Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1928 — Page 10

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CHARGE WOMAN HELD IN PRISON WITHOUTCAUSE Union Vice-President Wi!i Be Aided in Court Fight on District Attorney. By Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union has authorized the Sponsoring of either criminal or civil action against District Attorney William C. Crossley of New Bedford, Mass., if investigation substantiates charges of Miss Ellen Dawson, 28, vice-president of the National Textile Workers’ Union, that she was illegally imprisoned for a week there without any charge bing filed against her. “Our investigation is not complete, but it bears out Miss Dawson’s charges as far as we have gone,” said Forrest Bailey, director of the Civil Liberties Union. Miss Dawson, a leader in the recent New Bedford textile strike, charges also that she never was informed on what charge she was held and that her friends outside were unable to discover why she was imprisoned. She charges, too, that she was not given a chance to make bail nor was she even questioned by authorities during that week. Is American Citizen Miss Dawson, a frail little Scottish weaver, is a naturalized American citizen and is known as “the little orphan of the strikers.” Her home is in Passaic, N. J., but she has been living here. She is at liberty on bond under an indictment charging her with conspiracy to violate city ordinances in connection with the New Bedford strike. When she went up for arraignment on this indictment Dec. 7, the union’s attorney, Harry Hoffman of Boston, told her that the district attorney claimed to have a federal warrant for her arrest from New Jersey. “It had something to do with citizenship papers, but nobody seemed to know just what, though I was told that it was supposed the warrant charged my naturalization witnesses hadn’t known me five years, as the law requires,” said Miss Dawson. “They took me to the house of correction and kept me there, though the others were released on bail. I tried to get from the matron why I wasn’t released, but she said she didn’t konw except she thought they were waiting for New Jersey -authorities. With Women of Streets “The district attorney nor anyone else bothered to question me, and one of my friends told me that the workers couldn’t learn why I was held. “We had to work and eat with the street women in the house of correction, and they were always talking about their outside life—how much liquor they drank, the joints where they would go, and men. It was rotten talk, and the young girls that were run in with the strikers had to listen to it. “When the week was over, they took me back to court and mumbled a lot and the policeman told me the ‘charge’ had been dismissed. The only reason I could get for the whole thing was the word ‘misin- j formed’ that I heard them rolling ! around with my name in court.”

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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: D. N. Cracraft, 3854 East Michigan street, Chrysler coach, 700-578, from Madison avenue and Meridian street. Mike Bova, 812 Greer street, Chevrolet truck, from Delaware and Pearl streets. Marceles Tyler, 1017 Maple street, Ford roadster, 635-471, from Washington street near Capitol avenue. Homer Huston, 948 East Raymond street, Ford roadster, from Georgia and Meridian streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: W. D. McNeely, 1828 North Meridian street, Cadillac touring, found in front of 444 West Washington street. Ruth Blackman, 1136 College avenue, Elcar roadster, found in alley between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, south of Washington street. Charles Golding, 3548 East Michigan street, Nash coach, found at 24 East Georgia street. Richard Bymaster, 826 North New Jersey street, Chevrolet coach, found at 3500 Sutherland avenue. Payne Mitchell, 314 West Sixteenth street. Ford touring, found at Twenty-fifth street and Hillside avenue. Battery stolen. Ford sedan, owner unknown, no license or certificate of title, in accident at Pennsylvania and Fortythird streets Dec. 22. Attacks Klan Court Move By United Prces NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 25. Arthur L. Gilliom. attorney-general, has filed an objection to the motion for dismissal of his suit to oust the Ku-Klux Klan from Indiana. The objection was filed before Judge Fred Hines in Hamilton circuit cuort here.

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Ona B. Talbot to Bring *.Passion Play ' Here

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On Monday night, Jan. 28, at the Murat, the Freiburg Players in “The Passion Play” will open a week’s engager ent under the local management of Ona B. Talbot. Since 1264 A. D., more than 400 years before Oberammergau Play began, the inhabitants of Freiburg (Baden) Germany, have presented the Passion Play regularly. Generation after generation, the players have been trained from childhood for their respective parts, until they are not acting parts, but living them. They are now all professional players, devoting their entire time to this great drama. Adolph and Georg Fassnacht inherited their respective parts of Christus and Judas from their ancestors, and now are the proprietors of the production. In 1924 they were persuaded to come to America and perfect the motion picture made in Freiburg. So great was the American success of the film, that they were again persuaded to visit America with their company to give a tour in the production itself. The production is colossal with hundreds of people on the stage, camels, donkeys, and other animals.

FEWER ACTORS THAN USUAL NOW IN CITY Noodles Fagan Seems to Be the Dean of Legitimate Theaters for Christmas Week in Indianapolis. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE are fewer actors playing in this city than in many a year during the Christmas season. This is due to the fact that English’s, Murat and B. F. Keith’s are closed today and will remain closed, for the remainder of the week with the exception of the Murat which lights up for “Oceans of Love” for Wednesday night only. It seems to be the fact that Noodles Fagan as the headline attraction now at the Lyric is the dean of the legitimate actors in the city

just at this time. Fagan is a unique artist in his sonally liked him, but he has his public with him from, the start. He knows how to spread his fun on 4 minute’s notice. It just seems to spring out, this blustering comedy of his, whether it be the spoken word or in song. Fagan again is supported by another heavyweight laugh getter on the part of his daughter, Mary. The team seems to have the right attitude in comedy weight. The .audiences for years have voted this man a favorite on his annual visits here. The Four Waltons live up to the title of “A Somersaulting Sensation.” Real article, this act. Coogan and Casey offer comedy. Oriental Oddities opens the Christmas bill. It' is along magic lines. Dallas Walker and Sister hail from Texas. They sing and dance and talk. Dallas uses the ropes Dancing is the keynote of the act of Zermain, Farrar and Cantor. The movie feature is “The Cavalier” with Richard Talmadge. Now at the Lyric. st St ft LOOKING OVER NEW MUTUAL SHOW A colorful show with many splendid scenes and a chorus above the average in looks, dancing ability, and other points necessary to a pleasing ensemble of girls, makes the Mutual a gathering place for burlesque fans over the holidays who wish to see a good, peppy, hon-est-to-goodness burlesque show with all the trimmings.

Yet it is as simple as the Christ*, whose story they portray. Regardless of religion, sect, or creed, this dynamic story’s appeal is as wide as human nature, and with offense to none, as it is the traditional biblical story.

way. Many times I have not perMax Fields and his “Kuddling Kuties”’ have a lot of excellent material with which to work. The comedy is funny, running mostly to comic dialogue, the dances of the members of the company are of the variety to cheer the coldest day, and the music is the jazzy sort that keeps the audience kicking the floor. Among the principals are Henri Keller, Eddie Murphy, Eli Lucas, Ruth Donald, Mabel Erikson, May Leona, Anna Fink and Melva Lenzi. At the Mutual. (By Observer.) Indianapolis theaters today offer: Charlie Davis at the Indiana; “Synthetic Sin” at the Circle; “Dry Martini” at the Apollo; “Dream of Love” at the Palace; movies and revue at the Colonial. FAVORS ACCIDENT CURB Prosecutor Wants More Drastic Law on Autos and Busses. By United Preen ELKHART. Ind., Dec. 25.—Legislation designed to curb the number of bus and automobile accidents probably will be sought by Glen R. Sawyer, Elkhart county prosecutor, it has been intimated. Both the prosecutor and Coroner W. A. Stauffer investigated a bus crash here Sunday in which one man was killed and thirtteen others injured. Prosecutor Sawyer said that feeling was running high in Elkhart county because of numerous accidents. SERVICE AUDIT ENDS Commission’s Funds are Checked by State Board. The state board of accounts has completed its audit of the Public Service commission for the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30. The report shows the commission turned over $136,555 to the state treasury and received $235,000 in appropriations, of which $9,490 was returned.

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Their first American engagement was at St. Joseph, Mo., the last week of August. Within eight days, more than 100,000 pepole paid admissions to the performance in a city of 75.000 population. At the last four performances, many thousands were

JUDGE LIFTS ALTAR BAN Tell; Father of Youth That He’s Not Marrying Girl. LONDON, Dec. 25.—A Marylebone magistrate has overruled a father’s objections to the proposed marriage of a 19-year-old son to a Welsh girl. The court granted a process and criticized the father for withholding permission: “There are good, bad and indifferent people in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It is not for the father to like the girl, since he is not going to marry her.” RADIO DOG Animal Hears Master’s Voice During Broadcast, Recognizes It. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 25.—Radio was the means or reuniting a professor and his dog here. The dog was stolen, escaped, and was adopted by a country doctor. The owner of the dog made a speech over the radio. The dog, on hearing the voice, showed so much excitement that the country doctor investigated and later returned the dog to it3 rightful owner. DEATH DRIVER ACCUSED Charge Fited at Noblesville After Auto Crash Fatal to Two. Bi/ United Press NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 25. Lora Phillips, 21, was charged with manslaughter as a result of an automobile accident which claimed the lives of two persons and seriously injured another. The accident caused the deaths of Otto Christy and Parker Harvey and seriously injured Ora Beam. Phillips was alleged to have been under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident.

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OLD-FASHIONED WINTER THEORY 6IVENSOPPORT Weathw Was More Severe Many Years Ago, View of Meteorologist. Bit Science Merrier LONDON. Dec. 25.—When people talk of the “old-fashioned Christmas,” with weather much more cold and snowy than we have in these benighted days, they are harking back to a series of severe winters that were experienced in England nearly two centuries ago, when the oelief commenced. This is the conclusion announced by a famous British meteoro’ogist, Dr. C. E. P. Brooks, in the forthcoming issue of Nature. In expressing this opinion, Dr. Brooks disagrees with most meteorologists, who say that ideas of winters having been more severe in one’s childhood is merely imaginary. One cause, they say, is that a snowdrift that would be waist high to a child would only be knee-high to a grown up, and that when we recall the snowstorms of our childhood we fail to allow for this difference in scale. Such considerations may have been responsible for perpetuating the belief, says Dr. Brooks, but he has found evidence that English winters of about two centuries ago really were “old-fashioned.” “There seems to have been a real change of climate about 1750,” he says. “Before that date there was a prolonged period, approaching a century, of abnormally dry weather in England. At the same time, weather in Norway was stormy and snowy. This and other facts suggest that our drouths were of the ‘anticyclonic’ type, which would be accompanied by generally cold weather in winter. “This was the time of the great ‘frost fairs’ on the Thames, notably 1683-4, 1715-16 and 1739-40, events which were likely to impress the memory of Londoners in a way which mere weather could not do, and which were kept in mind the numerous ‘relics,’ such as engravings and ballads from printing presses set up on the frozen river. "If the ’old-fashioned winter' ever had a real existence, no series of years is more likely to have given birth to the tradition. “I would suggest, therefore, that the belief in the 'old-fashioned Christmas’ may have originated in a series of severe winters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but that since then its vitality has been purely subjective, so that it now refers not to any definite period of time, but to the childhood of the speaker. ’

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"I didn’t think it was wrong to marry two men—and I’m so sorry,” Mrs. Margaret Arthur, 17* year-old mother, told Denver juvenile court authorities, who are assisting her in annulment proceedings against Elmer Arthur whom she married just recently. Alex J. Evans, first husband and father of their 13-months-oid daughter, tried to kidnap his wife from her second husband, authorities say, and started the investigation. GIRL CAUSES BIG BLAZE Admits She Dropped Lighted Match in Forest. DUNLAP, Cal., Dec. 25.—Miss Lucile Harlan, 19, has admitted to investigators that she started the fire at Sand Creek which swept 13,000 acres of timber and cost $20,000 to fight. She had been picking her teeth with a match, she said, when it ignited and she dropped it into the brush. Oldest Newcastle Man Dies By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 25. Thomas C. Jordan, 95, oldest male resident of Newcastle, is dead, after a brief illness. He had lived here seventy-four years.

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FORTUNE GIVEN TO HELP ART Foundation Is Endowed by Arthur Jordan. Assurance that Indianapolis will hold its own in the art and music world is given with the establishment of the Arthur Jordan Foundation for the promotion of educational, religious, literary, scientific, social, charitable, and artistic advancement. Announcement of the foundation's establishment wa3 made Monday. Primary endowment of assets valued at $2,000,000 has been made the foundation by Arthur Jordan, Indianapolis millionaire manufacturer and philanthropist, who has been active in the cultural, physical, and religious development of the city. Under tentative plans, the foundation will enable Indianapolis to have two conservatories of music, to be known as the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. One of the buildings will be erected on Delaware street at Eleventh street, and the other on Thirty-fourth street between Shortridge high school and the Christian Science church buildings. The foundation may receive gifts from all persons desiring to contribute to advancement of its purposes. Assets have been turned over to ! seven men, including Jordan, who will act as trustees of the foundation, and whose terms expire at varying times. The trustees are: Emsley W. Johnson, Bernard R. Batty, H. Foster Clippinger, Fermor S. Cannon, Hilton U. Brown, Thomas H. Kaylor and Jordan. BOY CATCHES^OGOPOGO* Rare Fish Is Hooked by Lad fotA Canadian Bay. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 25.™ Twas neither a pipe dream n<— was it a trick of magic, but the son of Magistrate Harry Alexander, while trolling in a bay here, caught a very rare fish. “Ogopogo,” as the fish is called, was about six feet long, had a head like that of a sheep and a body like that of an eel.