas City, Mo Rain 30.24 34 Little Rock, Ark Rain 30.10 33 Los Angeles Clear 30.06 52 Miami, Fla Cloudy 30.06 76 Minneapolis Cloudy 30.24 24 Mobile, Ala Cloudy 29.92 72 New Orleans Cloudy 29.92 70 New York Rain 30.02 60 Okla. City. Okla Clear 30 28 28 Omaha, Neb Cloudy 30.26 28 Pittsburgh Cloudy 29.96 58 Portland. Ore Cloudy 29.84 46 San Antonio, Tex Clear 30.24 34 San Francisco Cloudy 30.14 48 St. Louis Rain 30 10 40 Tampa. Fla Clear 30.08 66 Washington, D. C Cloudy 30.00 60 BOARD PONDERS PLEA OF CASH, EX-U. S. AID Among 20 Inmates Whose Appeals Are Being Heard. Bert Cash, former United States prohibition agent, serving a 10-year sentence on a robbery charge, waS among 20 inmates of the State Prison, Reformatory and Penal Farm whose leniency appeals W'ere considered today by the State Clemency Commission. Cash was sentenced to State Prison from Cyay Circuit Court Jan. 14, 1935, and his case v/as placed on the commission docket as a special order of business upon the petition of several Clay County officials. Ordinarily his case W'ould not have come up for consideration until 11938. • -.**■}*(*#

would be bombing in regions of Aduwa and Adigrat. It’s 35 or 40 miles away, so they must be big ones. a tt o N r INE big droning three-mo-tored Caproni bombers appear from direction of Adigrat at 8:55. Getting very hot. We are exhausted from strain and lack of sleep. Scrappy reports begin to come in from front. Staff officers give us extracts. Suddenly told courier would start back to Asmara within 15 minutes . . . that our detailed dispatches have been ready for him . . . can not wait as he is carrying urgent military messages. Here are Gibbons and I with our story for America, 6500 miles away . . . What a story. Story of sitting on top of mountain with grand stand seat to witness begin-

LABOR COUNCIL DISPUTE[ENDED Two Delegates of Brewery Workers’ Union Are Seated by Body.

A jurisdictional dispute involving 400 Indianapolis brewery employes was ended today so far as the Central Labor Union is concerned. Meeting last night, the Central council voted to seat two teamsters as delegates of the Brewery Workers Union, reserving a stand taken some weeks ago. Action was at the suggestion of william Green, American Federation of Labor president, who threatened action against the council unless the delegates were seated. The dispute began with dissension among engineers, mechanics and teamsters employed by breweries who favor craft organization as opposed to industrial organization. As now constituted the union represents all employes. LABOR LEADER SHOT Cleveland Operating Engineer Battles for Life. By United Press CLEVELAND. Nov. 12.—A Cleveland labor leader, the left side of his face shot away, battled for life in Charity Hospital today, w'hile police sought two mysterious gunmen who poured buckshot into his car late last night. Frank P. Converse, 55, district representative of the International Union of Operating Engineers, was shot as he slowed his car for a boulevard stop. Postpone Boy Scout Meeting Meeting of Boy Scout Troop 3, Parents Council, has been postponed from tonight to 7:45 next Tuesday night. It is to be held in the Irvington Presbyterian Church.

Where, How? James Tyrell, 75, Dayton, 0., told police today that he was robbed last night of S4O. He said he doesn’t know where or how’. He was drinking some place, but doesn't remember where. When he arrived at his hotel he fell and his eyeglasses cut his nose. The fire department gave him first aid.

ning of a war . . . And only 15 minutes to write it. Reporter's nightmare. We tap frantically, slamming down words and trying to compress as much of the picture as possible in few hundred wards. Courier roars away. And we snatch some rest, lying on bare earthen-floor mud-walled hut. By this time world will be gabbling about those gray-green columns flowing across the frontier. a a a OCT. s—Left GHQ with Count Di Bosdari and Floyd Gibbons in an effort to reach Aduwa via Adi Ugn. Near Adi Ugri passed marching column of Blackshirt division called "April Twen-ty-first" at least ten miles long, swinging along with band playing. Beyond Adi Quale descended escarpment of Valley of Mareb. which rises like precipice. We went down by continuous hairpin bends 2600 feet in about half an hour. Mareb Valley infernally hot. We hastily lunched on sardines and bread beside the road while native black Italian soldiers (Ask.aris) filed past on mules, their foot-high red fezzes covered with canvas covers so as not to provide marks for snipers. Hundreds of men working at frontier crossing, tossing stones into shallow river to make causeway for motor trucks. Stones being tossed hand-to-hand like old-fashioned bucket brigade, sometimes from 100 yards away. This is the frontier Ethiopia where Gen. Maravigna's column crossed two days ago. The crossing is a scene of picturesque confusion. Mules, smelling water, tore away from riders to rush into water to drink. Some lie down and roll in water with packs on backs. When they can't get up they have to be unsaddled. Many have great bloody gall marks on shoulders. Men run to fill canteens, regardless of mud stirred up by animals. Others shuck off their clothes to bathe. tt tt tt BEYOND Mareb, the trail begins to rise and crosses wave after wave of mountains. Companies of grimy, sweating men, naked to waist, hack at trail to make it passable to motors. Officers and men haven't shaved for days. Beside trail lie bodies of mules which broke legs and w'ere shot. Vultures, heedless of humans, gorge themselves on carcasses. Dust appalling and men swath mouths and noses in handkerchiefs or any cloth they can get, I’m writing this under a tree 12 miles inside Ethiopia, W'here am temporarily stuck. Overhead Caproni bomber drones way toward Aduw'a. Tomorrow: More experiences from Webb Miller's diary.

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LUTZ SEEKS TO STAY RELEASE OF STEPHENSON Attorney General's Office Gathers Evidence for Hearing Friday. Investigators from the office of A’ty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. are gathering evidence with which the Attorney General expects to block the release of D C. Stephenson from prison on a writ of habeas corpus. Stephenson, former Ku-Klux Klan leader, won the first court victory in his long fight for freedom I last week in La Porte Circuit Court when the court refused to sustain a state motion to quash Stephenson's writ petition. The former Klan chief is serving ; a life sentence for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. IndianI apolis. Hearing on the writ Friday i will amount almost to a retrial of | the case, it is said. Consequently. Mr. Lutz' deputies and investigators have found it necessary to interview members of the jury and most of the persons connected with the original trial to testify either personally or by affidavit, Stephenson's petition for a habeas corpus writ is based on failure of the clerk of the Marion Criminal Court to sign the transcript of evidence on a change of venue from Marion to Hamilton County where ; Stephenson was convicted. NEW CLEVELAND MAYOR HELPS CAPTURE ROBBER Cruising in Folice Radio Car When Alarm Comes. By I'nited Press CLEVELAND. Nov. 12.—A few hours after he had been inaugurated Cleveland’s new Mayor, Harold H. Burton last night participated |in the capture of a youthful burglar who had broken into a large storage garage. He was cruising the city in a radio car with Police Chief George Matowitz when the alarm was broadcast. Mayor Burton, armed with a 38 service revolver, was “detailed" to guard a garage door while Matowitz and other policemen searched the building. Then the Mayor and a patrolman spotted a young man hiding underneath an automobile. The youth was held on a burglary charge. 16 Passengers Injured By United Press EVERETT, Mass., Nov. 12—Sixteen passengers were injured, one seriously, and several others were shaken severely today w'hen a trolley car ploughed into the side of another in fogbound Glendale Square.