Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1930 — Page 9

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Practical • Use Found for Buttons BY rSANXEI PAGET 'OooTTight, ;JO. br Style Sources i NEW TORK. Aug. 9.—A distinctly tailored mood is creeping into the season's fashions, which is an amusing element and a refreshing one considering the prolonged emphasis on things feminine. One expression of it is the seeming delight which some designers are taking in the buttoned closing, sometimes allowing this idea to control the design of the costume, whether it be a coat dress, a jacket theme or a blouse or gilet. Beveral of the most advanced designers are employing buttons for their practical uses in fastening the blouse or skirt, rather than in the way of decoration. Double-Breasted Style Back This tendency has brought back the double-breasted feature, a line which it in harmony with the wrapover treatment and the surplice theme, since it gives a distinctly overlapping blouse effect. The fancy for making blouses in the guise of jackets is one of the style diversions which develops the double-breasted motif. A simple straight sports coat, something on the lines of the oldtime Norfolk but without its pleats, is posed over a skirt of equally simple line, but usually in contrasting fabric, so that the double-breasted treatment with its contrasting and fairly large buttons is really the feature of the costume. Tailored Theme Extended That this tailored theme has fur- , ther reach, however, is indicated in its occasional appearance in eye- . ring frocks, where the lace bodice of a dinner gown has the crossed j cut fastenings with four rhinestone i buttons, and adds reverse to give j It a more tailored lilt. It again is seen in the bolero j treatment of evening bodices, even j so light a thing as white chiffon having a double-buttoned brief jacket as a bodice feature.

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BY SISTER MARY NEA Service Writer Watermelon is one- of the most difficult fruits to select. The entire melon family is puzzling, for there are many branches and all have their particular characteristics. Regardless of variety, all melons must have plenty of heat before hey can reach maturity, so the weather conditions throughout the country have much to do with the quality of the fruit. Melons must mature on the vines and they must be ripe when wanted for use. They may ripen after picking without greatly harming the flavor, but full growth must be allowed before harvesting. If one has a trained ear, the timehonored practice of thumping watermelons with knuckles is a reliable test. A full-grown, ripe melon

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has a dull muffled sound when thumped, while a green melon rings with a metallic sharpness. In other words the ripe melon says "plunk” and the' green one says •plink.” Inspect Surface of Melon The color and condition of the surface of a watermelon should be given special attention. If the un-der-side is a pale yellow, lemon or a warm ivory color with the skin a sort of warty roughness, then ripeness is indicated. A warm, yellowish green rather than a bright clear green on the top is desirable. There’s a thin, fllm-like covering all over the surface of a watermelon. When the melon is ripe, this covering will peel off like dry wax if the thumb nail is drawn across it. Often part of a cut melon is purchased. Keep in mind that the flesh should be a deep pink or bright red well out to the rind and that it should have a silver sheen. It should also ue crisp and juicy. Avoid Misshapen Fruit Although misshapen melons should be avoided, the shape of the fruit is of no importance, round or long melons being equally good. The color of the seeds is a matter of the variety of the melon and has little to do with maturity. Large melons usually are more desirable than small ones, but a heavy, small melon is preferable to a lightweight large one. Over-ripe melons are as undesirable as immature ones. These can be detected by the dull appearance of the rind and the large amount of yellow veins through the green surface. Watermelon is always popular served "au naturelle.” but there are innumerable ways of preparing it. Asa cocktail with a nonalcoholic sherry dressing, in a salad, in a sherbet or a frappe, watermelon is refreshing for hot weather meals. Since it is made up chiefly of water, it is of little fuel and adds a minimum of calories to one’s diet. Reunion to Be Held Descendants of Margaret and Joseph Showalter will hold their eighth annual reunion Sunday, Aug. 17. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Stanley, one mile west of Brownsville. E. J. Douthitt is president and Mrs. Estella Showalter is secretary. Gives Luncheon Bridge Mrs. W. M- Fletcher of Chicago, and Mrs. Hershell Samply of Albany, N. Y., who are visiting their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Sanborn, 56 South ftolmcs avenue, were guests of honor at a luncheon bridge party Thursday at the Cynthia Bell tea room. Their aunt. Mrs. Emma Sanborn, Savoy apartments, was hostess Reunion Scheduled Seventh annual reunion of the Pruitt family will be held in Tudor's grove, Ooldwater tourist camp, Hendricks county, Sunday. A basket dinner will be served at noon. A program and business meeting will follow.. Mrs. Ray Pruitt is present.

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PARIS. Aug. 9. AND then the lingerie woman came in. and oh-o-o-o-o, what lovely things she had! And what prices! So Alana ordered a millyun-doll ir night gown, and a billion-dollar deshabille. And then she waited weeks and weeks, you remember? And then it wasn’t right, and then I wrote and nld you all about it?

Well- Dah-ray to the rescue, as usual. I just up and designed the set I illustrated for you today, and we dashed over to another lingerie house and in no time at all there it was in all it s loveliness and tissue papers foldings, and we just expired, in ecstasy—That is. Alena expired, because I was already expired, as it w'ere, and am. And that only reminded me that you. too, could make a French handmade set like this. What, really? You Just bet you could —w'ith Dahray s help! ana ’Nif you don’t bee-leve it. send her "a 2-cent stamp in care of The Times and get her illustrated directions for doing so—you’ll see how easy it is then. French handmade undies grown in your own back yard, as it were! ana ALLOW me to quote from my own article of July, 1926—just for fun. “A CONCERTED effort to stimulate interest in the longer skirts is being made by the Couture, especially of London. This particularly in regard to afternoon and evening gowns and w'raps,” reads a fashion note. “I WOULD like to see the short

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skirt on young girls, on small and slender women, for sports wear, for tailleurs—And nowhere else! For tall women, for statuesque figures, for afternoon wear, for negligees, Jor dinner gowns and formal wear—.he longer skirt, or at least the draped skirt that is both long and ;.hort. Nothing lends more elegance than this long line.” Dahr-lings—WAS I right?!! ana IT is raining cats 'n dawgs 'n little fishes today Paris literally is swimming. Having taxied around j for four hours, I beg to report that I am safely home, albeit a bit damp and mouldy, and we hit only one j other taxi amidships, a bust ip the j rear and skidded into a tree. THAT'S qui'te a mild record for a Paris taxi in the rain! Coming over this fajl? Bring a raincoat —they are fearfully ’spensive here — know, I couldn’t buy one today. nan Au Revoir! / | iCopvrißht. 1930. bv The Associated Newspapers, i P-T GROUP PICNIC SLATED THURSDAY Marlon County Parent-Teacher Association will hold its annual picnic at the home of Mrs. Ruth Maxwell on the Millersville road, Thursday. Mrs. J. L. Murray, new president will hold a board meeting. The program this year will carry out the health plan for children. Each local president has been asked by Mrs Murray to WTite to commissioners for an extra nurse in the county. Homecoming Slated First annual homecoming and picnic of Warren township will be held today in the grove of Warren Central high school at 3:30. Projects of the 4-H Clubs of township i will be shown. Contests will be held. A basket dinner will be served. Parent-Teacher Association of Warren township, farm federation of the township, churches and 4-H clubs are sponsoring the affair. Mrs. Kay Trefz is general chairman. Marriage Takes Place Marriage of Miss Betty Irene Thatcher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thatcher of Mattoon, 111., to William Russell Eba, Ashland, Ky.. took place at 8 Thursday night at the home of Miss Thatcher, 3145 North Illinois street. The bride is a graduate of the nurses’ training school of Methodist hospital. Lawn Social Slated La Velle Gossett Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will give a lawn social tonight at station$ tation and Thirtieth streets.

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Marriage of Mrs. Bernard A. Steinmetz (right), the former Miss Ruth Oeftering, took place Sunday, July 27.

Book Price War Really Fine Service BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON When publishers fall out, readers may smile. The literary world has been upset by the announcement that certain publishing houses will make a drastic cut in the price of all volumes. Books that have been selling at $2 and $2.50 will now be issued for one dollar. Prominent figures in the literary world are having their say about this. They are disagreeing heatedly. Authors have plunged into the arguments and the battle is becoming interesting. The layman knows little about the result of this move upon either the publishing business or the writers. Nor just how the reading public will react to it. We do know this, however, that in many cases the publishers will be rendering a real service by cutting the price to fit the quality of the thing they sell. Pays According to Grade In all other fields of merchandise, one pays according to the grade of the article purchased. A sls dress is not expected to be so fine as a S9O gown. One gets cheap furniture, cheap cars and cheap food for cheap prices. It is only in the book world that we have been obliged to pay the same price for trash as for good literature. This is fair neither to the author nor to the reader. Granting that it may cost as much to print a cheap book, the fact remanis that the purchaser is the one stung. Thousands of books issued today will be extremely overpriced at a dollar. Dear at Quarter Nor am I one to say that there is no place for mediocre books. I know that millions of human beings devour the cheapest with delight. For that I am thankful, because any book, however po<“\ is better than no book at all. But in books, as in everything else, there should be a discrimination made between the shoddy and the genuine article. Kristin Lavransdatter is worth more than aynbodv can afford to pay. “Ex-Hus-band" is dear at a quarter.

State Director Ends Visit to Musical Camp j Mrs. Jessie Gremclspacher,. director of the w’omei and children’s di--1 viison of the state industrial board, ! returned this w'eek from a visit to the national band and orchestra camp at Interlachen, Mich. There W'ere eleven Indiana musicians at the camp- Joseph A. Gremelspacher, music supervisor of the Crawfordsville high school and son of Mrs. Gremelspacher, is one of the camp counsellors. Miss Elizabeth Schw'ier of Judson, Ind., is a counsellor for the girls. There are more than 600 attending from throughout the United States, Alaska and the island possessions. Leading band and orchestra directors, including the famous John Philip Sousa and Walter Damrosch, have been guest conductors at the camp. The course is* eight weeks.

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—Photo by Dexheiraer. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Juhe Eleanor Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ford V. Watson, Muncie, formerly of Indianapolis, to Eugene Woodfin, son- of the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Woodfin, 1443 North Meridian street. The wedding took place Monday. Mr. and Mrs- Woodfin will be at home after Aug- 15, at 4917 Orion avenue.

CHINESE ARMIES MAY UNITE TO COMBAT REDS Noted Jurist Says Warring Will Combine to Fight Common Enemy. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard roreim Editor WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 8. —Face to face with the common peril of a Red army terrorizing central and southern China, the Nationalists of Nanking and the northern Coalitionists of Peking are expected at any time to stop their own war in order to meet the new danger. Such was the statement made before the institute of politics here by ; Judge Liang Yuen-Li of the Shanghai provisional court, internationally known Chinese Jurist high in Nationalist councils. He had no fear that Communism would engulf China, Judge Liang said, despite the capture of important cities and territory. The Communist idea, he declared, is foreign to Chinese social psychology, and the Peking faction as well as the government at Nanking is opposed to the teachings of Moscow. No Red Tinge It is a great mistake, said Judge Liang, to jump at the conclusion that the northern coalition is allied with the Communists or that the Hankow authorities are tinged with red. Such, he asserted, is not the case. Asa matter of fact north and south, Peiping and Nanking, are at war over minor differences of government. “The fact that the northerners have not organized anew government at Peiping despite the presence of the coalition leaders there, and that no more fighting on any of the several fronts has been reported recently, are very significant,” Judge Liang declared“l would not be at all surprised, therefore,” the jurist observed, “if negotiations are going on at this very moment between the Nanking and Peiping leaders with a view to arranging for a general congress of Nationalists at which the two factions might reunite.” Result of Banditry “The present situation in China,” said Dr. George H. Blakeslee of Clark university, chairman of the far-eastern round table, “is the result in part of banditry and in part of genuine Communism. The banditry develops from economic misery and political disturbance. The Communism develops from the entente between the Nationalists and the Communists established back in 1924.” Though the Russians were expelled from the country in 1927 following the Communist-Nationalist break. Dr. Blakeslee asserted, the influence undoubtedly still remains, as events in the Yangtze valley and in south China prove conclusively, Driven underground in 1927, he explained, Chinese Communists now have come to the surface again “in a revolt which is a union of economic distress and Communistic philosophy.” Speaking of the reported establishment pf a Soviet regime south of the Yangtze, General Yakhontoff, former member of the Kerensky cabinet, declared it was not surprising. Over Vast Territory “It is no wonder,” he said, “that under the conditions prevailing in China at the present time, they have succeeded in setting up a Soviet system in a territory inhabited by 30,000,000 people and forming red armies that are terrorizing vast areas.” To the suggestion that many socalled “armies” are made up of mostly bandits. General Yakhontoff replied that while that may well be true, one would need to be blind indeed not to see that they, nevertheless. have political importance. “The alarming events around Changsha and in the Hankow region,” he warned, “are far more serious than the accusations against the omnipotent and omnipresent Bolsheviks would imply. They are a development of the Chinese revolution and undoubtedly reflect what happened in Russia a dozen years ago. It is apt to continue for many years to come.” CITY GARAGE REPAIR WORK IS EXHAUSTED Order Mechanics to Clean Building During Temporary Lull. With not a single repair job on the docket at the municipal garage Friday, Superintendent Jerry Gates ordered mechanics to get busy cleaning up the place. Mechanics were washing windows, oolishing lamps and cleaning up an . 'ccumulation of rubbish in the uilding. “We have 220 pieces of equipment id every one in working order,” ates said. “We cleaned away junk at has been there nine years..” Gates reported to the works board iat 91,100 gallons of gasoline had 'cn used by city equipment for the st seven months of this year. URDER THREAT IS VOICED OVER PHONE ‘olice Squads Watch Residence of Mrs. Bertha Brown. * Your house is spooky. There is a trap in your house and there is going to be a murder there tonight.” A man’s voice made the threat late Friday to Mrs. Bertha Brown of 3650 Fall Creek boulevard. Nervous, Mrs. Brown caused her son, Douglas- Brown, attorney, to ask police protection and squads watched the house during the night. Police blame a joker. BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Arndt Musicians Program Arranged for Christian Park Sunday. Weekly program of the Arndt concert band will be given at 3 Sunday at Christian park under park board auspices. Carl Kunckols will play a saxophone solo and George W. Curtis a baritone solo. “Erminlc,” “Dixie,” “The Prince of Pilsen” and qabes in Toy land” are included in the program.

Hollywood Story COPvgiGHT 1930 g£y SECVtCE he. b ERNEST LYNN# ,

BEGIN HERE TODAY Through a letter that he receives from a friend in New York. DAN RORIMER. Hollywood scenario writer and former New York newspaper man. meets ANNE WINTER, Who has come from Tulsa. Okia.. to try to set extra work. Dan finds her charming and takes a deep interest In her. She learns from him that he works at Continental Pictures. She has worked only one day as an extra herself, but a few days after their meetins she sets extra work ptand Uninyi She meets an extra named MONA MORRISON. and immediately likes her Mona is living in an apartment with EVA HARLEY. and Anne lives alone, and Mona suesests that the three occupy a bunsalow that she and Eva have seen. They do this. Dan learns from Mona that OAfeRY SLOAN, the famous director. actually has notlced Anne and shf mav be given a bit. Dan. not liking Sloan, although he has never actually met him. is a bit apprehensive. gva. who is very bitter and who Dan thinks must have had* experience to make her so. Anne Winter will succeed. But she believes there is little chance for Mona, and less for herself. She tells about some of the oroblems faced by the extras, and their struggle to make a.lit- - ins. and he wonders how they jet along. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER ELEVEN EVA HARLEY smiled. She said she wondered herself. “No one,” she said, “can answer that question, I’m afraid- I’ve done different things; worked in department stores, clerking in busy seasons, and modeling. . . . Last Christmas I got a check from my brotherI told him never to send me any money—but I used it.” It was her own experience, she said, that just when you reached the point of giving up in despair, something happened that held you on; you either got a job or prospects suddenly brightened or someone w'as able to argue you out of your despondency. “Someone like Mona,” she supplemented. Rorimer, she though, would be surprised to learn how' cheaply a girl could live When she had to. “Mona and I were paying only S3O a month for our apartment—for the two of us. We didn’t like it, of course, and we were glad to get out; but it was cheap. “And there are cheaper one, too. It’s something to be thankful for that rents gren’t high. The bungalow costs each one of us only a few more dollars than we were paying before—and we live like human beings now. Anne Winter,” she added, “is a peach. She’s—regular. “Sometimes you drop into a Hollywood bakery shop or grocery store and ask how many calls they get from girls for yesterday’s rolls. Some girls can eat on less than you spend for tips; they get their own breakfast and go without lunch, or buy a milk shake; and they depend a lot on dinner invitations. “Have you met many of them?” Eva asked, and Rorimer shook his head. “Well, if you had you would have learned that some of them are a little hard-boiled about the matter of dates. Ask them to go out in the evening, and you’ll find yourself buying a meal. . . .1 don’t blame them.” “Nor I,” said Rorimer softly. He said: “But who buys the meals for the men?” and he smiled. “They have to live, too.” EVE said, “There’s more than one great lover of the screen today, who used to get his breakfast by stealing milk off Hollywood porches. And some of them can tell you what alleys are for.” “Alleys?” Dan repeated blankly. “Sure. Alleys are places to run up when you beat it out of a restaurant without paying your meal check. That’s something they found out whern they were extras. Did you know that?” Rorimer confessed that he did not. “I had heard stories, of course, but I took them for press agent yarns.” “Well, the true ones are the hardest to believe,” she said, and Dan agreed that that must be so. A moment later Eva gathered her coat about her and pushed back her chair and announced that she must be leaving. “Back to my art,” she said with an unjoyous laugh. “Why don’t you come over soon? I know Anne w'ould like to see you. “Thanks; I will.” He felt like telling her that, since Anne had been unemployed for nearly a week, she might herself have informed him and invited him to call. But that was rather a “young” way of looking at it, he reflected as he pulled Eva’s chair back for her; there was no particular reason for thinking that Anne should turn to him; there w'ere other men in Hollywood. A voice hailed him as they neared the door, and Paul Collier stood uj: at a nearby table, beckoning. “Just the man I’m looking for. • he said. “Dan, I want you to me" Miss Louise Watkins,” and he in clined toward the young woma who sat at his table. “Miss Watkins,” he explained a Rorimer shook hands with her, “i: a high-powered writer for some o our better fan magazines. We were talking about you, Dan.” “I thought I felt uncomfortable,' Dan laughed, and he presentee 11 them both to Eva Harley. “We’re just finishing dessert,’ Collier said, and he urged them to sit down, but Eva said, “No, thanks; I’m afraid I’ll have to get back, but Dan can stay. See you again, Dan, I hope,” she urged, and hurried away. Rorimed dropped into the chair that Collier pulled out for him. Collier informed him that he had come over to watch them put the finishing touches on “Grim Holiday,” and Louise Watkins wanted to know if he minded if she, too, looked on. She was an agreeable sort; rath r plain and with a queer, twisted smile that was strangely like a pout. Dan thought he had seen her somewhere before, md he told her so. “I was over here last week,” she informed him, “interviewing Frederick Atwood. We had lunch together.” “Did he tell you,” Collier asked, “how it felt to be a police reporter?” and Miss Watkins told him not to be sarcastic, because she thought Atwood was “very nice.” “All the women go for him,” Collier said. “The man’s got it.” nun SHE and Collier, Dan learned, both had passes to admit them to the sound stages, and some time later the three of them were watching Collins directing the retaking of one of the final sequences of “Grim Holiday.” Dan found chairs for them, with which they managed to straddle the heavy wires that lay all about. They sat to one side of the camera, wrapped in its heavy “overcoat” to muffle the sound of its mechanism, and they watched the precise movements of the sound crew as they .placed! an overhaul microphone which was to catch the dialogue

between Frederick Atwood and the i feminine lead. ; “This retake is absolutely unnecessary if you ask me,” Dan informed them. "I saw the rushes ! yesterday, and Collins had it just about perfect: but Adamson, the ; studio manager, couldn't see it. He said he wanted Atwood a little more ardent in his love makingsaid that was what Atwood’s public expected from him.” He sighed. “I’m beginning to believe Collins is the only one around here with any brains. Adamson and he went to bat, but Adamson won, of course; he even threatened, so Collins told me, to go right to the producer. “I think Collins is getting out as soon as his contract’s up. He and Adamson hate each other’s"—he stopped and glanced swiftly at Louise Watkins —“intestines,” he finished. Miss Watkins laughed. “It’s all right, Mr. Rorimer,” she said. “We know what you mean, anyway.” Dan saw her raise her hand in greeting to someone and he turned to behold Atwood, who smiled broadly and made his leisurely way toward them. Atwood bowed and remained for a courteous remark or two, but hurried away at Collins’ peremptory call, to join the pretty young actress in front of the camera. The scene was one which permitted some unusual camera effects. The foreground represented the roof of a New York skyscraper. It was night and Atwood and the girl stood beside the guard-rail, looking off across the city. Some distance in the background was another skyscraper in miniature. One could squint at it through half closed eyes and well imagine it was real. It was of the modern “setback” type of architecture, and there w'as a case at the ground level, surmounted by a glittering electric sign. n a RORIMER said. "They’re supposed to have just stepped out of the penthouse apartment on the roof. It’s a swell scene; that building in the background looks like a million dollars In the picture. “I understand it was drawn to exact scale.” He added, with a grim smile: “I think the cameraman and the stage carpenters will be the heroes of this picture.” Collins was rehearsing the actors briefly. Presently he stepped back and looked about him and nodded. “All right, now; silence, everybody,” he said. Someone with a loud voice yelled: “Silence, please!” and a shrill whistle sounded, demanding stillness of every one within possible earshot of the stage. Outside the stage door a red light would burn, barring admittance until the sound-/ recording had ended. The actors began speaking, with Collins watching and listening attentively. Presently the girl hesitated over a word, spoke the wrong one; and Collins said, “Cut!” The girl looked chagrined, but Collins gave her a patient smile. “All right, Mary,” he encouraged her, "try it again. . . . Got it now?’ The girl nodded, and they went through it again, this time without any Interruption. “The way it was originally,” Rorimer informed Collier when the sound-track number had been called and recorded, “Atwood says to her; ‘I think you and I could get along great.’ And the girl says; ‘So do I.’ And then he says; ‘You wouldn’t mind, would you, if I had to pass up N dinner now and then to run out on an east side murder?’ “He’s a police reporter, you see, and the line really had some significance, because that’s how he met the girl, covering a murder story. . . . But Adamson insisted on putting all that blah about love— He stopped abruptly, aware that Paul Collier was grinning at him, and he felt his face go red with embarrassment. Collier unfeelingly said, “Yeah, it’s a great life, isn’t it? How would you like to be covering murders again yourself?” (To Be Continued.)

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GRAFT-RIDDEN TAMMANY TO CLEANHOUGE Mayor Jimmy Walker Acts to Halt Corruption in Administration. BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Cerresnoadent NEW YORK. Aug. Tammany Hall, beset with more charges of offficial corruption among its appointees or friends than at any other time since the days of Bos* Tweed, was viewed by some political experts today as trying to clean house for the November elections. Even Mayor James J. Walker, ordinarily gay, bantering and nonchalant, Is regarded as worried about the state of affairs in Tammany Hall, w’hich put him in office. Os late, he has foresworn his witty speeeches and care-free vacation trips to stay on the job and lecture the heads of city departments on the necessity of conducting an honest administration. Suspends Good Friend As late as Wednesday, it became tile mayor’s duty to suspend his boyhood playmate and !oyal comrade in Tammany, Martin J. Healy, from the position of first deputy commissioner of the department of plants and structures because Healy was under a cloud in an alleged sale of an office. But the man who is assuming the largest role in the present difficulties confronting Tammany is not a member of the organization, nor even a member of the Democratic party, the political faith to which Tammany adheres. Instead, he is the Republican United States district attorney, Charles H. Tuttle, who has been vigorous in the prosecution of such Tammony officials as were charged with violation of federal laws. Seen as Campaign Boon Tuttle’s zeal has been interpreted variously. His friends and Republican supporters contend his action is the natural result of his conscientious performance of his duties. His political opponents contend, however, that the federal attorney is attempting to amass a record that will win for him the Republican nomination for Governor. Estimates of what official corruption In New York in the last three years has cost the taxpayers range from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000. Nofc all of the men who have been convicted, however, were Tammany members. STA TF Al iTisTa LKED IN POLICE RADIO CASE Ogden’s Opinion to Be Sought on County Sharing Burden. Aid of state officials will be sought by city and county authorities in devising legal means for a division of costs of operation of WMDZ, city-owned police radio broadcasting station. Meeting Thursday at city hall, county commissioners and membeis of the board of safety agreed to confer with James M. Ogden, at-torney-general, and Lawrence F’ Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, early next week. County officials, acting on advice of County Attorney Clinton H,! Glvan, announced county financial condition will not permit sharing of 25 per cent of the station’s operating cost. Ogden will be asked for an opinion on the question, it was said. ‘TOO HOT TO ARGUE,’ IS EDICT OF MAYOR SuUivan to Take Vacation After Budget Is Passed. Sweltering heat the last few days is getting “under the collar” of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan the same as other citizens. Although he has stuck to his desk) despite a yen for a cooler climate# the mayor is not allowing callers to. "worry him.” "When folks come in all worked* up over something, I tell them it'a too hot to ar ; rae about anything," Sullivan said. “Most of them agree they are unstrung by the heat and we change the subject.” After the budget for 1931 is tucked safely away by the council themayor may take a few days’ vaca--tion. Suicides After Quarrel Hu ( nilfd Fre*s EATON, Ind., Aug. 9.—A quarrel was blamed for the suicide by shooting of David Courtney. 56, wh<r killed himself shortly after threat--cnlng to do so if his daughter Florence left to keep an engagement with a young man. Florence had just stepped out of the house when the shots were fired.

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