Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1931 — Page 11

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‘RED MENAGE' IS SUBJECT OF LEGION PARLEY Representatives From All States Gather Here for Discussion. The purported “red menace" in the United States was under consideration at American Legion national headquarters here today as preliminary meetings of the legion’s national executive committee opened. The American commission of the legion, a sub-committee of the executive board, opened the attack on the soviet sympathizers as it conMdcred resolutions for strengthening government agencies. The executive committee’s meeting begins Thursday and will continue for two days. Resolutions adopted by the commission today must be approved by the executive body. Business Meeting Thursday Committeemen from forty-nine departments or states, including the District of Columbia, will attend the business meeting beginning Thursday. Other sub-committees of the executive body will meet Wednesday to draft resolutions and reports for presentation at the Thursday meeting. The national employment commission will meet Wednesday. Headed by Howard P. Savage of Chicago, past national commander, the cimmission is expected to recommend a comprehensive and constructive continuance of the legion's campaign to increase employment. A thorough study of causes and corrections will be urged for consideration by the executive board. Canadian Expected David Adler of Fairbanks, Alaska, committeeman, arrived in Indianapolis Monday. It took him longer to travel across Alaska than it did across the United States. He was eleven days on the way here. Several past national commanders, including Hanford MacNider, minister to Canada, are scheduled to attend the meeting. The sessions of the executive committee will be the last of that governing body of the legion until the national convention in Detroit on Sept. 21. CALLS PLEA TO REDUCE WAR DEBTS ‘AFFRONT’ Foreign Demands Target of Bombardment From Senator Davis. By United Pres* COATES VILE, Pa., May 12.—Foreign demands for reduction of war debts and lowering of United States tariffs were characterized today by Senator James P. Davis (Rep., Pa.), as ‘ Vie boldest economic affront j ever offered to our nation or any other nation not in the vassal class." American manufacturers who have established plants in foreign lands also were denounced by Davis. “They have turned their economic guns on our tariff walls,” he said, “in the hope that they may flood our markets with goods made by modem American machinery, manned by underpaid foreign workmen.” The Pennsylvania senator, former secretary of labor, spoke at the dedication of anew veterans’ hospital here. INVITE CITY G. 0. P. TO ANDERSON RALLY Irvington Group Accepts Advances of Eleventh District Party. Second move in the effort to bring about amity and consolidation among various Republican elements in the new Eleventh district is made in the invitation extended to the Irvington Republican Club and other G. O. P. organizations of eastern Marion county to attend a dinner in Anderson May 25, under auspices of the Young Men's Club of that city. The invitation was accepted on behalf of Irvington G. O. P. Club by Bert Morgan, the chairman. Frederick Landis, editor and possible contender for the governorship. will be the principal speaker. QUIZ 4 SUSPECTS IN DRY GOODS ROBBERY Two Negroes In Quartet Linked by Police to Hoidup Monday. Four persons, two of them Negroes, were questioned by police today in connection with robbery of a dry j goods store operated by Jacob \ Yaverowitz, at 2644 North Harding street. They are George Skiles and William Bremblett, 1862 Gent avenue, I suspected as the bandits, and Ben- | jamin King and Nancy Turner,' Negroes, 734 Indiana avenue. Police say an auto King borrowed from his brother was used by the bandits to .escape. In the holdup Monday two men , pointed a gun at Yaverowitz and j took $39 from his pockets and the contents of the cash drawer. POLICE REQUEST 300 WATT RADIO STATION Think WMDZ Needs More Power Than Allotted by Commission. Influence of the safety board to urge retention of at least 300 watts power for WMDZ, police radio station, was asked today by Robert L. Batts, station supervisor. The station now operates on 500 watts, but with the new equipment 300 will give equal service, he said. Wave length on the station will be decreased below receptiveness of commercial receiving sets, he said. The federal radio commission has, ordered the station to reduce power 1 to 200 watts. Batts asked the board to take up the matter with Repre- j sentative Louis Ludlow. Falla Against Stove By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Mav 12.—Mrs. Ann* Buffington, 71, Is in a serious condition after suffering a stroke of paralysis while alone in her home.; She fell against a hot stove and was; severely burned on a shoulder and* the left side of her face.

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CHARGE NEGRO WITH ATTACK Young Mother Beats Off Man’s Advances. Charged with dragging a woman and her 16-months-old baby into his car, attempting to attacl: the woman and robbing her of sl, Gaddis Berry, Negro, 431 West Michigan street, was arrested early today on charges of assault and battery, attempted criminal attack, and robbery. Berry was bound over to the county grand jury on the charges under bonds totaling $4,000. He was remanded to the county jail in lieu of bail. Berry was arrested at his home 1 by police squads after Mrs. Bertha Wayne. 18, of Evansville, gave police the license number of the car into which she was dragged near Washington street and Senate avenue' early today. Mrs. Wayne said she had arrived in the city with her baby, having ridden here on a truck from Evansville. She said she was rapping on the door of a rooming house at 12 South Senate avenue, when the Negro grabbed her and threatened her with a revolver. According to her statement, the Negro drove her and the baby to a deserted section south of the city. He left the baby in the car and fought with Mrs. Wayne. She resisted. and he took the money, she told police. 1 ALIMONY IS GRANTED S4OO a Month Granted for Miss Starke. By United Pres* HOLLYWOOD. May 12.—Pauline Starke, former screen favorite, must manage to live on S4OO a month until her suit for separate maintenance against Jack White, independent film producer, her husband, is concluded. Superior Judge Dudley Valentine ruled. Judge Valentine reduced the former actress’ demands f r om $750 a month at a hearing for temporary alimony. White told the court his income is only $4,000 a year; that he had not worked for eighteen months because of poor health, and that he owes $19,000. DISCOURAGES NEW TAX Hoosier Motor Club Head Warns Move Would Cause Disaster. No political party could sponsoi a proposed federal automobile tax without widespread resentment or disaster at the polls, according to Frank Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor Club. He based his statement on state motor vehicle taxation. In 1930 the state motor vehicle tax was $28.56. with total taxation from that source of $25,015,311. DECIDES LOTTERY CASE Two Negroes Freed; Court Invokes Supreme Court Ruling. A supreme court ruling that baseball tickets by themselves are not lottery devices was invoked in municipal criminal court today whfcn j Judge Clifton R. Cameron dis ; charged two Negroes in whose auto j police found a quantity of the: tickets. He fined one of them. Wii- I liam Wiilard, 501 North California J street. $1 and costs for driving with- 1 out a license. j

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STOCK PLAYERS WIN AT THEIR WATERLOO The Casey Organization Has Intelligently Produced Eugene O'Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude.’ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHAT might have been a Waterloo for the Casey players when they tackled Eugene O'Neill's “Strange Interlude,” has turned out to be a brilliant victory. When this long nine act drama, starting at 5:30 o’clock and including a dinner intermission, was first produced by the New York Theatre Guild it was considered something like “holy dramatic ground.” Maybe “forbidden ground” would be a better expression because it was considered the big producing job of the stage. Nov; comes along the Arthur Casey stock company and in ten days' time the actors not only become nearly letter perfect but a big production is built. | ——

The thing we are interested in in “Strange Interlude’’ at this time —How is the Casey company doing it this week at English's. The Theatre Guild in the past has twice sent us this play as a touring attraction. From a scenic standpoint, the Casey production equals and in sevei’al scenes excels, those of the Guild. Nina Leeds is a character that will always cause a lot of discussion. Miss Frances Dale has intelligently and effectively worked cut the psychology of the character. She is at her best after she gets Nina out of the first two acts. She has made only one mistake in dressing the character and that is in the i third act when she cousss the child- | bearing Nina to wear lounging pajamas. This is a mistake because it causes ! those in the audience to gasp out loud. I firmly believe that the philandering Nina would not have dared to wear that makeup in front of Sam’s mother. The third act is dramatic, essentially so, because here Sam’s mother tells Nina that she must have no children by Sam because insanity ! develops in all offsprings of the I Evans. f And I can’t imagine a pa jamaj clad Nina meeting that situation in such attire. The way that Miss Dale | ages Nina and handles the big i ; scenes with that one exception is j splendid and shows that Miss Dale ; can handle with ease heavy dramatic and emotional roles. She has accomplished a ■.big order when called upon to create Nina in about a week's time. And she has won. Freddie Sherman has played Sam Evans before. He is letter perfect and everything goes splendidly until i Sherman hits the yacht scene. There he loses the realism of the j character. But that does not lessen his triumph. The outstanding piece of work is j done by Will Lloyd as Charles Marsden. Here is big work in a most difficult role. Here is even rare j acting at times. j Others in the cast include Dick ! Elliott, Donald Woods, Jane Wheatjley, Jimmie Bowling (very good); ' Edward Fitzgerald and Edna Severy. j Bill Blair directed and he won | again. , You will never get more for your | money in the theater than this week I at English's where the Casey Players are doing wonders with a big play, at $1.50 top. This play starts promptly at 5:30 o’clock each afternoon this week. e a a FOUR ACTS STOP A snow When four acts out of six stop the show because tire audience showers

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so much applause, then the bill must be way above the average. The four acts which are doing this at the Lyric this week are: Maurice Colleano and family; Miss Flo Lewis, comedienne; the Forum Boys and Bob Robinson with Frances Lee and “Daddy” Cunningham. The Colleano family open as a cabaret act which takes on definite athletic tendencies before it is over. Maurice is a dancing acrobatic comedian and he knows his showmanship. He has ability and above all he knows how to get the laughs through legitimate business. Flo Lewis with her red hair and outlandish attire, uses a toy automobile for a joy ride. She even carries her lunch and roller skates because she declares that she is a walking home girl. Had to give a curtain talk when I was prese \. Just hokum but she knows how to put it over. Bob Robinson carries out the master of ceremonies idea in his own act when he introduces a flute player, a singer and an old acrobat, “Daddy” Cunningham. I suspicion that it is this 72-year-old man that stops the show. The Forum Boys are singers with a novel idea of makeup and when they get out their musical instruments, they are sure winners. Kay and Francis/go in for eccentric musical stuff and comedy. Rexola brothers put the thrills in their roller skating offering. Now at the Lyric. u tt a Other theaters today offer: Brooke Johns at the Indiana, double bill at the Circle, “Young Sinners” at the Apollo, “Dishonored” at the Ohio, and “Shipmates” at the Palace.

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NAB ACCUSED BANDIT HERE IN RAILROAD GAR Police Surround Freight Tram and Arrest Five Men. Surrounding a freight car in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad yards today, eleven police arrested five men, one of whom is wanted in Montezuma, Ind., to face a vehicle theft charge and also is suspected of connection with the robbery of the Clinton State bank several weeks ago. Officers were seeking Albert Kitzmiller, 22, of Oakdale, Md., after Montezuma authorities said he had wrecked a car he is alleged to have stolen and boarded the freight outside the northern Indiana city. In adidtion to Kitzmiller, police arrested Wendel Merideth, 20, of Louisville; Stoy McGrew, 25, of Tacnac, Minn.; John Scalski, 31, of Henrietta. Okla., and Harold Wilberton, 28, of Sunsberry, Pa. All are held on $2,000 vagrancy bonds, but police indicated the four men with Kitzmiller probably were “bumming” on the freight and had no connection with the alleged auto theft. Police and officials of the state bureau of criminal identification indicated Kitzmiller might have been in contact with the bandits that robbed the Clinton bank, although three of them were killed and two others captured in a chase that led into Illinois. In Kitzmiller’s possession was found a money sack of the Newport Citizens State bank. In addition, poliee said, they found several new pocket knives. Police said Kitzmiller also had a letter from his brother and the contents of it indicated he is wanted in a Maryland city on a robbery charge. LOAN LOOBY TOPIC Finance Firm Chiefs to Meet Here. Success of the small loan lobby in keeping the 1931 legislature from cutting down the per cent legal rate will be discussed at the opening session of the Indiana Association of Personal Finance Companies Wednesday at the Claypool. W. B. Nichols, president of the association, is scheduled to talk on “Some Interesting Facts About the 1931 Legislature.” Other Wednesday speakers include Ray D. Everson, managing editor of the Indianapolis News; Charles R. Parker, supervisor of the personal loan division of the state banking department, and Francis L. Thompson, Chicago. W. Frank Persons. Washington, executive vice-president of the American Association of Personal Finance Companies, will be principal speaker at the banquet Wednesday night. The program continues through Thursday. Fire Truck Speed Cut B it Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., May 12. Thirty miles an hour is the speed limit set on fire department equipment here by Chief Ed Burway.

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The Indianapolis police department's “most eligible bachelor” has kicked over the traces. The longing looks of damsels who have erred, traffickly speaking, will be directed on barren ground now that Captain Lewis Johnson of the traffic department is.a husband of six days. When Johnson walked into roll call room this morning, he found the place decorated with flowers and some intimate objects of married life and parenthood. As he stepped over the threshold he stumbled over a baby carriage and a long childish wail—with a touch of bass —resounded in the room. So, all Johnson could do was push the buggy through the line of police officers to the other end of

JUNK ‘FENCES’ ARE TARGET OF POLICE

Efforts to block disposal of stolen goods through unlicensed junk dealers in Indianapolis were made today by Captain Otto Ray, city license inspector. Ray, in a letter to City Controller William L. Elder, pointed out the inability of police to check unlicensed dealers. He said that only seventeen of the fifty dealers in the city are licensed and there is no clear definition in the city code of the little “junk dealer.” Working with the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Herbert Spencer,

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the room while Sergeant Tony Sweeney put up the cry of the newborn babe. But Johnson had been tipped off. He frankly admitted he and Miss Madeline Woods were married quietly at Greenfield last Wednesday and are at home at the SpinkArms. Reaching under his coat, he pulled forth boxes of cigars and demanded “Who got fooled, boys, you or me?” When Johnson left headquarters he found his car decorated with flowers and signs, the messages conveying the general idea that he was somewhat of a sap for overthrowing single blessedness.

assistant city attorney, today was preparing a legal definition of the term and it is expected any one advertising as a junk dealer will come under scrutiny of the license division. The real estate board is interested in view of the large amount of vandalism on properties and officials say the property is “fenced” through junk dealers and can not be traced. Ray said licensed dealers have been informed to buy only from licensed peddlers or owners of the goods.

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DOUBLE LIFE BARED. CHARITY WORKER FLEES Kansas City Man Branded Thief: Deficit May Be $6,000. Bit United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 12. Termed by police a "betrayer of the trust of widows and children who are aided by the city's charity fund." W. R. Bellamy was believed today to have taken refuge in Canada. The man whose strange double life was revealed after he tried to cash a $2,500 warrant belonging to the allied charities, of which he was an accountant, was sought on charges of embezzlement. Bellamy .tried to realize on the warrant to purchase a diamond ring for his fiancee. Mrs. Betty Sinclair. Advised that its validity must be confirmed, he left the ’ store and the city. In his hotel room, police found a bank book showing deposits of $1,500 for March, a closet containing several bottles of alcohol and ginger ale. five suits of clothes, six hats and elaborate ties and shirts. The quest for the charities worker. also choir director in a church, was directed northward by a telegram to Mrs. Sinclair which said: “My fault. You have been misled. Protect yourself from more unpleasantness on my account by moving. I am sunk. Goodby to you and all I love." It was sent from Detroit. The couple was to be married next month. Mrs. Sinclair said. Bellamy rose to the position of trusted employe of the Allied Chanties and church leader from that of a destitute wanderer. Officials of the Allied Charities said the deficit might exceed $6,000.

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