Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1931 — Page 5

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BANDITS FORCE AUTO TO STOP; BLACKJACK MAN Slug Motorist and Rob Him and Woman: Two Rings Are Taken, Om A. Dart, 40, of Franklin, Ind., was hit. on the head with a blackjack by bandits early today after they had forced his car to the 6ide of the road and robbed him of $9, he told police Miss Lula Perry, 28, of 1403 South Meridian street, with whom he was returning from Martinsville, was forced to enter the bandit car where she was robbed of 32.50 and two rings, she said. The holdup occurred on Center Church road, one mile west of Harding street. After robbing and striking Dart, the bandits forced him to run through a field. Deputy sheriffs found $lB in bills, which the bandits missed, in the field. Ted Gibson, 18, Negro. 617 North East street, is held by police following his arrest early today after hi is alleged to have attempted to start a car owned by Lee Oldfield, 106 West North street, Apt. 16, at Illinois and North streets. Gibson was captured by D. B. Bramblett, city fireman. Charles Brown, 30, Negro, 1108 East Thirteenth street, was cut on the face and neck in an altercation over a “craps” game Monday with a Negro, Brown said was known as •Joe Robinson. Brown was taken to city hospital. John Kantner, 509 Arbor avenue, reported a pickpocket stole $3 from his pocket on a street car Monday. Five Negroes found in an automobile reported stolen by B. W. Karnes, R. R. 9, Box 408, were arrested by police. Clarence Russell, 24, 2405 Shriver avenue, was charged with vehicle taking. The others, Wilbur Lear, 25, of 2350 Indianapolis avenue; Jesse King, 19, of 2413 Barnes avenue; Murray Blackmore, 20, of 2343 Northwestern avenue, and Willie Vaughan, 1123 North Missouri street, were charged with vagrancy', HOSPITAL RECEIVES ANONYMOUS DONATION Gift May Supply Infantile Paralysis Treatment Pool. Receipt of an anonymous cash „ift of $13,500 by the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children may enable hospital authorities to provide a hydrotherapy pool fbr treating infantile paralysis, it was announced today. Following acknowledgment o£ the gift, the joint executive committee considered plans for the pool at a meeting Monday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. No reservation for its use was named by the donor. Nearly one-fourth of the children admitted to the crippled children’s wards suffer from infantile paralysis, it is said, and a pool would facilitate the treatment of the disease, JAMES P. BAKER IS I. U.’S OLDEST GRAD City Attorney, 86, Graduated From State School in 1866. With the death of J. D. Alexander of Owensburg, the distinction of being the oldest living graduate of Indiana university falls to James P. Baker, 86, of 4421 North Illinois street, retired attorney. Mr. Alexander was a member of the class of 1861 and Baker of the class of 1866. He says that as far as he knows he is the only lining member of Iris graduating class. “The class was small because the Civil war was in progress at the time I attended the university,” he said. He began the practice of law .in this city in 1868 and retired in 1921. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. CALIFORNIA ‘RED FLAG’ LAW TARGET OF SUIT Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Woman Convicted Under Statute* By United Press WASHINGTON, March 3.—The Supreme court Monday decided to hear a - jument on the appeal of Yetta Stromberg which questions the validity of the California “red flag” law. Mrs. Stromberg was convicted in a San Bernardino county court of being a member of a radical organization which displayed the red flag and was sentenced to prison under the state law. She asked to have her conviction reversed and the law declared unconstitutional. Arguments were set for April 13.

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DOOLEY WINS WITH HIS QUIET COMEDY The Billy Purl Act Is Filled With Splendid Dancing Teams and a Corking Good Musical Act. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. ABOUT as quiet a comedian that we have on the stage is Jed Dooley and his companion in fun, Audrey Evans. Here is a man who knows the value of material and he creates his own material and then dresses it up in his quiet manner of delivery. Dooley knows how to keep his audience interested while he is thinking. He talks about all the time and he has something to say. His idea of being a musician is just as funny. He says that he uses black curtains as drops because if his act flops he is prepared. You will find Dooley a refreshing comedian with a wealth of comedy material and an honest-to-gcodness method of delivery. He is a showman who is

not handicapped with weak material. I advise you to see this man. Axel Christensen is a good pianist with a well developed comedy

sense which never ruins his melodies. This season Bill Purl has an act which easily comes under the head of being his best. Excluding a rather amateur beginning and ending, his act is mighty fine entertainment. This act alone runs about an hour and it is a clever revue. The three

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think the name of the team is Harvey, Stanley and Harvey, are wonders. Here is some finely executed hoofing. Purl is mighty wise to play up these boys as he does. ’ Another knockout team in this act is Ford and Van, two musicians on violin, guitar, banjo and the like. They are popular over the air and their hill-biliie music in this act stops the show cold. Fine act. Purl has a clever way of putting on little revue sketches. His scenery idea is new and clever. And the material is good. Purl also has a girl band and a dancing chorus of girls. Comes under the head of a mighty good act. I missed Pat and Willa LaVolla, the opening act. I was late. The movie is Charles Farrell in “Body and Soul.” Now at the Lyric. Other theaters today offer “Millie” at the Indiana, “My Past” at the Apollo, “Reaching for the Moon” at the Palace, “Scandal Sheet” at the Circle, “Ex-Flame” at the Ohio, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual. Fund Not Subject to Tax By United Press WASHINGTON, March 3.—The supreme court Monday held that the trust fund created by Nettie Fowler McCormick of Chicago in 1918, consisting of shares of stock in the International Harvester Company are not subject to the federal estate tax. At the time of Mrs. McCormick’s death the trust fund was valued at $7,399,306.

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By United Press The house of representatives in the 1881 legislature was inclined to be charitable toward the Speaker of the house, but the senate was more conservative. A bill was introduced and passed in the house providing for an increase in the Speaker’s salary of from $3 a day to $lO. Senators frowned upon the extravagance, however, and reduced the proposed salary to $8 a day. This amendment was grudgingly concurred in by the representatives after the bill was sent to conference committee. A salary increase for the Speaker resulted also in an increase for the president pro tem. of the senate, a position held by the Lieutenant Governor, as the statutes provide that the two positions shall be paid an equal amount. In later years the increase to $lO was effected and in the 1931 session, the Speaker and the president of the senate received sl2 a day and members of both houses received $lO a day. DIES TO SAVE FINERY Chorus Girl Rushes Back Into Blazing Theater for Clothes; Killed* By United Press MEXICO CITY, March 3.—A chorus girl, clad in the flimsy, spangled costume she wore on the stage, risked and lost her life in an effort to save her street clothes from the fire which destroyed the ancient Theater Principal. She was one of eight victims of the blaze in the center of the capital. Carmen Velasco, a chorus girl, was one of the first to reach safety in the street. Witnesses said she suddenly turned and started back into the burning theater to save her meager possessions, particularly her street clothes. She was unable to get out again.

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PRINCESS OR PAUPER? QUERY TO HIGH COURT If Plea Is Not Upheld, Woman May Become Homeless Begger. By United Press LONDON, March 3.—The highest court of the British empire was asked today to write “a happy ending” to an unusual story of far eastern romance by declaring Ranee Chattra Kumari Devi to be an Indian princess rather than a penniless beggar. The judicial committee of tho privy council heard the appeal of the ranee for reversal of a decision of the Indian courts awarding the vast estate of her late husband, the wealthy rajah of Ramnagar, to an adopted son, Mohan Bikram. The rajah had made two wills, one in favor of the ranee and an earlier one in favor of Mohan Bik-

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ram. The Indian courts upheld the claims of the adopted son, but the ranee appealed to the privy council committee for reversal. A few years ago, the ranee was the youngest and favored of the four wives of the rajah of Ramnagar. She counted her silken, shimmering gowns by the score. The moet precious jewels in the world were showered upon her by the rajah, who provided her with quarters surpassing even her ’ ildest dreams. The princess lived each day anew page of splendor. Then came tragedy in the death of the rajah, who had carried his love for the princess to the grave. His will made her the possessor of all his wealth, and the ruler of his kingdom. Peace was maintained under her guiding hand until the adopted son of the rajah, Mohan Bikram, distantly connected with the royal, house of Nepal, from which the late rajah had descended, sought control of the estates. He brought action in the Indian courts, revealed he had been adopt- I ed in 1901 and the rajah had made a will in his favor. The ranee, however, opposed the action and showed a later will made in her favor. The Indian courts decided the

adopted son was the legal heir. A terrorist campaign against the princess was begun. On two occasions she was harried by dacoits who were discovered hiding beneath the walls of the house in which she lived. On another occasion while riding in a railway coach a bomb was thrown at her. Four persons were injured but the ranee escaped. Humiliated in the eyes of her people, shorn of her wealth and power and threatened by assassins, she fled to England. Here she engaged probably the greatest lawyer of the British nation and one of the best in the

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peal, she will return to her people who love her. But if she falls, she will have no more money than a street beggar and never can return home.” Give Carfare by Auto Thieves By United Press CHICAGO. March 3. When Joseph Tablik informed two robber* that he had no money, they took ) s automobile and gave him 25 cents for carfare to get home; then left him with the admonition to “be careful with the 25 cents.”