Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1931 — Page 2

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DELAY LOOMS IN ENFORCING TRAFFIC CODE Tow-In Contract Fails to Reach Council at at Meeting. Further delay In enforcement of the new traffic code amendment was seen today as the result of failure of the ordinance ratifying the tow-in contract, signed recently by the safety board, to reach city council Monday night. Although the new traffic ordinance became effective May 15, police officials had decided to wait until June 1 to enforce it in order to give motorists time to study its provisions. Submission of the tow-in contract ratifying ordinance to City Clerk Henry O. Ooett too late for introduction Monday night will delay action on it until next meeting June 1, when it may be passed under-suspension of rules. Expected Debate Blocked Failure to introduce the ordinance Monday night blocked expected debate on legality of awarding the contract to Indianapolis Motor Inns, Inc., connected with the Test Realty Company interests, which in several respects was held not the lowest bidder. Court action to mandate the city to accept bid of the Indianapolis Auto Service, Inc., which was based on a charge for distance traveled instead of a flat tow-in rate, is being considered by officials of the firm, it was reported. The successful bid was on the basis of $3 for towing in cars impounded sos improper parking and $3.50 for craning in, of which the city will receive $2. Indianapolis Auto Service, Inc., bid $2.75 for either towing or craning in impounded cars. Fire Ordinances Passed The latter company’s bid, it was said, was rejected largely because under schedule A of the contract it offered to tow and crane in wrecked, stolen and kbandoned cars at 2 and 3 cents a mile, with $1 minimum, instead of a flat rate. The successful bid on schedule A was a flat rate of $1.50. Five ordinances were passed by the council, authorizing a $245,000 bond issue to pay obligations dating back to 1928, authorizing purchase of 10,000 tons of coal for city hospital, and transferring funds. Ordinances introduced provided for regulating public eating places, strengthening the present junk dealer law by defining a junk dealer, authorizing sale of two park board playgrounds at Twenty-eighth street and Capitol avenue and at Forty-seventh street and Park avenue, and transferring $12,500 in park funds to the labor fund for completion of the Coffin golf course. ‘TYPICAL’ U. S. FAMILY IS IN INDIANAPOLIS Mr. and Mrs. Merrill J. Brown and Children Named by Magazine. America’s “typical family” is in Indianapolis. Its members are Mr. and Mrs. Merrill J. Brown of 4144 Carrollton avenue, and their daughter, Miss Louise Brown, and son John. The “Browns” were selected today by the American magazine as the nation’s typical family group. Included is a father who golfs, a mother who hates to burn her cooking, a daughter who visits the barber shop, and a son who bewails an appendix operation because it cut down his athletic prowess. The “Browns” have a dog on the family lot—and spirea. They were named after 3,366 questionnaires were sent out in the city by the magazine. SHARES BONUS MONEY WITH JAIL ‘BUDDIES’ Texan Pays Fines for Five Pals Who Were in War With Him. By United Press ‘ TYLER, Tex., May 19.—Ross Kirkland today shared his veteran’s bonus money with five jail mates who had been his buddies in the World war. He was serving a twenty-one-day vagrancy sentence on the county road gang when his $750 bonus check arrived. After paying his fine, sending SSO to his mother, S2OO to a bank to pay off a note, and making a SSO payment on an automobile, he returned to pay off the $250 aggregate fines of his buddies who were sentenced with him. MURDER TRIAL OPENS La Grange County Man Accused in Death of Brother-in-Law. By Times Special LA GRANGE, . Ind., May 19. Charged with the murder of his aged brother-in-law, Jason Swihart, Roy McDonald is on trial in La Grange circuit court here with Special Judge Atkinson presiding . Swihart was found shot to death in his home. It was at first believed a case of suicide. Later an investigation was made by the state bureau of criminal identification and indictment of McDonald resulted. Detention Home TJrged By Times Special EVANSVILE, Ind., May 19.—Declaring Evansville is one of the largest cities without a detention home that she has yet visited. Miss Florence L. Sullivan, field secretary for the National Probation Association, declared such an institution should be erected. Bank to Be Re-Opened By Times Special KINGMAN, Ind., May 19.—The Fountain-Parke State bank, closed March 6, will re-open within the next few days, as a result of a full subscription of a $25,000 stock issue. Under plans for resumption of business, depositors’ claims will be paid in installments, the first, for 10 per cent, to be made about Nov. 1. $12,000 for Poor Aidßilis By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 19.—Appropriation by the Madison county council of $42,000 will permit trustees of seven townships to pay bills poor relief worit the winter, Jk..

BELASCO’S LIFE-A GREAT DRAMA

By the Time He Was 27 He Had Played in 200 Roles

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This is the first of a series of articles relating the drama that was the Use of David Belasco.

BY GILBERT SWAN NEA Service Writer THEY whispered, in more superstitious days that his mother could cast spells and reveal the hidden secrets of the soul. And David Velasco, who became known to the world as David Belasco, was his mother’s child. His birthplace had the perfect Belasco touch. The setting was a basement in old San Francisco; the San Francisco of the bonanza days. Gold that had come so easily to many was being tossed carelessly about by the bonanza kings. Abraham Humphrey Velasco, father of David, lived in a basement! A basement loaned to him by a Samaritan who sympathized with his penniless plight. He had come from London, lured by the fabulous tales of California. A Portuguese Jew, his ancestors had been routed by, the Moors and had settled in England. There Velasco pere had become one of the great clowns of Europe. “The greatest harlequin of London” they had called him. The glamorous tales of America’s new west turned a fineJiarlequin into a petty merchant of San Francisco. Abraham had married a glamorous gypsy girl, who was traveling the English countrysides forecasting fates. A dingy cellar, lighted by thrifty prisms of sun—and a child born eight hours after the mother had been carried ashore from a ship by a doctor who had waded out to get her. David was intrusted to the school of a certain Father Maguire, after a brief course with an Irshman, Patrick Burr by name. usttt THE youthful David was inclined to tuck dime novels beneath his pillow rather than school books. And caught at this, he used the boots worn at the time as a hiding place for his lurid library. Telling of this a coupleof years ago, the white-haired dean of the theater smiled reminiscently and commented: “But that didn’t last long. I ran away with a small circus not long afterward. “I was barely 10 years old when I was doing a sensational bareback trick, jumping through a hoop of

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fire. I was billed on country barns as the boy daredevil. “And today, I would give half the treasures I have collected to possess one of the posters that showed me in that role.” While with the circus, he met a clown whc. billed himself as “Ledo, the Jester.” His name was Kingsley. The itinerant tent show went to South America and young David developed a tropical malady. He could not go on with his act. So the show went on without him. But Ledo, attached to the lad and with no money to help him, stayed behind too. “And begged in the streets so that I might have food and medical help . . . did his clown stunts on the sidewalk until my father came and got me and took me home again. . .Poor Ledo, he died of the same fever later,” related Belasco. a a a HIS appearance upon the stage had been at the age of 5. He was liter? fly carried on by Julia Dean, appearing in “Pizarro.” He came on his own young legs the second time, at the age of 11, when the great Kean gave him a job as the young duke.of York in “Richard III.” David’s father had gone into the Hudson Bay belt, and wound up by being a fairly prosperous fur and tobacco trader. When the family returned to San Francisco, David was able to afford elocution lessons. His teacher was Nellie Holbrook, who later became mother

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1 Under the crude flare of gasoline torches . . . thumping a huge drum to attract a crowd, David Belasco began the career that was to make him the wizard of the theater. Below the favorite portrait or Belasco, at left is Dion Boucicault, playwright and actor of the “blood and thunder” era, with whom Belasco was early associated. At right, the theater which carries his name onward, as it looked, deserted and silent, fifteen minutes after the curtain fell on the historic performance in which Miss Gahagan, last of the. Belasco proteges, carried on while the master lay dead.

of Holbrook Blyrm, one of the Belasco star players. Itching feet drew him to the “new bonanza,” getting under way in Nevada, and he was off with the Piper players, a vagabond troup playing the mining camps. tt a u IN Nevada City he met Dion Boucicault, one of the .greatest of the melodramatists, whose “After Dark” was revived but a couple of years ago to the delight of sophisticated audiences. Boucicault retained the young man as his secretary. And so began an apprenticeship with one of the most prolific scriveners in playwriting history. Meanwhile, his amazing adventures had led him to play every character in “Romeo and Juliet” (except Juliet); to appear in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as, Simon Legree, and, while giving a private elocution performance, to meet the 15-year-old Cecilia Loverich, who was later to become Mrs. David Belasco. By the time he was 2? he had played 200 roles; he became manager of the Baldwin theater in San Francisco—and he met James A. Herne, interested the famous

old timer in a play, “Chums,” which later became “Hearts of Oak,” and made $30,000 “in the sticks.” (To Be Continued.) SUIT IS FILED FOR TRANSFER OF PUPILS Parents Take Court Action Against Superintendent Gladden. Parents of five pupils are seeking to mandate Fred T. Gladden, coun-* ty school superintendent* into issuing transfers to their children in a suit filed Monday afternoon in superior court two. The transfers are sought for five children who entered Washington high school from Wayne township last fall. It is alleged Gladden refuse dto carry out an agreement to grant transfers! Gladden stated he had refused because of an order from the Marion county board of education. Parents who are plaintiffs in the suit are Don Branigin, Samuel C. Culbertson, J. Stephen Fullen, Lynn Reeves and Jesse Cossell, all of Wayne township.

BOY BANDIT IS SHOT WHEN HE GETSJiOMANTIC Woman Wrests Gun From Danville Youth and Wounds Him. Romantic impulses of Darrell Jones, 17, of Danville, Ind., Monday night brought to a close his brief career as a bandit. Jones, who police say. has admitted he is wanted in Danville and Brown's Valley for robberies, is in city hospital detention ward today suffering from a bullet wound inflicted by a woman to whom he attempted to make love. In addition to the statement in connection with the two robberies, Jones, according to police, detailed his activities and those of his companion, who is sought in Indianapolis Monday night. Compromised With Driver Jones told police he had fled Danville and had been “living here and there” in Indianapolis for the last two months. He told how he and the other youth had outlined plans for their “big coup” Monday night, but this failed when the pharmacy they had “spotted” had too many persons in it. Instead they boarded a taxi at Thirty-fourth street and Kenwood avenue, and after a few blocks pointed a gun at Ralph Anderson, 1026 South Sheffield, and demanded his money. When Anderson said he only had $3.50 and was trying to support his wife and three children, Jones said he and his companion compromised and told Anderson to keep the money provided he drove them downtown without charge. Wrested Gun From Him The next appearance of the duo was recorded at 129 North Liberty street, when a Negro maid called police informing them that Mrs. Edith Coleman, of that address, had shot a man. Police captured Jones. Mrs. Coleman identified him and told police he had attempted to force his attentions on her. She said she wrested the gun from his hands and fired when he and his companion fled from the house. Two Senators Invited By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 19.—Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi have been invited to speak here at a July 4 celebration.

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Man Who Pays By Times Special CHICAGO, May 19.—Hugo Meyer, head of the National Motorist Association of Illinois, has been married three times. Wife No. 1 is drawing SI,OOO a month alimony. To liis second wife, he pays SBOO a month. Judge Daniel P. Trude ruled yesterday that Meyer must pay the third wife, Mrs. Dewey Evelyn Meyer, $75 a week temporary alimony pending outcome of her suit for separate maintenance. Meyer’s total alimony payments amount now to $25500 a year. It is a record in Cook county.

M’ALEER HELD SUICIDEVICTIM Ex-Baseball Chief's Death Recently Is Solved. By United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., May 19. James R. McAleer, former president of the Boston Red Sox and major league manager, v who died several weeks ago, was a suclde victim, it was revealed today. McAleer’s death, which, at the time, was ascribed to an Illness following an operation, resulted from “gunshot wounds” self-inflicted in the head, according to a certificate signed by Coroner M. E. Hayes. The record showed the victim shot himself April 28 and died the following day. The certificate was signed May 2 and filed with the board of health, which disclosed the cause of death today to newspaper men. McAleer underwent an operation six months ago and had been in ill health since, a condition which was attributed by his physicians and members of his family as responsible for his death. McAleer, who was 65, was one of the founders of the American League. LOOTS PLANT OFFICES Burglar Hauls Equipment Away in Company’s Truck. The burglar who ransacked the office of the Hoosier Box Manufacturing Company, 212 Leeds avenue, does things in a big way. He stole a typewriter.and adding machine, valued at S6O, loaded them into a two-ton truck and drove away. The truck is valued at S4OO.

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