Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1926 — Page 2

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HOOVER DECLARES RECORDS SET BY 19S PROSPERITY All ‘Boom Years’ Exceeded, Says Commerce Year Book—Wages at Peak. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 26.—A1l the “boom years” of American history were exceeded last year by steady, normal growth of Industry and commerce, Secretary of Commerce Hoover’s economic experts asserted today In the “comrflerce year book" for 1326, which they hailed as a banner year under all scientific measur-ing-rods. Steady growth of Industry and commerce and great increases In efficiency were credited with causing the high-water mark of prosperity. The year was notable for its lack of credit Inflation aside from heavy securities speculation, the report said. High Wages Average wages per hpur In terms of money continue at twice as high as before the war, an Increase much more marked than the increase in the cost of living, and the workingman “is consequently enjoying the highest real wages in our history,” the report said. The “most Impressive” development of American industry is its rapidly advancing efficiency, the report stated, pointing out that the output increased atdfeast 60 per cent In the period 1914-1923, while the number of workmen increased only 27 per cent. Railroads, Too Railroad traffic last year also probably set anew record. The traffic was equal to or larger than that of 1923, the previous peak year, it was said, and the net railway operating income of $1,120,000,000 for class one roads was the highest ever reported. American foreign trade conditions were “exceptionally favorable” except for “unreasonable prices charged” for certain raw materials control'ed by foreign monopolies, especially rubber, coffee and burlaps, the report said. Agriculture is in better condition than it has *been for several years, although the farmers have not yet recovered from the great slump in prices in 1920 and 1921, the report stated. 9 GET FIVE AT CEMETERY Young Men Say They \Vbre Curious to See Body in Vault. Five young men were arrested late Sunday night in the Round Hill cemetery, three miles south of the city on Meridian St., where it has been reported recently that a vault was broken open and coffins disturbed.* The young meo gave their names as Donald and Van Baxter, 424 Harlan St.; Stahl, 1209 Harlan St.; James Grbgg, 919 E, Maryland St., and Maurice Thomp son, 4101 W. Washington St. They told Motor Police Tague and Ferguson thoy were curious to see the petrified body of a woman, reported to be in the .vault. Lawrence Reno, 630 Fletcher Ave., who caught the five said he was watching the vault, guarding the coffin of his mother. He said he has tried to keep the vault locked, but has been unable to do so.

GIRL, 15, LEAVES HOME Sneaks Out Door—Others Reported Missing to Police. Police searched the city today for Katherine Goodwin, 15, who j-an away from her home at 2703 N. Sherman Dr., Sunday. Her parents told the officers she sneaked out the rear door at 3 p. m. Alvina Staton, 11, of Noblesvllle, Ind., is missing. Her aunt Gertie Olds, 1815 W. New York St., said the girl, when last seen, had gone to a hospital to visit her father. Frank Wright, 40, escaped from the Hospital for the Insane, police were told. No trace has been found of Mrs. C. W. Mellon. 23, of 2844 N. Olney Ave., who left home Tuesday with her child. Richard Bell, 18, of 1584 Bellfontaine also is missing from his ljpme. GIDEONS TO COME HERE ~■ , \ Group Selects Indianapolis as 1027 CoiWention City. Indianapolis has been selected as the 1&27 convention city by the International Gideons, Christian Commercial Travelers Association of America, Henry T. Davis,'manager of the Chamber of Commerce Convention Bureau, announced today. News of the selection was given in a telegram sent by A. W. Gemmer of this city, state Gideon secretary and delegato to the convention, which ended Sunday at Toronto. Ont. More than 1,000 Gideons and members of their families are expected to attend the July, 1927 convention, Davis said. Convention headquarters will be at the English Hotel. TO PICNIC Federated Patriotic Groups Will Have Outing Wednesday. An entertaining program will be one of the features of the picnic to be given by the Federated Patriotic Societies, allied to the Grand Army of the Republic, at Brookside Park Wednesday. A midday picnic dinner will be served. Members of the various organisations are to be hosts and comrades who wish automobile transportation should call Mrs. Walter Mendenhall, RilCy 4846. YOUNGEST Sv United Prr ** TAMWORTH, N. H., July 26 Mrs. Marloit Cleveland Dell, youngest daughter of President Grover Cleveland* was parried here Saturday to fohn Harlan Amen of New York.

Shaw, 70, Today, Is Banned From Radio gji United Press LONDON, Juljr'^6.—George Bernard Shaw was banned from the radio today on the occasion of his seventieth birthday which will be celebrated tonight at the Hotel Metropole, where Ramsay MacDonald, England’s first Socialist premier, will preside at a dinner In honor of the empire’s foremost Socialist. Radio broadcasting is a government monopoly In Great Britain and the only broadcasting agency, the British Broadcasting Company, is not permitted to put speeches or other matter on the air unless approved by Sir William MitchellThomson, the postmaster general. Shaw refused to submit his speech to Sir William. *

CHANEY IS REAL MYSTERY MAN IN THE FILM WORLD Jungmeyer Gives Interesting Facts on a Popular Player. By Jack Jungmeyer, \ NEA Service Writer. HOLY W OOD, July 26. — The cloistered simplicity of Lon Chaney's off-stage life, in striking contrast to that of most Hollywood celebrities, has raised an air of mystery about this side of the famous character actor’s existence. Very few of his Rtudio associates know where Chaney goes or what he does after he removes the greasepaint. He goes home. Then, with scarcely a variation, he eats supper, with

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his good wife, helps her wipe the dishes, dons his slippers, reads the real estate page of the newspaper and goes to bed. Once in a while he attends a fight. Outside visiting and visitors are rare events. Hollywood’s showplaces and soirees see none of Chaney. Hence the “mystery” about the man who has made a tidy fortune and a great reputation with his grotesque grimaces and bodily distortions. Always Aloof There is something definitely aloof if not exactly anti-social about Chaney. He much within himself. No man in his profession takes himself more seriously or studies the possibilities of mimicry more earnestly than the creater of such striking screen roles as .the fake cripple of “The Miracle Man,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Fagin,” “The Phantom of the Opera,’’ the crook in “The Unholy Three." the evil brother in'“The Blackbird,” and the dive keeper in his most recent “The Road to Mandalay.” The front door of his modest home is the deadline between professional concerns and domestic relaxations. Beyond its sill shop in taboo. Anri while Chaney himself never seems completely free from brooding some new character to add to his galaxy of crooks, outcasts or unfortunates, the occasional visitor may not pry into these proocupatlons. "My home,” says Lon, “is my own, and the public, I'm sure, has no curiosity about my domestic life.” Thus, amiably and tactfully, he has always diverted an Intrusive Interest in his private affairs. He Studies Hands Character study, the scrutiny of faces and gesturing hands, the revelation of a man’s spirit in this physical contours, is an absorbing passion with Chaney. Always he is on the alert for these character Indications to be utilized combined and emphasized in his screen portraits. Frequently he follows strangers for miles, making mental notes of physical peculiarities and expressive gestures. Rogues’ galleries are mines of In formation and suggestion. Hands fascinate him peculiarly. Members of Chaney’s yamlly were deaf-mutes, and Lon was compelled to communicate with them by manual talk. He understands to unusual degree how thought, impulse, passion may be conveyed by fist and, finger. * Deep absorption, alternating between his jYVQfessional and his home life, is the keynote of Lon Chaney’s double devotion and whatever, "mystery” may adhere in domestic seclusion. SEEK ESCAPED NEGRO Gets Away From Patrolman as Wagon Is Being Called. Search is being made today for the Negro who escaped from Patrolman Gibson after knocking the officer down when he attempted to place him under arrest, early Sunday. . j, t s. Patrolman OibsmT reported to Lieut. Fred Winkler that he found the Negro at Michigan St. and King Ave., with a knife and flashlight When he took the Negro to the call box to summons the patrol wagon, the man knocked him down. Gibson reported he fire five shots, one of which struck the Negro.

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Linton Wells and Edward Evans are shown on arrival at the Cleveland (Ohio) airport, on the last leg of their record-breaking dash around the world in twenty-eight days. They arrived in Cleveland in separate planes from Chanute field, Illinois, and immediately took off for New Yprk, the end of their journey.* W’ells, a newspaper man, is shown in the plane shaking hands with Evans, millionaire Detroiter, just after his plane landed.

GLADIOLUS SHOW WILL BE JULY 31 Outlook Good, Says Officials of Bank. The fifth annual Gladiolus Show of the Bankers Trust Company, to be held In the north lobby 4 of the bank, July 31, promises to be greater than any preceding ones from the view point of both number and quality of entries, according to officials of the bank. The Garden Flowers Society will cooperate in the show. The show is open/to both amateurs and advanced amateur growers of the flower, and prizes of considerable value have been offered by the bank, with which professional growers are cooperating. In addition members of the American Gladiolus Society for Amateurs will be.eligible for the three trophies of that organization which are offered at this show. The Bankers Trust Company 's silver and bronze gladiolus medals also will be awarded as sweepstakes prizes the amateur section of. the show. Judging of the exhibits will be made Friday night and the v willy be open to the public all <l. . Saturday, July 31.

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Under an oak tree in the Brown County bills he loved so well the ashes of Theodore' 4’. Steele famous Indiana artist will be buried. Funeral services were to he held at 4 p. in. today at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary. BANDIT STEALS AUTO Early Motorist Helfi Up on W. Michigan St., by Negro. A lone Negro bandit early today held him up on Michigan street west of the White River bridge and took his auto, watch and seventy cents, James Allen, Negro, of Lawrenceville, 111., reported to police. Allen!" who has been visiting here, said he was on his way to Greencastle, Ind., and had stopped to look at a tie when the man appeared, "threatened him with a revolver, took his watch and money and drove oft in his car. CUPID’S ARROWS BARRED j. Jugoslavia Forbids School Teachers to Marry Without Consent. By United Press BELGRADE, July 26. —Spinster “schoolmarms” are at a premium In Jugoslavia. Recently there has been such a high “mortality rate 4 ’ from cupid’s arrows that the government has taken the matter in hand. The minister of education issued a decree that henceforth no woman school teacher could marry without his consent and further ruled that under no circumstances could a woman teacher marry a man Who was also a school td.cher.

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f Services were held this afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for C. B. Whletman, 48, of 1101 Newman Ave., Wfco died at yie Methodist Hospital Saturday after a lingering illness. Burial was In Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Whiteman was a member of the Indianapolis /Tire department for twenty-six years, being stationed at engine house No. 2 seventeen years. He tffas a member of Lodge No. 56, Knights of Pythias, and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Sarah W. Whiteman: die mother, Mrs. Anna M. Whletman, and a brother, Herbert C. Whiteman, all of Indianapolis. OSAGE TRIAL OPENED Picturesque Cattlemen Charged With “Murder for Profit.” Bu United Press | GUTHRIE, Okla,, July 26.—A trial of alleged for profit"--one of the many incidents in the Wur years “reign of terrot*’ in the Osage Indian nation—opens in Federal Court today. W. K. H: 'e, king of the Osage Hills, and partner, Kohn Ramsay, face charges oof slaying Henry Roan Horse, wealthy Indian. A special staff of prosecutors has arrived to press th\ charges against the two picturesque cattlemen. “HINDU NOTHING” Ru United Press CHICAGO—After vakily attempting suicide, pretty Elizabeth Wells, 18, said she tried to take her life because her father disapproved of a Hindu religion she believed in. "Hindu religion nothing,” said father. “I spanked her across my knee when she didn’t come home until 2 a. m.”

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DESERT REALISM WILE BE SEEN IN BARBARAWORTH Movie Writer Tells What Film Fans Will See Very Soon. By Jack Jungmeyer .V h'A Service Writer BARBARA WORTH. Nev., July 26.—Here In the Black Rock desert, an ancient lake bed haunted by mirage, and remote from the small towns of a sparsely settled region, Henry King is filming Harold Beil Wright’s “The Winning of Barbara Worth” for Samuel Cjoldwyn, under conditions approximating those described by the author. Mitigated by excellent camp organization, the conditions faced by the movie company nevertheless are arduous enough to demand much of that self-discipline, patience, will and courage which Wright ascribed to the reclamation pioneers of his romance. Intense heat. Parching sand storms. The depressive effect of the alkali desolation. The inevitable monotony of hard routine in such a movie outpost as this. All these during many weeks of filming present a very real test of caliber for the 400 people now here. Sun at 120 Blasted by sand, sweating under a sun that rises to 120 degrees, and watching a file of actors depicting the fearful flight of homesteaders from a deluge (as Wright described it). I speculated how many sentimental readers of "Barbara Worth,” lamenting perhaps their own prosaic Kfe, would pay the price of discomfort for similar romance. _ Routine awakens the camp at 4:30, with breakfast at 6:30. An hour later the cameras are grinding. They continue until suaset. Man and beast become gray with alkali dust. Lips chap. Eyes squint painfully at the crystalline glare. Warmish water scarcely slakes the thirst. Children whimper. Women in cajlcos,and sunbonnets sigh. Nevada cowboys,.used to this land, ride their parts in the picture, then look laconically on while Hollywood tenderfeet fume and fret. Ronald

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FRENCH FRANC CONTINUES GAIN Poincare Prepares for Huge Tax Increase. By United Press PARIS, July 26.—The frano was continuing to improve today as Premier Ppincare, possessed of the cabinet’s approval of his financial projects, prepared to put a tremendous burden of taxation on France. Before noon the franc had risen to 190 to the pound sterling and 39.07 to the dollar, compared with the last closing prices, 199 to the pound and 40.70 to the dollar. It was understood that Poincare expects to raise approximately $125,000,000 to $100,000,000 bymew taxes. The premier has promised to appear before the chamber Tuesday with his financial program and his cabinet and he will demand an immediate vote of confidence, after which the government would proceed with the imposition of new taxes and, what probably would be more difficult, their collection. TO MEET AT FT. FRIENDLY The auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening in its new hall at Ft. Friendly, 612 N. Illinois St. As this is the first gathering in the new hall, it will be made a social as well as a business meeting. KIDNEY PAINS Bladder Misery The most severe pains, distress, misery and backache of .kidney and bladder troubles are relieved by taking lIOMODYNE. a harmless oil In small, tasteless capsules. In most cases it acts llko magic—gives quick, safe relief and prevention of the pains, misery and distress. Ask Haag's and other druggists for HOMODYNE Capsules.—Advertisement.

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