Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1929 — Page 5

MARCH 6,1929.

AERIAL SURVEY OF ALASKA TO LOCATEWEALTH Navy Uses Three Planes to Chart Interior and Discover Timber. By United Praia WASHINGTON, March 6.—The hope of locating accurately rich timber land and sources of waterpower, as well as gathering data for maps, has prompted the navy to complete an aerial survey of Alaska begun in 1926. Three Loening amphibian planes from the battle fleet, usually stationed in the Pacific, will be sent to Alaska late in May, the navy department has announced. They will be accompanied by the U. S. S. Gannet, as tender, and a barge. Survey 15,000 Acres Lieutenant Commander A. H. Radford, U. S. N., has been recommended as officer-in-charge of the expedition. B. H. Saargent of the interior department will probably accompany him, it was announced. Nearly 15,000 acres are included in the tract to be surveyed. Aerial photographs will be taken from an altitude of 10,000 feet with a T-2-4 lens camera. The area to be mapped is the Chicagof and Baranof islands and the Alaskan-Canadian frontier in southeastern Alaska. ‘‘ln addition to the valuable data for maps,” the navy department said, “oblique photographs showing timber areas and water falls to be obtained are of considerable importance to the bureau of fisheries and forestry bureau.” Began Work in 1926 Interior and agriculture departments are to pay $15,000 toward the expense of the expedition. The survey of Alaska was begun in 1926 when a naval party made aerial photographs of the areas around Kitchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Juneau. Following this earlier work, the interior department told the navy it would have required ten season’s wotk by ground methods to accomplish what the aviators had done in three months.

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SNAKES POISON 27 570 Bitten; 159 Victims of Copperheads. By Times Special CHICAGO, March 6. Twentyseven persons died of snake bite in the United States in 1928, according to R. H. Hutchinson and R. E. Stadelman of the Antivenin Institute of America. Five hundred and seventy persons were victims of different varieties of poisonous serpents. Os these, 159 were bitten by copperheads in twenty-one states; thirty-eight by cottonmouth moccasins; seventeen by the pigmy rattlesnake; seventeen by the swamp rattler; ninety-five by the true rattlesnake of the diamondback, or Texas variety; forty by timber rattlers; thirty-eight by prairie rattlers; twenty-seven by Pacific rattlers; eleven by the eastern diamond-back, and four by desert “sidewinders.” The Bull Moose party received its name from the remark made by Theodore Roosevelt—“l feel as fit as a Bull Moose.”

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REVENUE BILLS TO SLASH TAX BOOSTJPUSHED Corporation Levy, Licenses for Chain Stores Proposed. Legislators today cast approving glances at newly printed bills placed on their desks offering a way around a 10-cent increase in the state tax rate. Representatives found before them the corporations excise tax measure expected to yield between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000 annually. Introduced only Tuesday, the bill was reported favorably by the ways and means committee before adjournment and advanced to second reading. Rules may be suspended today so that the measure can be passed and sent to the senate without routine delay. Licenses for Chain Stores On senators’ desks lay the chain store licensing bill expected to yield at least $1,500,000 and possibly double that amount annually. Received from the house mte Tuesday, the measure was reported favorably by the senate finance committee with amendment providing that all revenue so raised shall go into the general fund. Finance committee members said they will amend the bill on second reading to reduce license fees of stores in large chains which would have to pay as high as $l5O each under the bill as it now stands. As received from the house, the chain store bill would have contributed $250,000 to state school aid for the remainder of this year, $550,000 lor the first half of 1930, $500,000 for the last half and $300,000 annually thereafter. This provision was removed whert Senator Alonzo H. Lindley introduced a measure proposing a statewide school levy for teachers’ salaries, replacing in part local school levies. Calls for 27-Cent Boost The Lindley bill would necessitate a state levy of about 34 cents for school purposes, representing a 27cent increase over the present 7-cent school levy. Local taxes for school purposes would be correspondingly reduced, however, Lindley declared. Printed on special order, the bill was distributed today. An effort was made to suspend the rules to facilitate immediate action. Designed for regulation rather than revenue, the house bill establishing a $1 licensing fee for gasoline dealers passed the senate late Tuesday and now goes to the Governor. Bond not to exceed SIO,OOO would be required to insure payment of the state gasoline tax. The bill is expected to curb the operations of gasoline “bootleggers,” who bring gasoline into the state from tax-free states.

CELEBRATE AT CENTER Fifth Anniversary of Baptist Institution Is Observed. Celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Baptist Christian Center, 162-64 North Blackford street was held Tuesday night with a program of speeches, music and entertainment. Speakers at the anniversary were: Dr. John Hentenes; the Rev. C. M. Dinsmore and Rev. F. R. Hayward. Classes at the center gave a demonstration of their work.

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“MACHINAL” TURNS OUT TO BE MERE FAD Alleged Drama of a Starved Soul Woman in Quest of Freedom Is Pretty Bad Stuff, but Splendidly Produced. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN a playwright has to be inspired by trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray to write a drama, then I am suspicious of the product. And after seeing “Machinal,” a ten-scene struggle to show a soulstarved puppet (a married woman) 'trying to get rid of a perfectly good husband, but an awful dumbbell, I am convinced that it is pretty poor stuff as a play. Sophie Treadwell is a newspaper woman and she covered the SnyderGray case and probably not getting the trial out of her system decided to turn out a play. And she did and called it “Machinal.” I take it that the play is

supposed to arty and full of deep passages that would show the working of a woman’s soul in rebellion. It will take something more than the Snyder trial to inspire a writer to turn out a masterpiece. It didn’t last so long in New York. Asa play, to me it is plain junk. And to save it, the piay then had to have unique stage handling, sets and directions. And that is just what “Macihnal” has. That and nothing more. This play landed in town last night for the rest of the week at the Playhouse as one of the offerings of the Little Theatre. Just now I am not going to take up the point whether “Machinal” should ever have been produced by the Little Theatre. This organization has a right and duty to produce new plays which demand unique and new stage direction and sets. That is the only way such groups can keep us in touch with what is new on the stage. After seeing the play, I had the feeling that Mrs. Lee Wood as the Young Woman, the gal with the starved soul who would murder her husband with a bottle filled' with pebbles, but she wouldn’t divorce him because she "couldn’t hurt him-that much,” was wasted upon a poor play. Mrs. Wood gave a highly dramatic performance, but the character was such a trifle that the fine talents of Mrs. Wood were lost. I know that I will be able to list the performance of Mrs. Wood as one of the five best of the present season at the Playhouse, but I will never remember the play as a play. The playwright tries to be refined and dirty at the same time, covering up the dirt with arty soul remarks staged in unique sets. It seems rather silly to study the “soul” reactions of a woman who married a man to escape from working in an office day in and day out. She didn’t like her husband, because he had fat hands and she

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would get cold as ice when he touched her. She admits that she wanted a Romeo with curly hair, but he never came to her balcony. And so the author permits us to see part of her reactions to her dumbell of a husband, who always wanted to go to Switzerland so he could get a genuine Swiss watch. She allows us to look in on the bedroom on the bridal night. And the wife was a sorry neurotic mess and her husband just a blundering and rather bad mannered husband. But the wife would not become human, even after the birth of the child. We get an arty intrdouction to modern motherhood by being allowed to see the mother in her bed in the hospital. She cares not for her child, knowing that her husband has fat hands. Wife breaks out in time and goes to a speakeasy. This entire scene is silly and uninteresting and in bad taste. Here she meets her Romeo and he is such a fast worker that he gets her into his room in no time. There she pulls that soul stuff and declares that she feels furified after her affair with him. He tells her how he got freedom from bandits in Mexico when he killed them by beating them over the head with a bottle filled with pebbles. Then she sees her way to freedom. And she socks her husband on the head with a bottle. Then we have the trial scene, a rather mixed up affair. It is just plain melodrama. No arty soul stuff study •here, just meller. She confesses. Next we see her

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