Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1930 — Page 9

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WAR NEARER AS BRITAIN’S POWER WANES Tight Little Isle Is Losing Influence for Peace, Due to Dominions’ Stand. WORLD LOOKS TO U. S. Europe Is Alive to Danger, But Hands of Nations Are Tied. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scrlopo-Howard Foreien F.ditor WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.—Can—and will—the United States act to head off the new World war which H. G. Wells, who more than once has torn the veil from the future, predicts may come in the next two years? Such Is the situation. Wells told the National Council for the Prevention of War, that any little “accident" would be sufficient to plunge mankind into another terrible conflict, because, he said, war prevention agencies are inefficient. The war offices, he warned, are all ready, but peace organizations are not, In a crisis, they would not be effective. All they coul ' do is sit and talk- . The tragedy of the tiling, according to diplomats here, frank enough to admit the truth, is that feurope is fully alive to the danger, but as one country is as much involved as another, none of them is in position to head off the peril. Great Britain Slipping Great Britain, whose might for more than a century has been the greatest factor for peace Europe has had, is slipping. Four years ago, at the imperial conference, and again this year, the dominions made it crystal clear that they are, fact, as independent of the mother country as the United States. Even the remaining silken thread of sentiment, all that now binds Britain and her dominions, may be cut whenever a dominion cares to do so. The right of secession is granted. t The little island of England, Scotland, and Wales, therefore, now is left alone hi a seething section of the map, face to face with whatever the future may hold. The dominions may come to its aid and they may not; They will decide, each for itself, when the crisis comes. The chancelleries of continental Europe are fully aware of this state of affairs and Britain's prestige suffers accordingly. Her voice still is respected when she lifts it at conferences, but it no longer has the power of veto it once had. Has Troubles at Home Furthermore, Britain’s once titanic strength is being drained by troubles of her own. Unemployment and economic depression are a menace at home and difficulties with her overseas possessions are imperiling her abroad. Itew sane Englishmen ever expect to see the pacification of India, where more than 300,000,000 natives are in revolt, and some are convinced that before the last word is said Soviet Russia and Britain will come to grips. Alarmed by what they regard as the waning power of Britain, French statesmen are preaching the necessity of a stronger France. Reports from Paris say that former President Poincare, fiercest nationalist of them all, is likely to become prime minister soon, replacing Premier Tardieu, himself a Poincare disciple. Will Stir Strife Tills only can add to the general uneasiness, for certainly there will be repercussions in Germany, Italy, Poland, the Balkans and elsewhere. As Europe glowers and Britain’s power wanes, the strength of the United States continues to increase. Richest and, potentially, the most powerful nation on earth, aloof from old world intrigue, which men like Wells say soon will end in war, will America step in and swing the balance in favor of peace? Or will she remain on the sidelines and let nature take its course?

PLEDGES STEADY WAR TO END COFFINISM We're Going to Purge Statehousc Too,’ Says Woman Speaker. “We women are going forward with a firm determination to finish our job, not only by cleaning out the courthouse, but also the statehouse," Mrs. John Corwin asserted at a meeting of women in county Democratic headquarters Monday. “The voters of Marion county began a drive against Coffinism two years ago with the unseating of Ralph Updike and the election of Louis Ludlow to congress,” Mrs. Corwin said. “The next smashing blow was struck when Coffinism was driven from the city hall and the school city. And the women of Marion county, deserve a great share of the credit for these two victories for clean government." CHURCH GROUP TO MEET Council of Religious Education in Session Tonight. Superintendents, pastors and church school workers will attend the annual meeting of the Marion County Council of Religious Education at 7 tonight in the Roberts Park Methodist church. Dr. A. H. Backus, new area leader, will speak. The meeting will be preceded by a supper at 6:15. Arrest Follows Fire Itu Time* Sdwml HAMMOND. Ind.. Oct. 21.—Vlada Georgovich, 38. is in custody following a fire at the Morris hotel, which he operated, and where a loss of $5,000 resulted. Firemen said bedding and furniture in the place had been soaked with kerosene. The hotel is valued at $40,000 and was insured for $28,000.

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CHUCK WIGGINS BACK IN JAIL ‘Hoosier Playboy’ Cleans Out Restaurant. Chuck Wiggins, “the Hoosier playboy,” sometimes hero and often second best participant in many ear-crushing contests in the heavyweight prize ring, was back at his old stand “in solitary” at city prison today. He was arrested at Illinois and Chesapeake streets late Monday night on drunkenness charges after patrons of a restaurant spread in all directions as he “cleaned out the place.” Despite recollection that only a year ago, Wiggins battled a police squad until firemen reserves joined the fray, Motor Policemen Harry Schley, Charles E. Weddle, and Folie Shaw placed him under arrest with little trouble. Docile only until the barred door clanged shut on him at city prison, Chuck fought three fellow prisoners to earn his way into solitary confinement. “Just a little training,” Chuck explained after the melee. His last “training” bout gave him a ticket to the Marion county jail for several weeks. SPEAKS FOR HOOVER Pinchot Claim, However, Is Denied by Davis. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21.—’The name of President Hoover was brought into the bitter gubernatorial fight in Pennsylvania today. Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate, in a noonday speech, at Washington, Pa., told his audience that President Hoover, through James J. Davis, secretary of labor, sent word that he “stands for and desires election of the whole Republican ticket in Pennsylvania.” Davis, as G. O. P. candidate for the United States senate, is Pinchot's running mate on the ticket. Other dispatches, however, quoted Davis as saying Mr. Hoover is neutral and taking no part in the campaign. Estate Exceeds $3,000,000 Bu Times Snprint/ EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 21.-An estate valued at more than $3,000,000 was left by Leslie T. Igleheart, retired miller, who died recently.

Broadway Sparkles With New Life; Stage Stars Back on Job

Richard Bennett Shines as Testy Old Confederate Fire Eater. BY GILBERT SWAN NE.\ Service Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Broadway is pepping up. Familiar names and familiar faces are again to be found in the incandescent lanes. Within a week the theater has weccmed back Richard Bennett and Jane Cowl; has heard the trumpetings of new Gershwin music and cheered three smokinghot music revues; has gone slightly ga-ga over anew found blues singer and .las heard the approaching footfalls of Lenore Ulric and a dozen other favorites. Taking the various events one at a time —Bennett was first to arrive, with a character study that further assures him , a place upon the heights. The Bennett album of portraits has contained the most varied types, ranging from the hard-boiled Jamegan of the film studios to the present old southern colonel. And by virtue of his continued excellence in portraying these diverse characters. Bennett finds himself hailed as the wr-e-v successor of the late Arnold Daly. ; Bennett's latest creation s a julep-drinking. Yankee-hating, testy old codger who can t forget the confederacy and is somewhat of a “professional southerner.”

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“Who’s afraid?" This challenge was given law and order today by Miss Louise Wyrick of It. Wayne, Butler university co-ed, when she was informed that an old Indiana law sets a SSO fine for persons wearing pins of secret societies of which they are not members. Miss Wyrick wears eight fraternity pins in the photo.

Never Mind Indiana’s Old Law, Is Attitude of Butler Girls. BY ARCH STEINEL Co-eds at Butfer university are not bothered by insomnia at the thought that they may be “pinched” and fined SSO for wearing the boy friend’s pledge of heart allegiance. Although an old Indiana law holds them amenable to arrest for wearing fraternity pins, the beauties of Butler are “scofflaws." In turn, fraternities of the school smile leniently on heart pledges made with their pins. “It’s okay with us,” reported officers of the Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Lambda Chi and Delta Tau Delta fraternities, "if they want to wear them.” The Indiana statute holding the wearing of the pins an offense reads: “It shall be unlawful for any persons not a member of a secret society or other organization incorporated under the laws of Indiana ... to wear the badge or emblem of any secret society . . . person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $50.” “It isn’t the law that’s bothering us. It’s some of these pins with doofangle safety catches that don’t always hold,” exclaimed one Titianhaired co-ed.

LUDLOW IS INDORSED. Railroad Brothers Back Congressman for Re-Elections-Confirmation of the indorsement of Louis Ludlow for re-election to congress from the Seventh district by the national legislative representatives of all railroad brotherhoods is contained in a letter sent by Fred H. Fljozdal, national president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. BLACKMAIL ADMITTED Clark’s Hill Youth Given One to Five-Year Reformatory Term. Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 21. A one to five-year sentence in the state reformatory was given William O. Owens, 19, Clarks Hill, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of blackmail in Tippecanoe circuit court here. The youth was arrested after the late J. A. Balfe and J; A. False Sons, Lafayette grocers, had received nine letters demanding money and threatening violence upon failure to comply.

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Broadway's latest overnight favorite—Ethel Merman, “torch song" discovery of “Girl Crazy."

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930

FRIGID WAVE TO KEEP ITS . GRIP ON CITY Mercury Will Stay Below Freezing Tonight, Says Weather Man. SNOW BLOCKADE LIFTED Traffic Again Is Resumed on Drifted Highways of East. Winter's advance guard still held undisputed sway over Indianapolis, and most of the midwest today with temperatures only slightly above the record low marks registered at many government weather observatories Monday. It is improbable they will rise here before Thursday, J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here, said. The center C the cold wave now is over central lowa, and is moving eastward slowly. Temperatures tonight will be slightly below freezing here, somewhat lower in northern Indiana, and on the freezing line along the Ohio river, the bureau’s forecast predicted. Lowest temperature in the state Monday night was 28 degrees, recorded at Ft. Wayne. At 6 a. m. here the mercury stood at 29 degrees. Only the far south and the west coast in the United States escaped the cold wave that blew down from Canada last week. Having passed rapidly across the continent, the storm centered in New York state, where communications were disrupted by the heaviest October snowfall in years. In the north central states there was little snow, but at Chicago the mercury dropped to 24 degrees. Fair skies prevailed almost everywhere the cold penetrated. Fight Through Snow Bit United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Lines of traffic again were moving through parts of the western New York lake shore region today, and a complete re-opening of snow-blocked highways w r as expected before nightfall. Snov/plows and crews of men with shovels, which went to work Sunday morning after the earliest blizzard on record here shut the country in a close grip, had succeeded in opening a double-car lane through the deep snowdrifts between here and Dunkirk. Hundreds Sleep in Jail Hamburg, where hundreds of motorists slept in the jail and fire station, when hotels, rooming houses and private homes were filled, still was isolated from highway traffic, but the snow plows, the natives, and the travelers who volunteered to help, had made such progress against the heavy snow, that highway officials said a road might be expected today. It probably will be days before the piles of snow on either side of the melt. Communication and power lines almost were repaired completely today, and trains again were running on schedule, as far as weather conditions were concerned. Campers Are Freed Thirty young women who were imprisoned at a Y. W. C. A. camp at Farnham, N. Y., by the blizzard returned here Monday night. They left the camp late Monday after three men had dug a trench through three and one-half feet of snow to Farnham, two miles from the camp. The only inconvenience they suffered from the storm was in being late for work, since they had plenty of food, clothing and heat. They were forced to leave their automobiles at the camp until more of the snow melts. Business Man Kills Self Bu Times Spceial GARY, Ind.. Oct, 21.-Orionio Suisini, 47, known to thousands of persons here as a restaurant operator, is dead, a suicide by inhaling gas. Worry over business troubles is believed responsible. A few years ago he was reputed to have had a fortune of SIOO,OOO.

Jane Cowl Wins Converts for Shakespeare With Her Acting. He messes up lives all about him and, while exaggerated almost to comic strip dimensions at times, still makes an elegant caricature. There is plenty of bite in this “solid south.” a a a ALSO Miss Cowl, after floundering about in several more or less ineffectual roles, brings to town a Shakespeare that should make new converts for that neglected gentlemen. Miss Cowl’s “Twelfth Night” is different. It is staged, dressed and acted with a combination of the delicate and the lusty that surely must echo the old Shakespeare spirit. It makes Shakespeare fine fun and it projects the fantastic unrealities. Through it all roams one of the loveliest Violas that the stage has ever seen—Miss Cowl, exquiste to look upon and exquisite in performance. a a a George gershwin having become our national anthem--Ist, any new melody which he may contribute takes on the stature of an event and is awaited by a cheering Manhattan mob. 5

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G. O. P. BIG GUNS TO BOOM ALONG FRONT

Republicans and Democrats -Announce Schedules Covering State. Three national speakers will be used by the Republicans in Indiana this week while the Democrats will be content with the local talent headed by Paul V. McNutt, former national commander of the American Legion. The G. O. F. orators are Edwin P. Morrow, former Governor of Kentucky; Everett Sanders, candidate for representative in congress, who was secretary to President Coolidge, and Leonidas C. Dyer, Missouri representative in congress and author of the anti-lynching bill. Democratic state meetings for the week are: Today—Marion, McNutt: First district Earl Crawford; Franklin, Albert Stump; Anderson, John McFaddin. Wednesday—Brookvllle, McNutt; Connersvllle, Evans Woollen; Tipton, Peters, Walter Meyers and Mrs. Flynn; Rushville, Curtis Shake; First district, Crawford; Shelbyville, Olive B. Lewis. Thursday—C rawford sville, McNutt: Salem, Woollen; South Bend, Myers; First district, Crawford; Sullivan Arthur Greenwood: Berne. L-. Ert Slack; Shelby county, state candidates. Friday—Madison. McNutt; Scottsburg, Woollen; Alexandria, Fred Van Nuys; Tenth district, Crawford: Decatur, the Rev. Carl Hilldebrand: English, Shake; Shelby county, state candidates. Saturday—Newcastle, McNutt: Corydon, Woollen. Sullivan, Myers; Tenth district Crawford; Moreland, Stump; Sullivan, Greenwood. Republican state meetings for the week are; Today—Charles W. Jewett, Rockport; Robinson, Madison; Frederick K. Landis, Ft. Wayne, 7:30 p. m.; Richard Elliott, Bedford; Oswald Ryan. Hope, Bartholomew county; Bush, Spiceland, 7:30 p. m. and John J. Brown Grand View. Wednesday—P urn e 11,. Crawfordsville: Bush. Portland; Emmett F. Branch, Boston; Senator Robinson, Marion; Frederick E. Schortemeler, Connersville; Jewett,

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Princeton; Albert R. Hall, Huntington. 8 p. m.; Brown, Spencer county; Fred Gause, Newcastle. Thursday—Senator Robinson, Newcastle; Senator James E. Watson, Elkhart; Brown, Jasper 8 p. m.; Bush, Mitchell, 8 p. m.; Frederick K. Landis. Lebanon. Friday—Governor W. L. Harding of lowa, South Bend; Fred S. Purnell,, Tipton; Branch, Laporte; Senator Robinson, Shelbyville; Alonzo Lindley, Dale; Homer Elliott, Glennwood; Arthur L. Gilliom. Lake county; George Barnard, Columbus; Attorney-General James M. Ogden. Worthington, 7:30; Edgar D. Bush Third district; Everett Sanders, Elwood, and Brown, Washington, Daviess county. Saturday—Senator Robinson. Wabash; Gilliom, Marion; Brown, Switz City, Spencer county; Lieutenant Governor Bush, Connersville; Everett Sanders, Kokomo; Senator Watson, state candidate tour Lake county.

PRUSSIANS AT ODDS Dissolution of Diet Is Voted Down. Bu United Press BERLIN, Oct. 21.—The Prussian diet, scene of stormy political scenes for the last week, voted 240 to 189 today to defeat a motion for dissolution of the diet. The rwjtion was made by members of the Economic party. The Fascists repeatedly had demanded that the diet be dissolved and new elections held, but Premier Otto Braun, a Socialist, had refused. FIGHT OBSCENE~>IIMS Catholics Launch Drive Against Improper Pictures and Books. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21. A Catholic screen commission to represent the Knights of Coiumbus in a drive against obscene and improper motion pictures, stage productions and literature was in process of formation today with the indorsement of Patrick Cardinal Hays of New York.

Ethel Merman, ‘Torch Song’ Girl, Scores Big Hit for Gershwin. In “Girl Crazy,” Gershwin has crossed the Rockies and written with anew zest; a pace-setting, noisy, breathless sort of score. And in this nsw bit of Gershwinia, wherein only once or twice is one reminded of “Rhapsody in Blue,” there appears one Ethel Merman. This Miss-Merman belongs to a school of blues singing reminiscent of the best of the old Barbary Coast shouters—hardboiled and “low,” with a wail. Two of her songs, “Sam and Delilah” and “I’ve Got Rhythm,” might be included as part of the current talk-of-the-town. U U LAST season it was Libby Holman, who chants in a deeper, more dramatic fashion and, to my way of thinking, is a better artist. Miss Holman returned with “Three’s A Crowd,” from the pen of Howard Rietz, the publicity gent who insists on writing sketches and lyrics. And while she has no song to compare with “Moanin’ Low,” still she has several numbers that will continue to stop the show. And the best travesy, satire and Gilbert and Sullivan sort of thing to be found in town, continues to be revealed in she winter edition i

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A bit of expression here and a tilt to the eyebrow there, is life as it comes from the tip of paintbrushes in the art school of the John Herron Art Institute. Upper Left—Lois Sherrill, secre-tary-treasurer of the school’s junior class, at her easel. Lower Left—Miss lona Johnson (left) and Betty Ferry (right), ready to paint something else besides lips. Upper Right—Officers of the school’s four classes: Bottom Row, Seniors (left to right)—Travis McDaniels, Knightstown, president: Nina Schnaitter, Shelbyville, vice-presi-dent; Rosalie Hirsch, Anderson, secretary-treasurer. Second row, juniors: Francis Howard. West Lafayette, president; Charles Yeager, Indianapolis, vice-president; Lois Sherill, Indianapolis, secretary-treas-urer. Third row, sophomores: Floyd Hopper, West Baden, president; Mary Lee Everson, Crawfordsville, vice-president; lona Johnson, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Fourth row, freshmen: Robert Redding, Whiting, president; Betty Ferry, Columbus, vice-president; Donald Grimes, Greencastle, sec-retary-treasurer.

TRIED IN DEATH OF GIRL CLERK Real Estate Man to Deny Roadside Murder. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. —The strange case of Mary Baker, pretty navy department clerk slain last April and thrown under an Arlington national cemetery culvert, goes before a jury in District of Columbia supreme court today when Herbert M. Campbell is to be tried on a first degree murder charge. Campbell, young Virginia real estate man and the fifth to be arrested in the case, blames his predicament on his desire to draw business to his miniature golf course. He took part in the police search and expressed opinions about the previous suspects, finally producing for another publicity feature a Spanish type revolvei Calvin Goddard, the Chicago ballistics expert, identified it as the one which fired the shots found in Mary Baker's body. Defense experts contend the girl was slain with a more modern American gun, and that the bulletmarkings do not check. Befriended Man Robs Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 21.—Telling H. S. Scott, filling station attendant, that he wished shelter from cold, a man who entered the station covered Scott with a revolver and robbed him of SSO.

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G.O.P. FEARS COUNTY ROUT; CALLSFOR AID State Chairman Rogers Is Drafted as Spellbinder for Candidates. DODGE COFFINISM ISSUE Office Seekers Deny They Are Under Thumb of Party Boss. BY BEN STERN The Republican county committee, desperate over the Nov. 4 election oiftlook, has called Elza O. Rogers, state chairman, to its aid. Abandoning his many important duties at state headquarters. Rogers stumped the county Monday night, speaking at four rallies and uttering a refrain of “Support the President,” “You have a fine ticket,” and “Ignore Democratic mud-slinging." Yet despite this attempt to ignore “Coffinism,” .speaker after speaker referred to the “attempt to identify the candidates with a man who no longer is active in the organization." Even Clyde Robinson, county treasurer, picked by George V. Coffin for county chairman, took up the refrain, at meetings packed with candidates, job holders, and precinct committeemen. Charges Have Effect That the charge of “CofTinism" is hurting was attested by Paul E. Tegarden, Republican candidate for Washington township trustee, who declared at a rally at Forty-second street and Broadway: “Some are falling for the stuff on the radio (charges of Coffinism), and if I was not a loyal Republican I would fall for It, too.” Homer Elliott, former United States district attorney, declared that "Coffinism is just a name. He doesn’t control the entire list of men on the ticket.” However, • Walter O. Pritchard, Coffin candidate for judge of the criminal court; George Winkler. Coffin candidate for re-election as sheriff:, and John Shearer, Coffin candidate for re-election as county commissioner, failed to arise at any of the meetings they attended to disclaim the Coffin yoke. Pritchard “Agrees" Pritchard, who has won the title of “Agreeing Walter," in a short speech said: “I agree with everything that has been said tonight. It is hard to expound my own virtues, but I agree with what the chairman, Delbert Wilmeth, said about me.” Wilmeth had praised Pritchard as ‘able, fearless and conscientious.” Judge James A. Leathers, candidate for re-election to superior court one, joined in the praise session. He declared that all candidates for judges, including himself, were “able, conscientious, peerless, experienced, valuable assets with high standards, dignified, courageous and capable, with splendid records.” Stark Voices Plea A few more embers were laid upon the pyre which consumed modesty by Judson L. Stark, candidate for re-election as prosecutor, who asked if voters were going to “turn me qnd my twenty-two deputies out of office just because we have done our duty?" Stark attacked’ the* hanging of the Coffinism label upon the ticket, and boasted how he, with the aid of his twenty-two deputies, has obtained the conviction of 78-year-old John Bienz, Coffin precinct committeeman, for vote frauds. ACTS FOR EFFICIENCY ON SQUAD CAR RULES Kinney Issues New Orders on Cops Radio Procedure. Orders to squads on emergency -un procedure, designed to produce greater efficiency, were posted at police headquarters today by Police Chief Jerry Kinney. The first squad car on the scene of a holdup, robbery, or other emergency will collect all descriptions and details of the crime and telephone the information immediately to the captain on duty at headquarters, who will broadcast it over WMDZ, police radio station. Other cars on the call will remain spread within a mile around the scene, to pick up this information, the orders detail. Heretofore all cars have gone directly to the source of the call, and as much as twenty minutes consumed collecting data before search or other investigation was begun, according to Chief Kinney.

DEMOCRAT FORECASTS VICTORY IN COUNTY Only Failure to Get Out Vote Will Block Party, Swaim Says. Importance of organization was stressed at a meeting of Marion county Democratic precinct and ward committeemen Monday night at the Claypool. “Only failure of the Democratic organization to function on election day will forestall a complete victory,” declared H. Nathan Swaim, county chairman. The poll books reveal approximately 75,000 persons have been polled Democratic, and If we get out this vote v-e are assured of victory,'* Swaim said. The workers were instructed to furnish all voters with lists of Democratic candidates and ask that they be compared with their Republican opponents. “If they do compare ouiv candidates with those of the oppoa sition on facts there can be no douM of their verdict at the polls,” Swsfl said. M Albert Stump, chairman of speakers’ bureau, presided. Hosier Buys Painting NEWC/STLE, Ind., -Oct, M Arthur L. A}*rs, wealthy ufl operator here, has paint.ng, ‘ P->rt Said, by artist, P. du Gardier.