Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1929 — Page 5

NOV. 25, 1929.

U. S. REGULATION OF UTILITIES IS SEEN BYINSULL Watered Capital Not Used as Higher Rate Basis, Says Magnate. Hit t'tlitrrf Pri UK CHICAGO, Nov. 2A--Government regulations of public utilities is the logical complement of private ownership and operation, Samuel Insui*. utilities magnate of the midwest, stated Sunday night to a nationwide audience of radio listeners. He declared regulations of the utility industry by the government is essential to users, employes and owners but that it should boos a type designed to establish mutual confidence. Labeling as “bugaboos’’ Guch conceptions as the “power trust” and the idea utilities constantly are seeking higher rates, Insull said, “every utility executive who is worth his salt is bending every energy toward lower rates, because lower rates mean greater consumption.” He denied “watered capital” had been used as basis for higher rates, and said he favored the present system of state rather than federal control. “Governmental regulation should be of the type that will convince users that the service is reliable and rates reasonable; employes that their employment will be continuous, their wages good and their working conditions ifcrorable, and which will assure owners that their lnvestin*-nts will be sound and the return fair and dependable,” Insull said.

Oppose Federal Control &tt Scriiwß-'floicfird A'giOlPflprf AlU(tnC€ WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Strict federal regulation of public utilities is opposed by the federal power commission, in its annual report, made public today. While agitation has been started In congress to set up machinery to regulate Interstate transmission of power, the commission, according to an official summary of its report, “plainly indicates that it considers this a field primarily for state rather than federal activity.” . Congress has left such regulation to the states very wisely, according to the commission, and “during the nine years that have passed since enactment of the law, its administration has suggested no need lor altering the present scope of its regulatory prcvis ons.” Continued expansion of the country's electric industry is forecast and during 1929 anew high record for energy production is being established, the report stated. Production of eight-eight billion kilowatt hours in 1928 is to be exceeded largely in 1929, but proportion of water power will be reduced sharply, it was said. The season given is prolonged drouth, affecting the northern section of the country.

V. F. W. COUNCIL WANTS CONTACT WITH LEGION Organization Activities Outlined at Veterans Meeting Here. Resolutions favoring election of a commander for each congressional district and employment of more uniform methods of recruiting new members were adopted by Veterans of Foreign Wars at a special council meeting in the Spink-Arms Sunday. Edward Schaub, state commander, presided at the meeting, which was attended by thirty-five state council members. Plans for a committee of the V. F. \V. to seek closer co-operation between veterans’ organization and the American Legion were announced and a c mimittee appointed to confer with Forest Harness. Kokomo, state American Legion commander. Archibald M. Hall, Indianapolis was named chairman of a committee to prepare for a state banquet here Feb. 22. GREETINGS ARE READY Hoiday Cablegrams to Europe Arc Placed for Sale Here. Ready-made holliday cablegrams at bargain rates weht on sale today at Western Union offices throughout the United States for dehvery in any of twelve European countries. Sixteen texts i ave been arranged for messages to Great Britain. Ireland, France. Germany, Holland, •Belgium. Danzig, and Luxembourg, while twelve messages are prepared for Denmark and Sweden, all at $1 each. Cablegrams to Italy and Switzerland cost 25 cents more. PRESENT MYSTERY PLAY Castle Hall to Be Scene of Job’s Daughtrs Event. Bethel No. 1. Job’s Daughters of America, will present a mystery play, “Anne What's Her Name,’’ at 8 next Friday night at Castle hall, 230 East Ohio street. Mrs. Marie Leonard, guardian of the chapter, is director. Leading roles will be played by Miss Mary Ross and Miss Margaret Crawford.

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JACK OAK IE DOES A TAKEOFF ON JOLSON The Baby-Voiced Helen Kane Certainly Makes a Nifty Hit in ‘Sweetie,’ Now on View at the Indiana. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AL JOLSON may not want to forget his mammy racket in song, which has helped to make him famous and wealthy It make no difference whether Jolson wants to forget or not, because Jack Oakie in “Sweetie” makes the world sit up and howl when he sings his travesty on Jolson’s mammy singing.

Oakie pulls his nifty burlesque of Jolson while singing “Alma Mammy,” which is a jazzed up version el “Alma Mater.” At one time when Oakie is singing this number he goes through all the motions that Jolson employs when he puts over a mammy song. At another time when “Alma Mammy” is used in “Sweetie.” the men

singing it at a football game puts on black face masks and then there is no doubt but that the world again thinks of Jolson and his mammy stuff “Sweetie” is a high geared story ol supposed college life. There is nc realism in this story, because everything is shelved in order to put pep

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and jazz in every scene. Most ot the men in the college scenes ac„ nuts all the time. In other words, we have the musical comedy conception of college life and it is about as near to real college life as an elephant resembles a mouse. But to me the alleged college P in “Sweetie" is mighty good fun We have Jack Oakie singing his corking good Jolson travesty. We have the baby-voiced do-do, Helen Kane, who was quite a revolution on the stage when she startetd her do-do stuff in song. This do-do stuff is really “it,” a sort of a sex sob, in song. Mire Glyn probably had nothing thfe kina of "It." but she started the "it” fad. I am telling vou that Miss Kane certainly registers on the screen and she sure turned the Indiana upside down the n ; ght that I saw “Sweetie while singing “He’s So Unusual.’ And I noticed the grown-ups in the audience got as much kick out of this musical “it” stuff as the younger neonle And also “Sweetie has a new dance, called'“The Prep Step.” And it sure is some prom, very energetic. Good stuff. I found “Sweetie” mighty good fun. rather modern, but darn good theater The cast has the services o? Nancy Carroll in the lead Stanley Smith. William Austtn and a big bunch of dancing and singing s °ThSage show that Charlie Davis is presiding over is “Velvet Revue, which is well costumed. The real feature is the work of Betty Jane Wolf and Milton Heller, two Shoitridge high school students, who won The Times prep step contest last nieht at the Indiana ballroom. This couple sure can dance this n~w dance. They make good. Walter Walters and company is present with their dummies. Always has been a good act. Numerous others appear. Now on view at the Indiana. a a a GRETA GARBO FOR LOVE Just as “Madame X” suffered for the love of her son, so does Greta Garbo in “The Kiss.” Greta as Irene in “The Kiss suffers for the right to love a bit,

but not too unwisely, W'hen her husband is not around. But hubby in this case is one of those je a lous Europeans. and he knows that Pierre, son of his assoate in business, is in love with his wife. So hubby refuses to see the facts and nttacks Pierre. But hubby made a mistake, because

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his wife got her hand on a revolver Bang! And that is the last foi hubby. So Irene and Pierre try to keep their secret of who did the shooting, as the defense ■was tha hubby killed himself over business worries. But Pierre talked in his sleep or something and his papa learned the facts and decided to keep silent. Irene gets into an emotional mess again because the attorney who defended her, played by Conrad Nagel. was an old and discarded lover of Irene. So when he clears Irene of the murder charge, he naturally wants Irene as his wife. He is jeal* ous of Pierre and carries on so tnat in a high emotional moment I“ene writes the trial judge a letter, telling him that she is really guilty of murder. , thP The attorney wakes up to Tne facts, but it is too late because the tell-tale letter has been mailed. As usual. Miss Garbo is very continental, using her eyes as well as her hands for dramatic effect. An, this woman really has eyes, and tha, sort of European pagan love wa. about her which has made her so much discussed. Lew Avres is Pierre. Jacques

Feyder directed Miss Garbo in “The Kiss.” Now at the Palace. a a a SEVERAL BABIES ARE CHRISTENED. I think I will write home and ask if I was christened with some other babies. For after seeing the mix up of bqjpies at the christening party ! n “The Virginian,” who knows, I

might be you or you might be me. One would never really know, you know, If we had been mixed as much as these litones were. And the Virginian and Steve, his buddy, | were Just capable of such jokes. But thanks to the for- j mer's quick wit, the entire blame, was put on Steve.

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Most of us have read “The Virginian” in book form, and know that it has humor, pathos, tragedy, and romance. The talking picture has brought all this out vividly, with the help of a good cast. The three best performances go to, first, Gary Cooper as the Virginian; second, Walter Huston as Trampus the cattle rustler; and third, Richard Arlen as Steve. Although Mary Bran as Molly Wood, the school teacher, is sweet and handles her lines well, she is not as convincing as the three male characters mentioned. Are you acquainted with the hard, cold facts of life? Some of us are, and some are not, no doubt. When I saw "The Virginian” I realized I was not. I know about them, yes, bit I have never as yet looked at them point blank in the face. This picture shows life as It really was lived in the days when our pioneers were pushing westward. When you have to sacrifice love and friendship for duty, I am telling you, it takes guts (pardon the expression, but it emphasizes best what I want to say). The Virginian does just this when he orders the hanging of the rustlers and his pal. Steve, Is among them. He even risks the beautiful love between himself and Molly, when his honor is at stake, after a quarrel with Ttttmpas. And he not onlv wins over Trampas, but wins back Molly, more in love than before. Utterly unafraid this man from Virginia, faces the facts of life, fortified by his great honesty and knowing in his own mind that he is right, and he wins, not once, but many times. I know you will enjoy this picture, even more than you did the book, and if you ask me, I would say do not miss seeing it. Other features include Lloyd Hamilton in “Don’t F.e Nervous” and news reel. This week at the Circle until Saturday. By Connell Turpin. a a a The Isadora Duncan Dancers will appear tonight at the Murat as an Ona B. Talbot attraction. Maria Olszewska, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera, will be soloist with the Indianapolis Maennerchor tonight at the Academy of Music. “Sunny Side Up” is now in its third and final week at the Apollo. Other theaters today offer: “Four Devils” at the Lyric; “The Saturday Night Kid” at the Ohio; “Sporty Widows” at the Mutual, and, movies at the Colonial.

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TAX REVISION IS FARM HOPE, SAYSSETTLE Agriculture Paying More Than Proper Share, Is Charge. Farmers of the state were called upon today by President William H. Settle of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation to support wholeheartedly the referendum for a constitutional convention and income tax amendment next November. The plea was made in the president’s speech and report to the ninety delegates of the federation assembled at the Claypool in annual convention. Although the 1929 legislature adopted the resolution for a referendum on the proposed income tax amendment, the separate bill fixing the date of the referendum did not become a law, because the title and content of the bill did not agree. Settle, however, expects the at-torney-general to be asked for a ruling as to whether the referendum nevertheless may be held with the 1930 general election. Charging that the farmers are paying from two to ten times their proper share of the tax budget, Settle pointed to constitutional revision as the only hope for relief. Branded as Unfair “Taxation,” Seattle said, “remains one of the major problems of agriculture. I feel perfectly safe in saying that it will remain so as long as the present unfair, archaic, antiquated general property tax system remains as the basic method of levying taxes. “It is unequitable, unfair and unjust, so far as agriculture is concerned. It is causing farmers to pay from two to ten times their proper share of the tax budget. It seems Impossible to alter this situation in Indiana without revising our constitution or rewriting it, which is most desirable on account of constitutional questions that surely will follow any amendments passed to solve the tax problem. “Every property owner in the state should support the proposals to do either when the opportunity presents itself next year. By Small Margin “Therefore. I call attention once more to the importance of the county and township organizations making it a point to get out the vote in support of the referendum on a constitutional convention and the income tax amendment next November. “We lost by only a small mar-

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The serious-looking youth pictured above isn’t a scholarship prize winner, but a confessed robber now facing a charge of murder in Spokane. He is Robert Landis, 16-year-old Minneapolis high school student, captured in Spokane after he had shot and killed Detective Roy Fordyce, who was questioning him about his purchase of a revolver. The boy confessed holding up three stores in Minneapolis.

gin when the latter was submitted in 1926. The prospects for adoption now are so much better that we must not fail to do our utmost. That amendmentt will do more than all else, except the writing of anew, up-to-date practical Constitution, to remove the handicap of excessive taxation from the burdens oi agriculture.” The President reviewed the work of various farm bureau departments for the ninety accredited delegates attending the meeting. He stressed particularly the strides taken in cooperative marketing and the impetus given the movement by the federal government’s $500,000,000 subsidy. Settle denied that this backing of co-operatives by the government was “farm relief” comparable with the equalization fee plan, but urged all farmers to take advantage of the system, so that it will prove as successful as possible. Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois will address the convention this afternoon on “The Tax Situation.” Search Yields Alcohol After Forest Jacoby, 1126 South Sheffield avenue, was arrested Sunday on charges of parking on the left side of the street, his automobile was searched by police and yielded a quart and half of alcohol, police said. Additional charges of transportation of liquor were filed against him.

FIFTEEN HURT IN WEEK-END AUTOMISHAPS Police Nab Two in Crash With Parked Car: Girls Suffer Injuries. Fifteen persons were in hospitals or under physicians’ care today as the result of automobile accidents in and near Indianapolis, reported to police over the week-end. Mrs. Leona Alton, 20, of 1214 West Twenty-ninth street, suffered back injuries, and Miss Mary King, Lebanon, was cut oh the head, when autos driven by Leonard Enders, Thorntown, and Dean King, 26, of 1421 West Twenty-seventh street, collided at Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue early today. Police arrested Bernard J. Kelly. 35, of 4226 Wintlirop avenue, ard Joseph E. Du Friend, 50, St. Louis, on drunkenness charges, after Kelly’s car crashed into a parked machine at Thirty-eighth and Pennsylvania streets this morning. Both were cut on the head hurled aaginst the windshield. Police took Du Friend to city hospital. Others injured were: Mrs. Clel Taylor, Morgantown, cut and bruised; Miss Gertrude Crawford, Morgantown, cut and bruised; Paul

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Smith, 18, of 2823 Meredith street head lacerations; Mrs. Mary Gammon. 60, Negro, 521 Tippecanoe street, head injuries; Miss Josephine Shearer, 1459 Fletcher avenue, cuts and bruises; Lloycl Hines, 1952 East Forty-sixth street; Roy Switzer, 1105 North Berwick street, and Merrill Richardson, 19, Ccnterton. Bandits Take S2OO Bli Vnitrd Press INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Nov. 25. —Two young bandits today rifled the safe of the Indiana theater here and escaped with approximately S2OO. It is believed the bandits secreted themselves on the stage after the last performance Sunday night. Early today they bound George Keneau, night watchman, and broke into the safe.

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MEAT MARKET OPENED Chain Adds Another Store Her* at Michigan and Noble. The chain of meat markets operated by H. D. Smith and C. A. Feaster throughout Indiana and Ohio added its second Indianapolis store Saturday, at Michigan and Noble streets. This chain of markets operates under the name of the United Market Company. Its first store here was opened a year ago at 22 South Illinois street. Other United Markets will be opened in Indianapolis as fast as suitable locations are found, officials said. Anew United Meat Market will be opened in Bloomington within a week.