Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1929 — Page 9

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G.O.P. COUNTY MACHINE LAYS BATTLE LINES Organ ? zation Prepares for City Chairman Choice on Feb. 16. COFFIN GETTING BUSY Effect of Manager Plan on Boss’ Schemes Is Problematical. BY CHARLES E. C'ARLL Spurred by the knowledge that the Republican county political machine. dominated by District Chairman George V. Coffin, has insurgents in its ranks, ready to pitch an opposition camp, the organization is ready to make “a show” of the meeting Feb. 16. when a city Republican chairman is to be named. The meeting place has not been determined, but it probably will be in a county courtroom or the K. of P. building, where the county committee holds forth. Throughout the entire state that day. Republican city chairmen are to be elected. The Indianapolis city committee is composed of precinct committeemen whose precincts are within the corporate limits. Under the state central committee rules, a civ cha.rman must be ‘dected and a city organization perfected sixty, days before the city primary. Fu ictions Till November This committee then functions until the city election in November of this yetr, which is to elect commissioners under the city manager form of government. What will be the activities of a city chairman under the new form of government and is it in line with the regulations to select one when there is no primary? This is the question these in the ranks who would like to see new leaders in the district and county berths are asking and one which they *are answering themselves. Their answer is: ‘‘The only purpose of the meeting is to show us the organization is strong enough to elect the man it supports.’* Politicians Busy as Bees While all the head-scratching is going on, as to what the effect of the city manager law’ will be on city organization activities, the politicians are saying nothing, but doing plenty. It is reported that County Clerk George O. Hutsell. who several weeks ago openly asserted that he favored county and district organization ‘‘operated under new management,” is planning to bring his sympathizers together before the city chairmanship electior for a conference. Coffin and County Chairman Omer Hawkins, both of whom have been ill for several weeks, are reported ready to resume the battle against the belligerently inclined group. They are expected to open a downtown office, either before or immediately after the meeting. There is no doubt in political circles that the Hawkins-Coffin combination will make efforts to have some standing in the city manager government. Young Is Candidate In the meantime. W. Todd Young, Seventh ward chairman, is telephoning and personally conferring w’ith precinct committeemen. It is generally know r n that he Is a candidate for the city chairmanship. Members of the city division of the Coffin machine smile when it is mentioned that another faction might beat the organization to the tape for the city job. and predict, that “the organization man ‘will go over.” Until the election, Coffin retains the title of city chairman, as well as head of the Seventh district. He was elected prior to the 1925 ballot. This office expires automatically Feb. 16. and he must be re-elected. Since his election as city chairman, Coffin also was county chairman, until he relinquished that place a year or so ago, when he was elected district chairman. Coffin is said not to be a candidate for the city place, but will support another man, whose name has not been whispered. TWO CITY STUDENTS WILL BE GRADUATED Eight Others Complete Course in L V. Military Department. BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Jan. 24 Harold N. Field and Alfred Lauter, Indianapolis, are among ten students who will be graduated from the military department of Indiana university at the close of the present semester, with commissions as second lieutenants in the United States army reserve corps. Those to graduate in addition to Field and Lauter are Karl S. Thornburg. Muncie; Fred Tangeman. Bluff ton: Arthur W. Dial. Bloomington; Henry Kibler, Paoli; W. C, Blackledge, Rushville; Robert Shirley. Orleans; Louis Briner. Garrett, and William Ferger, Lawrenceburg. Richard Weidig and Floyd Meeker, Indianapolis, and Ben B- White, Terre Haute, will receive certificates of eligibility from the military department and will be given commissions later. Weidig is not yet old enough, and the other two have not yet attended the reserve officers’ training camp. Leslie Signs Cruiser Plea Governor Harry G. Leslie has signed the House concurrent resolution No. I asking congress to pass the cruiser bilL

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Jerusalem Only a *.Religious Coney Island, ’ Declares Disappointed Indianapolis Artist

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Top (left) A row of Jerusalem beggars sunning themselves on their front porch, bedroom and bath, the lee of a stone wall. Top (right) Turner B. Messick, 5414 Broadway, artist, who took the photographs while in the Near East. Center fleft) A woman devotee in Jerusalem offering supplications to the Almighty. She has just finished kissing 200 feet of the wall shown in the background. The dark shadows on the wall are spots worn slick by the kisses of fanatics through the years. Center (right) A Beirut physician peddling his cure-alls on the street. % Lower (left) Two children bearing burdens twice their weight in Beirut. Lower (right) A human camel waddling down a Beirut street with a packing case of leather.

PRIMARY FIGHT IS NEAR IN ASSEMBLY

Two Bills Asking Changes in State Election Laws Drafted. The primary law, diagnosed by Republican platform framers as needing an operation for removal of its state-wide features, is to go before the Indiana legislature soon in its biennial clinic. Two bills for modification were being made ready today,for early introduction. One adheres closely to the Republican platform recommendations for throwing nominations for Governor and United States senators into state conventions, for representatives in congress into district conventions, and repealing the presidential preference feature of the present law. The present primary arrangement with respect to nomination of county candidates and candidates for the legislature would be undistjirbed. Senator Denver C. Harlan, president pro tem. of the senate, probably will introduce the bill. The second measure being prepared for introduction by Representatives Lloyd D. Claycombe of Indinapolis and Harold L. DonDonnell of Paris Crossing would confine the primary in countie; of more than 50.000 population to the election of delegates to county, disI trict and state conventions. Republicans in both houses are. | not in accord on primary alteraI tions and a sharp fight is expect:ed when the measures reach the j floor. Outspoken foes of primary ' repeal or modification include the State Federation of Labor, Indiana

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Farm Bureau Federation, Indiana Anti-Saloon League, women’s organizations and R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, who declared he had found state-wide opposition to primary revision. Even Elza G. Rogers, Republican state chariman, addressing majority legislators on the eve of the legislature, qualified his indorsement of the platform pledge by adding. “but we don’t intend to thrust that down your necks.” NOT RATHE EMPLOYE Man Arrested at Evansville No Longer With Film Exchange. Lou B. Davis, arrested at Evansville, Ind., on a charge of stealing a purse, is not a representative of the Pathe Film Exchange, Indianapolis, as stated Wednesday in a United Press dispatch from Evansville, according to Harry Graham, manager of the local Pathe branch. Davis formerly was connected with the Pathe exchange, but has not been for the last year, Graham said.

FILM STARS DRESS TO HIDE DEFECTS, START STYLES

By United Press Hollywood, cai., Jan. 24. If you suffer from the common delusion that all feminine movie stars are the physically perfect beauties they appear on the screen, then you are due for a surprise. For many of the most popular styles now being worn by women all over America were originally designed to hide or minimize defects in face or figure of the aligning screen queens.

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Insanitation Is Most Striking Feature of Holy City, With Beggars Lining Streets Everywhere, Asserts Returned City Traveler, BY ARCH STEINEL BETWEEN the novelist Sabatini, Baedekers, geographical magazines, world atlases and Cook tours, Jerusalem and the Near East have been sketched as a‘land of “olives and colorful dancing nymphs.” But to a painter of lives as lived. Jerusalem is a religious Coney Island and Beirut, headquarters for missionaries, a bagnio. These comparisons, better say disappointments, come hesitatingly from Turner B. Messick, 5414 Broadway, Indianapolis artist, who returned recently from a tour of the NeYPr East. The tour netted Messick germs for plying his palette of oil on canvases' "black and whites,” an insight into the fatalism of Moslems, and Christians treading insanitary pavements reeking death, a death to which they are resigned too. In his studio in the Farmers Trust building, Messick gives "life” to the beauty in the land of spiritual surcease for pilgrms the world over, by telling of a barren Mount of Olives, with no olives, preserved for purposes of tourist revenue, not religious salaaming.

“In Jerusalem there’s the Wailing Wall of Solomon—better it were called the ailing wall—for one would have innumerable ailments if one went through the ritualistic ceremonies the various sects perform at that wall,” said Messick.” The wall is 200 feet long. All day devotees kneel in supplication at its shirine—kiss its stones—until they have worn those very stones slick,” explains Messick, the artist and seeker for beauty. He shows a photo in which a worn band, waist-high, begins at one end*of the wall and ends at the other. Worshippers of Solomon have made that band with kisses. They start at early mom and kiss their way from one end of the wall to the other. Sleep in Gutters Across the street is another piece of ancient masonry where Jerusalem “beds down.” Going it strong that last—no, for Messick says the major portion of the population of Jerusalem and Beirut are beggers at heart. They sleep by the walls, sleep wherever they find nightfall, be it gutter or stable. “She was only 11 years of age. They lay end to end, head touching head, she and her 45-year-old husband, near a Jerusalem wall, asleep. It was dark, with a misty rain. The slight curve in rock coping offered the only protection to their bodies.

This is the disillusioning revelation made by Lois Shirley in Photoplay Magazine after interviews with the customers who dress the leading women stars both on and off the screen. "For instance, the wide Greta Garbo collar was created because the Swedish girl was found in her first picture to have a lung, awkward appearing neck and an unhappy maimer of holding her

It was their rock home in a street of satiated appetites. The fatalism of the east—a resignation to what-might-be—was on their faces as they slept,” Messick related. “You can’t give a beggar money in Jerusalem, because they all beg —you’d get mobbed. Holy War Easy to Rouse “In the churches they have lines for the various sects. Should the robe of one sect flick across into the boundaries of another, a holy war might be the outcome. Two and three a day were killed in Beirut, while I was there, over religious differences in places of worship.” Burlap is the chinchilla coat, the Hudson seal, the garment de luxe in Jerusalem and Beirut. Men and women wear it, and, Messick suggests, it may claim its. favor from the biblical “sackcloth and ashes.” He says the women show little sympathy with modernism, despite wire reports of Moslem flappers. “Men and women are unshamed publicly. I saw nude men tread cobblestone streets,” he continued. “Marvels are the enormous weights that men, women and children carry on their backs. Packingcases filled with leather, stacks of lumber—just good loads for a couple of donkeys,” he asserts.

head. It served the same purpose as the head rest used by the old fashioned photographers, making her hold her head correctly and shortening the appearance of the neck,” says the writer. “Moreover, that wide strip of material that extends directly down the spine of every Mae Murray decollette gown is not a decoration, primarily. It hides a scar.

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS BATTLEBONUS I Committee to Appear at Public Hearing and Oppose Passage. 14 MILLIONS NEEDED Ex-Service Men Not in Need Now, Declaration of Chairman Gresham. A fight against the World war veterans’ bonus bill, introduced in the present session of the general assembly, has been launched by the legislative committee of the Indiana department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Members of the committee are prepared to appear at the public hearing on the bill, to be conducted by the house of representatives ways and means committee, and protest against its passage. Arthur G. Gresham, chairman of the V. F. W. legislative .committee, declared today. “The bill will be an unnecessary burden the taxpayer, who will nave his taxes increased by 2 or 3 cents to provide the cost of the bonus,” Gresham said. Would Total Fourteen Millions “Payment of the bonus will total approximately $14,000,000 and will prove burdensome,” he said. “The bonus was an absolute necessity in 1921, when suoh measure was introduced and passed by both houses, only to be vetoed by Governor Warren T. McCray. “The veterans were in absolute need of money thfcn. to rehabilitate themselves in civilian life, but the move w j as of no avail and they w’ere not given the necessary aid. Now it is not necessary.” Gresham said. The bonus bill, now in committee, was introduced by Representatives William C. Babcock Jr. of Rensselaer and James B. Brewster of Corydon, and provides for a popular vote in November. 1930, on the question of the payment of the bonus. sls Monthly Provided The compensation is fixed at sls for each month in the sendee during the actual w’ar period arid would be paid to all soldiers, sailers, marines, and nurses who enlisted in the service from Indiana or their duly qualified heirs. The minimum is two months’ payment and the maximum is S3OO. Payment would be made by a service recognition board, composed of the Governor, auditor, and adjutantgeneral. HOLD SOCIEtTgIRT AS DRUNKEN DRIVER Daughter of Late Texas Senator Arrested in Washington. Bn T'nifrtf prefix WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Miss • Mary Elizabeth Culberson, 26, daughter of the late C. A. Culberson, former Governor and United States senator from Texas, was released on | SI,OOO bond today on charges of 1 driving while drunk and leaving ths j scene of a collision. Miss Culberson was arrested | Wednesday night on Pennsylvania ! avenue following a chase of six ' blockks by police. Assisted from her badly battered auto, she was taken to jail in a patrol wagon. Later she was taken to the house of detention before her release. Police charge Miss Culberson collided with five automobiles and raced away. “I guess I must have struck something,” Miss Culberson told police. j FORM COLLEGE CLUB j Interest in Peace Sentiment Increases at Indiana Central. Asa result of increased international peace Sentiment at Indiana Central college, the World Relations Club has been formed by Indiana Central students. Purpose of the club is to keep members informed on world social, religious and political conditions. Indianapolis attorneys and social leaders will address meetings. Officers are: President, Donald Carmony, Shelbyville; vice-presi-dent and librarian, Clifford Reese, Linton; secretary, Mary Hiatt, Portland; treasurer, Harriet Gillingham,' Janesville, Wis.; chairman current events bulletin board, Ronald Wolfe, Dayton, 0., and publicity manager, Myron Lamm, Danville, 111.

DENEEN IS OPPOSED TO INDIAN INQUIRY

By l imes Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.—New and formidable opposition to the senate Indian investigation developed today. Senator Deneen of Illinois is preparing to oppose continuation of the special sub-com-mittee conducting the inquiry. While Deneen refused to divulge

"Tight-fitting, hair line skull caps are worn to cover the fact that many of the stars have heads too big for their bodies. And you will never see Florence Vidor, who is by popular vote among the fashion dictators the best gowned woman on the screen, wearing a brimless hat. Her face is too long and thin and her jaw la broad.” ' V ' ■ - ‘ r'l' ■■ .

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Claiborne Foster, who takes the Gypsy trail of conquest in the Broadway play, “Gypsy,” and achieves a conquest with critics.

SENATE SECRET SESSIONJ-OUCHT Norris Will Lead Move to Quit Practice. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Under the leadership of Senator George W. Norris. Progressive Republican of Nebraska, a movement is afoot in the senate to abandon secret executive sessions. Norris’ protest is a development; of the senate’s action Monday in confirming Hoy O. West as secretary of the interior at a secret session which followed three days of behind-doors debate. It comes at a time when the senate is aroused over publication by the United Press Association of a copyrighted article showing how senators voted on West. This is the .first time that the complete roll call of an executive session has been printed without authority pi the senate. Majority Leader Curtis today was in conference with senators, trying to determine what action, if any, the senate should take and whether the reporter had violated any rules. Curtis was confronted with the proposition, however, that whatever leak occurred is traceable, primarily, to a senator or senators. He was assured that no senate employe furnished the data. I. U. OFFERS CLASS IN BUSINESS FINANCE Extension Course to Be Opened Feb. 14. Edwin J. Kunst, manager of the Indiana university of business research, will teach an evening extension class in business finance

in Indianapolis, beginning Feb. 14, extension division officials announced oday. Included in the subjects to be taken up are the teaching mechanism of the corporation, source of capital funds, types of securities, secu ri ty selling methods and short term borrowing. Other commerce

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courses are offered in the extension program, beginning Feb. 11. A wide range of cultural subjects also are offered. Diamond Ring Theft Reported Max P. Sanders, 4309 North Pennsylvania street, reported to police today the theft of a three-stone SSOO diamond ring from his home Wednesday night.

'his attitude, it was learned on good authority that he intended to oppose an additional $30,000 appropriation for investigation work. The committee already has spent $30,000 and at an executive session Tuesday was notified by Senator Frazier, chairman, that an additional $30,000 just had been asked, in a resolution introduced in the senate. -The resolution must go to the committee on audits and contingent expenses, of which Deneen is chairman. His opposition may prevent the committee getting any more funds. Senators Wheeler and Pine, who are assisting Frazier in pushing the inquiry, have learned of Deneen’s position and are preparing for a warm fight oij the senate floor. Deneen denied he had discussed the inquiry with President-Elect Hoover or that Hoover was attempting to interfere with it ip any way.

GIRL CLUBBED TO DEATH ON VACANT LOT Posses Search Marshes of Blue Island (III.) for Murderer. WOMAN SEES ATTACK Calls Neighbors to Assist Victim, but Aid Comes • Too Late. By L'nited Press CHICAGO, Jan, 24.—Police and citizens searched the marshes and prairies of Blue Island sc.afcha-ssi; suburb, today for a bandit who .Seized Laura Bucholz, 26-year-old office worker, beat her with a heavy club, and left her, dying, in a vacant lot a block from her home. Miss Bucholz. returning home ; alter night work downtown, died without regaining consciousness. Her skull had been beaten in with , heavy wooden block, found near her body, which iiad been dragged several blocks from the street where the attacker seized her. The attack was witnessed by Mrs. Grace Hanley, a school teacher, who heard the young woman's screams and saw the attacker dragging the lifeless body from the street into a clump of bushes... Body Found in Bushes Police, called by Mrs. Hanley, found Miss Bucholz’ body lying in a crumpled heap near a clump of bushes. The club, three feet long, was lying near her body. The victim’s hat and purse were missing, leading police to believe that robbery was the motive for the attack. Physicians said the young woman had not been assaulted. Miss Bucholz was accompanied from work by Miss Grace McMullen. The two alighted from the suburban train together and separated only a short distance from the Bucholz- home. Miss. McMullen said no other passengers left the train at the Blue Island station. Police believed the young office employe was accosted shortly after she separated from Miss McMullen. The time of the attack set by Mrs. Hanley was only a few minutes after the arrival of the train at Blue Island station. Hear Sound of Struggle “I heard a scream and sounds pf a struggle,” Mrs. Hanley said. I raised the window and looked out. A big man was dragging the girl across the street. I called neighbors, but before they got there the man had disappeared in the darkness of the bushes.” Miss Bucholz was the daughter of Charles Bucholz, automobile salesman. Her father told police she had telephoned home from the office, saying she was working late. The family was waiting for her. the father said, when police informed them of the attack. A CTOR’sTWIFEKILLED IN AUTO CRASH; 2 HURT Little Hope Held for Man, Critically Injured. Bn United Press KENTON, 0., Jan. 24.—Little hope was held today for the recovery of Earl Jahngan, representative of the Imperial Electric Scenery Company, Oakland, Cal., who was injured seriously in an automobile accident here late Wednesday. Mrs. Alex Gray of New York, whose husband is playing a leading role in “The Desert Song,” now at Pittsburgh, Pa., was killed in the same accident and Mrs. Russell Martin of Akron was injured. Mrs. Martin will recover. ENGINEER TO TALK HERE Noted Britisher to Address Members of Christian Scie nee Church. Sir Henry Japp, K. B. E., of London, England, the engineer who drove the four Pennsylvania tubes under the East river, New York City, twenty years ago, will lecture on “Advancing Steps In Christian Science” on the fourteenth floor of the Lincoln at 8 tonight, under auspices of Indianapplis Branch 1 of the Christian Science Parent church. The Parent church has no connection with the mother church or its branches.

DIOCESE TO PICK HEADS Annual Christ Episcopal Convention Is Nearing Close. Election of officers at Christ Episcopal Church parish house today will close the ninety-second annual convention of the Episcopal diocese of Indianapolis. Today’s business sessions consist of studying various problems of the church and discussion of the threeyear program recently mapped out at Washington at the tri-ennial meeting. ESCAPE AUTO INJURIES Car Strikes Street Hole; Overturned Twice, Occupants Unhurt. Walter E. Beyer, 4137 Broadway, and his wife and son, Earl, escaped injup' this morning when the automobile in which they were riding struck a hole in the street in the 5100 block on College avenue. The car bounced against the curb and turned over twice. The hole was left in the street by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company workmen, according to police. 4 *