Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1931 — Page 5
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BARBER JAKE'S AIBS CAUGHT IN 1 SWINDLE PROBE John Factor Continues to Evade Sleuths Who Hope He Will Give Up. By United Press CHICAGO. May 19. While authorities In London and Philadelphia rounded up men charged with helping him swindle middle class Englishmen out of millions of dollars, John (Jake the Barber) Factor continued today to elude detectives, who admitted they hoped he would surrender here and end the international game of hide and seek. Reports that Factor had hired Scarface A1 Capone to protect him from gunmen, who were trying to kidnap him for ransom, caused the detectives to turn their search to known <ang haunts and hideouts. Police, however, believed Factor would surrender, now that it practically has been settled that he can be released on bail. Bail to Be Provided It had been contended Factor could not be released when arrested in this country on the English charges, but his attorneys gained admissions from federal authorities that he might. “Jake the Barber” was said now to be the only one at large of the men sought in connection with the sale of more than $2,000,000 worth of fake oil and mine stocks to clergymen, widows and workmen of the middle class in England. Several men were arraigned Monday in London in connection with the swindle. In Philadelphia, Factor’s partner, Harry Green, began a fight for bail pending his extradition to England. Feud Report Is Denied Federal agents leading the hunt for Factor discounted reports -that he was more afraid of Jack (Legs) Diamond of New’ York than he was of being arrested. Among reports circulated since the hunt began was one that Diamond and Factor had been trying for months to kill each other in a feud which began when Factor refused to repay a “stake” he had secured from the Brooklyn gangster. Federal men said Factor’s activities had involved millions and that he never needed a "stake” from Diamond or any one else. Prince’s Aid Denies Swindle By United Press LONDON, May 19.—An official denial that the prince of Wales ever had any dealings with John (Jack ,the Barber) Factor, a fugitive in Chicago, was issued by Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, controller and treasurer of the prince. NOTARIES TO CEASE REFUNDING GAS TAX Tipton, Kokomo Officials Agree to Bar Unknown Farmers. Notaries public from Tipton and Kokomo appeared before Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, Monday and promised to refrain from approving state gasoline tax refunds for farmers whom they had never seen. Williamson said he will secure an opinion from the attornfey-general regarding the right of farmers to club together and buy gasoline and secure refund on job lots rather than on individual use certificates. He also announced that SIOO,OOO . in delinquent fees have been collected since he assumed office Dec. 1, 1930. LOW DOWN TRICK, MAX Telegram of 530.000 Winning in Lottery Proves Hoax. By United Press NEW YORK. May 19. The solemn face of Max Pincus, an undertaker, was unusually solemn today and bode dno good for one of his fellow employes. Somebody telegraphed Pincus that his lottery ticket had won $30,000 in the Kentucky Derby and requested him to call at the office of Attorney M. Persham and collect. The undertaker engaged a lawyer of his own at a cost of sls when two friends claimed a share in the ticket and threatened suit. Pincus then took his lawyer to Persham’s office to collect and was informed the telegram was a hoax. Fire Damages Sun Station By Science Service WASHINGTON, May 19.—Fire has destroyed the computing room of the Smithsonian institution's astrophysical observatory station on Montezuma mountain, Chile. Asa result its study of the sun’s radiation will be interrupted. What a Bladder Physic Should do. Work on the bladder as castor oil on the bowels. Drive out impurities and excess acids that cause irritation which results in waking up nights, bladder irregularities, leg pains or backache. BUKETS (5 gr. tablets) is a pleasant bladder physic. Get a 25c test box from your druggist. After four days if not relieved go back and get your money. You will feel good after this cleansing and you get your regular sleep. Sold at Hook Drug Stores Advertisement.
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GOLF MAY BECOME DANCE ROUTINE Geography Means Absolutely Nothing to “Professor” Timberg and the Merry Ones With Him. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN GOLF can be expressed in dance time and it remained for Herman Timberg and his son, Herb, to pull that stunt. These two have made a nifty dance novelty out of the golfer and the caddy. Here is smart dance work as well as personality perfection on the part of the younger Timberg. Herman Timberg goes in for an act which some may liken to the nut offering of Olsen and Johnson, but Timoerg uses different methods as well as a different attack. When Olsen and Johnson open their act with noise and gunplay, Timberg opens his with the nuttiest lesson in georgraphy that the stage has ever seen. The comedy is eccentric, but it is done in a quiet manner. The same is true when Timberg starts
his musical part of the act. Miss Audrey Parker does some harmony
w'ork which is different. The thrfe in this stunt stop proceedings. Here is real cleverness. Young Herb comes cn as an eccentric goof who is an authority on Russian steps. Timberg also injects something new when he permits an actor of the old shouting school to give an impersonation of mullet singing a Helen Kane poo-pa-do song. Here is another clever
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bit. A good act with lot of classey hokum. Jess Libonatl is a splendid xylophone player. Here is real playing with no comedy present. And the act stops the show. The Three shades of Brown are fine hoofers. Jackie Collier and sister have a good wire walking act although it gets a slow start. Fields and Georgi have ancient hokum material which was rather half heartedly put over when I was present. The movie is “Six Cylinder Love” with Edward Everett Horton. u ts a LOOKING OVER A NEW COMEDY As far as I am concerned, “Up Pops tlie Devil,” by Albert Haskett, a former member of the Stuart Walker company, and Frances Goodrich, is a poor comedy. It starts out smart as thunder but it takes a decided drop in the second act and trails off to nothing. The first act has some wise cracking remarks and several ultra situations but I had the sneaking impression that so many of the wise cracks and the situations reminded me of a half dozen or more plays. The fact is “Up Pops the Devil” is better acted at least in the first two acts than it deserves. The playwrights seemed to have over strained themselves to be ultra smart and sophisticated. It sure is a light weight as a play. One redeeming feature is that It gives Freddie Sherman a chance to be a comedy souse and he certainly gets the laughs. Dick Elliott plays a dumb drunk in the first act and very near stops the proceedings. The cast which is a large one, includes Yvonne Stebbins, Walter Davis, Jane Wheatley, Jack Mabry, George Spelvin, Frances Busby, Carl Brickett, Edward Fitzgerald, Kathryn Van Esse and Will Lloyd. The two leads are well handled by Miss Dale and Woods. At English’s all week.
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DOAK IS WITH LABOR AGAINST WAGE SLASHING Secretary Believes Pay in Country Isn’t High Enough, He Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 19.—Labor Secretary William N. Ooak stands shoulder to shoulder with the American Federation of Labor in its demand that employers keep their promise to President Herbert Hoover not to indulge in wageslashing, it appeared today. Returning from a southern trip,
Doak told newspaper men that if wages are cut in violation of the agreement, labor will be justified in demanding wage increases. At the White House conference during which employers gave their pledge to maintain wage levels, the labor federation promised not to strike for higher pay during the depression. This promise, federation officials assert, is conditional upon a fulfillment of the employers’ pledge, which, President William Green has charged, is not being observed. Recently he announced that labor would be driven to strike if wage cuts continued. Doak said he did not believe wages are high enough. He deprecated “vague rumblings” of, movements to reduce wages, saying he had seen no concrete evidence of cuts. The Washington Post today said that President Hoover has decided to carry into the next fiscal year his ban on salary increases for government employes.
U. S. BOOMS AID ROAOJUILDING Warmer Weather Marked by Greatest Progress. By Scrippa-Hotcard Netcspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. May 19.-The arrival of warmer weather in all sections of tile country is being marked by the greatest volume of road construction the United States has ever experienced. “By May 1 more than double the volume of federal aid highways had been approved for construction than at the same time last year and nearly four times the amount contracted for by May 1, 1929,” C. D. Curtiss, chief of the control division of the United States bureau of public roads, announced today. Curtiss said that not including
('• contracts authorized under the $80,000,000 emergency road construction fund approved by congress in December the federal aid program on May 1 totaled $82,000,000. “This amount was not reached until eleven weeks later last year and it exceeded the entire year’s federal aid program for 1929,” Curtiss said .
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Record Class Likely By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 19. Commencement exercises of Indiana State Teachers college will be held Friday, June 12, with prospects that the class will set anew record. The speaker will be Dr. Herbert L. Willett, professor emeritus of oriental languages and literature in the University of Chicago.
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