Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1931 — Page 11

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LOVE STARTED • ‘TONY’ CERMAK FOR FORTUNE Went Into Business So He Could Marry: Made Him a Success. Thl* Is lb* third *nd flnl article of * trrlf* on tbc rise of Anton 3. Cermak from Bohemian immifrant to the mayorshin of Chlcaro. BY MERTON T. AKERS, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 10.—From the back of 8n old white horse Anton J. Cermak gained his first impressions of the city he afterward was to head ’•As Dick Whittington went to London, so Cermak came to Chi-cago-afoot, following the natural route from Braidwood, 111., along the canal His first job was that of a “tow boy'* for the street car company. Each morning he rode his old white horse to the Blue Island avenue viaduct. There he spent the days helping to pull the horse cars over the hill. , Continued Ilis Studies Small as his pay was, it is said of Tony that he saved part of it. At night he continued his studies, first to get a general education and later to branch out in the field of law’. Fate in the form of a mine foreman had started him toward Chicago, but romance started him toward business fortune. In the restaurant where he ate he met a milliner, not yet 17 years old. Tony and Mary Horejas had much in common. Both were lonely; both ■worked hard and long hours and both wanted to better their conditions. ■ Acquaintance ripened into romance. Here Tony faced a financial problem. Two couldn't live on his wages, so he cast about for ar> opportunity to make more money. Contracted to Buy Wood Seme one told him that the International Harvester Company was discarding wood that might be used as kindling. Sensing a business opportunity, Cermak contracted to buy the wood for $1 a load. He sold the wood for kindling at $2.30 a load. Later he noted that some of the , pieces were large enough for chair seats, so he graded his loads and sold the larger pieces to a furniture factory for as much as $lB a load. Money the growing business brought in represented opulence to the mine boy. He and Mary Horejas were married the summer he was 21. The home he built for his bride

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CIVIC LEADERS TO MEET NEW COMPANY Governor Leslie Will Welcome Arthur Casey and His Company at English's Saturday Night. PLANS have been completed tqr the official opening ceremonies Saturday night at the English theater in honor of Arthur Casev, j who is to begin his twenty-week summer season of dramatic stock at that time with the play entitled “Apron Strings." City and state officials and other prominent persons have accepted invitations to take part. On behclf of the state, Governor Harry G. Leslie will welcome Arthur Casey and players in a brief, opening talk. The visiting theatrical producer will respond, in turn. James E. Deery, city attorney, fqymerly city court judge, will deliver ! a speech of greeting from the city administration in the absence of Mayor Reginald Sullivan—who is unable i *-

to attend. Both the Governor and Deery will occupy boxes Other persons of note who are to be especially invited guests of Arthur Casey and who will have box parties are; William Fortune, chairman of the local chapter of the American Red Cross; Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, whose party will include Mrs. Booth Tarkington; and also Wallace O. Lee, vice-president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. The opening ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 8:30 p. m. and will close at 8;45 p. m. Radio station WFBM will broadcast the proceedings direct from the theater's stage. William Brown has been chosen as official announcer. Commendatory telegrams of greeting will also be broadcast. These wires have been received from David Belasco. George M. Cohan, Guy Bates Pest, Lee Shubert,- Mayor Monteith of Houston. Tex., and from Victor Miller, mayor of St. Louis, Mo. Casey recently completed similar stock seasons in Houston and St. Louis. u it a CONCERT TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT The following program will be given before members of the was his first investment in real estate. He made many more, buying lots for S2OO and selling for $1,500. By 1910 his fortune had grown until he, with others, organized two banks. Later he added a buiiding and loan business that now ranks as one of the largest in the state. Early in his business career, Cermak had become a Democratic precinct worker and in 1902 he was nominated for the legislature and was elected. He was re-elected in 1905, ’O6 and ’OB. In 1909 he was elected aiderman. There he stayed until 1912 when he won the bailiffship of the municipal court. That Job he held until 1921 when he was elected president of the Cook county board of commissioners. In 1928 Cermak won the Democratic nomination for senator, but was defeated by Senator Otis F. Glenn, the only defeat in his political career.

Southern Club in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock, by Mrs. John Hutchings, contralto, and Miss Consuelo Couchman, soprano and cellist; "Seguidilla," from ’‘Carmen'’ .Bizet Mrs. Hutchings Cello: "I.'ebeslied" Krelsler "Chanson Hebralque" Weiner Miss Couchman "Caro Nome," from "Rigoletto’V....Verdi Miss Couchman ‘The Urn" March "Overtones” Rasbach ‘‘Do You Know My Garden" Wood Mrs. Hutchings "Lovely Celia" Higgins "My Lover Comes on the Ski” Clough-Leighton "Song of the Open” La Forge Miss Couchman "Ave Maria” Schubert Mrs. Hutchings Cello Obligato, Miss Couchman Mrs. S. K Ruick will be at the piano tt n a Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Ten Cents a Dance” at the Circle, “Dishonored” at the Indiana, “Dance Fools, Dance,” at the Palace, “Charlie Chan Carries On” at the Lyric, “Dracula” at the Ohio, ‘TA Connecticut Yankee” at the Apollo, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual.

SPAIN yOTE SUNDAY Monarchists Make Big Showing to Save King, By United Press MADRID, April 10.—'The first stage of Spain's return to constitutional government after almost eight years of dictatorship approached its climax today as campaigns of monarchists and republicans were pushed to a final spurt before Sunday’s municipal elections. The monarchist candidates, whose success in the election will be considered an authoritative indication of the future of King Alfonso and the Spanish throne, have made a brave showing in the preliminary activities. More than 1,000 monarchist candidates already are assured of election to the various city councils because of lack of opposition, as compared to less than half that number of Republicans and Socialists who secured their seats without waiting for the ballot.

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‘GOUGH DROP' HEIR DIVORCED Jack Luden, Screen Actor, Cruel, Wife Charged. By*United Press LOS ANGELES, April 10.—Mrs. Elizabeth S. Luden, former society editor of a Reading (Pa.) newspaper, has been granted divorce from Jacob (Jack) Luden, screen actor, on grounds of cruelty. Superior Judge Joseph P. Sproul. in awarding Mrs. Luden the decree on a cross-complaint, reduced the property settlement under which she had been ,receiving SIOO per week, to $25 per week for two years. Luden had charged his wife with being intimate with other men and with excessive drinking. He is the son of the cough-drop manufacturer. SISTERS _GET_ $230,000 Muncie Women Inherit Estate of Cincinnati Cousin. JBy United Press > MUNCIE, Ind., April 10.—Two aged sisters, one a recluse for more than fifty years, have inherited a fortune of $230,000, due to the death of a cousin in Cincinnati, O. The sisters—Mrs. Louise Rose and Miss Anna Taylor—have lived here in moderate circumstances all their lives. Miss Taylor has been in seclusion since her youth following the death of her father, an Ohio river steamboat captain. The captain. Edwin Corben, fell overboard during a storm and was drowned. Miss Taylor witnessed the accident.

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Big Events of Last Week Flashed on Screen by Universal. *‘Big Stuff” is brought to the screens of city theaters by The : Times-Universal Newsreel, which packs five major news events into one film review, besides presenting several other interesting events. Os chief world interest are the , pictures of the ruined city of I Managua, capital cf Nicaragua, i wiped out by earthquake and fire, j with approximately 2,000 lives lost. | The Times-Universal Newsreel camera plane, says Graham McNamee, star announcer of the National Broadcasting Company, flew from San Salvador at the first flash of the earthquake news, and not only ! was the first one into the stricken ; area, but also the first to bring out i pictures. Closer to home and quite as imf pressive to Americans, perhaps is the funeral at South Bend of Knute Rockne. A vast crowd is seen inside and outside of the church and at the cemetery. President and Mrs. Hoover are the chief actors in an Easter symposium made up of scenes showing them at the sunrise services in Arlington national cemetery and again at the White House annual i egg rolling. ! Mayor Jimmy Walker of New ! York is seen returning to his desk ; in the New York city hall and immediately divine into the vortex of

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WORLD-IS-FLAT CRUSADER ILL Condition of Voliva Feared Serious. By United Press WAUKEGAN. 111., April 10.—Wilbur Glenn Voliva. who says the world is shaped like asaucer, and traveled “around” it recently to prove his theory, was reported seriously ill today at his home in Zion, the religious colony near here, which he heads. His physician refused to comment upon Voliva’s condition, but it was noted the overseer had not appeared in public for ten days. Upon his return in March from the world tour he declared he would continue his outside duties as long as possible. He admitted then he was not well. Acid Threat Alleged BLOOMFIELD, Ind., April 10.— Mrs. Mary Reed alleges in a divorce suit against Russell Reed that he threatened to burn her face with acid and a few months ago while

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