Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1931 — Page 3

MAY 18, 1931.

STARS SOB AT LAST RITES FOR OAVIDBELASCO Simple Services in Gotham Synagog Attended by 5,000. BY HARRY FERGUSON United Pres* Stiff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 18.—David Belasco was burled Sunday by friends and fellow workers in the theatrical profession who said of him that "he was the interpreter to the American people of their own emotions.” They praised him as a man who had—perhaps more than he himself knew—helped to mold American thought; a man who fed the nation's eagerness for entertainment by producing plays within the wide range that lies between “The Girl of the Golden West” and “It’s a •Wise Child.” They praised the technical perfection he brought to every production with which he was associated, no matter how shoddy the material; and they lauded him for his seven-ty-six years of labor which ended, in the midst of many new plans, on his deathbed Thursday. 5,000 at Synagog Five thousand persons were in and around the Central Synagog where unpretentious ceremonies were held. They included Lenore Ulric, the vivid, black-haired actress whom Belasco raised to a pre-eminent place in the theater by giving her such vehicles as "Lulu Belle” and “Mima.” Mayor James J. Walker, an intimate friend of the producer, was there; so was Edward Childs Carpenter, who wrote many of Belasco’s successes; so were Lee Shubert and George M. Cohan, Belasco’s rivals in the theater, but his close friends in the outside world. Cantor Isidore Wemstock chanted two hymns, and then there was a Silence broken only by restrained sobs from the congregation. Miss Ulric dabbled at her eyes with a handkerchief, and her husband, Sidney Blackmer, slipped his arm around her. Rabbi Jonah A. Wise delivered a brief eulogy, telling how Belasco, a Spanish Jew whose ancestors were the Velascos of Barcelona a,nd whose name somehow became anglicized to Belasco, was ardent in the Hebrew faith. Buried Near Daughter The chief eulogy was delivered by Edward Royle, the playwright “Actors and playwrights,” he said, "knew him well, and I believe an actor considered himself a success when he could say; ‘Btfiasco sent for me today.’ “For myself, I can only say: Farewell, David, my friend, until we meet again.” An organ pealed the funeral song, and the procession, led by Mrs. Morris Gest, Eelasco’s daughter, wound slowly out of the synagogue. Burial was in Ahawath Chesed cemetery, Brooklyn, where Belasco’s other daughter is buried in a tomb in which a flame burns perpetually, because, when a child, she was afraid of the dark. HOLD LAST RITES FOR MANAGER AT PLANT Howard J. Mehl, Diamond Chain Chief, Succumbs at Home. Funeral services for Howard J. Mehl, 43, of 701 North Rochester avenue, traffic manager of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, were held this afternoon at the home. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Mehl died early Sunday at his home. Death was due to heart disease. He had been connected with the manufacturing company for twentyfive years. He was a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men and Indianapolis Traffic Club. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Lelia Agnes Mehl; three daughters, Miss Thelma Mehl, Miss Elizabeth Mehl and Miss Mildred Mehl; three sons, Howard Lee Mehl, Donald Mehl and Gilbert Mehl; two brothers, Edward Mehl and Robert Mehl, and a sister, Mrs. Florence Patternon, all of Indianapolis, TWO MEN ARE KNIFED Negroes Wounded Seriously In Battles; One Assailant Sought. Two Negroes were wounded seriously Sunday in knife battles. James Jackson, 33, of 500 Indiana avenue, was slashed seven times and is held in the city hospital detention ward on drunkenness charges. His assailant is sought. Police arrested William Haddox, Negro, of Norwood, after he is alleged to have stabbed Sylvester Warren, Negro. 1304 East Pratt street in the abdomen. Warren is in serious condition at the city hospital. BANDIT WOUNDS COP Youth Captured After Gun Battle; Detective’s Condition Serious. By United Press BATTLE CREEK, Mich.. May 18. —Detective Daniel Holt, 35, was in a serious condition today from a bullet wound suffered in a gun battle with a youthful bandit whom he tried to arrest. The gunman, Glenn S. Forbes, 22, of Kansas City, Mo., was captured by Holton's companion, Detective Lloyd Imhoff. Five to Be Deported By Times Sped jJ FT. WAYNE, Ind.. May 18.—The United States bureau of immigra- 1 tion has ordered deportation of five persons in custody here, including Henry Stoefif, local wrestler and wrestling promoter. He entered the country illegally. He will be sent to Bulgaria. The others to be deported are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rommel end two children, declared to be public charges. Fractures Skull in Fall Charles Carol, 65, of 118 West Walnut street, is in serious condition today at the city hospital, suffering fropi skull fracture sustained when he fell down stairs at his residence Sunday. Police said he had been! drinking.

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Uppei Phone (left to right)—Miss Gertrude Marlowe, 21 West Sixteenth street, Apartment 11; Miss Helen Lavelle, 725 North Tremont avenue, and Mrs. Lois Johnson, 601 North Arlington avenue. Lower (left to right)—Mrs. Grace Weaver, 1415 North Hamilton avenue; Mrs. Lois Johnson; Mrs. Myrtle Lamkin, 812 North Campbell avenue; Miss Wilma Lee Taflinger, 1514 East Twelfth street, and Miss Anna Mae Bourne, 1550 Ashland avenue.

Three young women tied for the championship of The Times free golf lesson classes in a nine-hole tournament at Sarah Shank municipal course Sunday. In the playoff Miss Helen Lavelle was eliminated. Mrs. Lois Johnson and

YEGGS BREAK INTO CHURCH; LOOT SAFE

Week-End Booty of Crooks Is Light, Police Report. Yeggs and burglars kept police busy over the week-end, but obtained small loot in their raids, according to reports to authorities today. Battering open a safe in the new North Methodist church early Sunday yeggs obtained $65, according to the Rev. W. W. Wiant, pastor. They had broken into the old church, west of the new structure, on Thirty-eighth street near Meridian street, to obtain tools to open the same. They gained entrance to the new church by smashing several expensive stained glass windows. Surprised while they were using

HIT-RUN DRIVERS FIGURE IN CRASHES

Girl Critically Hurt as Auto Is Crowded Into Ditch. The call of the road lured many motorists on streets and highways in Marion county over the weekend, and drew almost a dozen of them into crashes that injured several persons. Miss Joan Stevenson, 24, of 1700 East Michigan street, is in a critical condition today at Methodist hospital, after a crash near Glenns Valley Sunday night. She was riding vlth Arnold Brackman, 26, of 1730 Union street, whose auto was crowded from the pavement into a ditch, where it plunged eighty feet and overturned. Miss Stevenson suffered a skull frac-

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a torch to burn open a safe in a Kroger grocery, Blake and Michigan streets, Sunday afternoon, yeggs fled with the contents of the safe, amount of which is unknown, but left their burglary tools. They had broken into the store by going through a window in the Duncan tire shop, 821 West Michigan street, removing a window between this store and the used goods store of Virgil Hart, 459 Blake street, which then ransacked and entered the grocery through a small hole between the stores. Other thefts reported: Arthur Bachs. 5445 Winthrop avenue, house looted of $55 and Jewelry valued at $300; Carlin Music Company. 141 East Washington street, loot not determined; Mrs. Maude Johnson. 223 East McCarty street, clothing and jewelry, S7O; Harrison Taylor. Negro. 732 Langsdale avenue. $54; Jake Feld auto accessory store. 115 East New York street, tires. S4B. and Ralph Miers. J 033 Dawson street, taxi driver, robbed by two Negroes. $3.

ture, while Brackman was cut by glass. The other car failed to stop. A hit-and-run motorist struck Floyd Sturges, 16, of 416 East Vermont street, from his bicycle at New Jersey street and Ft. Wayne avenue Sunday. The youth sustained only minor injuries. Also hurt in weekend crashes were: Miss Ruth Branigan. IS. of 1250 South High School road, and Miss Selma Tiefert. 20. of 13 Schiller street, in crash on Nation road near Greenfield Sunday. Miss Jean and Miss Margaret Froehle, Evansville, chest injuries, collision of auto and motorcycle at Prospect and Wright sheets Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Ross. 45. of Millersvilie. head and body injuries, auto collision Sunday at Brookside and Commerce avenues. Miss Alice Middleton, 21. of the Savoy hoteL cut on head, collision at River avenue and McCarty street. Earl Metr, 48. of 824 North East street, cut on head in collision at Sixteenth and Meridian streets.

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SUSPECT LINKED IN BANKMUP Indictment of Third Asked in Oaklandon Case. Police here will seek indictment of a min held in Muncie as the third oandit in the Oakiandon bank robbery several weeks ago. Detective Chief Fred Simon said today. One witness identified him, Simon said, and Indianapolis detectives talked with him Sunday in Muncie. He is Ernest Bronson, alias Dutch Monroe, captured in Detroit on a tip from the underworld that he was involved in the bank jcb. A gun taken from Charles Palmer, one of the bandits, was shown him in Detroit, and he admitted ownership of it. Chief Simon said. However, Bronson told Detroit police, the weapon had been stolen from his auto in Columbus, 0., prior to the robbery. Mrs. John McGinnis, wife of an Oaklandon barber, identified Bronson as the man with whom she talked in Oaklandon the morning of the robbery. Bronson blanched when she pointed him out.

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! Helps Spread Gdod-Will Message Around World

Telephoned Greeting Circles Globe; Celebrated by All Schools. Good will to the world was spread via Indianapolis today when Warren McDermed of 36 North De Quincy street, passed on a telephoned message that circled the globe in celebration of “good will" day in the Governor's office today. Shortly after noon, McDermed received the “good will” message from a youth, Burke Minor, of Columbus. 0., and a few minutes later relayed the message over long distance to Miss Judith Lawson of Frankfort, Kv. The world telephone conversation began in Washington and was zig-zagged across the United States into every state and thence around the world. The day commemorates the first Hague conference w-hich opened May 18, 1899. It is celebrated by schools in all parts of the world. McDermed, a student at Arsenal Technical high school, was selected

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as the receiver and sender cf the relayed message due to his post as president of the Indiana High School Press Association.

NATURAL GAS PLAN FOUGHT Union Men Open Battle Against Proposals. A campaign against introduction of natural gas in Indianapolis as a factor in further unemployment was under way today following action taken by local union representatives Saturday. Union delegates, meeting at the C’.aypool, voted to oppose campaign for natural gas, and named Walter A. Shead, local publicity man, to head a publicity campaign against the project. In addition to the unemployment which would result from lessened use of coal, a resolution adopted points out that by using natural gas the Citizens Gas Company would have little reason to operate its coke ovens, obtained under a ninety-nine-year lease from the old Indianapolis Gas Company, and with ure to operate the plant the lease could be declared abrogated.

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