Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 10

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MOTHER SAILS TO AID ACCUSED BEAUTY QUEEN Former Charlotte Nash Never Was Happy in Marriage, Says Parent. By United Press NEW YCfftK, March 20.—Mrs. James R. Nash of St. Louis accompanied by her son, Wesley, was aboard the Aquitania today, bound for Nice, France, to the defense of her daughter, Charlotte NixonNirdllnger, awaiting trial on a charge of killing her husband, Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, Philadelphia theater owner. Just before sailing, Mrs. Nash was informed that depositions from triends in New York, Atlantic City and Philadelphia, who knew of the Nixon-Nirdlingers’ marital affairs, were being forwarded to France on the same liner. “Oh, I’m so grateful,' * the mother of the 26-year-old American beauty contest winner, exclaimed, “for we have nothing, not even a letter which could serve as evidence in Charlotte’s behalf. ’I knew my daughter was miserable. I knew Charlotte feared Nirdiinger. but she didn’t like to write of such things in her letters home.” Threats Are Charged One of the depositions which may have an important bearing on Mrs. Nixon-Nlrdlinger’s case is that of Edgar Allen, Broadway actor, who was a visitor at the Nirdlinger home in Nice last summer. The Allen document was said to contain the statement that he wa" with the Philadelphia theater mai| in Paris when the latter purchased j a gun. Allen was said to have quoted Nirdlinger as repeating to him often that “some day I will kill ’Charley’ sr nobody else will get her.” Mrs. Nash said she planned to remain in Nice until after her daughter’s trial, expected in May. During her stay there she said she intends to take care of the Nirdlinger children, Fred Jr., 3, atad Charlotte, 18 months. Marital Life Unhappy Mrs: Nash said her daughter’s marital life had been unhappy “ever since the day she was married.” “These May and December weddings seldom turn out happly,” she added. “Nirdlinger’s jealousy of my daughter at times rose to the point of insanity. “Upon one occasion my daughter told me he waved a knife and said he would cut her face into ribbons so no one would ever look at her. That was just about a year ago in Atlantic City, where they had gone to spend a few months with the children.’ EDITOR’S HOME BOMBED By United Press CLEVELAND, March 20. The lives of August J. Kurdziel, advertising manager and writer for the Cleveland Polish Daily News and hts family were endangered today by the explosion of a charge of dynamite beneath a window of the bedroom where Kurdziel and his wife were sleeping. None was injured, however.

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Here are the ten girls who make up the third class in The Times’ four contests for golf lessons at the Smith-Nelson golf academy, second floor, Board of Trade building. In the putting group, left to right, are Miss Elizabeth Powell, 3151 Ruckle street; Miss Rosalind E. Pugh, 5301 Central avenue, with putter; Miss Nell Worr&ll, 1126 Park avenue, Apt. 3; Miss Gertrude A. Marlowe, 21 West Sixteenth street, Atp. 11, and Mrs. Grace M. Weaver, 1415 Hamilton avenue.

FRANCES WHITE TOPS NEW BILL AT LYRIC Harry J. Conley, Boob Comedian, Will Be Another Headline Attraction Starting Saturday for Week. A BANNER host of all comedy stage features are announced for the Lyric, starting Saturday. The show is composed of six acts of RKO vaudeville and boasts two distinct headliners. One is Miss Frances White, erstwhile musical comedy star, who pays Indianapolis her first visit in many years. Frances White began her career at the age of 15 and since getting her first “break” has risen steadily and now ranks among the foremost of song comediennes. She has been in the Ziegfeld Follies, “The Midnight Frolics” and several Shubert productions. In her present offering Miss White is said to vary her cycle of songs

with the most ultra-sophisticated characters, but she has to succumb to demand and present her kiddie characters again. Another stellar light of the vaudeville bill is Harry J. Conley, probably one of the best known and funniest “boob” comedians in vaudeville today. Conley is at his best in the comedy characterizations of the backwood wisecracking boy who explores the city for the first time. His old playlet, “Slick as Ever,” has been discarded this season in favor of “A Chip of the Old Block,” in which he uses the like-father like-son idea. A company of four help in the merry making. Among the other features of this show are Don Valerio and the Diaz Sisters in a thrilling wire dancing act; Leon Navara, extemporaneous jokster and musician; Maxine and Bobbie, a boy and his pal, and the Three Rhythm Girls in new steps and taps. “Girls Demand Excitement” is the title of the feature picture which the Lyric management booked especially for the basketball fans who are attending the state tournament here this week end.

It is a collegiate comedy in which is featured a basketball game between boys and girls of a small western college. John Wayne, Virginia Cherrill, Marguerite Churchill, William Janney and Helen Jerome Eddy are featured in the cast of the Fox production. # tt a Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Today” at the Circle, “City Lights” at the Palce, “The Blue Angel” at the Ohio, “Honor Among Lovers” at the Indiana, “East Lynne” at the Apollo, Rin-Tin-Tin at the Lyric, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual. Cop Innocent Aid In Suicide By United Press ROCKLAND, Me., March 26.—Explaining that he wanted to shoot a dog, Charles. A. Mitchell, 52, borrowed a policeman’s revolver and killed himself instead.

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Dick Nelson demonstrates the use of the proper grip to Miss Pugh and others. Left to right, in the driving picture, are Miss Barbara Warim, 4110 North Illinois street; Miss Helen Lavelle, 725 North Tremont avenue; Mrs. Allen t.und, 1408 Broadway, Apt. 4, and Miss Anna Mae Bourne, 2060 North Meridian street. Ray Smith is instructing Miss Lavelle and the others on the advantage of the follow through.

BANKERS THINK WORSTJS OVER Prosperity Is Foreseen by Conference Speakers. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20. Bankers of the middle west are convinced that the storm which caused closing of some 1,300 institutions in the last year is blowing over—and not a little proud of the way they have weathered the gale. “If the average business man had been at the helm,” L. L. Cantley, commissioner of finance for Missouri, told 1,200 bankers attending

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the mid-western bank management conference here, “half the banks in the land would be closed today.” “And,” he added, “if the average politician were in charge, all of them would be closed.” Nearly every speaker at the meeting has told of the coming of a new era of prosperity, prophesying that “the worst is over.” BIDS~ON STAND SLATED Agriculture Board to Receive Offers on New $250,000 Building. Bids for the new $250,000 grandstand to be erected at the state fairground will be received March 30, the state board of agriculture has decided. The stand will be erected ten feet from the track. Present stand is twenty feet and there was some argument for building the stand directly on the race course.

DOCTORS’ GREAT HEADACHE TEST PROVESFLIVVER Patient’s ‘lncurable’ Pain Is Cured; Experiment Must Start Over. By United Press CHICAGO, March 20.—The first great experiment to find a cure for migraine headaches has ended with the champion headache owner disqualified because his headache, while a good one, was not the right kind, after all. After almost three months under constant care of doctors at the University of iftinois research hospital, Theodore Roberts discovered Thursday that his headache was cured and consequently never had been migraine at all. It was a severe blow to him, because it meant losing a SSO a month job of doing nothing. To the doctors it was a blow, because it meant they must start all over again in their experiments. Also, they have spent a lot of time and money, with no results. Disease Is Rare One Roberts was selected early in January from many applicants who said they had "the worst” headaches and were willing to live under constant observation, so the doctors might find the cause, then the cure, for migraine. This disease is a rare and peculiar one. Its victims suffer such severe headaches about every two weeks that they are incapacitated. To find a perfect case of migraine, the research doctors advertised. It was during the height of unemployment and the ad brought many answers. Roberts was selected. Admits He Is Cured * The patient admitted reluctantly Thursday that his headache, whatever kind it was, had yieldted completely to the simple treatment of proper diet, regular sleep, and exercise, and that he “felt fine.” Although convinced that Roberts

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never did have a true case of migraine, the doctors did not ask for their money back or charge him board and room for the weeks he spent at their hospital. It was as much their mistake as his, they decided, that he was given the job. Cops Won’t Break Law for Movie WASHINGTON, March 20. Washington police have refused to stage a liquor chase for the movies on the ground that the required smoke screen to make the scene realistic is in violation of the law.

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HARRY NEW IS ' ELKSJPEAKER Golden Jubilee Program Is Scheduled Tonight. Harry S. New, former post-master-general. will be one of the principal speakers tonight at the fiftieth anniversary and golden jubilee in the Hotel Antlers of* the Indianapolis lodge No. 13 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The order was born in the state and city fifty years ago today. Joseph T. Fanning, past exalted ruler and editor of the Elks’ magazine, will explaine the jubilee with Earl C. Wolf, exalted ruler, giving the lodge greeting. New will speak on “Memories.” Other speakers are J. E. Masters Bruce Campbell, Hubert S. Riley, Thomas L. Hughes. An Auld Lang Syne toast by Harry J. Armstrong will conclude the jubilee festivities. The Congressional library at Washington, has a very rare collection of Persian manuscript dating back to the ninth century.

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