Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1929 — Page 15

MARCH 1,1929.

DEMOCRAT IS GIVEN HOOVER CABINET POST Brilliant Work of Mitchell as Solicitor-General Wins Job. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. March I.—A selfprofessed “old-fashioned, independent Democrat” frpm Minnesota, where Democrats are scarce, will be attorney-general in the Hoover cabinet. William Dewitt Mitchell, urbane lawyer and veteran of two wars, has won the chief legal post in the new administration, chiefly by his brilliant work as solicitor-general under President Coolidge since 1925. Mitchell is slender and soft-spo-ken, and does not look his 54 years. When informed that news of his seletcion by Herbert Hoover had become public, he betrayed no surprise, said he had never professed to be anything but a Democrat, but said he had sometimes voted independently in the Minnesota political battles, where the division chiefly is betwen Republican conservatives and Farmer-Labor or other so-called "radical” factions. “Cold-Bloodedly Fair” He refused to discuss reports that he supported Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924 and Hoover in 1928, and hurried off to eat a 25-minute lunch and return to his supreme court case. Legal men who have watched Mitchell work for four years here, his chief work being to handle the important government cases before the supreme court, characterized him as “cold-bloodedly fair,” and predicted he would reach the supreme court bench itself before his public career is ended. Mitchell formerly was a law partner of Pierce Butler, another Minnesota Democratic conservative, who was appointed to the supreme court bench by President Coolidge. Favors Law Enforcement Asked if he was a “wet” or a “dry,” Mitchell replied: “I am for law enforcement.” Mitchell was born in Winona, Minn., Sept. 9, 1874, son of William Mitchell, justice of the Minnesota supreme court for twenty years. He studied electrical engineering at Sheffield Scientific school, Yale, for two years before entering the University of Minnesota, from which he received an A. B. in 1895 and an LL. B. in 1896. He immediately began practice in St. Paul. Two wars interrupted his legal career. He was a second lieutenant of the Fifteenth Minnesota volunteer infantry, and later acting judge-advocate of the Second army corps and a brigade engineer officer during the Spanish-American war. Member of Legion He became a colonel in the Minnesota national guard in 1918, and transferred to the field artillery officers training corps during the World war. Mitchell is a Presbyterian and belongs to the American Bar Association, the Spanish War Veterans, the American Legion, Minnesota Somerset. University and White Bear yachting clubs in Minnesota, and the Metropolitan and Burning Tree (golf) clubs in Washington. A mysterious disease is held responsible for the disappearance of sparrows from Fair Isie, a small islet in the north of Scotland.

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CITY IS MECCA FOR ALL OPERA LOVERS People From All Over State Arrive to Hear the German Grand Opera Company Tonight at Murat. INDIANAPOLIS takes upon herself anew importance today with the arrival of the German Grand Opera Company for three performances of Wagner’s operas at the Murat, starting tonight. People from all over the state began arriving here today, many coming prepared to stay here for all three performances. Ona B. Talbot, who is bringing the German singers here, states that there will be fifty-four musicians in the orchestra pit and that three rows of seats have been removed to make room for the large orchestra. Tonight at 7:45 o’clock, Juliette Lippe will be heard as the Bruenhilde in “Die Wakuere,” and she will sing Sautrday afternoon in “Tristan

und Isolde.” Saturday night “Siegfried,” with Johanna Gadski as Bruenhilde will be given. Two conductors are carried, Dr. Walter Rahl and Ernest Knoch. Kroch will be in the conductor’s stand tonight. The life and work of Richard Wagner have inspired more discussion and analytical writings than those of all the other great composers together.- A.t first misunderstood, unappreciated and even violently attacked by many of the leading musical critics and writers oi his day, he gradually came into his own, thanks largely to support of such men as Liszt, King Ludwig of Bavaria, Cornelius, Von Bulow, Ruff and Nietzche (for a while), until today he is universally recognized as “one of those master minds that belong to no time and to no nation, whose work lives as one of the vital forces of civilization.” The value of what Wagner did for music drama is almost incalculable. Without the models he created, the works of the later Verdi, Humperdinck, Kienzl, Reyer, Rischard Strauss, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Stravinsky, Korngold and others would have been impossible of realization. Not, that any of them were consciously or intentionally subservient to his influence; but his innovations in almost every branch of musical and dramatic art opened so many new possibilities and forms of expression that, once recognized

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Orphans Home Head Quite By Times Special RICHMOND. Ind.. March I.—The Rev. D. C. Fisher has resigned as superintendent of the Wemie orphans home, a Lutheran institution here, to re-enter the ministry.

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