Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1929 — Page 3

NOV. 4, 1929

GEMS GALORE TO GLITTER AT OPERAOPENING Chicago Gold Coast Will Lead Dedication of $20,000,000 Theater. #./1 />,, , CHICAGO, Nov. 4 With the old guard of her tocial aristocrats occupying the thirty-six salmon pink boxes and her new generation of bull market millionaires sitting under the soft glow of indirect amber lights down in front, Chicago tonight dedicates her new 520.000.000 house. Although a large measure of success has attended the attempt of the Civic Opera managers to bring grand opera within the reach of the man in the street by offering him more and chapter seats, opening night is destined to be a triumph for the Gold Coast. Those not fortunate enough to speak for their dedication seats six months ago. have no chance to enter the skyscraper “opera home” tonight. even though some of them are said to be offering as high as SSO for a sing'e seat on the fnain floor. Names long associated with social and financial pre-eminence in Chicago appear on the list of those who will occupy boxes. The box on the extreme left of the golden curve has been reserved for Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of the di, king and former wife of Harold F. McCormick, head of the International Harvester Company. On the extreme right will sit Samual Insull. the multimillionaire utilities executive, whose genius for organization brought grand opera to its present state of affluence. Although there are many new names among the box holders, those v ho figured prominently in the social and business affairs of the nineties still predominate. In this claSvS are eleven McCormicks, four Swifts, two Dawes, including the ambassador to Great Britain: three Ryer- ’ so ns and two Instills, but only one Potter Palmer and one Field. The once powerful family of P. D. Armour. the meat packer, is not represented, for the first time in twenty years. "Aida.” spectacular opera which Verdi wrote at the command of the khrdive of Egypt to celebrate the completion of the Suez canal, has been chosen as the only one elaborate enough for tonight's dedication. Rosa Raisa will sing the title tole. supported by a cast including Cytena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall and Hilda Burke.

CAMP FIRE GIRLS OF CITY GIVEN HONORS Twenty-Three Get Ranks at Grand Council Fire Session. Indianapolis Camp Fire Girls today held new honors for community and office service with the close of the semi-annual grand council fire of flic local camp, he'd Sunday afternoon at Emmerich Manual Trailing high school. More than two hundred girls and n large number of parents attended the ceremonies, which opened with i lie “Wohelo call.” given by Miss Jean Berger. Miss Josephine Hoffnan and Miss Teresa Carroll, president of the Tndianepolis Camp Eire Girls Guardian Association. The rank of woodgatherer was conferred ‘upon twenty girls, three girls received the firemakers’ rank, and sixty r c v members were welcomed into the local order. EDITORSTO MEET HERE Republican Association to Hold Session on Feb. 6 and 7. The Indiana Republican Editorial Association will hold its fifty-second annual meeting here. Feb. 6-7. •Officers and committees met Sunday at the Columbia Club to plan the annual meeting. Sixteen editors attended. Allen C. Hiner of Batesville. association president, appointed as committee chairman: Arthur K. Remmel. Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel, program: Elza O. Rogers of Lebanon and Harry Fenton of Indianapolis, speakers: A. M. Smith of the Crawlordsville Journal, reception; Frederick E. Schortemeier of Indianapolis. cups and awards, and Neil D. McCallum of the Batesville Tribune, publicity. SEEK NEGRO SLASHER Police today were seeking Douglas Austin. Negro. 35, of 707 North Senate avenue, who is alleged to .have cut William Harrison, Negro, 38. of 604 Blake street Sunday. Harrison said he was in a taxi with his former wife when Austin approached and ordered Harrison to pay him money. When Ha rr. on refused. Austin is alleged to have slashed Harrison's throat. Harrison was taken to the city hospital.

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Help! You' Know Sheila?

“Sheila! Isn't that a pretty name,” exclaimed the young woman who opens the mail in The Times editorial rooms. She was looking at a picture of Sheila MacDonald, second daughter of Ramsay MacDonald, the British prime minister, who recently visited in this country. “It’s an odcT name. f oo,” the young woman continued. “I wonder if there are any Sheilas in Indianapolis. I never knew any one by that name.” “Let's find out,” the editor sugges t e and.“ Let's print this picture of Sheila MacDonald and ask Times readers to

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give us the names and addresses of any Indianapolis Sheilas. I'll bet a box oi candy against a pack of cigarets that there are not more than two

Election to Climax Long Period of Chaos for City

Six Mayors Followed in Ten-Day Parade for Position. ' BY EDWIN V. O'NEEL. The most unusual four-year term for city officials in Indianapolis's history will close Jan. 6 with inauguration of the mayor elected by the Nov. 5 ballot. John L. Duvall and the majority of city councilmen. who rode in on a wave of Ku-Klux Klan enthusiasm in January, 1926. brought to city hall the most chaotic condition ever known in the history of the federal form of government in any city. Out of the turmoil came the election of L. Ert Slack. Democratic lawyer and former United States district attorney, to fill the unexpired term of the Republican-Klan mayor who was indicted and convicted in criminal court for violation of the corrupt practices act. Seven of the nine councilmen involved in the bribery scandal which occupied the limelight for months, were forced to resign in response to an irate citizenship. Attitude Nonpartisan Slack brought to the city hall a dignified and nonpartisan atmosphere. Having served as United States attorney during the war. it was possible for Slack to inmlant in city employes something of the federal idea of government. Politicians who wanted to keep the reins of the municipality, “died hard.” They fought >4O obtain the office until the state supreme court held Slack legally elected mayor by the city council. The long-drawn-out litigation was based on the legality of his election by the city council, which declared a “vacancy” after Duvall was convicted and disfranchised. Attorneys said he never had been qualified for public office, although he sat in the mayor's chair nearly two years. The litigation resulted in an unsettled condition at city hall and failure of bond houses to buy bonds, delaying several important improvements. Duvall had been advised by friends and enemies to resign and “get out,” but he insisted on "sticking it out.” despite repeated threats of the “four horsemen” of the council to impeach him. Duvall Resigned Finally, on the same day the council met to elect Claude E. Negley, then council president, as mayor pro tern, for ten days. Duvall heeded the advice of Ira M. Holmes, Republican lawyer and George V. Coffin lieutenant, and resigned. * Mrs. Duvall, who a short time before. had been appointed city controller, replacing Duvall's brother - in-law. Charles Buser, succeeded to i the mayoralty for a few minutes. She appointed Ira M. Holmes city controller and then resigned. Holmes, according to his own interpretation of the statute, succeeded Mrs. Duvall as mayor and proceeded to take the reins of government. But Negley. whose faction commanded the police department. called in uniformed officers I to hold the fort. Litigation followed. Indianapolis .having six mayors in a little more jthan ten days’ time. They were Duvall. Mrs. Duvall, Holmes. Negley, Slack and Joseph L. Hogue, former j city controller, who sought to get ' the office by virtue of an ancient statute. Many Scrambled for Jobs To the amazement of politically minded citizens. Slack announced he would conduct a nonpartisan administration in keeping with the spirit of the city manager form, which citizens adopted by vote of 6 to 1. The mayor retained scores of file Republican employes over bitter protest of leaders of his own party who scrambled for jobs. Slack determined to “be mayor himself,” disregarded the advice of politicians, and selected his own counsel. The mayor set out to “redeem” Indianapolis and started a city-wide constructive program with the view of turning the city over to the city manager form in January in good condition. The state supreme court prevented the city from adopting the city manager form of government, but the city properties will be turned over to the next administration in the best physical and financial condition in recent years. An impressive and elaborate inauguration ceremony is planned in the rotunda of city hall, Jan. 6. Slack prefers to turn over the keys to Reginald H. Sullivan, Democrat,

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shop, send him their names and addresses. Hurry! By the way, Sheila is pronounced She-lah—we lobked it up in Webster's Dictionary.

rather than to A. M. Glossbrenner, the G. O. P. nominee. But, on the eve of an election in which Democratic victory hangs in the balance. Slack has refused to allow the Democratic organization to use city hall departments as a vote-getting machine.

•Tells Truth’ ‘He Who Got Slapped’ Says Action of Actress Was ‘Stupid.’

n„ i Hiic,i m-xs LONDON, Nov. 4.—Hannen Swaffer. the British dramatic critic whom Lillian Foster slapped because, she said, he had criticised her as an American, rather than foN any fault in her acting, used a half page in the Sunday Express to assert that he was not antiAmerican. but just a critic who “tells the truth.” Miss Foster was all wrong, Swaffer said, and in his defense article appropriately, headed “He Who Gets Slapped.” the critic went ahead to say that her action was “not dignified, not even funny —just stupid.” “Actresses should do their acting on the stage,” he remarked. Swaffer pointed out that he had praised consistently such Americans as Sophie Tucker, the Duncan sisters and Paul Robeson, while the American cast of Porgy wrote and thanked him for his eulogy. INSURANCE MAN IS DEAD Last Rites Arp Held at Home for Edward Gcise Last rites for Edward Gei.se, 58, oi 3825 West Michigan street, insurance dealer, who died at his home Saturday, were held at 2 p. m. today. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery.

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MAIL PILOT’S BODY WILL BE SENTTO HOME Error in Gauging Distance From Ground Blamed for Fatal Crash. The body of Charles Vermilya Jr., 23. Embry-Riddle air mail piloh killed Saturday night, when his plane crashed at the Mars Hill airport as he was landing, was to be taken today to the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Vermilya, Muncy, Pa. The accident occurred about 10:45 p. m. Saturday as Vermilya was about to land here, flying a mail plane from Chicago to Cincinnati. The plane was destroyed by fire. According to Embry-Riddle officials. Vermilya apparently was “zoning the field.” diving and then climbing again, as was his custom to attract attention of field employes in order that they would turn on the landing lights, when he misjudged his distance from the ground in the dark.

Sheilas in the whole city and suburbs.” “You're on, said the mail girl, “and if I don't get that box of candy I'm going to make faces at all The Times readers ” Horrible threat! Save yourselves, folks, by letting Fannie win the candy. And then you’ll be helping the Sheilas, too. for every girl in Indianapolis named Sheila who comes forward is to receive a onepound box of cand y. Details later. The Times contest editor is the referee. If you k now of any Sheilas in Indianapolis. for the sake of peace in The Times work-

Inspection of the wreckage indicated he had reached the bottom of the zoom and was abcut to nose upward when the wheels struck the ground with great force, hurling Vermilya from the plane a distance of about seventy-five feet. Burning gasoline was thrown several hundred feet by the resulting explosion, setting fire to Vermilya's flying suit and burning his hands and face. Embry-Riddle. Curtiss and national guard field employes extinguished the flames on the flier’s clothing and. with the aid of deputy sheriffs, guarded the mail sacks. Most of the mail was saved. Vermilya died in an ambulance on the way to city hospital. Later the body was removed to the Shirley Bi others undertaking parlors, to be accompanied to the parents’ home by Evan W. Chatfield, EmbryRiddle official. A letter to his mother, apparently written while Vermilya waited at Chicago to start his flight, was found in the youth's pocket. Vermilya, a cousin of Wright Vermilya. Embry - Riddle flying school director, now touring Europe. was an accomplished flier, with approximately 1,100 hours in the air. Officials of the company termed the accident due to an error in judgment. Coroner C. H. Keever indicated he will return a verdict of accidental death today.

COLLEEN MOORE BETTER HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4.—Colleen Moore, film star, was reported “doing nicely” today after undergoing an operation for appendicitis. Miss Moore left New York suddenly last week, after an attack, and immediately entered a hospital here. Mrs. C. R. Morrison, the star's mother, and her husband have kept a constant vigil at her bedside. “JUST SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN EMPTY!” An Ohio mother writes this: “I knew' our bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar w r as getting low. but just neglected replacing it. Then one night Sonny awoke us with that dreaded croupy cough, and I fairly flew for our bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar. I am thankful to say the few remaining doses relieved him and he soon rested quietly. But, just suppose that bottle had been empty!” Reliable, and for these many years a standard family cough medicine of highest merits. Ask for it. Sold everywhere.—Adi vertisement

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