Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1930 — Page 9

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DICTATOR OF SPAIN FILES RESIGNATION De Rivera, Practical Ruler of Nation Since 1923, Steps Down. CABINET ALSO IS OUT Action Is Given Approval of * King: Suddenness Is Dramatic. Bu United Press MADRID, Spain, Jan. 28.—Premier Primo De Rivera, civil dictator of Spain since 1923, resigned today. His resignation was accepted by the king. The end of the dictatorship came with dramatic suddenness after two days of uncertainty. The cabinet -•met this morning and at noon the premier met at the war office with important heads of the arm. The entire cabinet also resigned. The cabinet will meet later today and officially announce the resignation. ' The king was expected to ask Demasso Berenguer to form anew cabinet. The chief factor in the premier’s resignation was his admitted mistake in appealing to the heads of the army, which caused strong resentment in many quarters. It was argued that the government held power by virtue of the king’* confidence. and it was an insult to the king to appeal to the army for a question which should have been submitted to the throne. . It was reported that during his Faudience with the king De Rivera said he had not realized his note was going over the king’s head and placing the army’s opinion before the king, who always has had the absolute faculty of dismissing ministers. BY WILI-lAM 11. LANDER I'nltfcl Pres* Staff Correspondent MADRID. Jan. 28.—General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, who resigned today. presented during his dictatorship the vitally interesting problem ■of whether political freedom or material welfare is more dear to the people of any nation. Spain, which he ruled as dictator for six and one-half years. Sept. 13, 1923, to Jan. 8, 1930, was torn by internal dissension and foreign wars when he dramatically stepped into the breach and took upon his shoulders the rule of the country. Two major difficulties faced the old regime: First, a costly war in Morocco aganst the Moors, who had rebelled against the implantation of a Spanish protectorate. Second, social disorders in many parts of Spain, reaching a climax in the Barcelona region. Took Matters Into Own Hands Primo De Rivera was captaingeneral of the barcelona district at the time. He surveyed the situation and found it bad. He decided with characteristic, almost Napoleonic, directness, to take things into his own hands. To his mind, and perliaps rightly, the country needed an iron rule •which might prescribe individual liberty in some w’ays for a while, but which certainly, he reasoned, would bring the people to a happier life. De Rivera’s iron hand quickly stopped the domestic troubles, but it was not until two years later that the Morocco campaign succeeded and the Riff leader, Abd El Krim, was defeated with the aid of the French. After two years of a military dictatorship. De Rivera established a civil dictatorship in Dec. 1925, and proceeded with domestic political ‘ reforms. The dictatorship had numerous ieatures which gave it a flavor all its own. For one thing, from its inception. De Rivera considered it as transitory. Set Early Time Limit When he came from Barcelona to Madrid to from a government at King Alfonso’s invitation after the Liberal ministry of Garcia Prieto had resigned, he announced his task was one of a fortnight, or at the most, a month. Three months was the time limit later set, but since 1927 the date most frequently mentioned for the end was 1930. It was prophetically true. There is no analogy between the De Rivera dictatorship and that cf Benito Mussolini in Italy. Rather, the two may be contrasted, rather than compared. One of De Rivera's pet formulas for the solution of the quasi-impos-sible problem of terminating a dictatorship was for it to evolve anew type of government to succeed it —a government so conceived that, as he said, “any citizen would run it.’’ That he was not able to do. and since last October he had 'ceased trying to set a time limit on his regime. De Rivera went into 1930. however, with en apparent feeling of certainty he could not continue much longer. PesStsmism marked his attitude toward the future, and he again set a limit on his rule — six months. He intended to retire next June. Shortly after the first of the year he issued a statement admiting 'the dictatorship can not be eternal and if I succeed in forming a govern--1 meut of order that will not jeoparllze its magnificent work, I will resign." There is something pathetic in the picture of this fighter giving way before the pressure of political adversity at a time when theer is no question he feels the work he started a half-dozen years ago has not been completed.

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STATE REFUSED ACCOUNTS DATA Officials of Lake County Silent on Overcharges. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Jan. 28.—The state will have to act on alleged excess charges in Lake county contracts, amounting to nearly $250,000, without advice or explanation of the county commissioners, they decided Monday in rejecting a request of the state board of accounts to appear In Indianapolis, Jan. 31 to explain the overcharges. All facts concerning the contracts, which chiefly involve an alleged excess of $175,000 In dealings with the Tuf Tread Road Service of Chicago, over a five-year period, were already in the hands of Lawrence Orr, chief examiner, the commissioners said. Commercial leaders of the county will meet at Gary Thursday night to consider action to be taken in behalf of the taxpayers. Attorney General James M. Ogden has indicated recovery and criminal suits may be filed.

SPURNED; SEEKS END Taxi Driver, Rejected by Girl, Tries Suicide. When Miss Louise Leland, 21, of 3815 Gpann avenue, refused to permit him to stay at her home, Howard Willis, 23. of 831 North Capitol avenue, taxi driver, shot himself in the stomach this morning. He was taken to city hospital in serious condition. He told motor policeman William Clark and Jack Giles the shooting was accidental. Miss Leland told officers she had known Willis three weeks and that he came to her home this morning with a suitcase and announced his intention of rooming there. She ordered him away, she said, and he flat down and, with the comment “here goes,” shot himself.

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Left to Right—Miss Hazel Miller. Jo Alger’s sister; Runnels L. Miller, her father; Mrs. Josephine Alger, Mrs. Maude Miller, her mother, and Miss Edna Miller, her sister.

Mrs. Josephine Alger may not stick to the husband who killed an Indianapolis policeman, robbed the Paris Crossing bank, and was accused of the holdup of the La Fontaine State bank. This was brought to light late Monday, when the wife of Indiana’s “bad boy” in banditry passed through Indianapolis on the way to her home in Jeffersonville. Ind. Throughout Jo Alger s trial and in her attorneys plea to the jury for her acquittal on a charge of driving the bandit car in the I* Fontaine

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BY ARCH STEINEL "I was soft-soaped and I fell for it. I believed a man—that’s why I'm here.” Peering from between city jail bars today, Mrs. Ruby Simons, 23, of 1708 Roosevelt avenue, gave this reason for her first eye-wash from life that resulted in her facing a bigamy charge. , "I wouldn’t believe any man again—they’re all alike,” she added as she told of her marriage to Orval Simons, 913’i College avenue, and her subsequent wedlock without benefit of divorce with Henry Kelch. 2210 Wheeler street. It was wedlock which ended on Monday when Kelch swore to a warrant charging her with bigamy. Spat Is Downfall “I married Orval Oct. 15, 1927. We were happy for a while, and then on Easter Sunday in 1929 we had a spat. You know—one of that kind that all married folk have. I left him, but before that I’d met Kelch at our home. “Well, he told me how good he would be to me. He wanted me to marry him and said he would get me a divorce from Orval. I believed him. He said he would keep our marriage a secret until after we got the divorce. We were married in Louisville June 21, 1929. “We lived together just seven weeks. He told me he’d tell my f rst husband that we were married. I was afraid. I did sue Orval for a divorce, but dropped it.” She fingered the cell bars. Fear, Always Fear “I left Kelch and went back to my first husband. But I left him when I feared what Kelch might do. Fear! Fear! always fear. Then,” she hesitated, “then I was arrested at my mother’s home.” “Love? Who do I love? Why, Orval! I always did. I never really loved any one else.” The chatter of other prisoners In the matron’s room at police headquarters broke in. “You know how it Is. I was blue and wanted sympathy. I fell for some soft-soap and got ” The steel door, through which prisoners talk to visitors at police headquarters, clanged shut on Ruby Simons, the girl who says she got her eye-wash from life with “soft soap.”

J. 1. HAYNES IN RACE FOR COUNTY SHERIFF South Side Resident Democratic Nomination Aspirant. Announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county sheriff was made today by

Jesse J. Haynes, south side resident for many years. Haynes has never held a public office, but has been actively engaged for several years in the promotion of city civic moves. He is a member of the Emmaus Lutheran church and has been affiliated with the Indianapolis Pressmen’s Union, No.

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17, for the last twenty-five years. He lives at 2146 East Garfield drive with his wife and five children.

holdup, her loyalty and “stick-to-it-iveness” to her husband was urged as her only crime. But Jo's parents intimated Monday that this loyalty had waned and that upon her recovery from nervousness caused by the recent trial that she would seek a divorce from Gene. While officials of Wabash county were skeptical as to whether she would be tned again on the bank robbery count, Mrs. Alger boarded a train for her home with the words, ‘ as bad as I feel and with the ordeal of another trial facing me, I can see, brightness in home."

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930

COPS CRUSADE TO END WAVE OF ASSAULTS High School Girl’s Attack Produces Order From Chief Kinney. ABDUCTED BY NEGROES Dragged Into Auto by Pair; Brother Knocks Down Child’s Pursuer. Attacks upon women and girls on the city streets brought action today by Chief of Police Jerry Kinney. With the city detective department engaged in efforts to trace two Negroes who dragged a 16-year-old high school girl Into an automobile Sunday n’ght and assaulted her, Chief Kinney issued instructions to city patrolmen to ch2ck on all suspicious characters on the streets at night. At the same time, careful descriptions of men who have been involved in attacks and attempted attacks upon women were given officers. The 16-year-old girl, victim of the Negroes, Is in serious condition. Screams Scare Assailant Another girl, Miss Viola Jones, 17, of 1655 Park avenue, was attacked by a Negro at Sixteenth street and Park avenue Monday night, but her screams frightened the Negro, who had thrown her into the snow, and he fled. Two small girls, going from the public library to their homes in the 1400 block on North New Jersey street, were accosted by a white man who pursued them after making insulting remarks. The girls, 10 and 13 years old, fled to their homes. The attack on the 16-year-old girl corresponded in every respect with that upon Mrs. Mary Conrad, 45, of 617 North Drexel avenue, the night of Jan. 10, when she was dragged into an auto by two Negroes and assaulted after a drive into the outskirts of the city. The Negroes tallied with descriptions of the assailants of Mrs. Conrad. Threatened Her Frightened by the threats of the Negroes to “get you again if you tell any one,” the girl, an Arsenal Technical high school student, did not inform her parents of the attack, which occurred Sunday night, until Monday night. She was walking to the home of her grandmother when she was seized on Eastern avenue, near the Belt railway, by a Negro who dragged her into a Chevrolet sedan. One stopped her screams by holding her mouth while the second drove into the country, where the Negroes attacked her. Chester Noblet, 32, of 3165 North Illinois street, faces charges of offending persons on the street, intoxication and trespass after he is alleged to have purued Lena Roll, 12, of 227 Hanson avenue, to her home Monday. Noblet entered the kitchen of the Roll home, it is alleged, and John Roll, 20, a brother of the girl, attracted by her screams, knocked Noblet down and held him until police arrived.

Asked if she would divorce her husband she said. “I hardly have had time to think about him or the future.” Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Runnells Miller of Jeffersonville at this juncture expressed the belief that after she regained her health a divorce would be likely. Mrs. Alger testified during the trial at Wabash that she is an ex--rectant mother. Throughout her visit In this city Monday. Mrs. Garl Alger, mother of her husband, conversed and consoled her.

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William Fox at the peak of his career several years ago.

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THEFT ACCUSED STAYS IN JAIL Former Minister Fails to Give SIO,OOO Bond. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 28.—Bond in the case of W. P. Noffsinger, 67-year-old former preacher who is charged with embezzlement, has been set at SIO,OOO in Delaware circuit court here. He has not provided bond. Noffsinger’s accounts during the time he was secretary-treasurer of the Tri-County Mutual Protective Association were short $52,525.52, an examiner said, but he is specifically charged with embezzling SBSO. The money missing from the association’s funds is alleged to have been spent by Noffsinger on Mrs. Margaret Shaffer of Indianapolis and Terre Haute.

SHOW SPACE TAKEN 40 Makes of Autos to Be Shown at Fairground. Forty makes of cars will be on exhibition at the nineteenth annual Indianapolis Automobile Show. Feb. 15-22, in the Manufacturers building at the fairground. Space reservation requests for the show exceeded available space by nearly twenty per cent and it was necessary to hold a drawing Saturday to assign the floor. All of the distributors and branch houses bid for more space this year than ever before. This is attributed to the interest awakened by the shows in New York and Chicago where attendance records were broken.

SAVES LIFEJF WIFE Knocks Bottle of Poison From Her Hands. Springing from his bed early today,^'William Sorister of 3319 Central avenue, knocked a bottle of poison from the hands of his wife, Agnes, as she was about to swallow some of the liquid in the belief it was medicine. Tie poison, spilling on her face, burned her severely and she was taken to city hospital. Mrs. Sorister, who has been under care of a physician, arose to take a do6e of the medicine. She took the wrong bottle from the medicine closet and was about to swallow It when her husband noticed her mistake.

SERVICES FIXED FOR ALBERT E. SANAGAN Tailoring Firm Employe Will Be Buried at London, Ont. Funeral services for Albert E. Sanagan, 60, who died at his home, 1712 North Meridian street, Sunday, will be held Wednesday at 4 in the' Planner & Buchanan mortuary. Dr. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, of which he was a member, will officiate. Mr. Sanagan was purchasing representative of the Kahn Ta loring Company for thirty years. He was born and educated in Canada, bu came to the United States and was naturalized. He is surv.ved by the widow, Mrs. Nella Sanagan and a son. Albert C.. both of this city. The body will be cremated and taken to London, Ont. Bryan Memorial Proposed Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The William Jennings Bryan Memorial Association would be authorized to erect a memoral to Bryan in Washington, under the terms of a resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Howell (Rep., Neb.).

From his window, Fox sees the reflected glow of giant theaters, once his.

On the links, Fox once made a hole-in-one.

DRY SENATORS TO POUND CORRUPTION

Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.—While dry senators were preparing to force an early investigation of their charges against federal prohibition officials, the house expenditures committee today adopted an amendment to the proposed transfer legislation which would put appointment of officials under stricter supervision. The dry senators, led by Wheeler (Dem., Mont.) and Borah (Rep., Idaho) are arranging for an airing of private information they have received concerning alleged frauds and corruption. They plan to bring this up when the dry bills are taken up by senate committees, probably the first of next week. If they fail to accomplish their

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M’CONNEL FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY Retired Newspaper Man, Civil War Veteran, Succumbs at 96. Funeral services for George M. McConnel, 96, retired newspaper man and Civil war veteran, who died Monday at the home of his son, Robert B. McConnell, 3239 Central avenue, will be held Wednesday at 3p. m. at the residence. Burial will be in Jacksonville, 111. Mr. McConnel began his newspaper career In Chicago in 1875. He was dramatic and literary critic on the Chicago Times and later associated with papers in Boston and New York. During the Civil war, he was a paymaster with the rank of major. Surviving him are two sons, Robert McConnel of Indianapolis and Wilfred G. McConnel, Mobile, Ala., and two daughters, Mrs. Adam J. Strohm, Detroit, and Mrs. H. E. Tredway of Dubuque, la. REVUE WILL BE GIVEN Bible Class Prepares Program for Event at Parish Hall, The Men’s Bible Class revue of

Zion Evangelical church will be given in the Zion parish hall, New Jersey and North streets, Wednesday and Thursday nights. C. Arthur Landes will be one of the fun makers. The cast also includes H a r tford Williams, E and win Friedrichs, William Wolf. Robert Schleicher, William Cotton, Jack Sneddon and Nick Knorr.

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Margaret Mae Ernst, child danger, wtll ba feature.

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William Fox as he appeared the other day at court.

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The market crash began the “fade out” of his own life drama.

purpose in this “natural coui'se of events,” as they call it, they are expected to sponsor a resolution for a senatorial inquiry to go to the bottom of the charges. Borah is understood to have been informed that his office Is being watched by someone seeking to learn where he Is getting the data concerning prohibition enforcement. The senate continued to work on the tariff bill, with many senators interjecting speeches upon other subjects, delaying consideration of individual tariff amendments. The house was busy with the state, justice, commerce and labor department appropriation bill, but also spent much of its time on extraneous subjects.

Bu United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, Jan. 28.—The engagement of Princess Ileana of Rumania to Count Alexander Hochberg, 30-year-old son of Prince Hans Heinrich von Pless, one of the wealthiest members of the German aristocracy, was reported today. Count von Hocliberg’s mother formerly was Miss Daisy West of Delaware. The princess first met the count at a Rumanian winter resort. Prince Hans Heinrich von Pless, before the World war, was known as the uncrowned king of Silesia.

ASK AIR CRASH REPORT Senate Group Will Consider Law to Require Publicity. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Legislation to force publication of commerce department investigations into air disasters will be taken up by the senate commerce committee Thursday, Chairman Johnson told ! the senate today during discussion of Mondays crash at Kansas City, Kan., where five persons were killed.

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Clyde E. Robinson, Marion county treasurer, was elected monarch of Sahara Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets, at a meeting in the Denison Monday night. He is a member of the Indianapolis Scottish Rite consistory, Raper commandery No. 1, Blue lodge No. 52 of Westport and the Indianapolis Elks lodge. Other officers elected are: Carl B. Schey, chief justice; Wilbur Foster. master of ceremonies; Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, venerable prophet; Charles Brautlgan, treasurer; H. Varle Wilson, secretary, and Oliver R. Wald, trustee.

FOX PLAYS IN ROLE RIVALING HIS THRILLERS Real Life Outstrips Reel Features for Magnate of Cinema. CRUSHED BY WALL ST. Battler From Boyhood to Fight Last Ditch Duel for Control. BY GENE COHN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK. Jan. 28.—William Fox, who has put his o. k. on thousands of thrilling cinema plots, has lived to find himself cast in a drama which his boldest scenario writer would have hesitated to invent. Following the trend of modern times, it is being acted with sound and plenty of fury. Demands are being tossed around that trustees take over the vast Fox holdings, or that a receivership be declared. One of the most spectacular and gigantic collapses in film history is hinted, and, in some sources, openly charged. Leaving to court action what ever may become of the litigation, which slowly has been hemming in the amusement Titan and backing him against the wall, the irony, drama and romance of the closeups and long shots alike remain unchanged.

Like Heroes of Films For Fox, a short, sturdy, humor-ous-eyed, fast-graying man, according to his associates and his own statements, is like the heroes of his most thrilling old-time thrillers. He sees enemies closing in upon him. Money marts, in which he once spoke of in terms of tens of millions, he finds closed to him. The “forces” of Wall Street, even as in his own films, are pictured as remorseless wolves. And so, according to the best traditions, the fight scene is arranged, and a fight there will be, for William Fox always has been a scrapper. Fox is a son of the historic east side. When a child, playing in the streets, he was knocked down by a wagon, so affecting his left arm, that he barely could use it. Asa boy, he took a job in a tailoring establishment, later opening a small shop of his own. With a few hundred dolars in savings, he bought a sort of shooting gallerylantern slide hole-in-the-wall in wall in Brookyn and started his amusement career. Admitance fee was 5 cents and patrons saw pictures that actually had motion. Within five years, Fox had a quarter million dollars and was buying up more theaters. Linked With Tammany It was while in this expansion process, Fox met Big Tim Sullivan and the Manhattan Tammany crowd, for “Big Tim” owned two burlesque houses Fox wanted to acquire. So having a business relationship with the Tammany boys. Fox encountered Winfield Sheehan, who for years has been the production chieftain of the Fox concern—the man who launched some of the elaborate productions which put Fox into “big league” company in the last few years. With many theaters in his control and problems of distribution growing hourly, Fox suddenly switched from the largest of these units to one independent concern of his own and began to fight them. Thus he opened a way to film production and his appearance in big fiance when he started his Fort Lee (N. J,) studios. From this grew all the financial involvements which now hang over his head. Great theater chains had to be organized and purchased, vast expansion program had to be financed; the talking pictures came in.

Can’t Raise Millions So, returning to the closeup, comes the irony of the man who met the day he couldn’t command the mere $35,000,000 needed to meet his short-term notes. And this has been one of the critical points in the litigation which may or may not oust him as chieftain. But, even before the late market crash had started downhill, harsh whispers were floating about and the clouds were gathering on the skyline. Last October Fox entertained a group of newspaper men at his vast Long Island county place. It was the occasion of the twenty-fifth birthday of hi.; film life. The place adjoined his favorite golf course—and Fox, incidentally, has become quite proficient at golf—another of the compensations for his injured arm. He has perfected a one-armed stroke and once made a hole-in-one. Market Engulfs Him Already the market tumble had started. The drama grew tenser. Ho held 660,000 shares of Loew Theater stock —part of an expansion plan; he had bought It at 80 and paid 50 per cent of its value. When it slipped to 45, the call came for millions to “cover.” Then for millions more ready cash went, then properties, and then loans. From every corner came new troubles. Fox turned to the bank3, but money grew tighter. He say* the financial holdout was deliberate. At any rate, first the Class A, and then the Class B, stockholders, moved upon him. urging anew management and claiming mismanagement. Fox finds himself the unwiffing star of the most spectacular drawia of his career.